Makes Poor Tomato Catsup and Is Bad for the Health. W. H. HALLOCK states that there is crying need for the general investigation of food adulterations, which steps are now being taken to make compulsory, and it would be of the greatest benefit to the community if a law were enacted whereby the adulteration of any article of food or medicine may be visited with a severe penalty. Mr. Hallock does not hesitate to say that there is not a single variety of prepared food within his knowledge that is not adulterated in some way. Wherever the cost can be reduced by the introduction of some foreign matter, it is the rule of some manufacturers to introduce it, regardless of any unwholesome qualities it may have. The mixing of plaster of paris in flour is but one instance of this criminal disregard for the health or life of the purchaser. When tomato catsup is made out of ground pumpkin only it can not do much harm, but when a certain acid is added to give it flavor, the health of the buyer may suffer; while paraffin as an adulterant of butter renders that article indigestible. The foreman of an extensive drug mill confesses that no drug in the mill he has charge of is ever turned out in its pure state. All the drugs are tampered with, more or less, and in most cases to a considerable extent. The extent to which adulteration is carried on in some of the largest sugar refineries would startle the public if it were known. It is beyond question that much serious illness and many deaths are the direct result of eating food adulterated with injurious substances, and the perils arising from the consumption of adulterated drinks are not less widespread and alarming.—Los Angeles Times.