Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-16

tonnage, Foretopmast staysal, foretop-
mast studding SAIL maintopsail, mizzen-
topsail- Everything from flying jib to miz-
zen spanker, but making no useful voyage.
Now the world has got tired of this, and it
wants religion that will work into all
the circumstances of life. Wedo not want
a new religion, but the old religion ap
piled in all possible directions.
THE BRAWLING, USELESS STREAM.
Yonder Is river with steep and rocky
banks, and it roars like young Niagara
as it rolls on over its rough bed. 1t does
nothing but talk about itself all the way
from its source in the mountain to the
| place where it empties into the sea. The
banks are so steep the cattle cannot come
down to drink. 1t does not run one fer
tilizing rill into the adjoining field. 1t has
not one grist mill or factory on either side
1t sulks in wet weather with chilling fogs
No one cares when that river is born
among the rocks, and no one cares when it
dies into the sea. But yonder is another
river, and it MOSES its banks with the
warm tides, and it rocks with floral lula
by the water lilies asleep on its bosom. 1t
invites herds of CATTLE and aocks of sheep
and coveys of birds to come there and
drink. 1t has three grist mills on one side
and six cotton factories on the other. 1t is
the wealth of two hundred miles of lux
uriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted
when it was born in the mountains, and
the ocean shipping will press in from the
sea to hail it as it comes down to the Allan
tic coast The one river is man who lives
for himself, the other river is man who
lives for others.
Do you know how the site of the an cient
city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms
The one brother had large family, the
other had no family The brother with
large family said, There is my brother with
no family; he must be lonely, and will try
to cheer him up, and | will take some of
the sheaves from my field in the night time
and set them over on his farm and say
nothing about it." The other brother said,
MY brother has large family and it is
very difficult for him to support them, and
will help him along, and will take some
of the sheaves from my own farm in the
night time and set them over on his farm
and say nothing about it." So the work
of transference went on night after night,
and night after night, but every morning
things seemed to be just as they were, for
though sheaves had been subtracted from
each farm, sheaves had also been added
and the brothers were perplexed and could
not understand. But one night the broth
ers happened to meet while making this
generous transference, and the spot where
they met was so sacred that it was chosen
as the site of the city of Jerusalem. If that
tradition should prove unfounded it will
nevertheless stand as a beautiful allegory
setting forth the idea that wherever a
kindly and generous and loving act is per-
formed that is the spot fit for some temple
Of commemoration.
FRIGHTFUL FRAUDS IN FOOD.
| have often spoken to you about faith,
but now speak to you about works, for
faith without works is dead" / think
you will agree with me in the statement
that the great want of this world is more
practical religion. We want practical re-
ligon to go into all merchandise. 1t will
supervise the labelling of goods. 1t will not
allow man to say thing was made in
one factory when it was made in another.
1t will not allow the merchant to say that
watch was manufactured in Geneva
Switzerland, when it was manufactured in
Massachusetts. 1t will not allow the
merchant to say that wine came from Ma
deira when it came from California Prac-
tical religion will walk along by the store
shelves and tear off all the @ IS that make
Misrepresentation 1t will not allow the
merchant to say that is pure coffee when
dandelion root and Chicory and other in
gradients go into it. 1t will not allow him
to say that is pure sugar when there are in
it sand and ground glass.
When practical religion gets it's full
swing in the world it will go down the
streets, and it will come to that shoe store
and rip Off the fictitious soles of many a
fine looking pair of shoes, and show that it
is pasteboard sandwched between the
sound leather And this practical religion
will go right into a grocery store, and it |
will pull out the plug of all the adulterated |
sirups, 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 blues !
from the tea leaves, and it will sift from |
the flour plaster of Paris and bone dust |
and soapstone, and it will by chemical |
analysis separate the one quart of Ridge
wood water from the few honest drops of
cows milk, and it will throw out the live
from the brown sugar.
There has been so much adulteration 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 Massa-
chusetts anaIyzed q great amount of what
was called pure coffee and found in it not
one particle of coffee. In England there Is
a law that forbids the putting of alum In
bread. The public authorities examined
fftyone packages of bread and found
them all guilty. The honest physician
writing a 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 OPP
posite effect intended Oil of wormwood,
pure, from Boston. was found to
nave II per cent of resin and alcohol and
Scammcny Is one OF the most
medical drugs. 1t is very rare,
very precious u Is the sap or the gum Of
a tree or bush in Syria. The root of The
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