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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



I want to say right here that I rode up the 

 mountain pass, without a bit of trouble The 

 newly found strength was ;;/o;r than equal to 

 the demands. I caught up with and ran past 

 a loaded freight-train ; but it was, of course, 

 going very slowly on the ten miles of up 

 grade. When it dodged through a tunnel 

 while I was obliged to go over the top of the 

 hill, of course the train got past me. Some- 

 times I have thought I enjoyed that trip of 50 

 miles, from Livingston to Bozeman and back, 

 fully as much as if not more than I had the 

 trip 'hrough Yellowstone Park; but it was 

 largely because I was full of health, strength, 

 vigor, and enthusiasm. 



I have written this with a prayer, and vnth 

 faith that it will give energy and enthusiasm to 

 many of our readers — faith to fead and believe 

 God's holy word, and especially to remember 

 that he is our refuge and strength, and, in- 

 deed, a very present help in all sorts of trou- 

 ble while we are striving to do his will. 



Half way down the incline toward Bozeman 

 I stopped for refreshment at a pretty little 

 town called Chestnut. I wanted some beef- 

 steak ; but the lady who kept the restaurant 

 told me they had no meat-market nowadays, 

 and that they could get fresh meat only when 

 the meat man happened to come around. A 

 little further on I saw a meat-market, but a 

 board was nailed across the doorway. Next 

 door to it, however, was a good sized saloon 

 running full blast, and there were several oth- 

 er saloons in the town. The meat-market 

 failed, and was closed up, but the saloon was 

 booming, evidently, on all sides. Now, no- 

 body told me the history of that closed-up 

 meat-market ; but you and I can guess why 

 the people of that little mountain town, amid 

 its beautiful surroundings and scenery, should 

 fail to supply the traveler or the inhabitants 

 with nourishing food while beer and whisky 

 flowed in abundance. 



As a fitting wind up to my little story of to- 

 dav I want to mention that our old friend Mrs. 

 Jennie Culp — at least that used to be 'her 

 name — told me, when I saw her at the Ohio 

 State Fair selling honey, that she, like myself, 

 had had troubles with indigestion and poor 

 health, but that she too had gone to the dear 

 Savior with her burdens and trials, and he had 

 healed her of all her infirmities. I know that 

 many of my good friends will say, "Why, 

 Bro. Root, you are getting right over into the 

 faith cure." Well, dear friends, the kind of 

 faith cure that comes from recognizing the 

 great Father above as your "refuge and 

 strength ' ' is all right ; and when you get to 

 the point of faith where you accept and believe 

 that he is a very present help in all troubles, 

 then your feet are on the solid rock. 



There are others among our readers who 

 will say, " Why, Bro. Root, there is not any 

 need of thinking your little prayer ( which, of 

 course, was all right) bad any thing to do 

 with your sudden accession of strength, appe- 

 tite, etc. First, you had not become accli- 

 mated to the great altitude. Then you drank 

 Apollinaris water, and topped it off with ^i^^j- 

 ser water. By the time you reached your 

 wheel }'Ou had been eating speckled mountain 



trout, as you have told us, and were getting 

 over the effects of the mineral waters, and 

 were becoming used to the high regions," etc. 

 I suppose we could hunt up any number of 

 good reasons to explain answers to prayer. 

 Well, dear friends, I would by no means think 

 of limiting God in his ways and means for 

 bringing about an answer to our prayers. I 

 prayed, and faith and strength came. An un- 

 thankful, lazy, and indolent spirit had posses- 

 sion of me. It was of more moment that this 

 spirit should be banished than that I should 

 have physical strength. You remember the 

 blind man, when the Pharisees tried to make 

 him think there was not any miracle in his 

 case. They said that Jesus was a sinner. The 

 blind man said, " Whether he be a sinner or 

 no, I know not." But there was one thing he 

 did know pretty thoroughly. He said, " One 

 thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now 

 I seey I was sick, but now I am well and 

 strong. When I ask God to heal me of phys- 

 ical ills, I expect to look about me and see 

 what I can do to help answer my own prayer, 

 or to fall in line, if 3'ou choose, with God's 

 plans and designs ; and while I pray I shall 

 avail myself of all the aid that any honest and 

 capable physician can give. 



TEMPERANCE MATTERS. 



The following clipping has come to us, but 

 we do not know in what journal it appeared : 



PROHIBITORY REGULATIONS. 



Some weeks a^o we commented in these columns 

 upon the edict of a prominent railroad company for- 

 bidding employees to frequent saloons, and making 

 intoxication cause for summary dismissal. It seems 

 that railroad companies are not alone in this indirect 

 denunciation of the nefarious liquor-traffic. Other 

 concerns recognize the fact that indulgence in drink, 

 and the frequenting of saloons, destroy thit in their 

 employees which makes their .services desirable and 

 valuable. A man who drinks is not worth as much as 

 the man who does not. Busine-ss men recognize that 

 import •-nt ooint, and they do not propose to see them- 

 selves robbed, and consent to the destruction of their 

 own commercial interests. The following circular, 

 sent out bv a prominent express company, shows the 

 drift of things somewhat: 



PERSONAL CONDUCT OF EMPLOYEES. 

 1. The tnllo-lner circular which has been i.ssued by the of - 

 ticial-< of the Western depavtnient meets with our full approv- 

 al, anil is to be understood as applying geneially in tlie com- 

 pany's Inisiness heieafter: 



To SrPERINTEN'DENTS. ROITE AGENTS, AND EMPf OYKES WEST- 

 ERN DEPARTMENT: 



1. We have been making inquiries recently into causes lead- 

 ing up to defalcations, shortages, or dishonesty among our 

 employees, which, we reeret to ;-ay, have been very large in 

 number during the past year. From the re.sult of these in- 

 quiries we are led to make the broad statement that many of 

 them, if not tlie majority, arose through negligence of super- 

 intendents, route agents, or general agents in failing to cau- 

 tion or reprimand the more useful in our pervice against 

 piactices of di inking, or frequenting saloons or other resorts 

 where ne-nicious habits are formed It seems impossible 

 that oftlcials of the company should he so slack in looking 

 into the liat)its of their employees: but the statement made 

 above, placing the moral responsibility at tlieir door, is borne 

 out bv tlie facts. Manv of those who have endjezzled or<'om- 

 mitled tlipfts would liever liave done so had a word of cau- 

 tion or reprimand lieen given at tlie proper time. 



3. Hereafter ue sliall liold tlie superintendents, route agents, 

 or general agents pei soiially responsible for any loss oceuring 

 through failure to properly exercise their authority in the 

 matter of <-ontrolling the habits of drinking or gambling of 

 the men tliev employ. 



1 Any employee seen taking a drink of liquor while on duty 

 01- duiing )msine-:s hours sliould lie ca\Uioned once, and, on 

 repeating the offense, be immediatelv di-charged. If an em- 

 ployee is known to drink to exce-s wliile off duty, and repeat- 

 edlv, he should he dismi^^ed from the .-ervice It is expected 

 that you will know positively whether any man under your 

 suiiervisiiin gambles; and a nian once found so doing mu.st not 

 be retaineii in the service a single day. 



h. These two things, diinklng and gambling, are the begin- 

 ning of nine-tenths of the defalcations or stealing of our ein- 

 ployees, and, knowing this, you are morally responsible for 



