NOVEMBER 1, 1914 



As I did not know just how he stood in 

 regard to spiritual matters you may imagine 

 how rejoiced I was to hear him say, " I 

 have an all-abiding faith in the hereafter." 

 I hunted up a second-hand automobile, 

 something like my own; but I presume his 

 declining health prevented him from getting 

 it. May God grant that we, each and all, 

 may be able to say, before we cross the 

 dark river that we " have an all-abiding 

 faith in the hereafter." 



THE DEFEAT OP INJUSTICE. 



In reply to my offer on page 781, Oct. 

 1, 2000 of the leaflets have been called for 

 (one good brother calling for 500). One 

 good friend writes as follows: 



Kindly advise me what the price would be of 

 some printed on heavy white paper in large clear 

 type, and which could be framed if wanted. 



Mrs. Prank Rasmusen. 



Greenville, Mich., Oct. 6. 



There is no trouble about furnisliing 

 these on cardboard large enough to be put 

 in a frame and hung up iu the home, pro- 

 viding a suffleient number would care for 

 them in that way. Again, it would be a 

 little more expensive to mail them if put 

 on cardboard without being rolled up or 

 doubled up. If printed, say, on ordinary 

 Gleanings paper, the cost would be but 

 little. If put in & frame with glass over it 

 this might answer about as well. If a 

 sufficient number care for it in this way we 

 will have them printed. 



Let me say, by the way, that this editorial, 

 taken from the Sunday School Times, has 

 been already printed in Gleanings three 

 times. At first I was a good deal disap- 

 pointed to find so few who gave it any 

 particular attention ; but it seems to me 

 that from first to last, in view of the many 

 " touchy " people in this woi'ld (myself 

 among the number), there is a great and 

 increasing need for something of the kind 

 to be kept constantly' before us. We can 

 not get over the idea that we who are 

 followers of the meek and lowly Master do 

 not need to worry, even if somebody does 

 give us an underhanded clip. Some good 

 man or good woman said years ago (I am 

 not sure but it came from the Sunday 

 School Times), "No insult can be given 

 where none will be taken." 



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bee business. He subscribed for your magazine, 

 iind the readin;^ is very good for him. 



He has been a Christian boy, but he is trying to 

 get into business for himself, and I have been 

 afraid he would forget his religion. He owns 30 

 hives, and is working to get money enough to buy 

 100. We are not in a financial condition to start 

 him into a business himself. He must work for 

 wage-s, and the world's influences are great to drag 

 a young man down; so I was much pleased to read 

 your editorial in Our Homes. I know it will in- 

 fluence him, as he reads your papers clear through. 

 Mrs. Minnie Greeley. 



Hanford, Cal., Oct. 14. 



Thank you for your kind words, my good 

 friend. In regard to the young man getting 

 money enough to buy a hundred colonies, 

 please tell him for his old friend A. I. Root, 

 not to buy any more bees at all. With his 

 thirty colonies in your mild and genial 

 climate he can build up to a hundred just 

 as fast as he acquires the ability to handle 

 them. In fact, I am inclined to think he 

 liad better have only thirty to start with 

 than a whole hundred. If honey is not 

 coming in liis locality the year round, 

 enough to keep brood-rearing going, let 

 him buj' some sugar or cheap honey, and 

 feed them judiciously. 



A mother's letter. 



Mx. A. /. Root : — This is not a business letter. I 

 felt that I should like to write and say to you that 

 your magazine is very beneficial, and it is a pleasure 

 to learn that you are a Christian man. I have a 

 son just 21 years of age who is trying to learn the 



UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRINK, KILLED 

 HIS BLIND V^IFE. 



We clip the following from Collier's 

 Weekly for Oct. 17 : 



THE MAN WHO MADE jrONEY OUT OF IT. 



Out in Portland, Ore., one day last month, 0.5car 

 Harris, blacksmith, cut a woman's throat. The 

 woman was his wife, and, after killing her, he killed 

 himself. The murdered woman was blind. We quote 

 the Portland Evening Telegram: 



" Harris had been drinking heavily of late, and 

 was supposed to have attacked his helpless wife 

 while in an alcoholic frenzy. That the wife, who 

 had been blind for some time, put up an unequal 

 struggle against the di'ink-maddened murderer was 

 apparent from the jumbled confusion of the furni- 

 ture and from the condition of the woman's face." 



This fall Oregon votes dry or wet, and women 

 vote in the election. What will Oregon voters say 

 to the Harris case ? What do they think of the man 

 who sold Harris his whisky ? and what do we all 

 think of the cozy, respectable distiller of the whisky, 

 who lives on one of the best streets in his town 

 and enjoys the comforts of the civilized State? 



Amen to the above. Yet, friends, what 

 do you think of the man who made money 

 by selling the whisky that caused the poor 

 crazy man to fight with, and kill, his poor 

 innocent hard-working blind wife who was 

 tied up to a drunken husband? Can any 

 church-member, in the face of the above, 

 think for a moment of voting wet? If you 

 urge that this is an extreme ease, let me 

 refer you to the average daily in our great 

 cities. Reports, substantially the same, are 

 coming in a constant stream where people 

 vote wet. 



