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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



am especially anxious to know if anybody 

 has succeeded in raising queens all through 

 the winter months. It is a difficult matter 

 to preserve drones. In my travels through 

 Florida I have seen some queen- rearing in 

 the winter time, but not away down below 

 the frost- line. I think one or two have ad- 

 vertised queens during the winter; but, so 

 far as I recall, none of these advertisers 

 made it much of a success. I suppose there 

 will be no very great demand before March 

 and April unless it is to supply orders from 

 Cuba and the southern parts of the United 

 States. What I wish to get at especially is, 

 is there anybody in the United States who 

 undertakes to ship queens promptly, espe- 

 cially young queens, every day or any day in 

 the year? I am sure there ought to be some 

 such person or establishment; and as I do 

 not expect to monopolize the business by 

 any means, I should like to see somebody 

 else, who is favorably located, turn in and 

 help. I shall probably be here in Medina 

 until the fore part or middle of December. 



" THE YOUNG LADY AT BINGHAM." 



I shall have to explain to our readers that 

 the little church up in Northern Michigan I 

 have talked so much about is called the 

 Bingham church, after the little town close 

 by. A few days ago I found the following 

 in the Rural New-Yorker : 



There was a young lady at Bingrham 

 Who knew many tongs and could sing 'em; 



But she couldn't mend hose. 



And she wouldn't wash clothes. 

 Or help her old mother to wring 'em. 



Of course, I clipped it out and sent it to 

 the "young ladies in Bingham," with my 

 compliments. I took pains to assure them, 

 however, that I felt very certain that it did 

 not tit any of their number, especially those 

 who go to church and Sunday-school, for I 

 know full well they not only help their moth- 

 ers to wash clothes and do housework, but 

 the greater part of them can dig potatoes, 

 pick beans, strawberries, or do almost any 

 thing else. And, by the way, it makes me 

 homesick almost every time I think of that 

 Bingham church and Sunday-school. I am 

 not only homesick for a sight of the " young 

 ladies of Bingham," but I want to see the 

 old ladies and middle-aged ones too; and I 

 want to see the boys and the middle- aged 

 men, and the old men also. I am almost 

 counting the days when I can be with that 

 little flock once more, and I am praying God 

 that the revival spirit that filled their hearts 

 last fall may be as bright and as full of 

 enthusiasm when April comes as it was 

 when I left the dear friends in October. 



BOSSISM AND LIQUOR DOMINATION. 



In our last issue I gave a plea from Con- 

 gressman A. R. Webber, and I now wish to 

 quote scmething more from him, taken from 

 the Medina Gazette, as follows: 



TO THE REPUBLICANS OF OHIO. 



The voters in our great party have determined by their 



ballots the issues of this campaign — shall bossism, and 

 especially of the George B. Cox type, together with his 

 allies, the liquor interests of the State, longer dominate 

 in determining our party nominations and policies? The 

 verdict of the people is against i^uch domination. Geo. 

 B. Cox now says in public print he has retired from pol- 

 itics. Don't you believe it. He has said this before. He 

 will be on hand next time at the State convention with 

 his delegates to dictate, if possible, through his allies, 

 the liquor interests, who shall be nominated and what 

 shall go in our platform. The only way for us to defeat 

 this is to listen to the demands of the Republican voters 

 and see to it in every ward and township in Ohio that 

 only delegates shall go to county conventions ( where our 

 State-convention delegates are chosen), as will support 

 only such delegates to the State convention as will 

 pledge themselves to demand that a plank shall go into 

 the Republican State platform denouncing such boss- 

 ism and liquor domination in our party affairs. This is 

 the only way to break up and demolish effectively the 

 present Boss Cox machine. And our county conven- 

 tions thus selectmg State delegates should be called on 

 to pass resolutions of instruction to the State delegates 

 in keeping with the above. I ask Republicans who read 

 this to cut it out for preservation, and write me as soon 

 as possible whether you are in favor of this kind of 

 move. 1 certainly favor it, and believe it is the only 

 safe way to keep out of the hands of the enemies we 

 have been fighting in this campaign. Write me at Ely- 

 ria, O. Truly yours for clean politics, 



A. R. Webber. 



As this manner of denouncing bossism 

 and liquor domination is one in which Repub- 

 licans and Democrats, and the Prohibition 

 and all other political parties can join in, I 

 would ask our readers to present the above 

 to the editors of their respective county 

 papers for publication— that is, if they have 

 not already given place to something that 

 covers the same ground. It is not only get- 

 ting to be a " wet-and-dry " issue, but it is 

 really a life and-death issue— that is, life or 

 death for our American republic. 



NAVIGATING THE AIR. 

 I wish to extend my hearty thanks to the 

 readers of Gleanings who have, during the 

 past year, taken pains to send me newspa- 

 per clippings in regard to dirigible balloons, 

 etc. ; and 1 should be glad to have any of 

 our readers mail me whatever they find in 

 the papers in regard to any experiments in 

 navigating the air — more especially those 

 that will work without the aid of a balloon. 

 As I take the Scientific American and the 

 magazines specially devoted to mechanics 

 and science, I refer particularly to newspa- 

 per notices from different localities where 

 experiments in aeration are being made. I 

 do not care so much for sensational stories 

 of what somebody is going to do; but I want 

 reports of what has actually been done up to 

 date. At -present I am not at liberty to give 

 a report of the wonderful progress made by 

 the Wright Brothers in the past few months. 



ORRIS-ROOT CULTURE. 

 The Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington has issued a warning against being 

 taken in by advertisements in the papers, 

 from those who have orris roots to sell. 

 They represent the root as being worth 40 

 cts. per lb., whereas the average price is 

 only from 3 to 10 cts. These advertising 

 fellows also say the United States makes an 



