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IS ALL FOODADULTERATED?
British Challenge for Pure Christ
mas Dinner is Unaccepted.
HOTELS ARE AFRAID OF IT
Soetetr Proposes to Have Two Ani
llca1 ChenUli to Annlrse
the Viands They Are
Served.
TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 21. 1913.
JjONDON, Dec. 20. The widespread ad
vertisement of the Pure Food nnd
Health society of Great Britain for a
hotel or restaurant to provide the mem
bera of the society with Chrlatmaa
dinner which would stand the adultera
tion probes ot the expert ohemlita of the
society, has not produced a single offer.
The society la now geek Ins a home In
, whloh to hold the dinner, but no mem
ber has yet been found who will risk
Xht Iota of an Insulted cook.
The society name three condition!.
That the dinner shall not be too costly:
that It ahall not be a fad fruitarian or
vegetarian affair; and that the society
ctell be allowed to conduct analyses with
the help of two analytical chemists dur
ing the progress of the meal.
Alfred E. Moore, secretary of the so
ciety, believes It Is utterly Impossible
fer an unadulterated meal ot the scope
of a Christmas dinner to be given In
Tendon. Moreover, he Issues a challenge
for any one to provide a day's food
for an ordinary worklntman'n family
without three cases of food adulteration.
' If the lUt, Includes coffoe, tea or cocoa,
bread, butter, sausage, bacon, milk, beef,
vegetables, biscuits, Jam, honey and
cheese, there will be more than three
caos of adulteration," he declares. He
aaferts further that It Is utterly lm.
)osbIo to net unadulterated milk In Lon
(don. It may be only a drop of annato
to the pint, but this la added to give a
rich creamy look to separated milk,
Other adulterations mentioned by Mr.
Ioora are plaster of parts In somo kinds
of flour, salicylic acid In Jama, rice that
Is faced with uneatable mineral matter,
and borlo acid In milk, cream and oan
tied foods.
British Budget for
Next Fiscal Year to
i Call for a Billion
LON3XXS", 'Dec. SO. From the way In
which the cost lot the various services
and the genera! administration Is plllnx
up, It Is now believed that the chancellor
of the exchequer will have to provide
for an expenditure ot a billion dollars In
the estimates for the next fiscal year.
This sum; Is about double what the esti
mates amounted, to In 19C when the
liberal party, which generally stands for
reonofay, came Into power. In only one
department has there been a sarins; and
that Is 1 connection with the army, the
cost ot which was about , 066.060 less
last year than it was eight years ago.
'ihe navy last year cost $15,ceo,CX morn
than it did in lsKr and If present fore,
easts are to be relied, upon the estimates
lor this branch ot the service, Including
the ordinary and awpptraenUry estimates,
Ut skew next year a& taepeaee ot an-
It is In the civil eerrlee asd revenue
BefMirtmeat, however, that the Increase
lias been greatest, largely duo to old
age pensions, industrial Insurance and
labor exchanges. The exchequer Issues
for these purposes have gone up from
M0,0,000 In 1905 to nearly 0,0eo1090 n
lilt, and they will be v srcaUr heat
year,
All ot this has paused a great outary
from tho economists in tho country, but
ns roost of those making up Oils group
favor social reforms, their flro has been
elmod almost solely at the naval esti
mates. On the other hand, most ot those
who advocate a supreme navy are against
i-odal reforms, so that the government
1M attacked from both sidea.
KING OF SPAIN SMOKES BOX
OF CIGARETTES EVERY HOUR
PARIS, Dec. 3a.-KJBr AKemto ot
HpalR. during his recent visit to Paris,
amazed the Freneh . officiate who at
tended him . during the hunt at Ram
beullel by the number qf cigarettes he
He appeared to use a fresh box ot
twenty every hour, and yet he did not
e4va the least hniHcaUen of 'the effects
ef excessive smeklAg. Alfonso Is known
to . be the greatest cigarette smoker
among all crowned heads. Ills mother
Rlwpst always has. a cigarette between
jir lips, except when asleep, and she
lays. dowji the principle that smoking la
a sjeat aid to thought, Among other
royal women smokers are the dowager
empress- ot Rusels, and the reigning Rus
sian fn pre.
TWENTY MILLIONS SPENT
IK DOVER HARI0R WASTED
LONDON, Dec. . It Is feared that th
0ft) pnt by the admiralty on the
Improvement of Dover harbor has been
wasted. There is today a rushing tldo
rip across the harbor entrance which
makes IP next 'to impossible to enter at
certain triages of the tide; on all oc
casions naval navigators are wary about
Itringing their ships In. and shipmasters
avoid the harbor whenever they possibly
cab. The eddies are Intricate and uncer
tain, and it Is lmposlble to predict the
currents. '
It .has also been found that the harbar
Alt u very rapidly, In spite of the fact
that ),0 are spent annually on dredg
ing,. Altogether, Dover harbor has cost
the nation KO.000,000, and -many millions
wore will have to be spent If It is to ba
el any use to tho larger ships of the
wjyy.
SPANISH PRINCE WILL
IE EDUCATED AT ETON
PAR IB. Dec. SO. According to In
formation received here from England
the king of Spain has decided, in due
time, to send his son and heir to Eton
to receive the groundwork of his educa
tion. That this news will be denied goes
without saying, but t3e English source
is confident of Its correctness.
The kng was doubtless Influenced as
jNUCfe by the healthy life the boys lead
M Kton and the encouragement of sport
there, as he was by the schooling his
on wW receive. His decision will, nev
eetseteec, meet with a lot of opposition
in toln, where the grandees already
think there Is too much English Influence
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OLDEST BERLTOPAPER -SOLD
Vossitcbe Zietung Passes Into Con-
. trol of Ullttein Family.
JOURNALS OWNED IN . GROUPS
I'rortlrally ;A1I Dally aud Weeklr
I'niiers In (iVrmnu Capital Are
in the Manila ut Tbeae
, Klrm.
BERLIN,, .Dec. .-The sale ot the
Vos'slbche Zoltung, the oldest newspaper
In Uerllji, known affectionately to Ger
man readers at "Auntie Voss," to the
Ullstetn syndicate, calls attention to the
development ot newspaper trusts In Ger
many, which Ic llrln, tor example, have
gathered most of the live and, paying
publications Into three big groups.
The-Ullsteln company, or. rather family,
Is one of the most vigorous of these. It
now publishes five, dalllesln Berlin. In
cluding the Vosdsche, the Morgenpost
and the Ztltung-am-Mltteg (or 'Noon
Gazette), and eight weekly and bther pub
lication, covering such fields is sport.
fashions and Ova Illustrated weekly for
family circulation. - hs. LoVsJ Atuelger,
owned by the August Scherl company,
forms the nuoleus ot another group of
papem consisting ot three dallies In
Berlin, one In Hamburg and about ten
weekly and other publication. Rudolph
Mosse,' owner ot the Berlin Tageblatt,
has two other dallies and several weekly
publications. The three firms are united
In a. community of interest by a joint
contract, pledging them to assist &ch
other in case ot strikes, etc and to start
no new rival papers.'
In addition, the owner of the Tageblatt
is. or was, me secona' largest sioca
holder In the August Scherl company.
It la reported, however, that the entire
chert property has been acquired by a
group of conservative capitalists, who
propose to use Its publications for vigor
ous propaganda In the Interest ot the ,
conservative party-
The Ullstelns. It 1 understood, will con
tinue the Yossche Zettung along the
llpes that have always given It Its dis
tinctive eUarp16 b"t they .hope to de
velop It as a business undertaking. This
venerable Journal It Is 4m years old has
had to make a hard struggle against the
more, modem type ot newspapers that
havo lately become popular In Berlin.
For more than a century .the property of
the Leasing family. It passed two years
ago Into the hands of a syndicate of
n to
sndl-
bankers. who paid for It. accordln
newspaper reports. Si.U0.00fc The e;
cate now sells It at a price variously re
ported to be between $1,000,000 and $1,700,
009. The loss, therefore, to the bankers
haaiieen considerable.
German Scientist
Expects to Make
Genuine Diamonds
BERUK, Dec. . -Has Prof. Otto
Lummer of Breslau opened the way for
the manufacture of genuine diamonds
diamonds made exactly as they were
made by nature through tho cooling and
i crystallisation of mollen carbonT It Is
I too early to express an opinion as to
1 the possibilities of his discovery ot a
process of rendering cosJfluld, but scien
tists admit that one of these possibilities
is the production of diamonds. ' It coal
can be melted, modern science should be
able to make it cool and crystallize under
high pressure, and that Is precisely how
dtampnds were formed.
Prot Summer, Who Is director of
the physical Institute ot the University
ot Breslau. Is well known to the Ameri
can scientific world. In 1893 he went to
Chicago as delegate of the German Em
pire to the international electrical con
Kress, and In 1907 dellverd a series of
lectures before Columbia University. His
researches have for years dealt wlUt prob
lems of- lighting and light rays. ' He has
long bellved that carbon could be melted,
provided a sufficiently high temperature,
which ha estimated at 4,000 degress cen
tigrade, could be attained. Carbon, how
ever, turns directly Into vapor at such
high temperatures, passing through tha
Intermediate fluid stage If air with its
oxygen Is present. Professor Lummer In
closed a large arc lamp In a glass con
tainer and exhausted the air. Then,
using a pwerful electric current, he was
able to render the carbon so fluid that
drops formed at the ends ot the coition
pencils.
Prof. I.umtner now plans to conduct
further experiments In which the car
bon shall be subjected to. high-tension
currents under a pressure of some 300 at
mospheres, but in a gaseous medium
which contains no oxygen.
WINE TWO CENTURIES OLD
FOUND AT NAUMBURG
BERLIN. Dec. 10. Four bottles of win?
at least at years old have been found
by workmen In demolishing an old house
on a hill near Naumburg. During their
work the laborers unearthed a stpn.e
bearing the date May 21.' 16S8. The stono
covered a cavity chiseled In solid rock
In which were the rust-eaten remains of
an Iron chest. The chest contained coins
of the years 16S3 to a picture ot
John George III of Saxony; remnants of
documents, .and four bottles ot white
wine sealeCd with lead.
Tobacco Monopoly'
Earns One Hundred
Millions for France
PAMS, Dee. SO. The government's to
bacco monopoly brought a net Income to
the state last year of $105,000,000, or the
largest return since the foundation ot
the monopoly. 102 years. ago. This vast
profit was made out ot a capital of
about $30,000,000, or about one-third the
capitalization of the lately dissolved
American Tobacco ' company.
Visitors to France are Iricliried to crit
icise the quality ot tobacco supplied
them, principally because they are un
able to find their favorite brands such
as are on sale at home. But as French
men have no knowledge ot tobacco In
any form, except such asVs supplied them
by the government, they are quite-content
with the qualities of tobacco, al
though they may grumble at tho prices.
Much ot the tobacco smoked In France
la grown In the country Itself. The gov
ernment keeps a sharp eye on all raisers
of the leaf, and the whole crop must be
sold to the state at a fair appraisement.
Twenty great factories work up the
whole or the tobacco manufactured In
France, and the right to retail la jeal
ously guarded by the state. Permits to
open tobacco shops are usually groanted
to widows of officers of Ihe army and
navy, or of other employes of the gov
ernment The widows usually lease their
permits to other persons In considers
tlon of fixed annual payments. The
price of a cigar of a given quality Is
the same all over France, and the same
It one cigar or a thousand are purchased.
The hotels and restaurants buy 'their
cigars at . the same prices as they- are
sold to the. general public, but they add
from SO to 100' per cent as their own
pr.oft. There are I7.K0 authorized to
bacco planters In France, who grow
about 40.000,000 pounds of tobacco on
60.CC0 acres. Tbs monopoly, besides' buy
ing all the tobacco grown in France,
purchases 65.000.0C0 pounds of foreign
grown tobacco, most of It belns- Amerl
can leaf.
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