Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-23

and SO the prescription may have just
the opposite effect intended. Oil of
NORWOOD warranted pure, from Bos-
ton was found to have II per cent. OF
resin and alcohol and chlOroform.
Scammony is one of the most valu-
able medical drugs. It is very rare,
very precious. 1t is the sap or the gum
of tree or a bush in Syria. The root
of the tree is exposed, an incision is
made into the root and then shells are
placed at this incision to catch the sap
or the gum as it eXudes. 1t is very
precious, this scamlnOny. But the
peasant mikes it with cheaper material;
then it is taken TO Aleppo, and the
merchant there mixes it with a 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 Il 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 scalnmOny after
analysis has been found to be no scam
| mOny at all.
THE HYPOCRLTE'S PRAYER.
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
I all this 1t viii go to those hypocrit-
/ zeal professors of religion who got
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 a church, or a uni
versity, or q hospital, deluding them
selves with the idea that the Lord
would be SO pleased with the gift he
would forget the sWindie.
Now, as such man may not have
any liturgy in which to say his prayers,
I will compose for him one which he
practically is making: 20 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 scaly job, but then it was smart.
| Now, here we compromise it. Take
1 per cent OF the profits, and with
| that per cent. you can build an asy-
lum for these poor, miserable raga-
mullins of the street, and I will take a
yacht and go to Europe forever and
ever Amen"
All, my friends if 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 Il corner in wheat dies, and
then Satan gets 4 corner on him.
He goes into a great, long Black Fri
day There is a break" in the mar
kct According to Wall street par
lance, he wiped others out, and now
he is himself wiped cut. 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.
\ time VIII come when a man will
work as faithfully by the job as he does
by the day You say when a thing is
sliehtingiy 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 tile excursion he whips up the
horses 50 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
car sounding the punch bell to prove
his honesty as a passenger hands to
him clipped nickel.
All things must be watched and in
spected Imperfections in the wood
covered with putty. Garments war
ranted to last until you put them on
the third time. Shoddy in all kinds of
clothing, chromos, pinchbeck, diamonds
for dollar and a half Bookbindery
that holds on until you read the third
chapter. Spawned horses, by skillful
dose of jockeys, for several days made
to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put
on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering
that cracks without any provocation
and falls off. Plumbing that needs to
be plumbed. Imperfect car wheel that
halts the whole train with a hot box.
So little practical religion in the mocha
nism of the world. [ tell you, my
friends, the law of man will never rec
tify these things 1t will be the all per
vading influence of the practical relig
ion of Jesus Christ that will make the
change for the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also
go into agriculture, which is proverbial- |
" honest, but needs to be rectified, |
and it will keep the farmer from send |
ing to the New York market veal that |
is too young to kill; and when the |
farmer farms on shares it will keep the |
man who does the work from making |
his half three-fourths, and it will keep |
the farmer from building his post and |
rail fence on his neighbours premises, |
and it will make him shelter his cattle |
in the winter storm, and it will keep |
the old elder from working on Sunday |
afternoon in the new ground where no
body sees him. And this practical re
igion will hover over the house, and |
over the barn, and over the field, and
over the orchard
TRICKY LAWYERS AND DOCTORS.
Yes this practical religion of which
speak will come into the learned pro
LESSONS. The lawyer will feel his re-
sponsibility in defending innocence, and
arraigning evil, and eEpounding the
law, and it will keep him from charg
ing for briefs he never wrote, and for
pleas he never made, and for percent
ages he never earned, and from robbing
widow and orphan because they are
defenseless. Yes this practical religion
will come into the physicians life, and
he will feel his responsibility as the con-
servator of the public health, profess
sion honored by the fact that Christ
himself was a physician. And it will
make him honest, and when lie does
not underSta and q case he will saw so |