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TT- 8 Bogus white lead KnCTIIQ " would have no JLJUg U.O sale did it not afford makers a larger profit than Strictly Pure White Lead. The wise man is never persuaded to j buy paint that is said to be "just as good " or " better " than Strictly Pure White Lead The market is flooded with spufious i white leads. The following analyses, made by eminent chemists, of two of these misleading brands show the exact propprtion of genuine white lead they contain : Mieleading Brand "Standard Lead Co. Strictly Pure White Lead. St. Louis." Materials Proportionu Analyzed by Barytes 59.36 per cent. Regis Chanvenet Oxide of Zinc 34.18 per cent. & Bro., White Lead 6.46 per cent. St. Louia. Less than 7 per cent. white lead. MiBleading Brand " Pacific Warranted Pure [A] White Lead." Materials Proportiona Analyzed by HulphateofLead 4.18 percent. Ledoux & Co., Oxide of Zinc 45.04 per cent. New York. Barytes 50.68 per cent. No white lead in it. You can avoid bogus lead by purchasing any of the following brands. They are manufactured by the " Old Dutch" process, and are the standards: "Armstrong & McKelvy" "Beymer-Bauman" "Eckstein" "Fahnestock" "Anchor" "Kentucky" "Morley" "Southern" "Shipman" "Red Seal" "Collier" "Davis-Chambers" For sale by the most reliabie dealers in -paints everywhere. If you are going to paint, it will pay you tosend to usfor a book containing information that may save you many a dollar; it will only cost you a postal card to do so. NATIONAL LEAD CO., 1 Brondway, New York. Chicago Branch, State and Fifteentn Streets.