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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



more benefit to you. In this recent discov- 

 ery of mine which I have been tri'ing' to 

 tell you about, I have seen Mrs. Root de- 

 velop wonderful talent in lines she had 

 never thought of before. It has been my 

 delight to tell her to do just what she pleas- 

 ed, and 1 would help her; and, oh what fun 

 it has been to see her plans succeed when 

 we two were working- together 1 When we 

 started in life our parents were all poor; 

 but I was permitted to attend school, and 

 very good schools too, for a much longer pe- 

 riod than she was. Another thing, I learn- 

 ed very easil3', while she, when young, was 

 comparatively slow in getting hold of some 

 things. For many years of our married 

 life I took the lead, a good deal because of 

 my supposed superior education; but after 

 she had followed our five children, not only 

 through their schooling here in Medina, but 

 after they went away to college, I began to 

 be slightly surprised to find she was, in 

 many things, getting ahead of me. She 

 has all her life been a great reader; but 

 she is more careful than the rest of us in 

 choosing her books and magazines. She 

 has been completing and rounding out her 

 education by means of the excellent period- 

 icals that this age affords. God knows I 

 am not mentioning these things to boast of 

 the wife he has given me, but that others 

 may take courage and grasp hold of the op- 

 portunities that still lie before them even 

 though they may be sixty or seventy years 

 old. 



With a fervent prayer that this Home pa- 

 per may be the means of discouraging, at 

 least to some extent, this growing evil of di- 

 vorce, especially after several children have 

 been brought up, I remain your old friend 



A. I. Root. 



LOOK AFTER THE YOUNG GIRLS AS WELL 

 AS THE YOUNG BOYS. 



Hand in hand with the liquor-traffic there 

 is another traffic that I hardly dare men- 

 tion on these pages. Of late it has been 

 developing in a new line. Girls are ad- 

 vertised for to learn telegraphy or type- 

 writing, etc., and many respond who have 

 no education to fill either position. The 

 advertisers do not care any thing about this. 

 The girl is given an easy place and good 

 pay; and unless she has a brother or father 

 or somebody else to look after her, she is 

 led, if it is a possible thing, in the path 

 that leads to ruin. A certain set of fiends 

 in human form at the St. Louis exposition 

 have agents out all over our land. No girl 

 is safe from these snares after she is away 

 from home and friends. Look after the 

 girls, especially when they contemplate 

 leaving the parental home. The Young 

 Women's Christian Temperance Union has 

 a society in the Union Station, St. Louis, 

 to look after girls who come unattended; 

 but I am informed that the crowds are now 

 so great that this organization can not look 

 after the passengers who come in, from one 



train out of ten. Will the fathers and 

 mothers and all Christian people help in 

 rescuing our girls from the grasp of this 

 Satanic crowd? 



THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. 



The following, from the Modern Farmer 

 and Busy Bee for June, is so ably presented, 

 that we copy it entire. To tell the truth, I 

 do not know of another man living who can 

 present great truths in this line ;vith more 

 directness and pungency than our good 

 friend Emerson T. Abbott. 



Did you ever stop to think how few people there are 

 who have an unselfish regard for the rights of others ? 

 We talk a great deal about humau rights and human 

 liberty, and yet, after all, most people, especially the 

 male portion of humanity, think more of their own 

 selfish enjoyments than they do of the rights of others. 

 To illustrate, every person surely has a right to pure 

 air to breathe, and } et nine-tenths of the men have no 

 hesitation in robbing you of that privilege. They will 

 light a cigar or a pipe, or. worse still, a cigarette, and 

 go along the street poisoning the air with tobacco 

 smoke with perfect indifference, come into your home 

 or office and puff it into your face in the same way, and 

 the moment you object they begin to talk about " per- 

 sonal liberty," etc. They will do this sometimes even 

 in the presence of ladies, without so much as even 

 saying, " I beg your pardon." It is true all of them 

 will not do it, but many of them are so wedded to this 

 habit of self-indulgence that even the presence of la- 

 dies has no influence on them. " But," says one, "to- 

 bacco smoke is not poisonous, and I do not see any 

 thing about it to make it disagreeable to anyone." 

 Just so; there is where the selfishness comes in You 

 like it ; and if the other fellow does not, that is his 

 business. This is selfishness in the extreme! It is 

 poisonous to me, and it was to you until your system, 

 became saturated with it, and rendered you uncon- 

 scious of its poisonous infiuences. If it were not, 

 what right have you to make my life a burden to me 

 in order to add to your own selfish personal enjoy- 

 ment, even though we should admit for the moment 

 that there is no probability of any injury to you? Yuit 

 may like to breathe air filled with second-hand tobac- 

 co smoke, but there are people who want theirs free 

 from all poisonous influences. They must breathe 

 air of some kind, and why should you insist on rob- 

 bing them of their God-given right to breathe pure 

 air? About the only place a man has a right to do a 

 thing of this kind is on his own premises, where no 

 one else is likely to come, and even in his own home 

 he should not forget the rights of the other members 

 of the family. Please note that this is not a disserta- 

 tion on morals but a very meager elucidation of a 

 principle which is very broad and far-reaching in its 

 application, and one worthy the careful attention of 

 every man or woman. Of course, we come in con- 

 tact with such things more in the city than in the 

 country, but we are inclined to think that the coun- 

 try has its share of this kind of selfishness. 



DUFFY'S MALT WHISKY THAT HELPED A 



MAN TO BE 103 YEARS OLD; SEE 



PAGE 610, JUNE 15. 



Friend Root: — After reading your sermon of June 15, 

 thought this might interest you. T. B. Terry. 



Hudson, C, June 22. 



With the above, friend Terry sends two 

 leaves taken from a periodical called Physi- 

 cal Culture. From these leaves I make the 

 following abbreviated extracts: 



Here is a sample of the usual methods of patent- 

 medicine venders and others who are desirous of sepa- 

 rating the public from their hard-earned dollars. 

 Health and strength only $1.00 a bottle ! It is to be 

 hoped that the time is not far distant when the public 

 will realize that health does not come in bottles, pow- 

 ders, or pills — Bernard McFadden. 



