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eiiiiihasis on the fact tliat boys in our good 

 moral town of Medina were using tobacco, 

 and smoking cigarettes contrary to law; and, 

 furthermore, he said the parents of said boys 

 seemed careless and indifferent about it. 

 He said he thought it would do some of us 

 good to have him talk right out plain. His 

 words, so far as I can remember, were some- 

 thing like this: 



"As a rule I do not have much difficulty 

 in enforcing obedience. I have, however, 

 recently utterly failed in getting one certain 

 boy to obey. I am going to tell exactly 

 wliere I failed. In spite of every thing I 

 could do he persisted in squirting tobacco 

 juice down the register. This not only made 

 it unpleasant for us in a room containing 

 sixty or seventy pupils, but it endangered 

 their health. Svhen I found I could not 

 make him stop it I decided to confer with 

 his parents. I thought of writing to his 

 father; but remembering that the father 

 himself might be a user of tobacco I decid- 

 ed to try the mother; and as I was crowded 

 for time I called her up over the telephone, 

 and stated, as gently as I could word it, the 

 trouble that confronted me. Dear friends, 

 I sliall always remember that woman's ans- 

 wer as long as I live; and I am going to tell 

 you what it was so far as I can recall it. It 

 was about as follows: 



" 'Mr. Carlton, who is running that school, 

 any way? ' 



"I told her I was trying to run it the best 

 I knew how. Then she said: 



"'Well, if you can not run that school 

 and make the boys mind without my assis- 

 tance, with all I have got on my hands al- 

 ready, I think you had better let somebody 

 else take the job.' 



"Then she hung up the receiver." 



After the above he said something further 

 about as follows: 



"My friends, I very much dislike to stand 

 up here and complain; but there are things 

 going on in our Medina schools that the 

 parents evidently know nothing about, but 

 which they ought to know all about. I have 

 had charge of schools in some of the worst 

 city slums; I have been in places where you 

 would naturally expect obscenity and pro- 

 fanity to be at their worst; but I think it is 

 my duty to tell you that, during my stay of 

 two years here in the Medina schools, there 

 has been more obscenity, profanity, and 

 passing around from one to another more 

 filthy stories than any other place I have 

 ever been in. I know that Medina has an 

 excellent name on account of her well-filled 

 churches; I know that saloons have been 

 banished from your midst for many years; 

 but, notwithstanding, these things have in 

 some way got in among your children, and 

 it needs earnest and prayerful care and at- 

 tention on the part of both parents and 

 teachers. May (Jod help us as we work to- 

 gether, not oniy for decency and iiurity, but 

 for true mftnJiood in the best and broadest 

 sense of the word." 



The last part of the above may not be the 

 exact words he used, but it was the sense of 



his talk so far as I can recall it; and permit 

 me to add, may God help us as a nation and 

 a people in our energetic fight for robust 

 manhood; and may he help us to remember 

 that it is not only true in agriculture and 

 farming, but it is true in the schools and in 

 the home, that "whatsoever a man soweth, 

 that shall he also reap." 



Mety 23. — Since the above was put in type 

 I ha\ e listened to a lecture by the I\ev. A. 

 S. (iregg, of the National Reform Bureau, 

 in which he stated that we already have a 

 law in Ohio, recently enacted, and signed 

 ])y the Governor, making it a severe olTense 

 to sell, give away, or supply to any boy or 

 young man in ()hio, under IS years of age, 

 cigarettes or tobacco in any shape or form. 

 As we go to i)ress I have not been able to 

 learn just what the penalty is; but Mr. Gregg 

 has promised meacopyof the law very soon. 

 He said the penalty would be fine or impris- 

 onment, or both, and he thinks the first of- 

 fense is punishable by a fine of $10o'. May 

 the Lord be praised for this just and right- 

 eous law; and may he be praised again for 

 having answered our prayers much sooner 

 than any of us expected. The next ques- 

 tion is, "Will the law be enforced?" Some 

 of the venders of liquors in dry territory 

 have been not only astonished but terrifitd 

 by fines that almost took their breath away, 

 and pulled so hard on their purses that they 

 will not be likely to go into the same busi- 

 ness again very soon. Over in China they 

 have had some keepers of oi)ium-dens who 

 undertook to defy law, in regard to their 

 business. When the Chinese officials found, 

 after repeated arrests and fines, that nothing 

 else would answer, ihex took off the heads 

 of something like half a dozen of them, that 

 other transgressors might have a more whole- 

 some regard for law, order, and decency. 



Poultry Department 



I?y A. I. Hoot 



EGG.S WITHOUT SHELLS: DROPPING EGGS 



FROM THE ROOSTS AT XIGHT, SHEL- 



LESS AND WITH SHELLS. 



On page oP)2 of our last issue I said the 

 Buttercups would be making a good record 

 were it not that one of them had a habit of 

 laying shelless eggs. Now, lest any of you 

 should get the impression that these tricks 

 belong particularly to the Buttercups, I sub- 

 mit the following, which is from my broth- 

 er, who has charge of my southern poultry- 

 ranch in the summer time: 



I find that many of the other hens outside of the 

 Buttercups are dropping their eggs without shells. 

 I got around earlier than usual one morning, and 

 found one hen off the roost eating a shelless egg. 

 The next morning I got up before they were ofT the 

 roost, and found five eggs without shells under the 

 roost. That included the fSuttercup that dropped 

 hers regularly. I at once got some green oyster- 

 shells and pounded them up and put them in each 

 yard. I will watch to see if it helps any. This 

 morning. May 12, I got up before they did, and 1 

 found but one — that was the Buttercup. The hen I 

 set the night before you left, on that lot of full- 



