Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — EMBALMED SAUSAGE [ARTICLE]

EMBALMED SAUSAGE

Variety That Contains Perhaps 4,500,000,000 or So Bacteria to the Gram. SOLD TO CAPITAL CITY PEOPLE State Analyzer Gets Busy at Indianapolis—Church Refute* to Pay a Union Pine. Indianapolis. June 22.—1 n his crusade in favor of pure food H. E. Barnard, chemist of the state board of health, went through the meat section of the city market Tuesday and bought forty-nine samples of sausage, hamburg steak, Wienerwurst, bologna, ham loaf, veal loaf, tripe and pig's foot jelly and analyzed them In the state chemical laboratory. In all this lot he found that only sixteen samples were legal, while thirty-three were illegal. because they contained chemicals prohibited ny law. Preservatives Were Used. The analyses showed that preservatives had been used in two-thirds of the samples, iu direct violation of the pure food laws of Indiana. One sample of hamhurg steak and one of bulk sausage were found to contain borax, and were therefore placed in the Illegal class. But the commonest of all the preservatives used was sodium sulphite. This varied from a very small amount to one-half of 1 per cent, in one sample of hamburg steak. Sodium sulphite is used for the-rnain purpose of giving a fresh red color to the meat, through it is also a mild preservative. Wow! Horrll>le to Contemplate. • The use of sodium sulphite has been absolutely prohibited by the German government, and in Dantzig, Germany, 112 of the 122 butchers of the city were baled into court in one year for using it. Sodium'sulphite, according to I>r. Harrington, luis a serious effect on the stomach and kidneys. Intense gastritis and even death following its use. But the worst is that Altsehule says that in untreated meat it takes only 1.82 b, 100.000 bacteria to make it stink, while in treated meat it takes 4.757,000,000 bacteria. UNION FINES A CHURCH Carpenters Refuse to Work Because Non-Union Masons I,aid the Foundation—Fine Will Not Be Paid. Wabash, Ind., June 22.—Because the congregation refused to pay a fine of SIOO to the local carpenters’ union, the contract for building the Friends' new edifice, on the south side here, has been relet, a non-resident, Cyrus Eppley, of Converse, getting the work. The church proposed to build the structure itself and employed Amerieus V. I-ang ston, a non-unoion contractor, to superintend the work. Langston hired non-union masons on the foundation, and the union carpenters not only refused to work under him, but imposed a fine of SIOO on the congregation, which they insisted should be paid before they would touch the job. The sturdy Friends declined to accede to the terms and gave the contract to Eppley at a stated sum, aud he will employ non-union labor. Here Is a Hair Curler. Columbus, Ind., June 22.—Recently the x'Uy council passed an ordinance increasing the salary of the mayor to $75 a month, the city clerk to sl,<kxi a year, and the city treasurer to sl,100. The mayor vetoed the ordinance on the ground that he was already lining paid a sufficient sum, hut he favored the increase to the clerk and treasurer. The city council then passed the ordinance over his veto. This was done unanimously. Grass Widow Refuse a License. Wabash, Ind., June 22.—When John W. Bernard and Mrs. E. C. Smith applied to the county clerk for a marriage license, the youthful appearance of the bride-to-be excited the suspicions of the marriage license clerk, it developed tlint Mrs. Smith was 15 years old: tj>at she had t>een married eighteen months ago. ami had lieen divorced for a year. The license was refuser! because Mrs. Smith is not IS years old. Receiver fbr a Gas Company. lndlana<|M>lis, June 22.—0 n complaint of the Central Trust company, of New York, Henry C. Paul, of Fort Wayne, ha* been appointed receiver of the Fort Wayne Gas company. The complaint was based on the elmrge that the company has defaulter! the payment of $150,000 Interest due Jan. 1 on a l»ond Issue of $2,000,000, of which the trust company was trustee. Thought He Had a Cincli. Indianapolis, June 22.—Ernest and Walter t’nrruth, brothers, have been sentenced to prison for perjietrntliig a peculiar fraud on the local street ear company. Walter eon throw his ankle out of Joint at will and the scheme of the brothers was for Walter to fall from a car and then claim dumageo for alleged Injuries to his ankle. Anybody Want a Job? Boonvllle, Ind., June 22. Cool weather Is aiding farmers In cutting wheat. Tliey find the crop better than expected. The straw Is heuvy and the heads, though small, are well filled. There Is a great demand for shocker*.