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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Oct. 



chair. A great crowd of people were col- 

 lected to hear him— many thousands, per- 

 haps. The largest church in the city was 

 used, find yet the audieiice was so great that 

 they had to get another building, and have 

 what they called an ''overflow" meeting. 

 After our distinguished speaker had finished, 

 another man of some note made a speech. I 

 am sorry he did, for several reasons. First, 

 it was ten o'clock, and it seemed to me there 

 had been speaking enough. Secondly, it 

 seems to me that the effect of any great 

 speech is much diminished by hearing a 

 man Mith comparatively little talent after 

 him. Worst of all, this man was not neigh- 

 borly in his talk and remarks. He made the 

 people laugh a good deal ; but it seems to 

 me there are times when laughing is not 

 just the thing. I will mention only one 

 thing that seemed unneighborly. The 

 building was filled with people of different 

 views, and belonging to opposing political 

 parties. He put up his right hand and said, 



"I wish I had the party by the throat 



with this right hand, and then I wish I had 



the party by the throat with my left 



hand." And then he with strong language 

 told how he would choke the life out of 

 both of them. A good many sad things 

 were told during the evening, and facts 

 were brought to light showing that there is, 

 without doubt, sinfulness and wrong-doing 

 in political circles. But, dear friends, how 

 are we going to remedy tliese thingsV It 

 seems to me that chokiny is not just the 

 thing to do, or even talk about. I should 

 like to get the poor friend, whom I met in 

 the early morning, to give up his pipe and 

 tobacco, and seek enjoyment in something 

 better in their stead. l3ut, do you think I 

 should succeed by choking himV God for- 

 bid ! His neighborly feeling toward me 

 would be gone in an instant, if I should even 

 talk about it ; and from what I have seen of 

 human nature, I should expect him to use 

 even more tobacco, and try to get everybody 

 else to using it, just because I had been so 

 overbearing and harsh and unneighborly. 

 Suppose, instead of talking about choking, I 

 should get acquainted with him, and in a 

 neighborly w^ay point out to him the evil 

 results that come from tobocco. the example 

 he is setting to our youth, etc. I even might, 

 as a piece of pleasantry, offer to make him a 

 present of a smoker, if he happened to keep 

 bees, and no unpleasant consequences would 

 follow at all, even if he did not accept my 

 offer. Do you not seeV 



There is, indeed, trouble in our political 

 affairs. The speaker said last night that the 

 proposed second amendment to the constitu- 

 tion of the State of Ohio, for which we M-ork- 

 ed so hard a year ago, was, without doubt, 

 fairly carried, had it not been for the frauds 

 perpetrated in counting the votes. I asked 

 several men of intelligence if they thought 

 this could really be so, and the general opin- 

 ion seemed to be that it was probably true. 



Just now a great deal of money is being 

 expended in buying votes, or in something 

 that amounts to about the same thing. 

 Now, if it be really true that we are unable 

 to have an honest record of our votes, and al- 

 so that our laws are not made by the people, 



but by the money of unscrupulous men who 

 will stoop to buy votes, what are we coming 

 to? Can it be possible that we have voters 

 so lost to any sense of honor that they will, 

 instead of voting according to the honest 

 dictates of their conscience, sell tiieir votes 

 for a few pieces of silver V If such is the 

 case, the prospect before us is sad, very sad. 

 It is sad to think there are men who would 

 want to buy votes. It is sad, too, to think 

 there are those who would sell their right 

 to vote, and sad to think there is a citizen of 

 this great republic who would want the 

 count to be other than an honest, true count. 

 The fault is not with any one set of men. 

 It is not alone with the leaders. It seems to 

 be scattered abroad in human hearts. It is 

 because there is sin in the world. And now, 

 dear friends, Avhat shall we do with this sin 

 which is in the world V Only one remedy 

 has ever been found equal to all emergencies, 

 and capable of subduing sin in all its phases, 

 wherever found. " The blood of Jesus 

 Christ cleanseth from all sin." " There is 

 none other name under heaven given among 

 men whereby we must be saved." The re- 

 sponsibility rests upon us, dear friends, and 

 through honest votes our nation is to be 

 saved. But these votes should be given from 

 the heart, and before God, and no outside 

 matter or interest, no earthly consideration, 

 should sway or make our judgment waver 

 one iota. Let us cast our votes in truth and 

 sincerity, and let us do it as something sa- 

 cred before God, and then may we rest on 

 the promise that Christ our Lord and Master 

 has given us : " Blessed are they that do 

 hunger and thirst after righteousness, for 

 they shall be filled ;" and in grappling with 

 sin and fraud and injustice, let us bear in 

 mind that those who are seemingly lost to 

 all that is sacred and holy are our neighbors 

 still. 



KATY DID. 



ALSO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT MIIS. HARRISON 

 "DID." 



J^ATY did, Katy did, Katy did, Katy did, Katy 

 Up did, she did, she did— you know how they go 

 k3» on all the nig-ht through— never stopping to 

 ^^ take breath — they don't need to — caring 

 nothing for nervous people, nor for sick ones 

 who toss and turn and wait for another day— Katy 

 did, Katy did, for ever, with only a few, a very few 

 Katy didn'ts thrown in to break the endless round. 

 Well, the Katy did that I am going to tell you 

 about Is not this kind at all, but a very fat little girl 

 whose name is Katy Harrison. 



You all know Mrs. L. Harrison? Up go a thousand 

 hands, and you say, " Yes, she's the woman that 

 finds homes in the country for poor children." 

 Then another thousand hands go up, and you say, 

 " She's the woman that writes for the Juvenile 

 about honey-cakes," and still another thousand 

 hands go up, and you say, "She's the woman that 

 wants all the children to learn to work," and you 

 will all be right. 



Mrs. Harrison has no little girl of her reiTy ou^jt; 

 but when she went east three years ago she had 

 made up her mind to adopt a little girl, and she 

 went to an orphan asylum where they had 300 chil- 



