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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



whistle blows; but he does not promise to 

 give up cigarettes. 



Now, I do not know that I am able to de- 

 cide, just now, where our duty lies right 

 here. I do not like to lay down cast-iron 

 rules. I would a hundred times rather use 

 some means to induce the boy or boys 

 theviselves to agree to what we feel is best 

 for their interests and ours; and I think I 

 shall leave this question right here. 



Under circumstances like the above, 

 should John have an advance in wages? If 

 he does his work as well in every respect 

 as others who have more than 12-2 cents an 

 hour, ver}' likelj' he should have more. But 

 in the cigarette business he is harming oth- 

 ers. He has admitted io me that he can 

 not buy cigarettes here in Medina. He ac- 

 knowledges that he has to send away to get 

 them. Well, to save expense the boys usu- 

 ally club together and send off for a sup- 

 ply, and therefore he must do a little can- 

 vassing. He hunts up other boys who want 

 them, or recommends them to other boys so 

 they can save expense by buying them by 

 the quantity. Ought a boy, under such 

 circumstances, expect promotion, especially 

 if he is working for The A. I. Root Co.? 

 Instead of answering this myself I wish to 

 ^et the opinion of our helpers generally. 

 Is John worth as much money as the one 

 who has not got into the cigarette habit, 

 leaving out for the time being this other 

 question about being on hand when the 

 whistle blows, or a little before? 



"We are marching on." 



Do you wonder what called forth the 

 above? Well, it is the contents of a postal 

 card just at hand. 



Gentlemen.— VXzase: give us advertising rates and 

 discounts; also state whether you have any objection 

 lo liquor ads. Please mail us sample copy, and oblige 

 Yours truly, Ginseng Distilling Co. 



St. I^ouis, Mo., Mar. Vi. 



How does the above indicate we are 

 marching on ? Why, this distilling compa- 

 ny frankly admit that some periodicals, 

 we do not know how many, are refusing to 

 accept "liquor ads." May God be praised 

 for this much. And now, friends, I will 

 tell you what we, the people who support 

 these periodicals, are to do. Look the ad- 

 vertising pages of your home paper all 

 over. If you see any thing in it that even 

 indirectly helps advertise the liquor busi- 

 ness, make a protest to your editor, and 

 have the paper stopped if he does not slop 

 the whisky advertisements.* If all Chris- 

 tian and temperance people would do this 

 simple thing that I have suggested, it would 

 clean our advertising pages pretty thor- 



* I wish the editor of every periodical in the land 

 could read what that exceedingly popular book, "In 

 His Steps,'' has to say about receiving advertisements 

 of whisky, tobacco, etc.; and it is gratifying to know 

 that, notwithstanding the bold stand this book takes 

 against these things, it is having and has had a larger 

 sale than any other book since Uncle Tom's Cabin 

 came before the world. This would seem to indicate 

 that there is a hungering and thirsting after righteou.s- 

 ness— yes, even among the great masses of the com- 

 mon p'eople. Mav God be praised for such a book, 

 and mav it still co'ntitnie to go "marching on." 



oughl}' of this disgraceful sort of advertis- 

 ing. Will you not help us in the battle for 

 righteousness, temperance, and purity? 

 Just one thing more : 



What kind of a distillery is the Ginseng 

 Distilling Co. ? Is the ginseng industry be- 

 ing hitched on to the whisky business? A 

 very good friend of inine, and an expert 

 chemist, has recently written me that the 

 sole reason why the Chinese pay such ex- 

 travagant prices for ginseng roots is that 

 they have a notion or superstition that it 

 tends to stir up the lower passions. If this 

 is true, every good man and woman should 

 let it alone, just as the}^ would let — well, 

 we will say just as they are now making 

 up their minds to let tobacco alone. Still 

 another thing: 



I guess I might as well admit right here 

 that even Gleattings was entrapped into ac- 

 cepting the advertisement, for a time, of 

 the Heller Chemical Co., Chicago. One of 

 our veteran subscribers called our attention 

 to the fact that that company sent in their 

 catalog an inset sheet of pictures in colors 

 of fancy demijohns containing "rock-candy 

 whisky," and a long list of liquors with 

 fancy natnes. Of course, at the head of 

 the sheet they declared these liquors were 

 never sold to anybody except for "medical 

 uses." But they were pushing their wares 

 with most extravagant advertising. How 

 do they know — or, better still, how much do 

 they care — who sends for it, providing the}' 

 get the money ? Another note at the bottom 

 of the sheet says the packages are very 

 carefully done up, so that no one can see or 

 even guess the contents — as much as to say, 

 "You church-members and temperance peo- 

 ple who would like some nice whisky, but 

 are afraid to have people know about it, 

 can get it from us 'on the sly,' and nobody 

 in the world will be a bit the wiser." 



THE FUTURE OF THE TELEPHONE — RURAL 

 TIMEPIECES. 



The following extract from the New Yoik 

 Indepctident suggests what may be done 

 with a rural telephone, if it is not being 

 done already. 



New services for the rural telephone are constantly 

 being devised. One of the most interesting and ad- 

 vantageous is the " News service." Rvery evening" at 

 seven o'clock all the farmers in a group, or in a circuit 

 of groups, take their stand at the telephone. There 

 will be a ring, and then the opening call, " Good even- 

 ing ! now keep quiet ! It is one minute and a half 

 after seven o'clock by the regulator. " Every farmer 

 at once regulates his watch or his clock. 'When this is 

 done the call comes again : " Weather indications for 

 the next thirty-^ix hours are ' Cooler and cloudy, with 

 probable rains;' or, •'Weather clear and warmer.'" 

 Then come market quotations. The price of corn, 

 wheat, oats, rye, butter, chickens, eggs, apples, and 

 whatever else the farmer may have in season, is 

 announced. Then come news items, such as consti- 

 tute the main headlines of newspapers. 



The part about having farmers keep a 

 imiform and standard time commends itself 

 particularly to me. I suppose you all know 

 how it is, or, perhaps I had better say, how 

 it used to be, with timepieces in the ci->iuitry. 

 There are no two alike. When I was up at 



