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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



persuade one he has a customer for his 

 property. This telegram often does the 

 business when his carefully worded printed 

 letters fail. A telegram delivered to a 

 farmer out in the country is generally some- 

 thing of an event in his life, and he makes 

 haste to send on the $15, more or less. But 

 that is the last of it. Many have reported to 

 the Rural that, after sending him the money, 

 they never heard from him afterward. 



When this new revival that is going on 

 over in Wales and in many parts of the 

 United States gets into the towns and vil- 

 lages, to the big cities, and everywhere, I 

 am sure that the Spirit that comes with it. 

 even the Holy Spirit, will impress on all 

 mankind the importance of letting the hon- 

 est imth.— old-fashioned truth, if you choose 

 —entirely take the place of these mislead- 

 ing schemes to get the attention of the peo- 

 ple and to get more trade and more money. 

 God hasten the day when it will be the fash- 

 ion to shun even the appearance of evil in 

 every form, and when it will be naturally 

 expected that every man and woman will 

 state the plain and honest truth in business 

 and everywhere else, and let that take the 

 place of any sort of scheme to get trade or 

 to get on in the world. 



DUFFY'S MALT WHISKY ONCE MORE. 



We clip the following from the Neiv Voice 

 for March 30. It illustrates the way in 

 which the Duffy people get a man's photo 

 as well as his testimonial, and induce sick 

 people who are near the grave, like drown- 

 ing men, ready to catch at any straw, to be- 

 lieve that whisky of any kind is a good 

 medicine. Read it and then get your home 

 papers to send out a warning. We are told 

 there is no legal redress for this way of do- 

 ing business. The only remedy is to keep 

 exposing them as much as possible. 



Lisbon, N. H., March 23.— The family of the late Sam- 

 uel Pike, living here, are much incensed at an outrage 

 that is being perpetrated on them by patent-medicine 

 quacks advertising that notorious nostrum known as 

 "Duffy's Malt Whisky." Westein papers are advertis- 

 ing the drug and giving a picture 6f Mr. Pike with what 

 appears to be a halo of hay around his head, and with it 

 an eloquent " testimonial " reading as follows: 



" Mr. Pike bears his 90 years with becoming modesty. 

 Grateful to the maker of this great remedy, he waxed 

 eloquent in its praise. 



■ An old man like myself needs something of the kind 

 to help nature, and nothing in liquid form was ever made 

 to compare with Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky as an aid to 

 health. 



' A wineglassf ul at night has a delightful effect and 

 insures sound sleep. 



' No man feeling the advance of time should neglect 

 to keep it in the house. Human kindness should prompt 

 us to inform others of the benefits to be obtained from 

 such a source. 



' I am in my 90th year, and enjoy good health. 



Samuel Pike.' " 



Now it appears that Mr. Pike never tasted of the stuff 

 until after this " testimonial " was procured. 



A long time after this testimonial was alleged to have 

 been secured, Mr. Pike began taking the stuff and died. 



The following letter, which Mrs. W. E. Pike, daughter- 

 in-law of Mr. Pike, recently wrote to J. E. Smith, of 

 Oelwein, la., explains how the miserable fake was per- 

 petrated: 



Mr. J. E. Smith:— We received a letter a few days 

 ago, written to Mr. Samuel Pike, my husband's father. 

 It is almost a year since he died. He died on the 15th 



of March. A man came here about a year ago, and he 

 had father's picture— got it of the artist. Said he rep- 

 resented the Boston Globe, and asked to see father. I 

 was about my work, so let him go into his room. Later 

 he came out after a pen and ink. Well, when he went 

 away father said he was going to send him some whis- 

 ky, but he did not know what for, and said he did not 

 expect to get it. He said he wanted his name to adver- 

 tise a medicine. I told him he would use his name and 

 picture to advertise whisky, and tell how he had used it 

 all his life He said no, as that would be a lie, as he 

 had never seen any of it. Well, he did send him six 

 bottles of Duffy's Malt Whisky. Father could never see 

 why he sent it to him It was the first he had ever 

 seen, and he did not take whisky until he was sick, and 

 I gave it to him for he had a weak heart. ' 



1 do think it too bad that his picture is going around 

 now. I can not tell you how many letters I have an- 

 swered for him, since he died, about this whisky, and 

 some of them Rev. Mr. Tilden answered for me. 



Lisbon, N. H. Mrs. W. E. Pike. 



SELLING SECRETS— HOW TO DO THINGS, ETC. 



The following advertisement was clipped 

 from the Virginia Farmer; and as the won- 

 derful secret emanates from Akron, the 

 county-seat of Summit County, bounding us 

 on the east, it has been sent to me several 

 times. Of course, I sent the 20 cents in 

 order to give all our readers the wonderful 

 secret, and here it is: 



HONEY-BEES OUTDONE. 



We got 'em beat! Our formula makes fine healthy 

 honey for only 5 cts. per pound. Formula and complete 

 directions mailed free for 20 cts., or free if you send 50 

 cts. for — — - one year. Make a fortune manufacturing 

 this honey put up in glass tumblers. You can double 

 your money and still undersell all others. 



Address 



Honey Formula.— Take "A" sugar, 5 lbs. Water, one 

 quart; gradually heat to boiling. Skim well. When 

 cool, add one pound bee honey, 4 drops peppermint 

 essence. Put up in small glass tumblers for retail 

 store trade. 



If 20 cents were not such a trifling amount 

 it might not be worth while to make a fuss 

 about it. But even then it is a slur on and 

 a disgrace to bee culture. The secret seems 

 to be adulterating honey with sugar, which 

 is about as well known as any thing can be,; 

 and then adding four drops of peppermint 

 essence. I suppose the 20 cents is for letting 

 you know about the peppermint. If bees 

 were in the habit of getting honey with a 

 peppermint flavor it might help some toward 

 the imitation. 



Now, friends, this is a fair sample of the 

 whole business of selling secrets. You get 

 just about as much information, no matter 

 what you pay, dimes or dollars. Of course, 

 it is a swindle on a small scale. The bees 

 are not " outdone ;" it is not honey ; and it 

 can not be made for 5 cts. per pound either. 

 Some of our friends have felt a little hurt 

 because I have refused to permit any thing 

 of this kind in our advertising columns. 

 That is, if any thing of the kind has gone in 

 it has been during my absence or escaped 

 my attention. One brother wrote, when I 

 rejected his "secret" that he wanted to sell 

 for 25 dents, that it was one he paid one 

 GLEANINGS advertiser $2 50 for. I have 

 asked him when and where, etc. 



Let me say once more that the class jour- 

 nals contain all the valuable secrets that are 

 known. If they do not get hold of them 



