1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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volunteered, and we together went into the 

 back end of the. saloon. Thirty or forty men 

 were yelling and cursing, some wanting to 

 fight, some young boys just drunk enough to 

 yell like savages, and iill shrieking for more 

 drink. The bar-tenders did not seem to have a 

 bit of scruple in giving men on the verge of 

 madness all the drink they could pay for. The 

 girl shrank back, saying it was sometimes actu- 

 ally dangerous to go in there. "'Surely goodness 

 and mercy shall follow me," etc. Was it God's 

 hand that led me where I was then standing ? 

 or was I out of place there among a drunken 

 rabble in one of the underground dens of in- 

 famy in the city of Sandusky? The more I 

 think of it, the more 1 hMil satistied it would be 

 well if a delegation should go over from Lake- 

 side and walk through these places as I walked 

 through that one; and th 3 reason why I have 

 faith in Howard Russell is because he has been 

 doing this very kind of work through almost 

 all the towns and cities of the State of Ohio. 



At Johnson's Island, for 25 cents four 

 men with a boat having sails bigger than a 

 barn took me across to Peninsula. The wind 

 was good, and they said they could all sail 

 over just as well as to do nothing. The same 

 wind that hindered me so much on my wheel 

 now carried me over the water (against the 

 wind) like a bird. By the way, who is going to 

 invent something for the wheel so that the 

 wind may help instead of hindering us in riding 

 against it? 



It was almost dark when I started across the 

 main land afoot. I lost my way by my eagerness, 

 as usual, and had to go back. I reached the 

 dense forest encircling Lakeside Grounds just 

 as it was getting to be very dark. I could not 

 see the path through the trees and bushes; but 

 you remember when I climbed Wilson's Peak 

 in the night I learned the trick of keeping in 

 the trail by feeling with my toes. Riding the 

 wheel, I now prefer for shoes the lightest kid 

 gaiters. When I get off, by wiping off' the dust 

 with an old silk handkerchief I carry with me 

 in my hip pocket, I can make myself quite 

 presentable. You will remember how highly I 

 spoke of Lakeside and all its appointments a 

 year ago. As I capie near the wicket-gate a 

 man stood there with a lantern ready to exam- 

 ine my passport. It made me think of Pil- 

 grim's Progress; but when I got clear up and 

 reached my card through a hole in the gate, 

 the gate-tender was putting away at a big pipe. 

 This did not remind me of the gate-keeper in 

 the Pilgrim's Progress. The next morning at 

 five o'clock I saw another man sweeping the 

 auditorium, ptififing away at a pipe. Why, 

 what has got into the people of Lakeside? 

 Can't they find a man to tend gate and act as 

 janitor who does not use tobacco? May be 

 these people come on only after dark, or very 

 early in the morning. I did not see anybody 

 smoking in the day time unless it was the 

 agent for the steamboat and railway tickets. 

 I was a little late at the Lakeside Hotel, but I 

 met most of my temperance brethren, after all, 

 and was ready for business next morning. 



I must say a word more in praise of that 

 Lakeside Hotel. Dear reader (perhaps I should 

 h&ye said dear feminine reader), just imagine 

 a fine hotel, I should say equal to any in com- 

 fort, without a bar, without a cigar-stand, 

 without anybody smoking a cigar, either inside 

 or on any of its various porches; yes, and the 

 most beautiful pure water to drink. There is 

 a neat and tidy barber-shop, bath-room, and 

 closets, and clean men and women in every 

 sense of the word. They are getting good 

 patronage, for every room was occupied, and I 

 was obliged to sleep in one of the cottages. 

 When I came to see the cottage assigned me. 



however, I was not a bit sorry; and when I felt 

 like taking a nap between the long sessions of 

 the meeting, a kind Christian lady gave me one 

 of the daintiest lounges to rest on, with vine- 

 covered porches, and flowers in bloom, and 

 shifting shadows all about me, as I closed my 

 eyes to rest. Is it strange that I thought of 

 the words of our text, "Surely goodness and 

 mercy shall follow me all the days of my life" ? 



On the speaker's stand was an immense can- 

 vas on which was a map of the State of Ohio, 

 showing the progress to date. The counties 

 that had been canvassed, and would vote for 

 the Haskell bill, and, furthermore, banish the 

 saloons when the Haskell bill is passed, were 

 painted in white; those not yet so canvassed, or 

 those that refused to vote for the Haskell bill, 

 etc.. were shown in dark. Well, friend Russell 

 and his organizers have already made Ohio look 

 considerably speckled. Within the last few 

 months some of the hardest counties have come 

 into line, and some of them have been driving 

 out saloons without even waiting for the Has- 

 kell bill. Prominent among these is the county 

 of Defiance; and a minister by the name of 

 Mills, working together with father Kincaid, a 

 Catholic priest, are at the bottom of the work. 

 A bright young Catholic lawyer, who gave us a 

 soul-stirring address on temperance, has also 

 been a mighty power. Dr. Lewis, of Cleveland, 

 president of the recent Sunday-school conven- 

 tion, gave us a most admirable talk, explaining 

 why the Sunday-school indorsed the Anti-sa- 

 loon League. He repeated something from 

 Parkhurst that brought vigorous cheers: "The 

 wicked flee when no man pursueth." Park- 

 hurst said that, while this is certainly true, it 

 is also true that the wicked make a good deal 

 "better time^' when a good man is at their 

 heels. Elder Belt was asked to tell why the 

 presiding elders of the M. E. Church had so ve- 

 hemently indorsed the Anti-saloon League. He 

 said that, years ago, he had decided to join in 

 with any thing that was against the saloon. 



Judge West, of Logan Co., was asked how it 

 was possible to keep such a beautiful city of 

 10,000 inhabitants as Bellefontaine entirely free 

 from saloons, as well as Logan Co., of which 

 Bellefontaine is the county-seat. The judge is 

 old and infirm, and he has also losthis eyesight. 

 On account of his age he sat down while he 

 talked to us. He said he could remember the 

 time when, by general agreement, the farmers 

 for miles around used to come into Bellefon- 

 taine every Saturday afternoon and proceed 

 around to the different saloons treating each 

 other. He said these Saturday-afternoon fights 

 kept the court-house full of business, and the 

 jail full of inmates. Somebody asked him if 

 banishing the saloons had made the town dull, 

 and had driven business away. He admitted 

 that it had been disastrous to one line of busi- 

 ness. He said the city could not begin to sup- 

 port the crop of lawyers that it did in the " good 

 old times;" but every other line of industry he 

 thought would compare favorably with any 

 other city of its size in Ohio or in any other 

 State. 



Space will not permit me to tell more of our 

 grand meeting. The closing address was by 

 Bishop Watterson. of Columbus. I never knew, 

 until anti-saloon-day at Lakeside, that the Ro- 

 man Catholics have a total- abstinence organi- 

 zation that has been in working order for more 

 than 34 years; and I think it is surely true that, 

 since other denominations, as well as Catholics, 

 have joined hands, and since all political par- 

 ties seem to promise to drop, for the time being, 

 politics and every thing else, and as a unit wage 

 war against the ^aloo?i, these great movements 

 have made greater progress than was previous- 

 ly possible. 



