Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

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 OPP
posite effect intended. Oil of wormwood,
warranted pure, from Boston, was found to
have Al per cent. of resin and alcohol and
chloroform. Scammony is one of the most
valuable 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, ard then shells are placed at this
+ incsion to catch the sap or the gum as it
exudes
/ 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 mixes it with cheaper
material; then it comes on to the whole
sale 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 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 ali
THE SPECIALIZING HYrocRITE
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
all this. 1t win go to those hypocritical pro
fessors OF religion who got 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
breadstuifs in their own hands, or control.
ling them until, the prices going up and up
and up, they We're after awhile ready 10
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 a university, or a hospital
deluding 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, ! will compose for him
one which be practically is making: 20
Lord, we, bY getting "A corner in bread
stnffs. swiudled the people of the United
States out Of zen million dollars. and made
suffering all up and down the land, and
we would like 10 compromise this matter
with thee. Thou knowest it was scaly
job, but then it WIS smart Now. here we
compromise IT, Take one per cent Of the
profits, aud with that one per cent. You
can build an asylum for these poor miser-
able ragamuGils Of tie street, and | will
takea yacht and 60 to Europe for ever and
ever. amenm
All, my friends, If n nien hath rotten his
estate Yrongfully, anl he build line of
hospitals and universities from here to
ALASKA, he cannot atone for it, After
a lie this man who has been getting a
corner" in wheat dies and then Satan
gets a corner on him. He goes into
great long Black Friday. There is a
"breisk" IN the market According to
Wall street rarlance, he wiped Others out,
and now lac is himself wiped out No col
laterals on which 70 make a spiritual loan
E-ernal defalcation.
But this practical religion will not only
rectify all merchandise, it will also reetify
all mechanism aud all toll \ time viii
come when "A man will work rs faithfully
by the job as he does by the day You say
when thing is slightingly done "Oh. that
was done by the jobr' Y&i can tell by the
swiltness or slowness with which hack
man drives whether he is hired by the boar
or by the excursion II heis hired b. the
excursion he whips up the horses, so a. to
get around aud get another customer. All
STYLES OF work have 10 be inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery in
spected. Boss To watch the journeyman.
Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to
watch the boss Conductor of city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his hon
esty as passenger hands TO him clipped
nickel All things must be watched and in
spected Imperfections in the wood covered
with putty Garments warranted to last
until yon put them on the third time.
Shoddy in all kinds OF clothing. Chromos.
pinchbeck. Diamonds Tor "a dollar and a
nalf Bookbindery that holds on until
You read the third chapter. Spawned
horses by skillful dose OF jockeys for sew
ergil days made to look spry Wagon tires
poorly pat on. Horses poorly shod. plas
tering that cracks without any provoca-
ton and falls off. Plumbing that needs
to be plambed 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 he the all peryadng influence Of the |
practical religion Of Jesus Christ that will
make the change for the better.
THERE Is NONE PERFECT.
Yes, this practical religion win also 20
into agriculture. which Is proyerbialiy hon |
est, but needs TO be rectified, and il 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 bis half three-fourths, and it will l
keep the farmer from building, bis post and \
rail fence on his neighbours premises, and |
1t will make him shelter his cattle in the |
winter storm, aud it will keep the old elder
from working on Sunday afternoon in the |
new ground where nobody sees MIN. And /
tins practical religion win hover over the
house, and over the barn. and over the
field aud over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion Of which ] |
speak will come into the learned probes
sions. The lawyer will feel his response
bility in defending Innocence, and arraign-
ing evil, and expounding the law, aud 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 r0bbing widow and orphnn because
they are dcfensels.>s. Yes, this practical