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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Our friend Frank, whom I have told you 

 about, was finally induced to go to Cleve- 

 land and have an " X-ray " examination. 

 They said at once that one of his kidneys — 

 the one on the side where he had been feel- 

 ing pain for j'ears, was decayed and practi- 

 cally gone. The kidney has just been re- 

 moved by a surgical opei'ation ; but because 

 the matter had been allowed to run so long 

 the decaying kidney had affected the lungs, 

 and the surgeon thinks his recovery doubt- 

 ful, although he is going to do his best for 

 him. Now, this woman doctor and other 



doctors (most of them strangers) by assur- 

 ing him they could manage his troubles, in- 

 duced him to put it off until now it may be 

 too late. This matter is brought to mind by 

 the following clipping: 



" Chiropractic," says The Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, " is in no sense a profession. It 

 is a scheme by which sharpers induce men, general- 

 ly of little education and with a dwarfed sense of 

 moral obligation, to learn the tricks of a disreputa- 

 ble trade — quackery." 



From what experience I have had in the 

 above, I should say the American Medical 

 Association is exactly right about it. 



TEMPEEANCE 



FRIEND DOOLITTLE TALKS TO US ABOUT THE 

 SALOON BUSINESS. 



Dear Brother Root : — Enclosed find something for 

 your department in Gleanings. I hope you may see 

 fit to have it appear before the many readers of 

 Gleanings. I stand ready to back up every word 

 of what I have written. 



I am sorry about this Mexican-war scare coming 

 up just at this time when the minds of the masses 

 were turned as never before toward getting out from 

 under the " yoke of Gambrinus." Now all eyes are 

 turning away from the real issue in our country, by 

 the great display of war headlines in our daily news- 

 papers. 



But we know this, that 



When right is on the scaffold 



And wrong upon the throne, 

 Behind the scene sits God himself, 

 Watching o'er his own. 

 And so we trust that out of all the wickedness of 

 men, right will finally prevail. 



Marietta, N. Y., June 6. G. M. Doolittle. 



Amen, Bro. D., for the verse you give us. 

 There are many people, myself included, 

 who need to keep calling to mind that "there 

 is a God in Israel." 



Below is the article referred to: 



" uncle .SAM " AT THE HEAD OF THE LIQUOR BUSI- 

 NESS. 



My dear Mr. Root : — In Our Homes, second para- 

 gi-aph, page 396, May 15, you say, " The liquor 

 business has shown itself to be bigger than Uncle 

 Sam." Does not this convey a wrong impression ? 

 The only logical conclusion the studious, earnest, 

 careful thinker can come to in this liquor-business 

 matter is, that the Government (Uncle Sam) is the 

 liquor business, inasmuch as not a gallon of liquor 

 can be legally sold in the United States only as Uncle 

 Sam becomes the first party in the transaction. Only 

 in the Government at Washington can be found the 

 headqxtarters of this business. This seems plain to 

 the one who has looked into the matter far enough 

 to know the real facts, that every saloon under the 

 jurisdiction of the United States is a government 

 saloon. The proof of this assertion lies in the fact 

 that no person can sell liquors in any of Uncle Sam's 

 domains without a permit from the Government, only 

 as he subjects himself to being arrested as a crimi- 

 nal. It is this permit that keeps the saloon and liquor 

 business where it can ruin our boys and the homes 

 of our fair land. All saloons are established by Un- 

 cle Sam, not by the men in the liquor business. And 

 here has been the trouble with our temperance work 



in the past. The Government is the head of this 

 matter, and the approximate 250,000 saloons are the 

 hairs gi-owing from the head. In the past, our work 

 has been " moral suasion " and the plucking out of 

 a hair here and there, while the head was left. Con- 

 sequently, after we had pulled out a hair in the 

 shape of a saloon or a town, and called our place 

 dry, we soon found that the head could grow another 

 hair in the place of the one we had worked so hard 

 to pluck, and the first we knew we were wet again. 

 Even whole States which went dry were turned back 

 to the wet again under the fostering care of the head, 

 that the revenue from the wet might build our bat- 

 tleships, dig the Panama Canal, etc., this revenue 

 from liquor and tobacco amounting to about one-half 

 of our Government expenses, as given by the Free 

 Press, and quoted in the first paragraph on page 663 

 of Gleanings for September 15, 1913. And it is 

 with shamefacedness that it must be acknowledged 

 that you and I, friend Root, have our share in that 

 revenue, whether we wish to or not. And, sharing in 

 this revenue, we in the past have condemned the 

 men who " stood behind the bar " while, through 

 our ballots, we have sanctioned and sustained the 

 head which could have received no revenue only as it 

 came from these keepers of our Government saloons. 

 Let's get things right, and place the responsibility 

 where it belongs, when we shall know how to work 

 more intelligently than we have been doing in the 

 past. 



Borodino, N. Y. G. M. Doolittlb. 



THE LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL 



We are glad to give place to the follow- 

 ing: 



Mr. A. I. Root :— In the temperance section of 

 your issue for May 15 I notice an inquiry for the 

 address of the London Temperance Hospital. It is 

 located in Hampstead Road, in the northwest part of 

 London. I well remember this famous institution, 

 as I used to pass its doors every school day from the 

 years 1879 to 1884, on my way to school. I was 

 born about a mile from the hospital, and once had 

 my young heart nearly burst at the sight of a little 

 boy, who had been run over in the street, being driv- 

 en in a carriage through the hospital gates. As the 

 district is a poor one — that is, its inhabitants are 

 not financially well fixed — this hospital must indeed 

 prove an inestimable boon, for the services rendered 

 there are, of course, quite free, as with the other 

 London hospitals, and such like institutions scattered 

 throughout my native land. Any correspondence 

 addressed to the London Temperance Hospital, Lon- 

 don, England, would assui-edly reach that institution 

 safely. Albert G. Nicholson. 



Rustburg, Va., May 22. 



