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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



" First of all, I am going to tell them that the 

 first one of them that permits a violation of license 

 law without taking action against the saloon-keeper 

 who has broken the law will lose his own official 

 head. The law is plain. A saloonkeeper may have 

 his license revoked on a second conviction. 



" In regard to Sunday closing, my position is this: 

 " The success of the whole license system depends 

 on its enforcement. The people of Ohio expected it 

 to be enforced. Every saloon must close on Sunday, 

 and stay closed. This applies to Cleveland, Cincin- 

 nati, Columbus, Toledo, and every other large city, 

 with the same force that it will apply to small towns. 

 Ohio will be as dry as the Sahara desert on Sun- 

 day." 



I hope Governor Cox will excuse me for 

 mentioning right here that the friends of 

 temperance — at least some of them — have 

 been unkind enough to suggest that the 

 above is only for effect ; that, notwithstand- 

 ing such a strong public statement, they 

 fear things will go on after the old fashion, 

 especially as it seems very evident that the 

 mayor of Cleveland is not in sympathy with 

 Smiday closing. 



Now, one reason why I have given place 

 to the above is that our Ohio people may 

 know what the Governor promises to do 

 and is expected to do. May God help him 

 to make good his declaration, notwithstand- 

 ing eveiy thing the brewers and liquor-deal- 

 ers may be able to bring forward to block 

 the way of the enforcement of our righteous 

 and just laws. Will our temperance friends 

 in Ohio see that there are plenty of printed 

 copies of this declaration, and that they are 

 kept constantly before the ej'es of the li- 

 censing boards of our wet counties? 



WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR GRAPES? 



Quite a hue and cry has been raised by 

 way of remonstrance against the work of 

 " temperance fanatics " in their determi- 

 nation to ruin the industry of making wine. 

 What will the poor women and children 

 do? The great ranchers of California have 

 immense capital involved for producing 

 grapes to make wine. Somebody suggested 

 that they should make their gi'apes into 

 raisins. But, if I am coiTect, the wine 

 gi'apes do not make raisins. Here is a 

 suggestion from the Practical Farmer that 

 solves the problem. Can't you say amen to 

 it? 



THE BRYAN BEVERAGE. 



It is scarcely twenty-five years ago that we began 

 to hear and talk about " unfermented grape juice." 

 It was about that time that there were a few places 

 in New York city where the juice was freshly press- 

 ed out of Concord or other black grapes, and served 

 to thirsty customers at five cents a glass. We hailed 

 the beginning of this enterprise with a good deal of 

 enthusiasm, expecting that so delicious a beverage 

 was bound to appeal to public fancy, and possibly 

 be the means of powerful aid in the fight against 

 the evils of intemperance. Since the days of that 

 very modest beginning, the industry has grown by 

 leaps and bounds, and the unfermented juice of the 

 ^ape has become a common and popular beverage. 



That it is exceedingly wholesome, as wholesome as it 

 is palatable, is not in the least subject to doubt. At 

 one time it was even claimed (with what justifica- 

 tion we have no means of knowing) that the fresh 

 or canned juice of the grape is fatal to the typhoid- 

 fever germs. We know that it is a very pleasant 

 summer or winter drink, and that it requires no 

 special skill to put up a home supply if one has 

 the gi-apes or can get them. If Mr. Bryan's coura- 

 geous defy of old-established custom will serve to 

 stimulate the use of and call for unfermented grape 

 juice, and make the substitution of this harmless 

 and wholesame beverage for alcoholic drinks fash- 

 ionable and common, then he has thereby rendered 

 to the country a service that can hardly be over- 

 estimated. 



Lakewood, O., March 3. J. D. McCalmont. 



CIGAJiETTES, AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN 

 THIS LAND OP OURS, 



I presume our readers have all been 

 shocked hy the teri'ible story of the factory 

 that burned in Binghamton, N. Y., on July 

 22. Below is a newspaper clipping in re- 

 gard to the probable cause of that shocking 

 calamity whereby between fifty and sixty 

 women and girls were burned to death: 



Some features of the catastrophe were brought 

 out in a statement by President Freeman, of the 

 company which operated the burned factory. 



" I was in the office when Mrs. Freeman called to 

 me that there was a fire," said Mr. Freeman. " I 

 ran out on the main floor and saw flames coming 

 out from under the open stairway. Some of our 

 employees are so addicted to cigarettes that, smoking 

 being forbidden in the building, they went out into 

 the alley every hour or so for a puff. I believe one 

 of these, on returning to work, threw his cigarette 

 under the stairway." 



The man or boy who smokes cigarettes 

 becomes stupid. His senses are dull; and 

 the cigarette fiends are contiually causing 

 fires by their stupidity in cases like the 

 above. The general government is just now 

 leaving almost no stone unturned in the 

 way of prevention of loss of life like the 

 above; but when it comes to whiskj^ and 

 tobacco, and especially the deadly cigarette, 

 it says, " Hands off." Bulletins are sent 

 out discussing habit-forming drugs, but the 

 cigarette is not mentioned. There are mil- 

 lions of money in the manufacture of cigar- 

 ettes that are to be sold tkree for a nickel. 

 Nobodj' disputes the fact as to their bad 

 mental effect on children, and older people, 

 perhaps, to a lesser extent; but compara- 

 tively nothing is being done. Why, even 

 the Chinese, in their recent crusade against 

 the opium habit, are going ahead of us. 

 Maj^ God speed the day when cigarettes as 

 well as rum shall be handled by our Presi- 

 dent, and the officials under him, without 

 gloves. 



ANOTHER VICTORY FOE TEMPERANCE. 



I am glad to tell you that we whipped the saloon 

 advocates soundly. Our county is free from the sa- 

 loon curse, and I believe it will remain so. 



Weiser, Idaho, July 11. E. A. Paddock. 



