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may take away that full case of beer, and not bring 

 any more here." 



" Would you mind telling me," said the liquor 

 man, " whether Billy Sunday had any thing to do 

 with this? " 



"Yes, he did," answered the woman; " we've been 

 to the meetings, and decided not to drink any more." 



" You are the tenth customer," he said, as he pre- 

 pared to depart; "you are the tenth customer that 

 I have lost to-day on account of Billy Sunday." 



And that was two weeks before the Booze sermon 

 was delivered ! 



'^ god's kingdom" coming. 

 And the following also, from the same 

 issue: 



The claim that more liquor is being consumed 

 to-day than ever before is one of the claims that 

 trouble many temperance people. Billy Sunday 

 brought this claim into the open and met it with a 

 printed report that was given to him by a govern- 

 ment official. The figures given were by the United 

 States government. The whole tabernacle smiled 

 with Billy as he told them confidentially that he had 

 friends on the inside who kept him posted on the 

 real facts. He chuckled with pleasure as he held the 

 sheet in his hand; and as the laughter quieted down 

 he hurled these figures at the audience. For the 

 government year ending 1914 the amount of whisky 

 that was consumed in the United States was 10,741,- 

 738 gallons less than was consumed in the year end- 

 ing June, 1913 ! 



OVER 189 MILLION PASSENGERS CARRIED, AND 

 NOT ONE KILLED. 



SAFETY FOLLOWS SOBRIETY. 



In 1914 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 

 throughout its entire system carried 189,167,326 

 passengers, and not one of these passengers was 

 killed. This is the company's star record. It will 

 be remembered that the Pennsylvania company 

 strictly enforced its rule against drinking on the 

 part of its employees, does not sell liquor on its din- 

 ing-cars, and has closed the bars in all of its sta- 

 tions. — American Issue. 



" CAPT. RAND " AND HIS " LUCKY STONE.-" 

 Dear Mr. Root : — Please print in Gleanings your 



opinion of the so-called " lucky stone." 



Surrey, Cal., Isov. 17, Mrs. Axxa Hose. 



My good friend, the above has been re- 

 ferred to two or more times already. It is, 

 of course, useless to pay out a dollar for a 

 common pebble so as to insure the owner 

 " good luck." A horseshoe nailed over the 

 door will do the trick jiist as well, for we 

 all have more or less good luck every day of 

 our lives; but we never take note of it (nor 

 thank God for it) until we have invested 

 our dollar in an innocent pebble. 



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 ONE CIGARETTE, AND VP^HAT IT DID. 



We clip the following from the Christian 

 Herald : 



ONE CIGARETTE, $500,000. 



Starting, it is alleged, from a cigarette thrown 

 into some rubbish, a fire destroyed railroad property 

 at Camden, N. J., January 3, to the va-lue of more 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



than $500,000. The railroad station and ferry slips 

 of the Atlantic City Railroad Company and somt 

 twenty-five vestibule cars, besides a nearby lumber- 

 yard, were destroyed; a dozen persons were seri- 

 ously hurt, and over one hundred firemen were over- 

 come by the smoke. It required the services of 

 eighteen local fire companies aided by apparatus and 

 fire-boats from Philadelphia to subdue the flames, 

 which were fanned by a north wind. Thousands of 

 spectators watched the spectacle. 



One addicted to the cigarette habit, as a 

 rule has too little sense to know any better 

 than to throw the burning ^ aper into any 

 combustible matter. 



WOULD WOMEN VOTE IF THEY COULD? 



In answer to the above we clip the follow- 

 ing from the Woman's Journal and Suf- 

 frage News: 



At the presidential election in Arizona in Novem- 

 ber, 1912, when women could not vote, the total 

 vote east was 23,722. At the gubernatorial election 

 in November, 1914, when women did vote, the total 

 vote cast was 51,007. 



In like manner in Kansas, in 1912, the presiden- 

 tial vote was 365,444. In 1914 the gubernatorial 

 vote was 530,206. 



Oregon, in 1912, cast 137,404 votes. In 1914 it 

 cast 210,566 votes. 



At the gubernatorial election of 1910 in California 

 the last general election at which men alone voted, 

 the vote was 385,713. In 1914, at the gubernatorial 

 election, with women voting, it was 926,689. 



In Washington, at the 1908 election, the vote for 

 governor was 176,141. Women were enfranchised 

 in 1911, and the vote in November, 1914, was 

 345,279. 



These are the latest five States in which women 

 have had an opportunity to vote at a general election. 

 The difference between the vote before and after 

 equal suffrage should put an end to all arguments 

 that women do not use the vote. 



" THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD AND THE BROTHERHOOD 

 OF MAX." 



My dear Mr. Boot: — I am inclosing $1.00 for the 

 renewal of my subscription. I am not handling 

 bees, but in a general way I am interested in the 

 discu.ssions and experiments on that line. The 

 honeybee has been one of the potent agencies in our 

 American civilization. The same may be said of 

 our horticultural productions. Furnish the home 

 with fruits and honey, and the home is far more 

 complete and happy. Our heavenly Father has pro- 

 vided a supply for the legitimate wants of every 

 jiving creature; and with a proper adjustment in our 

 social relations every need of every human being can 

 be supplied, so that there should be no necessity for 

 war. 



Our Father is rich in houses and lands, 

 Rubies and diamonds, silver and gold, 

 He has riches untold. 



But the wastes from war and dissipation to the 

 present time would build for every family on earth 

 a. palace of marble and decorate it with gold, so that 

 Aladdin's dream might be realized. 



I am interested in your apiology; but for me the 

 greater attraction is in the common-sense sermons 

 wliich you are preaching to what is one of the largest 

 congregations in the world. The world is learning 

 that true religion does not consist in mere profession, 

 ceremony, or ritualism, but a life and character 

 which is in harmony with the spirit of Christ — a 

 religion which recognizes the fatherhood of God and 

 the brotherhood of man. 



Urbana, 111., Feb. 4. I. R. Rbasoner. 



