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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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speaker boasted that they had seven and a 

 half millions of dollars to put up to tight lo- 

 cal option in Pennsylvania.* Local option 

 means letting the people decide whether they 

 will have open saloons or not. The liquor 

 people are going to spend $7,500,000 in oi'der 

 to defeat the people in their attempt to let 

 the majority rule. When money, or, if you 

 choose, millions, make our laws, instead of 

 the votes of the people, what are we coming 

 to? I said I felt sure something was wrong 

 when it transpires that one man has the 

 ownership of two and a half million acres of 

 land; and 1 do not know but I shall have to 

 decide thei'e is something wrong where one 

 person has control of two and a half million 

 dollars, especially if he proposes to use it to 

 pile up still more millions for himself or a 

 selfish gang. I do not know where the solu- 

 tion is couiing from for these troubles that 

 loom up before us. But I do know that God 

 will guide us if we will but put our trust in 

 him and obey his commands 



You say, "But if all or the majority of 

 workmen acted on this advice, who would 

 'get to the top'? " Friend H., I think you 

 misapprehend. If we all f<»llow the Savior's 

 teachings there would be no top nor bottom. 

 Our inspiring motive should not be strife 

 nor to get ahead of our fellows. When one 

 does more than he is paid to do, his wages 

 will be increased sooner or later, simply be- 

 cause his employer can afford to pay him 

 more Farmers are saying all over our 

 land that they would put in more crops and 

 cultivate more land if they could find com- 

 petent help. The prices they have to pay 

 for service rendered leaves no margin for 

 profit, and they are obliged to give it up. It 

 is the same way with manufacturers. If they 

 could get men who W(juld put their whole 

 souls into their work they could afford to pay 

 such men liberally. And it is even still 

 more so in our homes. Our good educated 

 intelligent women say they would like to 

 raise a family of children if they could get 

 somebody to help in the household — one who 

 loves children, and who would work for 

 wages that they can afford to pay. And so 

 you see the high price of help (and incompe- 

 tent help at that) is tending to "race sui- 

 cide " as our good President has put it. The 

 sixth chapter of Luke contains some wonder- 

 ful precepts in regard to this same matter. 

 Let me quote one: 



* Here is the clipping referred to: 



OHIO ELECTIONS ALARM KEYSTONE LIQUOR 

 MEN. 



Dealers Will Meet Thursday to Raise Fund 



OF $7,500,000 TO Fight Local Option in 



Pennsylvania. 



The Pennsylvania State Federation of Liquor Deal- 

 ers will meet in Harrisburg, Thursday and Friday, to 

 discuss plans to raise a fund of $7,500,000 to flyht local 

 option in the State. The dealers are alarmed by the 

 recent local-option elections in Ohio. 



Of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania, thirty- 

 eight will be represented at the meetinsr. Efforts will 

 be made to organize thoroughly in every county. 



Temperance people in Pennsylvania are preparing 

 for an aggressive local-option fight in the next Legis- 

 lature. 



Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, 

 pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, 

 shall men give into your bosom. For with the same 

 measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to 

 you again. 



If we give good measure to our employers, 

 or do a little more than we are paid for do- 

 ing, we shall get it back again, and this has 

 proven true the world over. We shall not 

 only get it all back, but good measure, press- 

 ed down, shaken together, and run7iing over. 

 In other words, we shall receive fx'om our 

 fellow-men the same kind of service that we 

 give them. If we scrimp in our measure it 

 is not only human nature, but it is the way 

 of the world, to give us scrimped measure in 

 return. A good many times we get discour- 

 aged in thinking the measure that we have 

 been giving has not been appreciated. Young 

 people especially get impatient after they 

 have worked extra hard to win approval, 

 and then do not get it right away. 



But another beautiful Bible text should 

 come in hex'e and make us patient. It is this: 



Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season 

 we shall reap if we faint not. 



If we hold right on to these two quotations 

 I have made— Luke 6:88, and the one above. 

 Galatians 6:9, we shall make progress, and 

 get ahead in any community or anywhere 

 on the face of the whole earth. 



HIGH PRESSURE 



GADDENING 



A.I.I^OT 



MULBERRIES IN FLORIDA AND IN OHIO; MUL- 

 BERRIES AND THE FEATHERED TRIBES. 



On page 599 of our issue for May \, 1906, 

 I described a wonderful mulberry-tree with 

 branches away up above the dwelling, and 

 said branches were just bending with the 

 most delicious mulberries I ever saw or tast- 

 ed. I told you Mr. Collins, the owner of the 

 tree, said he did not know the name of it, 

 but he said it was certainly a superior fruit 

 — far ahead of any of the mulberries catalog- 

 ed by the Reasoner Brothers near by. Well, 

 last winter Mr. Collins was kind enough to 

 send a dozen or more cuttings from the tree 

 to our island. In a little while these cut- 

 tings made quite respectable little trees. I 

 have not heard from them since. I talked 

 with the Reasoner Brothers in regard to it, 

 and have written them since, and have 

 thought best to submit to you the following 

 in regard to this excellent (and I should say 

 wonderful) mulberry: 



Dear Mr. Root:— 1 have examined into that mulberry 

 matter, and think the variety is the Stubbs, a South- 

 ern sort, hybrid from the native Red and perhaps 

 Downing (at least it shows the blood of the red vari- 

 ety), and is the finest sort we ever saw. Rains are 

 light, but are doing lots of good. We shall be pleased 

 to help you pick out some plants for the new 

 Braidentown place personally. Please phone me 



