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before me says tliey have a<lvertise(l tlie.v 

 are go!n,^' lo I'uinisli the Government 100 

 earloads of tobacco. 1 do not know how 

 much of this is to be used for rolling up 

 into cigarettes; but the inference fron» 

 tlieir advertising' is tliat the Government is 

 going to cjive it to the soldiers. But the 

 editor was not satisfied, and on April 23 he 

 wrote to a member of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, Washington, D. C. A rej)ly 

 came promptly : 



In no instance has the Government given the sol- 

 diers any tobacco; but they have so arranged that 

 the men " over thftre " can liave the American to- 

 bacco to which they are accustomed, and at a rea- 

 sonable price. Sincerely yours, 



Louis W. Fairfield. 



Congressman from 12th Dist. Indiana. 



A few- Sundays ago at the big class in 

 our Sunday-school in Florida our superin- 

 tendent, E. B. Rood, spoke something as 

 follows, after cautioning the boys about 

 cigarettes : 



" Can anybody tell me whether the Pi-esi- 

 dent of the United States uses tobacco?" 



As nobody seemed ready to answer he 

 replied : 



" Our good President has* never used 

 tobacco in any form. Did his predecessor 

 in otlice use tobacco?" 



The answer again w^as " No." And tin- 

 ally he exjilained that no President has 

 used tobacco in any way or form until we 

 get back to Grant, and it was the tobacco 

 habit that killed him. He added that the 

 probability is that very few of the men 

 chosen for the presidential chair ever used 

 tobacco. Is there not something significant 

 in this? Once moi'e: 



How many of our large manufacturing 

 concerns in the United States would give 

 employment to a young man or boy who 

 would come with a cigarette in his mouth ? 

 Tn the journal I have quoted from I find 

 a letter from a soltlier replying to th.e edi- 

 tor about cigarettes in the army. It is to 

 tlie effect that a lot of tlie boys had broken 

 off from the use of cigarettes just be-ause 

 they soon found that they interfered ma- 

 terially with their efficiency in drill. 



Just a word aboit the " hh'eling slaves " 

 t)iis brother alludes to. Perhaps he wUl be 

 surprised to [earn that t'^ese " hirel'm;- 

 shives " of ours are, many of them, and I 

 do not know but I might say most of them. 

 r)innJng automobiles that cost two or three 

 times as much as the one your friend A. 1. 

 Root uses. In fact, the one in Florida is a 

 second-hand Victoria refinished. The one 

 I am using (and rejoicing in) today after 

 being refinished and 7'efurnislied thruout 

 cost only $300. I got it at so low a cost 

 because they did not guarantee tlie bat- 

 teries; but the first trip gave me 62 miles 



with one storage of the battery. 1 go down 

 to Floi'ida every winter because a compe- 

 tent physician says that at my age my 

 chances of life are very much better wdiere 

 I can use my hoe and hand cultivator out 

 in the open every dav of the vear. Am 

 I, really so "blind," ""selfish," and " hvi^o- 

 ci-itical," after all? 



CANNED ELKCTRICITY. 



Since you have made special mention of 

 the electric windmill, I have thought best to 

 submit what so great an authority as the 

 Scientific American says about it in their 

 issue for June 29 : 



WINDMILL DRIVE F( R THR ELECTRIC CAR. 



Mr. A. I. Root, the beeman of Medina, Ohio, 

 whose hobbies include an electric automobile which 

 gets its current from a windmill, reports that he is 

 making much jjrogres.s in this matter. He has 

 been alile to diarge liis batteries to a point where 

 his car ran 62 miles without recharging. He con- 

 fee.ses, however that this is the exception : ordinary 

 winds will not charge to the full capacity of the 

 batteries. Mr. Root is not sure that his initial 

 and operating costs are yet such as to put the 

 thing on a commercial basis, but is confident that 

 windmill drive for the automobile will be a feature 

 of the rural life of the future, and that it will have 

 a development quite parallel to that of electricity 

 canned from water power. 



Good friends, is not that an achievement 

 in the way of telling a little in a very few- 

 words — particularly that closing jaara- 

 graph about "canned electricity^?" 



A few words is closing in regard to the 

 second text : 



As long as men continue using cigarettes, 

 young boys are almost sui-e to use them in 

 spite of the law; and our best up-to-date 

 physicians agree, I think, in declaring that 

 it is harder work to break off the habit of 

 smoking cigai'ettes than to give up strong- 

 drink. There are many testimonies from 

 reformed men who have gone thru the 

 trial, both with intoxicants and cigarettes. 

 Our own State of Ohio has a vei'y just 

 law in regard to selling or giving away 

 cigarettes to boys under a certain age; but 

 since cigarettes have been sent in such 

 (fuantities to the soldiers it proves a double 

 attraction to the boys. First, they see 

 men smoking them ; and as they are " little 

 cigars " they look just as if they were made 

 I'or the small boys to copy, as far as they 

 are able, their fathers. 



Secondly, since there is so much said 

 about sending cigarettes to soldiers in the 

 army, tlie boy, as a matter of co irse, wants 

 to be pati'iotic, and thinks it is a fine thing 

 to copy the soldiers on a small scale. 



About ten miles from where I sit writ- 

 ing is a great onion farm. During this va- 

 cation time in the schools the childi-en are 

 offered big prices, girls as well as boys, to 

 weed onions. A full Iruckload of these 



