SEPTEMBER 15, 1915 



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There were many stands for the cider 

 while YOU waited, all over the grounds. 

 They had a fashion of pouring it quite a 

 distance so as to make a foam on the top 

 of the glass so as to look like a glass of 

 beer or a glass of fermented eider. But I 

 think the authorities looked after tilings so 

 that no cider was on sale anywhere that was 

 the least bit worked. It was just plain 

 apple juice, and made a very nice delicious 

 drink, made of apples neither too sweet nor 

 too sour. All the stands used a small cider- 

 mill worked by hand; and it would be very 

 nice to have such a machine — a very little 

 one — in the home if it were not for the 

 danger of keeping the cider until it con- 

 tains alcohol, and if public sentiment were 

 worked up to such a point that our fathers 

 and mothers could look out and prevent a 

 little cider-mill proving to be a thing of 

 danger in the home. 



JOHN L. SULLIVAN, THE CHAMPION PRIZE- 

 FIGHTEK, TALKING ON TEMPERANCE. 



Strange things are happening nowadays, 

 and, thank the Lord, some of the happen- 

 ings are *' happy surprises." In a recent 

 Rural New-Yorker the Hope Farm Man 

 tells of attending -a temperance lecture at 

 Ocean Grove, N. J., where Sullivan was the 

 speaker. I wish our readers could all read 

 that Hope Farm notes. We have room for 

 only two brief extracts. 



Here was a man who in the palmy days of his 

 )?reat power spent at least half a million dollars 

 for liquor in the meanest and most debasing way, 

 and then finally braced up and " cut it out " as he 

 expressed it. Surely, we have here an expert whose 



opinion ought to be worth something 



He said the only safe way to fight "booze" is to 

 jump out of the ring and run for your life. He 

 said, and he ought to know, that the man who says, 

 " I can take a drink when I want to and quit when 

 I want to " is a fool and a liar ! I was impressed 

 with what Mr. Sullivan said about the growth of 

 prohibition sentiment everj-wliere. I had to rub my 

 eyes as I recalled that railroad scene of 30 years 

 ago, atid now saw this white-haired, earnest man 

 waving that great hand with something of prophecy 

 as he said that within a few years the sentiment 

 against the useless folly of " booze " would be so 

 great that decent men will not stand for it. 



From a recent number of the Cleveland 

 ['lain Dealer we clip the following: 



MORE ABOUT KANS.^S. 



In a recent number of the Plain Dealer Paul S. 

 Conway, of Kansas City, is reported as having stat- 

 ed in an address to the " wets " of Cleveland that 

 last ye«r over 90.000 gallons of whisky was drunk 

 in Topeka, Kan., that the saloons of that city were 

 ^vide open, and that more liquor was sold in prohi- 

 bition towns and cities than in cities where open sa- 

 loons exist. 



I have spent a number of months each year for 

 several years in Topeka, and know, as every person 



who is acquainted with the city knows, that tliere 

 are no open saloons in Topeka: that "the city is as 

 tight as a drum." to use the language of tlie present 

 mayor of Topeka, and that the prohibition law is as 

 well enforced there as is the law against burglary or 

 larceny. 



In further reply to Mr. Conway permit me to 

 quote from the speech of Arthur Capper, the govern- 

 or of Kansas, made on Kiinsas day at the Panama- 

 Pacilic exposition in San Francisco. Mr. Capper is 

 the owner of the Topeka Daily Capital and other 

 publications having a statewide circulation, and has 

 .spent his entire life of fifty years in that state. I 

 cuote from his speech as follows: "Kansas for thir- 

 ty-five years has not had a legalized saloon or brew- 

 ery, and now has eighty-eight city and rounty jails 

 that are empty, forty-seven poorfarms and alms- 

 houses that are unoccupied; twenty-eight counties in 

 which the criminal courts Have not had a criminal 

 prosecution in more than a year; there are more 

 than half a million boys and girls in the state who 

 never saw an open saloon; the state has the lowest 

 death rate in the United States, only seven to the 

 thousand, a percentage constantly decreasing, al- 

 though we have more motor cars in proportion to the 

 population than any other state. Kan.sas has the 

 largest per capita of wealth, almost $2500 for each 

 man, woman, and child within its borders, while we 

 have $205,000 000 of surplus wealth piled in our 

 banks and savings institutions. Kansas was the 

 first state to declare unanimously through its legisla- 

 ture, its state officials, and its entire delegation in 

 congress for nation-wide prohibition." 



No attempt has been made, and no successful at- 

 tempt can be made to refute these and other statis- 

 tics of like import given by the governor before a 

 large audience, including several hundred prominent 

 jay-hawkers who were present on that occasion. 



Ashtabula, O. NORRis L. Gage. 



THE DOPE HABIT. 



We clip the following from the Official 

 Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Commis- 

 sion for July: 



THE DRUG HABIT. 



Ohio, as well as other states, has an army of hu- 

 man beings who are more or less slaves to the "drug 

 habit." The Division of Dairy and Pood Inspection, 

 ander Mr. Strode, has charge of the enforcement of 

 stringent laws recently enacted. The " drug " is 

 now hard to get. Yet some folks who want to be 

 regarded as respectable and honest will, for the 

 greed of a dollar, aid and abet these drug victims to 

 get the drug in defiance of law. 



This curse has cast a shadow across Ohio and the 

 nation. The cities, especially, have a large percent- 

 age of the cases and victims. In many cities the 

 prisons are filled with these unfortunates. The state 

 and nation ought to have started twenty years ago 

 to wipe out this vice. 



Mothers will appeal to officers of the .Agricultural 

 Commission for permission to purchase " drugs ' 

 when they find they cannot get them as they formerly 

 did. They threaten to destroy themselves. They 

 say they want to live for their children, but cannot 

 live unless they can have their " drug." 



One half of the people do not know how the other 

 half lives. 



The above is all very good ; but does it 

 include cigarettes as well as morphine, co- 

 caine, etc.'/ May God help us in our efforts 

 to keep temi)tation far away from the path 

 uiir children are treading. " Lead us not 

 into temptation," etc. 



