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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1 



Chauncey Depew was given $20,000 a year just to smile. 

 The Equitable was better than a gold-mine. It made 

 Alaska look small to the men on the "ground floor." 



But who furnished the money? The people. But 

 why do the people pour their money in such a hopper? 

 This we can not answer. All we can say is that a mul- 

 titude of people are built that way. They dump money 

 into certain classes of institutions until those in charge 

 hardly know what to do with it. And it is not strange 

 thnt the flood carries them into all manner of extrava- 

 gances and vicious schemes. Hundreds and hundreds 

 of millions have gone out of the pockets of the people 

 into great aggregations of capital. It is bad for the 

 country. The enormous aggregations of capital are 

 used to set up combinations which are an-ayed against 

 the interests of the people. 



We have heard much about a better distribution of 

 capital. The people could do much toward this better 

 distribution by keeping their money out of these big ag- 

 gregations and using it in business over which they 

 have some control. Some of it might even be used to 

 pay overdue grocery bills, rents, etc. 



But so long as the money is forthcoming there will be 

 men to enrich themselves with enormous salaries and to 

 indulge in unlimited luxuries. 



There you have it, friends. And now I 

 want to add that many good men deprive 

 themselves of what is really their due, and 

 perhaps burden themselves with debt, only 

 to leave to their wives and children money 

 that will do them harm instead of good. I 

 know all that is to be said on the other side 

 <}f the question; but there are extremes both 

 ways; and the one of leaving money to your 

 children that they did not earn for them- 

 selves as you did, I think is perhaps the 

 worse of the two extremes. Every boy and 

 girl nowadays, with average health, can 

 earn all the money necessary to spend ; and 

 after it is earned they will know how to 

 take care of it; and I think there are some 

 widows to whom the same reasoning may 

 apply. The only advantage it is, is in case 

 you should die suddenly and unexpectedly. 

 Of course, there are cases where an honest 

 man will get his life insured in order to pro- 

 tect his good name in case of sudden death. 



spend Sunday. It is not for an orthodox class to de- 

 termine it for them. If they want base ball, excursions, 

 and places to amuse, ahd entertain and instruct them- 

 selves on the first day of the week, they should have 

 what they want; and no governor, be his name Pattison 

 or any other name, should be allowed to dictate to them 

 on a matter so sacred. 



One is almost tempted to pity the Wine 

 and Spirit News, for the editor did not even 

 seem to dream he had paid Pattison one of 

 the highest compliments that could be given 

 any candidate. Such statements will help 

 elect him. Give the calf enough rope and 

 he will hang himself may, perhaps, apply 

 here. 



We quote further from the American Is- 

 sue as follows: 



The people of Ohio now have the objection to this of- 

 ficial liquor organ of the State to Mr. Pattison. He has 

 defended the Christian sabbath in the legislature. 



On the other hand, if the attack on Mr. Pattison 

 means any thing, it means that Governor Herrick stands 

 for what the Democratic nominee does not. Mr. Patti- 

 son stands for sabbath protection; Governor Herrick 

 does not. Or why should Pattison he thus venomously 

 assailed, and Governor Herrick be continually spoken of 

 in terms of support and praise by this liquor paper? 



We ask the Christian voters of Ohio to study well the 

 significance of this latest liquor utterance. 



BOGUS COMB HONEY. 



Our good friend Aunt Harriet, in the Farm 

 Journal for July, corrects her mistake in 

 regard to manufactured comb honey as fol- 

 lows : 



Just one more reference to the statement about adul- 

 terated honey and artificial comb. As I neither eat nor 

 buy honey, 1 based my opinion on newspaper reports, 

 magazine articles, and the complaints of those who try 

 to buy good honey. Wm. A. Selser's article, "The 

 Honey-bee," in the May number, will enlighten the 

 consumers; the producers know the truth; and to all 

 who read my mistake, I off:er my sincere apologies. 



God speed the Farm Journal. 



OUR GOD-FEARING GOVERNORS. 



I suppose our friends outside of Ohio are 

 aware that Mr. PattiscJn is the Democratic 

 nominee for Governor, against Myron T. 

 Herrick on the other side. Of course, the 

 friends of Herrick, Cox, and other poHtical 

 bosses are doing their best to pick flaws in 

 the character of Mr. Pattison; but it seems 

 his past record is so good that they can not 

 find any better way to kill him politically 

 than showing he is "puritanical." Here is 

 what the American Issue has to say about it: 



The Wine and Spirit News of July 5 has for its lead- 

 ing editorial a bitter attack on Governor Hanley, of In- 

 diana; Folk, of Missouri; and Hoch, of Kansas, for what 

 il calls " butting into the private affairs of municipali- 

 ties," by which it means keeping saloons closed on sab- 

 bath, according to State laws and according to their own 

 oaths of office. 



See the following from the Wine and 

 Spirit News of July 5 : 



Do the people of Ohio want any thing like that? We 

 hardly think so; and yet who knows what will happen, 

 especially when the Anti-saloon League is able to in- 

 duce the Democratic party to nominate its own candi- 

 date—a candidate whose first pronunciamento is a dec- 

 laration that he stands for a Christian sabbath, which 

 means a Peter Cartwright Methodist sabbath, with 

 base ball tabooed, and all human joy perpetually stifled 

 on the first day of the week. The people of Ohio should 

 be allowed to decide for themselves how they wish to 



KILLING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. 



They are big birds too, dear friends. I 

 was going to call it a discovery, but it is not 

 very new, and the two birds are not very 

 new either; but I tell you they are impor- 

 tant ones. I have talked to you over and 

 over about the overtasked mothers— the 

 mothers who are obliged to get up in the 

 morning before anybody else, and get a 

 good square meal for the lords of creation 

 and a family of children besides. Yes, 

 these, mothers can have hired girls— some of 

 them can; but there are many mothers who 

 do not want any hired girl around to add to 

 their cares and perplexities. It is these 

 mothers I am trying to help; and as Mrs. 

 Root is one of them you need not be sur- 

 prised if I show considerable zeal in the 

 matter; for Mrs. Root is still (in my opin- 

 ion, mind you) one of God's jewels. Per- 



