1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULrURE. 



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of friends on evciy side who will spring to his 

 rescue, and etfecliially slop proceedings — that 

 is, if he is entirely innocent. If he has been 

 partly guilty, or his past records show crooked- 

 ness in other matters or in lil<e matters, then his 

 friends can not be blamed if they are tardy in 

 hastening to his rescue. This gives us a glimpse 

 of the value of diameter. 8ee text at the head 

 of this department. Somrthing was once said 

 jestingly about putting me in jail. A good 

 friend of mine stood up and said. "Mr. Root, if 

 you go to jail, I go with you.*' There are peo- 

 ple all round about me in whom I have so mucli 

 confidence that I believe I should rather enjoy 

 saying the same thing of them. Remember 

 this: "Blessed are ye whm men shall perse- 

 cute you and revile you, and say all manner of 

 evil against you falsely, for my sake." Do not 

 leave out the little word "falsely. ' When you 

 propose being a martyr for righteousness, be 

 very sure that you are entirely innocent in 

 thought as well as in deed. A. I. R. 



that appa(fct>tly more effort was used to work 

 the bellows of the Corneil smoker, it seems to 

 us that the experiment should be tried over 

 again. We will gladly furnish a new Crane. 



SMOKEKS; CAN INDUCED CURRENTS INCREASE 

 FORCE IN BLAST OF SMOKERS ? 



On page 131 of the last Bee-keepers' Review, 

 jast at hand, Mr. S. Corneil, in an article, seems 

 10 show, in quite an elaborate series of "xperi- 

 ments, that a smoker having no connecting- 

 tube between the tire-cup and bellows, as in the 

 case of the Bingham, will give actually a 

 stronger blast, to the extent of 40 or 80 per cent, 

 than a similar one having a connecting-tube — 

 that is. an air-tight tube connecting the bel- 

 lows with the lire-cup; and then Mr. C. goes 

 on to assume that this increased blast from the 

 first-mentioned kind is due to the "induced 

 current." We regret that, in this experiment, 

 Mr. C. was not using one of the latest Crane 

 smokers. No doubt it was one of the first of 

 that kind that was sent out, and quite a crude 

 implement compared with those we now send 

 out. But leaving out of account for the 

 moment the question of smokers we must say 

 we were greatly surprised at such a statement, 

 coming from a man of Mr. Corneil's scientitic 

 attainments. It seems to us that it is only 

 another way of saying that you can make 

 something out of nothing. You can no more 

 mcr ease force, without the outlay of additional 

 energy from some other sourde, n-. for instance, 

 heat, than you can pull youiM If up by your 

 bootstraps. 



Later — After the above was in type we sent 

 a proof of it to the editor of the Review; and in 

 his reply theieto he calls our attention to the fact 

 that Mr. Corneil does not assert that extra 

 power is (jencrated by the use of the induced 

 current; and that, although he (Mr. C.) says 

 the strength of the blast is increased, he ad- 

 mits, in a previous article, that more energy 

 will be required to work the bellows to do it. 



J/ this is Mr. Corneil's real position, it does 

 not seem to us that his article in the last Re- 

 view proves any thing, because it is simmered 

 down to this: That, if the induced-current 

 smoker requires a greater effort of the bellows 

 to secure a stronger blast over the Crane, it 

 proves that the latter was hardly given half a 

 chance in the contest. Remember that the 

 tabulated report shows that the induced-cur- 

 rent smoker showed the stronger blast. To 

 make it fair to all the smokers, there should be 

 the same effort applied to each bellows; the 

 same size of bellows, and same size of smoker- 

 cup, and all should be equally tight. 



Mr. Hutchinson also says that the Crane 

 smoker upon which Mr. Corneil experimented 

 was an "old one, made up of odds and ends, 

 and leaking." In view of the fact of its being 

 an old smoker, not one of the new Cranes, and 



JAKE smith's hoy's HONEY-PEDDLINft MA- 

 CHINE. 



Look here, friends; I have got something to 

 say about that invention'. I do not mean that 

 I ever thought of it before, because I didn't. 

 I never thought of such a thing until I saw the 

 picture on page 3U1: but ever since that picture 

 came before ray eyes I have been thinking 

 abotit it; and my candid opinion is, that Zed 

 has struck on a great invention. Why, if you 

 will give me such a machine, and only a tolera- 

 bly fair road, and put pneumatic tires and ball 

 bearings on those two back wheels, 1 will guar- 

 antee to take Mrs. Root and the smallest of the 

 children, and give them about as much speed 

 as they can stand. I shouldn't want to go up 

 hill very much, but I think 1 could stand a 

 moderate incline. No wonder old Jake has 

 stopped his work and sat down with his whip 

 across his knee. The main trouble at the pres- 

 ent time is a lack of suitable roads for such a 

 vehicle. Just give me a good road, and I will 

 manage the restof it. I do not believe anybody 

 at the present time has any sort of conception 

 of what the fiJture will bring forth in the line 

 of that picture. You need not think I have 

 given up carrying the mails because I am not 

 talking about it. We have been behind on 

 orders for plants, you know. Well, a few days 

 ago the train was whistling that should have 

 carried an important shipment of plants. Our 

 clerk in the express room was just saying, as I 

 whirled up on my wheel, "'Well, there is no 

 use; A. 1. can't carry that package, even if he 

 were here." He thought the package was too 

 heavy, and that the time was too sho)'t. Said 

 I, as I fetched up before ^the door, " Bring on 

 your package of plants." It took a minute to 

 get my wire rack in place, and off I started. It 

 was fully half a mile to the new depot. I 

 could have made the crossing before the loco- 

 motive did, but my basket slipped once so that 

 I was obliged to get off. As it was. I came up 

 behind the train, handed the basket into the 

 express car with the receipt all made out, just 

 as the train got under way. Give me a smooth 

 road, even though it is a little up grade, and it 

 is only play to make 100 pounds (besides your- 

 self and wheel) just hum. 



Almost all my life--at least during my busi- 

 ness life— I have longed for something that 

 would enable me to get from place to place 

 faster than I could walk. A horse and buggy 

 might do were it always hitched up and ready; 

 but even then a horse and buggy is unwieldy 

 in getting started and in stopping. Another 

 thing, I can not put ray own muscle and energy 

 into a horse. I did not suppose it was possible 

 to find in this world of ours any thing that 

 would fill this long-felt want; but the wheel 

 does the business. Oftentimes I am off' at one 

 end of the farm, when I suddenly recollect that 

 I ought to be immediately at the other end. I 

 have learned by experience that it will not do 

 for me to run, even if it were the thing to do; 

 but people have already become so accustomed 

 to seeing me rushing past (faster than a horse) 

 on my wheel, they do not mind it. Nature does 

 not mind it either. lean ride just as fast as I 

 please, and the bad effect produced is seen only 

 on the provisions at dinner-time. The wheel 

 seems almost a part of my make-up, and I begin 

 to wonder whether it was not a part of the 

 plan of the Almighty from the beginning. If 

 so. I am sorry for the people who lived a gener- 

 ation ago. A. I. R. 



