glp:anings in bee culture. 



Jan. 1; 



all around, and do a wrong- to innocent par- 

 ties, just for the sake of savinif a few dol- 

 lars and g-etting: a crop of rye in a few days 

 earlier! Mr. Brown very soon g-ot at his 

 potatoes; and when he did, thej' came out 

 in a hurry." I had a boy working- for me 

 at much less pay than I g-ave Mr. Brown. 

 He said if I would let the boy help him get 

 the potatoes out he would g"ive me a daj^'s 

 work of his own in exchange for the boy, 

 even up; and the matter ended pleasantl}-, 

 I think — oh how much more pleasantly than 

 if I had asserted my rights and practiced 

 something I did not preach or teiich on Sun- 

 da3'I No doubt Mr. Brown could mention 

 some things I did that were not very kind 

 ;ind not very wise; but I think he feels 

 friendlj' enough toward me now so he will 

 not feel hurt, even if he should see this in 

 print; and I hope he will realize, with all 

 the rest of you, that I have told this little 

 story only because it shows how easily 

 neighbors ma\' quarrel if even one of them 

 harbors a disposition to return evil for evil; 

 and it shows, also (at least I hope it does) 

 how eas}" it is to get along pleasantlj' where 

 even one of the two parties concerned (\'ou 

 know it takes two to make a quarrel) really 

 believes in that beautiful text that says, 

 ■ Love ye j'our enemies, and do good to 

 those that hate you." Conquering b^' kind- 

 ness instead of by force and hard words or 

 blows, is one of the very foundation stones 

 of the gospel of Christ Jesus which he came 

 to proclaim here on earth to a sinful world. 



I.YNCHING, ASSASSINATION, AND OTHER 



ACTS DISREGARDING THE LAWS OK OUR 



LAND. 



I am porrj' Gle.^ningb could not sav on° word con- 

 cerning the assassination of the Preside nt of the Unit- 

 ed Stat s. J. G. Brown. 



Greeutovvn. Ind . Jan. 1, 1902. 



My good friend, it was not because I did 

 not have an}' thing to say that I was silent, 

 but somewhat, perhaps, because there has 

 been so much said about it in every period- 

 ical one picks up. Perhaps I am rather 

 kite about it, but there is one thing that 

 ouuht^o be said, and 5et I have not found 

 very much said about it. When the Ivnch- 

 ing business got to be so bad. and especial- 

 ly when people, not onU' in tlie South but 

 in the North, East, and West, seemed to 

 th'mk it was the thing to take the law into 

 their own hands, and even put a tiian to 

 dcatli where a lot of people thought he 

 ought to die without judge or jury — ever 

 since these things have been getting to be 

 so common, and especially as man\' good 

 people seemed to think there was nothing 

 so very wrong about it, I have had a feeling 



*By the way, friends, the next time you have trouble 

 with a neighbor, instead of duelling on unpleasant 

 memories of times past, just .set about hunting up the 

 good things, or the favors that he and his family have 

 shown yon. Hold np the good traits, the pleasant 

 transactions, and pusli the others out of sight Keep 

 self and selfish interests awav off. Chase them away 

 as I did that dog -oh, no ! I did not chase him. after 

 all : I only wanted to, hut feared it would not look dig- 

 nified. 



that, sooner or later, we should reap ivliat 

 2ce iiave been sorving. As soon as I heard 

 of the President's assassination, I said at 

 once that was the outcome of the Ij'nching 

 business and ot/ier growing tendencies to- 

 ward anarchism. It rejoices my heart to 

 see how universally' anarchy and every ten- 

 dency toward it is being condemned, and I 

 hope the people of our land will catch on to 

 the fact right speedily, that lynching is an- 

 archy and nothing else. It is condemning 

 a man and putting him to death without 

 trial; and oftentimes the hanging or burn- 

 ing at the stake is done by some wretch or 

 set of wretches who are but little better at 

 lieart than the man they are putting to 

 death. Let us uphold the laws, and set a 

 good example by obeying them. If the laws 

 are bad or slow, go about it in a loyal and 

 orderly waj' to right the wrong. But let 

 us not do any thing contrary to law, nor in 

 anv' way ignore and ti ample under foot our 

 laws. 



THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OK AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



Is it the wish of the people that this De- 

 partment shall push the tobacco industr}'? 



/•'- iend Root : — I inclose you a slip that is going the 

 round of the papers, whioh no doubt you have seen, 

 and I am certain will interest you as it does nie. 



Washington, Oct. 27.— Secretary Wilson announced to- 

 ilay tliat c.itperts of the Agricultural Department wil I hunt 

 all over the Uniteii States and its new posse.'^sions for coadi- 

 tions favoral)le to the cultivation of the tiller tobacco, sucli 

 as is now risecl in Cuba, so that, if possible, all the fillerto- 

 bacco u^ed in tliis country eventually may be raised within 

 the boundaries nf the Ignited States. 



" The United States,'' he said, " is now paying jS.DO l,n«l for 

 %vrapi>er toljacco. We have succeeded in finding in this 

 country the conditions under which all the wrapi>er tobacco 

 ne need can be raised here, and experts of the Department 

 of Agricuhure for the first time are seeking soils adaptable 

 to the cultivation of the fine tiller product. We have parts 

 of Pennsylvania. Ohio, and 'I'c.xa- selected for the investi- 

 gation- of our experts, and land for similar purjioses will be 

 selected in all our new island possessions, with a view to as- 

 certaining how and under what conditions the filler prod- 

 uct can be built up here." 



I think sometimes that, if the W C. T. U. and other 

 kindred temperance organizations would drop some 

 parts of their work, and in its place work against to- 

 bacco, they would do far more real good. 



The tobacco hab't is gaining faster than the liquor 

 habit, and i , I think, the cau.se of more suffering in 

 the a.ggregate. Then it is the great stepping stone to 

 intem'>erance. For our young boys tobacco is fir'-t. 

 the saloon next. Only yesterday, on a ride into the 

 couutrv, we met three boys, schoolbooks in hand, one 

 with a pipe and one- with a cig.=irette in his mouth, and 

 sc.ircelv twelve years old. and this is common. 



Everywhere we C' me into the tobacco atmosphere. 

 No pers n can avoid it for a single hour unless he 

 sta s in his own home. Invalids or delicately organ- 

 '.y.'rd women are often made almost or absolutely .sick 

 bv a nuisance they can tiot avoid, while it is very -el- 

 dom that any oneis annoyed by intoxicating drink or 

 intoxicated per.sons ^ 



Some mav say the tobacco user does not come home 

 and abuse his "wife and family, even to blows. Btit 

 think for a moment of a delicately organized woman, 

 always in her own hotne, surr unded by and breath- 

 ing a' tobacco atmosnhere, brought there and main- 

 tained by a devoted husband soaked through and 

 through with tobacco, doomed to a slow and almost 

 certain death, and scarcely any one laying it to the 

 real cause. 



Occasionally, by some mysterious act of Providetice 

 (?) the bnsbai'id inay happen to go first. Then, to the 

 surprise of everv one, the bereaved wife's health im- 

 me liatelv commences to improve. This is no over- 

 drawn or singular case, but is happening all around 

 us -but the wife generallj- dies first. 



Then the undermining' of the health of our youth 

 is, I think, far greater than all the damage done by 

 liciuor alone unaided by tobacco. 



