1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1115 



Wires may be imbedded into foundation 

 by gravity. If the fi'ames are laid flat for 

 some time the foundation will eventually 

 imbed itself if the weather is warm— not too 

 warm. Practice will show when the condi- 

 tions are right. 



In some parts of the West Indies bees use 

 wax instead of propolis to close up all spaces. 

 It seems they can't get the latter substance 

 very readily. The weather being always 

 warm, the propolis does not hold hard, hence 

 the use of the Hofl'man frame. 



There are small apiaries on nearly all of 

 the Grenadine islands, though some are no 

 larger than a common American farm. The 

 largest is 3000 acres small. They would be 

 grand places to breed queens if there were 

 a way to ship them when bred. The inhab- 

 itants also hunt whales and breed ponies. 

 The Virgin Islets also have some bee-keep- 

 ers, so also have the Caicos Islands, where 

 mangrove cuts a figure. The Turks Islands 

 have no bees, for there are no flowers there 

 except in flower-pots. 



The fine little island of Curacao has some 

 bee-keepers. Uncle Sam may yet own this 

 little island, as the Dutch are talking about 

 selling out some of their tropical possessions. 

 It is Dutch from the ground up. It would 

 suit the United States admirably, as it is a 

 healthy little country. 



OUR 



HO Ivies, 



BY. A. K ROOT. 



Father, forgive them ; for they know not what they 

 do. -Luke 23: 34. 



This Home paper is to be mostly incidents 

 from the talks at the recent five-days' ses- 

 sion of the Anti-saloon League at Columbus. 

 Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 14 and 15, the 

 time was devoted to the Ohio Anti-saloon 

 League— the other three days to the Na- 

 tional League. By way of introduction, let 

 me say this was one of the largest and most 

 enthusiastic meetings ever held by this or- 

 ganization. There was no chance for any 

 one in that gathering of thousands to get 

 sleepy or dull, because the speakers were 

 greeted almost constantly by the clapping of 

 hands, shouts of "amen!" "that's so!" 

 etc. From beginning to end it was one un- 

 interrupted series of rejoicings. One mem- 

 ber would get up and say that his State was 

 all dry except certain counties, say half a 

 dozen or a dozen out of nearly a hundred. A 

 delegate from Vermont held up a map which 

 had all the dry counties in white and the 

 wet ones in black. He said, "Friends, this 

 is the map I showed you a year ago, and I 

 said at the time we were going to work hard 

 to make a lot of those black spots come out 

 white another year." Just at this point he 

 let his map drop, which unfolded a new map 

 just above it, both maps being thus exposed 

 to the view of the audience, and, sure 



enough, more than half of the black spots 

 were made white; and, oh what rejoicing! 



Hon. Charles E. Littlefield, from Maine, 

 gave us a great array of facts and figures 

 relative to prohibition in Maine. I have not 

 space for a tenth part of them, but will 

 give one item as nearly as I can from mem- 

 ory. He mentioned quite a number of prom- 

 inent States in the Union, giving the con- 

 sumption of liquor per capita. If I i-emem- 

 ber rightly, several States showed some- 

 thing like eight or ten dollars per annum for 

 every man, woman, and child. I think Ohio 

 had about $2.00 or a little over; and the av- 

 erages all along were from $1.00 up to eight 

 or ten times that much, as I have said. But 

 in Maine it takes only four cents to furnish 



drinks ' ' for a year for every man, wo- 

 man, and child. If I am correct, no other 

 State in the Union comes anywhere near 

 such a record. Then he told us of the re- 

 sults of such a degree of prohibition. These 

 figures came from the United States Reve- 

 nue Department, and can not be much out 

 of the way. You will remember that Er- 

 nest, in his recent trip, corroborated this 

 statement in regard to Maine. 



At some town in Ohio they have recently 

 had a hard fight, and the saloon-keepers 

 boycotted a certain shoe-dealer because he 

 took such a prominent stand against the 

 "rummies; " but when the temperance peo- 

 ple found it out the matter was talked up, 

 and they sent out into the country among 

 the farmers. One well-to-do man got so 

 full of enthusiasm that he took his big team 

 and hay-rack, and went all around the coun- 

 try hunting up poor families who were short 

 of good shoes for winter. He took his load 

 into the town, drove up before the shoe- 

 store, and had this dealer, whose trade had 

 dropped off to such an extent that he was in 

 real trouble, fit out the whole load of juve- 

 niles. This got into the papers, and not 

 only farmers but everybody else who loved 

 temperance and righteousness flocked into 

 that shoestore, and even bought shoes they 

 did not need just then, to show their good 

 will. This was carried on to such an extent 

 that the shoe-dealer, before he knew it, was 

 faced with almost empty shelves, and was 

 obliged to send on for a fresh stock of the 

 very latest up-to-date goods. But you should 

 have heard the cheering and words of praise 

 to God for this report. 



Now, dear readers, is it not possible that 

 you can do something along the same line to 

 help along a righteous war in your own 

 neighborhood? for we have abundant evi- 

 dence that this same crusade is going on 

 everywhere. Many of the Southern States 

 are leaving us in the North away behind. 

 In talking with a relative of mine in Xenia, 

 where they have had a big conflict, not only 

 in making a city of 10,000 inhabitants dry by 

 law, but in cleaning out the police and other 

 oflficers who were determined not to enforce 

 the law, he told me that he had for years 

 past had trouble in collecting his rents. He 

 owns 23 diff'erent houses that are rented to 

 people of moderate means. Well, since the 



