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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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to be duped by quacks along this line as 

 much as fifty years ago. They sent out cir- 

 culars trying to convince their dupes that 

 they were in great danger; and then they 

 demanded a big sum of money to help them 

 out of their trouble. Had they gone to their 

 family physicians they would have saved 

 their money and been very much better in 

 health besides. 



The concluding sentence may .frighten 

 some people unnecessarily; but it can not 

 very well be helped, so far as I can see. 

 ^'ou have probably noticed that several rail- 

 road companies have adopted the plan of 

 furnishing drinking- cups that maybe thrown 

 away by tne one \vlio takes a drink. I fear 

 this will prove to be a big expense; even if 

 tliese paper cups do cost only a fraction of a 

 cent. A better way for each traveler is to 

 carry what is called a telescoping cup, which, 

 when not in use, can easily be carried in a 

 vest pocket, but when drawn out holds 

 nearly a tumblerful. 



The concludingsentence rejoices my heart, 

 for it indicates that there is certainly one, if 

 not more, good Christian men belonging to 

 the Ohio State Board of Health. May God 

 give each and all wisdom and understanding 

 to look after the children of our State so that 

 those even in our great cities may never suf- 

 fer fire and brimstone from God, in order 

 that the very ground where people have 

 lived may be purified. I suppose we are to 

 understand that, when God has tried every 

 thing else and found it a failure, only the 

 purifying effect of " fire and brimstone "may 

 well wipe out the sin. 



In closing let me mention an incident that 

 I got from one of our agricultural papers. A 

 man who was fairly well-to-do was throwing 

 cold water on the work of our farmers' in- 

 stitutes and experiment stations. He said 

 to a crowd gathered around him that he was 

 well-to-do, and had money laid up in the 

 bank, and he had never paid any attention 

 to these new-fangled things. He just kept 

 right on farming in the old-fashioned way. 

 As he commenced on virgin soil, he had for 

 many years gotten pretty fair crops; but it 

 was evident to all wno knew any thing about 

 his farming that his land could not stand 

 such treatment very much longer. Some 

 one in the crowd said, "Mr. Brown, what 

 provision does your method of farming make 

 for your boys ? " 



He replied, "I have no boys." 



Then somebody ventured, "Are you not a 

 married man? " 



I can not remember his reply, but it was 

 something to the effect that he cared as little 

 for womankind as he did for children; that 

 he was not married, and never expected to 

 be. But in order to awaken him to a sense 

 of his responsibility to community, a third 

 questioner asked, "But, Mr. Brown, how 

 about the man who is to come after you ? " 



Now, friends, I hope that, under the cir- 

 cumstances, you will forgive me for giving 

 his reply in full, for there is a moral to it. 

 His reply was not given under "inspiration," 

 but it IS nevertheless "valuable for instruc- 



tion and reproof." It was, so far as I can 

 remember, as follows : 



"To hell with the man who comes after 

 me. That is no concern of mine." 



At this reply his audience dispersed; and 

 if there were a few young men in that crowd 

 I do not think there was one of them who 

 wanted to take his advice about farming. 

 Now, this man's state of heart, his attitude 

 toward God and his fellow-men, exhibit ex- 

 actly the state of mind that a man must be 

 in when he deliberately curses the children 

 that are to come after him. Such a man de- 

 liberately and without hesitation says, "Let 

 the children go to the asylum for idiots, or 

 the blind or crippled. Idonotcare." Come 

 to consider the matter, lean hardly ^onceive 

 of a human being so depraved and lost as to 

 take that attitude; and, my friends, I am in- 

 clined to believe that seldom, if ever, a man 

 does express himself thus unless he is 

 under the influence of strong drink. Now 

 we are coming around to the work of the 

 Anti-saloon League once more. When the 

 saloons are cut off, and drink is kept away, 

 our asylums for the blind, idiotic, and insane 

 — yes, and our penitentiaries too— can be cut 

 down instead of being made larger. We are 

 told that the State of Ohio is now under the 

 absolute necessity of building a larger peni- 

 tentiary. They decided once to fix up the 

 old one — put on some v/ings, etc. ; but it is 

 right in the midst of the city of Columbus, 

 and the conditions are so unsanitary that the 

 workmen have come to a standstill, and the 

 proper authorities demand a new peniten- 

 tiary throughout, on a new site some twelve 

 miles from Columbus. The site of the old 

 one would sell for enough to erect the new 

 penitentiary. And just now the great dailies 

 — please notice it is the ones who are carry- 

 ing whole columns of whisky advertisements — 

 are bewailing the fact that the State of Ohio 

 is approaching bankruptcy. The minute my 

 eye caught on the headlines, I knew what it 

 meant. It was insinuated that, unless we had 

 the revenue from the saloon business that we 

 used to have-, we could never pay our debts, 

 to say nothing of building bigger peniten- 

 tiaries, etc. It is no use to tell them to hold 

 on a little, for they know already that this 

 great revenue will not be needed when things 

 adjust themselves. I am heartily in favor of 

 a new and better penitentiary; but by the 

 time it is built our people will find that a 

 smaller one will take care of the criminals, 

 especially if we get to work speedily and de- 

 clare with one accord that "Ohio shall be 

 dry." When this is done, the great Father 

 above will wait a long while before he de- 

 cides that it will be necessary to resort to 

 the purifying effects of fire and brimstone 

 to make our Ohio cities sweet and clean, and 

 free from graft and corruption. 



TWO AND A HALF TO ONE FOR TEMPERANCE— GOOD FOR 

 roAHO. 



Canyon Co., the first to hold an election for local op- 

 tion, goes dry by a majority of 2'4 to 1. Let us sine 

 the doxologry. 



Caldwell, Ida.. Aucr. 2fi. F. M. RosEMAN. 



