The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01

Oredus anu IOunu Jnem ali gn1lty.
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 by 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 Al 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 a 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 it is taken to
Aleppo, and the merchant there mixes
it with a cheaper material; then it is
comes on to the wholesale druggist in
London or New York, and lie mikes it
with a cheaper ma terial; then it comes
to the retail druggist, and he mikes 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
rot Il
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 or
two years-trying to fix the matter up
with the Lord by building 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 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 OJ SCOLIhB III OTCdu-
stuffs, 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
knowest it was a 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, misera bic ragamuf fins on the
street, and | will take yacht and go
to Europe, forever and ever. Amen!'
All, my friends, if man hath got
ten his estate wrongfully and he build
a line of hospitals and universities
from here to Alaska, he can not atone
for it. After awhile, this man who has
been getting a corner" in wheat
dies, and then Satan gets a "corner"
in him. He goes into a great, long
Black Friday. There is break 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 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 a
thing is slightingly done: "Oh, that
was done by the job" 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 ex-
cursion. 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 inspect
ed. Capitalist coming down unexpect-
eddy to watch the boss Conductor of
a city car sounding the punch of bell
to prove his honesty as a 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
in all kinds of clothing. Chro-
mos. Pinch beck. Diamods for ST. 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
on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering
that cracks without any provocation
and falls off. Plumb ering that needs
to be plum bered Imperfect car wheel
Ia4 hoI - 1o
box. So little practical religion in the
of the world. / tell you,
my friends, the law of man will never
rectify these things. 1t will be the all
pervading influence of the practical
religion of Jesus Christ that will make
the change for the better.
Yes, this practical relig ion will also
go into agriculture, which is proverbi-
ally honest, but needs 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 man
who does the work from making his
half three-fourths, and it will keep
tbe farmer from building his post and
and rail fence on his neighbours prem
ses, and it will make him shelter his
cattle in the winter storm, and it will
keep the old elder from working on
Sunday afternoon in the new ground
where nobody sees him. And this
practical religion will hover over the
house, and over the barn, and over the
field, and over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion of which
speak will come into the learned pro-
iessicns. The lawyer will feel his re-
possibility In defending innocence
md arraigning evil, and expounding
he law, and it will keep him from
charging for briefs he never wrote |
Ind for pleas he never made, and for