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(CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sept. 15 



girl Is it not liigh lime that our flag that floats 

 proudly over our schoolhouses and other places 

 (if learningshould be hauled down and kept down 

 when seen floating over dens of infamy like the 

 American saloon? 



Ijovernor Frank Hanly is one of the greatest 

 speakers, and one of the most fearless speakers, 

 in my opinion, that the world contains; and if 

 there should ever be a chance to vote for him as 

 President of the United States, I would vote for 

 him and work for him as I never worked for any 

 other candidate or an) body else in my life. I 

 hope the papers will give a report of his wonder- 

 ftil talk on that occasion. 



I will close with one more incident from Bishop 

 Wilson. It seems he has recently been sent to 

 Porto Rico. When nearly back to New York 

 the officers of the vessel blundered in their reckon- 

 ing. The bishop did not tell us the crew had 

 been drinking, but I can not understand what 

 else should cause the pilot and officers of a great 

 vessel to lose their reckoning. The bishop heard 

 the breakers, indicating that they were nearing 

 danger, and informed the officers of it. They 

 laughed to think that a landsman should presume 

 to tell them where they were. While he was in- 

 sisting that he was right, and that they were off 

 the track, the vessel struck the ground. They 

 signaled a life-saving station near by, and got all 

 the machinery they could muster to get the vessel 

 off. By wireless telegraphy they Anally got a 

 powerful tug, with a tremendous rope, from the 

 city of New York; but for quite a time all their 

 efforts were unavailing. When a great ship, from 

 stupid management, runs at full speed into a 

 sandbar it is not an easy matter to get it off. 

 After the steam-tug and all the appliances for 

 such work had exhausted every resource without 

 avail, they were quietly told by some one to keep 

 on and not give up yet, for the tide ivaj rising. 

 And the tide kept on rising, and soon they got 

 off. Do you see the point, friends.' The Anti- 

 saloon League has been working for some fifteen 

 years trying to wake the people up, and trying 

 to get our good and righteous laws enforced — 

 Sunday-closing laws, for instance. But the great 

 vessel of state was too strongly foundered on the 

 sandbanks. The enemy was almost too much 

 for us, and at least some of us were almost ready 

 to give up; but for the sake of the mothers and 

 little children we kept on. Meanwhile the tide 

 of public indignation was rising, and we did not 

 know it. When the good brother away off in 

 California told us that the Lord Jesus Christ was 

 coming to shake the earth we did not believe it.* 

 One of the first indications we had of his "foot- 

 steps " was away down in Georgia; and then other 

 southern friends fell into line and declared that 

 the saloon must go. We who were pulling on 

 the rope did not know any thing about the great 

 agency that was bound to en-z-'elop and engulf and 

 s-iveep the •ivhole earth. We were surprised when 

 the news came about the unexpected help. Of 



course, the enemy is making resistance. The 

 brewers ate massing their millions The riots in 

 Springfield and Chicago, 111., are waking the 

 people up as they never were awakened before. 



The VV. C. T. U., the Anti-saloon League, the 

 Prohibition party, and all the other temperance 

 agencies and leagues and organizations, have 

 been working and praying, and perhaps wonder- 

 ing, many of us, why our prayers were not an- 

 swered. We were like the big cable and the 

 steam-tug, together with the people at the life- 

 saving station, and just when the job seemed too 

 much for us, a new and unexpected agency — a 

 great tidal wave, in fact — started up, unbeknown 

 to us, and the enemies of righteousness were as 

 much astonished as we were to find the work done 

 before we knew it. 



The churches of our land are massing together; 

 and there are some indications that the political 

 parties are going in a like manner to mass togeth- 

 er. The farmers, and their wives and mothers 

 who have stayed at home and attended to their 

 own business, are waking up and massing to- 

 gether, and a mighty tide that bids fair to sweep 

 the whole world is chained to this one thing — 

 the saloon must go. Satan is being driven out, 

 AND the LtiRD Jesus Christ is coming iv. "BE- 

 HOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH." 



HIGH-PRESSURE 

 GARDENING 



By A. I. Root 



"* As an indication of what is going on right here in Ohio, see 

 the following, just received from Wayne B. Wheeler: 



Mr. Root: — Tell your peop'e ihat between forty and fifty coun- 

 ties are alreadv oig nized to vote the county dry. In some 

 counties, like Meigs, over one hundred public meetings have 

 been held. Sioto Co. has had the campaign on for over six 

 weeks, and has held between one hundred and two hundred 

 meetings. Every thing is redhot in that county. 



Columbus, O., Aug. 21. W. B. Wheeler, Supt. 



1 notice in Gleanings, page 1084, an account of a new vari- 

 ety of wheat, also statement of seven-headed wheat, or Egyptian 

 wheat. In 1856 I was farming on Trinity River, 15 miles from 

 Weaverville, the county-seat of Trinity County. My brother 

 was in Salt Lake City, and sent me by mail a small package of 

 seven-headed wheat which I planted and got several quaris of 

 wheat, which I planted rhe next year and got at the rate of 80 

 bushels to the acre. 1 took some of i' to the mill and got it 

 ground to fiour. It would make sticky dough like hulled barley, 

 but would not make bread that could be eaten. I could not sell 

 the fiour or wheat as people were afraid to feed it to their horses, 

 so I quit raising it. Some of it had the seven heads all right. I 

 wish I had it now for chicken feed. Encourage this 277-bushel 

 humbug, as it may grow 80 bushels per acre for chicken feed, and 

 be pro table for that alone. O. S. LooMis. 



Fountain, Col., Sept. 4. 



Many thanks, friend L. ; but please remember 

 that you can get a much larger yield per acre 

 from a little piece of ground than you can where 

 you prepare and sow a whole acre. Perhaps it is 

 not easy to explain why this is so; but our experi- 

 ment stations will tell you that small plots, as a 

 rule, give a much greater yield than where you 

 sow an acre or several acres, even with the best 

 care that you can give the larger plot. If it is 

 good for chick feed, by all means let us have it. 

 Who can tell us where to get the seed.' 



SWEET CLOVER — HOW LATE IN THE FALL CAN THE. 

 SEED BE SOWN AND STILL WINTER OVER? 



We are desirous of planting sweet clover for bee pasturage. 

 Our land is in Mount Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y. The land 

 is high and our winters rigorous. We are uncertain as to the 

 best time to plant — this fall or wait until spring. If planted 

 soon, would the clover gain growth enough to live through tue 

 winter r If so, would it blossom next summer ; Your answer 

 would greatly oblige two bee sisters who have had wonderful 

 success in their three years of bee culture. Our knowledge has 



