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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1920 



looking forward -with lively anticipation to 

 a trip by automobile from Medina, O., to 

 Bradentown, Fla., in just a few days. Well, 

 here is a point: 



My sou, ' * E. R., ' ' looked after my com- 

 fort and convenience with all the solicitude 

 of a mother. I think one of the greatest joys 

 of my life was teaching him to walk and 

 talk, and look over the pages of the Scien- 

 tific American, and explain to him — that is, 

 I did it after a fashion — before he could 

 stand alone. We have been "chums" almost 

 60 years, and now when I begin to feel 

 symptoms of failing from old age he is eyes 

 and ears for me — especially ears; and when 

 it comes to stopping at night he absolutely 

 insists that I shall have the best protection 

 and comfort the city aifords. When we go to 

 Florida, however, we expect to sleep out- 

 doors in a tent — not only to save money but 

 to save health. Now, suppose I had been so 

 silly or shortsighted as to remain single all 

 of my life as some young men are doing- 

 yes, women, too — where would the Home of 

 the Honeybees be? • 



Let us now go back to the tobacco matter 

 again. 



If you think I overestimate the harm that 

 tobacco is doing, read the following. It was 

 clipped to put in another department, but 

 I think it will come in well right here: 



THE USE OF STIMULANTS. 



On the outside page of the No-Tobacco 

 J OK null for March, we find this: 



TOBACCO A DECEIVER. 



The following quotation from President G. Stan- 

 ly Hall of Clark University is a terrific indictment 

 of tobacco: "The basis of all intemperance is the 

 efTort to secure, thru drugs, the feeling of happiness 

 when happiness does not exist. * * * There 

 are many drugs which cause this pleasure, and in 

 proportion to the delight they seem to give is the 

 real mischief they work. * * * Alcohol gives 

 a feeling of warmth or vigor or exhilaration, when 

 the real warmth or vigor or exhilaration does not 

 exist. Tobacco gives a feeling of rest which is not 

 restfulness. * * * One and all the drugs tend 

 to give the impression of a power or a pleasure or 

 an activity wliich we do not possess. One and all 

 their function is to force the nervous system to lie. 

 One and all the result of thedr habitual use is to 

 render the nervous system incapable of ever telling 

 the truth. One and all their supposed pleasures are 

 followed by a reaction of subjective pains, as spuri- 

 ous and as unreal as the pleasures which they fol- 

 low. Each of them, if used to excess, brings in 

 time insanity, incapacity, and death." 



Can any one dispute the truth of the 



me waiting for their turn to come; and each expert 

 doctor, or oftentimes two doctors with their ap- 

 paratus, microscopes, or other instruments, kept 

 doing the same thing over and over. When it came 

 my turn to have some blood taken from my arm a 

 couple of expert women bared my arm in no time 

 and applied tlie lance and secured a sample of 

 blood, and then put on an antiseptic plaster; and 

 the whole thing was done, as it seemed to me, in 

 less than a minute, and so on thru the entire office 

 hours. With the aid of all up-to-date scientific ap- 

 paratus a patient was thoroly examined from head 

 to foot in a fraction of the time that would be 

 occupied by the ordinary physician. 



above? The No-Tohacco Journal is published 

 at Butler, Ind., at 25c per year. 



God knows, dear friends, that I do not 

 wish to dictate. I do not wish to dispute 

 your right to use tobacco if you still choose 

 to do so — that is, in the case of grown peo- 

 ple; but I do wisli to do everything in my 

 power to hinder the little fellows from 

 smoking cigarettes. In passing thru our 

 large cities I watch especially the boys to 

 see how many are smoking cigarettes. I 

 recently said to Ernest, after we had been 

 all over and thru this great sanitarium, 

 "Ernest, is there any other spot in the whole 

 United States where we can find hundreds 

 and even thousands congregated without a 

 single human being, old or young, who is 

 addicted to the tobacco habit?" He smiled, 

 and suggested Dr. Dowie and Zion City; but 

 I confess I have not heard very much of Dr. 

 Dowie or his successor of late; and I am 

 thanking the Lord that there is at least one 

 spot in our United States where tobacco in 

 all its forms is successfully banished, and 

 that this institute has kept up and pros- 

 pered for about 50 years, and this causes 

 me to think it is a prett}' good institution, 

 and that it is on a sound basis.* Perhaps I 

 might remark right here that in the dining- 

 room, where they have the best and finest 

 menu that I ever found in my life, there is 

 neither tea nor coffee. The rule of that es- 

 tablishment seems to be, no stimulants of 

 any sort. 



On our trip home I greatly enjoyed see- 

 ing the crops thru Ohio and Michigan. In 

 both States they were harvesting sugar 

 beets. Great loads were being taken from 

 the fields and carried to the refineries. In 

 fact, they were heaped up so much on many 

 of the huge wagons that they dropped off on 

 the road. Ernest was curious enough to stop 

 the auto and pick up some of those beets 

 that had been dropped, and we have just 

 had some cooked, and found they were about 

 the finest beets we ever tasted. 



Now, here is another exceeduiyly short cut 

 betweeii producer and consumer. If sugar ever 

 gets away up again, or, more particularly, if 

 the time ever comes when we can not biiij 

 sugar, let us grow sugar beets in the garden, 

 and in this way we shall not only have sugar 

 at an insignificant cost, but we shall have 

 the sugar just as God made it. I think our 

 best medical authorities now agree that 

 sugar in the form of sweet fruits or vege- 

 tables is very much more wholesome in 

 every way than it is after the best part has 

 been taken out at the sugar refineries. The 

 same thing applies to sorghum. In getting 

 the bran out of wheat, and the color out of 

 sugar and everything else in that line, we 

 are "refining" ourselves into our graves. 



Another thing that pleased me greatly 



*I notice the following in Good Health: 

 "The Battle Creek Sanitarium represents a new 

 departure in the treatment of the sick. For the 

 first time in the history of medicine, all rational and 

 scientific remedies have been brought together under 

 one roof." 



