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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



tory to care for surplus fruit. Large quantities of 

 beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and celery were shipped 

 this season. 



We were up the Miami canal several miles. There 

 is not much doing there yet. 



And now for my conclusions. The land is rich. 



It will be drained. It will require fertilizer for best 

 results for some crops, because deficient in certain 

 elements. Its drainage is a big job, and will require 

 some time yet. It is not all surveyed. The water is 

 healthful for drinking, but tastes a little of the soil. 

 Olga, Fla., June 21. Wm. Snydee. 



Tr®[inD^®n°sim©(g 



OUR CHURCHES AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. 



I have already had something to say 

 about the efforts of the Baptist Brotherhood 

 of Cleveland (God bless them) in their ef- 

 forts to have law enforced in regard to hav- 

 ing saloons closed on Sunday. I am glad 

 to know that the Congregational Brother- 

 hood not only endorses the Baptist mxDve- 

 ment but are doing something themselves 

 along that line. See the following: 



"We are in the fight against saloons keeping open 

 on Sunday to stay," said W. H. Whitney, president 

 of the Congregational Brotherhood, in an address 

 last night at the East Madison .•Vvenue Congrega- 

 tional Church. 



A civic committee composed of members from 

 brotherhoods of different denominations is prosecut- 

 ing violators of the Sunday-closing law. 



"Obedience to the law must prevail in Cleveland," 

 knid Whitney. "The city won't help us. Peoplo 

 must realize that law is more important than suc- 

 cess in any political party. The laymen must help 

 in the work, and not leave it all to the ministers." 



^nd finally I said, "May God be praised" 

 when I saw the following heading in the 

 Cleveland Press for May 3 : 



PRESIDENT IS ASSAILED BY METHODISTS; GENERAL 



CONFERENCE DENOUNCES TAFT BECAUSE HE 



DID NOT PREVENT WILSON'S ACTING AS 



brewers' CHAIRMAN. 



May the Lord also be praised for the fol- 

 lowing resolutions which, we are told, were 

 adopted amid cheers: • 



Whereas the President of the United States, the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of State, 

 his authorized representatives, were petitioned by 

 the millions of Christian people of the nation, indi- 

 vidually and through their respective representatives, 

 to desist from all national indorsement of said 

 brewers' congress, and that the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture decline said position of honorary chairman 

 because of the indorsement such position would give 

 to the business represented, and the evident purpose 

 in view by said meeting, viz., to increase and extend 

 the sales of beer and thus encourage the increase 

 of drunkenness ; and 



Whereas the said United States authorities utter- 

 ly disregarded the expressed wish and prayer of the 

 Christian manhood and womanhood of the nation, 

 with the exception that the Secretary of Agriculture 

 sent out in reply a most frivolous, fallacious, and 

 stereotyped excuse ; and 



Whereas the reply is an insult to the intelligence 

 of Christian people, inasmuch as the writer must 

 have known that the sole and only purpose said con- 

 gress had in view was to secure the seal and approv- 

 al of the United States authorities to their part in 

 the beverage-liquor traffic, which is the greatest curse 

 and blight to the nation; 



Therefore, be it resolved by the general confer- 

 ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in confer- 

 ence assembled, that, while we pledge ourselves to 

 remain loyal citizens of the United States, and to 

 support those in authority in every laudable, lawful, 

 and legal way, we do hereby announce as our con- 

 viction that in so aiding the beverage-liquor traffic 

 by their persistent endorsement of the said brewers' 

 congress in the face of our most earnest protest, 

 those in authority have forfeited all claim and fu- 

 l ire franchise of the Christian and sober manhood 

 . f the nation. 



God grant that every other Christian de- 

 nomination may unite with the Methodists 

 and indorse the resolutions as above. 



"PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE." 



I have had considerable to say on this 

 subject of late; but the following, clipped 

 from the American Issue, pointedly directs 

 our attention to a fearful thing that is go- 

 ing on and on in our United States of 

 America, and for that matter, more or less, 

 in the whole wide world. Read it and see 

 if you do not agree. 



VOICE OF THE LAND. WHY NOT REMOVE THE CAUSE? 



New York is spending hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars for a sanitarium for inebriates. Agitation 

 ii on for similar institutions in Pennsylvania and 

 other States. At the same time, commonwealths 

 are spending vast sums in reform farms, peniten- 

 tiaries, and other penal institutions. But why not 

 prevent crime instead of punishing it? Why not 

 aevote time, money, and energy to keep the youth 

 from becoming criminals rather than in taking care 

 of them after they become criminals ? Why not re- 

 move the cause rather than continue to burden 

 taxpayers with the effect ? Why not grow good citi- 

 zens instead of bad ones 1 



Now, the saddest part of the above is 

 that not one of the candidates for the pres- 

 idency of the United States — that is, one 

 with any prospect of election — dares open 

 his mouth in regard to recommending pre- 

 vention as being better than cure. In other 

 words, we have not had a president's mes- 

 sage for many a year, if I am correct, where 

 he even touched upon the question as to 

 whether the prince of all evils, that afHicts 

 all nations, shall continue his reign or not. 

 I am watching and praying for the time to 

 come speedily when all good men and wom- 

 en will rise up in their might and demand a 

 president who feai"s G*od, but does not fear 

 the liquor power. 



LAW ENFORCEMENT .WHERE IT STRIKES THE 

 LIQUOR DEALERS. 



I clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



Another obstacle in their campaign against the 

 saloons of Cleveland was encountered by the Bap- 

 tist brotherhood yesterday afternoon when Chief 

 Prosecutor McKay, of municipal court, flatly refused 

 to issue warrants against two saloonkeepers who, 

 the Baptists said, had violated the Sunday closing 

 law. 



Attorney John A. Chamberlain, of the brother- 

 hood, applied for the warrants. He presented af- 

 fidavits purporting to show that the two saloons in 

 question had been open on Sunday. 



In refusing issue McKay told Chamberlain that, if 

 every request for a warrant was granted, half the 



