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leaves and beside each young squash. A heavy rain 

 washed some away, but they were replaced. After a 

 few days I saw and killed a few stray beetles, but 

 those squash and pumpkins grew very large, and I 

 saw no more beetles. Last fall I hauled home all 

 one horse could pull on the sled, from a comparative- 

 ly few vines, and I believe it was the moth-balls that 

 saved them. I shall try the same again. — Exchange. 



As the above was marked " Exchange " 

 we cannot give credit to the writer ; and, h\ 

 ihe way, 1 do wish it would become the 

 fashion, especially in agricultural papers, to 

 give name, residence, and date. Over and 

 over again I have found articles on garden- 

 ing and agriculture where important points 

 are virtually " knocked out " because the 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURF: 



writer dues not tell when he wrote nor where 

 he lives. We frequently see statements like 

 this: 



" You can get a crop of white beans be- 

 fore frost comes, if planted right otf now." 



Well, the editor may have put this in 

 print just the minute he got hold of it, or it 

 may have been lying around a month or 

 more. It is such a simple thing, and occu- 

 pies so little space, why cannot everybody 

 put a date to his communication, and tell 

 whether he lives in Maine or Florida^- 

 tliat is, if the editor does not object to giv- 

 ing the name and address? 



■' VOTING AS "WK PRAY." 



We used to hear a good deal about the 

 above years ago ; . but if I am correct the 

 phrase has of late rather dropped out of 

 sight. The good brother who Avrites below 

 is, I think, too severe on professing Chri;^- 

 tians and ministers of the gospel. It may 

 be true in localities, but 1 think it is not 

 true as a rule. Wlien the saloon vote has 

 again and again outnumbered us I have 

 asked the question, " Is it possible that any 

 professing Christian of the present day will 

 vote with the wets?" Just now while I 

 write there is a war in Ohio, but I think it 

 bids fair to be a peaceful war, and I wish I 

 could say it will be an honest one. The 

 ministers of our county are getting names 

 on a petition from voters for Statewide 

 prohibition. As I am rather old for such 

 canvassing I told the good brothers I would 

 furnish gasoline for the automobiles, and 

 dinners and livery hire for the good pastors, 

 and they are working with a vim, and gath- 

 ering in names. 



You may now listen to the good brother 

 from Kansas who writes me a " love letter " 

 as he calls it : 



Drinking is a disease to be prevented, like the 

 bubonic plague, etc. To be consistent, let all the 

 Christians pray against the plague and then vote for 

 a law permitting Uncle Sam to license doctors and 

 undertakers to spread it. Of course the Christians 

 would have the spreading regulated. The pest-houses 

 would have to close on Sunday, and all who were 

 already incurable would not be allowed any more 

 — " germs." After having these plague-houses upon 

 every street where our boys and girls would be com- 

 pelled to pass and every art used to induce them to 

 enter, the undertakers would be allowed to mix some 

 germs with their food and medicine; and then, if 

 they did not contract the disease, still other means 

 ■would be sought. Those who did not take the plague, 

 or, better, the few who did have it only in a temper- 

 ate form, would be pointed out by the Christians as 

 fit subjects for heaven. 



Let us vote for what we pray and preach. Let 

 the church members join in with the unbelievers, 

 and this evil will be " downed." 



Let us license the stealing of horses, the committing 

 uf murder — ani/ thing rather than the rum traffic — 

 that greatest of all evils that threatens the utter 

 ruination of the human race — an evil that is trans- 

 mitted with increasing power to all posterity. 



The church is behind every reform — away behind. 

 Brethren, let us catch up or the infidels will get all 

 the glory. 



More preachers voted against Abe Lincoln than 

 for him. They preached "Slavery is of the Lord;" 

 " Servants, be subject unto your masters." 



In the office of the Missouri Pacific Depot at Ben- 

 edict appears this sign : 



Beer is bad. 

 Whisky worse ; 

 Drink lemonade — 

 Safety first. 



What causes the most wrecks on our railroads ? 

 Rum, rum, rum. What causes the most wrecks in 

 our homes ? If the Christians had an old well back 

 of their church lot that children would continue to 

 fall in, they would not fill it up. Oh, no! they would 

 preach to their children and tell them of the great 

 danger of playing around its rotten curb. "Brethren, 

 let's fill 'er up, eveu if it ruins the business of the 

 undertakers." 



I love Christians — some of them. But can we 

 point with pride to out Christian nation and say we 

 drink less booze, have less crime, than the poor be- 

 nighted heathens who worship idols? 



Now, Mr. Root, this may strike you as a peculiar 

 " love letter," but I assure you I too love A.. I. Root, 

 his family, G. M. Doolittle, Dr. C. C. Miller, and a 

 great-host of others who are "God's noblemen." 



Guilford, Kan., July 15. Heeschel Short. 



NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY DE- 

 NOUNCES THE USE OF ALCOHOL. 



Dr. J. M. Parrott, of Kinston, president 

 of the medical society of North Carolina, 

 as reported in the Raleigh News and Obser- 

 ver, said : 



As- medicine, in the opinion of many of our great- 

 est doctors, it has practically no value. The great 

 weight of scientific evidence leads to the conclusion 

 that alcohol is an unmitigated evil. It is about, if 

 not already, to be eliminated from the pharmaco- 

 peia. That it is not efficient as a medicine is easily 

 shown by the fact that many of our best doctors 

 never prescribe it at all. There are a number of 

 cities in North Carolina in which it is not kept at 

 the drugstores, and where no prescriptions have been 

 written for it since statewide prohibition went into 

 effect. 



