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tiire of the correspondenco elicited by this inquiry 

 was the pifn-tiL-ully unanimous senti'nent of the p.i- 

 pers that prohibition is coming. 



Only 46 of the papers replying were located 

 south of >fason and Dixon's line. The rest were 

 all Northern papers; Jind in view of the fact that a 

 large majority of the Southern papers are known to 

 be dry, the showing made is all the more imposing. 



Ihe American presR is no longer a guardian 

 angel, but is a specter to the liquor interests. 



Floeknck D. Richard. 



T wish every daily in our land, more 

 especinlly the great city dailies, would take 

 notice ol' the paragraph above in regard to 

 the Chicago Herald; and eveiy one who has 

 read it knows the Herald came out boldly 

 and fearlessly in no doubtful terins- -a 

 " guardian angel " no longer, but a " spec- 

 ter " truly to the liquor trade. 



On page 871 of our last issue something 

 is said in regard to the matter of prohibi- 

 tion among college students, and we made 

 a quotation in regard to Oberlin. It seems 

 from the following, which we clip from the 

 Cleveland Plain Dealer, that the colleges of 

 the West are not going to be behind in the 

 matter : 



FSAT HOUSES QO DRY. 



Chicago, Oct. 14. — Resolutions forbidding liquor 

 in c!;apter houses of the Beta Phi fraternity were 

 adopted at the convention of the order today. The 

 resolution afTects chapters at twelve colleges and 

 universities in the middle West. 



INTOXICANTS IN OUR COLLEGES, 



"We clip the following from the Plain 

 Denier: 



BARS LIQtTOR AT YALE ; FACULTA' SAYS FRATS AND 

 CLUBS HEREAFTER MUST BK DRY. 



New Haven, Ct., Oct. 22. — Notices have been 

 sent out by the Yale faculty to all clubs, secret so- 



cieties, and fraternal organizations to which Yale 

 uiulersraduates belong-, informing them that after 

 Nov. 1 they will not be allowed to serve liquor in 

 their club, society, or fraternity houses. 



Tlie faculty order is expected to end the social 

 flrinking of undergraduates which has been exces- 

 sive at times. 



Action is taken in connection with a new state 

 law which provides all clubs or similar organizations 

 which wish to serve liquor must obtain a special 

 license. The Yale authorities do not desire under- 

 graduate clubs to request licenses allowing liquor to 

 bo dispensed. 



May the Lord be praised for the above. 

 But does not this notice, given so publicly, 

 show up a rather sad state of affairs in 

 times past? If Yale makes such a con- 

 fession, how about Harvard, Princeton, and 

 others. See page 871, Oct. 15. 



booze causes the loss of a steamship. 

 Because her crew were intoxicated, a French 

 steamship, loaded with ammunition, on lier way to 

 Nieuport, blundered into Ostend, and was sunk by 

 the Germans. — American Issue. 



REVKNUK IT SOMETIMES WORKS BOTH WAY'S. 



The cost of feeding the prisoners in the county 

 jail during the two years while Lansing was dry 

 was $5600, while during the two ensuing years of 

 wetness the cost of feeding them (at the same rate 

 per person) was $11,300. Quite a difference for a 

 town of 40,000. — American Issue. 



ANOTHER KNOCKOUT BLOW FOR CIGARETTES. 



We quote the following from the Akron 

 Beacon : 



Norfolk, Va., Oct. 1. — Captain Scales, com- 

 manding the naval training-station here, has issued 

 an order banishing cigarets from the government 

 reservation. He hopes by this means to make 

 recruit? strong and active. 



Tfmj-erance Department continued on p. 19, ad- 

 vertising section. 



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POULTRY DEPAETMENT 



THE PHILO SYSTEM UP TO THE PRESENT TIME. 



Will you kindly publish what you know of the 

 Philo systerj of keeping poultry? I should like to 

 Keep a few hives of bees and a few chickens, just 

 to furnish eggs and honey for my own table. 



I have a friend who keeps quite a good-sized flock 

 on the above system, claiming that it is a paying 

 proposition when one is cramped for room as I am. 



New Britain, Ct., Sept. 26. X. Y. Z. 



My good friend Philo has been demon- 

 strafing that chickens can be kept and a 

 goodly amount of eggs secured when half 

 a dozen or more are confined in closed pens 

 3x6. P)ut the residt \ery much depends 

 on how much care is given them. They must 

 have animal food in some shape as well as 

 a variety of grains, and they must have, 

 too, green food daily, or almost daily, or 

 some substitute in the way of cooked or 

 soaked alfalfa meal oi- red clover. Under 



some circumstances, with loving care, the 

 amount of eggs secured may be almost as 

 great as if the fowls had a run outdoors. 

 But the expense of food will be very much 

 more, and the expense in the way of care, 

 etc., if one counts his time worth anything. 

 Huber has had six hens all summer in one 

 of the little Philo coops; and he says that, 

 before they began to moult, lie thinks they 

 averaged pretty nearly three eggs a day. 

 This we should call a 50 per cent yield — 

 three eggs from six hens. Now, if you could 

 have a yard also where tiiey could dig and 

 scratch, say only 3x6 feet, it would be 

 very much better, because you could bury 

 some oats in this little yard, and let them 

 dig them out. Our Ohio experiment station 

 has made a test of fowls confined, and 

 fowls running at large. I have not the 

 tigui-es now before me; but if I recollect 



