him as he ended liis talk that 1 wat? unable 

 to see hiiu; but after J readied lioTue ! 

 wrote liim as follows : 



My good friend, it w;i.s m.\ irri'.'it pleasure, yester- 

 day, to listen t<i your talk here in Medina at our 

 Chautauciua meeting. I am enclasing a few leaves 

 of our joui-nal for August 1, to let you know what 

 we are trying to do in the temperance crusade to 

 make Ohio dry. 



Now the facts >ou gave us in regard to intemper- 

 ance and the state prison are, it seems to me, more 

 important than anything either our journal or the 

 American Issve or any other temperance periodicals 

 have gotten hold of. Possibly what you stated has 

 been already in print. If so, will you kindly get it 

 for me, or tell me where I can get it ? If it has not 

 been in print I will gladly pay you for your time 

 and trouble in giving me the part of the talk, espe- 

 cially of statistics and figures in regard to intemper- 

 ance. As I am anxious to know as soon as possibK^ 

 if I can get it for use in our journal, I inclose an 

 addressed postal. 



May God bless and strengthen you for what you 

 have already done, and that you may continue the 

 work far into the future. Perhaps I might add 

 that, when I was a young man, for many years I 

 visited our jails here in Medina. That was when 

 w? had open saloons in our town, and I had quite 

 a class every Sunday ; and it was my great privilege 

 to see quite a number converted to the Lord .Jesus 

 Christ, and now tilling places of trust and responsi- 

 bility. You know what this means to a Christian 

 worker. 



Once more, may God bless and sustain you. 

 Your old friend, 



A. I. Root. 



i\bout Sept. 1 I received the following, 

 evidently taken down by some stenogTapher 

 from one of his lectures: 



KR(JM •' THE REM.4KING AND MENDING OF MEN," 



By C. L. Kiplinff'.-r, Chaplain Indiana State Prison. 



Speaking of the parole law and its proven results 

 tlic speaker said ; 



The information and advice upon which a parole 

 is granted is gathered for tho Parole Board almost 

 from the day the prisoner reaches the institution. 

 The board, considering the release of a prisoner, has 

 before it the full case record of the piisoner's of- 

 fense; the prisoner's statement; the statement of the 

 trial judge and jirosecutor ; letters of reference as to 

 the past hi.story, h.abits, and reputation of the appli- 

 cant for parole; and, in many cases, the report of a 

 personal investigation made by the state agent. 



If a parole is granted, the prisoner must tiave 

 first of all, a suitable place of employment. This is 

 found or investigated by the state agent. The em- 

 ployer must know that the man he takes comes from 

 prison, l>c willing to take him notwithstanding, aud 

 to take a friendly interest in him. The prisoner must 

 not use into.xicating liquor; ho must not frequent 

 questionable pla<-t>s nor iissociate with questionable 

 charactci's; he must make each month a wTitten 

 statement of earnings, expenditures, and savings and 

 general conduct, which report must be signed by his 

 en^ployer, vouching for it as correct. The willful 

 violation of one or all of these conditions constitutes 

 a violation of parole for which the man will be 

 returned to prison. 



In seventeen years over 8000 men have been 

 paroled from Indiana institutions. Of this gi-eat 

 number 7i^ per cent have kept the condition.s of 

 parole, and earned final discharge. In the old da.\ s 

 — under the straight sentence r gime, with mi"i 

 .'uilomatically discharged after having served a stal- 

 ed amount of time, 70 per. cent of all men so- le- 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



leased got hack into prison within one year for 

 committing some new crime. 



The state should itself, by all means, supervise its 

 jiarolod prisoners. Its agents should know where 

 every paroled !iian is located, and visit him fre- 

 (luently to advise, en(ourag<>, or admonish as the 

 case may ne»ed. The paroled man should be as 

 much in the custody of the state as when behind the 

 walls of the prison. Only such an administration 

 of the parole law can make it fully c/Toctive, and 

 prevent the law itself from falling into disrepute. 



Speaking of liquor and crime, the lecturer said in 

 part : 



1. I know that. 8r;.73 per (-eiit of (uir present 

 prison population are moderate or excessive users 

 of liquor, and trace their crime entirely or indi- 

 rectly to liquor. 



2. To gUe iigures: When our population was 

 1130 men, 946 of them were either drinking or 

 drunken when their crimes were committed; or their 

 crimes were planned in saloons; or, led away from 

 former standards by drink, they became careless of 

 morals and of law, and were ready to plan or be led 

 into deeds which the law forbids, and for which 

 human society demands a penalty. 



3. I Know that 96 per cent of the men serving 

 life sentences in the Indiana state prison for mur- 

 der, rape of child, and under the national criminal 

 act, trace their crimes directly to liquor as the 

 prime or contributing cause. 



4. A cartful examination into the past history of 

 each of 226 n'.en serving life sentences revealed the 

 fact that 212 of the 226 crimes were traceable to 

 liquor. Except for liquor, 212 of 226 murderers 

 now serving life sentences in prison might now be 

 living at liberty, and free of the foul stain of 

 murder. 



5. I know that county option in Indiana did re- 

 duce the number of commitments to the prison, and 

 that the facts revealed by a study of the commit- 

 ments received in a year when 70 of the counties 

 were di-y and 23 were wet, are significant as to the 

 effect it would have on crime in our state to abolish 

 the saloon. 



Of the 70 dry counties in the state, 27, or :;8..j 

 per cent, sent no man to pri.son. 



Of the 22 wet counties of the state, 3, or 14 per 

 cent, sent no man to prison. 



The 70 dry counties of the state during the year 

 comm.itted 92 men to prison. 



The 22 wet counties of the state during that 

 \eiir committed 135 men to prison. 



The population of the 70 dry counties was 1,597,- 

 263. The population of the 22 wet counties of the 

 state v,-as 928,995. 



Yet the 22 wet counties containing only 29.6 per 

 cent of the state's jiopulation, furnished 55.3 per 

 cent of the commitments to prison. 



The 22 wet counties furnished one prisoner for 

 every 7432 of the population. 



The 70 dry counties furnished only one person 

 out of every 16,023 of the population. 



In one period of six months we received at the 

 prison 92 7iien. Of these 92 men, 86 came from wet 

 counties and 6 from dry counties. One of the six 

 was insane. 



80UTII f\l!OLI>;A DRY, MORIC THAN TWO TO 

 ONE. 



For days and weeks 1 have been watch- 

 ing the outcome of the election (Sept. 14) 

 in South Carolina. I told Mrs. Root it 

 would liave considerable effect on Ohio, 

 and, ill fact, more or less effect on every 

 state tli.-it is waging a like war for right- 

 eousness. I ])rayed for South Carolina for 

 days and weeks beforehand. I prayed the 



