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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURF. 



Dec. 1. 



started she found pupils in her day school capa- 

 ble uf taking classes; and one of ihe.-e pupils, a 

 young lady, has since risen to prominence. The 

 beneticia.1 results that went out lo ihe world 

 from liiat liule school wiihits poor appliances 

 and surroundings, who can measure itiem ? 



Verv likely the incident I have given you is a 

 remarkable one. I judge so from the fact that 

 Miss Uux was afterward employed In starting 

 schools in other localities. These schools were 

 then iiaiided over lo some teacher who could do 

 very well after things were set going, and then 

 she was moved about from place lo pi ice. At 

 present she is employed to solicit funds for the 

 Whitman College, at Walla Walla. Wash., an 

 institution in memory of Marcus Whitman, the 

 founder of the great Northwest country. 



And now, friends, as I close can you not unite 

 with me in tinding a world of beauty and truth 

 in that little text, that T have never under 

 stood or appreciated before? " I am come that 

 they might have life, and that they might have 

 it more abundantly." 



Health Notes. 



SANITARY ARUANGEMENTS OF TUE HOME. 



This matter has been pretty thoroughly dis- 

 cussed through our agricultural and home 

 papers, in regard lo out- buildings for the aver- 

 age country or village home; and perhaps the 

 best arrangement, generally speaking, is the 

 dry dust closet or some of its moditicatlous. 

 Many people, however, are having this out- 

 building connected with the wood house or 

 back kitchen so that the ciiildieu and women 

 are not obliged to go outdoors in winter and 

 during stormy weather, to get to the closet; 

 and where the average man wants to economize 

 his time as much as possible, it is quite desir- 

 able that the closet should be so he can go out 

 without putting on rubbers and overcoat, or 

 run the risk of taking cold by going out with- 

 out protection. All these things are being care- 

 fully studied and experim.ented on. The dry- 

 dust arrangement requires a good deal of care, 

 and it is a rather hard matter to find anybody 

 who wants ihe job of keeping it in good run- 

 ning order, even if well paid for so doing. Some 

 sort of nutorruttic arrangement seems desirable. 

 In towns and cities the simplest and safest 

 thing is, without doubt, the water-closet. These 

 can usually be put in at small expense wher- 

 ever there is village waterworks; and of late 

 many people are deciding that it pays to have 

 cheap waterworks of tlieir own. A windmill 

 and elevated tank does the business perfectly; 

 and where there are not too many people resid- 

 ing undi r one roof, a tank in the attic, in which 

 the cistern water runs from the roof, answers 

 every purpose. Your building must be strong 

 enough to hold the tank or ciptern safely, even 

 when full of water, and the outlet most be so 

 constructed that, when the tank is full, the 

 water will go ofT through the conductors just 

 as if there were no tank, and go down below 

 into the underground cistern. This arrange- 

 ment must be so that there is no possibility of 

 its freezing up in winter so as to flood the rooms 

 below. In fact, the tank in the attic should 

 stand inside of a shallow pan made of galvan- 

 ized iron, so that, if it ever runs over, this pan 

 will catch the water and carry it safely outside 

 of the building. Ernest. Mr. Calvert, and my- 

 self all have such tanks in the attics of our 

 respective homes. I hardly need to suggest to 

 you how much it is worth to have rain water 

 or soft water so that the mother is not obliged 



to even work a pump-handle. Just turn a 

 faucet and you have water to till the reservoir, 

 tubs, wash boilers, bath-tub. or any thing else. 



Speaking of the bath-tub reminds me that 

 you can ea>ily have both hot and culd water by 

 having a pipe leading from the attic to the 

 reservoir on the cook stove, or. if you have a 

 furnace in the cellar, have a coil of pipe in the 

 furnace. With the latter arrangement you can 

 have hot-water rud'mtors in your home. But 

 just now we are going lo discuss the water- 

 closet only. 



At dilTerent times in these pages I have 

 spoken of a plan for disposing of slops and sew- 

 age, and 1 will repeat it briefly. Everv home 

 or every liouse should be raised up sulHcienlly 

 so that, when properly graded, the gruund will 

 descend as you go away from the house. If 

 you can not have litis arrangement on (ill sides, 

 have It at least on one side. If you have an 

 orchard, say a hunared feet away from the 

 huuse, on a little slope of ground, you are lucky. 

 Now you want to lay some large tiling from the 

 house clear down through the orchard.* The 

 length of this line of tiling depends upon the 

 number of people in your home. It had better 

 be at least a htmdred feet long. At the lower 

 end. down in the orchard, lay the largest tile 

 you can get in your neighborhood — say 8. 10, or 

 13 inch — the latter sIzh if your family is large. 

 Get ihe cheapest kinu of cull tile. Those warp- 

 ed or tire cracked in burning are just what you 

 want. Lay this further end of large tiles down 

 in the ground two or three feet deep; then take 

 them on a gradual incline up to the house. As 

 you get near tiie building, use smaller tile until 

 you get down to, say. fotir-inch. When yoti get 

 within a rod or iwo of ihe biiildinar, in place of 

 the tile use sewer-i»ipe, and have the joints 

 cemented. This four-inch sewer pipe is lobe 

 connected with your water-closet; but before 

 you take it into the house, put in a piece with 

 a branch, or what is called a T, and from this 

 T rtin a tin or gal vanized-iron pipe clear up 

 above the eaves of your house. This is the out- 

 side ventilator, and must never be omitted. It 

 takes all the sewer gas clear up above the 

 btiilding, and no fermentation in the hottest 

 weather can ever produce any pressure so as to 

 force the gas into the house while this veniilat- 

 ing-pipe is securely attached to the highest end 

 of yotir sewage tiling. The apparatus for 

 flushing the closet with the earthenware bowl, 

 etc., can be purchai-ed in any of our large cities 

 at an expense of from .f5 00 to .f 10.00— say flS.OO 

 for something very elaborate and handsome. 



Now. just one thing more comes within the 

 province of my talk on this subject; and it is, 



*lh:ive directed that this large tiling: witli loose 

 open joints st all g^idown throuffh .your orchard in 

 Older ili;it Ihe roots of tlie apple-trees may go 

 ihrniigh into the t les to lielp ttiemselves, not only 

 to the water whicli comes down every dity, but to 

 use up tne otlier fertilizing tiialter as welt Jn the 

 course of time I p'csnme th;it even these large- 

 sized tiles will become filled witli the accumulation 

 of solid matter. But even if it does you can afford 

 to do one of three things: Lay a new line ot tile 

 between two other rows of apple-tree'*, or, second, 

 tal^e up the old one. clean out the tiles, and put 

 tiiem ijicls again. The third way is to extend the 

 lit)eof tile. Dig a trench below (he open end, and 

 by running in a very large quantity of water at)ove 

 you can easily wash out the wtiole contents into the 

 trench below. Put some more tiles in the trench, 

 fill it up, and it will run for another series of years. 

 Weliave now used a similar arrangement for sev- 

 ernl years, and It worlisperfectl.v. and I have several 

 times found great masses of roots filling these tiles 

 when, for some reason or other, we liad to dig up a 

 portion of them. If you have not an orchard or 

 apple-trees, by all mea.ns plan so as to raise crops 

 (any sort of garden stuffiof some sort so as to utilize 

 this valuable accumulation of fertility. 



