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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1 



he had in his possession. I did not take a 

 'copy of it; but as nearly as I can remember 

 'it was somethitig as follows: 



" lEvery employee on our road, from the 

 Smallest to the gi'eatest, is informed that he 

 'is liable to dismissal, without notice, if he is 

 'found in or around any saloon or groggery; 

 ()r if it is found he is boarding in or near 

 any place where intoxicating liquors ax"e kept 

 for sale. You are hereby requested to read 

 over the above rules and regulations of this 

 road, so that, if a dismissal should come, you 

 will not be able to say you did not know 

 •about it or did not understand it. I (John 

 Smith) have read over and considered the 

 ■alK)ve regulation, and fully understand it, 

 ■and subscrite my name to it. John Smith." 



This engineer said that he felt it an honor 

 to work for a road that makes such regula- 

 tions and restrictions: and he felt proud of the 

 privilege of signing his name at the bottom 

 •of it. He said he was willing to have it 

 known whei'ever he went, and in whatever 

 crowd he happened to be, that he belonged 

 to a gang that ' ' touched not, tasted not, and 

 handled not." He said that, when his boys 

 were old enough to read the above card, he 

 wanted them to learn it by heart and live by 

 it. Long live the Chicago and Great North- 

 ■ern Railway and every other railroad that 

 makes similar rules and regulations for the 

 protection of human traffic. I am told by a 

 leading railway official that almost every 

 railroad in the United States has prescribed 

 such or a similar rule: and I predict that our 

 great manufacturing companies that have not 

 already made similar regulations will do so 

 Very soon. 



Now, friends, ai'e we going to be behind 

 the great railway companies of our land — 

 the corporations that are sometimes said to 

 be "soulless"? Surely they should know l)y 

 their past wide experience whether saloons 

 are an advantage to business or not.* 



* The above Home paper was used as a bulletin dur- 

 ing our Medina Beal-law election, which took place 

 Oct. 22. I am happy to announce that, out of 682 

 votes, Medina save a majority of 97 against the sa- 

 loon. The church-bells were rung when it came to 

 the final count, and there was a general rejoicing 

 among Christian people all over the town. We have 

 several hundred of the bulletins left, which will be 

 mailed free on application to any town or people 

 where they are having a like conflict in an attempt 

 to drive out the saloon. 



BEES AND FRUIT. 



We take pleasure in copying the following 

 from Oreen''s Fruit Grower for October: 



I shall continue to insist that the honey-bee is the 

 friend of the fruit-grower. If you are growing fruits, 

 and your neighbors have bees, you should consider 

 yourself fortunate. If you can keep a few swarms of 

 bees on your own fruit-farm you will find them help- 

 ful in fertilizing the blossoms. Never spray your 

 fruit-trees when they are in blossom, for if you do you 

 will destroy many of your best friends, the bees, who 

 are visiting the blossoms to gather honey at that 

 date. 



Jt would seem from the amount of evidence 

 that we are getting constantly from all over 

 the world that there should be no further 

 discussion of this matter. I believe Oreens 

 Fruit Grower is as good an authority as we 



have on the subject: and so long as our ex- 

 periment stations throughout the United 

 States — in fact, all over the world — tell the 

 same stoi\v, the individual or the people who 

 think the bees an enemy are behind the times; 

 and the man who sprays his trees while they 

 are in full Itloom so as to injure the bees is 

 certainly cutting off his own nose. 



THE HOT SPRINGS OF BLACK HILLS, SOUTH 

 DAKOTA. 



After taking the hot bath mentioned in our 

 last issue, 1 was told that, as the air was 

 chilly, 1 must not go outdoors for about an 

 hour: and although there was a very pleasant 

 sitting-room, jieriodicals, and lots of nice 

 people to talk with, at the end of half an 

 hour I began to get impatient to go. A 

 pleasant-looking young lady at the desk in- 

 formed me there would be no danger of tak- 

 ing cold if I walked briskly, buttoned up my 

 overcoat, etc. Now, when the hack brought 

 us up fi'om friend Huebner's to the Minne- 

 kahta Springs — that is where I took my bath 

 — they circled around among the hills so 

 much that it seemed to me they almost made 

 a horseshoe liend in getting to the bath-house 

 sanitarium. I made up my mind I could 

 make a shorter cut on foot. On inquiry 

 about it of some boys, theij agreed that my 

 shortest route was around by the postoffice, 

 the way.l came. 



'• Why, boys, I know where Huebner's ho- 

 tel is, for 1 just came from there. It is right 

 over this way, I am sure. I can get there 

 crosslots and save a lot of trouble." 



"All right, sir; go ahead if you want to; 

 but you see if you don't 'get left.' " 



I found a pretty fair road up the moun- 

 tain, and followed in the direction of my ho- 

 tel as nearly as I could. Pretty soon I was 

 out on a plain. The dwellings had all van- 

 ished, the city of three or four thousand in- 

 haliitants had all vanished: in fact, there did 

 not seem to be any jjlace for a city at all. I 

 mention this to show how easily one unused 

 to mountain scenery and mountain canyons 

 may get "rattled." I knew the city was not 

 far oil", for I had not been walking fifteen 

 minutes, and yet there was no trace of it, and 

 no place to put a city. I met some workmen 

 going home with their dinner-pails, and 1 

 asketl them to direct me to Huebner's hotel, 

 but they did not know of any such place. 

 They said I had better go back by the path 

 I came. Finally, when I explained the mat- 

 ter more fully one of them said, "Oh! it is 

 away off beyond that barn you can just get 



