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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



There is real need of something in this direction, 

 but we wish to utter a reiterated warning. What- 

 ever else there is in this movement, one thing has 

 been evident in many of the discussions, the attempt 

 to secure instruction on sex hygiene in public schools 

 constitutes one more eflfort of parents to shirk their 

 God-given responsibility. No well-meaning maiden 

 lady giving blushing lessons out of a text-book, no 

 imported lecturer with exaggerated ideas of sex 

 consciousness, can be any proper substitute for 

 fathers and mothers, and these may do great harm. 

 We have no doubt of the good intentions of most of 

 the people who are behind this movement, but we 

 have grave doubts of the practical wisdom of many 

 of them. 



Awakening a childish interest and euvi- 

 Gsitj^ in things they are not old enough to 

 comprehend jiroperly is the trouble. I think 

 I must have been six or seven years old 

 when I went to my mother (bless her mem- 

 ory) and asked her something in regard to 

 a certain Avord I found frequently in the 

 Bible. Her reply was something like this : 



" My child, will you not take mother's 

 word for it that it is best for j^ou to drop 

 this matter until you are a little older? You 

 are not able to understand it now. Now 

 please trust your mother a little more, and 

 do not go to the boys nor to anybody else 

 about it. Mother knows best, and she will 

 teach you about all these things when you 

 get to be a little older. Will vou not trust 

 her?" 



J gave her my childish promise, and 

 stuck to it pretty well; and when I happen- 

 ed to overhear the talk of bad boys in 

 regard to this matter, my mother's warning 

 prompted me to keep away from them. 1 

 have reason to believe there are quite a 

 number of mothers who will agree with me 

 here. Now, dear mothers, have you taken 

 the same pains with your young boys that 

 my mother wisely took to protect me in my 

 childhood from grave danger? 



Temperance 



AVHISKY FOR SICK FOLKS — SEE P. 743. 



The Union Signal for Nov. 6 contains a 

 full-page article in regard to this matter, 

 and informs us that a hospital in England 

 has been run for forty years without the 

 use of any liquors, and its record is ahead 

 of any similar institution, as we know it 

 would be. Now, there, if your family physi- 

 cian is prescribing intoxicants he is not up 

 to date; and if he refuses to inform himself, 

 get a different doctor. Just consider for a 

 moment a hospital in this enlightened nation 

 that, instead of giving its innocent inmates 

 health, gives them that which helps on to — 

 " hell." 



IF RUM IS BAD FOR THE INDIAN, HOW DOES 



IT HAPPEN THAT IT IS NOT ALSO BAD FOR 



THE WHITE MAN? 



We clip the following from the Wheeling 

 Advance : 



GOVERNMENT BARS RUM OX PUEBLO RESERVATION; 

 SUPREME COURT SETTLES LONG-PENDING FIGHT 

 RELATIVE TO QUESTION OF LIQUOR FOR IN- 

 DIAN WARDS OF UNITED STATES; LIQ- 

 UOR GANG SUFFER A TELLING BLOW. 



Washington, Oct. 23. — The supreme court held 

 to-day that the Pueblo Indians are under the guar- 

 dianship of the government, and liquor could not be 

 taken into their country without violating the fed- 

 eral law. 



The decision marks a long fight to distinguish 

 those Indians who have lived in towns since long 

 before the first white settlement in the United States, 

 from the tribes which have been held to be wards 

 of the government. 



The case has been hard fought, and the defeat of 

 the liquor gang is a stunning blow. Advocates of 

 temperance, however, are inquiring why, if the high- 

 est court in the land holds liquor bad for the red 

 man, it should not be equally bad for the white man. 

 To be consistent, it is urged that the government 



should submit at least the resolution for an amend- 

 ment to the federal constitution to prohibit the sale 

 and manufacture of the beverages, in order that the 

 several States might express themselves upon it. 



A CELLAR FULL OF WINE 25 YEARS OLD, BUT STILL A 

 TEMPERANCE MAN, ETC. 



My grandfather, a naturalist, horticulturist, and 

 wine-raiser, taught me to despise tobacco and liquor. 

 Strange to relate, grandfather had the cellar full of 

 wine, some 25 years old; but he hardly ever drank 

 any except as a test. He was from the Rhine River, 

 Hessen Darmstadt, a wine country. Naturally grapes 

 were his work. This goes to show what ivill power 

 is. The hard-cider barrel, seemingly harmless, has 

 started many a drunkard, as our village character 

 admits. 



One poor disciple of "John Barleycorn" passea 

 through our yard just as I had a few frames of 

 honey out. He said, " So! that the work of the busy 

 bee? Fine and wonderful. Sure, and they must 

 work to do it; and I would do the same if they'd 

 let me sleep all winter and ate honey bread." I could 

 not give him an answer, as a witty Irishman is past 

 my slow mind. One of his sayings is, " I was con- 

 ceived in misery, born in poverty, raised in igno- 

 rance; so, blame me not. I have enough to eat, and 

 can eat it, so I am rich." 



Hillside, 111., Sept. 11. Geo. A. Wolff. 



WHO IS TO BLAME? 



The Union Signal says : 



" The first step toward the elimination of sin is to 

 get after the man who makes money out of it," is 

 the terse way Collier's Weekly outlines the course of 

 procedure in fighting the trafiic in drink and vice. 



votes of WOMEN WIN SWEEPING VICTORIES IN 

 ILLINOIS FOR PROHIBITION. 



As we go to press, election returns show that 22 

 Illinois cities and towns were carried by the drys. 

 Thirty -one counties in the State are now entirely dry. 

 Women went to the polls in large numbers, and voted 

 dry in about the ratio of four to one. — Union Signal, 

 Nov. 6. 



