1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



43 



HOMLS 



*^ byA-LROOT 



The vn-^ith of man shall praise thee. — Psalm 76: 10. 



On page 12 iG, Sept. 15, I quoted from the 

 Pabst beer advertisements that the United 

 States Department of Agriculture "Officially 

 declares beer is the purest and best of all 

 foods and drinks," and I lamented that the 

 Department of Agriculture declared we had 

 no laws to prevent the use of a state- 

 ment that it did not make. As this 

 same advertisement was accepted by a 

 great number of papers I feared many good 

 people might be misled by it. Well, their 

 statement has done good after all iji bringing 

 out strong protests and denials from both the 

 clergy and able physicians and surgeons. 

 See the following: 



Dr. S. H. Burgen, a distinguished surgeon of very 

 long practice in Toledo, O., says: " Beer-drinkers are 

 absolutely the most dangerous class of subjects a sur- 

 geon can operate on. Insignificant scratches are lia- 

 ble to develop a long train of dangerous troubles. 

 Sometimes delirium tremens results from a small hurt. 

 It is dangerous for a beer-drinker even to cut his An- 

 ger. All surgeons hesitate to perform operations on 

 a beer-drinker that they would undertake with the 

 greatest confidence on any one else. 



Now read this also, from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



Temperate drinking, and the moderate use of beer, 

 especially, were strongly condemned last night by 

 Rev. Charles Bayard Mitchell, pastor of the First 

 Methodist Church, in a sermon on "The Devil's Pop- 

 ular Bait." 



Nothing is more harmful to good health," he said, 

 " than the so-called temperate use of beer. It is the 

 most dangerous form of intemperance. A prominent 

 physician affirms that forty-nine out of fifty cases of 

 Bright's disease under his care were cases of beer- 

 drinkers. 



"The Northwestern Life Insurance Co., with its 

 home office in Milwaukee, whose beer has made it fa- 

 mous, will not grant a policy to the lager-beer brew- 

 ers, their clerks, book-keepers, or anybody else em- 

 ployed about the factory. They say, 'Our statistics 

 show that our business has been injured by the short- 

 ened lives of those who drink beer.' 



"It isknown to all intelligent men that beer-drink- 

 ing clogs up the liver, rots the kidneys, decays the 

 heart and arteries, stupefies the brain, chokes the 

 lungs, and loads the body down with dropsical fat. 



"Intemperance is the strongest besetting sin of 

 young men to-day. More young men are being ruined 

 in body, mind, and soul by this insidious evil than by 

 any other agency of hell. This is due to the fact that 

 the business is so profitable. 



"Intemperance stands in the way of your business 

 prospects. It will ruin you socially. It will destroy 

 your character. If you haven't touched liquor, don't. 

 There is no such thing as moderate drinking." 



After reading the above two statements, 

 what do you think of the Pabst people, and 

 their statements in regard to their various 

 concoctions besides their "famous" beer? 



WHAT HAVE YOU TO BE THANKFUL FOR? 



In the issue of the Sunday School Times 

 just before Thanksgiving day, the editor gave 

 the replies of thirty-one men and women of 

 national reputation to the question, "What 

 have you to be thankful for? " I should like 

 to give a lot of them, but can take space for 

 only one, which see above: 



From liockd- T. Washington, LL.D.. Principal of 

 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. 



First, for the opportunity to work. Work is the 

 greatest blessing that a good Providence has conff r- 

 red upon the human race. Any one who has learned 

 to love work for its own sake can not fail to be su- 

 premely happy. The man who has something to do 

 is to be envied; the man who has nothing to do is to 

 be pitied. Again, for the opportunity of exerting 

 some influence in the world for the uplift of humani- 

 ty. Thirdly, I am thankful for a serious and great 

 problem to engage my attention and my activities. 



Perhaps the above does not strike every- 

 body as it does my particular self, but I be- 

 lieve it to be true that, during all my life 

 thus far, I am happy only when I am busy. 

 It is always a punishment for me to be 

 obliged to sit still and wait for something or 

 for somebody. Of course, I like to rest wnen 

 I am tired; but I can't get a real good restfzd 

 rest unless I have something to read — that is, 

 something elevating and profitable; and I 

 also want sleep when my physical machinery 

 gives notice it is not in shape to do its best; 

 and I dearly love the sleep that puts me in 

 "good repair" for work once more. When 

 I feel unable to do hard work I enjoy getting 

 hold of my light hoe or a hammer and saw 

 — anything to "keep busy," for Satan al- 

 ways does "find some mischief for idle hands 

 to do." 



TURNING ON THE LIGHT. 



I sincerely hope some of you have been in- 

 duced to subscribe for the Sunday School 

 Times just because of the frequent extracts I 

 make from it. Here is another: 



There is no answering the straight answer that 

 President Roosevelt makes to those who, writhing in 

 the toils their own hands have wrought, savagely ac- 

 cuse him of causing their disaster, when he says. " I 

 was responsible for turning on the light, but I was not 

 responsible for what the light revealed." Let us re- 

 member this in all our choices. We, and we alone, 

 are responsible for the wretched harvest that is sure 

 to follow the seed-sowing of sin. 



I believe it is true that quite a few, and 

 some very good people, have felt that our 

 President has sometimes been a little too 

 abrupt; that he might, perhaps, have averted 

 the panic, and "stringency," that have been 

 so much discussed, if he had let on the light 

 a little more gradually; and this reminds me 

 of reading about a father who came into the 

 parlor one evening and suddenly turned on 

 the electric lights, and found his daughter 

 and a young man both occupying the same 

 chair. Was it the father's duty, do you sug- 

 gest, to find out if any one was in the room 

 before he went in thus suddenly? Not at all. 

 Nothing should ever be going on. in any 

 home, that would cause embarrassment by 

 turning on the lights; and, furthermore, noth- 

 ing should be going on in our whole great 

 nation that would bring consternation to 

 bankers, politicians, or anybody else, if our 

 President should take a sudden notion to 

 turn on even the search-light. 



THE $10.00 SECRET AND THE $1.00 SECRET 

 FOR SELECTING THE LAYING HENS. 



I have succeeded in getting both the above 

 secrets without signing any contract not to 

 divulge, and without giving any promise 



