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the free and the home of the brave" mean 

 if this thing is allowed to go on? 



Once more, the McNamara brothers have 

 finally been obliged to confess, and may 

 God be praised for so much; but what would 

 have happened if they had not confessed? 

 When first arrested the elder one said open- 

 ly he would get free, and gave as a reason 

 that a predecessor in the same line got off 

 because his friends raised $50,000 to get him 

 off, but that he (McNamara) was so much 

 higher up (higher up in what?) his friends 

 would readily raise $200,000, and they did 

 raise almost that amount. 



Now, dear friends, please do not rush to 

 the conclusion that I am opposed to organiz- 

 ed labor, for in truth 1 am glad to see peo- 

 ple stand together to resist injustice and op- 

 pression; but what I vehemently object to is 

 defiance of law, or taking the law into their 

 own hands when it seems slow and ineffec- 

 tive. 1 1 is the disregard of law that threatens 

 the ruin of our country. 



Just recently the Baptist brotherhood of 

 Cleveland, O., have been trying to have the 

 mayor and chief of the police enforce the 

 law against open saloons on Sunday. These 

 officials, while admitting the law was plain 

 and clear, refused to enforce it, for no other 

 reason, so far as I could gather, than that 

 " the people do not want the law enforced." 



At Newark, O., about a year ago, the saloon- 

 keepers did not want the law enforced, and 

 put to death an officer of the law who was 

 trying to enforce it. J ust recently the county 

 has voted wet, giving as an excuse that the 

 law could not, or, rather, perhaps would not. 

 be enforced if they continued to vote it dry.* 

 How could they expect any temperance law 

 to be enforced when they continued to put 

 into office men who are not in sympathy 

 with either temperance or Christianity? May 

 the Lord be praised for the good and brave 

 men who are here and there getting into of- 

 fice and exposing the graft and bribery and 

 fraud that seem to be turning up almnst ev- 

 erywhere. Well, after much pains and time 

 and trouble we do succeed in getting the 

 guilty ones "red handed," for God's sake 

 and for the sake of the honest, faithful, hard 

 workers, let us put aside our foolish scruples 

 and weaknesses, and enforce the law to its 

 very letter, until the law really is a "terror 

 to evil doers." 



*I clip the following from the Cleveland Plain 

 Dealer: "Newark business men are dissatisfied 

 with conditions in this city under the Kose law, 

 and are predicting almost a solid front to change 

 the speakeasy, blind tiger, and kitchen-bar Into 

 the regulated saloon." Will some one point out to 

 us where there is, ever was, or ever will be a " reg- 

 ulated saloon"? 



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A. I. Root 



ANOTHER "GREAT DISCOVERY" FOR THE 

 BENEFIT OF POURTRYDOM. 



I am sure our good friend of the Reliable 

 will be pleased and entertained by what I 

 have to tell you, even if no one else will, 

 .i ust listen to what 1 have run on to. 



It is no new thing to have a hen that lays 

 eggs wbile she cares for a brood of chickens 

 (say three or four weeks old), for, in fact, 

 Miy strain of White Leghorns was built up 

 from such a mother, as you may remember; 

 but I propose to have a strain of fowls that 

 will go away ahead of this. You will bear 

 in mind that I am trving to get a duck from 

 every one of the three eggs 1 get daily from 

 ray three ducks. Well, my Cyphers incu- 

 bator holds only about 50 eggs; and as the 

 incubator is needed about oO days for each 

 hatch, the duck eggs, to use them all, needs 

 a silting hen (to help out) about every week; 

 therefore I have been waiting anxiously for 

 a sitting hen among my Leghorns, Butter- 

 cups, and crosses of the above two breeds. 

 About three weeks ago I found a half-blood 

 hen on the nest while gathering the eggs, 

 and she was still on at dusk. When I gen- 

 tly touched her she showed such determined 

 tight I was almobt scared out. She acted as 

 if she were really going to eat me up, in lit- 

 tle bits at a vinie. Now don't forget this, 

 lor it is a most important "link" in my 

 "great discovery." I carried her to an emp- 

 ty brooder-house and gave her the orthodox 

 thirteen duck eggs. She stuck to her job 



very well, and when the usual seven days 

 were "accomplished" 1 had another fight 

 with her to permit me to test the eggs. 1 1 

 seems I had never been able to catch her 

 taking refreshment, because she m as so ex- 

 ceedingly wary. Now listen, for we are 

 coming to the climax. Instead of thirteen 

 eggs I found sixteen. Bear in mind, no 

 other fowl was in the closed building, and, 

 besides, the three extra eggs were of a brown- 

 ish tint, entirely unlike the duck eggs. (By 

 the way, isn't it funny that, while both 

 breeds lay a white egg, a cross between the 

 two should lay a brown one?) Well, on 

 testing the eggs one of the brown ones show- 

 ed it was laid at least five days before the 

 testing (a chicken is now breaking its way 

 out of that egg while I write*) ; the other two 

 had made so little progress we used them 

 for the table. Do you see the point? This 

 hen had really laid three good eggs after 

 she had commenced to sit, and after she 

 had commenced, also, in real good earnest, 

 as I happen to know, and there is hardly a 

 question but that a strain of fowls may be 

 developed that will lay eggs, more or less, 

 while they are spending their time sitting 



*After finishing the above I went down and took 

 a look at the incubator, and found a big strong 

 chicken clear out of the shell, and down in the 

 nursery. I first found the egg pipped at daylight 

 this morning; and before noon the chick was out 

 In good shape. This is the way it works when the 

 hen gives the egg its start and the incubator does 

 the finishing up. 



