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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Temperance 



PROHIBITION ON THE FARM AS WEJjL AS ON 

 THE RAILWAYS. 



This is the way the Rural New-Yorker 

 looks at it : 



For years American railroad men have been 

 forbidden the use of intoxicating liquors while on 

 duty. Rum spells ruin to the men handling such 

 a powerful force as a railroad train — the same as 

 it does in smaller enterprises. The D. L. & \y. 

 R. R. Company has now gone a step further iu 

 prohibiting the use of liquor, with the following 

 order : 



"The use of intoxicants while on or off duty, or 

 the visiting of saloons or places where liquor is 

 sold, incapacitates men for railroad service, and is 

 absolutely prohibited. Any violation of this rvle 

 by employees in engine, train, yard, or station ser- 

 vice will be sufficient cause for dismissal." 



Now, seriously, there is not a person who ever 

 travels on a railroad who will not agree that this 

 order is right. There is not a brewer, distiller, or 

 saloonkeeper who would knowingly give the liquor 

 he sells or makes to the railroad men who handle 

 the train whereon he rides 1 That being so, why 

 stop at the railroad business with prohibition? 

 There is no business on earth which does not face 

 loss or possible ruin when workmen are free to 

 drink liquor when "on or off duty." There ought 

 to be just such handling of farm laborers, for rum 

 has caused more loss and sorrow to farm homes 

 than it ever did to the railroad business. 



something more about the drunken 



engineer; '^forty lives blotted OUT^ 



and sixty cripples made." 



The fast express train was taken out of Elmira, 

 New York, the other day, for the run to Buffalo on 

 the Lackawanna Railroad. It had on board valu- 

 able property and still more precious lives. It went 

 along safely until it approached Corning, and then 

 it ran into a limited passenger train, piled up a 

 wreck of engines and cars, killed forty persons, and 

 injured sixty others. 



What was the cause of the disaster? The en- 

 gineer was drunk. Under the stupor of liquor he 

 passed by the danger signal, paid no attention to 

 the warning fusee that was burning, and disregard- 

 ed the fluttered cloth of the flagman who had been 

 sent back from the other train to flag him. "Booze" 

 had made him diill. 



One more is added to the long list of horrors due 

 to drink. It is a black record. It is the most pow- 

 erful sermon for total abstinence that could be 

 preached — hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth 

 of property destroyed, forty lives blotted out, and 

 sixty cripples made — all by one man who was 

 drunk. — Catholic Columbian. 



SAWMILL OR SALOON — WHICH IS THE MORE 

 DANGEROUS TO HUMANITY? 



I presume it's comparatively well known 

 that manufacturers are being held more 

 and more liable for damages resulting to 

 workmen using dangerous machinery. If 

 a man is hurt in a sawmill, when he uses 

 ordinary care, the owner of the mill is held 

 responsible. But how about the owner of 

 the saloon? Here is something in regard 

 to the matter, wliieh we clip from the Amer- 

 ican Advance, and it also gives us a little 

 further glimpse of this same Gov. West: 



Mr. Edward H. Todd, of Salem, Ore., has 

 noted that Governor West, of that State, favors a 

 "just compensation law requiring the saloon as 

 well as the sawmill to care for its maimed." It 

 is Gov. West's theory that the saloon should no 

 more ask the taxpayer to care for the man whom 

 it has made insane or a pauper, than that the 

 sawmill proprietor should ask the public to care 

 for the man who loses his limb because of the 

 misbehavior of a buzz-saw. 



THE BEER BUSINESS AND OUR BOYS; CON- 

 DITIONS IN SPRINGFIELD^ 0., SINCE 

 SALOONS ARE AGAIN RUNNING.' 



We clip the following from the Ameri- 

 can Issue. What do you think about it? 



.'\ few weeks ago the writer, while crossing the 

 bridge over the Pennsylvania R. R., two and one- 

 half blocks from police headquarters, saw six boys, 

 ranging from nine to fifteen years, drinking from a 

 bucket 'if beer. Being inexperienced they were hav- 

 ing quite a lot of trouble with the suds on top. One 

 little fellow, while down on his knees drinking, 

 stopped long enough to say that it was awful bitter, 

 but he guessed he could drink it. 



"LIFTING up" the FARMER. 



Here is something more from the Rural 

 New-Yorker: 



Says a country clergyman of wide culture und 

 experience: "I don't like to hear about 'uplift com- 

 mis.sions' to country people. It somuls as though 

 we others are so far above ihem that we have to 

 reach down fo pu 1 tl'.c.'O" 'ip, wl-.'^'ii i'< taking the 

 wrong standpoint Iroia tlio teginniu'.;. 



To the above I give a hearty amen. Just 

 a few days ago a very nice letter came, 

 informing me that I had been recommend- 

 ed as one of a commission to visit foreign 

 nations to investigate their sj'stem of mak- 

 ing it easier for farmers to borrow money 

 at low rates of interest. If I understand 

 it, the government was to pay all ex- 

 penses. Now, perhaps my opinion comes 

 from a narrow point of view; but I do 

 not believe the farmers of the United 

 States, as a rule, need any such uplifting. 

 So far as I know, they get all the money 

 they need already, at very liberal rates of 

 interest. There are other people in our 

 nation who need uplifting vastly more than 

 the farmers; and it seems the fellows who 

 are continually inventing excuses to get 

 some appointment to uplift the people, and 

 have Uncle Samuel pay the expenses wliile 

 they are abroad, do it to put on the style 

 of millionaires, and have the farmers and 

 laboring men foot the bill. 



A KIND WORD FOE FRIEND TERRY; FRUIT SUPPERS, 



ETC. 



Mr. Boot : — For a long time I have been intend- 

 ing to write you a letter of appreciation. You re- 

 cently published in Gleanings my letter to friend 

 Terry, and I also want to express to you my grati- 

 tude for introducing your readers to Mr. Terry 

 and his valuable teachings. It was through you 

 I first learned of him, and it has proven a Godsend 

 to me. 



I am following Mr. Terry's advice almost to the 

 letter; yet in one thing I am following you — that is, 

 in regard to time of eating my meals. As I work 

 for day's wages at present I find it impracticable to 

 eat at Terry's meal hours, so I decided to do as you 

 do. I eat breakfast at seven, dinner at noon, and 

 then a lunch of fruit in the evening. I eat no 

 supper. This plan has worked nicely with me, and 

 is more convenient in my present circumstances. 



I greatly enjoy all of your Home papers, and I 

 trust you may live long to continue your battle for 

 right. Gleanings is an ever welcome guest, and I 

 admire it for its high moral tone. 



Joseph H. Peterson. 



Ogden, Utah, Aug. 13. 



