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GLEANINGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1. 



the spectator were a little further to the right 

 he would see the beautiful lake through this 

 open hallway. In fact, it would be vis^ible if it 

 were not for the shrubViery on the left. The 

 kitchen, and every thing pertaining to the 

 dining-room, is on the right, as you notice: 

 while the sitting-room, being cut off by that 

 large open hall, makes a nice, cool, and shady 

 retreat: and this sitting room, or parlor, is 

 finished with specimens of almost all the woods 

 and trees known in Florida, not omitting 

 boards cut from the queer corky-looking palm- 

 trees. A beautiful specimen of the date-palm 

 is seen at the lower left-hand corner: a smaller 

 one on the opposite side of the picture. The 

 veranda on the opposite side is right in full 

 view of the lake, six or eight miles long. 



Before leaving, we visited the neat and tidy 

 barns. Of course, such barns are not needed in 

 Florida as we have here at the North. Wh<^n I 

 asked friend Adams if he had succeeded in 

 growing his own hay and grain, instead of buy- 

 ing from the North, as so many horse-owners 

 in Florida do. he showed me samples of his 

 feed that he had no trouble in securing in great 

 abundance, and he says it is much cheaper 

 than he could get any kind of horse-feed from 

 our great grain-growins Western States. Rice 

 is one of his favorite produi't* for feed: and he 

 cuts it just before the grain is fully mature, so 

 It can be stored and fed out in the bundle, giv- 

 ing the animals both grain and hay at one and 

 the same operation. In fact, our whole visit 

 was really refreshing. Ynu mav remember 

 that the state of agriculture in Florida at the 

 time of my visit was such that almost any one 

 would be considered excusable for feeling dis- 

 couraged: but to find a man who saw noenings 

 for great results in almost every direction, and 

 one who could rejoice that even the frost had 

 done a great work for him. was really worth 

 while: and the Florida Horticultural Society 

 has done wisely in seler-ring such a man as 

 their leader. One unconsciously begins to 

 wonder as he looks over such a place, whether 

 it is really possible for the average man to suc- 

 ceed 'o well, even if he tries ever so hard. 

 Well. I presume it is true that God does give 

 special gifts to some: but I am sure of this 

 also, that a good manv people do not try as 

 hard as they might. The longer I live." the 

 more I am convinced that brainwork. and 

 making one's business a constant study, both 

 day and night, has more to do with success 

 than almost any thing else. I see a world of 

 people around me who stumble along thought- 

 lessly and indifferently. God"s gifts are rush- 

 ing past them in every direction. In fact, they 

 oftentimes stumble over them: and when you 

 call their attention to it they deliberately in- 

 form you they have not noticed or have not 

 seen any thing of the sort which vou describe. 

 And then I think of the text. " Knock, and it 

 shall be opened unto you: seek, and ye shall 

 find." I see people all around me — not only 

 boys but grown-up men — who have not anv 

 comprehension of what is going on around 

 them. They tug away at erievous burdens. 

 An empty wagon is going in the same direction, 

 but they do not see it. and never will sep it: 

 and sometimes it transpires that the empty 

 wagon belongs to the very man they are work- 

 ing for, and this very man is anxiously .waiting 

 for them to hurry up. 



At Lake Helen 1 made a very brief call'on 

 our good friend G. W. Webster. In his door- 

 yard I found guavas perfectly protected 

 through the freezes, by being simply bent dnwn 

 and covered with *traw and leaves, and after- 

 ward with a bank of dirt. In the same way he 

 had saved some choice varieties of the Japan 



persimmons. During the previous season he 

 had produced specimens weighing IS ounces, 

 and 4I4 inches in diameter. These great lus- 

 cious fruits, without seed or core, readily sold 

 at a nickel apiece: and a persimmon-tree will 

 bear more fruit on a given expanse of limb 

 than any other fruit-tree I ever saw or heard 

 of: that is. if you hold up the branches so the 

 weight of the fruit will not break the tree to 

 pieces. 



OUR FOOD AND DRINK : ITS RELATION TO 

 DISEASE. 



THE SALISBURY METHOD OF MAXAGIXG DI« 

 EASE. 



Prove thy servants. I beseei^h thee, ten days; and 

 let them give us pulse to eat. and water to drink, 

 then let our countenances be looked upon.— Dax. 1: 

 1-', 13. 



And in all matters of wisdom and understanding', 

 that the king inquired of them, he found them ten 

 times better than all the mag'icians and astrolo- 

 gers Tiiat were in all his realm.— Das. 1:20. 



To liim that overcnmeth will I grant to sit with 

 me in my throne.- Rev. 3:21. 



During the convention in St. Joseph. Mo., 

 last October, as you may remember. Ernest 

 was left at hom*^ to look after business, in the 

 absence of myself and Mr. Calvert. In a very 

 few days, however, his health failed: and from 

 that timf» on he seemed to be the unfortunate 

 victim of grip, nervous chills, or something 

 that the doctors hardly knew what to do with. 

 One physican after another was calbd: hut in 

 spite of them all he seemed to be going into a 

 decline. Even wheel-riding aid not seem to 

 bring him up as formerly, principally from the 

 fact that hecould not stand the wind. Even a 

 moderate breeze gave him chills, neuralgia, 

 etc.: and whrm thp wind was in the north or 

 northest he was absolutely obliged to stav in- 

 doors; and a dood deal of the time he could on- 

 ly lie on the sofa or wait for a still day. A 

 good many of us settled down to the opinion 

 that it was only another phase of that terrible 

 disease which has been called the "grip." You 

 mav remember that, for three or four years 

 past. I have been battling with something 

 similar a good deal of the time, no matter 

 whether I was in California. Ohio, or even 

 down in sunny Florida. In my case the gener- 

 al decision was that it was in consequence of 

 overwork: besides. I was getting pretty well 

 along in life; but for a young man only a little 

 over thirtv. it seemed very strange, and withal 

 verv sad. that he should, as it were, " play out"' 

 right almost in his youth. Of course, much 

 spr culating was done ia regard to this, that, 

 and the 01 her remedy. Different localities were 

 talked about, and various sanitariums. 



As some of the clerks in the office, and one of 

 the teachers in our ^fedina schools, had been 

 very successful with whatis called the Salisbury 

 treatment, or lean-meat diet, this was talked 

 about more or less. Perhaps I might here de- 

 vote a little time to an explanation. In our little 

 circular in regard to the water cure applied in- 

 ternally, occurs the following sentence: 



At different times the use of water in large 

 quantities, taken into the system by way of the 

 moutli, has had its advocates. Dr. Salisbury has for 

 many years been accomplishing a gf)od deal by 

 "feeding " his patients on hot wafer. 



But it seems that Dr. Salisbury or some of 

 his friends ran across this: for in Gleaxings 

 for July 1. 1S91. occurs the following: 



DR. SALISBURY'S METHOD OF TREATING DISEASE, 

 AND HIS USE OF HOT WATER. 



Mr. Root: — In your article. " A New Method of 

 Treating Disease Without Medicine." in Glean- 



