1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



31 



May God help you to do your dutv toward 

 this great nation and this whole wide world. 



TEMPERANCE. 



HURRAH FOR ALABAMA! 



We clip the followintr from the Cleveland Plain 

 Dealer for Aiit,aist 14: 



MONTGOMKin-, Ala., Autr. 13.— In almost a frenzy the 

 House members to-day made a violent assault on the 

 sale of intoxioants of all kinds, passintj the Fuller bill, 

 beyond tiueslion the most drastic measure ever offered 

 in the South. 



By its provision no liquors can be sold, no advertise- 

 ment of liquor appear in any paper or upon any bill- 

 board, no train may leave a car upon any track that 

 contajns it, no place of selling any sort of goods may 

 be called saloon, nor the word "saloon" used. The 

 presence of an internal-revenue license, whether 

 liquor is found or not, is prima-facie evidence of guilt, 

 and the proprietors may be arrested. 



On nbtice, any place where there is frequent as- 

 sembling may be raided on suspicion, and every cor- 

 poration whatever must promise, when charter is is- 

 sued, to refrain from bringing in liquors of any kind, 

 violation of which will revoke license automatically. 



I hope the brewers, distillers, and others, 

 will, in view of the above, "sit up and take 

 notice" — that is, if they have not been doing- 

 it already. May God be praised that Ala- 

 bama has enough people ot the stripe indi- 

 cated in the above to set such a pace for the 

 other States to follow — north, south, east, 

 and west. Once more let us swing our hats 

 and cheer for Alabama, and back up our 

 cheers by rolling up our sleeves and going 

 to work.' 



The opening sentence in the above ex- 

 tract tells us that the House members were 

 almost in a "frenzy" to rule out intoxicants; 

 and God knows it is time that there be a 

 frenzy. Highway robberies and murder in 

 many localities are on the increase. The 

 city of Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio, 

 has had almost a carnival of murder and 

 crime since that county voted wet. Almost 

 every daily gives us an account of some 

 criminal assault by drunken negroes. One 

 such fellow, crazed by whisky and cocaine, 

 went out on the streets of a town and ac- 

 tually killed toward a dozen people and 

 wounded a good many more. He defied ar- 

 rest, and "shot up the town" for several 

 hours. Are we going to sit down calmly 

 and permit saloons to exist while these 

 things continue and multiply? Beautiful, 

 bright, intelligent little girls from Christian 

 homes are assaulted in broad daylight bv 

 drunken negroes and cigarette fiends, both 

 white and black. Is it not time for the 

 whole wide world to rise up in a "frenzy " 

 of indignation and follow .\labama? 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



HONEY, COMB AND EXTRACTED. 



We shall be pleased to receive offers of choice hon- 

 ey, both comb and extracted. If comb, give descrip- 

 tion — style of section, how cased, grade, and the price 

 asked. If extracted, mail a sample; state quantity, 

 how packed, and the price asked. We prefer only the 

 best grades. 



BEESWAX MARKET. 



We are receiving beeswax for next season's use, and 

 are paying 28 gents cash, 30 in trade, for average wax 

 delivered here; one or two cents extra for choice yel- 

 low. Do not fail to mark your package so it can be 

 identified when it reaches us. With wax coming from 

 numerous shippers all at the same time, this is very 

 important. 



SPECIAL GOODS. 



We have now passed our rush season, and are in 

 position as we have not been for months past to mak» 

 up any special goods which some patrons prefer to 

 use. Let us know what your requirements are in this 

 line, and we will try to accommodate you during our 

 slack season in the weeks ahead. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



This has some valuable traits, as standing frost and 

 drouth, and in some localities it is the main honey- 

 plant. About eightto twelve poundsof thehulled seed, 

 or fifteen to twenty pounds with the hulls on, are 

 needed for an acre. It will grow on almost any barren 

 hillside, but it is never a bad weed to exterminate. If 

 it is mown down to prevent seeding, the roots will 

 soon die out. Sow in spring or fall. In the vicinity 

 of Salt Lake, Utah, sweet clover is the main honey- 

 plant, and the quality of the honey is equal, in the 

 opinion of many, to any honey in the world. The 

 plant lives through the dry summers in Utah. See 

 " leaflet " about sweet clover, mailed free on applica- 

 tion. 



We have on hand a good stock of choice sweet- 

 clover seed, both white and yellow. Of the yellow we 

 have both unhulled and hulled seed, and of the white 

 unhulled we have a large stock. Prices are as follows: 



In lots of lib. lU lbs. 25 lbs. 100 lbs. 



Unhulled White, per lb... 14c- 12c lie 10c 



Yellow " " . . 16c 14c 13c 12c 



Hulled " " ".. 20c 18c He 16c 



The prices are all subject to market changes. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE DOLLAR HEN; A NEW UP-TO-DATE POULTRY-BOOK 

 See description of this book in our Poultry Depart- 

 ment in this issue. In order to get it into the hands of the 

 people, we have purchased and have on our table 100 

 books ready to mail. The price is $1.00, postpaid; but 

 we will club it with GLEANINGS, making the two only 

 SI. 50. If you have already paid for Gleanings for one 

 year or more you can have the book for an even 75 

 cents, postpaid. Your better way will be to send us 

 the $1.50 and have a year added to your present sub- 

 scription. A few days ago a visitor from Pennsylva- 

 nia, after looking over our establishment, threw down 

 the price of Gleanings for five years. He said, as he 

 did so, " It will save you trouble, and save me trouble 

 too; and I am sure I want it for five years if every num- 

 ber contains as much valuable matter as it has con- 

 tained for the last year." 



Now send in your orders for the Dollar Hen; and if. 

 after you have read the book, you do not agree with 

 me that it is a dollar well invested, you can return the 

 book and get your money. 



KIND WORDS. 



SOME KIND WORDS ABOUT THE " GREAT HEREAFTER." 

 Mr. A. I. Root:— 1 1-ead the letters by Irving Keck and 

 yourself. Now, in Ecclesiastes 12 : 7 we read, "Then 

 shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the 

 spirit shall return unto God who gave it." II. Corin- 

 thians 5 : 1—" For we know that, if our earthly house 

 of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have [not shall 

 have] a building of God, a house not made with hands, 

 eternal in the heavens." We are told that, when we 

 have put on Christ, we have eternal life already. Mr. 

 Moody, in speaking to his friends, told them not to 

 mourn for him as dead; "for," said he, "I shall be 

 more alive than ever." I for one prefer to believe this 



way. 

 Osceola Mills, Pa., Aug. 9. 



Sadie S. Thomas. 



