The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

drops OF COWS mix, ana III VIII tiroW
out the live animalcules from the
brown sugar.
There has been SO much adulteration
Of articles of food that il 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 drugl
But chemical analysis and the micro
scope have made 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 a law that forbids the putting
of alum in bread The public author
tiles examined fifty one 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 a cheaper article,
and another drug may be in full force,
and so the prescription may have just
the opposite effect intended, Oil of
NORWOOD, 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. II is very rare,
very precious, 1t is the sap orthe 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 eyudes 1t is very
precious, this scammony. But the
peasant mikes it with cheaper material !;
then it is taken to Aleppo, 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 u 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 scammony after
analysis has been found to be no seam
mony at all.
THE HYPoCRrrE'S PRAYER.
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
all this. 1t will go to those hypocrit-
icaI 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 while ready to
sell, and they sold out, making them
selves millionaires in one or two years,
trying to fix the matter up with the
Lord by building a 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 swindle.
Now, as such 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 breadstuffs,
swind!ed 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 it
was q 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"
All, my friends, if man hath gotten
bis estate wrongfully, and he build a
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
lance, he wiped Others out, and now
he is himself wiped out. No collater-
ais on which to make spiritual loan.
Eternal defalcation!
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 q 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" You can tell by the swift
ness or slowness 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 an
other customer All styles of work
have to be inspected. Ships inspected
horses inspected, machinery inspected
Boss to watch the journeyman. Capt.
talist coming down Unexpectedly t.
watch the boss Conductor of city
car sounding the punch bell to prov,
his honesty as a passenger hands tx
him clipped nickel
All things must be watched and in
spected. Imperfections in the Woo
covered with putty. Garments wal
ranted to last until you put them Oh
the third time. Shoddy in all kinds 0
clothing chromos, pinchbeck, diamond
for dollar and a half Bookbinder
that holds on until you read the thir
chapter Spawned horses. by skillfu
dose of jockeys, for several days mad
to look spry. Wagon tires poorly pu
on. Horses poorly shod. Plasterin
that cracks without any provocatio
and falls off. Plumbing that needs t
be plumhed. Imperfect car wheel tina
halts the whole train with hot DO,
So little practical religion in the mech;
nisn of the world tell you, IN
friends, the law of man will never re,
tify these things. 1t will be the all pc
vading influence of the practical relil
l.