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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Nov. 15 



and Muskingum Co. do not make good what 

 that man has lost because of insisting on the 

 enforcement of law against bhnd tigers and 

 speakeasies, the State of Ohio shomd make 

 him a contribution of at least a part of what 

 he recovered for the State. I am ready, and 

 will be glad to do my part. It is a disgrace 

 to our whole country and nation that these 

 revelations should come to us so constantly, 

 that there are so many people who do not 

 love their neighbors as themselves enough 

 to hold them back from this constant desire 

 to grab the money belonging to our towns or 

 counties, our different States, or the whole 

 United States. With our temperance revi- 

 vals, I have been expecting and predicting a 

 revival in morals generally; and may God 

 speed the day when "his will " will be done 

 and "his kingdom " come, not only through- 

 out our rural communities, but in our towns 

 and cities, and finally throughout the whole 

 earth, "as it is in heaven." 



DOES A CIGAR INDICATE A GENTLEMAN? 



Several times lately my soul has been vex- 

 ed to notice in the fashion-plates and maga- 

 zines, when they wanted to picture a well- 

 dressed, up-to-date gentleman of refinement, 

 they felt obliged to put a cigar either in his 

 mouth or between his fingers. God forbid 

 that this mistaken notion of what is genteel 

 should go on any longer. The Philadelphia 

 Farm Journal for November hits the nail on 

 the head in the following editorial: 



A good many men advertise clothing by publishing 

 the picture of young men dressed in the height of fash- 

 ion, capping the climax by a cigar in the fingers or 

 mouth. Probably they think that this is very " tak- 

 ing." It is. Thousands of boys are made cigarette 

 and eigar and even nasty pipe smokers just by that 

 thing. Fifty fathers and mothers, by writing to these 

 manufacturers, might put this matter to them so 

 strongly that they would leave that cigar out of their 

 advertisements. If they did not, it would be right to 

 shut every paper that inserts such matter out of the 

 home, and buy no clothing of the men who are in this 

 way dragging our boys down. E. L. V. 



May God be praised that there are at least 

 a few of our farm papers that dare to come 

 out thus strongly against the tobacco habit. 

 Perhaps they will lose subscribers by so do- 

 ing, but I am sure they will gain more by in- 

 ducing all good men and women (especially 

 fathers and mothers) to rally around and sup- 

 port a periodical that dares to rebuke sin in 

 high places. 



BRADENTOWN, FLA., FROM AN EVANGELIST'S STAND- 

 POINT. 



Mr. 7?oof.— Enclosed find a clipping from the Chris- 

 tian Advocate in regard to your old Florida home town. 

 Why don't you go up to your home in the woods again, 

 and tell us something of those happy people who used 

 to sing one of the most beautiful songs— 



Lord, lift me up and let me stand? 



I have only a few bees, but I love Gleanings more 

 than any other paper. Chas. H. REGISTER. 



Lake Butler, Florida, July 27. 



Below is the clipping referred to. Perhaps 

 I should explain that the writer, Rev. J. B. 

 Culpepper, is the evangelist who conducted 

 the great revival in Manatee Co. last spring 

 and summer; and I believe all he says about 



Bradentown and vicinity is true. While I 

 am about it I wish to assure friend Register 

 that I have not forgotten my first "cabin in 

 the woods;" but Mrs. Root and 1 are getting 

 almost too old to go up to Northern Michigan 

 during the heat of the summer and down to 

 Florida when winter comes. I have been 

 planning all summer to go up there; but so 

 many duties here at Medina have called me 

 that 1 have not been able to get away. 



A LETTER FROM BRO. CULPEPPER. 



Mr. Editor:— Were you ever in Bradentown? If not, 

 it will pay you to go. You know Scott— Sam, I mean. 

 It would not sound natural not to put his handle on 

 him. He is an Englishman, with all their best quali- 

 ties brought over and the bad ones left. He is one of 

 the few that even, rheumatism can't shut up. Well, he 

 invited us there. We soon met Bro. Beck, the Baptist 

 pastor. He is a strong, good man, scholarly, broad, 

 religious. Henderson, the Presbyterian pastor, is 0. 

 K., too. These three men, who have the confidence of 

 the people, were the main leaders in the campaign, 

 though ably seconded by strong consecrated laymen, 

 of the above and other churches. Bros. Mann, of Man- 

 atee, and Wier, of Palmetto, came often. 



This meeting reminded me of a storm, sweeping over 

 a forest, taking down the tall timber, but leaving the 

 saplings and bushes. 



Florida has no better farming section than that 

 around Bradentown. They grow the very best celery, 

 tomatoes, lettuce, etc. The largest grape fruit and 

 orange grove in the world is there. It is a splendid 

 cattle country, while the waters abound in fish. I want 

 to see an annual camp-meeting in Bradentown, where 

 thousands will gather and worship. 



I think all the worn-out and some of the not worn- 

 out preachers ought to live down there. I know no 

 nicer, better people to live among or die in the midst 

 of. 



I predict the consolidation of Bradentown and Man- 

 atee, the rapid growth of the towns, and of that entire 

 section. 



Mr. Editor, there isn't a bit of joke in me when I say 

 those are the finest sort of folks. Why, sir, a tent full 

 of their women show refinement and culture like unto 

 our cities two hundred years old. Many of them are 

 religious too. 



Burke, while doing his part of the preaching to the 

 grown folks, had a large fine choir which gave great 

 music, and also held some great children's services, 

 which must tell on the destinies of that town for a 

 decade to come. J. B. Culpepper. 



STORMS, TORNADOES, AND HURRICANES IN 

 SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. 



The people in the Manatee region are fond 

 of saying tnat they have never had any tidal 

 waves, disastrous blows, nor any thing of 

 that sort, in that region. Notwithstanding 

 this, however, I have always been incredu- 

 lous; and when I saw the recent reports of 

 the damage done in Key West, Miami, and 

 along the eastern coast, I felt anxious about 

 our Florida home. I wrote neighbor Rood, 

 inquiring if the terrible storm had affected 

 our cottage or done any damage in the 

 neighborhood. Below is his reply: 



Dear Mr. Root:— We had no storm at this place what- 

 ever, but I note that your barometer was very low — 

 the lowest that I had ever seen, and we remarked about 

 it several times during the day; but we did not at any 

 time feel any thing that we thought was a storm, and 

 did not know about it till we saw it in the papers the 

 next day. E. B. Rood. 



Bradentown, Fla., Oct. 19, 1909. 



Of course, this incident does not settle the 

 question, but it does seem a little strange 

 that they should entirely escape once more 

 when the east coast has had, to my knowl- 

 edge, several very disastrous blows. 



