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prayer-meeting, wliieli he attends regailar- 

 ly, and probably invites others to come 

 with him. The other boy goes along the 

 street puffing a pipe. He is not going to 

 prayer-meeting, however, you may be sure ; 

 but "he takes his pipe out of his mouth, and 

 also "invites others" to take a pull on it. 

 Which of the two boys will have the better 

 chance, and get the best pay for his ser- 

 vices here in this world'? And, finally, when 

 he comes to die, what then? 



There is no man tliat hath left house or parents 

 or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom of 

 God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more in 

 this present time, and in the world to come life 

 everlasting. — Luke 18:29, 30. 



The above was printed on a leaflet, and 

 one of tliese leaflets was put into the pay 

 envelope of each one of our between 200 

 and 300 employes when they got their pay 

 on Saturday noon. We ho]ie and pray that 

 it may bear good fruit. While we are on 

 the subject of tobacco I wish to submit to 

 you a clipping from the Sunday School 

 Tim es : 



WHAT IS TOBACCO ? 



In the terms of the physician, and told in brief, 

 tobacco is purely and simply a poisonous drug, hav- 

 ing no beneticent influence, and for this reason re- 

 moved from the authorized list of medicaments in 

 which it once had room. It has no food value, it is 

 a narcotic similar to opium in many of its features, 

 its use seldom fails to constitirte a drug habit. 



Now, you who use tobacco, and every- 

 body else whose eyes rest on these pages, I 

 submit the question : Is it not true, as 

 stated above, that tobacco is not food and 

 is not medicine? It is simply a poisonous 

 drug, and probably forms the worst drug 

 habit that has ever afflicted humanity if we 

 except intoxicating liquors; and how many 

 ever began the use of liquor without first 

 using tobacco as a stepping-stone? 



Here is another clipping, from the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer: 



GAINS 300 SALOONS. 



H. H. Schleman, in charge of the liquor-tax col- 

 lections in the county treasurer's office, said yester- 

 day that 300 more saloons are doing business in 

 Cleveland than last year. 



Licenses have been issued to 905 cigaret dealers 

 — an increase of more than 100 over last year. 



What do you think of the above? There 

 may be differences of opinion in regard to 

 whisky and tobacco ; but I am sure there is 

 a pretty general agreement in regard to 

 cigarettes; yet the above clipping informs 

 us that the city of Cleveland and the State 

 of Ohio grant licenses to sell the deadly 

 "coffin-nails;" and not only that, during 

 the last year one hundred new licenses have 

 been granted. "Lord, help !" 



Now, lest you take it for granted that I 

 am a "calamity-howler," and hunting up 

 all the sad and mournful tilings, let me 

 give you another clipping from the Sunday 

 School Times. Perhaps I should explain 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



first, that over in "Merrie England" it used 

 to be the fashion for the mother of the 

 home to carry the purse; and I wonder if it 

 would not be a good fashion to adopt here 

 right now in our "land of the free and the 

 home of the brave." Well, this clipping 

 that I am giving you is English, as you will 

 notice by the talk ; and I am sure it will in- 

 terest our people who love poultry as well 

 as temperance. Read it yourself and see if 

 I am not right about it : 



THE EX-MISERABLE'S BEER MONEY. 



Mr. Harold Begbie tells the following in The Cen- 

 tury Magazine : I was introduced a few months ago 

 to a painter by trade, an ex-fighting man, an ex- 

 drunkard, an ex-miserable. Religion has restored 

 his soul, given him new birth, and made him a useful 

 citizen. He told me how his mates "get at him" 

 for being a teetotaler, and how they are continually 

 asking him, "Don't your missus ever give you any 

 beer money?" "To which I answer them," he 

 said, grinning, "Hoh, yuss ; my old lady gives me 

 plenty of beer money — shillings and shillings. And 

 where do you think I keep it? In my garden. 

 Ain't that artful of me? And some of my beer 

 money has got feathers and lays eggs, and some has 

 got fur and makes lovely pie, and some has got flow- 

 ers and smells a bit of all right. Yuss, if you'd like 

 to see my beer money, drop in some Saturday after- 

 noon and take a walk round my garden. I'll show 

 you last week's beer money, the week's before — 

 "yuss, and last year's — hopping and clucking and 

 crowing and smelling beautiful. By the way, old 

 friend, where's your beer money? Where is it! 

 Can you show it to me, or is the publican keeping 

 it for you till Christmas?" 



Now here is just one more clipping, 

 which I take from the Union Signal, that 

 makes me happy every time I think of it. 

 Read it : 



GOVERNOR west's CAMPAIGN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT 



TO SAVE THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS ; OREGON'S 



CHIEF EXECUTIVE CALLS OUT MILITIA. 



"Hasn't the governor authority to use the power 

 placed in his hands to protect the God-given prop- 

 erty of some poor helpless mother or father ? I 

 think so. Anyway, I know one governor who is 

 going to put tiie question to the test mighty soon," 

 announces Governor V/est. 



Probably no State has ever been more surprised 

 at the act of its chief executive than were the citi- 

 zens of Oregon when Governor West announced his 

 campaign of law enforcement, which he stated he 

 would carry out through regular channels if his 

 warnings were promptly heeded ; otherwise by in- 

 voking martial law, with himself as commander-in- 

 chief. He declared that his efforts would be largely 

 directed toward the saloons and road houses, and 

 that the shipment of liquor into dry territory must 

 be stopped at once.* A few days after the issuance 

 of this warning through the press, the platform, and 

 the pulpits (the latter have been freely opened to 

 him) he called a meeting of the saloon-keepers and 

 brewers, to whom he planned to deliver his warning 

 and ultimatum. Because of the absence of the man- 

 ager of the biggest brewerj', the liquor men sent him 

 word that they greatly desired a postponement of 

 the meeting, doubtless hoping that the Governor's 

 action would also be deferred. Evidently, however, 



* Once more may God be praised that we have at 

 least one governor who realizes not only the harm 

 but the awful inconsistency of permitting brewers 

 and distillers to continue to ship liquors into terri- 

 tory made dry by the wishes of the people. Mana- 

 tee Co., Fla., has never had a saloon ; and the good 

 people there, I think, will never permit one ; but 

 liquors are being shipped in by express constantly, 

 despite any thing we can do; and these shipments 

 go mostly to the colored people. Only a few days 

 ago for the first time that any thing of the kind had 

 occurred in that part of Florida, a negro was 

 taken out of jail and lynched, when it was not quite 



