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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15. 



of our men who are regarded as the most thorough 

 and competent, doing every detail of their work with 

 the utmost promptness and accuracy, gradually be- 

 came careless and lax. I sent inspectors to investi- 

 gate, and in a number of cases it was found directly 

 attributable to the use of cigarettes, I am not prudish, 

 nor do I wish to assume any authority whatever over 

 an}' privileges which employes of the service should 

 have, but as a public servant I feel that it is my duty 

 to correct any evil which may exist, even if in at- 

 tempting to do so it may be claimed that I am over- 

 stepping my authority. I can state most » mphatically 

 that the order will stand, and it applies to the entire 

 force of the bureau throughout the entire service. 

 Cigarette-smoking must cease. 



Willis L. Moore has always seemed to me 

 to be a very level-headed sort of man. He 

 has backed me up most substantially in show- 

 ing up the quack weather-prophets ; and when 

 I found he was with me on cigarettes it seem- 

 ed as if a glimpse of sunshine was coming 

 along through our government work, especial- 

 ly through the Weather Bureau, if no further. 

 And, by the way, there is something a little 

 funny in regard to ruling out cigarettes. The 

 chief of the Weather Bureau has found out 

 that the men who smoke cigarettes deteriorate 

 rapidly (how about letting immature boys use 

 the same things? ). Well, a while ago, when 

 I protested because the government put out a 

 bulletin telling our people how to grow tobac- 

 co, and even make cigarettes, a government 

 official answered me to the effect that it was 

 better to give the boys pure tobacco, if they 

 would have it, than any substitute or adulter- 

 ated stuff. But when I submitted the matter 

 to United States Chemist Wiley, he was frank 

 enough to declare he did not know any worse 

 drug for either children or grown-up people 

 than nicotine itself ; and then some other 

 chemists in our big cities (employed by tobac- 

 co-dealers, no doubt) declared, after having 

 analyzed cigarettes found in the general mar- 

 ket, there was no opium nor any drug of any 

 kind in the cigarettes except tobacco. If this 

 is true, why has the chief of the Weather Bu- 

 reau made the above decision ? There is some- 

 thing ricketty or loose somewhere. But we 

 can rejoice any way that cigarettes are for the 

 present ruled out among those in the employ 

 of the Weather Bureau of the United States. 



PROF. WEI<TMER, OF NEVADA, MO. 



If I am correct. Gleanings was one of the 

 first to pronounce this man and his whole force, 

 with all his outfit, as simply " robbers of sick 

 people." When some of the Christian papers 

 followed suit and exposed him, he sued them 

 for $20,000, and gained the suit. The town of 

 Nevada backed him up, because, as they said, 

 he had built up the town more than any other 

 business enterprise that was ever started in 

 that vicinity. I sent for his circulars, as you 

 may remember, and also procured terms for 

 instruction in the art of divine healing. These 

 I forwarded at once to the Posloffice Depart- 

 ment at Washington, asking whv such a busi- 

 ness should be permitted to use the mails. As 

 I heard nothing further from it I began to . 

 fear the " healing " business was getting to be 

 so thoroughly intrenched ■with the piles of 

 money they were making, that they were some- 

 thing like the liquor-trust ; but, may the Lord 



be praised, there is a limit to this kind of ras- 

 cality. The following, from the Chicago Dai- 

 ly News of May 5, tells us about it. 



BAN ON DIVINF. HEALERS ; POSTOFFICE TO ISSUE OR- 

 DER DEBARRING THEM FROM USING THE MAILS. 



New York, May 5.— A special to the IVorld from 

 Washington says that divine healers have come under 

 the ban of the postoffice department, and in a few 

 days an order will be issued debarring them from the 

 use of the mails. The department has been gathering 

 information respecting their methods for a month, 

 and it is now so well conceded that their biisiness is il- 

 legitimate that it is the purpose to institute a general 

 raid. 



The matter was first brought to tbe : ttention of the 

 department by complaints from Nevada, Mo. where 

 Weltmer, a so-called divine healer, conducting his 

 business by mail, endeavored toe llect payment for 

 continuing to treat a patient after the patient was 

 dead. Further investigation showed that he had at- 

 tempted this in several instances, although, of course, 

 he was not aware that the subject of his "absent 

 treatment " had succumbed to disease. 



Prof S. A. Weltmer is president of the American 

 School of Magnetic Healing, which is li cated at Ne- 

 vada, Mo., and organized under the laws of that 

 State. He claims to have treated 53,00il patients with- 

 out personal consultation, and to have cured all but 

 twelve. 



The postal authorities have notified the officials of 

 the Nevada school to appear on May 12 and submit ar- 

 guments to show why a fraud order should not be is- 

 sued against them. 



Nevada, Mo., May 5. — P.->stmaster McAulty is in re- 

 ceipt of a telegram from the postal authorities direct- 

 ing him to hold all mail addressed to the Weltmer in- 

 stitute As a result the American School of Magnetic 

 Healing has laid off all its employees, and will do 

 nothing further until the United States courts dispose 

 of the fraud charges against the managers 



The Weltmer-BiMhop trial, wherein Prof. Weltmer 

 sued a Mtthodist minister for S20,000 damages for 

 making charges against the school, is said to have led 

 to the department's investigation of the school's 

 methods. 



Let me say, in reviewing the above, that 

 numbers of good honest people — yes, good 

 Christian women — insisted that Weltmer was 

 honest, and did a good work. One person 

 put in a plea for him on the ground that Jesus 

 himself said that his followers should do even 

 greater things than he had done while here 

 on earth ; but if Weltmer is to be called a fol- 

 lower of Christ Jesus, may God help us. It 

 never occurred to me, when I was denouncing 

 the absent treatment, to assure people the doc- 

 tor would keep right on after his patient was 

 dead, for he would have to be a prophet in- 

 deed to know when said patient was gone, a 

 thousand miles away. And now it turns out 

 that he not only kept on the treatment, but 

 tried to collect payment from a dead patient ! 

 And this lets out another fact : The absent 

 healers do not always stick to their rule, 

 "strictly cash in advance." 



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