Connecticut western news., 1891-02-18

show that it is pasteboard sand dwiched between the sound leather. And this practical religion will go right into 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 blue from the tea leaves and it will sift from the flour plaster of paris and bonedust and soapstone, and it will by chemical analysis sepa rate the one quart of Rdgewood water from the few honest drops of cows milk, and it will throw out the live animalcules from the brown sugar.
 There has been so much adulteration of articles of food that it is an amaze ment 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 but ter, and into the apothecary drug! But chemical analysis and the micro scope have made 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 a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The public author ities examined fifty one packages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician, writing a prescrip- tion, does not know but that it may bring death instead of health to his pa tient, because there may be one of the drugs weakened by 8 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 ot resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valu- able medical drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It 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. It 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 a cheaper material; then it comes on to the wholesale druggist in London or New York, and he mixes it with cheaper material; then it comes to the retail druggist, and he mixes it with a 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 HYPoCR1TE's PRAYER. Now, practical religion will yet rectify all this. It 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 millionaires in one or two years, trying to fix the matter up with tho Lord by building church, or uni
 versity, or 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 a man may not have any liturgy in which to say his prayers, I will compose for him one which he practically is making: 70 Lord, we. by getting corner in breadstuffs, swindled the people of the United States out of ten million dollars, and made suffering all up and down the land, l and we would like to compromise this matter with thee. Thou knowest it
 was scaly job, but then it was smart. | Now. here we compromise it. Take 1 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"
 An, my friends, if a man hath gotten his estate wrongfuny, and he build line of hospitals and universities from
 here to Alaska he cannot atone for it. After while this man who has been getting ''corner" in wheat dies and then Satan gets 'corner'' on him. He goes into a great long Black Fri day. There is "break'' in the mar
 ket According to Wall street par 1 1o~no Ia xyiYoo1 othoro or1
 he is himself wiped out. No collater
 als on which to make spiritual loan.
 Eternal dedication!
 THE SwINDLING MECHANIC. But this practical religion will not
 only rectify all merchandise; it will also rectify all mechanism and all toll. | A time will come when a man will
 work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightingly done, ''Oh, that was done
 by the job" You can tell by the swift
 ness or slowness with which a hack
 man drives whether he is hired by tho
 hour or by the excursion, If lIc is hired by the excursion he %ii,;ps up tho
 horses so as to get around and get an other customer. All styles of work have to be inspected. Ships inspected,
 horses inspected, machinery inspected.
 Boss to watch the journeyman. Capi- talist coming down unexpectedly to
 watch the boss Conductor of city
 car sounding the punch bell to prove
 his honesty as a passenger hands to him a clipped nickel.
 All things must be watched and in
 spected. Ilnperfections in the wood