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true I liave been drinking' more than T 

 ought to; and I, for one, am ' confounded ' 

 glad of what is now coming." 



"fortv distilleries and a dozen cotton-mills;" 



nov, "sixty-eight cotton-mills, no 



distilleries." , 



For many months I have been reading your tem- 

 piT.ance articles in Gleanings, and en.ioy them very 

 much. I want you to see what has been done in 

 this county along that line. I am enclosing' you a 

 small folder showing the advancement that Gaston 

 County ha.s made. I am a young man, but I can 

 remember when Gaston Co. had more than 40 dis- 

 tilleries and a dozen cotton-mills. Today this county 

 has 68 cotton-mills and, of course, no distilleries. 



Gastonia, N. C, Feb. 23. J. L. Beal. 



We clip as below from the folder: 



Indeed, the old order of things has changed. Less 

 than 34 years ago the good old home-grown " corn 

 liquor " whose excellences of qiiality one so often 

 hears extolled, flowed, almost as free as water, in 

 the valleys and on the hills of Gaston. It was made 

 on the banks of every stream, and was dispensed at 

 the rate of " all you can drink for a nickel " at 

 almost every cross-roads grocery in the county. To- 

 day you can't legally get a nickel's worth " for love 

 or monej'." 



" LOOK AT THE MONEY THAT WAS IN IT." 



T presume our readers have noticed a 

 statement in the papers to the effect that a 

 fiend in human shape in Xew York has 

 confessed to being instrumental in getting 

 Imndreds of young girls into the white-slave 

 traffic. The clipping below from the Amer- 

 ican Issue gives us the particulars: 



The New York Evening Sun of August 1 6 re- 

 counted how Yushe Botwin, seated in the center of 

 a circle of newspaper men in the private chamber 

 of District Attorney Swann, told his amazing tale of 

 his life in the underworld. The story was so start- 

 ling as to cause District Attorney Swann to exclaim: 



" Tills Mian has told me a story which amazes 

 and shocks me, and I am frank to say that I did 

 not think anything so terrible could exist in this 

 city." 



The ftun said: 



" Thruout his entire story the feeling of Botwin 

 that the District Attorney had done him an irrepara- 

 ble injury to deny him the means of a livelihood 

 was apparent The question of right and wrong 

 has never entered his mind. His arrest, he thinks, 

 was a great injustice, and should never have taken 

 place. " Did it never enter your mind what a 

 great wi-ong against society you were doing, and 

 how you were deliberately ruining the lives of hun- 

 dreds of innocent young girls?" Mr. Swann asked 

 the prisoner. 



Botwin shrugged his shoulders, and with an 

 amazed look on his face, as tho that were an entire- 

 ly new idea, said: "Look at the money that was in 

 it." 



The liquor interests rest their claim for existence 

 exactly upon that same foundation — the money that 

 is in it. "Great is Diana of the Ephesians! " 



White slavery and the liquor-traffic travel hand in 

 hand. 



The above holds up to the whole wide 

 Avoi'ld the real attitude, not only of the 

 white-slave traffic, but of the entire liquor- 

 traffle, in a way I have never seen it before. 

 This fellow, after his confession, seemed to 

 think the " big money " that was to be made 

 in the business was a sufficient excuse for 

 entrapping" and debauching and sending 

 down to ruin innocent young girls — just 

 such girls as we have in our own homes. 

 If there ever was a human being on the 

 face of the earth that is not fit to be per- 

 mitted to live another twenty-four hours, it 

 is this fiend in human shape who gave as 

 an excuse or as a plea for letting the busi- 

 ness continue, " Look at the money that 

 was in it." 



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HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 



BEES AND "GHAPE JUICE. " 



There lias been a good deal said about 

 the importance of bees to fruit-growers; 

 but I have never before seen an intimation 

 to the effect that bees were in a like manner 

 an important adjunct to a good crop of 

 gi'apes. I clip the following from the Flori- 

 da Grower: 



BRES HELP POLLINATION OF GRAPES. 



Having heard many complaints as to Muscadine 

 type of grapes not bearing well, and also having 

 numerous failures ourselves here at Oneco, I wish 

 to state to the readers of the Grower that T think tlie 

 matter is easily solved. It is not the lack of pollen 

 only, but lack of a carrying agent; and where bees 

 are kept the grapevines are annually loaded with 

 fruit; where there are no bees, the vines have very 

 few or no grapes. 



It is absolutely necessary, we have decided, to keep 

 t)ees near grape-arljors if one expects to get any 

 fruit regularly, so we have invested in a lot of bees, 

 having seen our neighliors with bees enjoying a big 



crop of grapes every year. The Mish grape now 

 ripening is the earliest of the Muscadines, and to our 

 personal taste the finest grape that grows — vines 

 simply loaded down, with bunches up to 20 or more 

 grape,s each, perfectly sweet and delicious. Now we 

 know that bees insure a crop of grapes, there is ap- 

 parently no reason why all these various Muscadines 

 cannot be grown in enormous quantity all over Flori- 

 da and the South. E. N. Reasoner. 



T am very glad indeed to get the above, 

 es]iecially as it conies from such an excel- 

 leiff and reliable authority as our good 

 fiiend K. N. Keasoner, of the Oneco Nurs- 

 ery. So far as I know, grape-growing has 

 not assiuned such importance in Florida as 

 to grow grapes enough to furnish the grape 

 juice tiiat is now getting to be sueli a staple 

 article all over the great wide world. May 

 (Jod hasten the time when fruit jui<e and 

 milk will take (he place oC l)ecr and other 

 into.xicanls. 



