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siioke of a fallier and son who got into a 

 (|uai'rel througli drink, and the father killed 

 the son with a blow with a broomstick. Now, 

 this old father was a good man, or was so 

 considered by his neighbors. He had been 

 the village blacksmith for many years, and 

 was esteemed and beloved by all the neigli- 

 boi'hood. He had only one failing, and that 

 was — strong drink. When he was arrested 

 for murder the good friends readily fur- 

 nished bail, and he was given his liberty. 

 But his jieace of mind was gone. He pined 

 away over the sad event till he was almost a 

 skeleton. Well, just a few days ago, on a 

 Sunday morning, when his folks were away, 

 they found, on returning, his dead body 

 hanging from the limb of an apple-tree back 

 of his house. Murder, then suicide! Do 

 some of you ask how this father and son 

 procured their drink here in a proverbially 

 dry county? Just over the dividing line, 

 near where this man lived, is Lorain Co., 

 and that county has saloons. Saturday 

 nights buggies and automobiles are strung 

 about in every direction quite a distance 

 from that saloon. A wet county adjoining 

 us is cursing the people of Medina Co. The 

 county-seat of Lorain Co. is Elyria, a city 

 of some 15,000 inhabitants. They have had 

 many conflicts, but the wets beat every 

 time, with the help of the still larger neigh- 

 boring city of Lorain, in the same county. I 

 told you of stopping in Elyria long enough 

 to have my automobile charged. While hur- 

 rj'ing along one of the busiest streets I 

 passed a large show Avindow with plate- 

 glass front. That elegant and expensive 

 show-window contained nothing but half- 

 pint bottles labeled "whisky" in big letters. 

 They were spread out in quite a display to 

 attract the attention of passersby. I stood 

 stock still in astonishment and indignation. 

 I said to myself, and I may have said it out 

 loud, " Is it possible that here in Elyria, on 

 the busiest street, there can be found a man 

 so lost to all sense of shame that he will 

 unblushingly j^ut out such a display as this"? 

 The exhibition is not only a disgrace to the 

 city and county, but it is a disgrace to the 

 State of Ohio." I looked about the premises 

 to see if I could catch a glimpse of the fel- 

 low (I can not call him a man) who would 

 have the cheek and hardihood to make a 

 display like this, not only to tempt those 

 who are fighting strong drink, but to tempt 

 the boys on the street. May God help Lo- 

 rain Co. and Elyria to rule out such an ex- 

 hibit in open daylight before our people. 



Now, then, friends of Ohio, there are 

 only about thirty more days left, by the time 

 this reaches you, to get hold of indifferent 

 people, and urge upon them the imiJortance 



of \()ting. A jnsi and riglileous law, if 1 

 ;un col lect, forbids our furnishing money or 

 any thing else to get an indifferent man to 

 vote. The wets trample this law under foot 

 almost without scruple; but we who are fol- 

 lowers of the Lord Jesus Clii-ist certainly 

 can not think of trying to avoid or elude 

 our Ohio laws or the laws of the United 

 States. We can, however, take our automo- 

 biles and buggies and visit or talk to voters 

 whenever we have good reason to think 

 that such work will helj) to emancipate our 

 State from the rum power. Think, friends, 

 what it would mean to be able to say in No- 

 vember that Ohio is not only central in 

 geography, but that it is central in taking 

 the lead in temperance, purity, and right- 

 eousness. 



VIKGINIA GOES DRY BY 25,000 MAJORITY. 



May the Lord be praised for the good 

 news we have from Virginia. We clip the 

 following from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



25,000 VIRGINIANS VOTE DOWN LIQUOR; DRYS RE- 

 TURN IMMENSE MAJORITY AVITH ONLY' FOUR 



(UTIES OPPOSING LANDSLIDE ELECTION RESULTS 



WILL OAUSE ANNUAL REVENUE LOSS OF $700,000. 



RiCHJiOND, Va., Sept. 22. — Virginia to-day joined 

 the dry States of the nation by returning a majority 

 of more than 25,000 for Statewide prohibition. 



Not more than six out of the 100 counties in the 

 State returned a majority against the proposition, 

 and only tlie cities of Alexandria, Danville, Norfolk, 

 and Richmond, out of the nineteen cities, gave a 

 majority against Statewide prohibition. 



The election results will cause a loss in revenue of 

 more than $700,000 annually to the State. The 

 State becomes dry on and after Nov. 1, 1916. The 

 general assembly has yet to pass the law to govern 

 the State under prohibition. 



While we are rejoicing in the above, it 

 pains me more than I can tell to see my 

 good friends of the Plain Dealer give us no 

 better Avords of encouragement than that 

 the people of Virginia are going to lose 

 $700,000 in revenue. Great heavens! What 

 does "revenue" amount to compared with 

 the saving of our boys from drunkards' 

 graves? Are the States that have been dry 

 for years suffering from a lack of revenue f 

 Are not the mothers of our land, to say 

 nothing of the fathers, entitled to more con- 

 sideration than revenue, even if they do not 

 (just yet) win suffrage? For the time be- 

 ing I can change my little prayer, " Lord, 

 help," to — " The Lord has helped." Blessed 

 he his holy name ! 



We quote the following from the Anli- 

 Saloon League Year-book for 1914 : 



If the $538,815.03 of revenue from liquor were 

 distributed among the 2,060,612 people in Virginia, 

 it would be but a small fraction over 26 cents for 

 each man, woman, boy, and girl in the State; and 

 in a recent statement by the auditor he says that if 

 prohibition should prevail the tax rate would need 

 to be increased only three-fourths of one mill on 

 each $1 of assessed real and personal property — or 



