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by, and I thank God for it. Editors of bee 

 journals of the i^resent day seem to be on 

 most friendly terms, and ready to lend a 

 helping- hand wlienever it may be required. 

 It has been frequently remarked, and I 

 believe truly, that the beekeepers of our 

 land occupy a higher standard of morals 

 than those engaged in almost any other 

 occupation. 



•THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO, AND THE CRU- 

 SADE AGAINST INTRODUCING CIGARETTES 

 INTO CHINA. 



We clip the following from the Union 

 Signal. It is a letter from Mrs. Chauncey 

 Goodrich, President of the China W. C. T. 

 U.: 



Up to the year 1900 many men and women 

 were given to smoking tobacco, though as the 

 bowl of the ordinary pipe in use was so very 

 small the evil effect was slight; but since 1900 

 tobacco companies have awakened to the idea that 

 China is an excellent field for the sale of cigarettes, 

 and have left no stone unturned to introduce them 

 into the country. Their agents have gone into 

 the most remote places of the most distant provinces, 

 as well as those provinces bordering on the coast. 

 The walls of cities, villages, and even hamlets are 

 covered with large Haming posters telling of the 

 great value of the cigarette in banishing fatigue, 

 awakening an appetite, and also relieving phlegm 

 gathering in the throat in the morning — thus mak- 

 ing one feel generally happy and able to accom- 

 plish more work. Pictures of women are, in some 

 cases, placed in the boxes, while at each stand 

 where cigarettes are sold, large pictures are on view. 

 To introduce the cigarette, officials and others have 

 been presented freely with large boxes of them, 

 and in some cities small boxes have been thrown 

 in at every gateway or store with the hope of 

 creating the habit. The finest printing-press in 

 Shanghai is owned by the American and English 

 Tobacco Company, which last year employed 125 

 European salesmen, besides countless Chinese. The 

 ease with which the cigarette is carried and smoked 

 has increased its use so greatly that one now sees 

 men, women, and even little children under five, 

 yes, even three years of age, smoking them, and 

 the shaking hand and trembling jaw of the cigarette 

 smoker are very common among young people. 

 This use of the cigarette is day by day undermining 

 the health, affecting the brain, and blighting the 

 morals of the Chinese. The tendency to tubercular 

 trouble, which has carried off more of our bright- 

 est pupils in mission schools than has any other 

 disease, makes the frequent use of the cigarette un- 

 usually perilous in China. It is with real pain 

 one sees this evil thing taking the place of food 

 in the families of large numbers of working peo- 

 ple who can ill afford to forego nourishment. No 

 small effort has been made to inform the people 

 of the extreme harmfulness of the cigarette, and to 

 unite them in a crusade against it. This has 

 been very effective in certain places, notably Foo 

 Chow, where it is said cigarettes have been largely 

 driven from the city. In Peking we have posted 

 on the city walls large posters, 3000 in all, dealing 

 with the nature of nicotine, the effects resulting 

 from its use, and stating what steps different 

 nationalities are taking to prevent the formation 

 of the habit among minors. These posters were 

 prepared on behalf of the W. C. T. U., but the 

 Tract Society printed them and created a sale 



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for them in many provinces, and also for a folder 

 in different form. More than 30,000 of each were 

 sold or given away in one year. In one city in 

 Shansi, the official thanked the missionary who 

 had the posters placed on the city walls, saying 

 foreigners were too often ready merely to profit 

 from the Chinese, and that they greatly appreciate, 

 therefore, the efforts of those who are seeking to 

 prevent injury to them. 



To the above the Signal adds : 



Friends, does not God call us to be more courage- 

 ous, to fight — yes, fight — against these gigantic 

 evils of our race and every race that are unfitting 

 men and women to become in body, mind, and 

 soul that which God meant them to become? 



LIQUOR, SNAKES, REVOLVERS. 



Snakes, intoxicating liquors, and revolvers can 

 not be sent by parcel post. Significant, isn't it? 

 What a combination! How appropriate! The pro- 

 hibited articles are much alike. Any kind of snake 

 causes the average person to shudder. Few persons 

 want any thing to do with snakes, dead or alive, 

 real or imaginary. There is an affinity between 

 snakes and liquor; and then add revolvers and you 

 have a harmonious trio. Liquor calls for revolvers, 

 and liquor produces snakes. Revolvers, snakes, liq- 

 uor — these three — but the greatest agency for evil 

 is liquor. Uncle Sam knew his business when he 

 grouped these agencies and forbade them the use of 

 the parcel post. 



We clip the above from the American Is- 

 sue, and breathe a hearty amen to every 

 word of it, and also thank God that " Uncle 

 Sam " is, to some extent, waking up. 



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" UNCLE SAM IS OUE PARTNER." 



A circular issued by a mail-order liquor firm bear- 

 ing the words " Uncle Sam is Our Partner " was 

 displaced in the Senate chamber one day last week 

 by Senator Keuyon as an illustration of the extent to 

 which, he said, the United States was taking part 

 in tlie violation of local prohibition laws in " dry " 

 States. Congress adjourned, however, without pass- 

 ing the Kenyon-Sheppard bill to prevent the lawless 

 importation of liquor into dry territory. The liquor 

 forces have all along declared that the bill shall not 

 pass. It remains to be seen. If the allied forces of 

 greed and illicit gain and anarchy and beastliness 

 can stand up and defeat law and order and human- 

 ity and home, and morals and truth and goodness, 

 and good men and good women and God, they can 

 not continue to do it indefinitely. It is a fallacy and 

 enormity to try to uphold and bulwark the murder- 

 ous liquor traffic by the approval and sanction of the 

 Government. Every righteous heart knows that it is 

 wrong in the sight of God. A thing that is morally 

 wrong, and that is actual anarchy under the laws of 

 many of our States, can not be made any thing else 

 tlian an infamy by all the contortions of all the con- 

 stitutional lawyers, nor by all the threats and brib- 

 eries of liquor-dealers who wish to have it made legal 

 for them to commit crime.— Heraid and Presbyter. 



The A. I. Boot Co.: — , . , -r , j^ „ 



I have just received the book which I ordered from 

 you " Wax Craft," and have had time to read only 

 "a few chapters in it; but I think it will be very 

 helpful to me. I received the A B C of Bee Culture 

 and The Honeybee, by Langstroth and Dadant, all 

 of which I received several days ago, and in con- 

 nection with my observations I have read them all. 

 I find that they are splendid studies, even for the 

 man with a small apiary. I am a young man, and 

 these books have opened up a new world to me. 

 Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 18. J. L. Vinson. 



