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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Mitchell is located in what is known as dxy ter- 

 ritory. A certain man was suspected of illicit liquor- 

 selling. He was arrested, tried before a jury of men, 

 and found guiltless. Again he was arrested, and 

 tried before a jury of men. After deliberating all 

 night they failed to agree, and were dismissed at 

 six. 



A YERDICT IN TEN MINUTES. 



The judge, now grown desperate, impaneled a 

 jury of women. This jury heard the same evidence, 

 from the same witnesses, before the same judge, with 

 the same county attorney. They were out less than 

 ten minutes when they brought in a verdict of guilty. 

 Two of these women jurors had with them their 

 babies. One took her baby into the box with her. 

 The other, having three childi-en, left the younger 

 ones in the care of the eldest child, who was a girl, 

 and able to look after the baby while her mother sat 

 upon the jury. 



As one woman said, " All she had to do was to 

 sit there and behave herself just as though she was 

 in meeting I " Two of these women jurors were 

 mothers of men who served on the jury that could 

 not find sufficient evidence to convict. I had the 

 honor of being entertained at the home of the fore- 

 woman, Mrs. E. M. Campbell, an intelligent, well- 

 rounded woman of seventy years. She said, " I 

 never had an easier job. When we enterefl the room, 

 I said, ' What do you say : is he guilty or not guil- 

 ty ? ' and every woman answered, ' He is guilty.' " 



THE MOJAVE DESERT " GONE DRY/' 



As a further evidence that God's king- 

 dom is coming on earth as it is in heaven, 

 we clip the following from the Union Sig- 

 nal : 



For the first time in its history, Mojave Desert 

 district, California, has gone dry, and all saloon 

 licenses have been revoked. 



After a hard-fought battle Pinellas County, Flor- 

 ida, has again outlawed the saloons. 



On July 4 the Iowa daylight saloon bill went into 

 effect. Saloons are closed now from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. 



Owing to a new law in Oregon regulating intra- 

 state liquor shipments the Mount Hood Railroad 

 Company has refused to carry shipments of liquor 

 to Hood River Valley districts. 



As a result of the Allison law passed by the re- 

 cent Texas legislature, and in effect since July 1, 

 dry sections of the State will be protected from 

 shipments of liquor from any point in the State. 

 Violations of this law are punishable with impris- 

 onment. 



Under the new South Dakota State law which 

 went into effect July 1, limiting the number of 

 saloons to one for each 600 population, Aberdeen re- 

 ports that thirty-four saloonkeepers were unable to 

 secure renewals of their licenses. 



Under the recent liquor laws of Wisconsin, 

 licenses for the sale of intoxicants on boats can not 

 be granted. In discussing the question Attorney 

 General Owen said: "I believe that a license can 

 be granted only for a building that is stationary, 

 and that a license can no more be granted to a boat 

 on a lake than to a wagon that is movable." — Union 

 Signal. 



THE LIQUOR BUSINESS GOING OUT OF OUR CIV- 

 ILIZATION. 



We clip the following from the Union 

 Signal. Read it, and see what you think of 

 it ; then see if the concluding sentence hits 

 you anywhere. May God be praised that 

 prohibition has not only struck our rail- 

 roads and great manufacturing establish- 

 ments, but that it has taken root, as indicat- 



ed in the above, in the hearts of the news- 

 paper advertising men of America. 



A significant feature of the recent annual con- 

 vention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of Amer- 

 ica, held in Baltimore, was their failure to patronize 

 to any extent the saloons of the city. While it is not 

 unusual during meetings of big social orders for the 

 saloons to keep open all night, they were during 

 this great convention not at all overworked during 

 their regular hours; and, according to a writer in 

 the Christian Endeavor World, so marked was the 

 abstinence of the delegates that they were referred to 

 as the " men white ribboners " — " another indication 

 among the many," remarks that paper, " that the 

 liquor business is going out of our civilization." 

 This state of affairs was quite in keeping with the 

 dignified character of the convention as a whole, the 

 fii-st business session being opened by prayer, and 

 members of the convention filling various pulpits 

 on the opening day, Sunday. The adoption of the 

 word " Truth " as the motto of the association speaks 

 well for the ethical standards of the periodicals rep- 

 resented. If the 2000 delegates live up to this motto 

 it will result in the elimination of all liquor and other 

 objectionable advertising from the pages of their pa- 

 pers. Every day brings news of additions to the list 

 of periodicals whose editors and publishers will not 

 soil their pages with advertisements of things that 

 are injurious to their subscribers. The number 

 would multiply with much greater rapidity if the 

 men and women who read would hold up the hands 

 of such publishers, and refuse to give their patron- 

 age to those who still maintain a partnership with 

 the liquor interests in advertising their wares. 



" BREATHES THERE A MAN WITH SOUL SO 

 DEAD f " ETC. 



I have had considerable to say (and, I 

 hope, by way of encouragement) concern- 

 ing the boys' corn-growing club. It has 

 been estimated that the boys have not only 

 taught their fathei-s how to grow far better 

 " crops than they ever did before, but I have 

 somewhere seen it stated that tlie result of 

 these corn-growing contests had brought 

 millions of dollars into the State of Iowa. 

 Now read the following Avhich I clip from 

 the Cleveland Plain Dealer : 



Gov. Cox related one incident to the farmers at 

 the recent meeting at Chardon. One chap, who had 

 entered the contest last winter, wrote to Secretary 

 Sandles saying he would be compelled to drop out 

 and lose his chance, because his father had refused 

 to allow him the use of an acre of ground or the 

 time to prepare the land and cultivate the crop. 

 Gov. Cox expressed astonishment that even one 

 farmer in Ohio should be so short-sighted and pe- 

 nurious. 



What was it we used to have in our read- 

 ers? 



Breathes there a man with soul so dead 

 Who never to himself hath said — ■ 



suppose we end it by saying, " My boys are 

 not only of more importance than any crop 

 on my farm, but of more value than the 

 farm itself or any thing else in this world ;" 

 and yet here is one farmer in Ohio who 

 would not give his boy an acre of ground 

 and time enough to try his hand in growing 

 a crop of corn under the instruction of an 

 expert, even when it is free of charge and 

 paid for by the State of Ohio. 



