Aug. 1. 1911 



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PROFESSOR WILEY, UNITED STATES CHEMIST 

 — SHALL HE BE DISMISSED? 



The following is taken from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer, headings and all: 



WILEY WOULD BAR TOBACCO IN PUBLIC; PURE-FOOD 

 EXPERT PREDICTS TWELVE YEARS WILL END PRES- 

 ENT practice; thinks drink -LADEN BREATH 

 WILL ALSO BECOME OBSOLETE. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government pure-food 

 and drug expert, who has spent the better part of 

 his sixty years trying to Induce people to eat clean 

 food and use pui'e drugs, will spend a goodly portion 

 of his remaining years in cleaning up the atmos- 

 phere of the United States. 



The learned sachem of the Bureau of Chemistry 

 to-day came out Hat-footed against the practice of 

 filling the air with tobacco smoke. He has joined 

 the non-smokers of America, an organization whose 

 object Is to swat the smoker who insists upon blow- 

 ing his smoke about the air promiscuously.* 



He predicts that the next generation will look up- 

 on the man who smokes in public as a monster. A 

 man may smoke in private to his heart's content, 

 providing he blows his smoke up his own chimney; 

 but smoking in public will be a thing of the past, 

 according to the chemist, when his organization 

 gets well under way. 



"I predict that, within twelve years, smoking 

 and tobacco chewing in public will have become 

 obsolete," said Dr. Wiley to-day. "A man has a 

 pei-fect right to drink, chew, or dip snuff in his pri- 

 vate sanctorium, but he has not the shadow of a 

 right to inflict unwholesome smoke and his vile 

 breath on the community at large. 



" There should be a strictly enforced law prohibit- 

 ing smoking and chewing in public places or on the 

 cars where other persons are obliged to be." 



Dr. Wiley is not opposed to the use of tobacco in 

 itself. He is in favor of allowing people to smoke, 

 or even take a tablespoonful of mellow rye, provid- 

 ing no one is near to be offended. 



As Prof. Wiley, right after this came out 

 in the i)apers, was tentatively asl<;ed to 

 send in his resignation, we are inclined to 

 think his declaration in regard to tobacco 

 has something to do with it. As we go to 

 press, however, we gather that President 

 Taft has reconsidered the matter, and that 

 Wiley is going to stay witli us. The Chica- 

 go Inter Ocean has a cartoon representing 

 Prof. Wiley personating Don Quixote. The 

 windmill that he is going to charge with his 

 lance is the tobacco and cigarette business; 

 and lAicy Page Gaston (that consecreated 

 woman who has done more to banish ciga- 

 rettes than perhaps any other person) is rep- 

 resented as cheering him on. May God 

 help his peojile who love decency, good 

 health, and righteousness, to teach the ene- 

 my that he has made a blunder; and that 

 when the truth comes out we shall be able 

 to say, "They that be for us are more than 

 those that be against us." 



THE WALL-PAPER "TRUST" OR COMBINA- 

 TION, ETC. 



On page 411, July 1, I spoke about selling 

 articles on the hve and ten cent counters at 

 a very small profit — that is, making small 

 margins on staple goods for household use. 

 Ever since the five and ten cent stores were 

 started there has been complaint about their 

 "cutting prices " so tliat other people could 

 not make the usual profit. Now, our good 

 old Uncle Samuel has made a decision that 

 any dealer shall be permitted to sell goods 



* Wiley is also guilty, so we are told, of telling the 

 world that " Duffy's malt whisky " is not a medicine 

 nor even uood (?) whisky. 



(that he owns) at whatever price he chooses. 

 This law is what is called the Hherman act; 

 and we are just now informed that a trust 

 has been formed by the manufacturers of 

 wall paper so the five and ten cent stores 

 can no longer handle wall paper at cut prices. 

 As there has been quite a little difficulty in 

 enforcing this Sherman act, there is talk 

 about not only a $5000 fine but a one-year 

 imprisonment for the transgressors. Now, 

 I hope I shall not be treading on the toes of 

 any of my good friends when I take the 

 ground that, in this "land of the free and 

 the home of the brave," every person should 

 be iiermitted to buy the things needed wher- 

 ever he pleases; and not only that, he should 

 also be permitted to sell whatever he grows, 

 manufactures, or honestly purchases, with- 

 out hindrance from any trust or combina- 

 tion, on the principle that friendly "compe- 

 tition /s the life of trade." May God be 

 praised for sucli a law as the Sherman act; 

 and may all good people unite in upholding 

 its just and righteous measures. 



EIGHTY YEARS OLD, AND BEGINS TO FEEL 

 YOUNG AGAIN. 



Dear Bro. Hoot:— The 18th of last March I com- 

 menced my 80th year. I was 79. f have done lots 

 of work this spring, spading up the garden and oth- 

 er things, and feel better able to do it than for many 

 years, f have been following Terry's teaching, and 

 am beginning to feel young again. Please renew 

 my subscription to Gleanings, and send me a copy 

 of Terry's book. I sent the copy I got of your com- 

 pany to my sister, and can't be without one. 



Denver, Col. ,1. L. Peabody. 



I want to explain to our readers that, 

 about twenty years ago, I made friend Pea- 

 body a brief visit. His health was so poor 

 at that time that he could not stand being 

 indoors, esjiecially where there was a crowd 

 of people. When he and I went in to talk 

 to the inmates of one of the Denver jjrisons 

 he remained only a few moments, and I 

 found him, when I got through, out in the 

 open air. I judge that he has been keeping 

 out in the open air, and he tells us that he 

 is following Terry. Spading up a garden at 

 the age of eighty is pretty good for one who 

 has been an invalid a great part of his life. 



MRS. LIZZIE B. COTTON AND HER "CON- 

 TROLLABLE HIVE." 



Those of our readers who were taking 

 Gleanings 30 years ago (and I i)resume 

 there are quite a number of them) will re- 

 member what a time we had in showing the 

 truth regarding Mrs. Cotton and her hive. 

 T^etters from her victims came in from all 

 sides, and other j^eriodicals helped to show 

 up the truth. I think that, in years i)ast, it 

 has cropped out, or started to crop out two 

 or three times ; but we supposed that the 

 present stage of bee culture had made that 

 same advertising unprofitable. 



One of our subscribers, Mr. O. B. Griffin, 

 of Caribou, Me., sends us the following: 



Every family that has a spot of land can keep 

 honey-bees and raise honey for family use or for 

 market. One hundred dollars income from one 



