GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



place individual. I do not know whether 

 these flowers are buried with the remains 

 or whether they are dumped in a heap in 

 the back yard. I believe, however, that 

 seldom is any use made of them. I have all 

 along protested against these customs, be- 

 cause 1 have happened to know that a great 

 many times the bereaved family sadly need- 

 ed the money that was just literally "dump- 

 ed " into the fire. In olden times it was 

 customary to bury thing's with the departed 

 loved one, thinking he or she might need 

 them. The Indians had a tomahawk and 

 bow and arrow put in the grave, thinking 

 the dead warrior might need them in the 

 new hunting-grounds. And I believe the hea- 

 then in some nations still i^ut in food for 

 sustenance during the " trip across the dark 

 river." While there are starving people by 

 the hundreds and thousands in different 

 ]3arts of the world, great sums of money are 

 buried in the ground where they can not 

 possibly do anybody any good. 



1 have said moi'e on this line of my sub- 

 ject than I intended ; but is this sort of 

 work seeking the kingdom of God and his 

 ]-ighteousness? and is it "laying up trea- 

 sures in heaven '"? The Savior urged us, 

 you remember, to put our treasure where it 

 will not rust, and where it can not be stolen 

 by thieves. Are we doing this? Here is a 

 clipping from the Cleveland Plain Dealer 

 of Sept. 11. Read it, and see what vou 

 think of it : 



PAYS $30,000 FOE beauty; ASTOR'S WIDOW INSTALLS 

 LUXURIOUS ROOM ADJOINING BED-CHAMBER. 



New York, Sept. 10. — Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, 

 widow of John Jacob Astor, will remain beautiful if 

 a $30,000 beauty parlor can effect that end. She 

 has installed an electric beauty room on the second 

 floor of her Fifth Ave. home, adjoining her bedroom. 



The room, 9 by 15, is the quintessence of luxury. 

 The white tiled floor is concealed by an oriental rug, 

 while paintings, plate mirrors outlined in gold, and 

 concealed lights are in the room. Gold and pearl are 

 used wherever possible 



A modified barber-chair is in the center for use 

 during the hair-dressing, massage, and other opera- 

 tions of the beauty doctor. 



The Avorld knows little or nothing about 

 Mrs. Astor; but the world does know very 

 much about John Jacob Astor. Has this 

 woman ever done any thing for the world 

 tliat should entitle her to this enormous 

 wealth to spend for self as she chooses? 

 Xo wonder the hard-working people are 

 forming " unions " and sending up pro- 

 tests ag-inst this unequal di\'ision of 

 wealth. Now, I am not going to turn 

 socialist just yet. I hope John Jacob 

 Astor secured his great wealth as the re- 

 sult of honest avd legitimate trade and 

 •raffle. But how about his wife and chil- 

 dren? How about thousands, including 

 Thaw, his mother, Diggs, and Caminetti, 

 who are liamjiling our laws ur.der foot. 



and saying virtually to outraged human- 

 ity, '' Help yourself if you can." As I 

 dictate these words, however, I can thank 

 the Lord that there seems to be a pros- 

 pect of better things, and, not only that^ 

 but Diggs and Caminetti are to go to pris- 

 on. Of late, however, it transpires that 

 after they are put in prison at great pains 

 and expense, they do not seem to staf/ 

 there. The man who led the gang that 

 lynched and cruelly murdered poor Ether- 

 ington at Newark, Ohio, is now at liberty 

 again. Notwithstanding the saloon-keep- 

 ers and licjuor-men fought hard and long 

 he Avas finally sentenced to twenty years in 

 the penitentiary; but when he had been 

 there just tivo years the whisky gang got 

 u]) a monstrous petition and had liim 

 " pardoned out." 



Dear friends, it just now occurs to me 

 that I am making a doleful story so far, 

 and may be I had better drop that part of 

 it. It is a comparatively easy matter to 

 ])oint out the faults of others, of our admin- 

 istration, of the way society manages things, 

 etc. But it is a harder matter to reconcile 

 the fact that we are all sinful. We are all 

 of us — yes, the best of us — spending a great 

 deal of time and money in seeking other 

 things than God's kingdom and his right- 

 eousness. We are more or less selfish; and 

 this same selfishness blocks the way of get- 

 ting what we are seeking. Thousands are 

 learning a lesson — yes. I think more than 

 ever before. People who have great wealth 

 are, some of them, using that wealth to lay 

 up treasures in heaven. 



Instead of seeking first the kingdom of 

 God and his righteousness, there is a new 

 fashion of late, and it would look as tliongh 

 a good many people had adopted, as a 

 motto in business, something like this: 

 " Seek ye first the dollars and cents belong- 

 ing to your neighbor; and (if he does not 

 make any fuss about it) you will be heap- 

 ing up treasures for yourselves." 



I hardly need remind you of the public 

 officials who, while receiving a liberal salary 

 for looking after the interests of the people 

 at large, accept a bribe for doing just the 

 opposite ; and I hardly need remind you of 

 tlie way in wliich barbells, dentists, some 

 doctors, perhaps some lawyers, " hold up " 

 their victims if there is nothing in particu- 

 lar to hinder them from doing so. If you 

 go down to Florida, be careful to ask prices 

 in a barber-shop, at the dentist's, at the 

 drugstore. If they have reason to srspect 

 you are a new comer, and are unacquainted 

 with prices and customs, you will b? pretty 

 sure to be " bled " unless you make a bar- 

 gain beforehand. Now, please do not un- 

 derstand me as saving that this is the rule. 



