In spite of the corruption in high places, in spite of the graft 
and wholesale bribery in some of our legislatures that have been 
revealed lately, the world is moving to higher and better things. 
It is moving, because graft will be no longer tolerated. The 
legislators who had a price for their votes will be relegated to 
the past. When that day comes, we shall expect that all the in- 
jurious patent medicines, as well as all medicines containing large 
percentages of alcohol, and all injurious food products — injui- 
iotis because they contain preservatives and injurious flavorings 
— will be barred from the stomachs of our American people, 'll.e 
day is almost here now. 
Bees and Poultry. 
It may be interesting to our senior editor to hear that he is not 
the only poultry enthusiast connected with Gleanings, but tli/.t i^'C 
are also "in the ring of poultry cranks." To tell the truth, kev p- 
ing poultry works well with bee-keeping if the person so eag.'gvd 
understands the management of the combination. We have be- 
come entangled in these two lines of work for two reaio.fs: 
First, because of the old saying, that a busy business man should 
have some kind of hobby on which to spend his spare time, and 
thus divert his mind from his cares. We have always suggested 
that there is no other side line like bee-keeping for busy men. 
But why have we never thought about a hobby for the busy busi- 
ness bee-keeper? It might be said that for him "more bees" 
would be a remedial measure ; but would not that make his busi- 
ness Hfe still more strenuous? For this reason we have made 
fancy poultry-keeping our hobby, and we like it immensely, as 
we get a lot of fun out of it. 
1 he second reason has been the fact that, aside from the pleas- 
ure that we have gotten out of the hobby, we have found this new 
venture so remunerative that we have had to increase our poultry 
business to such an extent that it is really not a hobby any longer. 
The consequence is, we now have two businesses to look after, 
and will continue them as long as they work as well side by side 
as they have. Since most of the poultry work is early and late in 
the day, while the bee work comes in between these two periods, 
the combination works very nicely; and as long as we get our 
share of profits from both, as well as a lot of real pleasure, why 
should we not combine them? Of course, we are well aware of 
the fact that this is a time of specialty in all lines of work, and 
this is what we are trying to adhere to even now. Can we do it? 
We are trying to make a specialty, and strictly so, with our bees ; 
at the same time we are trying to do the same with the chickens. 
Can we ? 
The Value of a Good Armor. 
Time and again we have been in position to show that it pays 
in the long run to be well armored for extensive work in the 
