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planning to go outdoors more than they ever did 

 before. They are going to ride uiheels outdoors. 

 The Columbia people, in one of their advertise- 

 ments, said the wunuin who lias h^arned to ride 

 a wheel can go /our miles ov forty miles if she 

 chooses, without asUiiigodds of anybody. And 

 what they say is true. Our lifteen-year-old 

 daughter can. t think, ride forty miles without 

 any trouble, on a fair road; but how can she 

 dare to go out of sight of her home while brutes 

 in human form are abroad, ready to knock her 

 down if she happens to be out of sight? Our 

 teachers will be afraid to take wholesome exer- 

 cise if this state of alfairs is permitted to go on. 



And that reminds me: Suppose, dear friends, 

 that this schoolteacher were your daughter. 

 Why. it almost calls forth a groan to think of 

 it. But she is some?*o(?}/'s child. She is a child 

 of humanity. She is a child of the St<tte of 

 Ohio; and if this should meet her eye, I want 

 to say, "Be of good cheer, daughter. Even 

 though this thing did haiipen here in our beau- 

 tiful Stale, and even though there are among 

 us such as he who did this act, there are also 

 thousands of brothers and fathers who are not 

 only strong but brave. What you have suffert-d 

 may have, been need' d to bring u-< to our senses. 

 So. be not cast down and afraid. There is a 

 God above who knows these things: and in his 

 name we promise you tliis thing shall not be 

 passed by unuoticed. Look uj); go on with 

 your work, and may God speed you." 



Dear friends, this is springtime, and a glori- 

 ous springtime too; but let us not be so busily 

 occupied with our crops and our work at home 

 that we can forget the res])onsihility that God 

 has laid upon us. Our nation has been more 

 than once redeemed from the hand of the spoil- 

 er. More than once have America's sons and 

 daughters laid down the implements of peace 

 and showed the great wide world that we can 

 flcjht as well as pray. A few months ago, a 

 brute under the influence of strong drink pre- 

 sumed to lay violent hands on a little child. I 

 need not teli you the end of this terrible tale. 

 Every man. woman, and child for miles around 

 made it a common business to avenge the little 

 one. The man was burned at the stake before 

 the outraged pot)ulace had hardly time to say 

 wheth«r it was right or wrong. • Good people 

 held up their hands in horror. I do not now 

 mean to say all that was done there was right; 

 but I am giad that, when patience ceases to be 

 a virtue, our people can rise up in a body and 

 teach all mankind, at least in one direction, a 

 wholesome lesson. I do not recommend that 

 this man who struck down the teacher should 

 be burned at tlu^ stake: but he should be hunt- 

 ed up. if money can find him. It is true, he did 

 not strikf a child ; but he did strike an appoint- 

 ed guardian of littli' children; and he and all 

 else like him should either be converted from 

 the error of their ways, or be shut up where 

 they can not harm and rob the protectors and 

 teachers of America's children. 



Please don't stop Gleanings, ;is we all like it very 

 much. My wife says, put in plenty Home Talks and 

 sermons, as she enjoys reading' tliem. Long- may 

 you live. W. D. Sopek. 



Jack.son, Mich., Apr. 5. 



L. A. Dosch, in the last issut' of Gleanings, 

 voiced our sentiments very nearly, only that we 

 want you to keep riglit on with your "silly religious 

 talks." as lou^ as you lionestly believe what you 

 say. We should miss tiiem Kreiitly, for, no matter 

 wliat otlier pa))ers we have on liand. or wliat else 

 tliere is in Gleanings, we read and enjoy those 

 "silly religious talks " first. Your ideas in i-eference 

 to labor questions and capilal we usually indorse, 

 and by no means consider them naiTt)w. 



Conneaut, O., Mar. 20. D. Cummins. 



Thou hast loved righltimsness and hated iniquity.— Heb. 1 : 9. 



AricuLTURAL journalism was never on a 

 higher plane than now, both in quality and 

 quantity. 



Bro. York, of the American Bee Journal, 

 if we mistake not. has just added a new face of 

 handsome type to his paper. 



Every time th(^ Review comes to our table, 

 we make a dive for it among other matter. The 

 last number was an excellent one as usual. 



The honor of having the largest house-apiary 

 in the world isclaim(>d by an enterprising Can- 

 adian. It is round, having a circumference of 

 138 feet, and is two stories high. Further par- 

 ticulars will be given latiU'. 



There seems to be a demand in some quar- 

 ters for an uncapping-machine. vSome time ago 

 we illustrated one, but it was impracticable. 

 Now that electricity is so useful a servant in 

 wire-imbedding, perhaps we can employ it for 

 uncapping. The Rambler and John S. Reese 

 have both suggested an idea that possibly may 

 lead to success. Full particulars will be given 

 in our next issue. 



A HINT TO advertisers. 



Catchwords in advertising are half the bat- 

 tle. It is better to use something attractive, 

 odd. or startling in a headline in a small ad- 

 vertisement than an ordinary unattractive card 

 occupying two or three times the space. Take, 

 for instance, " You press the button, we do the 

 rest."' It has come io be almost a byword: and 

 yet the happy combination of these words was 

 worth thousands of dollars to the manufactur- 

 ers of the Kodak camera. As another example 

 we would call attention to the advertisement of 

 S. F. A: I. Trego, on page 324. They say, " We 

 are on the lookout,"' then show a picture of a 

 Siiilor on top of a mast. We admire the pluck 

 and energy of any firm who are on the lookout 

 for customers — not of the half-hearted sort, but 

 a sort of enterprise that fairly jumps at oppor- 

 tunities. As another example of this kind we 

 would call attention to the "ad "on the last 

 cover page of this issue. The catchwords are, 

 " A New Hive." While the W. T. Falconer Co. 

 have not got up exactly '" a new hive." there is 

 something so attractive in this headline that 

 people are forced to look at it. If there is any 

 thing that arrests the attention of a bee-keeper, 

 it is a new hive— particularly if it is backed by 

 a reputable firm. There are a good many others 

 of our advertisers wiio employ skillfully worded 

 lines: but the ones mentioned above are conspic- 

 uous examples; and our reason for referring to 

 the matter here is, that our advertisers may 

 thus helj) materially tb increase their net prof- 

 its. It should be remembered that space costs 

 just so much, no matter what use you make of 

 it. Effective display and appropriate "catch- 

 words " or " catchlines " mean dollars of profit. 



.MR. HARBISON. 



We are glad to present to our readers, from 

 the pen of our special correspondent. Rambler, 

 a very interesting account of Mr. Harbison, of 

 California fame— his early history, his hive, etc. 



