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heroic, but probably was my only salva- 

 tion. 



With'n two hours after the fever set in, 

 I telegraphed my brother Elmer to send 

 one of the boys down to put on supers. 

 John came the next day. So well ac- 

 quainted was I with the conditions of the 

 apiary, that I was able to give him in- 

 structions what to do. He found some 

 of the colonies hanging out for lack of 

 room. He stayed several days, getting 

 hives, frames of foundation, etc. ready, 

 and putting them on as needed. Soon 

 after he went home, I was able to ride to 

 the apiary and lie in the shade and give 

 directions to a bee keeper living in town 

 who managed to get away from home 

 a few hours, two or three times. 



It was close, hard work, to thus keep 

 things moving, when weak, and not able 

 to scarcely lift a finger, but I did manage 

 to save the honey crop. 



My daughter (Mrs. Hartshorn) answer- 

 ed the mail, as best she could, and Mr. 



Hartshorn and the folks at the printing 

 office got out the July Review as best 

 they could (and they did pretty well) and 

 so we have squeezed through. 



A peculiar feature of my trouble is 

 that it soon disappears if 1 go to Northern 

 Michigan. There is something about the 

 pure water, the cool nights, the bracing 

 atmosphere, that soon removes all of 

 my trouble and puts new life into my 

 veins. I have gone there when I was so 

 weak that I could not saw off a board 

 without stopping to rest, and, in a week, 

 I would be swinging a pick or a shovel 

 in building a bee-cellar. I remember 

 one time when I gained a pound a day 

 the first week I was there. I don't know 

 but ril yet be compelled to spend most 

 of the time, summers, in this region. 



I am now on my way to Elmer's, 

 where 1 shall stay until I have fully re- 

 covered. If there should be a lack of 

 editorial matter in this issue, you will 

 know the reason why. 



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Selected Articles, 



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RHEUMATISM AND BLL-5TING5. 



Some Forms of the Disease are Relieved 

 by Stings, Others are not. 



Pages and pages of space have been 

 wasted in bee journals by correspondents 

 arguing as to whether rheumatism is 

 cured or relieved by the sufferer being 

 stung by bees. The whole difference of 

 opinion, and of experience, has arisen 

 from the fact that there are various 

 forms of rheumatism, and that patients 

 are affected differently. Some forms of 

 the disease can be cured or relieved by 

 the application of stings — others not. I 

 have never seen this whole matter m.ore 

 clearly explained than it is in an article 



in Gleanings by a correspondent who 

 signs himself: "A Michigan Country 

 Doctor." Here is what he says: 



I have been instructed, amused and 

 depressed as my mind has been played 

 upon by the various references I have 

 seen in professional, miscellaneous, news 

 and special journals upon bee-sting 

 poison and rheumatism. I have experi- 

 enced these different mental modalities as 

 sense, nonsense and ignorance are ex- 

 posed by the various writers. I note in 

 (xleanings occasional discussions of this 

 subject. I am not an expert in the ways 

 of bees nor in the production of honey. 

 1 am only a country doctor who studies, 

 among other subjects of routine, "rheu- 

 matism." Any one who is looking for a 

 cure for rheumatism is searching for 

 what he will never find. One who is 

 locking for a relief for his own rheuma- 

 tism may find it. 



