1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



455 



and no tobacco. Now, my good friend, if you 

 are using tobacco, and are having troubles of 

 any kind that puzzle you, cut off the tobacco 

 and watch for the result. I do not wish to 

 dictate to anybody what he shall eat or drink ; 

 but I would gladly lead any soul out of dark- 

 ness into light ; and especially when it comes 

 along the line of securing good health. I 

 have put Ihis little talk under the head of 

 Health Notes, as you see, and I think it is just 

 where it belongs, does it not ? 



SOMETHING MORE ABOUT CIGARETTES. 



On page 409 of our last issue I quoted what 

 the Chief of the Weather Bureau said about 

 cigarettes. Here is something further, clipped 

 from the Cleveland Press. The occasion was 

 a meeting of those having charge of reforma- 

 tory institutions for boys ; and from the min- 

 utes of the meeting we take the following : 



The section on reformatories and industrial schools 

 was addressed by Geo. Torrance, of Pontiac, 111., su- 

 perintendent of the Illinois State Reformatory, on 

 " The Relation of the Cigarette to Crime." 



Torrance said, " I am sure cigarettes are destroying 

 and making criminals of more boys than the saloons." 

 In his reformatory there are 278 boys, of whom 256 are 

 cigarette-smokers, he said — 92 per cent. 



" Making criminals of more boys than the 

 saloons." But as one of the chief promoters 

 of tobacco are the saloons themselves, there 

 still remains but little to their credit. 



FROM ONE OF WELTMER'S VICTIMS. 



I have been taking great interest in reading Glean- 

 ings, and especially what you say of Weltmerism. 

 Well, Bro. R , I believe you are right as to what you 

 say about him and his works. I have just finished 

 taking a S5. Oil treatment from him; and the biggest 

 thing I found in it was that he got my five dollars. I 

 was just the same at the end ot the treatment as I 

 was at the beginning. Chas. S. Fisher. 



Faith, N. C, May 23. 



TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION. 

 United States Senator Foraker has finally 

 been obliged by the temperance people to 

 come out publicly through the papers, and 

 acknowledge, in effrct, that he used his influ- 

 ence to defeat the Clark local-option bill in 

 Ohio. This is what he says : 



But however this may be I had nothing to do with 

 the defeat of the Clark bill except to give my opinion 

 as above indicated when called upon for it. If this 

 contributed to that end, I am glad to know that I am 

 entitled to a small share of the credit. 



He not only admits this, but he says he is 

 " glad " that the bill was defeated. In other 

 words, he is glad the brewers and saloon- 

 keepers still have the privilege of planting 

 saloons in localities and precincts where they 

 are not wanted, and even where there would 

 be an overwhelming vote against them if the 

 people were permitted to settle the matter by 

 ballot. Although Senator Hanna has not ad- 

 mitted this quite so fully as has Foraker, he 

 has not undertaken to deny the charge that he 

 did say there must not be any temperance leg- 

 islation at present in Ohio. These two Sena- 

 tors well knew a majority of the people are in 

 favor of this very just and fair temperance 

 law. We are in the habit of calling this land 

 of ours a " land of liberty," and a land gov- 

 erned by the people. Now, if we continue 



supporting such men as Foraker and Hanna, 

 and letting the power to do these things re- 

 main in their hands, how long can we truth- 

 fully claim to be a free people? They are 

 learning of late ( when we succeed in passing 

 temp. ranee laws in spite of them) to resort to 

 the " nullification act " as it has been termed, 

 and then pretend they did not know what the 

 people wanted. Is it really true that the traf- 

 fickers in whisky and beer are to rule, when 

 the temperance people — the righteous and 

 God-fearing people — outnumber them two to 

 one? 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Gleanings grows better and better. Herewith is 

 something to keep 'er coming, short or long spelling. 

 Brownington, Mo., Mar. 24. E. F. Nall. 



I am glad to see that you are opposed to saloons. 

 We voted the saloon-keepers out of business long ago. 

 Leesburg, Fla., Apr. 30. J. A. David. 



Inclosed find S3 00, subscription in full. Please con- 

 tinue the valuable old journal. A. I. R.'s Home talks, 

 and the interest he takes in exposing frauds is worth 

 five times the price of it to me. F. A. Whan. 



Raymilton, Pa., Apr. 20. 



Oh ! by the way, the four queens I got of you last 

 summer are daisies, and all fine families, and great 

 layers and workers I must say that the A B C of 

 Bee Culture beats them all. I received it with the 

 other supplies from Bell Branch. I would not take 

 S20.00 for it if I could not get another. 



Morenci, Mich. C. S. Ingals. 



The supplies I ordered of you came to hand all 

 right, and I must say I never saw any thing so com- 

 plete. To say I am pleased does not half express my 

 feelings. I want to thank you for your very kind and 

 thorough manner of doing business and sending out 

 supplies, and to assure you it is a pleasure to do busi- 

 ness with such a firm. M. C. Fuller. 



Stranger, Tex. 



THE VALUE OF THE DOVETAILED HIVE. 



We never before realized the real value of the Dove- 

 tailed hive until within the past year or so, and we 

 now desire to say that, for a general-purpose hive, 

 they have no equal. They are easy to handle, can be 

 tiered up any height, and, best of aP, when you come 

 to place yourbee^in the cellar it is not necessary to 

 carry along a wagonload of lumber. Thus one can 

 economize space, and winter a large number of colo- 

 nies in a verj^ small space. H. G. Quirin. 



Parkertown, Ohio, March 20. 



OUR WATER-CURE PAMPHLET. 



Bro. Root : — If you only knew how much good your 

 water cure pamphlets are doing you would l>e grati- 

 fied. Of course, you make no demand of postage, 

 but I can not accept such an offer, though I do not 

 charge even postage to those to whom I give them. 



Grafton, N. Y., Apr. 3. Rev. J. K Wager. 



[Friend W., the satisfaction of knowing that this in- 

 formation saves life, and does good, is all the compen- 

 sation we want. The little pamphlets were printed 

 by the thousands, therefore the expense to us is very 

 small We are still readv to furnish one or more to 

 anybody who wishes to distribute them among suffer- 

 ing humanity.] 



Friend Root : — It is a pleasure to me to note that in 

 many articles, especially seeds, you are evidently try- 

 ing to see how much you can give for a small sum of 

 money, while some people seem to try how much 

 money they can get for a small quantity of their 

 wares. A short time ago I sent to you for an ounce 

 each of lettuce and two kinds of radishes at o cts. per 

 ounce ; also some peas. Counting the postage, these 

 ounce packages cost me just about o^ cts. each and I 

 find that each package contains what would make 

 about six and some probably eight package ■; the size 

 of those for which we usually pay 5 cts. 



Bluffton, Mo. S. E. Miller. 



