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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Ex-gov. J. Frank Hanley, of Indiana, to the Meth- 

 odist ministers of the Northeast Ohio conference 

 at their session at Epworth Memorial Church last 

 night. A packed church auditorium and Sunday- 

 school room listened to his address. 



Why is not friend Hanley once more 

 Governor of some of our States, or, better 

 still. President of the United States? 



^^the right op way;" electric cars or 

 '^•'beer-wagons.-'^ 

 Near Cleveland, on Sunday, the 8th of 

 September, a beer-wagon was driven lei- 

 surely up to a railway crossing. The motor- 

 man, with two cars in charge, supposing, 

 of course, the wagon Avould stop when the 

 car was in i^lain sight, pushed ahead; but 

 for some reason or other, however, the 

 stupid driver of the beer-wagon paid no at- 

 tention to the railway track nor to the 

 fast-coming car. In an instant there was 

 a terrible smash-up. After considerable 

 time spent in going over the cause of the 

 accident, the city authorities decided that 

 the electric cars were making too fast 

 time, especially (although they do not say 

 so) when beer-wagons might be discommod- 

 ed (?) unless a slower speed were adopted. 

 1 read the various items in regard to the 

 catastrophe with surprise and indignation; 

 but a day or two afterward somebody had 

 good sense enough to send the following 

 to the editor of our daily: 



Editor Plain Dealer: — I have just read in this 

 morning's paper of the bad accident on the Lake 

 Shore Electric at Dover Bay yesterday, caused by 

 a beer-wagon crossing the track in front of a 

 limited. 



I notice that the authorities of the village have 

 concluded to cut down the speed of the cars; but 

 there is no comment, so far as I can see, as to why 

 the beer-wagon should be there on Sunday, in vio- 

 lation of the law, nor as to the driver crossing 

 the track without looking to the right or to the 

 left, as one man testified. 



It puts me in mind of the authorities in a Ten- 

 nessee town, who, when the law was passed limit- 

 ing the distance of saloons from a schoolhouse, met 

 in solemn assembly and took steps to — move the 

 schoolhouse. !• K. Hurt. 



Amen, friend H., to what you say. When 

 beer-wagons pushing their tratfic on Sun- 

 day are of more consequence than the safe- 

 ty of the traveling public (although to 

 tell the truth I do not believe in so much 

 unnecessary travel on Sunday) it seems to 

 me things are coming to a pretty pass. 

 Have the good people who love righteous- 

 ness and hate iniquity really all gone to 

 sleenf 



ACCIDENTS AND CATASTROPHIES IN SUNDAY 

 TRAVEL. 



In the Chicago Advance the editor has 

 a column headed "I am Moved to Re- 

 mark." Here is a recent one : 



That an automobile can make a bloody Sunday 

 — it would be safer for some people to be at church. 



Let me add to the above that the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer, which is not at all pu- 



ritanical, has repeatedly called attention to 

 (he accidents and tragedies that occur al- 

 most as regularly as Sunday comes, in 

 greater numbers than in any other day of 

 the week; and notwithstanding this, no- 

 body seems to suggest that these deaths 

 and injuries occur just as our people have 

 less and less scru^Dle about using God's 

 holy Sabbath as a day of rioting and rec- 

 reation. 



"dUFPY'S whisky" FOR THE CURE OP CON- 

 SUMPTION, ETC. 



The following is clipped from the Union 



Signal : 



Of all the drugs that have fallen into disrepute 

 in late years, alcoholic liquors may be said to take 

 the lead. Whisky was once thought an essential 

 for consumptives. Now consumptives are warne 

 against it on every side, except by a few ignorant 

 for worse) doctors, such as those who give testi- 

 monials to Duffy's Impure Malt Whisky. Indeed, 

 alcoholic liquors are now declared to be a prolific 

 cause of consumption. 



Just think of whisky for the cure of con- 

 sumption, and even spending thousands of 

 dollars for the insertion of advertisements 

 of whisky when whisky of any sort, let 

 alone cheaj) impure whisky, is the very 

 ■irurst tiling for a consumptive. And yet 

 respectable ^periodicals continue to accejDt 

 advertisements of Duffy's malt whisky. 



THE STATE OP MAINE AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. 



We clip the following from the Union 

 Signal: 



TRIUMPH FOR PROHIBITION IN MAINE. 



As we go to press, the news is received from our 

 National President, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, that 

 William T. Haines has been elected Governor of 

 Maine. This is a splendid victory for prohibition, 

 and a heavy blow to the liquor interests, who have 

 been using every effort to defeat him. 



As we go to press I see there is general 

 rejoicing in temperance and Christian peri- 

 odicals all over our land that Maine has 

 finally succeeded in getting a governor who 

 is in sympathy with prohibition, in place 

 of his predecessor, who openly favored the 

 liquor party. 



TEMPERANCE PEOGEESS IN MICHIGAN. 



A goodly number of wet and dry county cam- 

 paigns are in process of organization. The legis- 

 lature will be in session in .January. All three 

 of the candidates for governor are dry men, and 

 the legislature looks good. The interstate liquor- 

 shipment bill has been favorably reported by the 

 Senate at Washington, and is practically sure of 

 passage. 



The strongest endorsement the Anti-saloon League 

 ever received was given it at the General Methodist 

 Conference at Minneapolis in May, when, out of 

 819 delegates, only twenty-five men voted in the 

 negative. The Detroit Methodist Conference in 

 session at Alpena, Monday, the 16th, gave the 

 league a most hearty and enthusiastic endorse- 

 ment by a vote of 420, only three men voting in 

 the negative. 



The great question in Michigan to-day is, "Have 

 we staying qualities?' There is no question of the 

 final victory if we have. 



Geo. W. Moerow, 



State Superintendent of Anti-saloon League of 

 Michigan. 



