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tainly would give their husbands no rest until they 

 gave up the miserable business. 



I thinli there would be no trouble for the W. C. T. 

 U. to secure a list of the names and addresses of 

 practically all the brewers, distillers, etc., in this 

 country. And no doubt the good women of this 

 country would be able to find plenty of such names 

 and addresses right in their own towns and cities. 

 For instance, we have over 7000 saloons in Chicago. 

 Nearly all of them have telephones, so their names 

 and addresses are in the telephone-books. Now, if 

 the good women of Chicago would clip from the 

 daily newspapers all the heart-rending items that 

 are published as the result of drink, and send thein 

 to the wives of the saloon-keepers, with tender 

 touching letters, calling their attention to the awful 

 result of the business their husbands are in, 1 be- 

 lieve that they would so get after those husbands 

 that they would soon begin to get out of such a 

 wicked business. What do you think of this scheme? 

 I have thought about it for nearly a year, and was 

 going to present it to the W. C. T. U. with the sug- 

 gestion that they try it and see what the result will 

 be. I think if every saloon-keeper's wife could have 

 a copy of your booklet it would have a good effect. 

 It ought to place upon the heads of those engaged 

 in the drink-traffic such a burden, such a sense of 

 the airfiUness of the drink traffic, that their sense 

 of shame and honor (if they have an.v left) would 

 cause them to turn to some other businesss. Mr. 

 Hallock certainly got off a good thing in that para- 

 graph referring to the brewer's wife's crown of dia- 

 monds, etc. 



I have just been wondering whether the leading 

 bresvers have ever been talked to by the preachers 

 and the best men in the city, where they operate 

 their breweries. I don't believe that ,J. Wilbur 

 Chapman, when he was in t'hicago, even thought 

 of attempting to convert Mayor Busse. It seems to 

 me that every preacher in Chicago or in any other 

 city ought to begin at the top, for the example that 

 is set by those in authority goes a long way in al- 

 most any thing. 



Chicago, 111., July 8. George W. York. 



CARRIE NATION, ETC. 



Dear Mr. Root: — I have been trying for several 

 weeks to write .and thank you for what you wrote 

 about Carrie Nation. In this imijerfect world there 

 are no saints; but Mrs. Nation struck her blows at 

 the evil she saw. You seem to have an erroneous 

 idea about her getting into jail. It was not for de- 

 stroying liquor. That is contraband in Kansas: 

 but when she broke windows and destroyed furni- 

 ture she violated property right.s. 



Perhaps you do not know that in a city in this 

 State, where she lived, Kureka Springs, the laws re- 

 lating to fornication punish the man and not the 

 prostitute. Last summer three men were serving 

 jail sentences for being inmates of houses of prosti- 

 tution as visitors. I can not help believing we 

 could accomplish something in stopping liquor if 

 we punished the buyer Instead of the one who sup- 

 plies him. 



Nashville, Ark., Oct. 26. A. M. VanAuken. 



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By A. I. Root 



In my column of special notices, last issue, I ask- 

 ed for an offer on toward S500 worth of Conkey's 

 standard poultry remedies. At the present writ- 

 ing, Nov, 6. no offer has come in: and if we do not 

 get any better offer, whoever speaks first can have 

 the whole lot for SlOO, even. The remedies are all 

 good, so far as I know; in fact, if they are not as 

 represented they will not cost you any thing. In 

 making this offer I had a curiosity to know how 

 much faith poultrymen generally have in prepar- 

 ed remedies. 



" A GLORIOUS VICTORY." 



The above is the title of a little tract of four pages 

 that our good brother R. F. Iloltermann, of Brant- 

 ford, Ont., is sending out free of charge. It is such 

 a beautiful story that 1 would gladly give it space 

 in our Home papers were it not for the great 

 amount of matter that is already crowding for a 

 place to be heard. If you are discouraged or down- 

 hearted — if you are atflicted with an incurable dis- 

 ease, or if you are troubled in any way, send for 

 friend H.'s little tract. It not only opens the way 



for a " glorious victory " here on earth, but for a 

 victory that goes beyond the grave. 



OUR NEW A B C OF POTATO CULTURE. 



This book is finally off the press; but I have made 

 so many additions to it that it was clear up into 

 November before it was done. There are about 100 

 pages of new matter and quite a number of new en- 

 gravings. I worked hard for three or four months 

 in trying to have our potato-book clear up to date. 

 It contains 380 pages, so it is nearly a 400-page book 

 as you will notice; and there are 40 engravings, the 

 greater part of them new. In compiling the book I 

 consulted our leading potato-growers, called on our 

 Ohio Experiment Station several times, and now 

 the book not only includes potato-growing in the 

 Northern States but in Florida, Bermuda, and the 

 Isle of Jersey; also something about growing pota- 

 toes under glass. It tells how to grow potatoes for 

 75 cents a bushel as well as when they are 75 cts. a 

 peck in the market. As I have said before, a care- 

 ful look through this potato-book will help you in 

 growing almost any kind of farm crop. In getting 

 material for it I scanned carefully the leading agri- 

 cultural papers of our land — not only the reading- 

 pages but the advertLsements as well. 



Right along in this line I discovered a handy top 

 box with flaring sideboards that can be put on any 

 wagon in an instant. It is pictured and described 

 in this potato-book. You can get particulars of the 

 Lucas Mfg. Co., Slater, Mo,, and I think this one 

 thing might be worth the price of the book to any- 

 body who uses any sort of wagon. Although the 

 book is much enlarged, the price is but a little more 

 than that of the old edition. The present price is 

 50 cts., in paper: by mail, 57: in cloth, 75 cts.; by mail, 

 85. We will send the paper edition, clubbed with 

 Gleanings, for 81.25 postpaid; the same in cloth, 

 81.50. 



WHITE INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS; CALLING A PRICE 



LIST A BOOK, ETC, 



You will notice what I have to say about the 

 White Indian Runner ducks in our last issue. Well, 

 they are being extensively boomed just now. They 

 claimed that the white duck that lays the white 

 egg lays ever so many more than the other kind. 

 This may be true; but I do not know how we are to 

 prove it until our experiment stations or some 

 other disinterested party takts it up. You may re- 

 call that I hive twice, at least, criticised the high 

 prices for the small amount of information con- 

 tained in the Indian Runner duck-books. A few 

 days ago one of our readers advised me that the 

 Woman's College I'oultry Farm, of Meridian, Miss., 

 had put out an Indian Runner duck-book for only 

 ten cents. Now, this commended itself to me in two 

 ways — first, ten cents is enough for a book on these 

 ducks at the present stage — of course 1 mean for a 

 little book or pamphlet. Second, we usually expect 

 a iroinan'.i col/epe to be the next thing to an experi- 

 ment station in charge of the State. One can not 

 well imagine that the women belonging to a 

 ciiUeue would be parties to extortion. Well, I sent 

 for this ten-cent duck-book. The very first page 

 was devoted to telling how superior their ducks 

 are to the common run of the Indian Runners. In 

 fact, the writer says there are Indian Runner ducks 

 on the market that do not lay enough to pay for 

 their feed, and every one of the dozen pages in this 

 book is devoted to booming their stock more or 

 less; and right in the middle of the book is a price 

 list which says, "The Flshels are selling White In- 

 dian Runner duck eggs for SIO.OO for 12. We charge 

 only $5.01) for 12, cash with order." 



On the back cover there are several questions 

 and answers, and the answers are valuable and 

 probably correct: but many of them are such as 

 might be found in any price list sent out free of 

 charge. 



While reading the book I tried to imgaine that it 

 was gotten up by a woman or party of women; but 

 it sounds to me very much as if some man thought 

 people would have more confidence in him if he 

 called his farm "Woman's College Poultry Farm," 

 or something like that. If you urge that these price 

 lists contain a good deal of information, I reply that 

 the catalogs sent out by the manufacturers of incu- 

 bators contain a vast amount of information. The 

 ( 'yphers catalog and others are really as valuable 

 as some of the poultry-books that cost 50 cents or 

 more. I leave it to you, friends. Is it the fair thing 

 to put a price on a catalog, of things you have for 

 sale, and call it a book? 



