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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



up and down the squares of our cities. In the prem- 

 ises the State has not only the right, but the bound- 

 en duty, to put an end to this wholesale assassina- 

 tion. 



TREASURES ON EARTH AND TREASURES IN 

 HEAVEN. 



The clipping below was mailed us by A. 

 F. Cowles, Swengel, Pa. : 



Who is the God of this age? — II. COR. 4:5. 



In 1907 there was paid in the United States for 

 foreign missions, $7,500,000; for drugs, $27,500,- 

 000; for jewelry, $60,500,000; for confectionery, 

 $128,000,000; for tobacco, $949,500,000; for liq- 

 uors, $1,744,447,672. 



How would it look to reverse these figures ? 



What do you think of the above, dear 

 friends? and where are your own invest- 

 ments being made just now? Are they 

 transient investments for this world only, 

 or are they for time and eternity? Each 

 one of us will have to answer for himself. 



NO LIQUOR SOLD ON DINING-CARS IN THE 

 STATE OF OHIO. 



See the following, which we clip from the 

 Union Signal: 



NO MOVING SALOONS IN OHIO. 



It is reported by the press that Attorney-General 

 Hogan, of Ohio, has found that the constitution for- 

 bids a moving saloon, and has instructed the State 

 Liquor Commission to issue no license to railroad 

 companies to sell drinks on trains passing through 

 Ohio. 



water-drinking an exaggerated vir- 

 tue(?). 



As might be expected, as the liquor men 

 are crowded closer and closer into a corner 

 they make desperate efforts to escape. The 

 latest is that water-drinking is the cause of 

 appendicitis. This discovery (?) was made 

 in France ; and the inference is that, if you 

 drink wine instead of water, you will not 

 have appendicitis. This piece of news comes 

 from the Providence Bulletin. The conclud- 

 ing sentence is: 



From these data the public is drawing the conclu- 

 sion that total abstinence is an exaggerated virtue, 

 even from a scientific point of view. 



TOBACCO, CIGARETTES, ETC., AND THE HIGH 

 COST OF LIVING. 



An old friend just met me, and put out 

 his hand, and said, " Mr. Root, it is just a 

 year now since 1 used tobacco in any sha])e 

 or form." Come to think of it, another 

 friend said the same thing only a few days 

 before, and these two men both agTeed that 

 they were feeling much better, mentally, 

 physically, and morally. One of them spoke 

 of his wife, and asked me how much it 

 would help this trouble about the high cost 

 of living if a few more would do as he had 



done. He said it would help a big lot. He 

 mentioned the names of friends of his who 

 sometimes smoke toward a dozen high-pric- 

 ed cigars in a day. Do you suggest they 

 can afford it? In one way perhaps they 

 can. But how about the example it sets? 

 How about the women and children who 

 actually go hungry because the head of the 

 home uses tobacco? Somebody away off 

 sent me tlie newspaper clipping below. He 

 did not give the name of the paper from 

 which it was clipped, but it contains a 

 splendid sentiment notwithstanding. 



During the fiscal year 1912-13, 14,277,000,000 

 cigarettes and 7,700,000,000 cigars were burned by 

 the American people. The Goddess of Liberty may 

 liave a fine statue, but there is more incense burned 

 on the altar of My Lady Nicotine. 



Next to the great Father above, we Amer- 

 ican people profess to be loyal to the God- 

 dess of Liberty; but is there not a big truth 

 rig lit there? Are there not more of us who 

 are really loyal to the Goddess of Nicotine 

 than to the Goddess of Liberty? Very few 

 fathers would be pleased to see their boys 

 commencing to use tobacco. Am I not right 

 about it ? When we come to take the matter 

 fairly and squarely and honestly into con- 

 sideration, are there not still other higher 

 and holier^ reasons for avoiding these things 

 which certainly da us no good? How often 

 1 hear men say (and all kinds of men too), 

 when Ihey are discussing a man's value to 

 (he world and to the nation, after speaking 

 of his other good qualities, " He does not 

 swear, does not use strong drink," and 

 finally they wind up by saying, " Why, he 

 does not even use tobacco!" Is it not the 

 general inference that the man who from 

 principle has given up the use of tobacco 

 has also given up almost every thing else 

 (hat is bad and wrong, and ungentlemanly 

 and ungodly? May God help us as a nation 

 of ]ieople, not only to cut off the use of 

 exjiensive things, but things that are posi- 

 lively harmful. 



A CIGARETTE FIEND KILLS SEVEN PEOPLE; GAS-WELL 



KILLS SEVEN ; EXPLODES WHEN CIGARETTE IS 



THROWN NEAR PIPE OUTLET. 



TuLSA, Okla., July 24. — Seven men were killed 

 and several others were probably fatally injured late 

 to-day, when a gas-well exploded and caught fire at 

 Lost City, about five miles west of Tulsa. 



The explosion was caused by a cigarette stub drop- 

 ped by a bystander, according to Stephen Snyder, son 

 of a farmer living near the well, who was assisting 

 the drillers, and was first of the injured brought to 

 Tulsa. 



Snyder is frightfully burned, and is not expected 

 to live. 



The above, clipped from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer, is -another illustration of the 

 fact that the man or boy who smokes cigar- 

 ettes is too stupid — at least oftentimes he 

 is — to be permitted to run at large. 



