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their beer on her fence. She soon taught 

 the enemy, however, that she could use a 

 paint-brush too. I have forgotten how she 

 tixed it; but the brewery folks found this 

 attracted so much attention that automo- 

 biles filled with people came oat to see the 

 " new version " of their advertisement, and 

 have a big laugh over it. 



Well, Akron's oldest county paper, the 

 Beacon-Journal, has just coma out with a 

 full-length picture of Miss Ellet, with the 

 following under the picture : 



PUT ONE OVER ON OLD DEMON BUM. 



Miss Minnie J. Ellet, of Springfield Township, 

 Akron's militant " dry " fighter, is chuckling over 

 a victory over the demon rum. 



It happened like this: 



An advertising crew from Cincinnati, it seems, 

 is going through the countryside, erecting bill-boards 

 with arguments for the passage of the pro-booze 

 amendment. All unsuspecting they went through 

 Springfield and began setting one up right along- 

 side the Ellet homestead. 



Miss Ellet saw it, and the weatherman hung out 

 the storm signal. She wanted to know what right 

 they had to deface her neighborhood. 



" State road — public property," .said the br-ght 

 young man in charge : " $50 fine for any one mo- 

 lesting or disturbing this sign." And he tacked a 

 little tin sign to that eftect on the bulletin board. 



Minnie hunted up her lawyer. She came back 

 with a smile and three great big prohibition posters 

 which she carefully stuck up all over the bulletin 

 board, entirely concealing every last Cincinnati 

 argument. 



" They haven't any rights there that the law rec- 

 ognizes," says Minnie. " We'll post up our posters 

 over every one of their bulletin boards wherever we 

 can find them. I'm passing the word along to other 

 places. We'll let old Demon Rum pay the freight 

 for our advertising now." — Akron Beacon-Journal. 



I call attention to the "tin s"'gn" to show 

 with what cheek the liquor jDarty attempt 

 to deceive the people. There is a law and 

 a tine of fifty dollais for defacing or de- 

 stroying guideposts or any thing for the 

 benefit of the traveling public. This law 

 was enacted because boys in some localities 

 had been in the habit of sm.ishing sign- 

 boards b}^ throwing stones at tl.em. 



Miss Ellet writes in regard to the above 

 as follows : 



Mr. Root : — I am enclosing a clipping. It made 

 a " hit " here. The editor asked me to let them 

 make the story. Two neighbors who had pulled 

 their signs out by the roots before they knew what 

 I wanted will plant them back Friday. I'll paint 

 'em black first — put the old " Grossvater " beer and 

 all his relatives in mourning by Nov. 4, if what I 

 can do will do the iob. I wish the same could be 

 done all over Ohio. The highway is for travel only, 

 and no firm or corporation can put any sign even 

 in the road without consent of property-owners. 



Yours for the highest glory of God, and that to 

 him belongs. Minnie J. Ellet. 



Akron, Ohio. 



Our good friend Minnie Ellet liapi)ened 

 to be present at a fanners' pienic where the 

 Governor of Ohio was to speak As he was 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



about to bring his address to a close with- 

 out reference to the wet or dry war, Miss 

 Ellet arose, and here is a report of what 

 followed : 



GOVERNOR COX AND THE PICNIC. 



We went to the farmers' picnic Saturday, and we 

 heard the great Governor Cox tell the farmers of the 

 great things he had done for the now great State of 

 Ohio. But he said never a word about the three 

 vital issues — ^suffrage, prohibition, and home rule 

 (ruin) — now before the people. He told of the 

 great revolution the new school law would bring to 

 pass in the country school; a revolution that would 

 cost the farmers almost nothing because the State 

 was going to pay half the bill — partly from the liquor 

 tax. 



Well, he did give the "people" a chance to ask 

 questions, and one of those females whom his party 

 doesn't consider " people " butted in and asked him 

 who paid this liquor tax. He replied: The man 

 who gets the license of course." She wondered 

 where that man got the money ; he hemmed a little, 

 then he said he supposed from the consumer. 



Then he jumped over to his appointing the license 

 board; that he did it only on condition that he have 

 power to " behead " the ones who did not obey the 

 law. He's beheaded ju&t one. — Beacon Journal. 



Now, in conclusion, is there any one 

 whose eyes rest on these pages who thinks 

 that the State of Ohio is going to suffer 

 any lack of revenue because the thousands 

 of saloons of Ohio are put down and out 

 for evermore? ''0 thou of little faith! 

 wherefore didst thou doubt?" 



" SWAT THE SALO<;]Sr. 



I learn by kind letters that bolh Califor- 

 nia and Arizona are engaged in a contest 

 similar to the one in Ohio; and they, too, 

 have a vote Nov. 3. A eireulrr to tax-pav- 

 ers, giving an appalling array of figures, 

 in order to show how people are being 

 robbed, closes up by saying, ' Instead of 

 swatting the fly, swat the saicon." A id 

 would not that be a good slogan for us to 

 help along from one State to another? Let 

 me give you the windup from the Arizona 

 leaflet, after tlieir appalling array of fig- 

 ures : 



Liquor forces will attack this showing; but the 

 more they try to explain, the deeper they will get 

 in the mire the saloon has made for them. 



It will be observed that these enormous losses are 

 annval. In ten years the burden is frightful. 



Added to the expense shown by the tables is the 

 direct cost of liquor, amounting in the whole of 

 7\rizona to $25,000 every day in the year. Ten 

 millions of dollars are spent over the saloon bars 

 of Arizona in a year, half of which leaves the State 

 forever. It goes to make fat the brewers and dis- 

 tillers of other States. This drain and the tax drain 

 are enough to make the Arizona tax-payer arise in 

 righteous indignation, and swat the saloon. 



The revenue derived amounts to nothing com- 

 l)ared with the enomous cost. Vote to end it. 

 Vote Arizona dry. 



Temi'er.vnck Federation of Arizona. 



Phoenix, Ariz. 



