1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



601 



We are told that the good wife, her head 

 bo ved with shame, had to be led out by her 

 sou. Downstair.^ the daughter sat weeping 

 — and well she might cry. Now listen ! 

 This lay preacher says, "A reputation was 

 swept away that the man had toiled forty 

 years to build." 



Some of you who read this story may be 

 tempted in a like manner — possibly very 

 soon, for graft is abroad in our land. It is 

 in the very air we breathe. It has gotten 

 into all sorts of business ; yes, and I say it 

 with shame, it has a few times not only 

 gotten into our i^laces of worship but behind 

 the sacred desk. 



One more quotation; but instead of put- 

 ting it in italics I will use a larger type to 

 add greater emphasis: 



■'All for the sake of forty-seven 

 hundred dirty dollars that the man 

 did not need." 



The six concluding words have such a 

 terrible significance that I wish to repeat 

 them again: "That the man did not need." 



If you look about you and witness the 

 scramble for money you will see every little 

 while that somebody has been risking his 

 reputation — yes, even selling his soul for a 

 little money that he "did not need." I 

 told you some time ago of a person whom I 

 knew who made his life miserable because 

 he was not given a few hundred dollars 

 that he thought belonged to him. He 

 could think of nothing else, day or night ; 

 but in the course of time, when things 

 .'-wung around unexpectedly, so that he got 

 I he money that he had worried and fretted 

 about so much, he found he had no use for 

 it. and no need of it. He put it out at inter- 

 est, but he had no use Jor the interest; and 

 \\ hen he came to die suddenly the money 

 li.H.l never been of any benefit to him at all. 



May God help us to stop and think and 

 consider, not only once in a while but every 

 day and hour. 



For what shall it profit a man if he sliall gain the 

 M hole world and lose his own soul ? 



After the above was dictated 1 came across 

 the following in the Sunday School Times: 



What do you think of a bank president who, 

 being paid a large salary to serve as the head of an 

 Institution to which many people entrust their 

 money for safe-keeping, takes this money, gambles 

 with it in the hope of winning more, and loses it — 

 the money of those who committed it to his keep- 

 ing because they trusted him ? Why is such a man 

 despised by every one? What do you think of the 

 men in Pennsylvania who were trusted with the 

 great responsibility of handling millions of dollars 

 of other people's money in the building and fur- 

 nishing of the capitol at Ilarrisburg, and who. It 

 was found, probably "grafted"' several millions of 

 dollars of these trust funds to their own personal 

 accounts? Is it too severe a penalty that, of five of 

 the men implicated, two died under the strain of 

 their trial and conviction, while two others are 

 to-day serving sentences in prison? 



MONTGOMERY WARD & CO., AND SEARS, ROEBUCK 

 & CO. 



I am reminded by one of our readers that Sears, 

 Roebuck & Co. are just as worthy of " honorable 

 mention" as Montgomery Ward & Co. He adds 

 also that Messrs. Sears, Roebuck & Co., are so much 

 on the side of temperance that " an employee enter- 

 ing a saloon within a prescribed district thereby af- 

 fects his own discharge." 



SHALL "rebels" RULE? 



When the righteous are In authority the people rejoice; but 

 when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn.— Prov. 29 : 2. 



FIREBUGS BURN ENTIRE VILLAGE. 

 WAGE RELENTLESS DESTRUCTION UNTIL HOTEL IS 



THE ONLY BUILDING LEFT. 

 CITIZENS PATROL STREETS AT NIGHT, AND SUSPI- 

 CION FACES ALL. 



BUFFALO, Aug. 24.— Building after building incen- 

 diaries have devastated in Orleans. Ontario County, 

 New York, only recently a flourishing village of 

 3500 population. The one place of business left 

 standing is the Orleans Hotel, and that is being 

 vacated to-day. 



Panic fills the place, and armed volunteers 

 nightly patrol the streets. Citizens fearing they 

 would be burned alive in their beds have left their 

 homes, some of which can be bought for the price 

 of the cement walks before them. A woman locked 

 up her house on the main street and left town. 

 Fire destroyed the house next door but one to hers, 

 and another fire the house adjoining. 



Men regard each other suspiciously, and lifelong 

 friends have become enemies. They refuse to talk 

 to each other about the fires, and they fear doubly 

 to talk to an outsider. This attitude hampers the 

 investigations being made by District Attorney 

 Myron D. Short and Sheriff Gooding. 



The first and most destructive fire started at mid- 

 night, April 16. Although several buildings burned 

 were not insured, the companies paid out 8;iiO,000 on 

 those that were. Now the insurance companies 

 refuse to do business at Orleans, which has no fire 

 department. ' , ^ .. ■ . 



Pinkerton detectives posing as farm hands tried 

 to find the origin of the oft-recurring fire. After a 

 month the detectives went away with the strong 

 suspicion that the intense bitterness between the 

 "wets' and " drys" over the local-option question 

 had much to do with the incendiarism. 



—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



Some of you may wonder why I have 

 copied the above piece of news, which does 

 not ditTer materially from what we see in 

 almost every issue of the daily papers, 

 except that it speaks of the burning-iq} 

 of an enlire village. Well, the reason why 

 I copied it is because of the last paragraph. 

 The Pinkerton detectives, after a month of 

 investigation, decided that it was simply a 

 quarrel between the wets and drys, and 

 they went away and left the parties to set- , 

 tie as best they could. These Pinkertons 

 and some other people look down from their 

 lofty pedestal, and seem to consider differ- 

 ences between wets and drys like any other 

 neighborhood quarrel, and that both sides 

 are more or less to blame Now let me ask 

 a question right here: Does aiiybocly, e\en 

 the liquor people, believe the drys had any 

 thing to do with burning up that village'/ 

 The drys are the Christian element of our 

 nation. They believe the majority should 

 rule, and make the laws, and that, after the 

 laws are made, all people should obey them. 

 The wets, on the contrary, do not relish law 

 of any sort provided it affects the control 

 of their "business." If the laws do not suit 

 them, and enable them to go on with their 

 money-making, they openly and defiantly 

 transgress law. And that is the trouble in 

 our nation to-day. While I write, the same 

 vicious element are taking the law into 

 their own hands at the capital of our State. 

 Even when the militia have been called out 

 they have been unable to stop the mob 

 from stoning and dynamiting the street- 

 cars. The Governor of Ohio is on the spot, 

 but he is, to a certain extent, helpless. 



