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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



Will Carlton (the "Farm Ballad"' man) 

 seems to feel very much about it as I do. 

 Below is an extract from his magazine for 

 May: 



Every fV/iere will now publish its first whisky adver- 

 tisement. It has had several offered to it, with good 

 pay, from men who are lining their own pockets by 

 destroying the lining of other people's stomachs; but 

 it has never accepted any of them, not wishing to 

 profit from that kind of money. This advertisement 

 is gratuitous. 



In riding along the railroads, representatives of our 

 magazite have often seen mammoth signs in the 

 fields and by the fence-sides, labeled "Wilson Whis- 

 ky : That's All." They are intended, no doubt, to con- 

 vey the idea that, when whisky is of that particular 

 brand, it is all right, nothing more need be said, and 

 the drinking may go merrily on. And it may be as 

 good whisky as any that is made, so far as we know; 

 but in connection with any whisky whatever, what a 

 miserable lie rests in those two words — "That's All" ! 



"All?" There is no whisky manufactured upon 

 this earth that may not draw up the nerves so tightly 

 as to make them unduly loose when the tension is 

 taken away; that may not to some extent injure the 

 beautiful and accurate machinery with which God 

 equipped the human form; that may not push the 

 body a little further on its way to destruction. " All ! " 



" All ? " There is no whisky that may not put into 

 the system a certain amount of alcohol that should 

 not be there ; that does not augment the effect of such 

 virus as is already in the blood; that does not have a 

 tendency to destroy healthy digestion and proper cir- 

 culation ; that does not contribute another impulse 

 toward the frying of the brain. For heaven's sake, of 

 what was that advertising-agent thinking when he 

 wrote and had painted those two words, " That's All "? 



More yet : It leads the body into danger A simple 

 fall upon the earth may not hurt the drunken man so 

 much as a sober man, for his body is more relaxed 

 through his very recklessness; but when he falls into 

 the fire it hurts him; when he tips over a kerosene- 

 lamp it hurts him; when he lies in a stupor and is 

 crushed by the carwheels it hurts him; when he gets 

 into a senseless, brutal fight, he is very apt to get hurt 

 —sometimes killed. "Wilson Whisky— that's all" 1 



More: The wet-rot of the stuff soon pushes his mind 

 into decay. He may show spasmodic brilliancy now 

 and then that he could not have produced except for 

 liq\ior; but it is at the permanent expense of his fac- 

 ulties The mental products that he gives forth in 

 such cases savor of the sickly hothouse rather than 

 the healthy garden Any habitual drinker may know 

 that his mind has not only reached its highest devel- 

 opment, but has commenced its decadence, and that, 

 however people may laugh at his " brightness " now, 

 he is really on the road to practical idiocy. Every 

 time he performs the role of a lunatic he takes a long 

 step toward permanent mental paralysis. "That's 

 all " ! 



Worse than any thing thus far said, his moral sensi- 

 bilities soon become clouded. He gradually learns to 

 lie, to cheat, to blaspheme, to blackguard, and to 

 murder, either all at once or gradually. Sometimes, 

 in lucid intervals, he gets a straight look at his own 

 character; and then how he does despise the picture ! 

 He curses his own weakness, and the strength of the 

 adversaries that are pulling him down— the men who 

 sell whisky, the men who make it, the men who 

 advertise it in newspapers and on walls. It was not 

 bravado merely that prompted one Iowa rum-seller lo 

 put a sign up over his door, reading, "The Way to 

 Hell." 



But even the above is not " all." It is only a small 

 part of it. As soon as a man gets drunk he is likely to 

 become a public nuisance and menace. He insults 

 women on streets and in railroad-coaches; he carries 

 the pestilence of his disorderly presence and his 

 putrid breath into whatever company he goes. "All !" 



He makes his home into a .caloon: his wife into a 

 hopeless drudge; his children into the worst kind of 

 orphans. He does his best to undermine the foun- 

 dations of his country, and of all countries home. 

 When he comes back to it he is a terror; when he goes 

 away from it he is a fear and a dire apprehension. 

 Nobody knows what he will do while in liquor. "All !" 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF CATCHING COLD. 



The following-, from T. B. Terry, has so 

 much good sense in it, and makes the mat- 

 ter so plain in reg^ard to the way we catch 

 cold, that I take it entire from the Practical 

 Farmer: 



AH readers do not quite understand what has been 

 said on this point, judging by letters received. I said 

 exposure to cold is not the real or primary cause of the 

 condition known as a cold. I will try to explain more 

 clearly. Suppose we had a gasoline-stove in our house, 

 and it should spring a leak. The escaping gasoline, 

 changing into gas, mixes with the air. I know there 

 is a leak there, but neglect it carelessly. By and by I 

 come in : and, wishing to light a lamp I strike a 

 match. Instantly an explosion occurs that injures me 

 considerably, to say nothing of the damage to the 

 house. Now. what would you say was the cause of 

 the explosion? Why, the leaking of gasoline. Not 

 one of you would say, " I think it came from lighting 

 a match." And still that was the secondary (or inci- 

 dental) cause. The primary cause, which all would 

 think of as the real one, was allowing that gasoline to 

 escape into the room. And I doubt not many would 

 say I deserved the injury received. I don't think one 

 of you would advise me to avoid striking matches in 

 the future, but rather to see that there was no gas that 

 the match could ignite, and thai would be good sense. 

 Now, I am convinced that the real, primarv. or first 

 cause of so-called colds is invariably from within, and 

 not from exposure to cold. It is over eating, breath- 

 ing impure air. lack of exercise lack of bathing, or 

 something of this kind. The blood becomes over- 

 charged with impurities. Nature tries to discharge 

 these th'ough the mucous membrane, usually in the 

 head, because the proper channels are unequal to the 

 task. The secondary or exci'ing or incidental cause of 

 the cold, the last straw that brings the matter to a cli- 

 max, may be a chill irom exposure to cold. When the 

 system is in the condition named above, the reactive 

 powers will be weak, of course. But for this un- 

 hpalthy condition, exposure to cold would do no hurt. 

 The climax may also be brought on by eating when 

 over-tired, or by overdoing in any line. Now, when 

 you get a cold, and are a'^ked how you came by it, why 

 not be as sensible as when talking about the gasoline 

 explosion ? Why lay the blame in one case to the real 

 cause, and in the other to the secondary or exciting 

 one? There is as much reason for saying Terrj' struck 

 a match and it blew him up, as for saying you went 

 out without any rirbbers, and caught cold, or facing 

 that wind yesterday, or sitting near that window, 

 which caused a little draft of air, gave you a hard cold. 

 If you were all right internally, no trouble would 

 come from any of these matters, any more than from 

 my lighting a match when there was no gas around. 

 In proof of this, why have you not always taken cold 

 when expo.sed to cold air? "Simply because voirr sys- 

 tem was in a healthy condition when you did not. A 

 person in vigorous health, with pure blood coursing 

 through his body would not be affected unfavorably in . 

 th" slightest degree by these exposures to cold. Which 

 is better — to remove the fundamental cause, or leave 't 

 there and try to be very careful about any possible ex- 

 posure that ma3' bring on a climax? With this kind 

 of care you are constantly making the body weaker 

 and less resistful, and making yourself more and more 

 a hothouse plant. If vou will pay reasonable atten- 

 tion to the plain laws of health, particularly to breath- 

 ing fresh air. not overeating, and taking proper exer- 

 cise, you may soon get in such good health that expo.'- 

 ure to cold will not have any injurious effect. In fact, 

 fresh cold air will act as a tonic, building up your vi- 

 tal powers still higher To test this matter, last Au- 

 gust, when the days were very warm and the nights 

 cool, so my bedroom was so warm no covers were 

 needed to make me comfortable at bedtime ; but be- 

 fore morning I was glad to draw a blanket over me. I 

 lay down about a score of nights without any thing 

 ■whatever on or over me — not even a nig'it-shirt. About 

 2 A.M. I would waken and find myself nearly as cnld 

 as ice as the four large windows were wide open. 

 Then I would cover up warmly and go to sleep again. 

 No harm whatever came of it. I was cold, and got 



