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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



matter, is the crop of boys and girls. And now 

 I am going to direct your attention to caring 

 for the children in this great land of ours. Edu- 

 cated, intelligent, pure-minded men and women 

 are the grandest piece of worl< that humanity 

 ever contemplated; and bright, symmetrical, 

 pure, and good men and women do not come 

 without care and painstaiiing. If the parents 

 do not do it, somebody else must do it. That 

 little grandchild I have alluded to would not 

 be sweet and pretty if she were allowed to have 

 her own way. Ask her mother, and she will 

 tell you that I have made no mistake. God 

 gives us these children pure and innocent; but 

 by some means we may not be able to under- 

 stand exactly, evil impulses and bad disposi- 

 tions are sure to take root and grow if they are 

 not watched and weeded out. Like the borer 

 in the trunk of the apple-tree, these evils, if 

 allowed to go on, will strike at the very vitals 

 in a short time. Then, again, like the apples, 

 we must watch them during every stage of 

 their growth. The parent's work is almost 

 never done. 



Here is a sample of the things that threaten 

 our boys. A speaker before the Ohio State 

 Liquor League, after having discussed matters 

 of interest to the saloon business and its suc- 

 cesses, wound up with the following significant 

 statement- 

 It will appear from these facts, g-entlemen, that 

 the success ot our business is dependent largely 

 upon the creation of appetite for drink. Men who 

 drink liquor, like otners, will die; and if there is no 

 new appetite created, our counters will be empty, 

 as will be our coffers. Our children will go hungrj-, 

 or we must cbange our business to that of some 

 other more remunerative. 



The open field for the creation of this appetite 

 is among the boys. After men have grown and 

 their habits are formed, they rarely ever change in 

 this regard. It will be needful, tlierefore, that mis 

 siouary work be done among the boys; and 1 make 

 the suggestion, gentlemen, that nickels expended 

 in treats to the boys now will return in dollars to 

 your tills after the appetite has been formed. 

 Above all things, ci-eate appetite! , 



One of their plans to teach the boys to-like 

 strong drink was to offer them lemonade con- 

 taining just enough whisky or brandy to give 

 the boys'a taste. When somebody told me the 

 borers were killing my nice young apple-trees. 

 I declared that that sort of work should be 

 stopped. But just compare for an instant this 

 matter of choice apple-trees with the boys of 

 our homes. Do you not say with me, " Let the 

 apple-trees go — let every thing go — until we 

 hold these fellows up to the scorn of all good 

 people " ? 



Now, it is not intemperance alone that our 

 children are to be guarded against. There are 

 other things that have been pronounced even 

 more blighting and withering and devastating 

 than a taste for liquor. But the saloon men 

 have got hold of this thing too; and the vile 

 pictures of obscenity that accompany the 

 liquor-traffic &ive you ample proof. 



One of the great safeguards to all these dan- 

 gers that beset our children are good schools 

 and colleges. The beautiful university, with 

 its hundreds of pupils, at Lincoln, Neb., tells us 

 of the work that is being done there; and the 

 bright faces, the good behavior, and the intel- 

 ligent-looking young men and women that we 

 see all through the buildings tell again of the 

 work that is being done in the way of fashion- 

 ing and molding intelligent beings into OocVs 

 own image, instead of letting them go down to 

 the depths of destruction and toward the bot- 

 tomless pit that some of us have occasionally 

 had at least glimpses of. May God help us to 

 remember the boys and girls, the children of 

 our homes, as well as the other things that 

 cheer and delight us along the pathway of life. 



DISSENSION AND CONTENTION AMONG OUR OWN 

 PEOPLE. 



The following, which I clip from the Chicago 

 Advance, so completely expresses my feelings 

 that I take pleasure in giving it to our readers: 



In the interest of good morals and wise patriotism 

 we wish to express our surprise, regret, and utter 

 disapprobation in view of the persistent attempts 

 of some of our political leaders to create social di- 

 visions among the American people, and to array 

 classes against classes. Our commercial and social 

 evils can never he corrected in that way. The most 

 mischievous man conceivable in church, state, or 

 general society, is the one who creates divisions, 

 antagonisms, and acrimonies among people who are 

 called to live together in harmonious co-operations, 

 or who widens the breaches that fanaticisms have 

 already made. Of all countries, this is out of place 

 in the United States of America. The caste spirit 

 and class prejudices are out of harmony with our 

 national ideas and temper. Before the law, wheth- 

 er written on statutes, or on our traditions and gen- 

 eral habits, we are equal. All places, social, political, 

 and commercial, are open to the aspiration and ef- 

 fort of all citizens. Nothing could be more short- 

 sighted and mischievous than that kind of talk 

 which antagonizes political opponents as enemies, 

 or attempts to gain popular support by encourag- 

 ing one set of citizens in their prejudices against 

 one another, and by fostering the unnatural senti- 

 ment that they are the slaves of fancied oppressors 

 rather than American freemen in the possession of 

 all the rights so splendidly conserved under the 

 charter of our liberties. We may differ in respect 

 to policies, but we are all members of one another 

 in the fellowship of freedom. 



LINCOLN, NEB. 



This whole trip, of something over a thou- 

 sand miles, was made in about 30 hours, or an 

 average of about 33 miles an hour including 

 stops and change of cars. Some of the way, I 

 noticed by watching the mile-posts, we made 

 nearly if not quite a mile a minute. On these 

 fast trains a dining-car is used to save the time 

 that would be consumed for stopping for meals; 

 but on this side of Chicago the price was 

 11.00 a meal. 1 have paid this price for a meal 

 of victuals only a few times in my life, and it 

 has always given me a guilty feeling when I 

 remembered the number of men with large 

 families, who work hard for only a dollar a day; 

 and then to think of taking a dollar for the 

 purchase of a single meal gives me a feeling 

 that 1 should not like to have it known. I can 

 not do it with a clear conscience. Again, when 

 near Lincoln a man boarded the train, who was 

 a subscriber to Gleanings. We had a very 

 pleasant talk with him, and in this talk he 

 said that corn had been sold as low as 10 cents 

 a bushel; and the bushel they have out there 

 — at least a bushel of ears — would mean a bush- 

 el basket full, and Imlf full again. In other 

 words, think of paying out for your dinner 

 money enough to buy 15 bushels of com as we 

 measure it here in Ohio. There is something 

 wrong and inconsistent about this. I do not 

 wonder that the railroad companies complain 

 of the lack of travel. How can afarvier travel 

 when he must pay a dollar for his dinner or go 

 without it? Well, I am glad to say that we 

 found a change in this matter when we got on 

 to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy beyond 

 Chicago. It was my pleasure to have Dr. Mil- 

 ler with me for a traveling companion. Along 

 between 7 and 8 o'clock the doctor mentioned 

 that he would be very glad to have some nice 



