Too great praise can not be given the donors or 

 guarantors of the legislative fund. I constantly 

 thank God for every one of you. Our work would 

 have been impossible without your liberality. And 

 I know that our Father in heaven will abundantly 

 bless you for your liberality and fidelity to his work 

 — specifically the securing of measures moving to- 

 ward the ultimate extermination of the beverage 

 liquor traffic. C. W. Crooke, 



Supt. Anti-saloon League of Florida. 



Jacksonville, Fla., June 19. 



WEST VIRGINIA AND ITS GREAT VICTORY — A 

 KINDLY REBUKE TO A. I. ROOT. 



Brother Root: — I send you under separate cover 

 The Wheeling Advance, where you will find the 

 latest returns of the wet and dry votes of West 

 Virginia. I felt a little sad when I saw no mention 

 made in Gleanings of our great victory in West 

 Virginia. I feel sure, dear old friend, that the good 

 news of our State going dry would fill your soul 

 with gladness. We must give great credit to Billy 

 Sunday and to the good people of Ohio as well as 

 those of adjoining States for our great victory. Our 

 good people are now helping those of Ohio, not only 

 to fight the saloons, but to shut down breweries 

 and distilleries. The prayers of all our good people 

 will do it. 



Elm Grove, W. Va., Nov. 27. Wm. Bitzer. 



My good friend, I supposed I liad made 

 mention of and publicly thanked God for 

 the overwhelming victory in West Virginia. 

 Your letter came liere during my absence oi' 

 the matter would have been attended to 

 sooner. I am glad to knoAv that Billy Sun- 

 day had a part in that grand work. Maj 

 God send us more Billy Sundays. Since 

 your kind letter was written, some great 

 victories have been brought about, as yon 

 are perhaps well aware, not the least among 

 which is the conferring on the women of 

 Illinois the right to vote in that State just 

 as men do. That means an addition of 

 1,600,000 voters, most of whom can be 

 counted on as being against the saloon. 



" OUT OF THE DARKNESS AND INTO THE LIGHT." 



Dear Bro. Root :— I'm a subscriber of Glean- 

 ings, and have been a close reader of Our Homes — 

 so much so that your August number has made a 

 remarkable change in me. I've been a user of tobac- 

 co for thirty odd years, and I've been able to quit, 

 and have no desire for it at the present time. I 

 have improved in health, and gained fifteen pounds. 

 Not only that, I've been also converted, and I'm 

 now a member of the Baptist Church here. Your 

 writings in the Home Department, and your unself- 

 ish plea for righteousness, have had a great deal to 

 do with my spiritual welfare, and I take this means 

 of acknowledging the same, and I hope that you 

 and your good wife may enjoy the best of health, 

 and God grant that the evening time of your life 

 may be thrown out in a long twilight, and you be 

 able to do a great deal more good for your Master 

 yet. This is the prayer of a sinner saved by the 

 grace of God. 



Leadwood, Mo., Nov. 11. Fred Worth. 



May God be praised for what you tell rs, 

 my good friend. I trust that, when your 

 eyes rest on tins, you will have met no seri- 

 ous discouragement, and that you still are 

 " holding the fort." You have probably 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



had your share of trials and temptations; 

 and may be sometimes you have felt dis- 

 couraged ; but let me point to you a gem in 

 God's holy word — " Great peace have they 

 that love thy law, and nothing shall offend 

 them." Do not be offended, my brother, no 

 m.atter what turns up or comes up. Look 

 pleasant ; hold on, and the promise will 

 Surely be yours. Once more, may God speed 

 you in the new life you have commenced to 

 live. By the way, the above confession 

 reminds me of the following which I ex- 

 tract from the American Magazine for Oc- 

 tober, 1912. The words are spoken by the 

 great reformer Charles B. Towns: 



" You can't talk to me about tobacco. The tobac- 

 co-user is in the wrong. It undermines his nervous 

 strength. It blunts the edge of his mind. It gives 

 him ' off ' days when he doesn't feel up to his work. 

 It always precedes alcoholism and drug addiction. 

 I've never had a drug case nor an alcoholic case 

 (excepting a few women) that didn't have a history 

 of excessive tobacco-smoking. Inhaling tobacco is 

 just as injurious as moderate opium-smoking, and 

 the same treatment is used to destroy the craving. 

 There's a plain fact that has a jolt in it for some of 

 you smokers. I'd like to train about a million men 

 in this country to say, 'It's tobacco 1' — like that — 

 'it's tobacco 1 ' whenever they hear a man say he 

 isn't feeling quite fit. A million people saying ' It's 

 tobacco ! ' every day — that would get us somewhere." 



ILLINOIS GIVES WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 



We clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



Springfield, June 26. — ^Gov. Dunne to-day sign- 

 ed the woman suffrage bill passed by the General 

 Assembly. The bill provides that Illinois women of 

 legal age may vote for all statutory offices. 



By his signature Gov. Dunne made Illinois the 

 first State east of the Mississippi to give women the 

 right of the ballot. The bill will become law on July 

 1. 



If the men who voted against woman suf- 

 frage in Ohio and Michigan do not feel 

 somewhat ashamed of themselves when they 

 see the above, they certainly ought to. 



level culture for potatoes in FLORIDA. 



Friend Root: — Gleanings is received, and pota- 

 to article read. You know receiving this copy of 

 Gleanings carried me back 30 years when I was at 

 Sarasota keeping bees and reading Gleanings. 

 Those were some of the happiest days of my life, 

 settled in the woods a mile and a half from any 

 house, with my bees and garden. I was then a 

 potato-grower, and read your book on level culture 

 for potatoes, and it was a success. Working dirt to 

 potatoes in this country won't do. They put on 

 small potatoes all up the stalk as far as the dirt 

 covers it. 



When I ran a fine-tooth harrow over the ground 

 after potatoes were just through the ground it took 

 lots of faith in A. I. Root not to feel that I had 

 ruined my crop ; but two or three days showed to 

 me that you were right. 



Bradentown, Fla., June 16. S. G. CORWIN. 



I had a fine crop of honey from my back-lot 

 apiary, and feel that much of it is due to A. I. Root. 

 Rapid City, S. D., Dec. 21. Alice A. French. 



