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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



line, which 1 mentioned in these pages. At 

 that time the argument of the wets was that 

 we had the tratfie but did not get any rev- 

 enue. Some went so far as to say there was 

 as much beer and whisky sold as if we had 

 had open saloons. Well, since that time the 

 Ohio search-and-seizure law has been passed. 

 By the way, 1 rejoice to tell you that the 

 author of that law is a resident of our town, 

 and a personal friend of mine. I am proud 

 of Medina that such a man grew up here. 

 Mr. Frank W. Woods drafted the law, 

 pushed it through, and within the past few 

 days it has been the means of cleaning out 

 the two speakeasies that have cursed our 

 town for years past. Something like thirty 

 or forty kegs of beer were found secreted on 

 their premises, and I am told that the traffic 

 in beer here in a dry town has amounted to 

 many thousands of dollars annually. Since 

 that business has been completely broken up, 

 however, they and their sympathizers and 

 patrons have evidently decided their only 

 hope is to outvote the temperance people 

 (our Sunday-schools and churches), and 

 make the town wet; and unless we are up 

 and dressed, and do our duty, the enemy 

 will defeat us. It is a sad fact that even a 

 few towns and cities here in Ohio have 

 gone back to wet after years of prohil/ition. 

 The millionaire brewers are helping every 

 way in their power, just as a drowning 

 man catches at sti'aws. They themselves 

 admit that, if the Anti-saloon League is 

 allowed to push on in the way it has been 

 doing, it will eventually cai'ry every thing 

 before it. And this state of things is not 

 only here in Ohio, but it is all over the land. 

 It was a terrible thing when that little girl 

 was allowed to die from exhaustion in that 

 wheatlield. I think I forgot to tell you that 

 she was found fully two miles from her 

 home. That is a pretty big trip for a girl 

 four years old to make. Yes. it was all the 

 sadder because a little forethought on the 

 part of the kind friends and neighbors might 

 have saved her life. But, dear friends, the 

 loss of that child in the wheatfield is not to 

 be compared with the loss of the boys and 

 girls in our Sunday-schools who are con- 

 stantly being led away and lost by a cer- 

 tain class of tradesmen who are trying every 

 thing in their power to "create an appetite" 

 for strong drink. The brewei'S care nothing 

 for the children providing they can sell beer 

 to them. The little girl in the wheatfield 

 suffered bodily death; but those who are led 

 away by Satan's wiles are lost, body and 

 soul. Jesus said, " Fear not them which kill 

 the body, but are not able to kill the soul." 

 And, again, he said, "The Son of man is 

 come to seek and to save that which was 

 lost." 



Catarrh Treatment. Worst is the manufacturer's 

 name, not an adjective applied to his treatment, but 

 it fits his method of deceiving the public. The fol- 

 lowing appeared in a religious paper published in 

 Syracuse, N. Y.. on March 29, 1906: 



THE E. J. WORST CATARRH TREATMENT THE ONLY 



SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT FOR CATARRH 



ENDORSED BY 



THE UNITED STATES HEALTH REPORT. 



READ WHAT THEY SAY. 



Washington, D. C, Oct. 30, 1900. 



We are constantly receiving letters from all over 

 the country asking for information on the subject of 

 catarrh and the air-passages of the head. We have 

 been asked time and again to recommend some rem- 

 edy which can be used with good results, for these 

 diseases. 



To benefit the public at large, and to answer their 

 questions, we have recently commissioned our Board 

 of Experts to investigate the subject of catarrh and 

 its cure, to find some remedy which would success- 

 fully meet the conditions, and be easy and simple of 

 application. The report of the Board of Experts has 

 been handed in, and, as a result, we are pleased to 

 recommend a treatment which is manufactured by 

 the P, J. Worst Mfg. Co., Ashland, Ohio. Mr. Worst 

 has developed the idea of medicated-air treatment 

 very successfully, and has designed the neat and 

 efficient little instrument which is becoming so well 

 known as the E. J. Worst Catarrh Medicator. 



As a result of this investigation we are pleased to 

 extend to E. J. Worst's catarrh treatment the unqual- 

 ified endorsement of the United States Health, Beports. 

 A. N. Taller, Jr., M. D., 



Washington, D. C. 



I sent the advertisement to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, 

 chief of the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, 

 D. C. Dr. Wiley has had charge of the analyses of 

 medicines made by the United States Government. 

 His response reads: 



" Dear M(i)tain: — I do not know of any United States 

 Health Reports of the kind mentioned in the adver- 

 tisements which you enclosed. The advertisement 

 is evidently fraudulent in respect to this." 



A note to the editor of the religious paper referred 

 to elicited a promise to be very chary henceforth of 

 medical advertising. 



No excuse of careless or mendacious agents can 

 account for this species of testimonial. 



Why, the above is about as cheeky as the 

 Duffy Malt W^hisky people — in some respects 

 probably even more so, as they pretend that 

 the heads of our great nation gave them an 

 indorsement. Just notice the words, "To 

 benelit the pul)lic at large:" and again, "We 

 have recently commissioned our Board of 

 Experts to investigate." One might also 

 think that President Roosevelt himself, out 

 his love for huinanity, had asked to have an 

 investigation made. Do you say that any- 

 body of good common sense should know at 

 once that our government was in no such 

 biTsiness '.' Well, I think I shall have to 

 admit that I myself saw the advertisement 

 in the American Isst/e, our Anti-saloon peri- 

 odical. I sent for the medicine: but when 1 

 found on faithful trial it did not do me a 

 particle of good I reported the case to 

 Worst, who promptly returned my $3.00. I 

 say this to his credit; but it is cei'tainly no 

 excuse for pretending that his remedy is 

 indorsed by the ' ' Department at Washing- 

 ton." 



FAKK TESTIMONIALS FOR PATENT MEDI- 

 CINES, ETC. 



We clip the following from the Union Sig- 

 nal for Sept. 27: 



Perhaps the worst case of fraudulent testimonial is 

 one that appears in the advertisements of the Worst 



HUMBUGS AND SWINDLES IN THE POULTRY 

 BUSINESS; SELLING SECRETS, ETC. 



I have felt pained a good many times to 

 notice so many of the poultry-periodicals 

 accept advertisements of secrets to be sent 

 for from 25 cents up to five and sometimes 



