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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



controllable hive of bees in one year. Ijots of hon- 

 ey and lots of money keeping bees in controllable 

 hives. Xo stings. No loss in winter or swarming 

 time. Something new in bee management. For 

 particulars write C. B. Cotton, Gorham, Maine. 



Here is what he says about it: 



Mr. Boot:— The Maine Farmer, a good clean agri- 

 cultural paper liul^lislied in this State, is running 

 the enclosed advertisement. I have protested, 

 claiming the advertisement was misleading, and 



that to secure enough honey from one normal colo- 

 ny in one season (in this State) under normal con- 

 ditions, to sell lor SlOO, would be impossible, if sold 

 at market prices. I would greatly appreciate the 

 favor if you would write me your opinion regard- 

 ing this. 

 Caribou, Maine. O. B. Griffin. 



Come to think of it, "$100 from a hive of 

 bees " sounds a little familiar. In this case, 

 however, it is bees and not chickens. 



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TUBERCULOSIS AND SOME OTHER THINGS. 



In our neighboringcity of Cleveland there 

 has been held recently a convention of doc- 

 tors, something like 500 being present. This 

 number included not only the greatest ex- 

 l)erts of Ohio, but perhaijs of the United 

 States. There were two jjoints brought out 

 that greatly interested me. T. B. Terry, in 

 his book, as you may know, makes the 

 charge, and niakes it pretty \ehemently, 

 that many of our family i)hysicians are get- 

 ting a bonus for sending jjatients to some 

 specialist to have an oi)eration performed. 

 Of course, this is a V)ranch of modern graft. 

 For instance, some doctor who is more in- 

 terested in a big fat fee than in cviring his 

 patients hunts uj) somebo<ly who has a good 

 bank account, and then when ()i)i)ortunity 

 presents itself he i)ersuades this man that 

 an ojieration will ha\e to be performed to 

 save his life. Some of you know what an 

 operation costs — two or three hundred dol- 

 lars, and sometimes more, esjiecially if the 

 patient happens to be a millionaire and will 

 stand "all the tralhc will bear," as the rail- 

 road companies used to put it. Well, this 

 doctor gets a percentage of the fee for hunt- 

 ing uj) ])atients. Now, while there is some 

 of this kind of work going on, my imjjres- 

 sion is there is not much of it, especially 

 among good Christian doctors who have 

 stood the test for years. In regard to this 

 matter, one of our i)rominent i)hysicians in 

 his address ga\e the following, clii)ped from 

 the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



"I hold that the habit among certain physicians, 

 of splitting fees on cases," says Dr. Skeel, " is noth- 

 ing more nor less than bribery: and such a system 

 ought to be wi|)ed out forever. I refer to the cus- 

 tom of a regular doctor referring a case to a special- 

 ist, in consideralion for which the regular physi- 

 cian gets a stipulated sum. The sale of patients to 

 the highest bidder can never be condoned by a pro- 

 fession which stands first of all for service, and last 

 for remuneration." 



liesitles the aV)o\e, here is something in 

 regard to tuberculosis: 



A paper of interest to the laity as well as to the 

 professional men was read by Dr. Charles S. Rock- 

 hill, of Cincinnati, on "The Prevention of Tubercu- 

 losis." 



" Kissing spreads tuberculosis to a great extent." 

 Dr. Rockhill said. " T^ook out for the servant girls 

 In your homes that they do not become chummy 

 with your children and caress them. Perhaps you 

 do not know that, next to the laboring man, the 

 servant girl represents the largest percentage of tu- 

 berculosis in America. 



" There are more deaths from tuberculosis than 

 all the contagious and infectious diseases put to- 

 gether. There are 100,000 cases of consumption in 



Cincinnati alone. That gives some idea of the ex- 

 tent to which this dread disease has spread in Ghio. 

 " I advocate the passage of a law that will prohib- 

 it the sale of liquor to tubercular patients. Many 

 a tuberculosis germ is found on beer-glasses in the 

 public saloons." 



I am especially glad to hear that a coun- 

 cil of tloctors condemns the saloon; and, by 

 the way, in all of our temperance talks I do 

 not remember to have seen before a caution 

 in regard to unsanitary beer-glasses. Now, 

 if the doctors would only go a little further, 

 and ask for a law that prohibits the sale of 

 liquor to aiiybody, sick or well, we should 

 think the millennium was near at hand. 



CIGARETTES, CIGARS, ETC., AND THE PART 



THEY HAVE PLAYED IN RECENT 



CONFLAGRATIONS. 



Our good friend A. T. Cook, of Hyde Park, 

 N. Y., sends us the following clipping from 

 the New York World, written, as you will 

 see, by himself: 



FIRE-SAFETY SUGGESTIONS: DOES IT PAY TO SMOKE? 



With the tragic loss of 144 fair young lives in the 

 recent factory lire, the Albany Capitol fire, the 

 steamer Slocum fire a few years ago. where more 

 than one thousand innocents met a most terrible 

 death, and thousands more of losses, both great and 

 small, all caused by smokers, one may well pause 

 and consider if it really pays to smoke. 



Besides fire losses and tragic deaths, the smoker 

 greatly injures his own health, si^ends a vast sum of 

 money that he could put to better use, and make 

 himself obnoxious, and a nuisance to many of his 

 best friends. 



Hyde Park, N. Y., April X A. T. CooK. 



There may be some sort of excuse for 

 smoking i)ii)es and cigars. In fact, a good 

 many Christian men and prominent mem- 

 bers of society are addicted to the habit; but 

 there is certainly no excuse for cigarettes. 

 Even the manufacturers themselves have 

 never made any claim for them excei)t that 

 they enable the makers of them to make 

 money. The man who smokes cigars usu- 

 ally has sense enough to be careful where 

 he throws down his burning stubs. But 

 the user of cigarettes sooner or later becomes 

 too stu])id either to know or care whether 

 the act results in the death of innocent peo- 

 ple (otter women and children) or not. We 

 are fighting down the liquor-traffic, and are 

 we not about ready to demand, certainly all 

 over the United States, that this traffic, 

 especially where it permits thedeadly things 

 to get into the hands of children, be speed- 

 ily brought to an end ? 



