Connecticut western news., 1896-12-24

pure from Boston was found to nave 4l per cent of rosin and alcohol and chloro- form. Scammony is one of the most val uable medical drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It 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 at this incision to catch the sap or the gum as it exudes. It 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 then it comes on to the wholesale drug gist in London or New York, and he mixes it with cheaper material; then it comes to the retail druggist. and he 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 scammony after analysis has been found to be no scammony at all.
 Speculation and Religion.
 Now, practical religion will yet rec tify all this. It will go to those hypo- critical professors of religion who got "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 stuffs 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 church or a university or 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, I will com- pose for him one which he practically is making: 70 Lord, we, by getting corner in breadstuffs, swindled the people of the United States out of s10, : 900, 900 and made suffering all up and down the land, and we would like to compromise this matter with theel Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart. Now, here we con- promise it. Take per cent of the prof. its, and with that 1 per cent you can build an asylum for these poor misera- ble ragamufflns of the street, and will take yacht and go to Europe, forever and ever Amen"
 An, my friends, if a man hath gotten his estate wrongfully and he build a line of hospitals and universities from here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After awhile this man who has been getting a "corner' in wheat dies, and then satan gets "corner" in him. He goes into great, long Black Friday. There is ''break" in the market. Ac- cording to Wall street parlance. he wiped others out, and now be is him. self wired out. No collaterals on which to make spiritual loan. Eternal def alcation.
 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 thing is slightingly done, "Oh, that was done by the jobl" You can tell by the swiftness or slowness with which a hackman 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 as many hours as possible. 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 inspected, boss to watch the journeyman; capital ist 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 a clipped nickel. All things must be watched and inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with putty, garments warranted to last until you put them on the third time, shoddy in all kinds of clothing, chromos, pinchbeck, diamonds for $1. 90, book bindery that holds on until you read the third chapter; spavined 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- tion 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. I tell you, my friends, the law of man will never rec tify these things. It will be the all per vading influence of the practical religion of ok kat tyn change for the better.
 It win Go In Many Channels.
 Yes, this practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbi- ally honest, but needs to be rectifed, 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 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 neigh bor's premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and 1t will keep the old elder from working on Sunday after noon in the new ground where nobody
 NCo uiiu. Anu thio piaOeAOal AOilSloh will hover over the house. and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard.
 Yes, this practical religion of which I speak will come into the learned pro- fessions. The lawyer will feel his re- sponsibility in defending innocence and arraigning evil and expounding the law, and it will keep him from charg- ing for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percent ages he never earned. and from robbing widow and orphan because they are de- fenseless. Yes, this practical religion will come into the physician's life, and he will feel his responsibility as the conservator of the public health, Q pro- fession honored by the fact that Christ himself was physician. And it will make him honest, and when he does not understand case he will say so, ! :.