Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-21

tea leaves, and it VIII slit from TIT
-four plaster Of paris and bone dust anc
soapstole, aud it will by chemical anal
ysis separate tie enc quart OF water
from the few honest drops of cow
milk, and it will throw out the live
animalcules from the brown sugar.
There has been so much adulteratlor
of articles of feod that it is an amaze
ment to me that there is healthy man
or woman in America. Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices ano
into the sugars and into the butter and
into the apothecary drug. But chemical
analysis and the microscope 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 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
CuCGDOI anu duOUIiSI I'll INDY
be in full force, and SO the prescription
may have just the opposite effect in
tended. Oil of NORWOOD warranted
pure from Boston was found to have Al
per cent of rosin and alcohol and chloTO-
form. Scammony is one of the most val
liable medical drugs 1t 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. 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;
then it comes on to the wholesale drug
gist in London or New York, and he
mixes 1t 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. 1t will go to those hypo-
critical professors of religion who got
a corner il 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 CT q
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
1 man may not have any liturgy in
which to say his prayers, I will COM
pose for him one which he practically
s making: 80 Lord, we, by getting
/ corner in breadstuffs, swindled the
people of the United States out of S1O,-
700, 600 and made suffering all up and
DOWN the land, and we would like to
this matter with theel
Thou knowest it was scaly job, but
hen it was smart. Now, here we COM
promise it. Take per cent of the prof
is, and with that l per cent you can
,uild an asylum for these poor misera-
lie ragamuf1ins of tho street, and I will
axe yacht and go TO Europe, forever
md ever. Amen.
All, my friends, if q man hath gotten
lis estate wrongfully and he build a
inc of hospitals and universities from
lere to Alaska, he cannot atone for it.
After awhile this man who has been
,etting corner in wheat dies, and
hen satan gets ''corner" in him. He
,oes into a great, long Black Friday.
There is "break' in the market. Ac-
ording to Wall street parlance.- he
wiped others out, and now he is him
elf wiped out. No collaterals on which
o make a spiritual loan. Eternal def
lcation.
But this practical religion will not
My rectify all merchandise, it will
lso rectify all mechanism and all toll.
time will come when q man will
york as faithfully by the job as he does
y the day. You say when thing is
done, ooh, that was done by
he jobl' You can tell by the swiftness
r sIowness with which hackman
rives whether he is hired by the hour
r by the excursion. If he is hired by
he hour, he drives very slowly, SO as to
make as many hours as possible. If he
) hired by the excursion, he whips up
be horses so as to get around and get
mother customer All styles of work
ave to be inspected ships inspected,
orses inspected, machinery inspected,
oss to watch the journeynan; capital
st coming down unexpectedly to watch
he boss, conductor of city car sound
ng the punch bell to prove his honesty
s passenger hands to him clipped
ickel. All things must be watched and
Imperfections in the wood
oxered with unity. Garments warranted