The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-01-28


bonedust and soapstone, and it will, by
chemical analysis, separate the one
quart of water from the few honest
drops of cows milk, and it will throw
out the live animalc1les from the
brown sugar.
There has been so much adulterat!on
of articles Of food that it is an amaze
ment to me that there is a healthy
man or woman in America. Heaven
only knows what they put into the
spices, and into the sugars, and in the
butter, and into the apothecary drug.
But chemical analysis and the micro
scope have made wonderful revela-
tions. The board of health in Massa-
chusetts analysed great amount OF
what was called pure coffee, and found
in it not one particle of coffee. In En-
gland there is law that forbids the
putting of alum in bread. The public
authorities examined 81 packages of
bread, and found them all guilty
The honest physicion, writing a pre-
srciption, 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 intend
ed Oil Of NORWOOD warranted pure
from Boston was found to have 81 per
cent. Of resin and alcohol and chloro-
form. Scammony is one of the most
valuable 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 in
cision 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 precious, this scammony.
But the peasant mixes it with a
cheaper material; then 1t is taken to
| Aleppo, and tho merchant there mixes
it with cheaper material; then it is
comes on to the wholesale druggist in
| London or New York, and he mixes it
with a cheaper material; then it comes
to the 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.
Now, practical religion will yet
rectify all this. 1t will 60 to those
hypocritical professors OF religion who
got 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 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, max
ing themselves millionaires in one OF
two years-trying to fix the matter uF
with the Lord by building a church
or an university or a hospital-delud
ing themselves with the idea that
the Lord would be so pleased with the
gift He would forget the swindle.
Now, as such a man may not have
any liturgy in which to say his pray
ers. will compose for him one which
he is practically making: 'Oh, Lord
we, by getting corner in bread
stuffs, swindled the people of tho
United States out of $4,000, 900
and made suffering all up and down
the land, and we would like to com
promise this matter with Thee. Thou
knowest it was a scaly job, but ther
it was smart. Now, here we compro
mise it. Take one per cent. of the
profits, and with that one per cent
you can build an asylum for these
poor, miserable ragamutfins on tn,
street, and | will take a yacht and G,
to Europe. forever and ever. Amen!
All, my friends, If man hath got
ten his estate wrongfully and he buile
a line of hospitals and universitie
, from here to Alaska, he can not atom,
| for it. After awhile. this man who ha
been getting ''corner' in whea
dies, and then Satan gets ''corner
in him. He goes into a great, lon,
Black Friday. There is break" il
the market According to Wall stree
parlance, he wiped others out. an,
now he is himself wiped out No col
laterals on which to make a spiritua
, loan. Eternal defalcation.
= But this practical religion will no
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 h
4 does by the day. You say when
thing is slightingly done: "Oh, tina
was done by the job" You can tell b
the swiftness or slowness with whic
, a hackman drives whether he is hire
by the hour or by the excursion. If h
Is hired by the hour he drives yer
slowly, SO as to make as many hour
as possible. II he Is hired by the e,
I cursion, he whips up the horses S
u as to get around and get anothe
$ customer. All styles of work hav
n to be inspected. Ships inspected
l horses inspected, machinery inspec
i ed. Capitalist coming down unexpec
eddy to watch the boss. Conductor {
+ city car sounding the punch of be
Il to prove his honesty as a passenge
g hands him clipped nickel. All thing
8 must be watched and inspected. In
v projections in the wood covered wit
$ putty. Garments warranted to las
|, until You put them on the third tim,
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