Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-21

show that it Is pasteboard> sandwlclled
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 .nsh 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 sPrussian7 blue
from the tea leaves, and it will siftsfroln
the flour plaster ofiparis andsbonedust
and soapstone, and it wildly chemical
analysis scpa rate. the one quartsof
Ridgewood water.from the fcw honest
drops of COWS milk; and it will throw
out the live ailirialcules from the
brown sugar.
There las been SO much ndulteratiori
sof articIessof food that it-is ali amaze
lncnt tome that there Is ulicaitliylnan
or woman in. America. Heaven only
Knows what they nat Into tho spices;
! and into lie So ,,as and into tho but:
ter, and into tic :s25tt:scary drag
But chemical analysis and tho micro
scope Ilavcnalc wonderful revelations.
The board of health in Massachusetts,
analysed a great amount Of what was
called pure coffee. and found in it'not
one particle OF coffee. In England
there is n law that forbils the putting
of alum in bread The public author
tiles examined fifty one packages OF
bread and found tlic.n all Guilty. The
honest physician. writing Il prcscrp-
ton, does not know but That it may
bring dcat, instead OF health to Ills pa
ticnt. because there iuay be one of the
drugs weakened by u cheaper article,
and another drug muy be iii full force,
and so the prescription may have Jest
the opposite effect intended. Oil Of
NORWOOD, warranted pare. from Eos
ton was found to lave ii per cent OF
resin and alcohol and cillorofor"a.
Scammony is one of the most valu-
able medical drugs. 1t is very rare,
very precious. 1t is the sap or the gum
of a tree or bush in Syria. Tie root
of the tree is exposed, an incision is
made into the root and then shells arr
placed ut this iacision 70 catch the sap
or the gum Us it eXudes 1t is very
precious. this scan,nony. Dut the
peasant mikes il with cheaper material
then it is taken to Aleppo, and the
merchant there mikes it with cheaper
material; then it comes On to the
wholesale druggist il London or New
York. and he mikes it with Il cheaper
material; then it comes to tho retail
druggist. and lie mikes it with II cheaper
material, and b. the tirie the poor sick
man gets it into Ills bottle it is ashes
and chalk and sand, and some of what
has been called pure scanlmony after
analysis has been found to be no scanl-
lnony ut all.
THE rIYPocrITE's PRAYER.
Now, practical religion will yctrcctify
all this 1t will go to those liypocrit-
ical professors OF religion who got a
-..corner" in corn and wheat in Chicago
-and-NNewSY York. sending priceslup- and
upE:nntil4t they :Mcse hey ond the reac!l:o
the poor keeping ti,e5e breadstufs IN
their own hands or controlling them
until. the prices going up and up and
up, they were after while ready to
sell, and they sold out, making them
selves millionaircs in one or two years,
trying to fix the matter up with tho
Lord by building a church, or IL uni
vcrsity, or a hospital, deluding them
selves with the idea that the Lord
would be SO pleased with the gift he
would forget the swindle.
Now, as such u 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 corner in. brcadstuffs,
swindled the people of the United States
out of ten million dollars, and made
suffering all up and down thc land,
and we would like to compromise this
matter with thee. Thou knowcst it
WINS 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"
ALI, my friends, if a man hatll gotten
his estate wrongfully, and he build a
line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska he cannot atone for it..
After n while this man who has been
getting corner" in wheat dies, and
then Satan gets Il corner" on him.
He goes into great, long Black Fri
day, There is "brcak" in the mar
kct. According to Wall street par
lance, he wiped Others out. and now
be is himself wiped out. No collater-
ais on which to make spiritual loan.
Eternal defalcationl
THE swINDLING MECHANIC.
But this practical religion will not
only rectify all incrchandise;>it will
also rectify all mechanism and all toll
A time will come when 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 job" Yon can tell by the swift
ness or slowncss with which hack
man drives whether he is Hired by the
hour orby the excursion. If he is hired
by the excursion he whips mp the
horses so as to set around and get an
other customer. Eli styles Of work
have to be inspected. Ships Inspected.
horses inspected. machinery inspected.
Doss to watch the journeymaa. Capt.
Nv r.,