The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-02

out the live animalcules from the
brown sugar.
There has been so much adulteration
of articles OF food that 1t Is an amaze
ment to me that there is q 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 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 10y 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 Us it eXudes.
1t is very precious, this scammony.
But the peasant mixes it with q
cheaper material; then it is taken to
| Aleppo, and the merchant there mixes
it with cheaper material; then it is
comes on to the Wholesale druggist in
London or Now York, and he mixes it
with 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 go 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
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, maxi
ing themselves millionaires in one or
| two years-trying to fix the matter up
with the Lord by building a church
or an university or n 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
stutfs, swindled the people Of the
| United States out Of $4,000, 600,
and made suffering all up and down
the land, and we would like to COM
promise this matter with Thee. Thou
knowcst it was scaly job, but then
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 ragamuflins on the
street, and l will take yacht and go
to Europe, forever and ever. Amenr'
| All, my friends, if n man hath got.
ten his estate wrongfully and he build
n line of hospitals and universities
from here to Alaska, he can not atone
for it. After awhile, this man who has
been getting corner" in wheat
dies, and then Satan gets corner
in him. He goes into n great, long
Black Friday. There is ''breals" in
the market. According to Wall street
parlance, he wiped others out, and
now he is himself wiped out No col
laterals on which to make a spiritual
loan. Eternal defalcation.
But this practical religion will not
only rcctify all merchandise; it will
also rcctify all mechanism and all toll.
A time will come when man will
work as faithfully by the lob as he
does by the day. You say when a
thing is slightingly done: ''Oh, that
was done by the job" You can tell by
the swiftness or slowness with which
a haclSman drives whether he is hired
by the hour or by the excursion. If he
is hired by the hour he drives very
slowly, so rs to make as many hours
as possible. If he Is hired by the ex-
cursion, he whips up the horses so
rs to get around and get another
customer All styles of work have
to be inspected. Ships inspected,
horses inspected, machinery inspect
cd. Capitalist coming down unexpect-
eddy to watch the boss. Conductor OF
a city car sounding the punch of bell
to prove his honesty as passenger
hands him clipped nickel All things
must be watched and inspected. I'm.
projections In the wood covered with
putty. Garments warranted to last
until you put them on the third time.
Shoddy in all kinds Of clothing. Chro.
mos. Pinchbeck. Diamods for 81. so.
Book binding that holds on until
You read the third chapter.
Spawned horses, by skilltull
dose of jockeys, for several days made
to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put
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