1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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western side of the city, has also come out 

 with a tremendous victory, and everybody 

 is^rejoicing". Is it g'oing- to damag-e busi- 

 ness? The Cleveland Plain Dealer of Dec. 

 7 says, " Real estate is active in conse- 

 quence." It further, says: 



Messrs. Mai thfws & Gilbert are makings a sale of 

 their lot.s. selling: them at an average of fifty a week 

 for 82-10 each. he saloons in ' eautiful I^akevvnod, 

 Cleveland's .sniokt less section, will be abandoned Dec. 

 22d and this fact alone establish s Lakewood as the 

 only subnib except Hast Cleveland that w.ll be devot- 

 ed sti ictly to residence pm poses. 



While I write, other suburban towns 

 around Cleveland, Bedford, Nottingham, 

 Glenville, and others, are also commencing' 

 vig-orous fights ; and with God's help they 

 will beat the enemies of righteousness. I 

 will tell you why. The saloon-keepers are 

 not ready to wind up business. They are 

 making- preparations to move (or have 

 moved) just over the line, where they won't 

 be "worried." Of course, the />d?c/>/^ object 

 to more saloons when they are all satisfied 

 the^' have toomany already ; and the saloon- 

 keepers already on the ground also object. 

 Just here let me say that some of the other 

 temperance orgfanizations have complained 

 that the Anti-saloon Leag-ue method is like 

 driving a mad dog- into another county. If 

 this is true, dear friends, it is bad to drive 

 a mad dog- or a saloon-keeper over on to your 

 neighbor's premises. But, bless your heart, 

 the adjoining county must "'get on amove" 

 in a like manner. They must come to life, 

 stand up on their feet, and chase these mad 

 dogs clear off the face of the earth. Let us 

 get them on the run, and worry them until, 

 in sheer desperation, they go down into the 

 sea as did the swine in that story in holy 

 writ. 



At the Anti-saloon Congress Supt. Baker 

 told us of 91 towns in Ohio that had gone 

 dry under the Heal law. Yesterdaj^'s daily 

 said it is now 95 ; and while I write I think 

 theremust be a full hundred. Do you say the 

 blind pigs and speakeasies are selling just 

 as much liquor as ever in the dry towns? 

 Why, m}' dear brother, you have not yet got 

 over being dead. At Columbiana, O , Wm. 

 Ryan was fined SlOO and costs just because 

 he sold a temperance drink — at least he 

 claimed it was — that hecalled "malt mead, " 

 containing less than two per cent of alcohol. 

 Now, they did not even succeed in proving 

 that the malt mead was beyond the limit of 

 the law, and was nothing more than a tem- 

 perance drink; but they convicted him ^o/^/y 

 on the fact that he had taken out a federal 

 license, thereby acknowledging!; that he was 

 engaged in selling intoxicating drinks; and 

 that was the third penalty of the kind im- 

 posed underthatlaw in Columbiana County. 

 In the past week two places here in Medina 

 that claimed they sold only " soft drinks " 

 have been fined nearly $400 each just be- 

 cause the records show that they had in 

 like manner taken out a United States 

 license for selling intoxicating drinks. 

 Truly the way of the transgressor of tem- 

 perance laws is getting to be full of pitfalls. 

 In getting good men into office, Supt. Baker 



said at the congress, "Every man who con- 

 nives at or favors the saloon must go— go 

 down and out. We care not what political 

 party has boosted him in, we propose to 

 boost him out. If a man is so wet that he 

 must wear gum boots, we propose to pre- 

 sent him a canoe to row out." Rev. C. L. 

 Work, of Granville, O., said, "I find that 

 73 men who used to sit in legislative halls 

 have now through the League been relegated 

 to rear seats at home, where they will stay 

 until the}' show fruit meet for repentance." 



We are frequently told that the League 

 is all right for 5;«a// towns but that we can 

 do nothing with the cities. Xenia has a 

 population of 9000; but their 33 saloons went 

 out like a snuffed candle. Cleveland has 

 2000 saloons now ; but the suburban towns 

 all around it are getting in such splendid 

 fighting trim that it looks just now as if the 

 entire city might soon be in war. May God 

 grant that this war shall commence soon. 

 Let me digress a little. 



One summer evening, just a few weeks 

 ago, I took a trolley-line out of Cleveland 

 westward. It is one of our new lines, and 

 for a distance of something like ten miles 

 brand-new saloons had been thickly located 

 on both sides of that electric line. My im- 

 pression at that time was, the business was 

 a little overdone; but those fellows seemed 

 to think that the " march of progress " de- 

 manded a beer-shop about every ten rods or 

 less on every new electric railway. The 

 further they got out into the country the 

 more scattering were these saloons ; but 

 some enterprising fellow had started one 

 at almost every point where the cars stop. 

 I was wondering at the time whether it was 

 possible that our Ohio people were going 

 to let this thing continue. May God be 

 praised that now these same Ohio people 

 are coming to life, as Bro. Shaw had it. and 

 they are coming to their senses. At Barnes- 

 ville, O., they had a speakeasy that made 

 them so much trouble people armed them- 

 selves and went at it with axes. Of course, 

 they had the law on their side. Mayor 

 White says he gave the order to the marshal 

 as follows: 



Go in the name of the law and with its power, and. 

 with hatchet and chib, break down, bring out, and de- 

 stroy the blind tiger, and let neither man. be -st, nor 

 devil stand in your way until your work is done 

 thoroughly and completely. 



Since then I have learned the saloon- 

 keepers buried a lot of cans of dynamite 

 where the marshal would be likely to 

 strike them with his pick-ax. Here are the 

 particulars: 



Barnesville, O., Dec. 8 — Marshal Charles Fogle 

 and two deputies armed with axes started this morn- 

 ing to make the ninth raid on a "blind tiger" operat- 

 ed in the Herd building. They barely e.scaped explod- 

 ing twenty-four railroad torpedoes loaded with dyna- 

 mite, and .so arranged that it would be easy for the 

 officers to strike them with their a.xes. 



The officers entered the building and found several 

 men drinking in front of a barricade built of cross-ties. 

 They noticed a strip of pasteboard across the barricade, 

 and, tearing it off. found the concealed torpedoes. Had 

 they struck the barricade with their axes their death 

 would have followed. Thr inntates escaped, but much 

 liquor was confiscated. 



