Nl>\EMBKK, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the letter took Gleanings when the live and 

 ten cent counter was my particular hobby. 

 And, by the way, I have always had a 

 kindl}' feeling for five and ten cent stores 

 ever since that experience of mine. As an 

 illustration, a good many times a young 

 couple just married would come in, and 

 the young wife would want a lot of things 

 while they had only a limited capital. Slie 

 would pick up the different articles listed 

 at five and ten cents and say. " Oh ! that is 

 just what I have wanted so long, and it is 

 only ten cents — just look at it, John." And 

 they would go on in that way and fill up a 

 basket Avitli things needed in the new little 

 household, and have some money left be- 

 sides. 1 confess I was reluctant to give up 

 my hobby of " useful things for a small 

 amount of money " ; but it came to a point 

 where I should have to neglect the bee and 

 honey business or let the " counter store " 

 go. Now, Mr. Kresge has kej^t right on 

 year after year, and he tells us in conclu- 

 sion (without any idea that I might take 

 the liberty of publishing it), that his sales 

 now go away up into the millions. Of 

 course, he does not make anj' such profits 

 as they do in ordinary stores; but he does 

 a lot of good, in furnishing needed articles 

 at a very small margin of profit. I think 

 I used to sell articles for 10 cents that 

 cost me as much as 9V^ cents by the hun- 

 dred or by the gross; and may God be 

 praised that some of our millionaires, at 

 least, are laying up " treasures in heaven " 

 as well as here on eartli. Somebody has 

 told me (I can not remember who) that 

 this man Kresge with his abundant means 

 and untiring enthusiasm did more to make 

 Michigan dry than probably any other one 

 person. 



Here is an important point in closing 

 til at I think it might be well for all young 

 men to note. The man w-ho contributes 

 liberally — perhaps we might say at times 

 extravagantly — for temperance, foreign 

 missions, or the spread of the gospel, gains 

 the confidence of the people; and the 

 " bread " that was " cast on the waters " 

 of humanity without much thought of any 

 financial return comes around again, " after 

 many days." 



ELECTION DAY NOV. 4TH. DON'T 

 FORGET IT. 



HE WHICH CONVERTETH THE SINNER FROM 



THE ERROR OF HIS WAY SHALL SAVE 



A SOUL FROM DEATH, AND SHALL 



HIDE A MULTITUDE OF SINS. 



My good friends, if this meets your eye 

 before election day (and I hope and pray 

 that it may), by getting your vote on the 

 side of righteousness you may " save many 



a soul from death " — yes, perhaps thou- 

 sand.-i and hundreds of thousands in the 

 great unknown future, by voting not only 

 for Ohio dry but for the great United 

 States and finallij for the great wide world. 

 Yesterday, Oct. 15, it was my pleasure to 

 listen to W. J. Bryan. He reminded us 

 that our own beloved State of Ohio start- 

 ed the Woman's Crusade in 1874. It also 

 started the W. C. T. U., the Anti-saloon 

 League (7 helped), and that inasmuch as 

 this same Ohio seems to be central, not 

 only geographically but also in moral and 

 spiritual matters, that it behooves us now 

 as never before to be on hand and vote for 

 prohibition, " bone dry " and everlasting. 

 Everybody is watching Ohio. The liquor 

 interests, in their greed for money (and 

 more money), are fighting desperately, for 

 they recognize they are in the last ditch. 

 They are leaving no stone unturned. They 

 have hired the biggest legal talent with 

 their millions, and are resorting to every 

 sort of trickery, misrepresentation, and 

 falsehood, as you may see by their adver- 

 tisements in our daily papers just now. 

 If they should win, not only will the sa- 

 loons come back, but we shall have beer, 

 near beer, and " nearly " every other kind, 

 doled out over the counter at every corner 

 grocery in the land. If you have not al- 

 ready compared the results under both wet 

 and dry legislation, just look it up. Not 

 only are our Avorkhouses empty, but our 

 infii'uiaries and asylums have the number 

 of inmates cut down until it would almost 

 seem that every voter in our land must be 

 without senses, or idiotic, if he votes wet. 

 Once more, may God help us in the con- 

 flict. Mr. Bryan suggests that on election 

 day the schools should be closed. The chil- 

 dren should be fixed up in their best, and 

 parade the streets with banners reading 

 " Vote for us" or something of the sort. 

 Furthermore, he said he hoped in the fu- 

 ture to see thing's made as easy for farm- 

 ers (instead of going several miles to the 

 voting precincts) as for those who live in 

 towns. If our Government can afford to 

 send a man to carry a postal card to a 

 farmer every day in the year, can not 

 Uncle Sam also afford to send somebody to 

 get the vote of the farmer lest he say again 

 and again, " I forgot all about its being- 

 election day " ? 



Once more, we on the dry side are mak- 

 ing every effort for the physical, mental, 

 and spiritual uplift of the unborn for ages 

 to come. What are the wets working for? 

 Just money, more money, and nothing but 

 money. Can anybody dispute my word? 

 Now may God help you to be on hand, and 

 be sure also, that you vote right. 



