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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



nishing good material for your blood, and Na- 

 ture herself will cure you of almost every 

 thing. 



DR. DOWIE AND HIS PERSECUTORS. 

 My opinion has been asked repeatedly in re- 

 gard to the persecution of Dr. Dowie and his 

 followers at Mansfield, O., and other places. 

 Now, while I think we have had ample evi- 

 dence that Dowie is not what he claims to be, 

 I would not, under any circumstances, coun- 

 tenance or encourage exhibitions of mob vio- 

 lence such as have been witnessed at Mans- 

 field. Dowie went to Cleveland a short time 

 ago, but people generally let him alone to such 

 an extent that he did not stay very long, and 

 ■ that is the proper thing to do. There is a fea- 

 ture about his work, however, that should be 

 taken care of by law, in my opinion. In 

 many instances Dowie and other faith healers 

 have induced people to neglect calling a phy- 

 sician where life might have been saved, with- 

 out question. As an instance, a woman beg- 

 ged piteously to have her husiaand send for a 

 physician when she was dying with typhoid 

 fever ; but he refused, relying on the faith 

 cure. After her death the man was arrested. 

 In the same way children have been left to die 

 from diseases the average physician would 

 handle safely without difficulty. Of course, 

 if you believe wnth Dowie that "drugs, doc- 

 tors, and devils," are all one, you might ex- 

 cuse yourself for not sending for a doctor ; 

 but the person who declares there are no hon- 

 est and conscientious doctors is hardly fit to 

 advise in case of serious sickness. 



MORE TROUBLE FOR THE DIVINE HEALERS. 



The following was handed me on a slip of 

 newspaper, so I can not give credit : 



The Postoffice Department has .seized twelve sacks 

 of mail addressed to Francis Truth, at Boston, who 

 had widely advertised himself as a divine healer, but 

 who was recently arrested for fraudulent practices. 

 This mail will be opened by the authorities, and, so 

 far as possible, the money contained therein will be 

 returned t o the senders. -^^ t_i ^~, j^y , ; 



It seems from the above that Francis Truth 

 has got out of jail, and opened up business 

 again. Well, I am glad Uncle Samuel is keep- 

 ing an eye on him ; and this reminds me that 

 Weltmer, of Missouri, after he was forbidden 

 to receive mail, opened up almost immediateh^ 

 under another name. The mayor, and all the 

 business men of the little town of Nevada, 

 joined in to help him as before, because he 

 brought so much money into the town. As 

 soon as I was notified of the new institution, 

 I forwarded the facts to the Postoffice Depart- 

 ment at Washington, and received their thanks, 

 with a promise to look into it at once. It 

 really seems as if a large part of our people 

 needed Uncle Samuel as guardian to prevent 

 them from sending their hard-earned money 

 to these ravenous wolves who parade them- 

 selves in sheep's clothing. 



TESTING THE CANTEEN LAW. 



The Chicago Advance tells us that a test 

 case is now before the courts ; and the parlies 



who are behind the arrest are supplied with 

 sufficient cash to carry the case, if need be, to 

 the Supreme Court of the United States. 

 The Advance winds up by saying : 



The judges of the lower courts, and the learned 

 Justices of the Supreme Court, will have to decide 

 whether plain language means what it was intended 

 to mean, or whether it means exactly the opposite. 



The above quotation puts it all in a nutshell 

 — does plain language mean what it was in- 

 tended to inean^ or does it mean exactly the 

 opposite? I hope the good people of Ameri- 

 ca will never let up until this one point is set- 

 tled fairly. 



BELLEFONTAINE ONCE MORE FREE FROM 

 SALOONS. 



For several years Bellefontaine was held up 

 as being one of the largest if not the largest 

 prohibition town in Ohio'; but the wets mass- 

 ed their forces, caught the temperance people 

 napping, and brought back the saloons I 

 think that for two years, or about that length 

 of time, they held the day ; but the record of 

 crime and defiance of law got to be so bad 

 that even many of the wets begged to have 

 the saloons ousted once more ; and the Anti- 

 saloon League has just helped them to achieve 

 the victory. The following is from the Anti- 

 saloon League attorney : 



As you have doubtless seen in the papers, Bellefon- 

 taine has reinstated her prohibitory ordinance. I 

 have been with them in the fight. We have won the 

 day there in spite of the combined liquor forces, and 

 I think we shall hold it for years to come. A number 

 of new townships have won victories in the last few 

 weeks. W\ B. Wheeler. 



Perhaps I should mentionthefact that Belle- 

 fontaine is the county-seat of Logan Co., O., 

 and has a population of about 7000. 



JUST ONE COUNTY IN OHIO NOT REPRESENTED 

 IN THE STATE PENITENTIARY. 



This one county, and it is the only one, 

 mind you, is Geauga. Now, here is a signifi- 

 cant fact (yes, a stunning fact) : There are 

 just two counties in Ohio that have no legal 

 saloons — Geauga and Harrison. If I am cor- 

 rect, Geauga has for years kept out the legal 

 saloons, and has also done pretty well in keep- 

 ing out the illegal. While Harrison has no 

 open saloon, it has been infested for sometime 

 with quite a number of speakeasies ; but re- 

 cently, with the assistance of the Anti-saloon 

 League, a number of offenders have been 

 tried, convicted, and several thousand dollars 

 turned into the treasury. Our Ohio Peniten- 

 tiary, as you may know^ is almost all the time 

 overcrowded. There are something like 2200 

 inmates just now, if I am correct, and there 

 are 88 counties in this State ; but Geauga has 

 at present 7io representative in the w hole two 

 thousand or more from the rest of the State. 

 May God be praised that we have at least one 

 county with such a record ; and may otht r 

 counties take heart and raise the standard. 

 Medina Co. has now only three little towns 

 where saloons are protected. One of them is 

 a mining town, and this is given as an excuse 

 that }'ou " can't keep beer away from miners " 



