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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



has been no liquor sold. Yesterday the few dealers 

 who had stock still on hand shipped it out of the 

 state The amount shipped was small. 



For several weeks (in fact months) past, the 

 police-court docket has been crowded with a long 

 list of drunks who were holding what they termed 

 their final celebration. This morning Clerk Billy 

 Stevens in the Mill of Justice called charge after 

 charge in practically all classes of law violation but 

 drunk. The court which is usually held up by innu- 

 merable drunks was free from the pests this morn- 

 ing; and, while the docket was large, the session 

 was snappy and short. 



" Guess we are about thru with the drunks," said 

 Justice Arnold at the close of the session. " I never 

 saw so many on the dockets as we have had in the 

 past few weeks." 



ONE DRUNK IN RICHMOND. 



Richmond, Va., Nov. 2. — Business for the police 

 department suffered a tremendous slump yesterday, 

 the records for the day having shown that the num- 

 ber of arrests had fallen off to a mere shadow of 

 former days, and that the effects of prohibition were 

 early discernible in the absence of the usual long 

 list of " drunks " on the police blotter. Up to 1 

 o'clock this morning only one member of the body 

 politic of Richmond slumbered behind the bars 

 dreaming of his trial this morning before Justice 

 Crutchfield. 



" NO MONET TO RUN THE CITIES. " 



On page 992, Oct. 15, I gave a list of 

 the cities that were having financial trouble, 

 and also a list of cities that voted dry, not 

 any of them crying " bankruptcy." But it 

 seems the wets are making so much ado 

 about the terrible state of the finances ih 

 Denver that the Kansas City Star sent a 

 reporter to find out exactly the condition, 

 and below is a brief clipping from his re- 

 port: 



Even the old cry of no money to run the city 

 is given a hard wallop. Auditor Markley reported 

 today that 94 per ceent of all 1916 tax moneys are 

 in the treasury, and many delinquent taxes are being 

 paid. September was $40,000 better than Septem- 

 ber, 1915, in collections. The city redeemed 

 $636,500 in improvement bonds and has issued only 

 $94,800 this year. 



POLICE FORCE IS 100 LESS, BUT STILL ABLE 

 TO WORK EFFICIENTLY. 



A good friend sends us a copy of the 

 Toronto Globe for Oct. 27. He says: 



Dear Mr. Root: — The enclosed clipping is self- 

 explanatory. Coming from such an unbiased 

 authority you can have your own ideas as to how 

 prohibition is working in the largest city in the 

 world under such an ordinance. The clipping is 

 from the Toronto Olobe, the most influential paper 

 published in Canada. J. L. Byer. 



Markham, Ont, Oct. 27. 



We have not room for the whole of a 

 marked article in it, but below is the head- 

 ing: 



Prohibition is Doing Big Work. 



Chief of Police Grasett Sees Vast Change. 



Men Take Money Home. 



Police is 100 Less, and Able to Do Work Effi- 

 ciently- — Storekeepers Getting the Money Saved — De- 

 crease in Arrests. 



The paper goes on to tell of drunken sots 

 who are now at work and taking their mon- 

 ey home to their families instead of spend- 

 ing their time lounging around saloons. 

 Husbands go to market with their wives, 

 and carry home the purchases, etc. I won- 

 der if our large cities here in the United 

 States would not do well to " sit up and 

 take notice." In Cleveland there is a con- 

 tinual plea for more policemen; and the 

 workhouses and city prisons are so over- 

 crowded that they are talking about larger 

 buildings. But not a word is said in any 

 of our dailies in regard to closing the sa- 

 loons instead of building bigger jails and 

 workhouses. When I can find a Cleveland 

 daily that has the courage to reject liquor 

 advertisements, and suggest closing the sa- 

 loons as a means of getting a revenue, I 

 am going to swing my hat and thank God. 



THE WHITE SHOES, WHITE DRESS, AND BLUE SASH. 



I went to hear Wm. Sunday yesterday in his talk 

 to the Ypsilanti students, more than a thousand of 

 them, at the Normal, and then we went on to Ann 

 Arbor by motor car. The Coliseum, which is said 

 to seat 13,000, was packed, and we heard as best 

 we could. I had an opportunity to distribute all 

 of the leaflets that I had with me. Henry Ford sent 

 to me a large package. He is giving his life and 

 what he has accumulated to worldwide peace. 



I was delighted with your temperance talk in the 

 last issue of Gleanings; and I wish to say right 

 here that I have the leaflet " White Shoes, White 

 Dresses, and a Blue Sash " in the original. I have 

 seen the woman and heard her talk. She took an 

 active part in the first convention called by the Cru- 

 sade women of Ohio in Cincinnati. I do not see 

 why her name was not mentioned in the leaflet. It 

 was Mrs. Abbie Leavitt. Her husband. Rev. S. K. 

 Leavitt, was a Baptist minister in Cincinnati. It 

 leally was a true story, and she was gone from her 

 home but about two hours. Truly the Spirit of the 

 Lord was with us in those days; and when his name 

 and power are acknowledeged sufficiently we shall 

 see victory over evil. We must depend on him and 

 give him the honor and praise, to whom it is due, 

 before success can crown our efforts. 



I do wish many more could have heard Mrs. Leav- 

 itt tell of their work in Cincinnati, when 43 of the 

 best women in the city were arrested for blockading 

 the sidewalk, when they knelt in prayer on the pave- 

 ment in front of a saloon. In reporting it she said 

 something like this: 



" You have heard of the man who drew an ele- 

 phant in a lottery, and did not know what to do with 

 it. The mayor of Cincinnati looked just like that 

 man. The pavement was 18 feet wide, and we occu- 

 pied about 30 inches. I was leader that day, and 

 gave out the hymn ' Rock of Ages,' when a police- 

 man laid his hand on my shoulder and said, ' Mrs. 

 Leavitt, you are under arrest.' ' All right,' said I. 

 ' Let me hide myself in thee.' Then we prayed for 

 that policeman and for the others, and for the crowd. 

 We tried the patience of that policeman a little, for 

 our service lasted 60 minutes. Some shouted, some 

 cried, but all were happy ; and then we arose and 

 walked in an orderly manner, two by two, about two 

 miles to the station house." 



Rhoda C. W. Derbyshire. 



Ypsilanti, Mich., Oct. 24. 



