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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



iug. Whatever may be said in the way of 

 criticism, just now especially, in regard to 

 Mr, Roosevelt, let us keep constantly in 

 mind that he does not use tobacco in any 

 way, and, as we are told, he probably 

 never will. And even if what Professor 

 Thorne says is true, as I look abroad and 

 see what the churches, the Y. M. C. A., the 

 Endeavor societies, the Salvation Army, 

 etc., are doing for the youth, not only of 

 our blessed land, but for the whole wide 

 world, I fell like bursting forth in the words 

 of that grand old hymn : 



Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning ; 



Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain; 

 Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning — 



Zion in triumph begins her glad reign. 



Just here my stenographer suggests that 

 the growing of poppies for the production 

 of opium is not so far out of the way as an 

 illustration. And yet "heathen China" has 

 mown down her poppies, in spite of their 

 "poppylarity," and has imposed a penalty 

 for those who still persist in their cultiva- 

 tion that I hardly dare put in print. 



TOBACCO CULTURE — SHALL IT BE TAUGHT BY 



OUR EXPERIMENT STATIONS TO THE 



YOUNG MEN OF OHIO? 



After my remarks in regard to growing 

 tobacco in Ohio, p. 390, June 15, wei'e 

 printed, I found the following in the Prac- 

 tical Farmer, written by our good and wise 

 friend T. B. Terry : 



Our telephone company has a board of five direc- 

 tors, besides secretary and treasurer. The capital 

 employed is nearly $30,000. Our national bank 

 has a "board of four local directors and two cashiers, 

 and they have the care of about one quarter of a 

 million of other people's money. Now please notice, 

 my voung friends: Every one of these officials, from 

 presidents down, attends church. There is n9t one 

 of them so far as I know, who drinks any intoxi- 

 cating liquor. There are not more than two or 

 three I am told, who use tobacco m any form. Al- 

 though an officer in both institutions, I have never 

 vet seen these men either smoke or chew. Would 

 that I could give you a clear record on tobacco- 

 using, instead of one slightly clouded. All this is 

 told you so you can see what sort of men are called 

 to positions of trust in our community. And you 

 will find it is getting more and more this way the 

 country over. Young men with sound healthy bodies 

 and clear brains are in demand. The poisons from 

 liquor, tobacco, and overmuch food, in a measure 

 stupefv the brain of any man. He is not so clear- 

 headed as he might be. A large army of young men 

 will graduate from college or high school this ye^r. 

 Others, with less education, will be starting out for 

 themselves. We earnestly beg of you all to start 

 rightly. Don't touch any tobacco or liquor. 



ENTERTAINING ANGELS UNAWARES, ETC. 



Dear Mr. Root: — I have read Gleanings for 25 

 years, and found much spiritual food in it, espe- 

 cially in Our Homes and Temperance. But to-day, 

 when reading page 63, I find a letter from Mr. Coh- 

 tnour, that is very indigestible I won't even swal- 

 low it In behalf of the Scandinavian race I want 

 to protest against it. I am one of the hundreds of 



your Scandinavian readers, and I think there is not 

 one of us, not even one in the whole Scandinavian 

 race who deserves to be classed among Eskimos, 

 Chinese, Hindoos, and Pecheras of South America, 

 even if we do eat fish once in a while. 



As a contrast to the "fish-eating Norwegians," Mr. 

 Cohenour put up the Americans as a superior race, 

 living on mixed food "like birds on bugs and worms 

 until they are grown up." I want to say frankly, 

 if the American in any way is a superior race (it is 

 hardly proper to call them a race) their superiority 

 consists in living on bugs — humbugs — and worms 

 imported from China, Japan, Hindostan, and other 

 countries. 



As to the fish-eating people of Norway, I can in- 

 form Mr. Cohenour and other ignorant Yankees 

 that the people in Norway do not eat more fish than 

 people do in America, proportionally. The Norwe- 

 gians are not afraid of getting wet and cold, and 

 they may fish more than the Yankees; but most of 

 their fish are shipped to England, America, and 

 Germany. 



I have lived in Norway 30 years and in America 

 39 years, so I know a little more about it than this 

 shining jewel, Mr. Cohenour. As to mental strength, 

 I think (and every educated American knows) that 

 the Norwegians stand on a full level with any na- 

 tionality ; and as to physical strength you will find 

 a greater number of centenarians in Scandinavia 

 than you can find in America's ninety millions; and 

 some of them would easily come out victorious in a 

 tug-of-war with a 70-year old humbug-eating Yan- 

 kee. 



Yes, I have, in the last 25 years especially, seen 

 hundreds of occasions similar to what this German 

 boy, Mr. Bernhard Kunz, tells us on page 29. These 

 superior Yankees have no use for the foreign worms, 

 if they can't squeeze dollars out of them. 



Please let us all try to live up to Paul's teaching 

 in Rom. 12:3 and elsewhere. 



Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 1. E. O. Teffre. 



My good friend T., I humbly beg pardon 

 for allo^ving the expression you refer to to 

 get into ]>rint. We should all remember 

 that here in the United States, "the land of 

 the free and the home of the brave," as we 

 are wont to call it, we are made up of all 

 nationalities. We have bright boys and 

 men who came from all quarters of the 

 earth; and we should all be careful about 

 making use of any expression that will re- 

 flect on our neighbors. Friend Cohenour- 

 used the expression he did because he was 

 a little vexed, as I take it, because I sug- 

 gested that he, with a large family, might 

 make ends meet by living on "boiled wheat." 

 He resents this, and declares that neither a 

 vegetarian diet nor a meat diet will produce 

 great men of superior education. In speak- 

 ing of fish, let us remember that the great 

 Master, when he made his banquet for his 

 beloved followers, gave them first a fish 

 broiled on the coals; and after that, honey 

 in the comb. In view of this, who can think 

 of casting a slur on a nation, the inhabi- 

 tants of which use a large quantity of fish 

 as food? Our stenographer suggests that 

 friend Cohenour does not refer to the Nor- 

 wegians as we know them, but to the in- 

 habitants of the northern part of Scandi- 

 navia who necessarily use a large quantity 

 of fish. He contrasted the Hindoos as veg- 

 etarians with otlier nations who use meat 

 almost exclusively, in order to prove that 

 a mixed diet is better. 



