GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



TEMPERANCE 



SEE FINISH FIGHT ON LIQUOR ISSUE IN 1916 

 CAMPAIGN. 



I copy the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



The results of the prohibition movement since 

 December 22 are: 



Alabama. — Legislature passed a prohibition law 

 to eo into effect July 1, 1915. Bill repassed over 

 the governor's veto. It limits to one quart a month 

 the amount of liquor that may be received by one 

 consignee, and prohibits liquor advertising in news- 

 papers, on billboards, and otherwise. 



Arkansas.- — Legislature enacted prohibition to be 

 effective Jan. 1, 1916. 



Idaho. — Legislature has submitted the question 

 to voters for election of 1916. Governor since has 

 signed prohibition measure to become effective Jan. 

 1, 1916. 



lowA. — Legislature repealed the mulct law, leav- 

 ing prohibition effective after Jan. 1, 1916. It is 

 certain Iowa will vote on constitutional prohibition 

 next year. 



Montana. — Legislature submitted question to be 

 voted on next year. Legislature desires the bill sub- 

 mitted should make prohibition effective Dec. 31, 

 1918, but the prohibitionists have refused to accept 

 it, contending the date be Dec. 31, 1917. 



North Carolina. — Legislature passed law pro- 

 hibiting delivery of intoxicants in state even for 

 personal consumption. 



South Carolina. — Legislature submitted ques- 

 tion to voters for decision in 1915. 



Utah. — Both branches of legislature have voted 

 to submit prohibition to voters. 



Colorado. — Legislature has enacted laws to en- 

 force prohibition after Jan. 1, 1916. • 



Minnesota. — Legislature has put local option in- 

 to effect. 



Pennsylvania. — Legislature is considering local- 

 option bill. 



New Jersey. — Legislature is considering local- 

 option biU. 



The states in which prohibition is in effect or 

 where statewide prohibition measures have passed, 

 but are not yet in operation are: 



Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, 

 Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, North Car- 

 olina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, 

 Virginia, ' Washington, and West Virginia. Total 

 —18. 



The action of the North Carolina legislature, fol- 

 lowing close on the West Virginia court decision 

 which places an embargo on alcoholic liquors, is 

 regarded here as a startling development. A bill 

 has been offered by the speaker in the Kansas house 

 of representatives to shut liquor out of the state. 



god's kingdom COMING. 



Our good friend J. E. Miller, of Home- 

 dale, Idaho, sends the clipping below, and 

 adds, " Praise the Lord." Can we not all 

 join with him in his brief " Methodist 

 shout"? 



The statewide prohibition bill which makes Idaho 

 absolutely dry after January 1, 1916, was signed by 

 Governor Alexander at 3 o'clock last Monday after- 

 noon. The office of the chief executive was crowd- 

 ed with temperance workers from all parts of the 



state who desired to witness the official ceremony 

 that came as a culmination and a victory fi'om their 

 efforts of several years. 



Two pens were used by the governor in affixing 

 his signature to the bill. One pen was presented 

 as a souvenir to Mrs. W. S. Chipp, of Boise, the 

 president of the Women's Christian Temperance 

 Union of Idaho, and the other was handed to W. J. 

 Herwig, state superintendent of the Anti-saloon 

 League. 



Praise the Lord! 



SIGNinCANT FIGURES. 



From the last United States census we learn thai 

 the wet state of Nevada had, in 1910, 353 prison- 

 ers for every 100,000 of her population, while her 

 dry neighbor, North Dakota, had 63. Nevada had 

 194 paupers for every 100,000 population; North 

 Dakota, 14. Nevada had 282 insane people for 

 every 100,000; North Dakota, 108. — Home and 

 State. 



SOME EXTRAVAGANTLY KIND WORDS FROM A BROTHER 

 IN FLORIDA. 



Dear Friend: — I am trying in my poor way to 

 keep up with your papers called Our Homes, as they 

 are of much importance to me. I find myself without 

 words in stock to express to you how I appreciate 

 the feasts it brings to my soul. They are just sweet, 

 for I ain sure that they have been given to you 

 from a higher power than mere education. " Lord, 

 help ! " means much. I realize this as being a more 

 than true fact, if, possibly, "Lord, help I " has been 

 heard by the loving Savior many times. I can say 

 of a truth that Jesus does answer prayer. 



Now let me suggest to you that Jesus is a polite 

 clerk for God's great storehouse of goods, and is 

 just ready and waiting for a customer to rap, or 

 ring the phone bell, and then " right then the goods 

 are delivered" — no climbing up and down the 

 shelves to look for the number the customer calls for. 

 Jesus is fully up to this wonderful house of plenty, 

 and, best of all, he does not cheat customers who 

 deal with hhn. When once a man gets acquainted 

 with this wonderful Jesus (the principal clerk), he 

 never becomes displeased, for he knows just what 

 size of garment and style will fit, and he can see 

 you, even away down the dark road, coming to pur- 

 chase a wedding-garment. Just call over the phone, 

 and your order M'ill be filled that same day. In 

 fact, I believe I can say Jesus (without fear or 

 doubt), will even fit it on you before you can hang 

 up the receiver. 



I trust you will not think me boasting when I tell 

 you I ordered a robe of righteousness, pure and 

 white, washed in the blood of the Lamb ; and, praise 

 his holy name, it just suits me; and, best of all, I 

 feel sure that I can wear it six days in the week, 

 and then it is also ready for Sunday service. Thank 

 God for his promptness in filling the order. He has 

 been a friend to me. I am sure if either of those 

 skeptics you referred to will call for a Christlike 

 "tailor-made" suit, so to speak, and call in dead 

 earnest and faith, Jesus can please them, and they 

 will be ashamed of the one they now wearing. 



Can't I hear you say, "Amen, c "n " ? May God 

 help you in this contest with such characters as 

 you are now having to contend with. Dear brother, 

 you have got my vote in the contest. 



I want you to pray for me, and faint not. Ask 

 God, in his all-seeing and all-knowing power, to 

 deliver me. This is a wonderful knowledge, if it is 

 his will, for me to know and understand his biddings 

 and the scriptures. "For in them ye tliink ye have 

 eternal life, and they are they that testify of me." 

 Pray for nie. I need the prayers of all God's dear 

 children. I thank God, time" after time, for just 

 siicli men as A. I. Root. 



Sanborn, Pla. Oct. 12. Charley C. Langston. 



