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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



tion it must he tliat the old time "benny" or "bene" 

 as some spell it, is a relative at least of this se?anie 

 wliirh is now being-started on its popular vtu- . The 

 old Lenny is described as dark-colored, making its 

 pads only at the tips of branches, while the present 

 jcsame species carries pods in long rows along the 

 branch and main stalk; and the seed, which is parch- 

 ed and used as a cereal, is nearly white. It is a 

 ) ain;, -season crop, moi'eover, and said to grow quite 

 ta>ily on soil that is not especially rich. Besides 

 Lein;j used for cereal the parched seeds are ground at 



home in the kitchen grinder, and used in pancakes. 

 If there is any thing as easily made as this is re- 

 ported, and available for two such uses, it will surely 

 make its way in Florida as soon as tried out. I am 

 sending alsO' for enough to see wb.at the flavor may 

 be. The' sesame which I have seen sprinkled over 

 liread baked by Syrian bakers in the New York quar- 

 tei's lends a fine flavor to their crust. These foreign- 

 ers may use it also in some way correspond n4' to 

 our cereal; but so far as my acquaintance with them 

 goes they are not strong on so-called breakfast foods. 



TEMPEMANCE 



THE •' OPENING CHASM." 



A correspondent of the Medina Gazette 

 writes about the " eliasm " that separates 

 the ProgTessive and Republican parties, to 

 which Editor Rowe replies as below: 



There is another " chasm " opening. It is a single 

 issue that is going to be presented at the bar of 

 public opinion in Ohio this year that will make this 

 " chasm " one so wide that there will be no bridging 

 it if it separates two parties. It is going to make a 

 "chasm" through the whole length and breadth of 

 this nation before another presidential year has come 

 around. It is the proposition for the absolute ex- 

 tinction of the American saloon — the wiping-out of 

 the nation's gi'eatest curse by the national prohibi- 

 tion of it. Business as well as the church, the home, 

 and the individual are rising in their wrath and 

 might against it. It h^s got to go — and the Progres- 

 sive party of Ohio is this year going to declare ab- 

 solutely for its extinction — for wiping it off the face 

 of the earth — without compromise or paltering. 



Won't it make a "chasm"? "Will either of the 

 old parties dare line up on the issue? Will they do 

 any thing but evade and shuffle and compromise with 

 it as they have always done? 



Amen to the above sentiment. It is the 

 best illustration of boiled-down " common 

 sense " I have seen in a long while. Once 

 more I ask, " Will the old parties dare line 

 up?" 



" OUR CUSTOMERS ARE YOUR PROSPECTIVE PA- 

 TIENTS." 



Please read the following, which we clip 

 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



William H. Anderson, president of the New York 

 Anti-saloon League, placed in the record a letter 

 addressed to a whisky " cure " concern at Dwight, 

 111., and signed by a distillers' distributing company 

 at Kansas City. 



" Our customers are your prospective patients," 

 it read. " We can put on your desk a mailing list 

 of over 50,000 individual consumers of liquor. Each 

 individual on the list is a regular user of liquois 

 The list of names is new, live, and active. We will 

 furnish this list in quantities at the prices listed be- 

 low." 



A scale then was given. 



Wayne B. Wheeler, superintendent of the Anti- 

 saloon League of Ohio, declared that the fight against 

 the liquor traffic had been finally brought " to the 

 last stand of the liquor interests, the barricade of 

 the national protection of the traffic." 



What you do think of the above for 

 "cheek'"? These liquor-dealers not only 

 offer to sell the names of their patrons, but 



coolly own up that their customers will sooti- 

 er or later wind uid in a " Keeley cure " 

 institution ; and, by the way, is that not also 

 rather a " fling " at the whole " cure " busi- 

 ness ? Our older readers will remember that 

 when the Keeley remedy first came out I 

 strongly insisted that the only cure was the 

 gospel of Christ Jesus. 



'• god's KINGDOM COMING.-^' 



We clip the following from the American 

 Issue of April 18 : 



Last week was certainly a nightmare to John 

 Barleycorn. It must have reminded him of the effect 

 he has on his victims. The week started with the 

 announcement of the Chicago Record-Herald that it 

 would not longer accept liquor advertisements be- 

 cause it did not care to commend that which society 

 regards as a menace. Then came the order of Sec- 

 retary Daniels prohibiting the ute of inlo.xicanls in 

 naval stations, in navy yards, or on board Uncle 

 Sam's ships. This was followed hy the abolition of 

 one thousand saloons by the voters of Illinois and the 

 cleaning-up of wet territory in Michigan, Minnesota, 

 and Nebraska. All this did not tend to boost brew- 

 ery stock. Before the week was half over, the com- 

 mon stock of the Hoster-Columbus brewery, the big- 

 gest concern of its kind in Central Ohio, was down 

 to one-fourth of a cent on the dollar, while for its 

 preferred stock but five cents on the dollar was bid. 



LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL, ; A FAMOUS NON- 

 ALCOHOLIC EXPERIMENT. 



Mr. Boot: — In Gleanings for Dec 15, page 914, 

 you speak of a hospital in England which has not 

 used liquors for 40 years. Now, that is a clincher. 

 Please write me the name of the hospital, and where 

 located. I have never seen the Union Signal. 



Bergville, Minn., Jan. 10. A. B. White. 



The above letter was submitted to the 

 Union Signal, and they reply as follows: 



Mr. A. I. Root: — Replying to your letter of Janu- 

 ary 16, inquiring as to the full address of the hos- 

 pital referred to in the article in the Signal of Nov. 

 6, we beg to say the only address we know is The 

 London Temperance Hospital. We are sending to 

 Mr. White a marked copy of the Nov. 6th paper. If 

 you or he desires further information in regard to 

 the matter we would advise you to correspond with 

 Mr. Chas. E. Bailey, 1 Stanhope Road, Wheatley, 

 Doncaster, England. He has been a contributor to The 

 Vnioii Signal for a number of years, and we have 

 always found him accurate in his statements. We 

 feel sure that what he says in the article is correct. 



Evanston, 111., Jan. 21. Julia F. Dean. 



