GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Just a few days ago a beautiful bright 

 little girl was shot and killed by her brotlier, 

 in our neighboring city of Akron. Her 

 father, as former sheriff of this county, had 

 a revolver; but as he always removed the 

 shells when putting it away it was a mys- 

 tei-y for some time as to how it could have 

 been loaded. Finally it was discovered that 

 a young brother found where the shells were 



kept, and put one in the revolver as he had 

 s?en his father do. Shall we all not be more 

 careful of these murderous firearms? If 

 they 7nust be handled, shall we not avoid 

 letting the children get even a sight of 

 them? Year in and year out, our papers 

 are telling the old, old story, " Didn't know 

 it was loaded." 



TEMPERANCE 



" god's kingdom coming." 

 We clip the folowing from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer for April 6 : 



DANIELS PUTS END TO LIQUOR IN NAVV; ORDER CON- 

 STITUTES NOTABLE VICTORY FOE PROHIBITION 

 FORCES; GOES IN EFFECT JULY 1; EDICT 

 WILL PREVENT USE OF INTOXICANTS ON 

 ALL SHIPS AND LAND STATIONS. 



Secretary Daniels to-uight made public an order 

 which not only will abolish the traditional " wine 

 mess " of officers, Lut will bar all alcoholic liquor? 

 from every ship and shore station. 



This order, one of the most notable victories ever 

 won by prohibition forces, was issued on recommen- 

 dation of Surgeon General Braisted. It reads: 



" The use or introduction for drinking -purposes 

 of alcoholic liquors on board any naval vessel, or 

 within any navy yard or station, is strictly prohibit- 

 ed, and commanding officers will be held directly re- 

 sponsible for the enforcement of this order." 



In a statement issued to-night Secretary Daniels 

 said : 



" I am in hearty agreement with the views ex- 

 pressed by the surgeon general in his paper accom- 

 panying the recommendation. There should not be 

 on shipboard, with reference to intoxicants, one rule 

 for officers and another and a diilferent rule for the 

 enlisted personnel. The saddest hour in my official 

 life is when an officer or enlisted man must be pun- 

 ished for intoxication. 



" During the past week it has been my painful 

 duty to approve a courtmartial for dismissal from 

 the service of an officer for intoxication. He told 

 me that he had never tasted intoxicating drink until 

 he did so in the wine mess on his cruises. Others, 

 who have been disciplined for drinking to excess, 

 liave made similar statements to me. 



" Officers are now commissioned at the early age 

 of 22 years. Has the government a right to permit 

 this temptation which too often destroys the highest 

 usefulness of young officers ? I think not. If there 

 is one profession more than any other that calls for 

 a clear head and a steady hand it is the naval pro- 

 fe.ssion. Experience has shown the wisdom of li&v- 

 ing no intoxicants on our ships for the young men 

 who enlist." 



Some time ago I read the Chicago Record- 

 Herald with much interest ; but its liquor 

 advertisements were so offensive I protest- 

 ed. As it seemed to do no good I dropped 

 it. See the following from the American 

 Issue : 



RECORD-HERALD CUTS UVT LIQUOR ADVERTISE JIENTS. 



The Chicago Record-Herald, one of the great daily 

 newspapers of the United States, in its edition of 

 last Sunday, gave notice that it has decided to elim- 

 inate liquor advertising from its columns. It will 

 fulfill its existing contracts to print this class of ad- 



vertising, and having dune that it will accept no 

 more. In a statement of its position the Record- 

 Ilfrald says : 



" The Record-Herald goes into many thousand 

 homes. In virtually all of these homes there is an 

 abiding .sense of the need of protection against the 

 use of the liquor traffic, especially for the young. In 

 constantly increasing degree there is abstention 

 from the use of liquor for the sake of the young. 

 There is the haunting fear, that from the first indul- 

 gence the young and unformed character may uncon- 

 sciously drift into an uncontrolled and destructive 

 habit of excess. Liquor advertising does not dis- 

 criminate between use and abuse. It commends 

 without reserve what the best social sense of the day 

 more and more disapproves as dangerous." 



This places one more of the great newspapers of 

 the country in the rapidly filling column of those who 

 refuse to be longer known as barkers for saloons for 

 the sake of the dollar. 



VOTING WET, LICENSING SALOONS, ETC. 



The following was sent us by Dr. A. F. 

 Bonney, Buck Grove, la., and it seems to me 



it sums it up pretty fairly. 



I am the mightiest king that ever lived. Other 

 monarchs have yielded to me as a child to its sire. 

 I have in every land laughed at their gods, from 

 Osiris to .Jehovah. 



With my breath have I wiped whole nations from 

 the face of the earth. 



For me men discard honor, and women virtue. I 

 destroy ambition, shame priests, debauch nuns, ruin 

 statesmen, and — ^still they love me. 



I fill the insane-asylums and the prisons. I house 

 my subjects in hovels and feed them on husks. Still 

 they love rac. 



Fathers give me their sons, mothers their daugh- 

 ters, maidens their lovers, and — beg me to stay. 



With one touch have I ruined great industries. 



Judges yield to my power, and advocates forget 

 under my .'^pell to plead. 



I burnt Rome. With one touch have I sunk navies 

 and destroyed great armies. 



I never sleep. 



I turn gold into dross, health into misery, beauty 

 into caricature, and pride to shame. Yet the more 

 I hurt the more I am sought. 



I by turns raise a man to highest heaven and 

 sink him to deepest hell. 



I am Satan's right-hand man. I do his work free- 

 ly, cheerfully, and without pay ; yet the father of 

 lies is ashamed of me. 



My name is Rum. Have you ever heard of me ? 



Just now I am a little pressed, and I ask that you 

 _sign my next petition of consent, for only I can turn 

 men to brutes and women to worse, and have them 

 still seek me, and continue to until I am driven out. 

 Help me. Give me your son, your daughter, your 

 lover. Give me your honor, wealth, and life. Just 

 now I need the help of honest men. 



