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served as you Iiave, that the hen, by rolling 

 the eggs about, very soon rubs oft' the out- 

 side bloom of a newly laid egg. In order 

 to get some idea of just how 7nuch a hen 

 tumbles her eggs around I once slept with 

 my head close to a box containing a sitting 

 hen. For perhaps an hour or more after 

 placing her in her new surroundings she 

 did not make a move; but about midnight 

 she commenced kicking those eggs around 

 in sucli a way that it seemed she would 

 certainly smash them against the sides of 

 the box; and she kept it up so frequently 

 for the rest of the night that I scarcely 



llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIII! 



got any sleep at all. No wonder the glutin- 

 ous covering was scoured oti". 



Another thing that seems to run rather 

 against your theory: about the best hatch 

 I ever had, and some of the strongest chick- 

 ens I ever had, were from a sitting hen 

 that got out in some black sticky mud, and 

 then got back on her nest. Her eggs were 

 so daubed over with the di'ied-on mud that 

 I did not expect to get a chicken ; but I did 

 not get time to wash them off, and the 

 result was as I have told you. I do not 

 think I have ever seen the matter touched 

 on in any of the poultry journals. 



TEMPERANCE 



" god's kingdom coming " ONCE MORE, 



"When I found the following in the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer of May 25 I said, " May 

 the Tjord be praised for this unanimous de- 

 cision of the engineers of America." Read 

 it, and see if you cannot say the same. 



KNGINKKKS FAVOR DRINKLKSS NATION; AMERICAN 

 AND CANADIAN DELEGATES VOTE UNANIMOUSLY 

 Fdl! 1'ROHIBITION ; DECLARE LIQUOR AND EFFI- 

 CIKNCV DO NOT GO HAND IN HAND. 



The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at the 

 session at its convention yesterday afternoon in- 

 dorsed state and national prohibition. This action 

 was taken by unanimous vote of the 819 delegates, 

 representing 74,000 locomotive engineers in all parts 

 of the United States and Canada. 



Immediately after the convention had voted on 

 the prohibition question the Canadian delegation, 

 composed of eighty-five delegates, asked for the priv- 

 ilege of taking a vote. This contingent then cast a 

 unanimous vote indorsing prohibition in Canada. 



The resolution was introduced unexpectedly. Sev- 

 eral members took the floor in its support. 



The action of the engineers was purely non-politi- 

 cal. It indorsed no party, but simply went on 

 record against the traffic in liquor. 



SHOWS TREND OF TIMES. 



" This is simply an indication of the trend of 

 the times," said one of the officers of the organiza- 

 tion after the meeting. " Engineers of North Amer- 

 ica have been trained for years that drink and 

 efficiency do not run hand in hand. 



" If any one needs a clear head it is the man in 

 the cab. The fellow back in the sleeper may drink 

 a cocktail if he wants to; but we who have to keep 

 watching signals every minute know that if we are 

 not at our best the man in the sleeper and we our- 

 selves will pay with our lives for carelessness." 



It was stated at yesterday's meeting that the re- 

 port of the Interstate Commerce Commission for 

 1914 showed that of all the engineers in service in 

 the United States last year only two ran past a sig- 

 nal, and one of these is believed to have been dead 

 when he passed the signal. 



Copies of the convention's action will be sent to 

 the official organization headquarters of the politi- 

 cal parties, and to others who may be interested in 

 the movement to make the country dry. 



I clip again from the Plain Dealer as 

 follows : 



The Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union 

 yesterday expressed its appreciation of the brother- 



hood's action in indorsing state and national prohi- 

 bition. The following telegram was received yesterday 

 from Florence D. Richards, of Columbus, state pres- 

 ident: 



"The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Cleve- 

 land, O. : The Ohio Women's Christian Temperance 

 Union sends greetings and grateful appreciation of 

 your splendid resolution for prohibition. May the 

 words of Moses, ' Blessed shalt thou be when thou 

 comest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest 

 out,' be verified to each member of your brotherhood. 

 FLORENCE D. Richards, 

 President Ohio W. C. T. U." 



KANSAS, THE " DIED-IN-THE-WOOL " PROHI- 

 BITION STATE. 



Perhaps some of you will say that the 

 story below has been told in Gleanings 

 already — may be twice; but the following, 

 which we clip from Better Farming, tells it 

 in a little different manner; and, besides, it 

 is something like the " old, old story " — it 

 ought to be told again and again, until 

 every other state in the Union, and especial- 

 ly the wet states, begin to " sit up and take 

 notice." 



EXTEA DRY I 



Kansas, the original dyed-in-the-wool prohibition 

 state, is dry ; yes, extra dry. Of course, it has killed 

 business in Kansas to go dry and stay dry as it has. 

 Here are a few figures that show how prohibition 

 that is enforced has ruined that state: 



In 87 of the 105 counties in Kansas there are 

 no insane. 



There are no feebleminded in 54 counties. 



There are no inebriates in 94 counties. 



Thirty-eight of the county poorhouses are empty. 



Fifty-tliree of the county jails were recently empty, 

 and 65 counties could boast no contributions to the 

 state penitentiary. 



There are less than 600 paupers in the state. 



Some counties have not called a grand jury to try 

 a criminal case in ten years. 



Recently Kansas had over $200,000,000 in the 

 banks. 



The farmers own more than $225,000,000 in live 

 stock. 



In one year the people have added $45,000,000 in 

 taxable property. 



The mortality rate has dropped from 17 per 1000 

 to 7 per 1000. 



