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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



to get II little more money out of it? May 

 (lod help us in our efforts to cause a halt on 

 the express companies, in just the same way 

 we have succeeded in calling a halt on the 

 brewers and distillers. 



THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN LOUISIANA. 



I am enclosing you some new.sijaper clippings of 

 the fight against the return of saloons in Caddo Par- 

 ish and in Shreveport. the second largest city in the 

 State. We are often accused of being a lot of craw- 

 fish-eating, \vlne-(lrinking, crazy Frenchmen who 

 don't know when Sunday comes. Well, 1 must ad- 

 mit that some of us, at least, are not what we should 

 be: but we are trying to ditch and reclaim some of 

 the low lands and whisky districts: and if u-e don"t 

 succeed, we are going to raise a lot of men and wo- 

 men who will. Read the clipping, and tell us what 

 you think of Louisiana and its people. 



Montrose, La., June 2. O. A. Lilley. 



I will explain to our readers that Bro. Lil- 

 ley sent a long clipping from which I ex- 

 tract the following: 



The prettiest part of the parade was the baby bat- 

 talion, which was headed by a baby carriage drawn 

 by eight little tots. The buggy was beautifully dec- 

 orated in white, and aliove the little baby in the 

 buggy was the white dove of peace. Following 

 these came a number of mothers pushing their be- 

 bies, and after these came ladies, some with chil- 

 dren by their sides, and some carrying little tots in 

 their arms. 



Tlie air was hot and sultry: but amid the dust of 

 the streets the eyes of all seemed to shine with a 

 holy light of determination which made possible in 

 other ages the crusades when men, women, and 

 children marched across the hot sands to win back 

 the Holy Sepulcher, only to die in the fruitless ef- 

 fort. 



I want to say to him and all others who 

 are fighting and praying, that there is no 

 question in regard to success if the good peo- 

 ple do not lose their enthusiasm and back- 

 slide. It is true that the saloons have come 

 back into a few towns and counties; bvit in- 

 vestigation has invariably shown that it 

 was because so many people had a notion 

 that the "drys " were going to win any way 

 that they stayed away and did not vote. 

 Just think of it, friends, if you have not al- 

 ready done so. While these mothers and 

 fathers and the little children are fighting 

 for every thing that is good and pure and 

 holy, the opposing party have nothing to 

 offer in defense of their trafTic, except that 

 they want the nickels that justly belong to 

 these hard-working men, women, and chil- 

 dren. 



OVER $5000 FINE, AND A YEAR IN JAIL. 



We clip the following from the Uural 

 Neiv -Yorker: 



The severest sentence ever imposed on a violator 

 of the local-option law in Douglas County, 111., was 

 given to Horace W. Sorrells by Judge Dolson at 

 Tuscola, 111., May 3. Sorrells was sentenced to 360 

 days in the county jail, was fined S4900, and must. 

 pay §556 court costs. 



May the Lord be praised that our nation 

 of peoi)le are waking up to the importance 

 of law-enforcement — especially to the im- 

 portance of i)unishing those who do not 

 heed our local-option laws. Defiance of law 

 of any sort is a serious matter; but when 

 our States and comities have enacted right- 

 eous laws to keep intoxicants away from our 

 children, and older ones who need protec- 

 tion, it is of the utmost imjtortance that 



"transgressors" be s])eedily taught that 

 their "way" is indeed "hard." 



THE SUNDAY - SCHOOL MAN AND BREWER. 



The following was sent us with a kind let- 

 ter from a man who says he is going to 

 take Gleanings as long as he lives, even if 

 it does not say a word about bees: 



Dear Mr. Root: — I send you a clipping from ray 

 county paper that gives one good reason w-liy the 

 wet vote wins out in some pl.aces. I hoije the day 

 is coming when at least all Sunday-school men 

 will vote dry. 

 Along- in November, when chill was the weather. 

 Two ballots were cast in a box togethei- — 



Two ballots were cast in together. 

 They nestled up close like brother to brother; 

 You couldn't tell one of the votes from the othei — • 



You couldn't tell one from the other. 

 Tlie.v were both rum votes, and sanctioned the license i>lan. 

 But one was cast by a .jolly old brewer. 



And one by a Sunda.v-school man. 



I^ake Cicott, Ind., J\ily 17. Thos. C. Johnson. 

 Yes, my good brother, in times past the 

 Sunday-school man Unci the brewer have, 

 at least to a great extent, been voting the 

 same ticket; but, may the Lord be praised, 

 just now the Sunday-school man and the 

 iDrewer seem to be i)arting comj^any for 

 good and for ever. 



condition powders, ETC., FOR POULTRY 

 AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



On page 381 I spoke of what the North 

 Carolina Experiment Station was doing 

 about "poultry tonics." Well, the follow- 

 ing clipping from the North Carolina Fro- 

 gressive Fanner gives some of their reasons 

 for charging a dollar for their paper: 

 no patent stock foods. 



We are not in partnership with any of the schem- 

 ers who would swindle you. For example, one of 

 the most outrageous frauds being perpetrated on 

 the American farmer is that of prepared stock foods 

 — common meal, bran, etc., with a little cheap sul- 

 phur, .salt, Epsom salts, pepper, saltpeter, etc., add- 

 ed to change the taste, and the mixture (hardly 

 more valuable than ordinary ship stuff) put up in 

 flaming packages advertised in big illustrated ad- 

 vertisements in farm papers, and sold to gullible 

 farmers at from §250 to §2250 a ton. And yet T?ie 

 Praaressive Farmer is the only leading farm paper 

 in the country in which you will not find these 

 stock foods advertised— the only paper that has 

 dared stand by the farmers and expose the whole 

 miserable fraud. Some time ago the chief Southern 

 contributor of one of the farm papers most largely 

 circulated in our territory wrote an article giving 

 the trutli about this gigantic swindle, and sent it to 



this same paper. The reply came back: "The 



Stock Food Company pays us §3000 a year for adver- 

 tising, and we should lo.se if we were to print your 

 letter. Please don't insist." 



This was that farm paper's policy: and if The Pro- 

 gre.i.iive Farmer would consent to take §3000 or 

 §4000 a year for helping foreign corporations swin- 

 dle you into paying §2000 a ton for flavored wheat 

 bran — oh. yes ! we might sell you our paper for 50 

 cents, or '25 cents a .year, or we might even be able 

 to give it away in clubbing offers with your county 

 paper. But we are not going to do it. 



Their concluding argument touches on a 

 point that should be considered by the ed- 

 itor of every home ]iaper. Is the periodical 

 published for the benefit of the farmer and 

 to protect his interests, or is it jniblished to 

 exploit some i)atent-medicine advertising ? 

 If the latter, do not be surprised and do not 

 complain, if you find your paper in a little 

 while without subscribers. 



