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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



the two 5 oung ruffians who are said to have confessed 

 to the brutal murder of a man in the vicinity of Besse- 

 mer Ave. and the Cleveland & Pittsburj;h R R. track, 

 on Sunday evening. They did a good piece of work in 

 quickly laving their hands upon the alleged murderers. 



Two things should be ob.served in this connection, 

 however. One is, that the prisoners drank in several 

 saloons before the tatal a.ssault was committed. This 

 was on Sunday evening, when no saloons are supposed 

 to be open In that connection it may be reasonable 

 to ask if there would have been a murder had the po 

 lice done their duty in enforcing the law against Sun- 

 day liquor-selling. 



Again, it is said that at least one of the prisoners has 

 given the police much trouble in the past He has 

 been arrested several times, the last time in July, when 

 he was charged with suspicion. The "kind and con- 

 sidera'e hand" appears to have been reached out to 

 shield him, and but for that he might have been placed 

 where it would have been impossible for him to com- 

 mit a murder. 



To what extent are the authorities of this city re- 

 sponsible for this latest murder, because of their lail- 

 ure to enforce the law against Sunday liquor selling, 

 and of their failure to hold at least one of the alleged 

 murderers when he had been arrested on a charge of 

 suspicion ? Disregard of law, and lenient treatment of 

 offenders, may be regarded as in the interest of hu- 

 manity, but they are often promoters of crime. 



Now, friends, would it not have been a 

 magnificent thing- if the policemen of Cleve- 

 land had shown the same thoroughness and 

 alacrity in closing up Sunday saloons that 

 they did in ferreting out and bringing to 

 justice the parties concerned in this mur- 

 der? 



Now, ma3' be I am getting off my beat 

 when I suggest something that this great 

 Cleveland daily does not mention. The 

 mayor of Cleveland, who not only has a big 

 salary, but has taken his oath to enforce 

 the laws, instead of being on hand in that 

 great city to encourage the city police in en- 

 lorcing the laws, where is he? As nearly 

 as I can find out, he is off in an automo- 

 bile, making speeches all over this State 

 because he wants to be Governor of Ohio. 

 I wonder if he has ever noticed the little 

 text that says, "He that is faithful in 

 that which is least is faithful also in 

 much." Now, I for one protest against 

 electing a mayor who draws his salary, 

 and works all the while at some other job. 

 I protest, also, against this modern fash- 

 ion of having a postmaster who hires some- 

 body to take care of the postoffice while he 

 does something else, and so on with every 

 other public office. Get a man whom we 

 have every reason to believe from his past 

 history will attend strictly to his duties 

 and nothing else. And especially do we 

 want men who demonstrate their fitness for 

 a higher office by sticking right to the job 

 the people of the nation, have already given 

 them. 



When poor bespattered Johnnie reached 

 up his hands in a plaintive appeal to his 

 papa, who was a long while in getting 

 there, he said, "O papa! why didn't you 

 hurry up?" And this is the moral that the 

 Sunday School Times applied to the story of 

 the boy who fell into the well. We want a 

 lot of "hurry-up" people to look after our 

 boys who are stumbling into all these dan- 

 gerous wells, or who have already fallen 

 in. I fear we are turning this whole busi- 

 ness over to the Salvation Army, of reach- 

 ing down and pulling up the boys and 



girls, no matter how repulsive the work 

 may be. God bless the Salvation Army! 

 Surely they are a part of the great army of 

 "huriy-ups" we need. Then we want 

 hurry-up fathers and mothers; hurry-up 

 Sunday-schools; hurry-up prayer - meet- 

 ings; hurry-up Y. M. C. A. organizations 

 and Endeavor societies; hurry-up temper- 

 Huce societies and temperance people, no 

 matter wjiere they are. 



In speaking of the Y. M. C. A., I am re- 

 minded that Dr. Miller and I had rooms 

 very near the great Y. M. C. A. building 

 in Los Angeles. We visited that building 

 several times, both on week days and on 

 Sunday, and never found a door unlocked. 

 I went there twice after Dr. Miller left, and 

 could not get in. Now, there are some 

 grand things about the city of Los Angeles, 

 and I expect to speak of them in due time; 

 but who is there in Los Angeles or any- 

 where else who can give a reason why the 

 Y. M. C. A. reading-rooms in that great 

 city should be locked up, especially when 

 they have guests from abroad by the thou- 

 sands? 



It rejoiced my heart to hear Burdett give 

 us an excellent sermon — a sermon in which 

 he scored the police pretty severely for their 

 treatment of the Salvation Army — and on 

 the evening of the same day I heard Fran- 

 cis Murphy, and saw the evidence of the 

 great work he is doing in that city. Mur- 

 phy is now old and graj'-headed; but there 

 is considerable "hurry-up" about him, 

 even yet. May God be with the hurry-ups, 

 and may the readers of Gleanings, each 

 and all, be found in the front ranks. 



'*',>-> .'-BY;.: ..-;:. A. I ; ROOT. ■■■■/. '^ 



There are some things I have omitted in 

 my travels away back that I will take up 

 just now. Last winter I had a very pleas- 

 ant visit with Mr. Wallace R. Moses, of 

 West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. M. is a real- 

 estate dealer, and can probably g-ive good 

 advice to anybody who contemplates mak- 

 ing a visit or purchasing a home in the land 

 of perpetual flowers and sunshine. Friend 

 Moses has a very pretty garden, not only of 

 all the vegetables that will grow in his lo- 

 calit}', but he is testing tropical fruits and 

 flowers to quite an extent. As hispropert3- 

 runs down to the salt water of Indian River, 

 he has quite a collection of valuable plants 

 that will grow in the salty marsh near the 

 water. Then he has cut a little waterway 

 up into this garden, where he runs a pretty 

 little gasoline-launch; and I greatly enjoy- 

 ed the trip in the boat for quite a distance 

 around in the neighborhood of that great 

 Palm Beach Hotel. The boat, up among 

 the flowers and plants, makes a ver}' pretty 

 combination. 



