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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



Time for Argument has Passed 



HERE IS THE EYTDENCE 



Read These Interesting Letters from Our Shareholders """i""'™"?; 



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than any language of ours demonstrate the success of our wonderful co-operative plan; 

 the great enthusiasm it has created among all classes and success to which it is destined. 



Another $1000 Co=operator. 



Yankton. South Dakota 

 Your letters of the 18th and 19th showing apprecia- 

 tion of my interest and approval of my work, at hand. 

 I am^ interested because I can see that you have hit 

 upon a great scheme, and 1 am confident that OUR 

 lausiness will very soon at least, be " the biggest thing 

 ou earth " with proper management, and I have faith 

 in the management or would not put my money into 

 it. I am to-day making application for 90 shares 

 more of .stock. This gives me the limit. 



Your (our) prospectus is taking. It took me, and 

 will others. I wish, if convenient, that my certificate 

 of stock both for this and the former ten shares might 

 be sent to me at Mitchell as I might like to make use 

 of them in interesting others tflere. I have begun 

 business with you (usi by ordering a watch on which 

 I save S300 over the price I would have to pay here 

 for the same anicle. 



A Canadian's Confidence. 



No. 5184. Stratford. Out., Can. 



I am sending you to-day SIC for one share. If I were 

 in position to take 100 shares, would take them just as 

 soon as one. This shows the faith I have in your 

 Union, as well as in its officers. 



A Great Enthusiast. 



No. 5790. Marshfield, Mo. 



I congratulate you on being among the few who 

 cominence the twentieth century with the coopera- 

 tive method and idea, which I believe will ultimately 

 become the method in all transactions the world over. 

 I am enthusiastic on this subject and hope I may be- 

 come a member of your "Society." Universal co- 

 operation means no more poverty, human vengeance, 

 or crime, but peace on earth and good will to man. I 

 am now selling off my farms and live stock, and pro- 

 pose to devote my remaining days to this good work. 



From Far=away Korea. 



I was much impressed with your Prospectus and 

 with the idea of co-operation. Your push and ei^thu- 

 siasm certainly ought to be contagious, and merits 

 success. I am a missionary at home on a furlough, 

 my field of labor being Korea. Other houses do a lot 

 of business out there, especially in the line of dry 

 goods, household goods, and sporting goods. I 

 thought that, if I went in with j'ou, I might be able to 

 introduce our goods over theie and supplant the other 

 houses. The people over there did not like them. 

 A Strong Believer in Our Success. 



No. 5325. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



About the first thing that attracted mv attention on 

 perusing the Bookkeeper Magazine which I received 

 only yesterday, was j'our ad. concerning the re-char- 

 tering of your company, and after reading same 

 through carefully I could not but help put faith in 

 your movement, as it seems evident to me that it is 

 destined to be a grand success. The fact that I have 

 only subscribed for one share does not mean that I 

 am in any way doubtful of its feasibility, as I should 

 certainly take more were I able to do so just at the 

 present time. Perhaps in the near future I shall be 

 both better prepared to purchase additional stock. I 

 fully believe I can influence many orders in your 

 direction, or, rather, the company of which I am part. 



Likes Our Plan. 



No. 5058. K. K. U. No. 4, Hudson, Ohio. 



I like your plan, and if I had the money should take 

 the limit of stock. 



Another Old English Co=operator. 

 No. 5322. Anita, Pa. 



I am heartily in favor with your plan of co-opera- 

 tion. I was a member of a co-operative society in 

 England twenty years ago, therefore I am able to 

 judge of the blessin.gs to thousands of families. I 

 remit to-day $10 for one share, and if not all taken up 

 m the near future I might take one or two more. 



Well Acquainted with Co=operation and Our Goods. 

 No. 5636. Carnegie Library, ) 



Hazelwood, Pittsburg, Pa. i 

 I wish to say I most heartily indorse the co-opera- 

 tive plan, and knowing the benefits and blessings 

 that have accrued to those that have availed them- 

 selves of its advantages, by observation and experi- 

 ence. I have seen the people who were careless and 

 slovenly grow into tidy and highly respected citizens 

 because of the help they have received from the half- 

 yearly dividends. They have furnished their homes 

 and paid off old debts and raised somebody in the 

 world: therefore I am pleased that you are engaged 

 in such a worthy cause, and I will join the same and 

 do some thing to increase its membership. My wife 

 desires me to say she is well pleased with her ma- 

 chine, the Arlington. 



$1000 from an Insurance Han. 



St. Louis, Mo. 

 Received your book of valuable information, and 

 have read it carefull • . I have been looking for sev- 

 eral months for just such a company as yours to invest 

 my money in. Inclose you application blank for $1000. 



A Head Book=keeper Interested. 



No. 5016. Abilene, Texas. 



I am to-day forwarding to the Bank of Registrar a 

 check for one share in your enterorise. After my 

 stock shall have been issued I wish to send you a list 

 of those that are in sympathy and would give their 

 moral and financial support to your enterprise, and 

 mail catalogs to them. I am head book-keeper for my 

 firm, and enjoya lucrative salary, yet I am a thorough 

 co-operator. 



Believes in Our Policy of Good Goods. 



No. 5051. Maiden, Mass. 



I am forced to admit that the plan looks fair. Con- 

 tinue to handle reliable goods — let some one else sell 

 the cheap and worthless — and you will no doubt suc- 

 ceed. There are plenty of people in the world yet 

 who want a good article and e«pect to pay for it. I 

 wish you success in the undertaking, and will contrib- 

 ute my mite toward the same. I have .sent the money 

 to the bankers, as you direct, for five shares {$50). 



Below All Others in Price. 

 No. 5379. Grant Park, 111. 



I am sending to-daj- $100 to the Metropolitan Trust 

 & Savings Bank for ten shares of your profit-sharing 

 stock which I hope I will get I would have sent 

 sooner, but I have been delayed in sending. Now it is 

 to your interest to let me have this stock, as I am a 

 tanner and have lived on a farm all of my life, and 

 order considerable stuff by mail as I find it is a money- 

 saving business. 



I have been trading with other houses, but I find you 

 are below them in price for first-class goods. If I get 

 the stock, as I hope I will, I will do my mail-order 

 business with you, and will get my friends and rela- 

 tives to do business with you. The mail-order busi- 

 ness among the farmers is growing every year. 



Now, I hope you will see that I get ten shares of the 

 stock, and I will do all I can to make it a .success. 



