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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



a blowing--up." All these different ex- 

 pressions mean, if I am correct, calling 

 folks names when you are mad. It is true, 

 you can apolog-ize and ask to be forgiven 

 when your anger has passed by, and per- 

 haps your friend (it often is a friend who 

 gets the blowing-up) may try to forget the 

 unkind words uttered in a passion; but, oh 

 how much unhappiness and pain would 

 have been spared if the harsh words had 

 never been spoken! 



These two I have spoken of were present 

 and heard the sermon; and as there was a 

 lot of other young people there, who can say 

 but that every one of them needed that sim- 

 ple little story? 



Just a word more about corvs, in closing. 

 Another of my boys who has worked with 

 cows, and has done considerable milking, 

 said he had been kicked over by cows a 

 good many times, but that he never swore 

 at them nor pounded them. Said I: 



" But what do you do with kicking cows? 

 Does whipping never do them any good? " 



" I think not. So far as I know it al- 

 ways makes them worse." 



Now, friends, it is probably true that 

 there are kicking horses and kicking cows 

 that you might whip to death without con- 

 quering or driving out in the least the ugly 

 spirit. You vcva.y torture them; but as long 

 as there is a spark of life left it is plainly 

 evident they haven't given up, and prefer 

 to die unconquered. I think expert horse- 

 trainers will bear me out in this. Well, in 

 view of this is it not sheer folly and a relic 

 of barbarism to think of bettering things 

 by the swearing and pounding method? 

 Finally, isn't it true that we have some boys 

 (yes, and perhaps sometimes even girls 

 too) who are almost as stubborn as the 

 dumb brutes? I would by no means advo- 

 cate doing away with punishment; but let 

 the punishment come from a Christian man 

 or woman, and let it be done in a Chris- 

 tianlike way. The "blowing-up" process 

 is not at all what is wanted, for all pun- 

 ishment should be administered in the spir- 

 it of kindness and love. 



Temperance. 



WHAT THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE IS DOING. 



Some years ago I visited a relative at 

 Xenia, Ohio, and in looking over the city 

 our conversation turned on temperance. 

 Saloons there were wide open ; the mayor 

 and other officers seemed rather in sympa- 

 thy with the "wets;" Christian people ei- 

 ther didn't know or didn't care, and the 

 outlook did indeed seem hopeless. I sug- 

 gested that the citj^ needed a brisk stirring- 

 up by the Anti-saloon League; but my com- 

 panion said they had just been trying to 

 have some meetings; but as nobody gave 

 them any attention, he "guessed" they 

 gave the town up as a bad job. Bribes and 

 steals, among the city officers, seemed to be 

 a common thing; and as the saloon element 



ruled, there was nobody to make a fuss 

 about it. I saw some boys stealing peaches 

 from the crates at the railroad station, and 

 asked why this was permitted in broad day- 

 light. My companion said it was because 

 the agent's oww (^cjk was one of the "gang," 

 and he said this was a fair sample of the 

 way things were allowed to go on in a 

 "whisky-ruled" town. Of course, there 

 was wrangling all the time; but everj" ef- 

 fort to punish the guilty parties seemed only 

 to end in long and expensive litigation, with 

 almost one result — the rascals came out 

 ahead. And this state of affairs was go- 

 ing on in one of the finest and most produc- 

 tive portions of the whole State of Ohio. 

 You may be sure that I have watched with 

 interest the temperance movement that start- 

 ed a year or more ago. Now please read 

 the following from the State Superintend- 

 ent of our League, who, I take pride in say- 

 ing, is a very dear friend of mine: 



My dear Friend: — I am in receipt of your card in 

 reply to mine concerning the proposed Anti-saloon 

 Congress. We have decided to have it. It will be held 

 December 2, 3, 4, in Columbus, and we shall expect 

 you to be present. 



We are having hot times now all over the State. Up 

 until to-day 59 towns have voted ; 38 have gone drj', 

 and 21 have voted to continue the saloons. This is a 

 prett3' good record in view of the fact that our friends, 

 in many places, run in and forced the vote without 

 due preparation. They are learning better now. 



I think it is a safe estimate that, before the next 

 Legislature meets, fully two hundred towns w^ill have 

 rid themselves of the saloons. Surely ttis pays for all 

 the cost and sacrifice of the past. Xenia voted day be- 

 fore 3'esterdaj-, and won by 199 majority dry. This is 

 the most terrific fight we have had yet. It has been 

 dry under the ordinance; but the law was being violat- 

 ed by a large number of the saloonists, and the mayor 

 refused to enforce it absolutely; and, being an ordi- 

 nance, we could not take it to the county courts, so we 

 were helpless. We have it upon good authority that 

 the saloon and brewery interests spent §13,000 in their 

 effort to make it go wet, but failed. When the returns 

 came in, and it was found that the town had gone dry, 

 the good people gathered on the streets and sang 

 hymns, and laughed and cried and congratulated each 

 other, and used up all the explosives that had been 

 laid in for the Fourth of Jul}- — went to the churches 

 and had prayer-meetings, and a general season of re- 

 joicing. They have had a long hard fight. 



The next largest town which is to vote is Ironton, a 

 place of 15,000 or 18,000 people. I am doubtful about 

 results, but they put up a hard fight. They vote July 

 17. There is scarcely a day now that some town is not 

 voting, and some days three or four. 



I hope you are enjoying good health and your new 

 home. When you are at leisure, let me hear from you. 

 P. A. Baker, State Supt. 



Columbus, Ohio, June 26, 1902. 



Well, friends, what do you think of that? 

 I have not been very much in the " fireworks 

 business" for some time past; but when it 

 comes to emancipating such a town as Xenia 

 from "rum rule" I believe I could with a 

 good conscience waste money on firecrack- 

 ers, and help make a noise equal to any 

 youngster. During the 4th of July just 

 past, Mrs. Root was alone all day in "the 

 cabin in the woods," and she says she not 

 only did not hear a firecracker nor smell 

 gunpowder, but did not get sight of a liv- 

 ing soul during that independence day (I 

 was off in Ohio); but if the time is at hand 

 when fireworks are to be used to celebrate 

 emancipation from rum, I am sure she too 

 will join me in. burning powder and making 

 a racket. 



