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tILEANIKGS IN BEE CULTURE 



The venereal diseases are social assassins. They 

 cause deterioration of the race. 



Twenty-eight jjgr cent of insanity is caused by 

 syphilis. Tlie government spends scores of thousands 

 of dollars, and establishes rigid inspections to pre- 

 vent the spread of the coitus disease (animal syphi- 

 lis) of the horse, but the infection of the horrid 

 syphilis that entails endless misery on scores of thou- 

 sands of innocent women and children may be dis- 

 seminated by anybody, and is being disseminated 

 b.v scores of persons in this country, unchecked, un- 

 der the protection of the "personal liberty" flag. 

 Alas, that so little rega'rd is had for the loss of lib- 

 erty of infected women and children. 



Marriage of a man with venereal disease is not 

 only a violation of decency and love; it is a hideous 

 and dastardly crime. And, let not the State be par- 

 ticeps crimini-s bj' failure to enact restrictive mea- 

 sures. 



There exists a test for syphilis so simple that there 

 can be no more objection on any sentimental ground 

 to it than to vaccination. 



A child born with syphilis will rarely come to use- 

 ful manhood or womanhood. Such are almost cer- 

 tain to become dependents and delinquents, and so 

 a biirden to society. 



To permit the procreation of the unfit is a viola- 

 tion of all the laws of economy. That State is sadly 

 incompetent which permits lepers to marry and pro- 

 create, and then builds homes for the infected prog- 

 eny. 



Let a man poison a pure woman with arsenic, and 

 the State takes him severely in hand without hesita- 

 tion or care of expense. Let him poison her pure 

 body with the leprosy of syphilis or gonorrhea, and 

 the State is silent. 



Prudery, the cause of the silence, is not a virtue. 

 It is a mock-modesty. It is to virtue as nastiness is 

 to purity. Yet it holds us back from steps necessary 

 to secure the sacred and inalienable right of children 

 to be born free from disease. 



Oui" readers will recall that I have taken 

 up this matter several times before; and I 

 hardly need inform you that the saloon bus- 

 iness is at the bottom of the wliole work. 

 Where saloons are banished, houses of ill 

 fame soon disappear. They can not live 

 without the curse of intoxicants. The peo- 

 ple who make money out of this ti'affle are 

 fighting" woman suffrage tooth and nail. 

 They well know that if women handle af- 

 fairs, innocent mothers along- this line Avill 

 be a thing- of the past; and if tlie mothers 

 could have tiieir say in the matter it is very 

 certain that no more children would be 

 cursed for life, because their fathers first 

 g:ot drunk and then followed after the 

 *' strange woman." 



WAS ALL CREATION MADE SOLELY FOR MAN'S 

 BENEFIT. 



Mr. Root : — Under the heading Special Notices, 

 in a letter from a correspondent, I notice this para- 

 graph : 



" I believe that God placed every thing here to be 

 of use to man in some way or other, but only we are 

 so bl;nd we don't catch on to all of them." 



Now, I have no disposition to find fault with the 

 writer of this paragraph ; but I wish to call atten- 

 tion to what I consider a serious mistake often made 

 by mankind in assuming that, because we are tlie 

 dominant, and, because of our intellect, the most 

 powerful visible creature inhabiting our earth, tliat 

 the earth and all that is therein, and the sea and all 



that is therein, and the air and all that is therein, 

 are made for man's peculiar benefit. I am sure that 

 man can be benefited and learn something from all 

 creatures, but that is not the purpose of their crea- 

 tion. I can conceive of no reason for man's being 

 placed on this earth other than that he might have 

 opportunity for growth and development, and the 

 acquirement of knowledge, power, and self-control. 

 To me, life on this earth is as a great school with 

 wonderful oppoi'tunities ; and I believe that all life 

 on this globe, however far below us it may be in 

 development, is placed here for the same purpose, 

 that it may develop, unfold, and gain experience. 

 Because we form the highest class in this great uni- 

 versity, we should not conclude that all the lower 

 grades are placed here for our benefit. We should 

 rather strive to be of assistance to the lower classes 

 by showing kindness and helpfulness in all possible 

 ways. I fear the idea that all things are created for 

 our benefit is the cause of much needless cruelty to 

 helpless dumb animals. 



May God help us to see and realize that all life is 

 one, and that we are no better in his siglit, and no 

 more objects of his Ipving care tlian the most lowly 

 objects of creation. 



Louisville, Ky., Sept. 30. W. C. Furna.s. 



SHOTS THAT WEIGH 1000 LBS. EACH, ETC. ; SEE 

 PAGE 197, MARCH 15. 



I am still on the U. S. S. Arkansas, and have the 

 gyro compass. We just came in after target prac- 

 tice, where we broke the world's record with twelve- 

 inch guns, firing six shots and making six hits in 

 fifty-seven seconds. You can imagine how fast the 

 boys worked handling projectiles weighing nearly 

 one thousand pounds each, in such a short time. We 

 are all proud of our record. 



I was promoted to-day to " electrician, first class," 

 which pays $55.00 a mouth — an increase of $11.00 

 a month. 



We are going to Naples, Italy, Oct. 25. I expect 

 to go to Rome and see the sights, which I hear are 

 very interesting. 



By the way, I received Gleanings this evening, 

 when I happened to glance at the trouble with your 

 teeth. That is one thing the navy requires most 

 strongly ; and, thanks to sister Donna, who used to 

 scold me about mine, I finally got to noticing people's 

 teeth. I also "noticed" yours when I was there, 

 and often wondered if you realized what a difference 

 it makes when a person gets up in the morning. 

 That is one thing most people give little attention to, 

 and yet it is one of the most important things. 



HoMEE Root. 



U. S. S. Arkansas, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 18. 



Dear nephew, I am g-lad to hear of your 

 l)romotion, and I am glad, too, to see you 

 take your old uncle to task for carelessness 

 in liis personal habits; but just a word 

 about tliose 1000-lb. projectiles. I am, as a 

 rule, glad to note progress and efficiency 

 exer^'Avhere ; but I am praying- that the day 

 may soon come when " peace on earth and 

 good will to men " will do away with the 

 need of eng-ines of war. I know there are 

 many great and good men who claim these 

 immense battle-shijis are really messengers 

 of peace; and it may be that Mexico is be- 

 having a little better because of her knowl- 

 edge of these things, especially when she 

 considers the matter of iiei-niitting her sub- 

 jects lo lay liaiuls on citizens of tlie United 

 States. 



