GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



February, 1918 



thrown himself prostrate in the diist, and 

 plead for forgiveness, tliein, and not before, 

 oould " sinners " be " converted." 



My good friend, by the time these words 

 comie before your eyes I may be dead and 

 gone, for it is now Oetobteir 27 that I am 

 dictating, this Home paper; but whether I 

 am dead and gone or not, please considfer 

 the far-reaching oon&equences of having a 

 singie dlollar in your po'cket, whether by 

 accident or othei"wise, that is not honestly 

 your own. Once more 



Your old friend, 

 A. I. Root. 



PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO DEAF-MUTES. 



I confess it was a pleasant surprise to me 

 to find that the gospel has been preached by 

 the sign language to the unfortunates who 

 cannot hear, in different institutions more 

 or less thruout our nation. Read the fol- 

 lowing: 



My Dear Mr. Root:- — Thru Gleanings I note 

 that you are greatly interested in uplifting or better- 

 ing humanity. Lately you spoke a word for the deaf- 

 mute. But this time you failed to strike the right 

 chord. Are not all materialistic advantages futile 

 compared with the " one thing that is needful" ? 



Perhaps you will he glad to know that the Lu- 

 theran Chiirfh maintains missionaries thruO'Ut our 

 country who preach the gospel to the deaf-mutes in 

 their sign language. 



If you should publish in Gleanings the names 

 and addresses of these laborers in the Lord's vine- 

 yard, as given on a separate sheet, much good would 

 result therefrom. It may become the means where- 

 by sooner or later the one or the other of these un- 

 fortunate people, who as yet do not know Jesus, 

 shall learn the Way of Life — truly a noble act and 

 surely a work of upheaval of humanity I 



E. C. Stieg, Lutheran Pastor. 



Clayton, 111., July 10. 



PASTORS OB MISSIONARIES FOR THE DEAF-MUTES. 



Rev. Arthur Boll, New York, 115 E. 31st St, 

 preaches at three mission stations in the East. 



Rev. G. W. Gaertner takes care of six stations in 

 Oregon and Washington. 



Rev. Louis Jagels, Kansas City, Mo., 4124 Anges 

 Ave., has ten stations in Kansas, Missouri, Ne- 

 bra.ska, Oklahoma, and Iowa. 



Rev. N. F. Jensen, Eos Angeles, Cal., has five 

 stations in California. 



Rev. John Solvner, Minneapolis, Minn., 1221 N. 

 22d Ave., has eleven stations in Minnesota. 



Rev. Otto Schroeder, Detroit, Mich., 1366 Trum- 

 bull Ave., has eleven stations in Michigan, Indiana, 

 and Ohio. 



Rev. C. Schubkeggel, St. Louis, Mo., 4536 Lo- 

 bade Ave., has six stations in Missouri, Kentucky, 

 and Indiana. 



Rev. N. P. Uhling, Chicago, 111., 1412 N. Fair- 

 field Ave., Humboldt Station, has six stations in 

 Illinois and Indiana. 



Rev. Tr. M. Wangerin, Milwaukee, Wis., 1711 

 Meinecke Ave., has eight stations in Wisconsin. 



There have been a number of deaths attributed 

 to inhaling gasoline exhaust fumes. The poisonous 

 substances in exhaust fumes are odorless, colorless, 

 and tasteless. The inhalation of even a small 

 amount of these substances daily will undermine 

 your health. Some of the symptoms caused by the 

 carbon monoxide which is present in engine gas 

 are headaches, pain in the stomach, palpitation, 

 " stiff " neck, dizziness, or throbbing in the temples, 

 loss of appetite, etc.> The danger in garages or 

 workshops can be eliminated, however, by providing 

 plenty of fresh air. Open doors and windows of 

 the garage, or discharge exhaust gases directly to 

 the outside. Do not run your motor in a closed 

 garage. 



1 at once carried the above clipping to 

 the foreman of our g-arage; and he sug- 

 gests that, while the above is all true, those 

 who work in garages become in time more 

 or loss immune, to the effects of the carbon 

 monoxide, much in the same way that bee- 

 keepers become iimnune to beestings. In 

 proof he says that people who come in from 

 outdoors are badly affected right away, 

 while tlie men who work in the garage right 

 along do not seem to mind it. I made the 

 remark that, even if this is true, it will be 

 better for the general health not to become 

 immnne; and Mel Pritchard (our queen 

 man) who was present, suggested that, in 

 his opinion, it is better, in like manner, to 

 avoid as much as possible '' becoming im- 

 mune " to beestings.' In other words, while 

 it is true that one after being stung a good 

 many times does not mind it, he had better 

 by all means have a veil, smoker, etc., in 

 order to avoid being stung severely. 



A HOME-MADE VULCANIZER. 



I have made me a vulcanizer to mend my own 

 tires. I use the top of a large tin box set in a wood- 

 en clamp, this clamp to have a set -screw to clamp 

 over the patch, and then fill the box-cover with hot 

 water; and by the time the water is cold the patch 

 is vulcanized. I can patch a tire in a few minutes 

 that the garage man charges me 75 cts. to fix. If 

 I do not have hot water ready I use wood alcohol 

 or coal oil. J. H. Root. 



Pima, Ariz., Oct. 2. 



The above, from my brother, I have sub- 

 mitted to the man who has charge of our 

 garage ; and he says that, altho he lias 

 never tried hot water, he thinks it would, 

 without doubt, work all right. Perhaps 

 some question might come up as to whether 

 tlie water sbonld be boiling hot or not. No 

 doubt the plan will work. 



GAS FUMES FROM THE EXHAUST OF AUTOMO- 

 BILES. 



AVe found the following in the! Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer from the excellent doctor who 

 gives us a short health article every day : 



THE HEX THAT LAYS THE EGGS. 



With the present high price of grain, and, 

 in fact, almost everything else that you can 

 get liold of for chicken feed, it is exceed- 

 ingly desirable to keep track of the hen that 

 lays the eggs. I notice that the poultry- 

 journals of the present time seem to agree 

 tliat the best layers are not the "yellow- 

 legged " liandsonDe-looking hens. The hen 

 that lays 200.egg-s a year, or anything near 



