A Million A Year

(PA New York concern, manufacturera of an ammonia baking powiler boasts that ita yearly profits are over a uiillion dollars. While perhaps, none of the makers of alum powders individually can show so large earnings yet their profits are enormous. A business so profitable, will alwaya attract to itself those whose greed will cause them to utterly disregard the effect their traftic may have upon the health or life of others. Alum baking powders are iritrodnced largely by gift?, prizes and lottery schemes. A pieceof glassware orehina, a child's wogon, slcd or pewter spoon or some other article of attractive appearanee, hut of small intrinsic va'ue or cost is given with each purchase ora number is attacbed to the can which entitles the customer to a similarly nninbered article or to a prize of some kind. It is in some such way as this that the tfade in alum and ammonia baking powders, which has now attained such giant proportjons and their consumption by the public which bas reached an extent which is truly alarmin jr. The highest authorities of all countries condemn the use of alum in bread without reserve. In America the most distinguished physicians, chemists and toygienists havedeclared that the traffic in alum baking powders should be suppressed by law. In England and France where the subject of poor food, and its effect upon the System, has been more fully considered and made the subject of extended experimenta by the scientists, so serious a matter is the use of alum in bread or other food considered to be, that the most stringent laws have been enacted to prevent it. These laws are rigidly enforced, and the sale of alum baking powders would not be permitted for an hour. Any one who attempted to make them for use in food, or attempted to use them for raising bread, biscuit or cake would suffer severe penalties. The ill efl'ects upon the system of food raised by alum bakinzpowd'ers are more dangerous because of their insidious character. It would be lesB dangerous to the community were it fatal at once, for then such food would be avoided; but their deleterious action, because imperceptible at fir9t, is no less certain. The puckering effect which alum has when taken in the mouth is familiar to everyone. Physicians say this same fect is produced by ït upon the delicate coats of the stoinach and intestines. What housewife would take home to her family a can of aluni or amraonia baking powder if she knew it. Such powders not only undermine the system, but it is pointed out that ammonia taken into thasystem in over infinitesimal doses day after day, imparta to the complexion a sa'.low and blotched appearance. Itissafeto discard all baking powders sold with a prize or gift. What a misnomerare the words "Ab solutely Pure," as applied to baking aowders two of the largest selling jrands, one made from alum, the other containing ammonia and both of these tlrugged baking powdera have stamped upon their labels and circulars these words absolutely pure, as a matter of 'act they are "Absolutely Poor," as shown by official examination.