Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-12-25

coffee and found IN IL not Oue phIhoLo
Of coffee In England there is q law
that forbids the putting OF alum In
bread. The public authorities examined
81 packages of bread and found them
all guilty. The honest physician, writ
ing a 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 opposite effect in
tended. Oil Of wormwood warranted
pure from Boston was found 10 have Al
per cent Of rosin and alcohol and chloro-
form. Scammony is one Of the most val
liable medical drugs. 1t is very rare,
very precious. 1t is the sap or the 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 the gum as II exudes. 1t is very pre-
cious, this scammOny. But the peasant
mixes it with a 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 drug
gist in London or New York, and be
mixes It with a cheaper material; then
it comes to the retail druggist, and ne
mixes it with a cheaper material, and
by the time the poor sick man gets 1t
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.
Speculation and Religion.
Now, practical religion will yet rec
tify all this II will 60 to those hypO-
critical professors of religion who got
a corner" in corn and wheat in Chi
cago and New York, sending prices up
and up until they were beyond the
reach Of the poor keeping these bread
stutfs 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, irving to fix the matter up with
the Lord by building a church or a
university or hospital, deluding them.
selves with the idea that the Lord
would be so pleased with the gift be
would forget the swindle. Now, as such
a man may not have any liturgy In
which to say his prayers. l will com
pose for him one which he practically
is making: 80 Lord, we, by getting
corner in breadstuffs, swindled the
people Of the United States out OF $40,
OOO. 600 and made suffering all up ano
down the land, and we would like tC
compromise this matter with thee
Thou knowest it was scaly JOB, but
then il was smart Now, here we com
promise it. Take per cent Of the prof
its. and with that per cent you cal
build an asylum for these poor misera
bic ragamufins Of the street, and | viii
take a yacht and 60 to Europe forevei
and ever. Amen. "
Ah. my friends, if a man hath gotteI
his estate wrongfully and he build
line Of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it.
After awhile this man who has beer
getting corner" in wheat dies, anC
then satan gets "corner" in him. HI
goes into a great, long Black Friday
There is a "break" in the market. Ac
cording to Wall street parlance, h'
wiped others out, and now he is him
self wired out. No collaterals on which
to make a spiritual loan. Eternal def
alcation.
But this practical religion will no
only rectify all merchandise, it viii
also rectify all mechanism and all toll
4 time will come when man vii
work as faithfully by the job as he doe
by the day. You say when thing j
siightingly done, "Oh, that was done b!
the jobl" You can tell by the swiftnes
or slowness with which hAckmai
drives whether he is hired By the hou
or by the excursion. II he is hired b.
the hour. he drives very slowly, so as T.
make as many hours as possible. II b
is hired by the excursion, he whips ~
the horses so as to get around and ge
another customer. All styles OF worl
have to be inspected ships inspected
horses inspected, machinery inspected
boss to watch the journeyman; capital
ist coming down Unexpectedly to watc
the boss. conductor Of a city car sound
ing the punch bell to prove his honest
as a passenger hands to him cllppe
nickel. All things must be watched an
inspected. Imperfections in the WOO
covered with putty, garments warrante
TO last until you put them on the thir
time. sboddy in all kinds Of clothing
chromos, pinchbeck, diamonds for u. OF
bookbindery that holds on until 20
read the third chapter; spawned horses
by skillful dose Of jockeys, for severa
days made to look spry; wagon tire
poorly nut on, horses poorly shod, pla'
teriug that cracks without any provoct
tion and falls off, plumbing that need
70 be plumbed, imperfect car wheel tha
halts the whole train with a hot box
So little practical religion in the mecf
auism Of the world. | tell you, N
friends the law Of man will never rex
tify these things. 1t will be the all PEI
vading influence of the practical religio
Of Jesus Christ that will make u
change for the better.
1t WIN Go In Many ChAnneia-
Yes, this practical religion will Ah
20 into agriculture, which Is provero
allv honest but needs to be reotineS
and il will keep the farmer from sent
ing to the city market veal that Is u
vonne to kill, and when the farm'
farms ON shares 1t will keep the ma
who does the work from making b
half three.fourths. and it will keep q
farmer from building his post and "a
fence on his neigh boris premises, ana
will make him shelter his cattle IN q
winter storm. and 1t will keep the o
elder from working ON Sunday afte
noon IN the new ground where noooS
sees him. And this practical rclfgi'
will hover over the house, and over 9
harm. and over the field, and over s
orchard. -,
Yes, this practical religion OF viii
I sneak will come into the learned pr