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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Oct. 1 



called The Friend. Just look at the pro- 

 cession, and all marching down to a drunk- 

 ard's grave. I hardly need tell how this has 

 been going on for ages past, and the respon- 

 sibility rests on us, on you and me, for let- 

 ting it keep on. As the men in the ranks 

 drop out, somebody must till their place ; 

 and the saloon-keeper makes it ///s business 

 to fill up vacancies. If grown-up men de- 

 liberately and of their own accord step into 

 the ranks, it would not be so hard; but just 

 think of taking some innocent boy — a boy 

 for whom his mother is, jierhaiJS, working 

 and praying even now — taking this bright, 

 innocent, unsuspecting youth and thrusting 

 him in among that crowd just for a few 

 nickels. May God help us. We are mak- 

 ing some counties dry, and the thing is 

 narrowed down until now the counties con- 

 taining great cities are asking, "Shall 

 liquor rule?" or, as I said before in our pre- 

 vious issue, " Shall rebels rule?" 



I wish to quote here a few lines from 

 William Jennings Bryan : 



A FEW QUESTIONS. 



Question. — The money invested in breweries, dis- 

 tilleries, and saloons in Nebraska is small com- 

 pared with the money invested in farming, manu- 

 facturing, and merchandising. Why is money 

 invested in the liquor business so much more 

 potent in politics than money invested in other 

 forms of property ? 



Answer. — Because money invested in breweries, 

 distilleries, and saloons is used as a club to beat 

 any one who opposes the demands of the liq'ior 

 interests, while the owners of other forms of prop- 

 erty allow themselves to be terrorized. 



Question. — Why do those connected with the 

 liquor-traffic exert more influence in politics than 

 educators? 



Anstcer. — Because the nation spends four times 

 as much for drink as it does on education. 



May God be praised that Mr. Bryan has 

 finally broken away from the political gang 

 that has heretofore kept him from speaking 

 out his honest sentiments; and may all 

 good men and women rally around him 

 and hold up his hands. 



Yet one more clipping, in closing, from 

 the Plain Dealer: 



WOULD BAR SALOON BANKS 



THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' UP-TO-DATE 

 FLYING-MACHINE; SEE PAGE 628. 



COLLINWOOD RESIDENTS INDIGNANT OVER PRAC- 

 TICE OF CASHING PAY CHECKS 

 IN RUM-SHOPS. 



Collinwood citizens are indignant at the whole- 

 sale practice of cashing checks that is going on in 

 the saloons as soon as Lake Shore raiload employ- 

 ees are paid off. It is said that the saloon-keepers 

 are reaping a harvest by the business. 



"This business ought to be stopped at once," .said 

 Rev. M. L. Buckley, pastor of the Church of Chrisc. 

 " I understand that soon after pay day certain 

 saloons cash checks to the amount of •'*40,000; a good 

 amount of this is, undoubtedly, returned to the 

 bar-keepers for beer and whisky. Of late the saloon 

 men have been running things with altogether too 

 high a hand." 



The wave of indignation against the distributors 

 of rum was precipitated by the robbery Wednesday 

 in Zimmerman's saloon, Collinwood, when 11800 

 was stolen from the place. The loot was money 

 which was on hand to cash the railroad men's pay 

 checks. 



Please notice this $1800 was money to pay 

 railroad men, who certainly earn their 

 money if anybody does. The robbing was 

 in a saloon, of course. Does not our text 

 describe those engaged in the traffic? 



Up above the world so high. 

 Like a diamond in the sky. 



In writing up my visit to the Wright 

 brothers, p. (302, last issue, I said I hoped to 

 give our readers a good picture of it soon; 

 and through the kindness of Miss Catherine 

 Wright, sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright, 

 I received a very good picture of the ma- 

 chine I tried to describe in our last issue; 

 and I tell you it is an imposing spectacle, 

 even when it stands out on the grassy field, 

 ready to fly. In steering an automobile the 

 oi)erator has only to swing it to the left or 

 right; but after the flying-machine leaves 

 the earth, it has to be steered in a like man- 

 ner up and down. Just in front of the ma- 

 chine you see a pair of cloth planes, some- 

 thing like the large machine itself, except 

 that they can be turned up or down with a 

 lever. At the rear of the machine there are 

 two similar planes of cloth, but they stand 

 up and down vertically, as you see; and 

 these can be revolved so as to make the ma- 

 chine turn either to the right or to the left. 

 While the students were making their ex- 

 periments during my visit they swung 

 around in a very large circle, as there was 

 quite a brisk wind. But Orville explained 

 to me that, when there was a little wind, or 

 almost a dead calm, an expert aviator could 

 tip the machine up almost edgewise, and 

 swing around in a circle so small that it was 

 almost like turning on one's heel. The skill 

 to perform this feat, however, comes only 

 with long practice. I noticed that, at the 

 recent meet in Boston, some of the pupils 

 were swinging their machines around on so 

 short a curve that Wilbur Wright interfered, 

 and forbade their taking any more such 

 risks. Now, M'ith this preface I wish to 

 copy from a new periodical for owners of 

 automobiles, called The Lever. You can 

 get a sample copy by addressing The Lever 

 Publishing Co., 141 NVest Ohio St., Chicago, 

 111.* The following e:<tract is from a state- 

 ment made by Arthur L. Welsh, entitled 

 " How it Feels to Fly." 



Welsh had read many books on aviation, yet he 

 had never touched an aeroplane previous to last 

 March. He wished to buy one, so he saw the 

 Wright brothers. It was his intention to tour the 

 country at county fairs with his aeroplane, but a 

 bigger opening came his way. He found that 

 Wright brothers were delivering no machines until 

 1911, but that there was a chance to get on their 

 staff as an aviator. Welsh applied and was accept- 

 ed. He is 29 years old, next to the youngest aviator 

 in this country, the youngest being a man of 21 

 years. His home is in Washington, and he has 

 made some of the highest flights on record. 



"It took me," said Welsh, "just about four hours 



* Perhaps I might mention the fact that one of my 

 grandsons, Howard Calvert, a boy of 19, when he 

 first saw a copy of The Lever spoken of above, hur- 

 ried off a dollar for the journal for one.vear. Then 

 he desired his grandfather to make application to 

 the Wright brothers for a place among their pupils 

 to learn to run a flying-machine as well as an auto- 

 mobile. And. by the way, I might add that Howard 

 Is already quite an expert with all sorts of automo- 

 biles and motor cycles. Whenever his grandfather, 

 has "got stuck," Howard has been pretty sure to 

 get him out of his trouble in a very short time. 1 

 am glad to add that the boy has just begun a course 

 at Oberlin College. 



