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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1.5 



sleep, which he did. While he was asleep 

 the boys got into his pockets and took what 

 little change he had. That was the whole of 

 it. Christopher was not a bad lx)y at all. 

 He was simply full of mischief, and was not 

 old enough to realize that he was committing 

 crime. So much for the boy bandit of the 

 newspapers. Christopher and the other boy 

 are now among the judge's very best friends 

 and helpers. With the assistance of his boys 

 in the juvenile court, Judge Lindsey has 

 prosecuted more saloon-keepers and other 

 criminals than the police have succeeded in 

 roping in within the past twenty years. You 

 have probably read about the work, in the 

 magazines. The judge told us aljout one 

 particular hoy whom he called "Mickey." 

 He is captain of the newsboys" baseball team 

 of Denver. Well, IVIickey's team had been 

 winning all the games for a year past. One 

 day the judge asked him how it came about 

 that he and his team were making such con- 

 tinuous victories. The boy replied as follows: 



"It's like dis. Judge. You see. half of dese 

 kids is Irish, antl de odder half is Jews: and 

 when de Jew kids and us Irish kills git to- 

 gedder, we vvhip^ every ting dat comes down 

 de pike." 



The judge said, in closing, "Now, friends, 

 we want to learn a lesson from Mickey. 

 When the Anti-saloon League, the W. C. T. 

 U., and the ProhilMtion party and all other 

 temperance organizations get together, we 

 'whips every ting dat comes down de 

 pike.' " 



John G. Woolley, of the New Voice and of 

 the Prohibition party, gave us one of his 

 grandest speeches, and something like 5000 

 people turned out to hear him. This address 

 was given in one of the great beautiful Meth- 

 odist churches. While I think of it, St. Louis 

 has some of the finest churches I ever saw in 

 the L'^nited States: and the first Presbyterian 

 church, when I first came to it, I found to 

 be about the finest and most convenient I 

 ever saw: in fact, it was a revelation to me 

 of what a church edifice can be. Woolley 

 said it rejoiced his heart to see the number 

 of people who are voting for good men with- 

 out voting for any particular party. The 

 Ohio Republicans had recently voted in a 

 Democratic Governor; and things of a like 

 nature are going on all over this land of ours. 

 He suggested that, while both Democrats 

 and Republicans were looking for good men, 

 they would do well to glance occasionally 

 over into the Prohibition party, and see 

 whether there were not some to be found 

 there also. 



Of course, a photographer was on hand 

 and got us all out in front of that beautiful 

 church to have our pictures taken. While 

 arranging things and the people, he asked 

 Woolley if he could not look a little pleasant- 

 er. Woolley replied that he "did not know 

 how he could consisienthj, because he was a 

 Prohibitionist.''' By the way, some of my 

 friends keep throwing it up to me every lit- 

 tle while that I am not voting as I pray. 

 Why. my good brothers and sisters, I rejoice 

 that I stand so close to Bro. Woolley, or he 



stands so chjse to me (I really do not know 

 which), that we can almost walk together 

 and vote together on every matter that comes 

 up. God bless Bro. Woolley. 



At one point in our program one of the 

 great speakers failed. Dr. Howard Russell 

 was kind enough to mention that, under the 

 circumstances, we should be glad to hear 

 from a great and good brother from away 

 down in Maine, who had in a quiet way 

 helped the cause of temperance perhaps al- 

 most as uuich as any other man in that re- 

 gion. He had done it by furnishing funds to 

 help things along, when that seemed to be 

 the great thing lacking. Dr. Russell then 

 made me shake in my shoes by saying that, 

 after this good brother had spoken, they 

 would like a word or two from your humble 

 servant, A. I. Root, who had helped the 

 Anti-saloon League from its birth up to its 

 present proportions, in a like manner. The 

 thought of standing on the platform before a 

 convention of the educated D. D.'s and 

 LL.D.'s and the great orators together from 

 all over the United States, made the cold 

 chills run down my back for a while: but I 

 prayed God to help me to say something 

 that would help the work along: and if any- 

 body should care to know just what V did 

 say I will try to write it out some future 

 time for these columns. 



I hope most of you have heai'd Dr. Chap- 

 man, or "Old Father Eloquent," as he is oft- 

 en called, of Los Angeles, Cal. If you have 

 not heai'd him, you are likely to hear him 

 soon in connection with his great temperance 

 speech called the "Stainless Flag." He gave 

 it first at our Ohio convention, and then 

 again at the St. Louis convention; and it is, 

 in my opinion, a second "declaration of in- 

 dependence," and perhaps not second in im- 

 portance to the one we read over so rever- 

 ently and love so much. It is a declaration 

 of independence from the domination of the 

 liquor-tralfic. It aroused so much enthusi- 

 asm that, as soon as he closed, a man rose 

 up and said that a lady by his side would 

 give $100 to have it printed and scattered 

 broadcast provided her name was not men- 

 tioned. Similar amounts followed rapidly. 

 Well, I was feeling just as the lady did, and 

 I finally got up with the idea in mind that I 

 would furnish a large numl^er of the pam- 

 phlets if they would let us print them on our 

 new large printing press just installed. I 

 intended to give about the same amount that 

 the lady did — $100; but under the excitement 

 of the moment I somewhat recklessly made 

 a blunder in my figures. I said I would 

 print one hundred t/iousand if the Anti-sa- 

 loon League of America would see to it that 

 they were put into the hands of people who 

 would read them. Well, this proposition or 

 donation was received with such bursts of 

 enthusiasm that I began to think that may be 

 I had "put my foot in it," and I meditated 

 correcting the matter; but just then Howard 

 Russell got up and said, " Friends, I am afraid 

 we do not all realize the magnitude of Bro. 

 Root's olTer. Why, it really means some- 

 thing like $1000." 



