1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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FILLING UP THE RANKS AS 



thing to provoke those drunken men. The 

 boy says, by way of apology, that they had 

 been drinking all night, and did not know 

 what they were doing. Please note the all- 

 night part of it. They not only held up 

 honest and innocent people, but helped 

 themselves to rigs wherever they happened 

 to be. Imagine a busy market-gardener 

 going for his horse and buggy and finding 

 that some drunken man has appropriated 

 it! Now, then, what shall be done with 

 these highway robbers and murderers ? If 

 this thing is allowed to keep on, people will 

 be afraid to go out on the streets after 

 nightfall. 



Just one more clipping from the Plain 

 Dealer: 



The Ohio law provides that whoever kills while 

 attempting robbery shall be guilty of flrst-degree 

 murder. It is thought that, in view of Van Gelder"s 

 youth, it may be hard to send him to the chair. 



From the above it would seem as though 

 the boy and the man with him are candi- 

 dates for the electric chair; and it may be 

 true that the electric chair will help to save 

 life and give a feeling of security in the 

 future to busy people who really must be 

 not only up early in the morning but late 

 at night ; but how about those saloons 

 named in the above clipping? Shall they 

 be allowed to go on with this terrible busi- 

 ness day and night ? Are they in any ivay 

 responsible for the increasing number of 

 hold-ups ? Suppose the crowd that collect- 

 ed could have caught hold of the murderers 

 at the time Mrs. Rayner was killed. God 

 forbid that the lynching business should be 

 on the increase as well as the highivay- 

 murder business. Now suppose that the 

 crowd had decided, or some able speaker 



THE VETERANS DROP OUT. 



— Courtesy of " The Friend." 



had been able to explain to them, that the 

 saloons were as much responsible, if not 

 more so, than that boy only 19 years old; 

 and sui>pose, after this crowd of people (it 

 might have been a hundred, or may be sev- 

 eral hundred) had gone to that nearby 

 saloon-keeper and notified him that he was 

 also responsible for that woman's death — 

 sujjpose this whole crowtl, laborers and 

 land-owners, had demanded that he quit 

 his business then and there, would he not 

 have done it? I think he would. More 

 than twenty years ago, Rev. C. J. Ryder 

 said in one of his sermons here that if the 

 business men who sat before him would 

 demand that the saloon across the alley 

 from the church should quit business it 

 would wind it up. I think I gave voice to 

 the loudest "amen" I ever uttered in any 

 church, when our pastor made that state- 

 ment; and as the saloons quit business a 

 very short time afterward, somebody sug- 

 gested that my amen helped to break up 

 and banish the saloons from our town, from 

 that time to this. How does it come, friends, 

 that in this " home of the free and the land 

 of the brave " so many people sit still and let 

 this terrible traffic go on ? We are making 

 great progress in combating "preventable 

 diseases;" we are looking after the babies 

 as we never did before; we are even making 

 deep studies of the matter of looking after 

 the health and happiness (I guess that is 

 the right word) of our pigs and chickens; 

 but may God forgive us (and if we go right 

 at it I think he tvill forgive us) for letting 

 these hot-beds of crime continue to grow 

 and flourish right next door to honest and 

 hard-working peojjle. 

 I have copied a picture from a periodical 



