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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15. 



THE TORONTO CONVENTION. 



HOW I CAME TO GO. 



"Doctor, do you mean to say your treatment 

 will cure all kinds of chills, grip, hay fever, 

 etc., iu the short period of time that you have 

 cured me ? " 



■'Oh, no! certainly not." 



"Well, iheu, howdid you dare tell me that 

 you would have my overcoat and trappings off, 

 and have me clear of my chills, neuralgia, 

 toothache, etc., and say I coulu stand the north 

 wind, all inside of ten days ? " 



'■ Simply because 1 saw at once that you had 

 no organic trouble. Your organism is all 

 sound." 



'• Well, then, why can"t I have a little rice or 

 dry bread, such as you give Ernest and your 

 other patients, to go with their meat? lam 

 all cured of the chills, and what more do 1 

 need? " 



"Because the chills, etc., were a secondary 

 matter — a trifio compared to ihe real trouble 

 and cause. We tvant to hold you down to the 

 clean lean meat until you get over all tendency 

 toward the chronic dysentery which has been 

 getting a pretty fast nold on you of late. I^his 

 lenoeucy to constipation we are battling with 

 is a part of it. We want to get this straighten- 

 ed out so your bowels will move regularly of 

 themselves every day, or, at the furthest, every 

 other day; then we can safely let you have a lit- 

 tle variety with your meal." 



■• But, doctor, won't a sparing diet— that is, 

 just a little of other kinds of food, so the patient 

 can eat just what would be digested thorough- 

 ly, and no more — answer as well as, or almost 

 as well as, this exclusively meat diet ? " 



"Being careful not to overeat, and eating 

 just enough and no more, is a very important 

 part of the treatment; but it is not all of it by 

 any means. Lean meat as a diet has 4 special 

 value. Other people have found this out, and 

 it has been recognized for years. Your prize- 

 tighters are trained on a beef diet; so with run- 

 ners and the boat-rowers, the wheel-riders, and 

 the base- ball players. They are cut off from 

 tobacco, coffee, beer, and drink only pure water, 

 as you do. They are also kept on lean meat 

 until all useless weight is cut down. You see, 

 we are really training you to be an expert 

 wheel-rider. Y'ou have got your weight down 

 from 135 to, say, 115; and pretty soon what you 

 have left will be just the purest kind of 

 muscle." 



After 1 got home that evening I was thinking 

 of it; and as I had been very busy during 'the 

 day I got out my wheel by moonlight. Let me 

 explain here that the doctor rather objected to 

 having either myself or Ernest attend the con- 

 vention. He said it would throw us out ol our 

 " training," and would interrupt the rations 

 and hot water, and probably be quite a little 

 setback to our progress; and Ernest decided 

 hnally that he could not stand the trip. It 

 seemed to me, however, that at least one of us 

 certainly ought to go. I sprang on my wheel, 

 and started off' by moonlight. The wheel seem- 

 ed lighter than it had ever been before. The 

 furiUer 1 went, the lighter and prettier it seem- 

 ed to run; and I soliloquized that, not only had 

 I a feather-weight wheel, but, without know- 

 ing it, 1 had oeen almost unconsciously getting 

 to be a feather-weight rider as well. God, in 

 his infinite wisdom and mercy, had been open- 

 ing up to me new and unexpected revelations. 

 The air was just cool enough to make it exhila- 

 rating. As 1 covered mile after mile, up hill 

 and down, my spirits rose — aye, and strength 

 too; and I resolved then and there that I would 

 go to the convention and show the doctor that 



I could hold fast to my meat diet and hot 

 water, and my new strength also, at one and 

 the same time. 



Before taking the boat in Cleveland I called 

 on the doctor and told him what I wished to do, 

 and he gave me directions; and to make sure 

 of getting my needed rations I carried with me 

 one ration ahead, to be eaten cold, if I could 

 not CO any better. 



While sitting on the deck of the steamer en- 

 joying the cool north wind with the rest of the 

 passengers, some one remarked this was the 

 night of the eclipse; and. sure enough, there 

 was the moon shining down upon us in all her 

 fullness, brilliancy, and loveliness. I knew 

 that regular rest and sleep were as important 

 as almost any thing else; but I had an old boy- 

 ish longing to see that astronomical program 

 carried out. On board the boat I secured a 

 splendid tenderloin steak, and enough for a 

 good full ration too. Then I took a nap, calcu- 

 lating to avvake in lime to see the eclipse start. 

 1 hit it almost to a dot; but thinking it would 

 not do for me to watch it very long. I slipped 

 out of my stateroom barefooted. I detected the 

 commencement of the shadow before any of 

 the rest of the passengers, and became so ab- 

 sorbed in it that 1 stood out there barefooted in 

 my shirt sleeves, notwithstanding the north- 

 east wind (so much dreaded but a few weeks 

 ago), and watched until the shadow complete- 

 ly covered the face of the moon. Then I went 

 to bed satisfied — no chills, no toothache, no in- 

 convenience. By the way, it was wonderfully 

 interesting to see the host of stars, mostly in- 

 visible while the moon was out in full, come 

 out one after another until the total eclipse. 

 Then we had a brilliant starry night. 



Notwithstanding the inroads made on my 

 sleep, I slept so soundly that, before sunrise, I 

 was up and dressed, anu enjoyed one of the most 

 brilliant spectacles of colored clouds, just be- 

 fore the sun came up. that I ever saw in this 

 climate or any other. Another tenderloin steak 

 on the boat in the morning fixed me for the 

 forenoon. The hot water was furnished me 

 free, with the utmost good nature, when I 

 made a little explanation. Although I offered 

 pay, none was taken. They said on the boat 

 that, if a man took a notion to drink hot water, 

 and nothing stronger, he ought to be encour- 

 aged by having it furnished free, even if he did 

 drink cupful after cupful.* 



* By the way, there is something' wonderful in the 

 way the patient relishes and enjoys his hot water 

 after he has been three or four weeks on the meat 

 diet. For many years I have been much in the 

 habit, especially while riding' the wliecl. of drinking 

 soda-water, ice cream soda, and such like temper- 

 ance drinlis; and when the doctor told m^ these 

 would have to be entirely cut off. I ihoug-hV it was 

 going to be considerable of a pi'ivation; but now 

 when I saw all sorts of soda-fountains on the steam- 

 er, and iced drinks of every sort all around the 

 Falls, 1 had no longiug at ail for any of them. In 

 fact, aljove all tht^ delicious drinks th it art and 

 skill have been able to manufacture, and you may. 

 if you please, include all kinds of l)eer :ind intoxicat- 

 ing drinks, I could honestly prefer my pure hot 

 water to each and everyone of them. Ernest has 

 repeatedly said tlie same thing. Why. here is some- 

 thing- truly marvelous. Even the Keeley gold cure 

 can not compare with it. Suppose you could have a 

 company of people— a band of men, it you choose, 

 for men are most addicted to expensive and costly 

 drinks— suppose we had a hand ol men in our land 

 who actually ptrtfr pure water to any thing else 

 the world can furnisU; what would be the result? 



Meekness, temperance; ag-ainst such there is no 

 law.— Gat.. 5:33. 



And the bright and encouraging feature of it is, 

 that 1 think almost any one— no matter how de- 

 praved his appetite may have become— can be, by 

 such a course of diet as I have mapped out, led to 



