Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-16

| 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 a cheaper article,
and another drug may be in full force, and
so the prescription may have just the op-
! 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
II 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 mixes it with cheaper mate
rial; then it is taken to Aleppo, and the
merchant there mixes it with a cheaper
material; then it comes on to the whole
sale druggist in London or New York, and
he mixes it with cheaper material; then
it comes to the retail druggist, and lie
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 scam
mony after analysis has been found to be
no scammony at all
THE sPECULATING HYPoCRTTE.
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
all this. 1t will 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
breadstuffs in their own hands, or control
ling them until, the prices going up and up
and up, they were after awhile ready to
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 q university, or hospital
deluding themselves 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, | will compose for him
one which he practically is making: 80
Lord, we, by getting corner in bread
stutfs, swindled the people of the United
States out of ten million dollars, and made
suffering all up aud down the land, and
we would like to compromise this matter
with thee. TnOu knowest it was IL scaly
job, but then it was smart. Now, here we
compromise it. Take one per cent. of the
profits, and with that one per cent you
can build an asylum for these poor miser-
able ragamuffins of the street, and | will
take yacht and go to Europe, for ever and
ever, amenW
Ah my friends, if a man hath gotten his
estate wrongfully, and he build line of
hospitals and universities from here to
Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After
a while this man who has been getting a
corner" in wheat dies, and then Satan
gets ''corner" on him. He goes into a
great, long Black Friday. There is
"break" in the market. According to
Wall street parlance, he wiped others out,
and now he is himself wiped out. No col
laterals on which to make spiritual loan
Eternal defalcation!
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, ooh. that
was done by the jobl' You can tell by the
swiftness or slowncss with which hack
man drives whether he is hired by the hour
or by the excursion. If he is hired by the
excursion he whips up the horses, so as to
get around and get another customer. All
styles of work have to be inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery in.
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 you put them on the third time.
Shoddy III all kinds of clothing. Chromos.
Pinchbeck. Diamonds for dollar and a
nalf. Bookbindery that holds on until
you read the third chapter. Spawned
horses by skillful dose of jockeys for sew
eral days made to look spry Wagon tires
poorly put on Horses poorly sbod, Plas
teriug that cracks without any proyOca- |
tion and falls off. Plumbing that needs |
to be plumbed. Imperfect car wheel that |
halts the whole train with hot box. 50 |
little practical religion in the mechanism
Of the world. | tell you, my friends, the
law of man will never rectify these things.
1t will be the all pervading influence of the
practical religion of Jesus Christ that will
make the change for the better.
THERE IS NONE PERFECT.
Yes, this practical religion will also go
into agriculture which is proverbially hon
est, but needs TO be rectifed, and it 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 1T
will keep the man who does the work from
making his half three-fourths, and it will
keep the farmer from building his post and
rail fence on his neighbor's premises, and
Il will make him shelter his cattle in the
winter storm, and it will keep the old elder
rom working on Sunday afternoon in the
lew ground where nobody sees him. And
his practical religion will hover over the
louse, and over the barn, and over the
ield, and over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion of which !
peak will come into the learned protes-
ions. The lawyer win feel his response
lility in defending innocence, and arraign-
ng evil, and eEpOuuding the law, and u
will keep him from charging for briefs he
never wrote, and for pleas he never made,
md for percentages he never earned, and
rom robJiug widow and orphan because
hey are dctlns1.ess. Yes, this practical I
eligion will come into the physicians life
nd he will feel his responsibility A. the ]
onservator Of the public health PROBES
ion honored 10y the fact that Christ him 1
Elf was a physician. Aud it vail make
i'm honest, and when he does not under
tand case he will say 50, not trying 70 !
over up lack Of diagnosis with ponderous Z
echuicalities, or send the patient 70
eek less drug store because the apothecary 5
.aDpens 20 pay percentage on the prs
cTiptons sent.
AMI ais practical religion will come 70 =
he school teacher, making her feel her re 7
IN preparing our youth lof
Befulness, and for happiness. and Tor hohoI'
nj wiil keep her from giving sly DoA 70