. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 698 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Oct. 31, 1901. I ^ The Home Circle. ^ i Conducted bij Prof. ft. J. Cook, Glaremont, Calif. FRAUDS, HUMBUGS AND SUPERSTITIONS. Is there anything in this world of ours that is grander, and more delightful to the soul, than genuine truth, entire absence of pretense, perfect ingenuousness ? On the other hand, is there aught that is more repellant, more discouraging in society, than fraud, humbug, superstition, all—or anything that maketh a lie ? Among the most blessed fruits of our high development of science is that she unearths
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 698 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Oct. 31, 1901. I ^ The Home Circle. ^ i Conducted bij Prof. ft. J. Cook, Glaremont, Calif. FRAUDS, HUMBUGS AND SUPERSTITIONS. Is there anything in this world of ours that is grander, and more delightful to the soul, than genuine truth, entire absence of pretense, perfect ingenuousness ? On the other hand, is there aught that is more repellant, more discouraging in society, than fraud, humbug, superstition, all—or anything that maketh a lie ? Among the most blessed fruits of our high development of science is that she unearths frauds, reveals humbugs, and dethrones superstitions. She stamps her great, honest foot hard on whatever maketh a lie. How generously education touches her patrons to bless and to help. Is not one of her brightest crowns, that she so summarily dumps out of the mind its superstitions ? PATENT HEDICINES. No doubt Holmes voiced a grand truth when he said that it would be a blessed thing if all the medicine of the world was dumped into the ocean; but, he added, it would be awful on the fish. As a learned and experienced physician. Holmes was entitled to speak. If he had prefixed medicine with •' pat- ent " how much more of truth would have been uttered. It is fearful to note the great floods of advertisements of patent medicines that fill the pages of our newspapers. Millions of dollars are poured annually into the cesspool of the newspaper. It is_awful to think of the amount of these vile compounds that are gulped down by a too trusting and suffering people. A synonym for patent medicine would be FRAUD, in capital letters and underscored. This is patent, for are they not heralded forth as cures for all maladies ? And are not all the tricks of the most artful, skillful and expert advertising agents employed to get these concoctions of the Evil One into the hands and stomachs of poor, suffering humanity? The poor, sick one grasps at a straw, and is too feeble often to judg
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