The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-07

! to his patient because there may be one OF
the drugs weakened by cheaper article,
and another drug may be in fu II force, and
| SO the prescription may have just the OPP
1 posite effect intended. Oil of wormwood,
warranted pure, from Boston, was found to
have IL per cent. of resin and alcohol and
chloroform. Scammony is one of the most
valuable medical drugs. IL is very rare,
very precious. 1t is the sap or the gum OF
a tree ora 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
exucies.
1t is very precious, this scammony But
the peasant mixes it with cheaper mate
rial: then it is taken to Aleppo, and the
merchant there mikes it with n cheaper
material; then it comes on to the whole
sale druggist in London or New York, and
he mixes it with cheaper material; then
it comes to the retail druggist, and he
mixes it with a 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 scam
mony after analysis has been found to be
no scammony at all.
! THE sPECULAr1EG HYPocHITE
/ Now, practical religion will yet rectify
| all this. 1t will go to those hypocritical pro
fessors 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 control
! ling them until, the prices going UP and up
and up, they were after awhile ready to
sell, and they sold out, making themselves
mlliOnaireS in one or two years-trying to
fix the matter up with the Lord by building
church, or a university, or a hospital
deiuding themselves 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: 30
Lord, we, by getting a corner in bread
stuffs, 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 one per cent. of the
profits, and with that one per cent you
can build an asylum for these poor niser-
able ragamuffins of the street, and will
take yacht and go to Europe, for ever and
ever, anenr'
All, my friends, if a man hath gotten his
estate wrongfully, and he build 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
u
great, long Black Friday. There is
"break" in the market. According to
Wall street parlance, he wiped others out 4
and now he Is himself wiped out. No col
laterais on which to make spiritual loan
Eternal defalcation!
But this practical religion will not only
receify all merchandise, it Will also rectify
all mechanism and all toll. A time viii
come when a man will work as faithfully
by the job as he does by the day. You say
when thing is slightingly done, "Oh. that
was done by the jobi'' You can tell by the
swiftness 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 another customer. All
styles of work have to be inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery in
spccted. Boss to watch the journeyman
Capitalist coening down unexpectedly to
watch the boss Conductor of a city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his hon
esty as passenger hands to him a clipped
nickel. All things must be watched and in
spected. Imperfections in the wood covered
with putty. Garments warranted to last
until you put them on the third time
Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos.
Pinchbeck- Diamonds for dollar and a
nalf. Bookbindery that holds on until
you read the third chapter. Spawned
horses by skillful dose of jockeys for sew
eral days made to look spry. Wagon tires
poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plas-
tering that cracks without any provoca.
tion 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 mechanism
of the world. tell you, my friends, the
Law OF man will never rectify these things
1t will be the all pervading influence of the
practical religion of Jesus Christ that will
make the change for the better.
THERE Is NONE PERFECT.
| Yes, this practical religion will also go
into agriculture, which is proverbially hon
est, but needs to be rectified, and it will
keep the farmer from sending 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 AMI
rail fence on his neighbor's 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 nobody sees him And
this practical religion will hover over the
house, and over the barn, and over the
field. and over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion of which l
speak will come into the learned profes-
sions. The lawyer will feel his response
blnty In defending innocence, and arraign-
ing evil, and expounding the law, and it
will keep him from charging for briefs he
never wrote, and for pleas he never made,
and for percentages he never earned and
from robbing widow and orphan because
they are defenseless. Yes, this practical
religion viii come into the physician's life,
and he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public health, a profes-
sion honored by the fact that Christ him
self was physician And it will make
hnTaSt md xutl<a hxad
stand a case he will say so, not trying to
cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous