1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



229 



Our Homes 



By A. I. Root 



Now. they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; 

 but we an incorruptible.— I. Cok. 9 :25. 



Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee 

 a crown of life.— Rev. 2 : 10. 



Mr. Thomas P. Hallock, advertising man- 

 ager for the A. I. Root Co., has just mailed 

 me the following, which he clipped from a 

 recent copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



BREWER CROWNS WIFE. 



ADOLPHUS BrSCH PRESENTS HEK WITH A 1200,000 

 DIADEM AT GOLDEN-WEDDING CELEBRATION. 



Pasadena, Cal., March?. — What is said to be the 

 most elaborate golden-wedding anniversary ever 

 celebrated anywhere in the world took place here 

 to-day, with Mr. and Mrs. Adolphws Busch as the 

 central figures. 



The most beautiful and costly of the presents was 

 the diadem presented to Mrs. Busch by her hus- 

 band. It is a crown of gold, studded with dia- 

 monds and pearls, and valued at ?200.000. It was 

 made in Frankfort, Germany. At the wedding 

 feast to-night at the Busch mansion, Mrs. Busch 

 was crowned and giv«n a seat beside her husband 

 on a miniature throne. 



The presents received by the couple are valued at 

 1500,000. 



Friend Hallock evidently thought I might 

 use the above as a text or suggestion for one 

 of my lay sermons; and by way of sugges- 

 tion he adds just below the above extract 

 the following : 



For the brewer's wife, a crown of diamonds; for 

 Jesus Christ, a crown of thorns; and what of the 

 wives of the drunkards who have so generously 

 poured their pennies, dimes, and dollars into this 

 wife-crowning heathen's purse? Will they wear 

 golden crowns ? T. P. Hallock. 



So far as I know, the writer of the above 

 is not a member of any church {as yet) , but 

 he has given the world a sermon in the 

 above few words that possesses a power and 

 pathos seldom reached by the greatest 

 divines of our or any other land. Crowns 

 are supposed to be a reward, or an acknowl- 

 edgment of some praiseworthy act done 

 the people or the world. Even if that jew- 

 eled crown did cost toward a quarter of a 

 million dollars, what had this woman done 

 that she should receive it ? Again, crowns 

 are generally bestowed by the savings or 

 contributions of those who have cause to 

 remember with grateful hearts the kindly 

 acts of the loved one. What has this 

 woman done to benefit mankind ? As has 

 been suggested, the money that paid for it 

 was probably wrung, no one knows how 

 unwillingly, from poor hard - working 

 women and children; and then to think of 

 the awful — the terrible contrast between 

 this crown and the crown of thorns worn by 

 Ihe dear Savior when he suffered, bled, and 

 died, that we might live. I confess that 

 this astounding contrast brought to me a 

 more vivid and real conception of the crown 

 of thorns than I ever had before. 



In connection with this let me submit an 

 extract from the front cover of the Ameri- 

 can Issue for Feb, 4 : 



KNOWN BY THEIR FRUITS. 



Gather together into one view all the people you 

 have ever known or seen or can think of who love 

 the church better than the saloon; and all the peo- 

 ple you have ever known or seen or can think of 

 who love the saloon better than the church ! If it 

 could be done, no living human being upon this 

 earth, who is capable of connecting two ideas, 

 would ever need to read one single printed page of 

 argument, either upon the"Hruits of the Liquor 

 Traffic" or the "Evidences of Christianity." — REV. 

 CHARLES F. AKED, Member Board of Trustees, 

 New York Anti-saloon League. 



Does it not begin to look, dear friends, as 

 if the time had come, not only for our own 

 nation but the whole wide world, to break 

 the bands asunder that bind us to the 

 liquor traffic? Is it not high time we had 

 another "emancipation i3roclamation" that 

 shall for ever set us free from the awful 

 tyranny of Adolphus Busch or any other 

 millionaire brewer? I am told that, at the 

 St. Louis exposition, he gave awaj?^ his beer 

 to the thirsty crowds that came, not only by 

 the thousands but perhaps by the millions, 

 to view his gigantic brewery. Did he fur- 

 nish all this beer out of the kindness of his 

 heart, and his love for thirsty humanity? 

 I tell you, nay; he did it out of love for the 

 "dirty" dollars; and who knows how 

 many an unsoplaisticated country youth 

 got his first taste of beer at this very beer- 

 palace? It was planned and managed on 

 purpose to "create an appetite," and it did 

 the business. He expected the press of our 

 land would mention that "golden crown" 

 with its glittering priceless jewels; but, if I 

 mistake not, more than one editor will be 

 prompted by the Holy Spirit to publish it 

 with some such footnote as our good friend 

 Hallock has already mapped out. God 

 speed the day when we shall be working and 

 planning for that "incorruptible crown" 

 that "fadeth not away," but goes with us 

 through death and beyond the grave — a 

 crown not made with gold and gems, but 

 "a crown of righteousness which the Lord 

 the righteous Judge shall give." 



MORE ABOUT GROWING RICE. 



After the item on rice, p. 804, was print- 

 ed, I received the Battle Creek, Mich., Oood 

 Health for December, and was at once in- 

 terested in the title of an article by Frank 

 L. Perrin, entitled 



A NEW AMERICAN INDUSTRY. 



This article is headed "Rice Production 

 in Arkansas." Of course, it refers to the or- 

 dinary rice in our markets; but so far as I 

 can determine the upland rice of Florida is 

 practically the same thing: From this arti- 

 cle I make the following extracts. I tried 

 to find out how many square rods gave the 

 three bushels in neighbor Raub's garden; 

 but it was in little patches here and there, 

 so it was hard to tell; but I think it might 

 easily make from 40 to 60 bushels per acre. 



The successes achieved in the sections mentioned 

 have demonstrated the possibility of almost un- 

 dreamed-of development and opportunity. When 

 land, with almost a mininaura of labor, and a mod- 

 erate annual expense for irrigation, can be made to 

 yield a net profit ranging from |50 to |80 per acre. 



