GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



A. I. Root 



OUE HOME 



Editor 



Thy kingdom come; thy will be done in earth as 

 it is done in heaven. — Matthew 6:10. 



There shall in no wise ent«r into it anything that 

 defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or 

 maketh a lie. — Rkv. 21:27. 



God's kingdom is coming. You may 

 remember that I have used this phrase fre- 

 quently of late; and day bj' day I see new 

 evidences that God's kingdom is coming, 

 here on earth, in this teeming world of 

 ours. It is coming to the state of Ohio; 

 and the time of its coming depends on the 

 people, on humanity. It depends on you 

 and me. 



I have just returned from a visit to the 

 Ohio State Fair. I think it must be ten 

 year's or more since I looked over the Ohio 

 State Fair; and I was astonished and hap- 

 pily surprised to see the movement that is 

 going on toward God's kingdom.* Before I 

 tell you what I saw let me explain a little. 



The liquor party is becoming alarmed. 

 A year ago they started what they called 

 " home rule " here in Ohio, to hold back 

 prohibition. Thousands of people were de- 

 ceived and deluded about the so-called home 

 rale. Well, it worked so well they have 

 just now, before tlie coming contest, started 

 what they call " The Ohio Temperance Un- 

 ion.'" That sounds good, does it not, friends? 

 Well, their first move was to go down to 

 Greene County and put up a tent or a 

 booth on the county faii'grounds to distrib- 

 ute their " Ohio Temperance Union litera- 

 ture." The managers of the fair, however, 

 when they caught sight of that lot of tem- 

 perance ('?) literature, called a halt; and 

 their tent, bag, and baggage were very soon 

 ruled off the grounds. They made a big 

 fuss, called the managers fanatics and va- 

 rious other names; but that did not help 

 their cause. Well, the pajjers tell us they 

 made a venture at another county fair and 

 with the same result; and then tliis Ohio 

 Temperance Union had the audacity to ap- 



* When I approached the gate to the fairground 

 a great number of men and boys pushed out to me 

 various leaflets, advertisements, etc. At first I 

 commenced to shake my head; but finally I decided 

 to see what they had for sale, and crammed a great 

 lot of tliem in my pockets. When I got time I 

 noticed they were advertisements of medicine to 

 cure rhemuatisiii, tuberculosis, cancer, headache, etc. 

 They "stood outside the gate" because the manage- 

 ment did not allow anything of that kind on the 

 ground. As soon as I got inside I saw men with 

 baskets of waste paper going around with a sharp 

 stick and spearing up paper bags and trash of all 

 sorts as fast as the busy crowd dropped them. I 

 commenced to pare a nice apple; but almost as 

 soon as the peeling reached the ground a couple of 

 alert boys with baskets caught up the peeling. It 

 was so all over the fairground. No trash or un- 

 tidiness was permitted to accumulate. These are 

 trifling matters; but even "straws," you know, 

 " show which way the wind blows." 



l)ly for space at the Ohio State Fair; but 

 when they produced some of their litera- 

 ture the managers of the fair promptly 

 declared that no such temperance literature 

 could be placed on the grounds of the Ohio 

 State Fair. The liquor men put up a big 

 remonstrance, of course; but the managers 

 were " hard-hearted." 



Well, when I approached the gate at the 

 State Fair on the last day of August, the 

 most conspicuous object was a good-sized 

 building outside of the fairgrounds, just as 

 near the entrance as they could get, deco- 

 rated with the Ohio Temperance Union lit- 

 erature. While there were thousands upon 

 thousands of people rushing through the 

 gate, I did not see anybody gathering 

 around this great display of print. On the 

 morning of Sept. 1, when I came up to the 

 honey exhibit in the Exposition Station 

 Building one of the young beekeepers plac- 

 ed in my hand a clipiDing from a Columbus 

 morning paper. I am sorry he did not 

 leave any evidence as to the name of the 

 periodical. Here is the clipping: 



REMOVAL 01' 7 MKMBERS OF AGRICULTURAL BOARD IS 

 ASKED- OHIO TE.MPEFANCE UNION CHARGES THEM 

 WITH HAVING FAVORED PROHIBITIONISTS. 

 Removal, not of the entire ten members of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, but of seven members, 

 President .John Begg, C. A. Branson, N. L. Bun- 

 nell, J. W. Kirgan, D. D. Snider, T. B. West, and 

 K. D. Williamson, was demanded yesterday of 

 Governor Willis by Harry R. Probasco and W. L. 

 Casady, managers of the Ohio Temperance Union, 

 because the union had been denied a 12-foot space 

 '>n the fairgrounds on which to set up a tent and 

 distribute arguments against prohibition. 



The managers ask removal if the governor does 

 not force the board to recede from its action or 

 does not obtain the resignations of the seven. 

 Though it is not specifically stated in the demand, 

 it is understood the seven voted against the conces- 

 sion Monday when nine members were present. 



The managers charge discrimination in favor of 

 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which 

 has a booth on the grounds and is distributing pro- 

 liiljition arguments. 



Did you ever see such a display of what 

 is generally called cheek? The idea! "Dis- 

 crimination " indeed, in favor of the W. C. 

 T. U.!* 



Some years ago when traveling on a rail- 

 way where I was pretty well acquainted, I 

 noticed a change of conductors. When I 



* To-day, Sept. 3, we find the following in the 

 Cleveland Plain Dealer : 



AVI.\TORS TC AID WETS. 



The Ohio Temperance Union, which is fighting the 

 prohibitory amendment, being denied space inside 

 the fairgrounds to distril)ute literature, seeks to 

 employ aviators to fly about the grounds and drop 

 quantities of literature on the heads of the crowd. 



The Anti-saloou League will ask the courts to 

 stop that procedure. 



