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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



cases was 44 per cent. Dr. Gauss questioned twen- 

 ty-five patients suffering: from heat stroke. All but 

 two had drunk some alcoholic beverage during the 

 day. The twenty-three confessed to libations e.x- 

 tending from one bottle to one gallon of beer, besides 

 stronger di-inks. Most of the victims admitted the 

 habitual use of intoxicants. 



"It was hardly necessary to question many of 

 them," Dr. Meyer said, " because the external evi- 

 dence of the use of alcohol was so plain. A case of 

 heat prostration without an alcoholic breath seemed 

 a rarity. Tn fatal cases the use of a stomach pump 

 commonly revealed the fact that the victim had been 

 drinking. Ninety-eight per cent of the eases were 

 due to alcohol." 



From the above it transpires that these 

 sad cases are not the result of extremely hot 

 weather, but mostly the effect of intoxicants. 

 For some time I have been watching to see 

 if the dreaded infantile paralysis Avere not 

 in some similar way connected with intem- 

 IDerate habits on the part of one or both of 

 the parents. It seems that the whole wide 

 world is just now, for the first time, waking 

 up to the direct and indirect consequences 

 of the drink habit. 



Right on the heels of the above comes the 

 following kind word : 



Mr. Root: — As my heart goes out in sympathy 

 with your kind and loving words for humanity, and 

 against this terrible demon rum, I cannot help send- 

 ing you the enclosed clipping. 



Chicago, Aug. 24. W. F. Colejiax. 



The inclosure referred to by the brother 

 is nearly a column from the Chicago Trib- 

 une, repeating at greater length with terri- 

 ble emphasis the fact that it is booze and 

 not the hot weather nor hot sun that causes 

 sunstroke. May God be praised that our 

 leading physicians are waking up, and be- 

 ginning to call things by their right name. 



MINNIE ELLFT VERSUS A CITY OF 135,000. 



During the recent heated period some- 

 thing was said in the great city dailies about 

 policemen being obliged to stand out in thi- 

 sun without any shelter. Just recently in 

 the citj' of Akron (only 20 miles from 

 where I sit dictating this), no protest was 

 made when a liquor concern proposed giv- 

 ing one of the members of the police force 

 a big umbrella for protection. Now, when 

 said umbrella was decorated with a liquor 

 advertisement, it seems no one felt like tak- 

 ing the responsibility of protesting (among 

 the 135,000 inhabitants) except this one 

 little woman, who has before this had some- 

 thing to say in our pages in regard to tem- 

 perance matters. With the above explan- 

 ation read the following, clipped from the 

 Cleveland Plain Dealer of Sept. 8 : 



WATER CONQUERS RUM; CITY CAN'T AFFORD POLICE 

 SHELTER, SO TEMPERANCE STEPS IN. 



Akron, fipancially embarrassed, was unable to buy 

 a big stationary umbrella to shelter its traffic police- 



men, so accepted one from a local liquor concern. 

 The umbrella carried a liquor advertisement. 



Naturally this roiled Miss Minnie EUet, temper- 

 ance leader. City officials explained that the city 

 was broke. 



This noon Miss Ellet marched into the city hall 

 with an umbrella of the same size, carrying an ad- 

 vertisement of the virtues of pure water. Chief 

 Durkin accepted it and turned it over to Safety Di- 

 rector Morgan, who in.stalled it at the corner of 

 Main and Quarry streets in the presence of 500 

 people who watched the performance. 



DRUNKS, J.\ILS, AND UMBRELLAS. 



Editor Beacon Journal: — A few weeks ago the 

 newspapers printed the mayor's reason for the many 

 " drunks " that infest our streets — " City prison too 

 small to hold any but the 'disorderlies,' a new city 

 building imperative." Well! The next day another 

 paper told of Belmont County's jail being overflowed 

 and Hancock County's being completely empty. Bel- 

 mont County is wet; Hancock County is dry. Yes- 

 terday I noticed that a brand-new umbrella covered 

 the traffic cop at the flatiron coi'ner. The ad. upon it 

 is " Grossvater." And then I wondered if our great, 

 prosperous, bankrupt city was advertising for more 

 " drunks," or whether she was too poor to buy her 

 own umbrellas, or whether the " Grossvater " and 

 his kin completely " cover " the city. And I won- 

 der why " strong masculine minds " advocate in- 

 creased jail facilities as a cure for drunkenness. 

 • No government arrests a man for buying more gro- 

 ceries or drygoods tlian he can carry. Why arrest, 

 imprison, and fine him for buying an over-supply of 

 licensed and protected wet goods ? If license does 

 away with speakeasies and makes all saloon-keepers 

 law-abiding, where do " drunks " get the where-with- 

 all that makes 'em stagger and blear-e^ed even if 

 they're not disorderly ? 



Aug. 22. Minnie J. Ellet. 



" AN UNSPEAKABLE CURSE, WITHOUT ONE 

 REDEEMING QUALITY." 



We clip the following from the Methodist 

 Temperance Bulletin. It seems as if it eon- 

 tains more boiled-down common sense than -a 

 I ever saw before in regard to the liquor ^ 

 business. Reader, if it is possible, pass it 

 around to your friends wlio may be likely to 

 vote wet, or, perhaps, not vote at all. 



GREAT BUSINESS JOURNAL EXPRESSES ATTITUDE OF 

 AMERICAN INDUSTRY TOWARD DRINK. 



The Manvfacturers' Journal, of Baltimore, is in 

 some particulars the leading industrial publication 

 of the country. Its influence, especially i.i the South 

 and East, is very strong. Here is what it saj-s of 

 the "liquor business:" 



" We are absolutely, teetotally, and in every way 

 ))ossible, opposed to the whisky industry, not only 

 because of its immoral influence, but from the eco- 

 nomic standpoint. It is a cui'se to the country, of 

 such gigantic proportions that, the sooner it is blotted 

 out, the better it will be for mankind. Tlie billions 

 of dollars that are annually spent in this country 

 constitute one of the most fearful curses ever brought 

 upon the land, and every dollar thus expended is an 

 economic waste and a drain upon the physical, men- 

 tal, moral, and financial stamina of the country. 

 Moreover, the alliance of the saloon interests with 

 the politics of the country is another curse, and to 

 this influence is due much of the rottenness in 

 American politics. * * * * Whisky and the saloon 

 business are an unspeakable curse, without one 

 single solitary redeeming quality." 



