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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



•' I am still of the belief that, after the ne>v 

 pharmacopeia becomes effective, which will be as 

 soon as the new book is issued some time this win- 

 ter, no drugstore will have the right to sell either 

 whisky or brandy unless a saloonkeeper's license is 

 taken out and the druggist complies with all the 

 local regulations of the saloonkeeper." 



A Titanic of souls lost every day by drink in 

 America. 



The saloon will go when Christian men say so. 



The mottoes used were taken from a program pre- 

 pared by J\trs. Stella B. Irvine, 115 Walnut Street, 

 Riverside, Cal. 



PROHIBITION IN FACTORIES, 



We take the two clippings below from 

 Good TTeaUh, Battle Creek, Mieh. : 



INCREASED EFFK^tENCY IN STEKI, WORJCERS WHICN 

 SALOONS GO. 



Due to the removal of saloons from the city of 

 Coatesville, Pa., accidents in the plant of one of the 

 city's largest steel companies have decreased to the 

 >-,.\tent of fifty-four per cent in si.*c months. 



STOVK EMPIiOYBKS I'ORBIDDEN DRINK .\T WORK. 



The Baker Stove Company, of Belleville, 111., has 

 issued an order which makes its plant "dry." Here- 

 after none of its four hundred employees will be 

 allowed to drink intoxicants of any kind while at 

 work. The factory managers are encouraging the 

 men to drink milk instead of beer, and are provid- 

 ing ice vnth which to keep the milk cool. " We are 

 not posing as prohibitionists," says Mr. George Ba- 

 ker, superintendent of the Baker Stove Company, 

 " but we believe wo can increase the eiBciency of 

 our men and reduce the number of accidents in the 

 shop if the men are not allowed to drink when at 

 work." 



GOOD FOR THE ILLINOIS STEEL COilPANY. 



The elipping below was sent us by a 

 friend : 



"did BOOZK EVER DO YOU ANY GOOD? " 



"This question," says Dr. W. A. Evans in his 

 "How to Keep Well" department of the Ciiieago 

 Tribune, " is not from a long-haired or even a pro- 

 liihition orator; it is part of an electric sign dis- 

 played over the gates of the Illinois Steel Company. 



" It is easy to prove," continues the doctor, "that 

 alcohol harm.s the ordinary cells of the body. Al- 

 cohol is a drug. Alcohol addiction is a drug habit. 

 The abuse of this drug will go the way that drug 

 abuse of every kind is destined to go." 



When all the gveai factories of our land 

 are ready to follow the Illinois Steel Co., 

 booze will have to go. 



■rEMPERANCE MOTTOES USED AT TTI^; WORLD S TEM- 

 PERANCE SUNDAY AT THE THIRD PRESBY'TEKIAN 

 CHURCH, TRENTON, N. J. 



WHY SALOONS MUST GO: 



Because it is the mother of all mischief. 



Because it is the chief lawbreaker in the country. 



Because it is the euemy of the church and good 

 citizenship. 



WHEN? 



When we cease to sacrifice our children for reve- 

 nue. 



When Christian men become fully aroused to this 

 evil. 



When men vote as they pray. 

 BY WHOM? 



By the prayers and labors of mothers. 



By the voters who are determined to care for 

 their sone. 



By the officers who are true to their oath of office. 



Two hogsheads of beer are equal to one loaf of 

 bread in food value. 



Seven millions killed in battle since 500 B. C; 

 that many killed every year traceable to King Alco- 

 hol. 



WHISKY AND BRANDY NOT A MEDICINE; SEE 

 P. 735, SEPT. 1. 



We clip the following from the Pennsyl- 

 vania Farmer. After you have read it, see 

 if you cannot join with me in uttering a 

 hearty amen. 



The medicinal value of liquor is denied by our most 

 competent medical authorities unaffected by popular 

 opinion. Its value as a revenue-raiser is demonstrat- 

 ed to be a negative quantity. Its only defense is that 

 advanced by the so-called " personal liberty " advo- 

 cates. To them we would recommend the following 

 plan suggested by a writer in a current magazine. 

 His advice is to married men who cannot do without 

 their drinks. He says, start a saloon in your own 

 home. Bp the only customer. You will have no li- 

 cense to pay. Go to your wife and give her two 

 dollars to liuy a gallon of whisky — and remember 

 there are si.'ity-nine drinks in the one gallon. Buy 

 your drinks from no one but your wife, and pay her 

 the regular 15 cents per drink. By the time the first 

 gallon is gone she will have $8.35 to put in the bank 

 and ^2 to start business again. Should you live ten 

 years, and continue to buy booze from her, and then 

 die with snakes in your boots, she wiU have money 

 enough to bury you decently, educate your children, 

 buy a house and lot, marry a decent man, and quit 

 thinking about you. 



We clip the following, also, from the 

 Pennsylvania Farmer. If it does not voice 

 the sentiment of all Christian people, should 

 it not do so"? Shall the art of killing people 

 be a part of the education of our j'outh? 



MAKING SOLDIERS OF CHILDREN. 



It will be remembered that about twenty years ago 

 there was some agitation in favor of introducing mil- 

 itary training into the public schools and other insti- 

 tutions of learning. Tlie idea died " a-bornin'," as it 

 deserved to. It is being revived by some pseudo- 

 patriotic people at the present time. It seems that 

 wlieuever the air is impregnated with the war spirit 

 some people lose their native good sense. But what- 

 ever may be the merits or demerits of the campaign 

 for " preparedness," the propositjion to give militai-y 

 training to school children is, in our opinion, foolish- 

 ness in the extreme. The plea for it on the ground of 

 its value as athletics is far-fetched, as military train- 

 ing is not the kind needed, nor does it serve the 

 purpose of development in the growing youth. More 

 than this, however, when it is stated in plain honest 

 words, military training is for the purpose of produc- 

 ing efficiency in killing and destroying. To be most 

 effective, the spirit as well as physical precision and 

 endurance is necesssary. Who will dare put the de- 

 sire or even the willingness to kill in the heart of a 

 child? Have we forgotten what the great Teacher 

 said — '■ It were better that a millstone were hanged 

 about his neck and he were drowned in the depths of 

 tiie sea than that he offend one of these little ones"? 

 Let us hear no more of this talk. 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE STEERINGGEAE. 

 If prohibition should go through, and should prove 

 actually to prohibit, we imagine there would not be 

 anywhere near so many atitomobile accidents dlie to 

 the fact that something happened to " the steering- 

 gear." — Ohio State Journal. 



