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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



renewing the battei-y he said they g^iiaran- 

 teed them for two years; and renewing the 

 batteries costs $20, or $10 a year. Now, we 

 have seen that the cost of ninning a battery 

 for an automobile is about six times as 

 much as for gasoline. From this I gather 

 that the cost of running electric lights in 

 the home is something like six times as 

 much as if the current were taken direct 

 from a gasoline-engine. In that ease, how- 

 ever, you could have light only while the 

 engine is running- Therefore it behooves 

 one who has such a rig to get his light from 

 his storage battery just as little as possible. 

 We hope there may be some improvement 

 made in storage batteries so as to reduce the 

 cost. Electric automobiles, on account of 

 the above, will probably be mostly used by 

 those who have plenty of money — at least 

 the expensive ones that will go from 75 to 

 100 miles with a single charge of battery. 

 The convenienee of electricity, especially 

 for short trips up town and around lie me 

 or between one's home and his place of 

 business, will always make them in demand. 

 When I am tired of hoeing in the garden, 

 it is a very great privilege to get into my 

 little electric car and rest while I run over 

 to the factory or run around town and visit 

 people. Where I am well acquainted, the 

 grocer will bring me whatever I wish with- 

 out m.y getting out on my feet at all. It is 

 also, on account of its simplicity, well 



adapted for women to manage and to run 

 around with. Where one has a plant that 

 furnishes a cui'rent, as we have, the expense 

 of charging a batters' is not much. Where, 

 however, you are obliged to pay the town or 

 electric lighting company for charging your 

 battei'ies, this involves considerable cost in 

 addition to the expense of renewing the 

 batteries when they are used up. The pres- 

 ent high price of lead is just now making 

 storage batteries still more expensive. 



Later. — I clip the folloAving from the 

 Cleveland Plain Dealer. It comes from 

 West Orange, N. J., and is dated Sept. 20: 



GOOD BY, HOESE; EDISON SAYS ST0E4GE BATTERY 

 FOE DELIVERY- WAGONS FINISHES DOBBIN. 



" It is the beginning of the end of the horse. 

 Horses in the near future will he used only as orna- 

 luents. Their commercial value will be nothing." 



Thomas A. Edison laughed today at his plant here 

 as he surveyed another of his accomplishments — a 

 storage battery for delivery wagons. 



Before half a hundred experts he explained the 

 mechanism. They stood awe-stricken as the light 

 horseless delivery wagon rolled around the yard. 



I have been for some time watching and 

 hoping that Edison or somebody else would 

 invent a storage battery that would not cost 

 so much for the upkeep; and the clipping 

 above may be an indication of what is com- 

 ing. But, as I have outlined, the objection 

 to electricity in place of a horse has been, 

 and is at present, the expense of renewing 

 the battery when it is used up. 



TEMPERANCE 



ANOTHER VICTORY IN THE LINE OF WHISKY 

 ADVERTISING. 



We clip the article below from the New 

 York Evening Journal. 



No whisky advertisements in any of the 

 Hearst publications hereafter. 



Public Health, Public Morals, and Public Righteous- 

 ness Demand a Campaign against the Drink and 

 Drug Evils. 

 ■ 1 note in a recent issue of The American an ad- 

 vertisement of a whisky masquerading as a medi- 

 cine. 



I wish all our papers to reject all whisky adver- 

 tising of whatever kind, and all advertising of any 

 ardent liquors, and all advertising of any medicinal 

 preparations containing alcohol or opiates in habit- 

 forming quantities. 



Furthermore, I do not think that passive opposi- 

 tion to such great evils as the drink habit and the 

 drug habit is sufficient for forces as powerful and 

 as vital in the community as our newspapers. 



I think our papers have more active duties and 

 more positive responsibilities. I think they should 

 campaign for a system of sumptuary laws. 



1.- — To prohibit the sale of injurious and habit- 

 forming drugs except by the state and upon the 

 prescriptions of regular physicians. 



2. — To prevent the sale of alcoholic beverages 

 except where the proportion of nlcohol is fixed at 



some definite and known innocuous proportion. 



3. — To make the taking or administering or pre- 

 scribing of alcohol or opiates in habit-forming quan- 

 tities a criminal offense, from the penalties of which 

 regular physicians shall in no way be exempt. 



The campaign against the drink evil and the drug 

 evil is a matter of public health, of public morals, 

 and of public righteousness which it is the duty of 

 our papers actively and aggressively to promote. 

 William Randolph Heaest. 



WHO ARE THE VOTERS^ AND WHO DO THE 

 VOTING ON THE WET AND DRY QUESTION? 



Before discussing the above I want to 

 quote a little from the American Issue of 

 Jan. 21: 



Mr. R. W. Walters, a structural-iron worker of 

 Toledo, was sent to East Youngstown at the time 

 of the riot, by the Toledo Blade, to report what he 

 saw. Mr. Walters says : 



" More than one- man was seen with a torch in 

 one hand and a tin cup of whisky in the other." 

 Mill property was not attacked, but the mob looted 

 and burned the homes in the community. Mr. Wal- 

 ters further says, " The rioters were so drunk that 

 two gangs of strikers met on a hill and fought each 

 other." 



REAL cause of the TROUBLE. 



The Coshocton Tribune calls attention to the fact 



