The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-03-12

many fine pair OF shoes, and show
that pasteboard sandwiched between
sound leather. And this practical re-
ligion will go right into a grocery
store, and it will pull out the plug OF
all the adulterated syrups, and it will
dump into the ash barrel in front of
the store the cassia bark that is sold
for cinnamon and the brick dust that
is sold for cayenne pepper, and it will
shake out the Prussian blue fro the
tea leaves, and it will sift from the
-four the plaster of Paris and bone dus,
and soapstone, and will by chemical
analysis separate the one quart oi
Ridgeway water from the few honest
drops of cows milk, and it will throw
out the living animalcules from the
brown sugar.
There has been so much adultera-
ton of articles of food that it is an
amazement to me that there is a
healthy man or woman in America.
Heaven only knows what they put
into the spices, and into the sugars,
and into the butter, and into the
apothecary drugs. But chemical
analysis and the microscope have
made wonderful revelations. The
board of health in Massachusetts
analyzed great amount of what was
called pure coffee and found in it not
one particle of coffee. In England
there is law that forbids the putting
of alum in bread. The public author
tiles examined fifty-one packages Of
bread and found them all guilty. The
honest physician writing prescription,
does not know but that it may bring
death instead of health to his patient,
because there may be one OF the drugs
weakened by cheaper article, and
another drug may be in full force, and
so the prescription may have just the
opposite effect intended. Oil of worm
wood, warranted pure, from Boston,
was found to have forty one per cent.
of resin and alcohol and chloroform.
Scammony is one of the most valuable
medicinal drugs. 1t is very rare, very
precious. 1t is the sap or the gum OF
tree or bush in Syria. The root ol
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 scammony.
But the peasant mixes it with cheaper
material: then it is taken to Aleppo,
and the merchant there mixes it with
cheaper material then it comes on to
the wholesale druggist in London OF
New York, and he mixes it with
cheaper material then it comes to the
retail druggist, and he mixes it with
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.
Now, practical religion will yet rec.
tiiy all this. 1t will 60 to those hypo
critical professors of religion who got a
"corner" in corn and wheat in Chi.
cago and New York, sending prices uE
and up until they were beyond the
reach of the poor, keeping these bread
stuffs in their own hands, or controll
ing them, until, the prices going uE
and up and up, they were after awhile
ready to sell and they sold out, making
themselves millionaires in one or two
years-trying to fix the matter up with
the Lord by building a church or {
university, or hospital-deluding
themselves with the idea that the Lore
would be pleased with the gift and He
would forget the swindle. Now, a.
such man may not have any liturg,
in which to say his prayers, l viii
compose for him one which he is prac
tically making: 90 Lord, we, by get
ting corner in bread stuffs, swindlec
the people ofthe United States out o
ten million dollars, and made suffering
all up and down the land, and VT
would like to compromise this matte
with Thee Thou knowest it was seal,
job, but then it was smart. Now, her,
we compromise it. Take one per cent
of the profits, and with that one pc
cent. you can build an asylum 70
these poor miserable ragamuffins, ant
l will take a yacht and go to Europe
for ever and ever, amen -
All, my friends, if man hath got
ten his estate wrongfully, and he buil'
line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it
After awhile this man who has bee
getting a I" corner on wheat dies, an,
then Satan gets "corner" on him
He goes into a gaeat, long Black Fri
day. There is ''break" in the mar
ket. According to Wall street par
lance, he wiped others out, and no,
he is himself wiped out. No collater
ais on which to make spiritual loar
Eternal ue.ilcation!
But this practical religion will. nc
only rectify all merchandise, it wi
also rectify all mechanism and all toi
A time will come when a man wi
work as faithfully by the job as he doe
by the day. You say when thing
slightingiy done, "Oh, that was don
by the job" You can tell by tn
swiftness or slowness with which
hackman drives whether he is hired
the hour or by the excursion. If he
hired by the excursion he whips up tt
horses, so as to get around and get ar
other customer. All styles of wor
have to be inspected. Ships inspected
horses inspected, machinery inspected
Boss to watch the journeyman. Cap
tallsts coming down Unexpectedly
watch the boss Conductor of a eli
car sounding the punch bell to pro-
his honesty as a passenger hands