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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



lent care of the chicks. This article I have 

 mentioned says, " There is really no secret 

 why a clucking hen is better food than any 

 other sort;" but I must confess that I do 

 not like the idea of killing a laying hen un- 



less you have proved by trap nest or in 

 some other way that she is a poor layer. 

 If she wants to sit after she has laid, say, 

 fifteen or twenty eggs, we consider it is 

 i::olhing particularly against her. 



Temperance 



WHO SHOULD BE LYNCHED — THE BOY OR THE 

 SALOON-KEEPER ? 



Of course, I do not believe in lynching 

 anybody; but if the craze for lynching is to 

 keep on in spite of us, suppose the lynch- 

 ers should take a notion, into their crazy 

 heads to lynch the saloon-keeper. I sup- 

 pose one reason why they do not do it is 

 because it is the saloon-keepers who furnisli 

 the whisky that fires the crowd with a crazy 

 zeal to make them believe they are defend- 

 ing virtue. Read the following, which is 

 clipped from Collier's Weekly ; and in sub- 

 mitting it I want to say, may the Lord be 

 praised that Colliers have turned their heavy 

 artillery saloonward. 



THE MAN WHO MADE MONEY. 



In Salem, 111., on March 15, the most horrible 

 crime known to humanity was committed by an 

 eighteen-year-old boy, Sullens, against the little four- 

 teen-year-old daughter of a well-known judge. In 

 court Sullens was asked: "Where did you go after 

 you left the girl? " He testified: 



" I went over to the coal-mine. I wanted to get 

 sobered up. I had drank about a pint of whisky 

 and eight bottles of beer the night before. I got the 

 liquor at Lakin's. I was in a car when the deputy 

 sheriff found me." 



He was raved fi-om lynching only by the appeal 

 of a minister who diverted the attention of the crowd 

 to the blind tigers and bootleggers which flourisli 

 in the town. 



Mr. A. Thrasher, superintendent of schools, joined 

 the ministers and other citizens in the protests 

 against what they described as the real cause of the 

 crime. "That Sullens boy was in school five years 

 ago, and was as fine a boy as there was in town," 

 said Mr. Thrasher. " Booze is responsible for his 

 present stale." 



Who are the bi-ewers and whisky-makers who 

 stimulated this crime and made money out of it by 

 suppl.\ing liquor to a dealer in a prohibition town? 

 They are probably highly respectable citizens of 

 Peoria, where no social odium attends the making 

 of money by the stimulation of vice. 



SELLING LIQUOR IN DRY TERRITORY. 



May the Lord be pi-aised that there is 

 " somethin' doin'." I have a colored man 

 in my employ in Florida who has a fashion 

 of saying, " Nothin' doin' " when our plans 

 do not materialize — say, when the wind does 

 not blow and the chickens happen to be out 

 of water, etc. Well, the brewers and liquor- 

 dealers have been enabled by their wiles and 

 millions to thwart our plans for prohibition, 

 so that again and again comes the sad re- 

 poi-t, " nothin' doin' " in the temperance 

 crusade. Let me now give you a little ex- 



tract from the Wheeling Advance of Maj-^ 

 2: 



Wheeling liquor firms have been exceedingly active 

 in endeavoring to annul the Rose county-option law 

 in Ohio counties. Some have tried it and escaped 

 the law; but at least one firm must send its check 

 to Guernsey County, Ohio, for $400 and costs if they 

 desire to get one of their agents out of jail in order 

 that he may continue to ply his illicit profession for 

 Iheir advantage. 



■John Prak is the man who became an unwilling 

 guest of Sheriff Berry, at Cambridge. Frak was 

 cauglit at what is known as the Wolhonding mine, 

 neai- Buffalo, and from all appearances was doing a 

 considerable business. Sheriff Berry was accompan- 

 ied by Deputy Sheriff Heskett, and they lost no time 

 in tossing -John into durance vile. John was later 

 taken before Justice L. S. Reasoner ; and when pros- 

 ecuting attorney of Guernsey County, B. F. Enos, 

 presented an affidavit charging soliciting and collect- 

 ing money for intoxicating liquor in dry territory 

 Prak broke down. His plea of guilty brought him 

 the maximum fine under the law. 



This same periodical tells us of the tre- 

 mendous Avork that is being done by Billy 

 Sunday, Dr. Lyon, W. J. Bryan, and other 

 great and good men enrolled in " the army 

 of the Lord." We are also tSld of a car- 

 load of beer shipped from Cincinnati to 

 J'ansas that fell into federal hands. By 

 the way, that same Wheeling Advance 

 seeins to be a " live wire " in the temper- 

 ance work. Its motto is, " Make prohibi- 

 tion prohibit, for the people's good." 



" WE ARE MARCHING ON/' SURE. 



We clip the following from the Ameri- 

 can Advance: 



Every day new omens of progress beckon us on. 

 They are freighted with meaning for our cause, and 

 they deserve our attention. 



On Jan. 20th, this year, the Chicago American, 

 the great Hearst daily, said editorially : 



" There will never be another whisky advertise- 

 ment in these columns. This paper has never advo- 

 cated any thing that it believed to be detrimental to 

 the public welfare because that it carried with it 

 pecuniary reward. The most insidious form of in- 

 influence in newspapers is through their advertising 

 columns. . . It was forced to take this position to 

 escape from the incongruity of opposing the whisky 

 traffic in its editorial columns, while increasing the 

 sales by means of its advertising columns." 



I see by the January 15th Gleanings a person 

 wanted your journal stopped because you had too 

 much to say about tobacco and liquor, as he got a 

 great deal of pleasure out of both. Well, we want 

 you to send us your paper just because we can read 

 the paper and not see any thing about the tobacco 

 and liquor business except something against it. 



Gilroy, Cal., Jan. 22. P. H. Evans. 



