1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



979 



the face of the earth? May be a prize- 

 fighter does, but I doubt it even then; and 

 no good man wants to see his rival bitterly 

 extinguished, Hfe and all. A Rockefeller, 

 if we are correctly informed, may not care 

 when his opponent is financially ruined; but 

 I am not sure that even this is true. Now, 

 when you kill a man you have not beaten 

 him in a fair and square conflict. Suppose 

 you and your neighbor were in a hot contest 

 for some particular prize, say a thousand or 

 ten thousand dollars. Would you like to 

 see him killed by accident so that the prize 

 might be yours? Surely not, if there is a 

 spark of manhood about you; and a htin- 

 dred times not if you have any thing of the 

 Christlike spirit in your makeup. 



Now, while we labor for the uplifting of 

 humanity, shall we not listen to the words 

 of the Savior when he spoke the words of 

 our little text at the head of this reading? 



MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS 

 PAPERS, ETC. 



The following, from the Modern Farmer 

 and Busy Bee, sounds so much like our good 

 Abbott that our readers might almost have 

 guessed whom it was from, even had I not 

 told: 



A trade sheet has this bit of information: " The 



Remedy Company, of New York, requests rates of relig- 

 ious papers." What business has a religious paper 

 quoting rates for a remedy company of any kind? If 

 people must be afflicted with the ad's of patent-medi- 

 cine fakirs, for heaven's sake let us keep them out of 

 our religious papers. If any paper on earth should 

 bring to its readers the gospel of good cheer and help, 

 it is the one that pretends to speak in the name of 

 religion. We hear enough about our ailments in other 

 papers without having the horrid descriptions such as 

 are found in patent-medicine ad's of all sorts of diseases 

 inflicted on us every week in a religious paper. We 

 hope the time may come when all papers that contain 

 such ad's will have to go a begging for subscribers. Do 

 not read about your own ills or other people's, do not 

 think about them, do not talk about them, but think 

 bright, clean, healthy thoughts and you will not need to 

 interest yourself in the advertisements of remedy com- 

 panies. The best remedy on earth is plenty to do, plenty 

 of sunshine, plenty of fresh air night and day, and a 

 clear conscience. 



I heartily indorse what friend Abbott has 

 to say ; and I regret to say that at present I 

 do not recall any religious paper of large 

 circulation that refuses to advertise medi- 

 cines except the Sunday School Times; and, 

 by the way, I do think the Sunday School 

 Times is the best religious paper to put into 

 the family of any thing on the face of the 

 earth, not only because of the high moral 

 tone of its advertising pages, but all through 

 from beginning to end. If the religious pa- 

 pers of our land came anywhere near being 

 as particular in regard to their advertise- 

 ments as our prominent agricultural period- 

 icals, we might rejoice. I do rejoice every 

 day to see our agricultural editors present 

 such clean and wholesome sheets for the 

 homes of our rural population. They are 

 exposing humbugs, pointing out frauds, and 

 warning against intemperance and sabbath 

 desecration, in a way that our religious pe- 

 riodicals dare not do while they permit such 

 stuff as they do to fill their advertising col- 



umns. Now, let all who love righteousness 

 and hate iniquity make a vigorous protest. 

 Tell your respective editors you can not 

 permit their sheets to be read in the home 

 unless they get on higher ground, especially 

 in the matter of advertising. 



WINTERGREENS — GROWING THEM IN THE 

 GREENHOUSE, ETC. 



To tell the truth, I have not had much 

 success in the above enterprise that I wrote 

 up early in the spring. I have had some 

 success in growing them outdoors, but came 

 pretty near failing in that also. Finally, at 

 the suggestion of one of the good friends 

 who sent me a lot of wintergreen-plants, I 

 put them under some of the evergreens 

 around our apiary, where there is quite a 

 covering of what is usually called "pine 

 needles." To my great surprise, here in 

 the dense shade, and right among the roots 

 of great thrifty evergreens, the winter- 

 greens took hold and grew all right. But 

 with the best kind of cultivation, in the sun 

 and in the shade of our big brick house, 

 they barely kept alive. I presume likely 

 the wintergreens and wintergreen berries 

 can be grown cheapest in their native wilds 

 in Northern Michigan; and I hope the beau- 

 tiful berries will soon be shipped to other 

 localities that more people may enjoy the 

 luscious fruit. 



THE GINSENG BUSINESS. 



As letters keep coming in, asking for par- 

 ticulars about the ginseng business, and if 

 it is true that I have made a "great suc- 

 cess" of it, etc., I shall have to say again, 

 I have never had any "success" with it; 

 and the reference in regard to the same by 

 the ginseng men who have plants and seeds 

 for sale are untrue and misleading. Look 

 out for everybody who wants to sell you 

 plants or seeds, or start you in the ginseng 

 business. We clip the following from the 

 Practical Farmer, of Philadelphia : 



The Department of Agriculture advises that there 

 has never been any success in the culture of ginseng, 

 except in sections where the plant is found growing 

 wild. But as the Chinese have decided that they do not 

 want the cultivated roots of ginseng, of course the cul- 

 tivation will soon come to an end, for the plant is per- 

 fectly useless except to sell to the Chinese, who imagine 

 that it has medicinal value. Therefore it is about time 

 to note the passing of the ginseng craze. 



In addition to the above we are told by 

 the papers that the recent Chinese boycott 

 promises to wind up the trade in wild roots 

 gathered in the woods. 



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