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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



JUT.Y 1 



lowing papers : 'NewYor'k //erald ; Washing- 

 ton Times; New York Journal; Chicago 

 American ; New York Evening Post ; Tacoma 

 News ; Chicago Chronicle ; Atlanta Journal. 

 I have given the names of papers from dif- 

 ferent cities to show how universally this 

 thing is carried on, and how systematically it 

 is managed. Not one of these periodicals, at 

 least so I am told by some of our most relia- 

 ble papers, has consented to publish a retrac- 

 tion of their false statements. If this thing 

 keeps on would it be any thing strange if a 

 large number of well-meaning — well, say 

 Christian voters, should decide they were mis- 

 taken, and that this army canteen was really 

 a temperance (?) institution as all these dailies, 

 and perhaps a thousand other papers, would 

 lead us to think ? I do not know why so many 

 periodicals have gone into this thing. I do 

 not know whether it is because the managers 

 love drink themselves, or whether the brewers 

 have bought the space, and have bought it on 

 condition that these editors should not print 

 the truth, even when it is proven to them be- 

 yond all question. 



I have been told from childhood that lies do 

 not carry the day very long. My father used 

 to say, perhaps in language not very elegant, 

 that even the Devil would hang himself if you 

 give him rope enough ; but I confess I have 

 begun to fear of late that the brewers, with 

 their millions, have got out some patent-right 

 way of managing the Devil so that he does 

 not show his hoofs and horns as he used to do 

 after he had been given about so long a time. 

 In olden time, we are told, there was a cer- 

 tain people who said by their acts, if not in 

 words, " We have made lies our refuge, and 

 under falsehood have we hid ourselves." 

 Isaiah does not tell us very clearly just how 

 far these people got along under that sort of 

 cloak and refuge ; but I am really afraid the 

 brewers are going to make a great deal of 

 trouble just now unless the church of God be- 

 stirs herself. A few religious periodicals are 

 helping to expose these falsehoods. The 

 strictly temperance papers are all fighting 

 valiantly ; but unless the church, and a united 

 church, takes hold and helps us, I really fear 

 the canteen will be re-established, and that, 

 too, by the votes of well-meaning but foolish 

 people. 



Do you ask me for proof that / am right ? 

 Well, if you want straight clear proof, go 

 yourself to any one of the forts where it is 

 claimed these new saloons have been started, 

 and witness the strings of lies that have no 

 foundation whatever. If you will be satisfied 

 with the affidavits of the mayors and ofUcers 

 of the town, and with the statements of some 

 of the army c fiicers and chaplains besides, in 

 those places where are located the soldiers' 

 barracks, you can find them in any of our 

 temperance papers, some of them reproduced 

 in Jac simile by the photograph. 



The closing words of our text tell us that 

 no one shall enter the holy city who " work- 

 eth abomination or maketh a lie ; " and I have 

 sometimes wondered what place would be ac- 

 corded to good people who stand about with 

 their hands in their pockets, figuratively, 



while these frauds are perpetrated, and pass- 

 through the medium of the press into almost 

 every home in our land. May God help us ; 

 and may God help me to be sure that I am 

 making no mistake and holding up a warning 

 again and again about something that is, as 

 some tell me, only a comparatively small mat- 

 ter after all. 



Just one thing more : If a paper comes into 

 your home, making these statements in regard 

 to the disastrous results of shutting up the 

 canteen, remonstrate with the editor. If he 

 pays no attention to your protest, subscribe 

 for some paper that is willing to tell the truth 

 in regard to the drink-trafiic. 



Permit me to say that I have never seen in 

 the Cleveland Leader one of these preposter- 

 ous statements. On the other hand, they con- 

 tinue to give us brief editorials in the cause 

 of truth and temperance every little while. 

 If our people would promptly protest to the 

 editors themselves whenever these false state- 

 ments appear, they would soon conclude that 

 their championing the brewers may prove to 

 be, after all, an expensive piece of business. 



NOTES or TRAVLL. 



4 BY A. I. ROOT . 



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GETTING LOST IN THE FLORID.A. WOODS. 

 When I came into Oak Hill, Fla., on the au- 

 tomobile, as I have told you about, I was put- 

 ting on considerable style — that is, consider- 

 able for jne. But a great many times in my 

 travels I make my appearance before bee- 

 keepers without very much style — in fact, 

 sometimes without any style at all. Once or 

 twice I have received a gentle rebuke. When 

 I was passing on that long trip over the Ozark 

 Mountains, in Missouri, I called on a sub- 

 scriber to Gleanings who had a very pretty 

 greenhouse. He looked me over and finally 

 said right out : 



"Why, Mr. Root, I can hardly understand 

 how a man occupying the position you do 

 would wish to be seen riding about the coun- 

 try in this eccentric style, far from home, on a 

 wheel. ' ' 



I tried to explain to him that I was doing it 

 just for the fun of the thing, because I loved 

 adventure ; but a good many times his kindly 

 reproof occurs to me. Several times I have 

 promised Mrs. Root — yes, I have promised 

 myself, after getting into a disagreeable fix — 

 that I would try iu the future to be a little bit 

 more dignified, and not rush things so much. 

 I reached the station at Sanford, Fla , be- 

 fore sundown. I remembered there was an 

 old friend of mine a little way out in the coun- 

 try, Mr. J. A. McMillan, where I had a most 

 pleasant visit six years before. I inquired at 

 a livery stable what they would charge to take 

 me out there. They wanted a pretty big price, 

 I thought ; and as I had been riding in a bug- 

 gy nearly all day I felt a good deal like walk- 

 ing. In fact, I walked out there six years be- 



