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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



doubt it does some good; but just tbink of 

 it ! It costs 50 ets. a bottle, and yet tbe real 

 medicine contained in it costs less than one 

 cent. And tbis is a fair sanajDle of tbe 



fifty-cent remedies we find advertised in 

 almost all poultry literature. Is it not about 

 time for a revelation or a revolution or 

 sometbing else in tbe poultry business? 



Xemperance 



PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT. 



Not only our great railways, but tbe 

 great bank's of our nation, are demanding 

 tbat tbeir employees sball not enter saloons. 

 Tbe following item, wbicb we take from tbe 

 Home and State, Dallas, Texas, indicates 

 the trend of business: 



Aboiit two thousand years ago the old Devil him- 

 self started on old lie to the effect that a young man 

 could take a drink of whisky or let it alone, and it 

 would not hurt him. The old lie has been repeated 

 all down the ages until many sensible men seem to 

 believe that it can be done. 



To answer that old lie, and seeing the necessity for 

 protection against it, not long ago the Fifth Avenue 

 National Bank of New York passed some stringent 

 rules governing their employees, and some of those 

 rules read as follows : 



"You must not drink any intoxicants with meals 

 in public restaurants." "You must not enter any 

 saloon." "You must not enter any gambling house." 

 "You must not frequent Broadway resorts or be- 

 come conspicuous where the great white lights 

 blaze." 



The National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis, one 

 of the largest national banks in all the Southwest, 

 having 330 employees, recently passed similar reso- 

 lutions governing their employees, and the National 

 Bank of Commerce went further and said: "The 

 use of cigarettes will not be tolerated under any cir- 

 cumstances." "Late hours, the habitual use of in- 

 toxicating drinks, the frequenting of saloons and 

 questionable resorts, will be deemed sufficient cause 

 for dismissal." 



When some twenty sane and sound business men 

 gathered around the directors' table and passed 

 those rules, none of you would look into their faces 

 and say they were a group of prohibition cranks, 

 but on the other hand you would say that they were 

 taking the sensible way of answering that old black 

 lie that a young man can take a drink or let it 

 alone and it will not hurt him; and you will let 

 me add to those rules, and say with all the love and 

 all the force I have, that the old lie that a young 

 man can take a drink of whisky and it will not 

 hurt him is the blackest old slimy lie that was 

 ever told. 



I must confess tbat it is a surprise to me 

 to be told tbat any city hank bas as many 

 as 330 employees; and may tbe Lord be 

 praised for tbe information tbat not one of 

 tbe 330 is permitted to use cigarettes. 



WHISKY AND BRANDY IN CANDY FOR CHIL- 

 DREN. 



We clip tbe following from tbe Nasbville 

 Tevnessean and American: 



MAKING WAR ON WHISKY CANDY. 



Dr. Lucas P. Brown, State pure food and drug 

 inspector, having discovered that certain candy- 

 makers are putting whiskies and brandies in a 

 special brand of candies which they have put on 

 the market, has inaugurated a vigorous war on the 

 practice, and, despite the fact that the grand jury 



of Shelby County threw out the suits brought 

 against these candy-dealers, he says there will be 

 no backward step in the prosecution of the law- 

 breakers. 



Upon finding that candy of this kind was being 

 sold in Nashville, Dr. Brown let it be known that 

 such sales were unlawful and would not be tolerat- 

 ed, whereupon the dealers adopted the wise course 

 of refusing to deal longer in such wares. It was 

 enough for the Nashville dealers to be apprised 

 of the fact that such violations of the law would 

 be prosecuted, for they at once advised Dr. Brown 

 that they would not again be guilty of the offense. 



"The practice of putting brandy and whisky in 

 candies, thus cultivating a taste for liquor among 

 our little boys and girls," Dr. Brown says, "must 

 stop, and I believe that there is strong public sen- 

 timent back of me in this campaign for the stopping 

 of such practices." 



I remember bearing some time ago tbat 

 tbere was brandied candy on tbe market, 

 and that children were buying it ; but I 

 suj^posed the business of making and sell- 

 ing such candies had been stopped. Our 

 southern States that have been so vigorous 

 in ruling out the liquor traffic should cer- 

 tainly be wide awake in putting a speedy 

 stop to this sort of business. 



ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS CONTRIB- 

 UTED BY A SINGLE BREWERY TO FIGHT 

 PROHIBITION. 



We clip the following from a recent issue 

 of tbe Independent Magazine: 



A lawsuit brings out the extraordinary fact that 

 a single brewery in Worcester, Mass., certainly not 

 one of the largest, has spent $100,000 in the last 

 ten years in political contributions to fight prohi- 

 bition. Just as Congress is conducting an investi- 

 gation on contributions for presidential campaigns, 

 it would be well if every State legislature should 

 order an investigation of the sums contributed to 

 prevent the enactment of laws suppressing the liquor 

 traffic. They must amount to many milions, largely 

 spent in corrupting the electorate. 



Tilings like tbe above seem to be coming 

 to light almost daily; and yet what are we 

 as a nation doing about it, or are going to 

 do about it? What are the churches, tbe 

 Christian people, and the temperance peo- 

 ple doing or going to do about it? Is mon- 

 ey, and dirty "tainted" money, going to 

 continue to head off tbe votes of good men 

 and good women? 



A GOOD MOTHER WHAT I.S SHE WORTH? 



I read Our Homes first, then the temperance 

 column. I never drank a glass of liquor in my 

 life nor used tobacco in any form. I thank God 

 for a good mother. 



South Westport, Mass., Oct. 23. J. S. WiiiCOX. 



