JUK£ 15, 1914 



no cure for the high cost of living. When the re- 

 cipe calls for three quarters of a cup of sugar, two 

 eggs, and a chunk of butter, etc., all this for a very 

 small batch, it cannot be said to be a very cheap 

 food. Fresh eggs are 50 cents a dozen in our local 

 stores ; but, how many people have good honey or 

 plenty of apples and real .lersey cream? And how 

 many have strictly fresh eggs? I am tliankful for 

 living on the farm, even if it is a comparatively small 

 one. 'i'- Greiner 



La Salle, N. Y., Jan. 27. 



I am very glad indeed to get this testi- 

 monial from so good an authority. Although 

 it has been talked over and over about the 

 saving in cost by grinding your own wheat, 

 and the still more important saving of doe- 

 tors' bills, I fear few people realize what it 

 amounts to. One great reason for the pres- 

 ent " high cost of living " is because of the 

 fashion of buying packages of food in pa- 

 per boxes and tin cans. And even the farm- 

 ers who grow the wheat, I fear, quite often 

 send their wheat away, and pay for having 

 it manufactured into cereals fixed up in 

 fancy pasteboard boxes, paying profits to 

 the manufacturer, middleman, and grocer, 

 and finally getting the same wheat that grew 

 on their own farm, or may have done so, 

 and do not get as good wheat nor as deli- 

 cious food as outlined in the above by friend 

 Greiner. Apple-sauce and cream, and 

 gi'ound-wheat mush, are about the most 

 delicious foods I know of, and also the most 

 nourishing, so far as my experience goes. 

 May God be praised for apples, and wheat 

 and cream. 



483 



KCBDING SICK PEOPLE. 



There is one institution that seems to be 

 untiring in its efforts in exposing the many 

 medical fakes, and that is the Journal of 

 the American Medical Assoolation, 5?/") 

 North Dearborn St., Chicago. Every little 

 while we get a pamphlet describing the 

 methods employed by these proprietors of 

 nostrums to fleece the unwary. Let me urge 

 our readers to consult the above before 

 sending money to any doctor or advertising 

 " medical institute." Every little while they 

 come out with a pamphlet to warn the pub- 

 lic. From the list given I have selected the 

 two following: 



MURINE EYE REMEDY PRICE 4 CTS. 



This is a nostrum sold by two eclectic physicians 

 of Chicago. While sold for $1 an ounce, it is esti- 

 mated that the stuff costs about 5 cents a gallon. 

 The exploiters of Murine also conduct, as a side-lino, 

 a correspondence " college " of spectacle fitting — 7 

 pages, illustrated. 



THE OXY'DONOR AND SIMILAR FAKES. 



Gas-pipe therapy frauds. A description of the 

 various worthless pieces of nickel-plated brass pipe 

 that are sold to the gullible under the allegation that 

 they possess curative value. Several variations of 

 this fraud are on the market. Those dealt with in 

 this pamphlet are the Electropoise, the Oxydonor, the 

 Oxygenor, the Oxypathor, the Oxytonor, and the 

 Oxybon — 15 pages; illustrated. 



AVhat do you think of it, ffiei^ds — a dol- 

 lar an ounce for stuff that costs only five 

 cents a gallon? The Department at Wash- 

 ington is carrying on investigations, and 

 stopping the delivery of the mails of some 

 of these parties. I notice Oxydonor is still 

 getting money from the unwary, although 

 it has been shown up in these pages for 

 fully twenty years. 



TEMPERANCE 



DRUNKENNESS A DISEASE (?) 



We clip the following from the New Re- 

 public: 



Drunkenness is now almost universally recognized 

 as a disease. Institutions all over the country, both 

 public and private, have been instituted to cure this 

 disease. 



The newspapers all over the country carry adver- 

 tisements of physicians and institutions who make it 

 their business to cure this disease. 



Medical societies all over the world are studying 

 methods of curing this disease. 



And while all this is going on, most States delib- 

 erately license saloons to spread this same disease 

 for a share of the profit of the business. 



By the way, what would you think of a 

 man who wanted a license to spread hog 

 cholera? That disease throughout the Unit- 

 ed States is one of the things that bring 

 about the high cost of living, and millions 

 of dollars are being lost because of it. 

 Thanks to our Department of Agriculture, 



however, our nation is getting the upper 

 hand of it. Well, hog cholera kills Jwgs; 

 but the booze business kills men — yes, men, 

 women, and children ; and the men it does 

 not kill it reduces to the condition of hogs, 

 or worse still. And yet we are licensing 

 saloons — ves, right in the State of Ohio. 

 What do von think of it? 



THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HITS 

 THE LIQUOR BUSINESS ANOTHER TRE- 

 MENDOUS BLOW. 



We clip the following from the Lansing 

 Daily State Journal: 



liquor's body blow. 



No longer is the widow of a drunkard to remain 

 the helpless victim of the saloonkeepers who contrib- 

 uted to her husband's wrecked life. The United 

 States Supreme Court has just so decided. Nor is it 

 necessary that the victim die an accidental or violent 

 death. The case in which the decision was rendered 



