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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan 15 



Temperance. 



TEMPEKANCK AND GOVERNMENT, OR TEM- 

 PERANCE IN GOVERNMENT. 



The following editorial, which we clip from 

 the Clevelaud Daily News and Herald, is to 

 tne the best boiled-down temperance talk I 

 ever heard in my life. It goes to the root of 

 the matter without fear or favor, letting it hit 

 where it may. See if you do not agree with me. 



ORGANIZE, AND STOP THE DISGRACE. 



Civilization betomes the agent of the Devil v?heti it 

 goes into a country inhabited by " heathen," with a 

 sword in one hand and a whisky-bottle in the other. 



England, as ex-President Harrison would say, has 

 been looking for "conbumerj " for several centuries. 

 Slaves, opium, and rum are some of the products 

 which England has dealt in. China was debauched so 

 that trader.s might make great fortunes in the sale of 

 opium. Ships loaded with beer and whisky followed 

 the American army to the Philippine Islands. 



The Uuittd Sta es has no right in morals, or, so far 

 as we Can see, in law, lo engage in the liquor business. 

 Yet we are told by Ssnatots from theflcorof Congre-s 

 that this government has licensed hunciredtof saloons 

 in the ci.y of Manila. If this is so the goverumeut [ 

 should be c mpclled to revoke those licenses by the 

 enraged pubhc sentiment of the people of this Chris- 

 tian country. 



American's do not want, and they will not tolerate, 

 drunken armies led by drunken officers. Nor will 

 the mothers and the lathers in America permit the 

 governiTient, which thtir sons are fighting for in far 

 distant lands, to destroy tho-e sons with beer and 

 whisky — Filipino bullets are deadly enough. 



Men and women who love their country, and who 

 are unwilling to see the further degradation cf 

 the Filipinos under the American flag, no matter 

 whether the Constitution has followed the flag or not, 

 should organize and bombard Washington so furious- 

 ly and persistently as to comi-tl the authorities to put 

 a step to the liquor traffic in Manila and elsewhere on 

 the islands. 



The Senators from Ohio Messrs. Foraker and Han- 

 na, are powerful mtn Tney know how to carry elec- 

 tions, to influence public sentiment, and to per.-.uade 

 public authoiitits. Eet them both be plainly t Id 

 what the people < f Ohio want them to do — what the 

 people of Ohio demand that thty shall do. They ycill 

 not decline to act; they would hardly dare to decline, 

 even were they averse to taking a fresh burden upon 

 themselves. Ett the people, mtn and women, of oth- 

 er States organize for vigorous, tireless, and intelli- 

 gent section. E<^t the authorities in Washington feel 

 the pressure of an outraged and disquieted public sen- 

 timeut. 



Tne Anti Saloon Efague in Ohio and the great Wo- 

 men's Christian Tcmpernnce Union, as wtU as all 

 gi od citizens should enlist for the war. The Filipino 

 war is small and unimportant compared with the 

 "commercialism" which debauches the young Amer- 

 ican soldiers as well as the " htathens " whom these 

 patriotic soldiers are attempting to civilize at the point 

 of the bayonet. If expansion, the hunt for consumers 

 for American products, means to I arter in the souls 

 and b dies of jouiig men and Malay savages, the 

 so -ner this country begins to contract the belter. 



The issue is live and pressing. Everywhere in this 

 country the people should act. Dclegationsof strong, 

 able men should be sent to Washington from every 

 citv and vilUge in the whole country. Republicans 

 and Dtmocrais should .stand shoulder to shoulder. 

 Compel public men to take their .stand upon one side 

 or the other Drive this govr rnment out of the 1 quor 

 business. Take the whisky bottle out of the hand of 

 civilizition. Give to the F lipinos that benevolent 

 assimilation which does not first m ike them drunk. 



Now, dear brother or sister, if the above 

 strikes you as it does me, give the editor who 

 had the counge to write it such support and 

 encouragement as he deserves. Subscribe for 

 his paper, either daily or weekly. Show this 

 temperance editorial to your friends ; and if 

 you want more copies of it, write me and I will 

 furnish you free of charge, postpaid, as many 

 as anybody will distribute to his friends, or 

 where it will be read. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



CAULIFLOWER SEED — H. A. MARCH'S LATEST AND 

 BEST — THE MATTITUCK ERFURT. 



For years past we have been furnishing H. A. 

 March's strain of Snowball cauliflower seed. The 

 best evidence of its good qualities and reliability is 

 the increased orders from year to year, ano the fact 

 that so many of our old customers will not take any 

 other. Well, friend March has just get out Sf me- 

 thing that he thinks is an improvement on the Snow- 

 ball. Here is what he says in regard to it: 



Mr. Root:— I send .vou to-day ^ lbs. of selected Early Jer.-^ej- 

 Waketield calibage seed; also 1 lb. of caulitlower seed. 1 am. 

 willing to wager my reputation as a laulillower-seed ^al^e^ 

 that it is tlie very best pound of cauliflower seed in .\mei-ica 

 to-day. Every seed, with good care, will make a head. .\t the 

 head'of.this sheet is a photo of six of them piled up against a 

 wheelbarrow turi ed up edgewise. You can see what they are 

 like. Those six heads, trimmed as you see them, br mght ih& 

 scales down at 60 lbs. You may lecommend the seed with ijei- 

 fect confidence. It heads with Snowball, but larger. Here ii* 

 our moi.st climate tlie leaves cover the iieads so well that tlieie 

 is no need of tying up. We call it the Mattituck Erfuit. The 

 stock seed was imported from Erfurt three years ago, through 

 a man at MattitucK, L I., at a cost of 88.00 per ounce. 



Fidalgo, Wash., Dec. 3. H. A. March. 



555' 



SIX HEADS OP MARCH'S CVtTLIFLOWSR 



The pound of seed referred to in the above will be 

 sold, while it lasts, at the regular price of the Snow- 

 ball; viz., packet, .5cts.; J4 ounce, 25 cts.; "% ounce, '40 

 cts : 1 ounce. SI 50. ~"^1^^ 



Early cauliflower brings tremendous prices; there- 

 fore it is a good plan to start a few plants right away. 

 March's strain of Early Jersey Wakefield cabbaee is 

 also equally well known. The 5 lbs. referred to above 

 will be sold in ocent packets ; per ounce, 20 cts.; per 

 lb , S2 50. The cabbage is so very hardy that it is a 

 good plan to have some of the seed put in right away. 

 You can transp'ant them into cold frames, and get 

 them almost readv to head up before they go into the 

 open ground, thus getting ahead of anybody else on 

 early cabbage. 



GRAND RAPIDS LETTUCE SEED — THE IMPORTANCE 

 OF HAVING THE VERY BEST. , 



Some time ago, while discussing this matter of the 

 best strains of seed, Eugene Davis, the orisinator of 

 the Grand Rttpids lettuce, sent me by request a small 

 quantity of the best seed he cou'd grow or procure. 

 He also .sent a small quantity to Thomas Slack, who 

 writes as follows in regard to it : 



I was just fortunate enou. h to have sown a section in the 

 greenhoii-e last year with Davis' ^eed. as I was short of plants. 

 A good many seeds did not come up until last spring, when the 

 ground was dry. so 1 s.'ived every one and set them <>ut for seed, 

 and got aliout Ihrei- cjiiarts; ,and the price voti paid for vour 

 first seed ($100 00 per lb. 1 would not buy it u'ntil I gro ^ more. 

 You can not undcrsiand how difTerenlly we feel this winter 

 from last— haidly .1 sjM.ttiMl ]ilantin the whole hou>^e. and • ach 

 secti' n turning but )"> t.. ro imxes of first-class sfufT instead of 

 1.5 to 20 boxes of very poor stuff as it did last winrer. Price is 

 iiO cents inste.ad of 2). If you want a little sted to grow seed 

 troiii in the >|'ring. I think I can spare you a little No charge, 

 but it is not/or sale. 



Waterloo, Quebec. Dec. 27. Tnos. Slack. 



Now, friends, it does seem too bad that either friend 

 Davis, Thomas Slack, who writes the above, or vour 

 humble servent A. I. Root, can not, one or all of them, 

 personally superintend growing some choice Grard 

 Rapids lettuce seed. Eet's see — we shall have to call 



