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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



sale of liquor within a mile of such posts. That shows 

 the good work the temperance people are doing. They 

 are meeting the contention that the abolishment of 

 the canteen has worked injury by affording vile resorts 

 for the soldiers to spend their money and obtain drink. 

 It makes no difference how much may be said in advo- 

 cacy of the canteens, they are gone for ever." 



MRS. LEONORA M. LAKE. 



In my report of the Anti-saloon League convention 

 I have several times spoken of the distinguished speak- 

 er, Mrs. Lake, of the Catholic Church; and I take plea- 

 sure in clipping the following from the Catholic Vni- 

 verse of August 9 in regard to this good lady's work: 



Mrs. Leonora M. Lake, of St. Louis, an enthusiastic and con- 

 vincing speaker, enijiliusized cliiefly the jilace of woman in the 

 total-abstinence niovcnicut. It is lier instinct, she said, to pre- 

 serve at every cost tlic lite slie lias brought into the world by 

 so much travail and pain, and nothing else so menaces this 

 life, so makes for (Jegeneracy and misery and death, as the 

 curse of drink. She touched on the terrible effects of intem- 

 perance. Its cost In money, its responsibility for the filling of 

 almshouses, insane asylums, hospitals, and prisons, and spoke 

 strongly of the ti-rrilile ell'ei'ts of jjarents' addiction to drink 

 on their unborn i-liildren for ueneration after generation. 

 Mrs. Lake liohls tliat it is [lolitical cowardice that jirevents 

 more interest in the total-abstinence movement. " Look at 

 Cleveland,'" she said, " with its large and powerful Catholic 

 population. Where are the influential Catholics to-nighti 

 Afraid — afraid of the liquor element, afraid of identifying 

 themselves with an unpopular movement." 



To those of our readers who are not well acquainted 

 with theworlv Mrs. Lake has done throughout our 

 land. I might say that she by her talk has succeeded 

 in banishing the saloons from more than one locality 

 where the effort would probably have failed without 

 her assistance. 



SUFFERERS FROM RHEUMATISM; WHERE THEY CAN 

 BEST GET RELIEF. 



Mr. Roof :—C&n you or any readers of Gleanings give me 

 some information in regard to what section of the country Is 

 best for ■• rheumatics " to spend the winter; I have been af- 

 flicted for eight years with chronic articular rheumatism, and 

 each spring 1 am more cripiiled. until nfiw it is with difficulty 

 I can walk at all. I have tried all kinds of treatment, includ- 

 ing the baths at different places, but was only temporarily 

 benefited. How about the island where Mr. A. I. Root spends 

 his winters; Any information will be gratefully received. 



Holliday's Cove. W. Va. Mrs. h. Buchanan. 



We gladly give place to the above; but I think 1 

 shall have to caution our afflicted friend against plac- 

 ing too much confidence in statements from parties 

 who are financially interested — those having hotels, 

 boarding-houses, sanitariums, or having real estate to 

 sell. I think we may say that, as a rule, a warm cli- 

 mate is better for rheumatic patients than a colder 

 one — especially places where the air is comparatively 

 dry. On our island, with water on all sides of us. 

 there is, very much of the time, a brisk sea-breeze. 

 While this seem > to suit me exceedingly well, the 

 old residents are frequently afflicted with rheumatism, 

 grip, and other things that we have here in the North. 

 My opinion is that a liann/e of climate, especially to- 

 gether with a change of drinking-water, also a change 

 of habits and pursuits, oftentimes gives relief to many 

 of our infirmities. 



DOING MORE THAN YOU ARE PAID TO DO. 



On page 913, July 1, I tried to make some small boys 

 understand that the way to get a raise in wages is to 

 do a little more than one is paid to do. The Sunday 

 School Times has such ar excellent editorial right 

 along this line, that, after reading it over and over 

 again to myself, I have concluded to give it here: 



" No man can be ' kept down' who always does a lit- 

 tle better than any one has a right to expect of him. 

 And no man ever ' gets to the top ' in any walk of 

 life unless he does just this. It is such a simple rec- 

 ipe for sure success, and is so often called attention 

 to, that the wonder is that we are all so slow to adopt 

 it. The man who only fills his place, and no more, is 

 likely to remain a fixture in that place, while others, 

 who are more than filling their places, crowd them- 

 selves out into bigger, better positions. Indeed, the 

 man who no more than fills his place is likely to lose 

 even that place to one who gives evidence of being 

 able to make still more of it. Christ himself struck 

 unmistakably at the failure of stopping with our own 

 work when he said, 'when ye shall have done all the 



things that are commanded you. say. We are unprofit- 

 able servants; we have done that which it was our 

 duty to do.' We begin to make ourselves profitable 

 only when we do more than our simple duty." 



KIND WORDS. 



GLEANINGS IN " BOY " CULTUR8. 



I take this occasion to add my word to the many ex- 

 pressions of appreciation of the efforts you are mak- 

 ing for the safe-guarding of our homes and making 

 this country of ours a better one. Your replies to the 

 two letters you have received from the fellows who 

 hate righteousness were valuable, not so much because 

 they were a good defense, for Christianity needs no 

 defense, but as showing a temjierance in your expres- 

 sion of views that was in strong contrast to the heat- 

 ed style of our misguided friends on the other side. 



I don't have time to raise bees, but am raising boys, 

 and shall continue to read your paper as long as I get 

 such good "Gleanings in Boy Culture." When the 

 boys get large enough I shall let them raise bees. 



Richmond, Va. Asa Johnson. 



Friend J., please accept my thanks for the very high 

 compliment you pay me in regard to my department 

 in this journal; and, come to think of it, I do not know 

 but 6oj/ culture is of fully as much consequence to our 

 nation as bee culture is to the readers of our journal. 

 What do the friends think about it — especially those 

 who have had experience in both lines':' 



I like the little periodical very much, and Mrs. 

 Simpson wishes me to say that your religious articles 

 are helpful and good, although she thinks you are 

 just a little bit " cranky " at times; but she is willing 

 to put up with that if you will continue to write in the 

 future as helpfully as in the past. I am a minister, 

 and was glad to find a little religion mixed with bee 

 culture. I think they fellowship nicely. 



DeKalb, Miss., Aug. 6. L.R.Simpson. 



KIND WORDS FROM A LADY. 



Mr. A. I. Root:—! am sure Mr. Jorgensen does not 

 realize when he gets his money's worth. Mr. C. has 

 taken Gleanings over 20 years (and kept every one); 

 he thinks it the best 6<'e-journal printed; he never 

 looks at the Home papers. I have been reading 

 Gleanings for eight years; also Mr. C.'s back num- 

 bers. I read Home papers first, then all articles on 

 flowers, pollen, etc. I think it the finest magazine for 

 the price in America. Long live A. I. R. 1 Keep on 

 punching swindlers like T. W. Bryan. 



Springville, N. Y., June 21. Mrs. B. A. Crosby. 



Convention and Fair Notices. 



The annual meeting of the Kansas State Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association will meet at Hutchinson, Sept. 18, 19. 

 All persons interested in bees are requested to be 

 present. This meeting occurs during the State Fair, 

 and there will be reduced rates on all railroads. Head- 

 quarters for bee-keepers will be at the Hamilton 

 Hotel. O, A. Kebne, Sec. 



OHIO STATE EAIB. 



The premium list of the Ohio Fair to be held in Co- 

 lumbus, Sept. 2-6, does not offer inducements equal to 

 Indiana, Illinois, or West Michigan, and bee-keepers 

 who are interested in making an exhibit should make 

 the management aware of their shortcomings, so that 

 the premiums offered next year will be in accordance 

 with the status of the industry in Ohio. While the 

 premium list is fair, we naturally expect something 

 better from a rich State where bee-keeping is an es- 

 tablished industry. 



The Ontario Bee-keepers' Association have decided 

 to ask the following prices for honey {wholesale): 

 White extracted, IVA to 12%c; No. 1 comb, $2.50 to 

 $2.75 per doz.; No. 2 comb, $1.75 to $2.25 doz.— Canadian 

 Bee Journal. 



