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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sept. 15 



This rebellion on a small scale is not par- 

 ticularly different from that of 1861. The 

 question that confronts us, each and all, is, 

 shall rebels rule? or shall peace-loving and 

 law-abiding people, who are certainly 

 greatly in the majority, make our laws and 

 see that they are enforced ? 



Now, the great point in this qviestion, it 

 seems to me, is this: Why do not the good 

 people of Orleans, X. Y., and Columbus, O., 

 banish the saloons and have them done 

 with? Columbus has tried closing the 

 saloons temporarily, say after six o'clock at 

 night, and until six the next morning. 

 Yes, I guess tried is the word; for they did 

 try, but did not succeed. The mayor and 

 tlie i>olice of that great city were not equal 

 to the task of making the saloon-keepers 

 "shut up," even after dark. Well, let this 

 town and this great city, both of them, put 

 doivn and out the saloons now and ever- 

 more, and there will be no trouble at all in 

 enforcing the laws. In order to do this 

 they must perhaps get a new mayor and a 

 new set of policemen ; and, if I conjecture 

 correctly. Governor Harmon is slowly com- 

 ing to the same conclusion. Will he do it? 

 Here is what he says in regard to the mat- 

 ter, clipped from Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



Let the investigation be swift, thorough, and 

 sure, and all the resources of the State will be at 

 your back to assist in punisliing crime and mak- 

 ing scoundrelism odious in this community. 



Especial attention is directed to dynamite out- 

 rages. The men who are directing this guerrilla 

 warfare against society must be discovered and 

 punished if civil government is to continue in the 

 land. No mercy should be shown the terrorist 

 who, lacking the cour.age of the mob and the rioter, 

 skulks in dark places, sets his deadly stuff, and 

 then, in fiendish glee, hides liimself to await the 

 explosion. The stone-thrower and the intimidator 

 are alike guilty of crime under the laws of the 

 State, and will not be tolerated in Ohio. 



THEN AND NOW. 



The Wright Brothers and Their Flying-machine 

 up to Date. 



At the close of Our Homes for Oct. 15, 

 1904, I used these words : "We want a ma- 

 chine that will float as easily and safely as 

 the bees, the butterflies, and the carrier 

 pigeons. May the Lord be ])raised, this is 

 already in sight.'' 



The above was the closing of an article on 

 the new inventions of the age. Shortly 

 after (see Gleanings for Jan. 1, 1905), I told 

 you of seeing the Wright brothers make 

 their first successful flight, and that includ- 

 ed turning around and coming back to the 

 place of starting; and Gleanings was the 

 first periodical on the face of the earth to 

 announce to the world the crowning success 

 of their years of experimenting in order to 

 make a machine that would fly without a 

 balloon. Since then the Wright brothers 

 have been held up so prominently, not only 

 before the people of this country, but be- 

 fore the ivhole ivorld, that everybody knows 

 pretty well what they have been doing. 



Day before yesterday, Aug. 29, it was my 

 pleasure to get around once more to the old 



familiar field between Dayton and Spring- 

 field, Ohio, where they have so long made 

 their experimental flights. I reached there 

 about 2 P.M., and was at first somewhat dis- 

 appointed on finding neither of the Wright 

 brothers present, and to be told that they 

 might not come out that day at all. Since 

 my last visit a neat and convenient build- 

 ing has been erected, of sufficient capacity 

 to hold a flying-machine, or, in fact, two of 

 them, all ready to fly. A very plain no- 

 tice, in black anfl white, met me at the 

 gate, saying — 



"POSITIVELY NO ADMITTANCE." 



But I ventured to open the gate and go 

 through, notwithstanding; and when I ex- 

 plained to the four bright young men that 

 I had an invitation from one of the Wright 

 brothers I was made an exception to the 

 general rule. 



Permit me to say right here, that, at the 

 present time, not only hundreds but some- 

 times nearly a thousand are permitted to 

 stand around outside the fence, for at pres- 

 ent there is no more need of secrecy. When 

 these young students in the art of flying 

 informed me that they would very sot.n run 

 out the craft and sail it through the sky 

 without any assistance from the Wright 

 brothers, my disappointment began to give 

 way; for I reflected that, if the work had 

 come to such perfection that the students 

 could be intrusted to make flights all day 

 long without the presence of the owners, 

 things were indeed progressing far beyond 

 what I expected or knew any thing about. 

 As the wind generally goes down toward 

 evening, a good many days most of the fly- 

 ing is done late in the afternoon. 



In a little while peojile began gathering 

 in from all directions, with automobiles and 

 other vehicles. An ice-cream wagon came 

 on the ground: the popcorn boy was in ex- 

 idence, and one of the Wright machines 

 was easily slid or pushed outside of the 

 building. The track that the machine used 

 to run on had been disi)ensed with, and 

 also the weight droi)ping to shoot the ma- 

 chine up into the air. Two pairs of i)neu- 

 matic tire wheels, not unlike what we see 

 on a\itomobiles, were so placed as to lift the 

 car a little above the runners, made some- 

 thing like a sled-runner, although very light 

 and strong, as I have explained in previous 

 papers. One of the students took a seat 

 near the engine. Two others took hold of 

 the pro])ellers to do the cranking, and the 

 fourth young man sat on the ground and 

 held the machine till the propellers got up 

 to full speed. The starting-ground is sim- 

 ply a smooth piece of grass descending 

 slightly a few rods. At a signal from the 

 man in the machine the boys let go, and 

 olT it started. The rubber tires, as they 

 bumped over the ground, made some little 

 jolting, especially when the machine got 

 up speed. Very gradually the rubber 

 wheels touched more and more lightly on 

 old mother Earth, and pretty soon the beau- 

 tiful and wonderful fabric slid ofT into the 

 air, and then it was as as still and smooth 



