1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1031 



40 Fahr. during- the coldest winter. Then, 

 too, there is danger that the sawdust might 

 collect dampness and hold it. If you can 

 maintain the neces-sary inside temperature, 

 from 40 to 55 degrees, with your present 

 walls, better leave them as they are. On 

 warm nig^hts, if you have them, following a 

 warm sunshiny da}% I would open up the 

 cellar doors and windows and let the cellar 

 ventilate and dry out occasionally. It may 

 be advisable, if the temperature g-oes too 

 low, to have a small stove in the cellar, so 

 the temperature can be raised, and the 

 dampness be driven out. But do not use an 

 oil-stove, for the g'as generated will befoul 

 the air. — Ed.] 



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BY A.I ROOT. 



In those days came John the BapMst, preaching in 

 the wilderness of Judea, and saying. Repent ye, for 

 the kingdom of heaven is at hand. — Matt. 3: 1, 2. 



And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the 

 tree.— Matt 'i: 11. 



The Anti-saloon Congress at Columbus, 

 O., Dec. 1, 2, 3, was from beginning to end 

 largely devoted to the enforcement of law. 

 It was mostly in regard to the enforcement 

 of the good laws we already have on our 

 statute-books rather than the enactment of 

 more. The meetings opened Monday night; 

 and I supposed that, as this first meeting 

 was principally addresses of welcome, re- 

 sponses, etc., the attendance would not be 

 very large. I was agreeably surprised, 

 however, to find more than 1000 delegates 

 from our State present; and as I looked on 

 the faces of the thousand or more educated 

 and refined men and women, 1 thanked God 

 again and again that we have so many who 

 are ready to give their time, their brains, 

 and their money to protect the best interests 

 and welfare of our State. 



The next day I was agreeably surprised, 

 again, to find nearly 2000 delegates present. 

 In moving about among them I listened to 

 their talk; and it was a revelation to me 

 that we have so many men and women of 

 such an advanced stage of education, and 

 of such clean Christian character. There 

 were college professors, editors of religious 

 and educational periodicals, ministers of 

 the gospel, prominent physicians, and God- 

 fearing politicians. 



Gov. Nash was to give the address of wel- 

 come; but we were obliged to be content 

 with a telegram saying it was impossible 

 for him to be present, assuring us of his 

 sympathy and interest in our work. 



Rev. B. F. Dimmick, D. D., said in his 

 address (in place of that of Gov. Nash) of 

 welcome : 



'■We are not ashamed of ourselves, although we are 

 ashamed of some of the things that exist in our city." 



The response was by Rev. Levi Gilbert, 

 of Cincinnati, editor of the Western Chris- 



tian Advocate. It rejoiced my heart to 

 know that a man of such ability and such 

 pure religious convictions was standing at 

 the head of one of our great religious period- 

 icals. In the absence of Gov. Nash. Rev. 

 Morgan Woods, of Cleveland, delivered the 

 closing address. Mr. Woods is a man of 

 great ability, and is doubtless doing a great 

 amount of good; but he certainly is not up to 

 the times, and iji touch with our present 

 temperance work.* In one part of his ad- 

 dress he made the remark we had got past 

 the time of signing pledges; but I think he 

 saw by the looks of his audience he had made 

 a misstep, for he undertook to back out 

 of it gracefully. A speaker later on, allud- 

 ing to it, said when he married his wife he 

 took a pledge ; and it had been the delight 

 of his life to keep that pledge in mind, and 

 try to live up to it; therefore he believed in 

 pledges. The second day was opened by a 

 stirring address by Superintendent Baker, 

 entitled, " The Work Accomplished and the 

 Work Before Us." After this. Rev. C. L. 

 Work, D. D., of Granville, O., gave us one 

 of the best temperance talks I ever heard, 

 taking up as his subject, "Why, as a Pro- 

 hibitionist, I work with the Anti-Saloon 

 League." I have asked for a copy of this 

 address, and propose to give it in these col- 

 umns soon, so I will make but little com- 

 ment now. Permit me to say that I have 

 been, ever since the Anti-saloon League was 

 started, urging alltemperance organizations 

 to be exceedingly careful about any thing 

 that could be called cross-firing in our 

 ranks. I have written to the editors of the 

 American Issue to be very careful about 

 criticising or even reflecting on other tem- 

 perance parties or periodicals. Again and 

 again I have felt pained to see how our ed- 

 itors and leaders of temperance were for- 

 getting to show before the world the spirit 

 of Christ Jesus, our common Lord and Mas- 

 ter. May the Lord be praised, however, 

 that we are just now entering on a new era. 

 The periodicals that have been saying bit- 

 ter things toward each other have clasped 

 hands, if I may so express it, and united. 

 The consequence is, the eneiny is falling be- 

 fore us on every hand. 



Rev. Emory W. Hunt, D. D., President of 

 Dennison Universit3s gave us a magnificent 

 talk on "the coUeg-e man and his reforms." 



" How to conduct a local-option campaign 

 under the Beal law" was g^iven us by Dr. 

 H. G. Furbay, Field Secretary of the Anti- 

 saloon League. The central thought of all 



* Here is .some more of Dr. Woods' reasoning that I 

 clipfrom a report made by ihe D lily A'ews andHerald: 



" He was advised by the Cleveland superintendent 

 of the lyCague that the Lake .Shore road is behind the 

 effort to have Collinwood declared "dry.' and expres.s- 

 ed the conviction that it was a purely selfish proposi- 

 tion urged because the road can make more money 

 with sober men than it can make with drinkingmen." 



God grant that we maj- have .some more such exhi- 

 bitiousof "selfishness," especially on the part of our 

 great railroad companies. 



Dec. /J. — Since the above was put in type Collin- 

 wood has gone dry by a majority of 179 out ot a vote of 

 1065; and the mayor has notified ;?() saloon-keepers 

 that they must clean \ip and get out inside of 30 days. 

 Once more may the I,ord be praised. 



