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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



June 15 



were stubborn and contrary, like some of 

 the saloon-keepers in dry {owns in Ohio. 

 But the Chinese ofllcers said, " Here, don't 

 you plant any more poppies or we will take 

 care of you." Once more, however, like the 

 saloon-keepers of Ohio, they gradually start- 

 ed in the business again. I think they 

 were warned three times to obey the law; 

 but after the third offense, these offenders, 

 about half a do/en of them, were arrested 

 and brought into the city; and to set an ex- 

 ample before others, the Chinese officials 

 did what? AVhy, they beheaded the whole 

 gang of rebels — rebels against good govern- 

 ment and common sense. 



Now, I had said "amen" to every thing 

 else in Bro. Beard's talk; and I was just 

 ready to clap my hands where I heard these 

 six or seven men were brought to i)unish- 

 ment; but when the si)eaker said they were 

 all beheaded I did not clap my hands with 

 the rest of the crowd. I had raised them 

 up, and was almost ready to bring them to- 

 gether; but when I thought of such a sud- 

 den and awful method of bringing an im- 

 penitent soul so suddenly into the presence 

 of his Maker I hesitated. I am glad those 

 men were punished; and may be under the 

 circumstances it was best for all concerned 

 to do this, for since then there have been no 

 more poppy-fields flaunting their beauti- 

 ful colors in and around Foo-chou. If those 

 men could have been shut up for life or for 

 a term of years while the Y. M. C. A. took 

 them kindly in charge and taught them 

 how Christ Jesus left his throne in heaven 

 and came down to a suffering and sinful 

 world, is it not possible that one or more of 

 those rebellious citizens might have been 

 made a good man? The Chinese way of 

 reasoning seems to be along the line of that 

 old adage, that "the only good Indian is a 

 dead Indian." Well, friends, what is it 

 that we need to-day here in our own nation 

 to teach men to reverence and respect law? 

 Shall we take off their heads? God forbid; 

 but something should be done to make the 

 law more of a terror to evil-doers. Instead 

 of taking off their physical heads by law, 

 let us prevent mayors from being any long- 

 er the "heads" of our great cities — that is, 

 when they absolutely refuse to live up to 

 their oath of office. We were informed at 

 the conference that men who love darkness 

 rather than light because their deeds are 

 evil have just succeeded in defeating the 

 Black bill — a bill to remove mayors and oth- 

 er officials from office when it is evident that 

 they do not propose to enforce law. Our 

 conference passed a resolution regretting 

 that this good and righteous bill should 

 have failed for tlie time being. But it only 

 puts us back a little. We shall prevail in 

 the end, for we are " marching on." 



On page 368 of our last issue I said I had 

 received a copy of a law recently jmssed here 

 in Ohio. See cojiy of it on next column. 



May the Lord be praised that we have a 

 Governor here in Ohio who is willing to put 

 down in plain black and white his official 

 approval of the above just and righteous 



law, no matter what amount of pressure the 

 American Tobacco Co. and the cigarette 

 manufacturers may have been enabled to 

 bring to bear on the question. Now, my 

 good friends, here is something for you to 

 do. If you have reason to believe that those 



(House BUI Xo. 46.) 



AN ACT 



To amend section 12965 of the General Code, 

 relative to smoking or using cigarettes 

 by minors. 

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 

 State of Ohio: 

 Skction 1. That section 12965 of the General 

 Code be amended to read as follows: 



Sec. 12965. Whoever sells, gives, or furnishes 

 to a person under eighteen years of age a ci- 

 garette, cigarette wrapiier. or substitute for 

 eitlier, or a cigar or tobacco, shall be lined not 

 less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 

 one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less 

 than two days nor more than tliirty days, or 

 both; and for eacli subsequent offense sliall be 

 fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than 

 three hundred dollars, and imjirisoned not less 

 than five days nor more than sixty days. 



Section 2. That said original section 12965 

 be and the same is hereby repealed. 



Granville W. Moonev, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

 Francis W. Treaijway, 



Freiiclent of the Senate. 

 Passed April 21. 1910. 

 Approved April 25, 1910. 



.JuDSON Harmon, Governor. 



You will notice from the above that there is now a line of 

 825.00 or more for anybody, old or young, wbu gives a boy un- 

 der the age of 1« a chew of tobacco or a cigar or cigarette; 

 and the purpose of this card Is. largely, to ask you to help to 

 have this law rigidly enforced, especially as it has the ap- 

 proval of the (iovernor of Ohio, Judson Harmon. 



who sell tobacco in your neighborhood are 

 not complying with thi? new and righteous 

 law, will you do your part by letting them 

 see a copy of it? I am going to have some 

 cards printed containing the law as above; 

 and if you will pass them around we will 

 furnish as many postpaid, free of charge, as 

 the State of Ohio or the whole United States 

 can take care of. I refer to other States be- 

 cause it may do a lot of good to have ]ieople 

 living elsewhere know what Ohio is doing. 

 Now, then, send in your applications for 

 cards — the more the "better. Of course we 

 expect you to use them judiciously, and 

 where they will do good. Every teacher in 

 the i)ublic' schools of Ohio, I am sure, will 

 be willing to ])resent these cards before the 

 school and give them to those who want 

 one. Let us all rally together, and become 

 personal home missionarif .■^ for the time be- 

 ing. Call the attention of the school scholars 

 particularly to the fact that we here in Ohio 

 propose to stop building bigger penitentiaries 

 in Ohio, at least for our boys; and we pro- 

 pose, too, to stop building asylums to ac- 

 commodate more idiots and imbeciles. AVe 

 are not planning to "kill off the fools," but 

 we are planning to stop growing that kind 

 of crop, here in Ohio. " Whatsoever a man 

 soweth, that shall he also reap." 



Just as we go to press the following was 

 put into my hands: 



Dear Mr. Jioot.—I am very much in sympathy 

 with the general tenor of yoxir sermon in the last 

 Gle.\ning.s. I know much about tlie condition 

 among our young folks, as they often come to me 



