GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURB 



I want to speak once more about our 

 domestic animals. I have heard of farmer& 

 who put off salting their farm stock till 

 Sunday because they would have more time 

 on that day. I do not believe that that is 

 exactly the thing to do; but at the same 

 time we should bear in mind that a merci- 

 ful man is merciful to his beast. I do not 

 know but it would be right and proper for 

 a Christian man to look all of his domestic 

 animals over with a little more thorough- 

 ness on Sunday than on any other day — 

 look after their happiness, and see that 

 their water and feed are just what thpy 

 ought to be; and, if it is a possible thing, 

 teach them so that they will look forward 

 to it and expect it, and to expect, too, that 

 Sunday is a day of rest. 



There is one thing I like about automo- 

 biles. They permit the whole family to 

 get to church without depriving the tired 

 horses of their rest. But when I say this 

 I recognize, sometimes with sadness, that 

 automobiles too often go in some other 

 direction than toward the churcli on God's 

 holy day. Sometimes after having been 

 to church they take long spins somewhere 

 else. The different automobiles that Mrs. 

 Root and I have owned have never been 

 used except to go to places of worsliip or 

 perhaps to call on near relatives. Until 

 my mother died it was my practice all m>' 

 life to make her a little call every Sunday 

 afternoon, and I did this before I was a 

 professing Christian. Very likely these 

 Sunday-afternoon calls had much to do 

 with the fact that I finally accepted my 

 mother's religion and her Savior. Since 

 her death I have been in the habit of call- 

 ing on my sister, for only one is left now 

 out of four. 



And now, my dear brother, I have given 

 you a pretty good account of the way in 

 which I spend my Sundays. Perhaps I 

 should add, however, that whenever I am 

 induced, during these calls I have men- 

 tioned, to talk about business or week-day 

 duties, my conscience is not as clear and 

 as devoid of offense toward God and the 

 Master as when I have tried to keep in mind 

 the command to keep the day holy. Per- 

 haps we can not do better in closing than 

 to quote the 13th and 14th verses of the 

 58th chapter of Isaiah: 



If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, 

 from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call 

 the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honor- 

 able; and Shalt honor him, not doing thine own 

 ways, nor finding thine own pleasuje, nor speaking 

 thine' own words, then ehalt thou delight thyself 

 "m the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the 

 high places of the earth, and feed thee with the 

 heritage of Jacob they father; for the mouth of 

 the Lord hath spoken it. 



SHOULD MURDBEERS HANOI 



I have just read Mr. Thomas Dewees' letter 0* 

 page 459, July 15. It is a good letter, and 

 breathes a Christian spirit right through. All tht 

 same, I am firmly of the opinion that it is necea- 

 sary to hang the murderer as a deterrent to other 

 evil-disposed persons. 



I have read a lot about the statistics of the 

 United States, and there is no doubt that the crime 

 of murder is increasing there to an appalling ex- 

 tent. Butler, the man who murdered and buried 

 his victim, Le Weller, within a quarter of a mile 

 of one of my bee-farms on the Blue Mountains, wat 

 brought back from San Francisco, and hanged; 

 and there is no doubt in my mind that it had • 

 salutary effect on others of a like stamp. There 

 are some men who are simply human tigers ; and 

 to imprison these brutes for life, which means here 

 really fifteen years, and then let them loose among 

 the people again, is, I think, criminal. 



A little time ago a man in Sydney, named Phil- 

 lips, ravished and murdered his nine-year-old 

 daughter while he was under the influence of drink. 

 He was condemned to death ; but the ministry in 

 power here at present will not hang, and they 

 commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life — 

 that is, fifteen years. 



A little while ago a young man only twenty 

 years of age, a fine-looking fellow, only just mar- 

 ried, murdered a man named Travasius. He 

 traveled thirty miles to commit this murder. He 

 made arrangement with his victim to meet him in 

 his own home at 8 o'clock in the evening, brought 

 a plow-coulter with him, and a razor ; and while 

 they were talking together he suddenly struck hii 

 victim over the head with the coulter and then 

 cut his throat. He was sentenced to death, but 

 the ministry commuted the sentence to life im- 

 prisonment — fifteen years. Now, this young fel- 

 low is a type of the human tiger. He wfts not 

 drunk. He simply wanted money, and he mur- 

 dered a man for $250, and then cleared off for 

 Melbourne and enjoyed himself with his wife. 



Just a little time after this, a half-caste com- 

 mitted an assault on an elderly woman in Syd- 

 ney; and the very first thing he said ■rt'hen the 

 police caught him was this: "They can't hang 

 me ; they did not hang Phillips." You can see 

 how he reasoned. At one time they used to flog 

 people here for certain crimes. Then the public 

 cried out at the futility of the practice, and flogging 

 was abolished. Some time afterward an epidemic 

 of garroting broke out; and the ordinary punish- 

 ment of imprisonment proving no deterrent, the 

 flogging law was brought into use again. The 

 magistrates sentenced the culprits to six month* 

 in jail and two floggings of fifteen lashes each. 

 Still the garroting continued. So the magistrate 

 sentenced the man to one flogging and then to be 

 turned adrift among his friends. The lockup 

 where the flogging was to take place was sur- 

 rounded by a crowd of his friends and sympathiz- 

 ers, and they could hear him howl as he got his 

 punishment. Then he was pushed out among the 

 crowd, and his friends had a chance of examining 

 his back, and could get a fair idea of what flog- 

 ging meant. Brutal? Yes; but it stopped the gar- 

 roting. Is not garroting brutal? Is not murder 

 brutal? and is it not necessary to deal with these 

 brutes as brutes? Murder is on the increase in 

 New South Wales on account of not hanging, and 

 I believe it is so in the United States also, for 

 the same reason. Major Shallakd. 



South Woodburn, Australia, Sept. 1. 



While we are giving place to the above 

 we also submit the following, which was 

 furnished by our stenogTapher, W. P. Root, 

 for our Medina Gazette : 



