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ed carelessly at the label. I didn't notice the whole 

 label closely, and set the bott'le down again. 



I enjoyed my honey, whether real or not, how- 

 ever; and a few minutes later I looked at the label 

 again, this time more closely. Imagine my surprise 

 and delight as I saw printed across the bottom of 

 the label, "A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio." 



" There's no counterfeit there, if A. I. Root's 

 name is on it," said I to myself; and I felt as tho 

 I had run across an old and a warm friend on my 

 journey. Instantly I recogninzed that I had before 

 me the real thing, from a man who was a real man 

 because Christ is in his life. 



I just wanted to pass on this bit of travel ex- 

 perience to you, and to thank you for having made 

 my breakfast more enjoyable. You have brought 

 honey into my life over and over again by your 

 wonderfuly appreciative and encouraging words 

 about the Sunday School Times. 



With warm and grateful greetings, believe me. 

 Yours in His faithfulnss, 



Philadelphia, Pa., May 15. C. G. Trumbull. 



The above suggests several things---first, 

 that the dining-room menu still persists in 

 saying "strained honey." It has been some- 

 thing like fifty years since I helped to give 

 the world the honey-extractor, which en- 

 ables us to get the honey out of the combs 

 in a much better and purer form than 

 squeezing or straining it out. Secondly, our 

 good friend Trumbull, with a great lot of 

 other people, does not seem to recognize 

 that our pure-food laws have for several 

 years past pretty much done away with the 

 adulteration of honey as well as other 

 things. There is quite a penalty imposed 

 for adding glucose or any other similar 

 substance to liquid honey, and I believe the 

 law is pretty well enforced. I hardly think 

 a spurious article can be found now in our 

 groceries nor in the drugstores of the Unit- 

 ed States. No doubt my good friend Trum- 

 bull has paid me a higher compliment than 

 I deserve ; but I decided to let it go in print 

 because it so well illustrates that any man 

 or woman who persistently tries to be hon- 

 est and to do right before God and man, 

 year in and year out, will ultimately get the 

 promised reward. The bread cast on the 

 waters will not be lost. 



SUNDAY^S EVANGELISTIC V70RK IN BALTIMORE. 



In the Home paper in our issue for Feb. 

 1 I said nothing would save Baltimore ex- 

 cept a visitation of the Holy Spirit, and 

 that I finally knelt down and prayed that 

 the Lord might call Billy Sunday to that 

 terribly wicked city; and I learned after- 

 ward that he had already arranged to go 

 there. I have space to give only a brief 

 statement in regard to the result. The 

 Baltimore American for Api'il 24 has quite 

 an article in regard to the last day in the 

 great tabernacle. A large number of con- 

 verts, about 23,000, were gained, which, if 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



I am correct, exceeds all former records, 

 according to the size of the city. It is a 

 wonderful achievement. It comes pretty 

 close to being one in 25 of the whole popu- 

 lation. While he was preaching his closing 

 sermon to a vast audience of the people, 

 another meeting was held, and addressed by 

 Charles A. Windle and Jacob E. Meeker. 

 These two great defenders of the liquor 

 business of course had no end of fault to 

 find in regard to the harm that Sunday's 

 earnest preaching had done to the " booze 

 business." Over a million and a half people 

 listened from first to last to Sunday'te 

 preaching in Baltimore. At the farewell 

 sermon 914 came forward. 



After the above was in type I found the 

 following in ths American Issue: 



On the closing day of the Billy Sunday campaign 

 in Baltimore, the evangelist talked to 100,000 peo- 

 ple, and the leading newspaper of the city the next 

 morning gave 18 columns of space tO' the tabernacle 

 meeting. On the same Sunday both Windle and 

 Meeker spoke at a meeting in Baltimore to about 

 2000 people, and the same paper gave the wet meet- 

 ing a half-column space. 



This shows how the people of Baltimore felt about 

 the Sunday meetings in comparison with the meeting 

 held by the wets. 



LEARNING TO SWIM. 



Again and again are we confronted with 

 a newsi^aper clii3ping telling of boys and 

 girls being drowned who might easily have 

 saved themselves if they had been able to 

 swim but a little. A person who cannot 

 swim, if thrown into the water where he 

 comes within a foot of reaching a support 

 may drown helplessly because he is unable 

 to move his body just that one foot. In 

 fact, I myself would not be here writing 

 these notes were it not that I had just a 

 little practice in the art of swimming sixty 

 years ago. I was vividly reminded of it by 

 the following from the Plain Dealer: 



TEACH PUPIL.S TO swim; CHICAGO EDUCATORS UKQIO 

 COURSE BE ADDED TO CURRICULUM. 



Chicago, Aug. 13. — Members of the committee on 

 buildings and grounds of the board of education to- 

 day adopted a resolution recommending the teaching 

 of swimming in every public school. 



A special committee, of which Mrs. Ella Plagg 

 Young, superintendent of schools, is chairman, was 

 appointed to work out the practical details of the 

 plan. 



It is estimated it will cost the city about $1,000,- 

 000 a year to add swimming to the curriculum in 

 every school. The steamer Eastland disaster led to 

 a consideration of the subject by the committee. 



No matter if it does cost a million dollars 

 a year or more to teach/'our children to 

 swim as well as to read, write, and spell, 

 let the good work go on ; and I am especial- 

 Iv pleased to note that tlie capable and 

 talented woman mentioned in the above is 

 to have charge of the matter. 



