News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-19

tent, because there may be one of tn
drugs weakened by cheaper article
and another drug may be in full force
and SO the prescription may have jus
the opposite effect intended. Oil O
NORWOOD, warranted pure, from Bos
ton was found to have II per cent. o
resin and alcohol and chloroform.
Scammony is one of the most valu
able medical drugs. 1t is very rare
very precious. 1t is the sap or the gun
of tree or bush in Syria. The roo
of the tree is exposed, an incision i
made into the root and then shells arr
placed at this incision to catch the SAL
or the gum as it exudes. 1t is very
precious, this scammony. But the
| peasant mixes it with cheaper material
then 1t is taken to Aleppo, and the
merchant there mixes it with cheaper
material; then it comes on to the
wholesale druggist in London or New
York, and he mikes it with a cheaper
material; then it comes to the retail
! druggist, and he mixes it with q cheaper
material, and by the time the poor sick
man gets it into his bottle it is ashes
and chalk and sand, and some of what
has been called pure scammony after
analysis has been found to be no scam
mony at all.
THE HYPOCRITE'S PRAYER
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
all this. 1t will go to those hypocrit-
zeal professors of religion who got a
corner" in corn and wheat in Chicago
and New York, sending prices up and
up until they were beyond the reach of
the poor keeping these breadstuffs in
their own hands or controlling them
until, the prices going up and up and
up, they were after Il while ready to
sell, and they sold out, making them
selves millionaires in one or two years,
trying to fix the matter up with the
Lord by building q church, or a uni
versity, or a hospital, deluding them
selves with the idea that the Lord
would be so pleased with the gift he
would forget the swindle.
Now, as such man may not have
any liturgy in which to say his prayers,
l will compose for him one which he
practically is making: 80 Lord, we,
by getting a corner in breadstuffs,
swindled the people of the United States
out of ten million dollars, and made
suffering all up and down the land,
and we would like to compromise this
matter with thee. Thou knowest it
was a scaly job, but then it was smart.
Now, here we compromise it. Take
1 per cent. of the profits, and with
that L per cent. you can build an asy
lum for these poor, miserable raga-
mullins of the street, and | will take a
yacht and go to Europe forever and
ever Amen"
All, my friends, if a man hath gotten
his estate wrongfully, and he build a
line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska he cannot atone for it.
After while this man who has been
getting corner in wheat dies, and
then Satan gets a corner" on him.
He goes into great, long Black Fri
day. There is a break" in the mar
ket. According to Wall street par
lance, he wiped others out. and now
he is himself wiped out. No collater-
ais on which to make a spiritual loan.
Eternal defalcation!
THE swINDLING MECHANIC.
But this practical religion will not
only rectify all merchandise; it will
also rectify all mechanism and all toll
A time will come when a man will
work as faithfully by the job as he does
by the day. You say when thing is
done, "Oh, that was done
by the job" You can tell by the swift
ness or slowness with which a hack
man drives whether he is hired by the
hour or by the excursion. If he is hired
by the excursion he whips up the
horses so as to get around and get an
other customer All styles of work
have to be inspected. Ships inspected.
horses inspected, machinery inspected.
Boss to watch the journeyman Capt.
talist coming down Unexpectedly to
watch the boss. Conductor of a CITY
ear sounding the punch bell to prove
his honesty as a passenger hands to |
him a clipped nickel
All things must be watched and in |
'pected. Imperfections in the wood
covered with putty Garments war
'anted to last until you put them on
he third time. Shoddy in all kinds of
clothing, chromos, pinchbeck, diamonds
or dollar and n half. Bookbindery
hat holds on until you read the third
chapter. Spawned horses, by skillful
lose of jockeys, for several days made
@ look spry. Wagon tires poorly put
IN. Horses poorly shod Plastering
hat cracks without any provocation
ind falls off. Plumbing that needs to
,e plumbed. Imperfect car wheel that
lalts the whole train with hot box
30 little practical religion in the mocha
lism of the world l tell you, my
riends, the law of man will never rec
ify these things. 1t will be the all per
aiding influence of the practical relig-
on of Jesus Christ that will make the
hange for the better
Yes, this practical religion will also
o into agriculture, which is proverbial-
Y honest, but needs to be rectified,
nd it will keep the farmer from send
lg to the New York market veal that
) too young to kill; and when the
armer farms on shares it will keep the
IAN who does the work from. making
is half three-fourths, and it will keep
he farmer from building his post and
all fence on his neighbours premises,
nd it will make him shelter his cattle
l the winter storm, and it will keep I
lie old elder from working on Sunday
fternoon in the new ground where no
ody sees him. And this practical re-
gion will hover over the house. and
yer the barn, and over the field, and
YER the orchard.
TRICKY LAWYERS AND DOCTORS.
Yes, this practical religion of which o
speak will come into the learned pro- y
ssions. The lawyer will feel his re- :,
'onsibility in defending innocence, and =
raigning evil, and expounding the n
w, and it will keep him from charg- i
g for briefs he never wrote, and for .
cas- he never made, and for percent
'es he never earned, and from robbing Fl
dow and orphan because they are II
fenseless. Yes, this practical religion a
Ii come into the physicians life, and r
will feel his responsibility as the con- G
rvator of the public health, a profes- al
IN honored by the fact that Christ w
nself was a physician. And it will SO
ike him honest, and when lie does RI
t underst and case he will say so, h,
t trying to cover up lack of diagnosis eo
tn ponderous technicalities or send nj
? patient to II reckless drug store be n,
use the apothecary happens to pay dc
on the prescriptions sent. y,