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ey-flow it will probably be necessary to give 

 a light feed in the fall.- Ed.] 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



MOMES, 



BY A.I/;|RaOT. 



The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight 

 themselves in the abundance of peace. — Psalm 37:11. 



I confess, dear friends, that, with the war 

 between Japan and Russia, and the various 

 strikes now going on in different parts of the 

 United States, it does not seem, especially 

 to the casual observer, that the meek are 

 making very much headway in inheriting the 

 earth; but if we take a calm view of things, 

 especially matters that are going on under 

 the surface as well as above, I think we shall 

 see that the Bible promise is being fulfilled. 

 God's people are surely making progress; 

 intemperance is being put down, and wicked 

 men, with millions of money back of them, 

 are beginning to understand that there is 

 "a God in Israel," and that they must obey 

 the laws of our land. 



In a recent trip of 400 miles through Ohio 

 I passed through Ashland, Mansfield, Marion, 

 Delaware, Marysville, Springfield, Dayton, 

 and Xenia, besides many other good-sized 

 towns and cities. It was a pleasant surprise 

 to find almost every one of these cities torn up 

 more or less in the work of making better 

 thoroughfares. I passed through so many 

 different towns in a brief period of time that 

 I can hardly remember now which was which; 

 but in quite a few I found not only beautiful 

 streets paved with vitrified bricks, but in 

 three or four there were asphalt pave- 

 ments where the automobile would run with- 

 out a sound, and turn almost as easily as if 

 it were walking on air. And, by the way, 

 we are already, at least to some extent, ig- 

 noring not only mud roads, but roads of 

 every kind, and climbing through the air, 

 and I do not mean by means of the gas- 

 balloon either. But I am not at liberty just 

 now to tell all I know in regard to this mat- 

 ter. 



Marysville, O., I found so torn up with 

 their preparation for nice pavements that 

 one could hardly get to a hotel, store, or 

 restaurant without going on foot; and some- 

 times it was difficult to get there at all. 

 There seems to be a general forward move- 

 ment, and perhaps a little good-natured ri- 

 valry, in fixing up the towns and cities of 

 Ohio, and in my opinion there is great need 

 of it. The roads, in many cities, even on 

 the principal streets, are full of mud-holes 

 or round cobblestones, and I presume these 

 things have been tolerated simply because 

 the towns had planned to do a good job when 

 they got at it, and they did not want to 

 waste money on temporary improvements 

 meanwhile. Our town of Medina is just now 

 in that fix. The street most used has been 

 in a horrible condition for a year or two; but 



as I write the surveyors are at work, great 

 ditches are being dug across it to convey the 

 city water, and to look after proper sewage, 

 before laying the vitrified bricks that are be- 

 ing piled up in great heaps on each side of 

 the roadway. God is already blessing our 

 people in their efforts not only to fix up each 

 mdividual home, but to take care of the 

 streets and highways that are to be used by 

 each and all. May he grant this work may 

 be done in peace and harmony all over our 

 land; and at the same time may he give us 

 men of nerve and courage to rebuke and 

 punish the "grafters" who would rob the 

 people of the public funds. 



The Philadelphia Farm. Journal has gone 

 further than any other agricultural paper in 

 declaring that automobiles should be barred 

 from the pubHc roads. If I am making a 

 mistake in this I shall be glad to be correct- 

 ed; but in several recent issues they have at 

 least intimated that the farmers who built 

 the good roads are being driven off and be- 

 ing obliged to take byways on account of the 

 autos that are, as a matter of course, select- 

 ing the best and most direct highways. In 

 fact, there has been more or less of a dispo- 

 sition to quarrel over the right of way ever 

 since automobiles have become so prominent. 

 The Farm Journal thinks that what the 

 owners of autos have done in the way of 

 paying for our good roads is only a drop in 

 the bucket. Now, this may have been true 

 in the past, but it is not going to be so in 

 the future. As a rule, the owners of autos 

 have means, and the greater part of them 

 certainly are not only able but willing to 

 pay, and pay liberally, for whatever they 

 want. Men of wealth are going to furnish 

 the money for beautiful roadways in a way 

 they have never done before; and the ques- 

 tion as to whom the roads belong to, and 

 who shall use them, is going to be settled in 

 the line of our text: "And the meek shall 

 inherit the earth, and shall delight them- 

 selves," not only in peace, but in the "abun- 

 dance of peace." Very likely some of you 

 will suggest that the men who run the autos 

 are not exactly the personification of meek- 

 ness; and I shall have to admit that some of 

 them are not. There are others, however, 

 who are coming rapidly to the front who not 

 only practice but exhort meekness. There 

 is a great organization, the American Mo- 

 tor League, that not only makes its busi- 

 ness to see that our people have fair play, 

 but also declares most vehemently that ev- 

 ery man who owns an auto shall respect the 

 law. Let me give an illustration: 



In running our bicycles a year or two ago 

 we were greatly annoyed by chickens and 

 other poultry belonging to the farm homes. 

 They had been educated, it seems, to calcu- 

 late safely on their ability to get out of the 

 way of a horse and buggy; but the wheel 

 was so much swifter, and came on to them 

 so silently, they got "rattled," and, instead 

 of getting out of the way, or staying out of 

 the way, some evil genius seemed to possess 

 them to run right under the machine. Well, 

 now, this is very much worse with autos. 



