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after I began putting mustard in their mash 

 I got 17 eggs from 18 ducks. The ground 

 mustard was so strong that Mrs. Root 

 put some of it on the table, and it seemed 

 to answer every purpose of the high-priced 

 mustard we get in little tin cans at the 

 grocery. As the barrel of mustard was quite 

 a spell on the way it did not reach us in 

 time to give it a long trial before we went 

 north. I used it in the wet mash with chicks 

 of all ages, and they were very greedy for 

 it, and it seemed to do them good. I did not 

 bring any of the mustard here to Medina, 

 because I do not get time while here to do 

 very much with chickens. 



A great many of the friends have been 

 inquiring how much mustard should be giv- 

 en, say to a dozen fowls every day. Now, 



I have not their directions at hand, but my 

 impression is that we used a tablespoonful 

 for each dozen fowls in their mash once a 

 daj-. Tlie mash we used was about equal 

 parts of bran and middlings, sometimes 

 adding Indian meal. The mustard is thor- 

 oughly stirred into the bran and middlings 

 before adding water; then add just enough 

 to make it crumbly, not wet. The amount 

 suggested makes it taste pretty strongly of 

 mustard ; but the fowls do not seem to mind 

 it. In' fact, they will eat greedily green 

 mustard growing in the garden when it is 

 so pungent that even a little bit of leaf 

 chewed up you will find about all you can 

 stand. As the fowls seem to crave all such 

 pungent green stuff, I am inclined to think 

 that mustard must be good for them. 



Xemperance 



THE CRISIS IS COMING. 



Slavery was not abolished without blood- 

 shed, and it has been frequently remained 

 that there will probably be bloodshed be- 

 fore the liquor business is in a like manner 

 banislied from our land. In the Baltimore 

 Evening Sun for June 21 we note that W. 

 H. Anderson, superintendent of the Balti- 

 more Anti-saloon League, was assaulted in 

 his office by Robert L. Ulman. son of a 

 former whisky-distiller. Young Ulman com- 

 menced the assault with a " dog whip;" but 

 Anderson, who is a big man (in several 

 ways) took the whip away from his assail- 

 ant, choked him into submission (but did 

 not strike a blow), and then let up on his 

 promise of good behavior. The reporter 

 asked him if he was going to nurse his right 

 eye on the morrow. He replied, " No. I 

 am going to preach to-morrow morning at 

 the Mount Royal Methodist Protestant 

 Church, and I'll take the black eye right 

 up in the pulpit." 



Here is the letter that Mr. Anderson 

 wrote that so incensed the liquor-dealer's 

 son. What do you think of it? 



Before long, when a brewer buys an automobile, 

 people will figure how many children were robbed of 

 carfare to the parks before the price of the auto 

 filtered to him in profits. When some distiller con- 

 tributes to charity, or builds a church, or finances 

 some similar enterprise, folks will begin to wonder 

 how many men were robbed of the hope of heaven 

 by the stuff which he sold for profit, knowing it to 

 be injurious, to enable him to pose as a generous 

 patron of the church. When the wife of some dis- 

 tiller or wholesale liquor-dealer or prominent grocer 

 who makes a specialty of liquor blossoms out in a 

 diamond necklace at the theater, the margins of 

 programs may- be covered with calculations of how 

 many children and mothers have gone without de- 

 cent clothes in order that she may shine resplendent. 

 And the day is not far distant when the socially 

 prominent wife of a man who has made his money 

 out of the liquor-traffic, upon giving some lavish 

 entertainment in a palatial home, will find that even 



the guests will involuntarily trace the connections 

 between that luxury and the hovels in the slums, 

 and the pitiful sight of household goods on the side- 

 walk where a drunkard's family has been evicted 

 for nonpayment of rent, and regard her as a social 

 parasite. 



The managing editor of some of the great papers 

 said to me not long ago: "The greatest victory 

 which the temperance folks have won to date is 

 tlie creation of a public sentiment to the effect that 

 wealth derived from liquor is not as respectable as 

 ' clean money,' and which has put its possessors on 

 the defensive." 



Unless some people who now flatter themselves 

 that they are of the very elect wake up to what is 

 going on they will find that they are without stand- 

 ing in the aristocracy of service and the nobility of 

 unselfishness. And if their intelligence is too dull 

 and their conscience too sluggish to see it, it will be 

 of service to them, as well as to the community, to 

 awaken them with as much of a jar as is necessary. 

 William H. Anderson, 

 Supt. Anti-saloon League of Maryland. 



Baltimore, June 16. 



Florida's recext victory, for which may 

 god be praised. 

 I have just received notice that the good 

 friends of temperance in Florida have suc- 

 ceeded in securing ten different temperance 

 measures. Of the ten, I copy below 1, 3, 8, 

 10. 



1. To prohibit personal solicitation for sale of 

 liquors in dry territory. 



3. To prohibit the shipment of liquors from with- 

 out the State into any dry county or precinct within 

 the State except for personal use. 



8. To prohibit the shipment of liquors from wet 

 counties within the State to any dry county or pre- 

 cinct within the State except for personal use. 



10. To provide for seizure of all liquors shipped 

 otherwise, or found in dry territory in quantities 

 greater than demanded for personal use. 



Perhaps I should add that 37 of the 48 counties 

 of Florida are dry. 



Perhaps I might mention that it was 

 my privilege to lend a helping hand in se- 

 curing the above. The superintendent, in 

 closing his letter, says : 



