AUGl'ST 1, 1915 



049 



•■ god's kingdom coming." 

 Some years ago, while up in Pu,u;et; 

 Sound, ^\'a^;!lill^4(on, my good t'l'iend 11. A. 

 INIaic'h gave me a little experience of a wet- 

 ami-dry light they liad in tlieir own conniy. 

 After liaving a fierce battle llie wels won 

 out by a narrow margin, and a saloon was 

 opened up not far from Mr. March's home; 

 but, to the gi'eal astonishment of everybody, 

 it did not pay expenses. In fact, it starved 

 out in just a few montlis. l'nl)lic opinion 

 bad got ahead of the law in sjiite of tlie 

 trickery and cheat of the wet side. There 

 wa.s nobody (o buy the drink after they liad 

 won tile battle, as they supposed. Well, I 

 have been watching for this very thing. 

 Witli the advance the wiu'ld is making, it 

 would be strange indeed if ])ublic opinion 

 dill not starve out some of the salot)ns afli'i' 

 jiaying ^lUUU or more license. 



l?elow is a clipping from tlie Union Sifj- 

 tifil : 



loo ACII.W AL'KKK SALOOXKKK.l'KRS TO ABANDON 

 miSINKSS. 



It is repork'd Ijv the Philiidplpliia North American 

 tliat iiioiH' tlian 100 salooiil^ei'iH'rs are to go out of 

 l)iisiness on .fuly 1. This information is said to lie 

 contained in tl>e annual report coiicernin^ saloons 

 sent to the city eouneil. 



Just iioAV I read in the American lasue 

 that the Board of Health of the great city 

 of New York has decided '*It is as necessary 

 to fight drink as it is to fight an epidemic." 

 Does not that sound sensible, even if it has 

 taken yeai-s to find it out and arrive at such 

 a conclusion ? God's kingdom is coming. 



THK FOOT AX;) AIOUTH UISKASE NOT THE 

 WOnST '' MOLTtI disease" after ALL; ETC. 



The following is clipped from The Day, 

 of New London, Ct.: 



C.'in any argument prove tl'.at tlie one deep need 

 of Ni'W IjOndoii is not an ocean terminal, but a 

 termination of the pover that turns men into blear- 

 eyed soaks, as Billy Sunday puts it? It is not a 

 roUese for training the minds of cur daughters how 

 t<i think correctly, but a civic conscience that will 

 safeguard the homes of the men our daughters will 

 marry. 



It is stated that the hoof and mouth disease broke 

 out among cattle fed on the slop and refuse of dis- 

 tilleries. I5ut line ha-s only to listen to the vile lan- 

 Kuu-.;e iif rMinfilled men. and he can trace the origin 

 of a worse " mouth disease" than that of an ox. 

 IJilly Sunday says that " alcohol will remove the 

 stains from summer clothing. One ha.s only to walk 

 around the rumeursed sections of New London to 

 .tee that alcohol will ab-o remove tie clothing as well 

 as the stains. Visit the pawn-brokers' shops, and 

 you will 6eft that aUohol can remove a ring from a 

 woman's finger, a watch from her husband's pock- 

 et, tools from the workman's chest, and, worst of 

 all, I'lothing from the children's backs." 



1 appeal to the manhooil of this beautiful city to 

 rise in their true strength and move this remover 

 of the best things we have in our homes. The sa- 

 loonist insists that the lifiuor business is " good for 

 l.ns-nevs." But he carmot prove that it is good for 

 an\ business under the sun but that of the under- 

 taker. Kkv. Francis .Vdams. 



i:i-;ti'kning the empties. 

 Collier's Weekly says: 



Kev. K. M. Evans, of the Trinity Methodist 

 Cliurch, Des Moines, Iowa, got one of those circular 

 letters Ixioniing " Old Bob Adams" whisky. He 

 jiriuted :i reijly in the Des Moines Register and 

 Liii'lir. that should interest every intelligent man 

 whose talents are being misused in the booze busi- 

 ness : 



"I note you pay the freight on returned empties. 

 I should like to send you a full carload of emiities 

 if you will honor your agreement. I suppose the 

 freight will be much cheaper on full carload lots. 

 To ))( lionest with >oii, the empties are not in first- 

 class condition. They consist of empty men — empty 

 of manhood, energy, ambition, prospects, self-respect, 

 and necessities of life — empty head, empty heart, 

 empty soul, empty stomach; also empty women, emp- 

 ty of womanhood, refinement, modesty, and hope. 

 Will it be worth while making the return of this 

 carload of empties? Will this carload of empties lie 

 worth the freight to you?" 



Do you haul back your empties, Mr. Respectable 

 Distiller, or are you di\mping the junk of them on 

 the jail and the jioorbouse? 



CINCINNATI, .\ND WHAT THE CITY IS DOING 

 TO KEEP UJ' THE OHIO PENITENTIARY. 



We dip the following from the Ameri- 

 can Issue for July 23: 



Mr. R. A. Mack, Cincinnati, Ohio — 



AVy dear Sir : — I am the matron of the woman's 

 department of the Ohio Penitentiary, and I desire 

 to say there are more prisioners from Hamilton 

 County in the woman's department at this time 

 than from any other county in the state. One-liftli 

 of our population are from Hamilton County, and 

 a,c least 85 per cent of the prisoners in the institu- 

 tion are here from drink. Sincerely, 



Cora K. Wells, Matron Ohio Penitentiary. 



THE FLYING-MACHINE — A NEW USE FOR IT. 



When I was having such an enjoyable 

 time in being with the Wrights when they 

 made their first experiments, my enjoy- 

 ment was greatly marred on being inform- 

 ed by Wilbur Wright that the flying ma- 

 chine would i)robably be of more use in war 

 than as a vehicle to assist commerce and 

 travel; and it has saddened my heart again 

 and again to see this prediction fulfilled 

 before niy eyes. Well, just now 1 find the 

 following clijn)ing in Farming Business. 



Hf.NT KIRES IN AUROl'LANE. 



.Tack Vilas has received an appointment as for- 

 est ranger, and will range the north woods of 

 Wisconsin in his hydro-aeroplane instead of sit- 

 ting on top of a 90-foot tower and looking at a 

 limited range of country. By using his machine he 

 can rise to such heights as to discover a fire 50 

 miles away, and quickly fly to the scene and re- 

 port for re-enforcements if needed. 



From the above it seems that this same 

 Mying-macliine is destined to do great work 

 in preventing forest firo^s from getting 

 such a start as to destroy miles of timber, 

 and sometimes almost whole towns and \il- 

 lages. May God hasten the time when the 

 llying-machine will prove to be an aid to 

 peace instead ot an aiil to war. 



