1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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in the city of New York, said people who live in 

 flats do not have children. The proprietors of 

 these places for homes will not rent them to a 

 family with children, for they do not want chil- 

 dren around. Suppose George Washington's 

 parents had decided they could have more "fun " 

 by not getting married at all. May God be 

 praised that Washington's parents were not of 

 that stripe; and, to come down to the present 

 time, suppose the parents of Oi-ville and Wilbur 

 Wrii^ht had decided they did not want the trouble 

 and care of a family. President Roosevelt has 

 many times reminded us of the consequences of 

 being content with childless homes or living un- 

 married. Recalls it " race suicide. " Do you say 

 that the illiterate foreigners, or even the shiftless 

 people of our own land, will furnish children 

 enough? Yes, so they will, probably; but who 

 will furnish the money to build the asylums and 

 jails and prisons to care for these children.? 



Here is another clipping that I wish to give 

 you, from the American Issue: 



SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE SCHOOL CHARTS. 



A numbef of scientific temperance school cliarts, which are be- 

 ing used in a large number of the public schools of the United 

 States, have aroused a storm of protest on the part of the liquor 

 fraternity because of the terrific arguments against the use of in- 

 toxicating liquors which these charts set forth. The charts were 

 carefully prepared by scientific experts; and the facts which they 

 set forth are, while startling, the results of the most thorough sci- 

 entific investigations. 



Dr. T. Alexander NichoU, of New York, prepared the statistics 

 on heredity, which are shown on these charts with telling effect. 

 The records show that one French and English family of moder- 

 ate drinkers, in well-to-do circumstances, had 33 descendants. 

 Of these, only 3 were normal. Two of the remaining 30 were 

 suicides ; 3 had suicidal mania ; 3 were confirmed drunkards ; 4 

 were prostitutes, and 18 had tuberculosis. 



Another record, of 75 families of moderate drinkers, with 236 

 descendants, shows that only 50 were normal. Eight of the re- 

 maining number were insane ; 21 were confirmed drunkards ; 8 

 were idiots, and 149 had organic disease or neurosis. 



Still another record shows that in 24 families of hard drinkers, 

 with 113 descendants, only 20 were normal. Of the remaining 

 93, 16 were drunkards; 7 were epileptics; 8 were dwarfs; 7 were 

 idiots, and 55 had organic diseases. 



The other statistics which these charts show, secured by the 

 investigations of Dr. Demme, show that of ten temperate fami- 

 lies, with 61 children, 50 were normal, 5 died in infancy, and 

 only 6 had organic diseases. 



Another investigation shows that of 31 families of abstainers, 

 with 116 descendants, 96 were normal, 19 had organic diseases, 

 and one was a drunkard. 



The mortality figures shown by these charts are also very in- 

 teresting. The investigation shows that, of 100,000 moderate 

 drinkers, 44,000 reached 70 years of age, and 45,000 died before 

 70. Life-insurance companies figure that the lives of beer-drink- 

 ers are shortened from 40 to 50 per cent. 



The charts further show that 88 percent of the manufacturers of 

 the United States demand total abstinence on the part of their 

 employees, and that about 1,000,000 of the railroad men of the 

 country are compelled to be total abstainers from both fermented 

 and distilled liquors. 



As a further illustration of the preceding we 

 copy the following from the " Anti-saloon League 

 Year Book " for 1908: 



DESCENDANTS OF A DRUNKARD. 



Pellman, of the University of Bonn, tells of a very notorious 

 drunken woman who died in 1800. A scientific investigation 

 made regarding herself and her descendants has brought forth the 

 following astonishing facts: 



The total number of her descendants was 834. Of that num- 

 ber, 709 have been traced, with the result that the record shows 

 that 7 were convicted of murder; 76 were convicted of other 

 crimes; 142 were professional beggars; 64 lived on charity, and 

 181 of the female descendants were prostitutes. It has been es- 

 timated that the cost to the government of the crime and pauper- 

 ism of this one line of descendants has been $1,250,000. 



And also the following from Dr. J. H. Kel- 

 logg's " Handbook of Rational Medicine: " 



Dr. S. G. Howe attributed one-half of the cases of idiocy in 

 Massachusetts to intemperance, and he is sustained in his opin- 

 ion by the most reliable authorities. Dr. Howe states that there 



were seven idiots in one family where both parpnts were drunk- 

 ards. One-half of the idiots 'n England are of drunken parent- 

 age; and the same is true of Sweden, and probably of most Eu- 

 ropean countries. It is said that in St. Petersburg most of the 

 idiots come from drunken parents. 



Perhaps I should state that Dr. Kellogg makes 

 the above statements as a quotation from Dr. 

 Willard Parker, of New York — one of the ablest 

 writers on this subject the world has produced. 



In closing. May God grant that this Home pa- 

 per may be the means of waking up good men, 

 and I hope you will excuse me for saying some 

 good women as well, to the importance of doing 

 what they can to fulfill God's command to hu- 

 manity away back in the beginning of the world 

 — " Be ye fruitful, and multiply, and replenish 

 the earth."* 



Perhaps some of you may suggest that, if you 

 get married, it might be the means of bringing 

 crippled children into the world as I did with my 

 chickens in the cheap incubator. God forbid. If 

 there are such whose eyes rest on these pages, or 

 any who think that ill health unfits them for 

 marital responsibilities, then go to work this min- 

 ute, and w/fl^^ yourself well. T. B. Terry is tell- 

 ing us how it can be done, and thousands are 

 coming forward as witnesses. This learned doc- 

 tor who gave us that talk said it is a disgrace to 

 have typhoid fever in any community, and that 

 the time is fast coming when the same can be 

 said of tuberculosis — that the great white plague 

 is going to be fought out and banished; and I am 

 sure there are very few men or women who read 

 these pages but can, if they take sufficient pains, 

 in a few years succeed in securing a degree of 

 health that will permit them to think of raising 

 a family with a very small liability of bringing 

 cripples into the world. We are going to have a 

 better "strain" of men and women than the 

 world has ever yet known, and we are going to 

 improve on the human family just as much as we 

 improved on our horses, cattle, pigs, and chickens. 

 God help us. My good friend Terry has finally 

 yielded to my importunity, and is going to write 

 a book this coming winter. May God guide and 

 direct him, and give him health and strength to 

 do it well. 



TEMPERANCE 



OUT OF THE DARKNESS AND INTO THE LIGHT; 

 TURN ON THE "SEARCHLIGHT." 



I hardly need tell our readers that just at this 

 time Ohio is in the heat of the battle that right- 

 eousness may prevail over iniquity. To give 

 you a little illustration of the brazen cheek and 

 effrontery of the enemy, let me mention the fact 

 that our neighboring county of Lorain has just 

 had a vote on county option. Oberlin is in that 

 county, and Oberlin is known the world over as 

 a great center of learning and a radiating source 

 of moral reforms. A big part of Lorain County 



*I clip the following from the Farm Journal, of Philadelphia: 

 They say that happiness is found only in the dictionary; but it 

 seems to us that an honest young man, married to a healthy, hap- 

 py, truly Christian girl who loves her home, comes just about as 

 near human happiness as ever mortal gets; and such a man will 

 not be so ungrateful as to swear, get drunk, or do a cruel or mean 

 act. 



To all of which I wish to give a hearty amen. 



