The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-04


or woman in America. Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices
and into the sugars and into the butter |
and into the apothecary drug. 4, But
chemical analysis and the microscope
have made wonderful revelations The
board OF health in Massachusetts, ana
lived a great amount of what was called
pure coffee, and found in it not one par
ticle of coffee. In England there is
law that forbids the placing Of alum IN
bread. The public authorities exam
ined ffty-one packages of bread, and
found them all guilty. The honest
physician, writing prescription, does
not know but that it may bring death
instead of health to his patient, be-
cause there may be one of the drugs
weakened by a cheaper article, and an
other drug may be in full force, and So
the prescription may have just the OPP
posite effect intended. Oil of worm
wood warranted pure from Boston was
found to have Al percent. of resin and
alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is
one Of the most valuable medical drugs.
II is very rare, very precious. 1t is the
sap or gum OF a tree or a 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
gum as it exudes 1t is very precious,
this scammony. But the peasant mixes
it with cheaper material; then.it is Ia
ken to Aleppo, and the merchant there
mixes it with cheaper material; then it
comes on to wholesale druggists in Lon
don or New York, and he mixes with it a
cheaper material; then it comes to the
retail druggist, and he mixes with it
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
scammony at all.
Now practicalreligion will yet rectify
all this. 1t will go to those hypocrici-
cal 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 We're, after awhile, ready'to sell,
and they sold, making themselves mil
lionaires in one or two years-trying to
fix the matter up with the Lord by
building a church or a university or a
notwithstanding 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, l will compose
for him one which he practically is
making: "Oh Lord, we, by getting a
corner in breadstuffs, swindled the
people of the United States out of ter
million dollars, and made suffering al
up and down the land, and we woult
like to compromise the matter witt
Thee. Thou knowest it was scaly job
but then it was smart. Now, here VIZ
compromise it. Take one per cent. O
the profits, and with that one per cent
you can build an asylum for these poo
miserable ragamufiins of the street, ant
l will take a yacht and 60 to Europe
f. forever and ever. Amen"
, All! my friends, if a man hath got hi
f estate wrongfully and he build line O
hospitals and universities from here t.
l Alaska, he can not atone for it. Afte
: awhile. this man who has been gettin.
a corner" in wheat, dies, and thel
: Satan gets q corner" on him. He goe
into great long Black Friday. Their
$ is "break" in the market According
t to Wall street parlance he wiped other
Y out, and now he is himself wiped out
f No collaterals on which to make
r spiritual loan. Eternal dedication.
Y But this practical religion will not or
S ly rectify all merchandise; it will ais
n rectify all mechanism, and all toll. /
d time will come when a man will worl
c as faithfully bv the job as he does b
|. the day. You say when a thing
O slightingly done, "Oh, that was don
v by the job" You can tell by the swift
t ness or slowness with which haclSma
e drives whether he is hired by the hou
t Or by the excursion. If he is hired b
it the excursion he whips up his horses S
Il as to get around and get another Gu.
It toner.
? All styles of work have to be inspect
It ed. Ships inspected, horses inspected
machinery inspected. Boss to waite
It the journeyman. Capitalists comm
it down unexpectedly to watch the Dos.
. Conductors of a city car sounding tn
e punch bell to prove his honesty as
e passenger hands to him clipped nicke
e All things must be watched and il
II spected. Imperfections in the WOO
l. covered with putty. Garments warran
n ed to last until you put them on tt
c. third time. Shoddy in all kinds
It clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Di;
Y; monds at S1.50. Book binder
e. that holds on until you have rea
L. the third chapter. Spawned horse
1t by skillful dose of Jockeys, for sever;
1T days made to look spry. Wagon-tir,
it poorly put on. Horses poorly sho,
o. Plastering that cracks without any pr
re vocation and falls Off Plumbing tn;
1T needs to be plumbed. Imperfect ca
Of wheel that halts the whole train with
is hot-box. So little practical religion
i'd mechanicism of the world. / tell yo
t. my friends, the law of man will new,
is rectify these things. 1t will be the al
Ids pervading influence of the practic
religion of Jesus Christ that will NAL
IN the change for the better.
IL Yes, this practical religion will al.
De go irto agriculture, which is proverbia
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