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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July 15 



fully fif^ht sickness, jmin, and (hnfli, then 

 we wunr to put our money into something 

 better tlian i)rizelights or even war-sliips, 

 and strive to use it in some way so it will be 

 "treasure laid up in heaven." 



The abo\e tall< about war and prizefights 

 recalls to mind some lines my mother 

 taught me when I was just learning to use 

 words. So far as I can recall they run 

 something like this: 



Let does delight to bark and bite. 



For ( Jod hath made them so; 

 Let bears and lions growl and fight, 



For 'tis their nature too. 



But you, dear children, should not let 



Your angry passions rise: 

 Your little hands were never made 



To tear each other's eyes. 



THE SHAME OF OHIO. 



On p. oBl, .lune 1, I said, " (lod knows how 

 I dislike the very thought of war; but if 

 nothing but war will sto]) this awful traffic 

 I should like to see war come." l^ittle did 

 I think, as I dictated the above, that a 

 licpior war would so soon be opened up here 

 in our fair State of Ohio. I have s|)ace here 

 only to review^ the sad events liriefly. 



Licking Co., ()., voted dry. Newark, the 

 county-seat, was wet, and voted to remain 

 wet. The county \oted against the wicked 

 city, and the saloon-keepers and speakeasies 

 massed themselves together and decide<l to 

 disobey the law. Knowing that they would 

 make a resistance the Anti-saloon I>eague 

 sent twenty jiicked men, duly em])oweretl 

 by law to compel those rebels nf/cdnst law to 

 stop their li((Uor-selling. A mob was soon 

 raised to resist the officers, and in the melee 

 a saloon-keeper was shot. To i)rotect the 

 detective from the violence of the mob he 

 was i)laced in jail. The mob kei)t increas- 

 ing, and tinaily declared they would tear 

 the jail down unless the doors were opened, 

 and for two hours they besieged the jail. But 

 the mayor, like too many other mayors, 

 was in symiJathy with the wets, and he did 

 nothing or next to nothing to preserve or- 

 der. At the end of about two hours the sa- 

 loon-keeper died from the ell'ect of the shot 

 from the officer, whom he had cornered up 

 and api)arently intended to kill. This 

 aroused the insane mob to a fury. They 

 tore up a ))ar of railroad iron, and, using it 

 as a battering-ram, smashed in the brick 

 w^iUs of the jail, took the Anti-saloon officer, 

 and in the ))resence of a crowd of oooo men. 

 women, and children, hanged him to a tel- 

 egraph-jiole. There his bruised and l)leed- 

 ing body (for he had been badly ])ounded 

 up before being put in the jail) hung for 

 half an hour. exi)osed to the gaze of all. If 

 I am correct, the mayor and sheritf finally 

 began to consi<ler what they had done or 

 had permitted to Vie done, and took his body 

 down, closed the saloons that had been, so 

 far, wide open during the night, and re- 

 stored a semblance of law and order. As 

 we go to press, the pa])ers tell us that Gov- 

 ernor Harmon has been summoned to the 

 spot. The mayor and sheriff have been 



suspended from office awaiting trial, and 

 the<lovernor has made the following dec- 

 laration, which I clii) from the Cleveland 

 J'tain Dealer of July 11: 



As for the lynching, the rei)orts made to me and 

 my own investigation ha\t' convinced me that it 

 was murder |)ure and simple, n dastardly atfair that 

 could hav'e been prevented. No such indignity to 

 the State of Ohio can be permitted without the 

 most vigorous efforts to punish those responsible. 



May God be praised that we ha\e a gov- 

 ernor who is not afraid to call things by 

 their right names, and act promptly. 



When, some years ago, a whisky-crazed 

 mob destroyed the City Hall and other 

 buildings in our neighboring city of Akron, 

 something like forty rioters were sent to the 

 penitentiary. We are ho])ing and jiraying 

 that the crazy men who trampled law un- 

 der foot in Newark may meet a like pun- 

 ishment. 



Later. — Just as we go to jiress, July 12, 

 we clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



.Jud.son Harmon, Governor of Ohio, to-night de- 

 creed that death in the electric chair shall be the 

 fate of those who defied the law and lynched a pri- 

 vate detective in this city late Friday night. 

 Charges of murder in the first degree will be pre- 

 ferred il sufticient evidence as to the identity of the 

 mob's ringleaders is forthcoming. Gov. llarnion 

 insists that such evidence be produced. 



LAW ENFORCEMENT, ETC. 



A. I. Root:—\ have just been reading what you 

 siiy about the opium business. It does seem hard 

 treatment to cut olT their heads: but it surely in- 

 spires .a fear of the law, and cuts out all hopes of 

 being "pardoned out " in a few day^ or weeks. If 

 all our prisoners knew that they were "in for 

 keeps " till the expiration of their term, whether a 

 month or a life, tliey would have more re^ject for 

 the law: and. further, if they knew that the law 

 oflicers were all on the lookout for lawbreakers, 

 and would surely do their duty in the premises, 

 they would be more careful how they transgress. 

 1 am for a strict enforcement of the law for both 

 high and low. and believe good would come of It. 



No. Yakima, Wash. R. J. Benbow. 



"SEEK YE FIRST THE KJNGDOM OF GOD 

 AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS," ETC. 



In the S'lndaij Sehool Times for June 26 

 is a wonderful story entitled "From Three 

 Oaks to Jerusalem and Beyond." E. K. 

 Warren, President of the World's Sunday- 

 school Association, when he was a young 

 man living in Three Oaks, Mich., had charge 

 of a little country store. He also "had 

 charge " of a good-sized class of young men 

 in the Sunday-school. Well, part of the 

 trade at that country store was tobacco. 

 Like other country towns in the lumber re- 

 gions, very likely lobacco was a considera- 

 ble i)art of the trade. Well, young Warren 

 finally become so well satisfied that it was 

 wrong for him, at least, in his position, to 

 sell tobacco that he decided to cut it entire- 

 ly out of their business. Here is a clipping 

 from that article in the Sunday School 

 Times. Read it and see what you think of 

 it. 



