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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



of the penitentiaries of the country wheie 

 men are plentiful and women hard to find. 



WEST VIRGINIA SETS THE PACE. 



Not only is the whole United States, but 

 to some extent the whole wide world, look- 

 ing toward West Virginia to see whether 

 she will enforce the law very soon to take 

 etfect. See the following, which I clip from 

 Ihe Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



TO BE A VERY DRV STATE. 



What is declared to be the most stringent proni- 

 bition act on the statute-books of any State tatcs 

 effect at the beginning of next month in West Vir- 

 ginia. If the law is enforced, West Virginia will be 

 perhaps the driest State in the Union. 



In 1912 the people ratified a constitutional amend- 

 ment providing for state-wide prohibition, and the 

 legislature of 1913 enacted a measure putting the 

 amendment into force. West Virginia thus becomes 

 the ninth prohibition State in the Union. 



The West Virginia law makes it unlawful to make, 

 sell, or give away intoxicating liquors anywhere in 

 the State. Druggists and clubhouses cannot sell it; 

 it is unlawful to advertise liquors by bill posts, cir- 

 culars, newspapers, or otherwise in the State. A 

 State superintendent of prohibition is provided to see 

 that the law is enforced. 



When it decided to be dry. West Virginia appar- 

 ently decided to be very dry. The more than 90,000 

 majority cast in favor of the amendment would seem 

 to justify the legislature's action, for 90,000 is a 

 considerable majority in West Virginia. 



Permit me to direct attention (o the 

 matter of liquor advertisements in news- 

 papers. If I am correct, it is unlawful for 

 any periodical in that State to accept any 

 advertisement of into.xicating liquors. May 

 God be praised that we have at least one 

 State in the Union that dare's undertake to 

 throttle the enemy as West Virginia has 

 done. Let us all pray that they may have 

 the nerve to see that this law is fnlly en- 

 furced. 



INTEMPERANCE — NOT HALF THE EVILS HAVE 

 BEEN TOLD, EVEN IN GLEANINGS. 



I believe in Terry, too, although I do not live up 

 quite so closely to all his teachings, and I watch the 

 garden and temperance columns of Gleanings with 

 a good deal of interest. Furthermore, I believe that 

 half of the evils connected with the liquor-traffic and 

 its full dangers has not been told, even in Glean- 

 ings. 



La Salle, N. Y., June 4. T. Greiner. 



Right in line with the above statement by 

 our good friend Greiner comes a sad inci- 

 dent that just happened right here close by 

 our own home. A man 31 years of age was 

 getting to be so intemperate that his wife 

 went over to see her father-in-law to see if 

 something could not be done. As a result, 

 the father went over to see his son and to 

 talk matters over with him. So far as I can 

 learn the matter was discussed in a friendly 

 way, the son promising to do better. But 

 some way it came about that, as the father 



started to go home, the son offered him a 

 drink. This indicates that the father was 

 also, at least to some extent, intemperate in 

 his habits. They drank together. After the 

 father started for home the son drank some 

 more; and as a result he imagined he was 

 being imposed on, persecuted, etc., and then 

 followed his father, who was part way home. 

 He grabbed his father by the collar, and 

 began to quarrel. The father, in self-de- 

 fense, struck the son a blow with a broom- 

 stick and fractured his skull. The wife of 

 the young man was a v/itness to this tussle 

 on the road as she was on her way home. 

 During the night the son died. The wife 

 gave out that he had died from heart dis- 

 ease. The funeral followed, and the body 

 was buried. It seems, however, the neigh- 

 bors found out something about the quarrel 

 in the road. The body was exhumed, and 

 the old father is now to be tried for murder. 

 It seems the father, his wife, and the daugh- 

 ter-in-law concluded to say nothing about 

 the tight, thinking no one else knew any 

 thing about it. Now for the question as to 

 who should be punished. Shall we go on as 

 we have been doing for ages past, punishing 

 the men who commit murder when crazy 

 with drink, and let the man who furnished 

 the drink to people living in a dry county 

 go free, and let the " traffic " go on? 



THE GREAT "HANDICAP" ON HUMANITY. 



We clip the following from ' tlie Union 

 Signal. What do you think of it"? 



XO ALCflHOL FOR THIRTY YEARS. 



If really, for once, the entire civilized race of man- 

 kind should abstain from alcohol for thirty years, so 

 that a completely sound generation could come into 

 existence, there would result a transformation, a 

 raising of the whole culture anew, a heightening of 

 the happinets and welfare of men, which could easily 

 le placed beside the greatest historical reformations 

 and revolutions of which we know any thing. — Prof. 

 Wilhelm Weygandt, of Wurzhurg. 



BREEDING CRIMINALS. 



The publishers of the book, " Old Age 

 Deferred," have the following to say in 

 regard to my extract from that book about 

 l^reeding criminals : 



We note that you have strong impressions as to 

 the importance of having a right genealogy. It is 

 pretty hard, however, in accordance with the Consti- 

 tution of the United States, for one class of people 

 to regulate the personal liberties of another class; 

 and if we began that sort of thing, where would we 

 end? An enthusiastic eugenist recently reports that 

 within a century or so people who were regarded as 

 average normal now would be shut up in an Insane- 

 asylum because of the great improvement brought 

 about by eugenic methods. The medical profession, 

 as a class, are not enthusiastic on eugenics. 



F. A. Davis Co., Medical Publishers, 



per A. G. Crandall, Adv. Mgr. 



Philadelphia, Pa., June 29. 



