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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



there is at least one State in our Union 

 that has banished by law the manufacture 

 of cigarettes. The statement that there are 

 517 factories making- cigarettes in this 

 country is, I confess, quite a surprise to 

 me. God forbid that it should be true, as 

 friend C. hints, that the use of tobacco is 

 increasing among ministers of the gospel. 

 The agricultural papers, as a rule, are 

 continually holding up warnings ; and I 

 am sure the use of tobacco is not on the in- 

 crease among the readers of our bee-jour- 

 nals. How is it, brethren? 



It may be a good plan to have the law of 

 Ohio read over occasionally so that we may 

 remember what it is. 



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 

 of O.io, That whoever sells, givts, or furnishes to 

 any minor under sixteen years of age any cigarette, 

 cigarette- wrapper, or any substitute for either, or any 

 cigar or tobacco, upon conviction thereof shall be fined 

 not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than < ne 

 hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than two nor 

 more than thirty days, or both for the first offense, 

 and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than 

 three hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than 

 five nor more than sixty days, for the second or any 

 subsequent offense. 



Now let me copy from one of our great 

 Cleveland dailies, the Press. They, surely, 

 are not extreme in this matter : 



The effects of cigarette-using by young boys would 

 be a start.ing revel>tion to many of their mothers if 

 they underst >od the alarming proportions to which it 

 has grown in this countiy. 



A magistrate in Harlem court. New York, made the 

 following .-ignificant declaiation the other day : 



Veitetday 1 had before me 3s boy ptisoners. Thirty- 

 iht ee of them 7/r/ e confirmed ctga rette smokets To-day, 

 from a reliable source, I have made the greiusome discov- 

 ery that two of the largest cigarette manufacturer s in 

 this country soak their product in a weak solution of 

 opium. 



The fact that out of 35 prisoners 33 smoked cigar- 

 ettes might seem to indicate some direct connection 

 belwten v igai ettes and crime. 



And when it is announced on authority that most 

 cigarettes are doped with opium, this connection is not 

 hard to understand. 



The cigarette is to young boys very much like what 

 whisky is to grown men. If it does not directly cause 

 crime it at least accompanies it in nine cases out of ten. 



It mu.'t be universally admitted that the majority of 

 young boys addicted to cigarettes are generally re- 

 garded as bad b js. It is an addiction that does not 

 ally itself w th the high virtues of manly youth. It 

 leads to bad associations and bad enviiotiment. He 

 must be a strange boy indeed who can derive moral 

 and physical good from cigarettes. 



Ouium is like whisky — it creates an increasing ap- 

 petite that grows with what it feeds upon. Even pure 

 tobacco has the same tfftct 



The growing boy who lets tobacco and opium get a 

 hold upon his sense*; is never long in coming under the 

 domination of whisky too. 



Tobacco IS the boy's easiest and most direct road to 

 whi.sky. When opium is added, the joung man's 

 chance of resi.'-ting the combined forces aud escaping 

 physical mental, and moial harm is slim indeed. 



It is a deadly combination in most cases. There are 

 few, if any, cases in which it i^ not more or less harm- 

 ful Stomach and nerves and will power weakened 

 for life is the common result, even though the habits 

 be finally mastered. 



May God be praised for the fact that 

 President Koosevelt does not use tobacco in 

 any form. His example here should be a 

 beacon-light to the boys of the whole world. 



LOCAT. PROHIBITION IN TEXAS. 



We clip the following from the Independ- 

 ent for Jan. 14 : 



Very interesting statistics of prohibition and crime 



are reported from Texas, where the local-option law 

 assures that prohibition of thesaloonsshall be enacted 

 only where it can be enforced \>y public sentiment. 

 There are in that State 23 prohibition counties that 

 have no convicts in the prnitentiary, and 9 with only 

 1 convict each In 3y prohibition counties there are 

 only 23 convicts in all. -^an Jacinto County alone, 

 with a population of 10,277 and the open saloon, has 

 25 convicts, and Montgomery, with open saloons and 

 17,067 population, has 21 convicts in the State prison ; 

 and these are two poor counties in the piney woods. 

 Collin County with 50 000 people and no i-aloons. has 

 20 convicts ; Lamar Couniy, with 48.1 00 and saloons, 

 has yt). A large part of Texas has no saloons, and has 

 one convict in 1500 of population, while the territory 

 with saloons has one convict for every 500 of popula- 

 tion. Such figures teach a lesson. 



I hope our readers will read the above 

 over and over again, just as I have done ; 

 and then I hope the whole United States, if 

 not the rest of the world, will wake up to 

 the tremendous moral it gives us. Why 

 will any State, any county, any town, or 

 any nation on the face of the earth, side 

 with the wets with the above facts staring 

 them in the face? It is not Texas alone 

 that has made or is making the discovery. 

 Every State and every community in the 

 United States, or, you might say, in the 

 world, must own up, if they are honest, 

 that the lesson taught us in the above extract 

 is a true one. No saloons, one convict in 

 every 1500 population ; with saloons, one 

 convict to every 500. Just now we are told 

 by the Chicago Advance that the city of 

 Chicago has the finest-equipped free hospi- 

 tal in all the world, and the institution is 

 already bearing good fruit. Our large 

 cities are making great progress in ward- 

 ing off contagious diseases, and in taking 

 every precaution to save human health and 

 life ; but when it comes to the whisky busi- 

 ness, or even the cigarette business, our 

 great men — at least a great part of them — 

 seem to be suffering from a peculiar kind of 

 paralysis. Our railway companies and 

 factories are coming to life, and shaking 

 oflf the paralysis — at least to some extent. 

 What is the matter with our governors, may- 

 ors, and policemen, and all the others who 

 are looking after the welfare of the masses? 



KLICCTROPOISE, OXYDONOR, ETC., AGAIN. 



Mr. Root: — I am a more or less devoted student of 

 physical culture, and take the magazine of that name. 

 It was, therefore, with sorrow that 1 noted in a recent 

 issue an advertisement by the Electropoise people. I 

 immediately wrote to the publishers, calling their at- 

 tention to these people, their ways, etc ; and as 1 know 

 you to have been on the track of these felli.ws for a 

 good many years, you will be doing humanity a good 

 deed by furnishing all the information at your com- 

 mand." The Electropoise people got $20.00 out of me 

 some years ago before j'ou began showing them up, 

 and all the benefit I derived was the experit nee. 



Hinchiuaii, Mich. E. A. Bo.^l. 



[Thanks for your "experience," friend 

 Boal. I have sent the publishers of Physi- 

 cal Culture some facts in regard to the mat- 

 ter. Just now it is only once in a great 

 while that Electropoise or Oxydonor finds 

 a periodical that will accept their adver- 

 tisement; and it behooves us all to make a 

 protest whenever we meet with . ny rem- 

 nant in regard to anj' of our home journals. 

 Friend Boal, you did exactly the right 

 thing.— A. I. R ] 



