The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-19
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of articles Of food that it h an amaze
ment to me tliat,there Is ahealthy man
or woman in america Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices,
and into the sugars, and into the but
ter, and into tho apothecary drug!
But chemical analysis and the micro
scope havem;sie wonderful revelations
The board OF health In Massachusetts,
analysed 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 enc packages of
bread and found them all guilty. The
honest physician, writing a prescrip-
ton, does not know but that it may
bring death instead of health to his pa
tent, 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
wormwood, warranted pure, from Bos-
ton was found to have Al per cent. of
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 gum
Of tree or 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 scammony. But the
peasant mikes it with cheaper material;
then it is taken to Aieppo, and the
merchant there mixes it with cheaper
material; then it comes on to the
wholesale druggist in London or New
York, and he mixes 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-
ical 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 a while ready to
sell, and they sold out, making them
selves milIonaires in one or two years,
trying to fix the matter up with the
Lord by building 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 swfndle.
Now, as such a man may not have
any liturgy in which to say his prayers,
will compose for him one which he
practically is making: 20 Lord, we,
by getting a corner in breadstufs,
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 il
was q scaly job, but then it was smart.
Now. here we compromise it. Take
, 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 will take a
yacht and go to Europe forever and
, ever. Amen"
All, my friends, if man hath gotter
? his estate wrongfully, and he build 6
, line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska he cannot atone for it
After while this man who has beer
getting corner" in wheat dies, anc
? then Satan gets corner" ON him
He goes into great, long Black Fri
day There is break" in the mar
ket. According to Wall street par
lance, he wiped others out, and nov
he is himself wiped out. No collater
, ais on which to make a spiritual loan
. Eternal defalcation!
I THE swINDLING MECHANIC.
But this practical religion will no
r only rectify oil merchandise; it vii
a also rectify all mechanism and all toll
, A time will come when a man viii
, work as faithfully by the job as he doe
q by the day. You say when thing i
q slishtingly done, "Oh, that was don.
' by the job" You cap tell by the swift
ness or slowness with which a hack
, man drives whether he is hired by tn
=. hour or by the excursion. If he is hiret
a by the excursion he whips up tn
q horses so as to get around and get an
/ other customer. ALI styles of wora
9 have to be inspected. Ships inspected
t horses inspected, machinery inspected
J. Boss to watch the journeynan. Capt.
Is talist coming down unexpectedly t.
t watch tho boss Conductor of a cit,
L car sounding the punch bell to prov,
# his honesty as a passenger hands t.
d him a clipped nickel.
q All things must be watched and in
q spected. Imperfections in the woo'
II covered with putty. Garments wal
+. ranted to hast until you put them o.
le the third time. Shoddy in all kinds @
clothing, chromos. pinchbeck, diamond
IT for n dollar and a half. Bookbinder
1t that holds on until you read the thir
is chapter. Spawned horses, by skillfr
h dose of jockeys, for several days mad
At to look spry. Wagon tires poorly pc
g. ON. Horses poorly shod. Plasterin
70 that cracks without any provocato
- and falls off. PLUMBING that neel3s 1
ot be pluinbed. Imperfect car wheel thu
as halts the whsle train with hot DO,
lie So little practical religion in the mech.
r. nis,n of the world. tell you IN
D. friends, the law Of man will never re-
N tify these things It win be the all pc
s. vading influence of the proctical reli
Nv ion of Jesus Christ that viii make Il
it change for the better.
g. Yes, this practical religion will al