Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1910 — How He Kept the Law. [ARTICLE]

How He Kept the Law.

“I noticed,” said the friend-who-could-be trusted, after a trip through the factory where preserves are made, “that a white powder is first put in the cans, and that Cher preserves are then put in the white powder.” ■"Yes,” explained the proprietor to the friend-who-could-be-trusted, “that White powder is a preservative. You see we are compelled to put the preserves in a preservative because an idiotic requirement of the government makes it unlawful for us to put • preservative in the preserves.”