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as that or" husband and wife. Do not these two 

 love each oUier? Why, it very often results in 

 the happiest relations. The siep mother is, 

 generally speaking, very much belter fitted lo 

 be moiher lo her sister's children than any 

 oiliir vNomau. 



Now, then, ye friends and brothers in Florida, 

 Caiifuruia, Arizona, and anywhere else where 

 woiUHii are scarce, Oo not be ovi-r particular. 

 If you can do so, make a pilgrimage, as I have 

 suggested, to some place wluire llieie are more 

 women than men, and help the world along by 

 evening up_ these things. It is far better lo do 

 this than to marry little girls wlio ought lo be 

 in school. Use your wits. Go about in the 

 world and get acquainted; and after you have 

 tried contrasting the life of a married man with 

 that of keeping a bachelor's ranch, if you feel 

 like Ihaiikiijg God, and thanking a little, too, 

 your old friend A. I. Root, write and lell him 

 so. In fact, 1 have already had many thanks 

 just in this line. 



A few days ago I saw a list of statistics where 

 it staled that men v/ho had once been married 

 were much more likely to be married again, 

 than those of the same age who had never been 

 married at all. Look about you and see if it is 

 not true. Then, again, please consider, dear 

 friends, whether it is right for you to have a 

 place here in this busy world of ours without 

 doing something to keep the world going and 

 moving. You can not lake very much interest 

 in schools unless you have children of your 

 own. You can not be very patriotic unless 

 you are going to help hand down the accumu- 

 lated wisdom of this present age to the coming 

 generations. If you have proposed in your 

 mind lo live and die single, and without chil- 

 dren of your own, you certainly can not urge 

 other people to take you for an example and uo 

 as you do. Why, if we all followed you there 

 would be scarcely a human being on the face 

 of the earth in just a hundred years. The 

 whole world is just now making a terrible stir 

 because of the Armenian massacres and cruel- 

 ties, and well it should make a stir, for they are 

 cutting oft' by the hundreds and thousands the 

 people who constitute a part of the population 

 of the world. But your plan of action would 

 result in sweeping the population off the 

 whole f (tee of the earth in just a few years. 

 You may say, " Oh! 1 oo not ask other people 

 to do as I do. They can do as they please, and 

 I will do as I please." All right, my friend. 

 Go on in your own way; but remember you are 

 not " in ihH swim," if you will pardon the ex- 

 pression. You are one of us, it is true; but 

 you won't be very long. 



Let me say in conclusion that this talk has 

 been given with malice toward none and char- 

 ity for all. i have given it as my opinion, from 

 my slau'lpolnt. Yuu can take it for what it 

 is worth. Of course. I take it for griinted ihat 

 the renders of Gleanings are intelligent, law- 

 abiding, pure, and virtuous men and women. I 

 do not recommend that we should propagate 

 crime by advising criminals to get married; 

 that is, 1 would not advise them to get married 

 until they have repented and have chosen 

 Christ Jesus for their counselor and guide. 



Under no circumstances would I recommend 

 or encourage for a single instant this matte- of 

 adxiertlshig for a partner. Even if good re-^ults 

 have come from such a course. I am sure it is 

 not the right and manly or womanly way of do- 

 ing things. Lei me give you one illustration: 

 A bee-keeper with whom we have deal I for quite 

 a number of years, all of a sudden made a pil- 

 grimage to Medina. He did not at lirst tell me 

 why became here; but in dup time he let out 

 little by little the state of affairs. Somebody 

 from Medina advertised in some periodical, 



representing that she was a woman of means, 

 guorl-looking, young, and of good reputation. 

 Our bee friend did ent^r her home; but he did 

 not stay very long. Had he known what he 

 found out a Utile later, nothing in the world 

 could have induced him to ever set foot on her 

 premises, even for a single instant. I hardly 

 need tell you that not one of the statements in 

 the advertisement was true. 



THE OHIO ANTI- SALOON LEAGUE. 



Perhaps not all the readers of (ileaninos are 

 aware 1 hat there is a pfriodi-Ml published, en- 

 litlcd The Wine (Uid Sijirlb News It is the 

 organ of the Ohio State Liquor League. As 

 the readiest means of telling you what the Ohio 

 Anti saloon League is doing. I present some ex- 

 tracts from the Wine and ISpirit News: 



" We note that the Rev. Howard H. Russell never 

 loses sight of u good thing'. Either in person or by 

 proxy lie attentls every church confer eice and 

 Sui day-school g'utln ring in the State, where he 

 poSi'S as a lieio. and endeavors to hitch the Ohio 

 Ami saloon Leiigue on to ihe machineiy of the 

 chunMi woik. Be.sond any question he Is tlie most 

 pesiifeioiis and annoi ing ciauk the saloons of Ohio 

 have had to deal with." 



"Ever siiiee its eAistence, the so called Anti-saloon 

 League, which claims to have niembeis in every 

 couuiyin ilie State, and also being the strongest 

 orj^anizaiion in the State, lias used all kinds of 

 means to have moi'e prohibitory and fanatical laws 

 pa-sed by our assenUily." 



"One year from this tall we have to elect our next 

 Assembly. If we are not completely organized by 

 thai time, and the Anti-saloon League elect their 

 people, 1 he same us biSt year, we Uiaj' as well close 

 up our business, as they again will use all means to 

 wipe out tlie liquor iratlic. or otherwise make it so 

 strong that we can exist no longer. (Jiiiied we 

 stand, divided we fall." 



"In every city and town in the State the Anti- 

 saloon League is secretly forming branches, with 

 ilie avowed purpose of controlling primaries and 

 thereby securing i>rohibitory legiblation. Tliey 

 have in the past dipped deeply in all the town 

 elections, and, be it said to the shame of the disor- 

 ganized saloonroen. that in some towns they have 

 succeed d in carrying their point." 



"If the Anti-saloouLt^ague isn't at present harass- 

 ing you in your own lown. it soon will be, as th'y are 

 pushing and extending ihe order all over ttie Si ate; 

 and when your town is reached, let usseejou in 

 position to ask of your community your rights un- 

 der our siaiutes. from which no honest, public- 

 s|>irited citizen can recede." 



" A poll of the newly selected members of the leg- 

 islature w as taken in regard to iheir positit)n on the 

 Haskt 11 bill, which demonstrated that the majority 

 of the members were in favor of the passage of said 

 bill." 



" The Legislative committee was instructed to so- 

 licit funds, and use all honorable means to defeat 

 the passMge of the Haskell bill, a'ld seek a moditica- 

 tion of the present laws, especially the law lorbid- 

 ding the sale of intoxicating liquors within two 

 miles of an agricnltiiral fair, and the Adair law." 



" The 0|>i>Obitioii to the liiiuor traffic is the Anti- 

 saloon League, which Is strongly organized in every 

 county in the State. "Wilhuut any f1nanci^d benefit.it 

 has been using all kinds of metins to have bills p.iss- 

 ed by the h gislature whicli would be disastrous to 

 our business." 



Please notice the grand compliment they pay 

 us in the expression, *' without any financial 

 Ijenelil." You see the saloon-keepers and 

 whisky-men can hardly comprehend how any- 

 body, much less a great body of people, should 

 work with such untiring zeal In any thing 

 where they do not expect to make money by it. 

 They are associated together for the express 

 puroo^e of getting money, and they do not care 

 a tig how they get it. If they would only 

 knock people down in the streets, and rob them 

 of their money, it would he a small matter com- 

 paratively; we could aft'ord to let them go on; 

 but in order to get hold of a few penuies and 



