Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-12-26

/ WOnQorIul rcVclatlOuS. IHo CoaIu VI
health in Massachusetts analysed a
great amount Of what was called pure
coffee and found in it not ono particle
Of coffee In England there is law
that forbids the putting of alum i'll
bread. The public authorities examined
81 packages of bread and found them
all guilty. The honest physician, writ
ing a prescription, docs 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 to have Al
per cent of rosin and alcohol and chloro-
form. Scammony is ono Of tho most val
uablo medical drugs. 1t is very rare,
very precious. 1t 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 ut this incision to catch the sap
or the gam as it exudes. 1t is very pre-
cious, this scammony. But the peasant
mixes it with cheaper material; then
it is taken to Aleppo, and the merchant
there mixes it with cheaper material 4;
then it comes on to the wholesale drug
gist in London or New York, and be
mixes 1t with cheaper material; then
it comes to tho 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 scammony at all.
Speculation and Religion.
Now, practical religion will yet rec
tify all this. 1t will go to those hypo-
critical professors Of religion who got
"corner" in corn and wheat i'll Chi
cago and New York, sending prices up
and up until they were beyond the
reach of the poor, keeping these bread
stufrs 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 i'll one or two
years. trying to fix the matter up with
the Lord by building a church or a
university or hospital, deluding them
selves with the idoa 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 COM
pose for him one which no practically
is making: 20 Lord, we, by getting
corner III breadstuffs, swindled the
people of the United States out of $780,
900, 900 and made suffering all up and
down the land, and we would like to
compromise this matter with thee!
Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but
then it was smart Now, here we COM
promise it. Take per cent of the prof
it's, and with that l per cent you can
build an asylum for these poor misera-
BILE ragamuffins of the street, and l will
take yacht and go to Europe, forever
and ever. Amen. !"
All, my friends, if q man hath gotten
Iiia. estate wrongfully and he build
line Of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska, he cannot atone for 1t.
After awhile this man who has been
getting "corner" in wheat dies, and
then satan gets corner" in him. He
goes into great, long Black Friday.
There is "brcak" in the market. Ac-
cording to Wall street parlance. he
wiped others out, and now he is him
self wired out. No collaterals OH which
to make a spiritual loan Eternal def
alcation.
But this practical religion will not
only rectify oil 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 thing is
slightingly done, "Oh, that was done by
the jobp' You can tell By the swiftness
or slowness with which hickman
drives whether he is hired by the hour
or by the excursion. If he is hired by
the hour, he drives very slowly, SO as to
make al many hours as possible If he
is hired by tho excursion, he whips up
the horses 80 as to get around and get
another customer All styles of work
have to be inspected ships inspected,
horses inspected, machinery inspected,
boss to watch the journeyman; capital
list coming down unexpectedly to watch
the boss, conductor of city car sound
ing the punch bell to prove his honesty
as passenger hands TO him clipped
nickel. All things must be watched and
inspected. Imperfections in the wood
covered with putty, garments warranted
to last until you put them OH the third
time, shoddy in all kinds of clothing,
chromos, pinchbecls, diamonds for ST.. 90,
bookbindery that holds OH until you
read the third chapter; spawned horses,
by skillful dose of jockeys, for several
days made to look spry; wagon tires
poorly put On, horses poorly shod, plas-
tering that cracks without any provoca-
ton and falls off, plumbing that needs
to be plumbed, imperfect car wheel that
halts the whole train with hot box
so little practical religion in the mech
anism of the world. | tell you, my
friends, the law Of man will never REQ
tify these things. 1t will be the all por-
vading influence Of the practical religion
of Jesus Christ that will make the
change for the better.
1t VIII Go In Many Channels.
Yes, this practical religion will also
90 Into agriculture, which is proverbl-
ally honest, but needa to be rectified,
and it will keep the farmer from send
ing to the city market veal that is too
young to kill, and when the farmer
farms on shares It will keep the mnn
who does the work from making In
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