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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15 



that they can especially better their trade in wines. 

 The consumers include not only the large and increasing- 

 foreign population, but the wealthier classes of Chinese 

 who are taking to foreign beverages. When a Chinese 

 official gives a dinner nowadays his table will show an 

 array of foreign wines which speaks volumes with re- 

 spect to future trade. The Chinese people, as a whole, 

 are becoming more and more prosperous every year, 

 and their ability to buy such products is constantly in- 

 creasing. One indication of this is apparent in their 

 trade in native wines. 1 see no reason why foreign 

 goods should not replace such native products to an in- 

 definite extent. California vdnes particularly ought to 

 have the cream of the market here, and 1 believe that a 

 little pushing of the trade, by personal representation 

 or otherwise, would have immediate and gratifying re- 

 sults. The success due to efforts of agents for Ameri- 

 can firms so far indicates the great extent of the field 

 yet untouched. The demand for wines is for sherry, 

 claret, hock, champagnes, and port, in the order named. 

 George E. Anderson, Consul. 

 Amoy, China, March 9, 1905. 



The italics in the above report are my own. 

 I wonder if Consul Anderson has ever read 

 that little text in the Bible that says, "What 

 shall it profit a man if he shall gain the 

 whole world and lose his own soul? " If he 

 has, I wish he would substitute for the word 

 Tnan the word nation. And, by the way, is 

 it true that the United States of America 

 picks out somebody for consul to foreign na- 

 tions (such as the Chinese, for instance) 

 who seems to think it incumbent on him to 

 use his official influence to introduce Ameri- 

 can whisky and beer into foreign countries 

 where these things are as yet unknown? Is 

 this sort of thing the spirit and animus of 

 our boasted nation, the land of the free and 

 the home of the brave— a nation that loudly 

 proclaims to the rest of the world on its 

 coins, "In God we trust"? I do not know 

 exactly where the responsibility rests; but 

 these few words are dictated with a prayer 

 that this little protest in our bee-journal 

 may, through God's providence, reach some- 

 body who has power to suggest that we as 

 a nation select a different stripe of men to 

 send on such a mission, especially to what 

 we call "heathen" nations. Perhaps this 

 wonderful new people who are coming so 

 rapidly to the front (the Japanese) may 

 have both ability and inclination to suggest a 

 halt in pushing the sale of intoxicating liq- 

 uors, opium, etc., among foreign nations 

 where they do not want them. If so, may 

 the Holy Spirit direct and encourage the 

 Japanese. 



DUFFY'S MALT WHISKY. 



We make the following extracts from a 

 Duffy malt -whisky advertisement in the 

 Anaconda Standard, Montana: 



" Thanks to Duffy's, I am able to be out every day, and 

 take quite extensive tramps in the severest weather." 



On being interviewed, Mr. Cronk said: "For many 

 years Duffy's pure malt whisky has been my only med- 

 icine. 1 take a dessert-spoonful of the tonic three 

 times a day with my meals, and when I go to bed. 

 Although we have severe weather where we live, I am 

 able to be out every day, and I take quite extended 

 tramps. I am very thankful to Duffy's, for it gives me 

 a good appetite, and keeps me strong and well in my 

 old age." 



Mrs. Sarah A. Rowley, his daughter, writes that, in 

 spite of the fact that the grand old man is 105 years old, 

 he is keen in mind and rugged in health, thanks to 

 Duffy's pure malt whisky. 



After the above was in print the matter 

 was referred to Mrs. Sarah Rowley, who is 



quoted, and here is a copy of the letter she 

 writes to the editor of the New Voice: 



Mr. Johnson:— The statement that my father, Hiram 

 Cronk, was a user of Duffy's malt whisky is false. He 

 never drank one drop of it in his life. My father never 

 gave them this testimonial. Sarah Rowley. 



Ava, N. Y., May 24. 



Mr. Cronk died May 13, at the age of 105. 

 In a former letter to the New Voice his 

 daughter says, ' ' My father has not been out 

 of the house in five years, and is very fee- 

 ble;" and yet the Duffy people claim he told 

 their agent that he took long walks every 

 day. His long life has been extensively com- 

 mented on by the press. One of the New 

 York papers furnishes the following, pub- 

 lished some time before Mr. Cronk's death: 



Mr. Cronk is a total abstainer from intoxicants and 

 tobacco. Longevity seems to have been common in his 

 family, several of his brothers having lived to be over 

 ninety years of age. His sturdy frame and his way of 

 living have increased his lease on life, and he bids fair 

 to live to reach his hundred and fifth milestone. 



You see that these Duffy people got wind 

 of the fact that there was a man living who 

 was 105 years old. I do not know whether 

 they really got some one to interview Mr. 

 Cronk and his daughter, Mrs. Rowley, or 

 not. You can see what they say about it in 

 their advertisements, and then what Mrs. 

 Rowley really says when appealed to. 



If nothing but publicity will kill out this 

 kind of work to make good temperate people 

 intemperate, let all the friends of temper- 

 ance see to it that they get the needful pub- 

 licity. If you can find a paper containing 

 their advertisement, cut this out and send 

 it to the editor, and insist that he stop 

 accepting advertisements from such a gang. 



GOVERNOR FOLK AND THE SALOON-KEEPERS 

 OF ST. LOUIS. 



All honor to Governor Folk, of Missouri ! 

 The following we take great pleasure in 

 clipping from the Weekly Sentinel, Macomb, 

 111. It indicates that there are some good 

 men besides our beloved President who are 

 determined on the enforcement of law. 

 Here is what Governor Folk says in regard 

 to the saloon-keepers of St. Louis: 



The dramshops will be taught that they are not above 

 the law, even if it takes the military power of the State 

 to do it. They will be protected in every right the law 

 accords to them, but they must obey the law. 



The law permits the dramshops six days in the week; 

 and any one who exceeds that is an outlaw. When a 

 saloon-keeper opens his dramshop on Sunday he does so 

 in defiance of the law. When he sells intoxicants he 

 deliberately insults the majesty of the State. 



They say this law is a blue law. Any law seems blue 

 to the individual who has a selfish motive in breaking 

 it. If they continue to violate it they will find this law 

 will assume a livelier hue. It is the law of the great 

 State of Missouri ; that is enough. Furthermore, it is a 

 law in the interest of good government to prevent the 

 enormous amount of crime that comes out of the Sun- 

 day saloon. They say the law is a dead law. Let them 

 ignore it, and they will receive a shock that will teach 

 them it is very much alive. If it has been more honor- 

 ed in the breach than in the observance, great is the 

 pity; but that is true of the bribery statute. That, too, 

 was denounced as a blue law and as a dead law, but ex- 

 perience shows it to be neither. 



My duty is to enforce the law, and I intend to do it 

 the best I can throughout the State. The dramshops 

 must either respect the laws of this State or they will 

 have to show they are stronger than the State. 



