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If the print paper used by your fav
orite newspaper Is darker than in
month gone by. If your druggist asks
more for a dozen quinine capsules than
- you have been accustomed to paying:,
lay the blame to the heavy hand of
var.
Print paper Is getting yellower
through inability to procure dyestuffs,
quinine is higher because of demands
for the druij by the warring nations
and an embargo placed on its shipment
by Great Britain.
Chemicals and drugs of all kinds
ha ve made unusual advance. In
many Instances they are used in the
manufacture of munition of war. In
others, It has been impossible to se
cure raw materials from Germany
and other warring nations for their
n:anufacture In this country.
Glycerine, for example. Is in great
demand for ue in the manufacture of
high explosives. Much of the glycer
ine used in thin country is Imported
from Great Britain in a crude state
and refined here. Great Britain and
France have both placed embargoes
. on the exportation of this commodity,
and there you are. Six months ago
glycerine sold wholesale in this coun
try for 24 cents a pound. November
. 1, 65 cents was asked.
Quinine Takes Bis; Jump.
, Iast spring quinine could be pur
chased from jobbers for 35 cents an
ounce. It Is now bringing over J2.
the highest price on record since the
Civil war, when it brought Jfi.iO an
ounce. Stewart Kdward White, In
"Gold," however, tells of quinine re
tailing for il a grain in the camps
of .'49.
Control of the quinine market rests
in Amsterdam, Holland, and shortage
of ships to bring the cinchona bark,
from which the drug is derived, from
the Dutch Indies Is another of the rea-
sons for the advance in price.
"Many retailers in this country are
Inclined to believe, however, that per
haps the tremendously large increase
.in the prloe of quinine Is to a consid
erable degree artificial, due to at
tempts to Corner the market.
Carbolic acid, one of the common
est of disinfectants and antiseptics,
has gone up, as it is a base for plc-
rio acid, a high explosive much used
In this war. Not long ago carbolic
acid could be had for 1 1.60 a pound.
Now it Is in the neighborhood of J2.36.
; Phenol, or carbolic. Is derived from
coal tar bases, and largely comes
,from Germany. Recently a British
Admiralty steamer sailed from San
Francisco laden entirely with picric
eld. And so it can be readily seen
liow European demand makes for an
advance in price.
Bromide of potash and other bro
mides have made large advances. Pot
tasslum bromide formerly sold for
31 a pound; it now sells for $4 and
oyer.
" Antlpyrine. used largely In the mak
ing of headache remedies, sold six
months ago for BO cents an ounce; to
day It costs in the neighborhood of $2.
" ' Senna leaves have advanced from
tO cents a pound to $5. Cod liver oil
now sells for about $4 a gallon, where
as it formerly could be had for
$1.75. Resorcin, used In dyestuffs.
las advanced in six months from i'i
to $12 a pound. Calamus root, or sweet
Hag, has gone up 200 per cent in a like
period. Penolpthalien has advanced
In like degree. It now sells for over
$12 a pound.
Dyestuff Users Suffer.
Users of dyestuffs are probably
the greatest sufferers by reason of
the war. Eases for most dyestuffs
". come from Germany, and through In
ability to import these coal tar prod
ucts, manufacturers of inks, cloth
ing manufacturers and all others us
ing aniline dyes are hard pressed.
Some factories have sprung up in this
country since the opening of the war,
but fear of a dumping campaign by
foreign makers after the conclusion
of peace ,1s restraining tho upgrowth
of an American dyestuff industry.
Last month the following advances
were reported in the main supplies of
the, manufacturers of printing ink:
Paranitanillne, 600 per cent; sodium
bichromate, 200 per went; bronze. Ml
lorl and Prussian blues, 260 per cent;
Vermilion. 100 per cent; barium chlo
ride. 200 per cent; blanc fixe, 100 per
tint; rlnc oxide, 200 par cent. Espe
cially scarce on the market are ton
ers. One firm In Norwood, Mass., us
ing what is known as beta naphthol
in the manufacture of brilliant red
Inks, asserts that since this war be
gan mere nave Doen times when this
article could be purchased only in
very small quantities at an advance
of 2400 per cent over its ante-bellum
JTlce.
Quality Wot Bo Good.
' To supply tha American demand
beta naphthol is now being made in
this country, but at an advance of
1000 per cent over the prices prevail
ing before the war.
Not only have the prices of com
mercial dyestuff s advanced, but their
1 tinotorlal power has been reduced. In
August the Master Dyers' association
of Philadelphia mentioned that sul
phur black, which formerly sold for
,: 23 cents a pound, had advanced to
. $3, and that its tinctorial power had
been reduced from 33 1-3 to 0 per
cent
! American production of aniline has
" said to have trebled since 1814, but
. even at that It will require consider
' able fostering on the part of the gov-
. eminent to bring domestic production
, . up to the demand. For this reason
an "anti-dumping law" will undoubt-
' edly be asked of congress at the com-
mg session.
; Textile mills have been placed at
great aisaavantage during the past
w oioHins oecauoe. or inability to
obtain the proper dyestuff s, and a con
' tlnued shortage might make (or n.
elutlonary changes In the colors of
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