GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



MAY; 1918 



I 



SUPPOSE 



that at least 



most of you 

 have read what 

 I have had to 

 say during' the 

 past few months 

 about windmills 

 and electricity. 

 On page 939 of 

 the December is- 

 sue of Glean- 

 ings some men- 

 tion was made 

 of George Mani- 

 kowske, the in- 

 ventor of the 



electric windmill, or, at least, one of the in- 

 ventors. Well, on page 12 of the January 

 issue I informed you that he expected to 

 come down here to my Florida home and 

 install the plant. Of course I had to men- 

 tion my undertaking in our week-day 

 prayer meeting. I also promised to bring 

 the young inventor to our prayer meeting" if 

 I could get him to come. Our good pastor, 

 Dr. Hallock, warmly seconded my under- 

 taking. Now, I knew almost nothing of 

 this young man whom I had never seen, and 

 I recognized that he might be one of the 

 prayer-meeting kind, and he might also be 

 far away from it. I watched anxiously for 

 him, and I might confess I prayed for him. 

 I had gathered that his lifework (and 1 

 might say his life passion) had been wind- 

 mills and electricity, and, as a matter of 

 course, I expected it to be one of the events 

 of my life to meet him. It was. He came 

 to prayer meeting, and, at the request of 

 our pastor, gave us a talk of ten minutes, 

 mostly in regard to the Y. M. C. A. work 

 in his State of North Dakota. I am going 

 to have quite a little to say about him, ))e- 

 cause I think it ma^ be helpful to the thou- 

 sands of other young men who read Glean- 

 ings. He neither drinks, smokes, nor uses 

 tobacco in any form, and uses tea and cof- 

 fee only when it might look singular not to 

 use them as others do. His appearance 

 shows the result of his pure, clean life. 

 He is 29 years old, weighs over 200, and has 

 a wife and two fine children wliose pictures 

 I have seen. 



I have owned for nearly ten years a 

 Sears automobile. Until recently I have 

 been able to make all repairs with but lit- 

 tle ti-ouble. Just before George came I had 

 about decided to put it on the scrap-heap. 

 I couldn't think of selling it, nor e\ en 

 giving it away, for that matter, to ha\e 

 some one else have a like ox]ierien(-e. It 

 made me lliink ol' the woman (Mark r):2()) 



OUR HOMES 



A. I. ROOT 



Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no 

 guile. — John 1:47. 



Know ye not that your body is the temiple of the 

 Holy Ghost? — I. Cor. 6:19. 



But Daniel purposed in his heart that lie would 

 not deiile himself. — Daniel 1:8. 



who " spent all 

 she had and was 

 nothing' bettered 

 but rather 

 worse." I was 

 told that expen- 

 sive new i^arts 

 were needed, but 

 still the old 

 troitble remain- 

 ed. 



Well, after 

 the mill was up 

 and runningi, 

 George got his 

 eye on my un- 

 fortunate 

 " Sears," asked a few questions, and sug- 

 gested he might fix it for me. It is now 

 running as well as, perhaps better than 

 when new, and runs on the magneto without 

 any help from the batteries — something it 

 has not done for years. His keen, bright 

 way of going at once right to the spot where 



Thiis is the wjindniill that turned the dyniuuo, thitt 

 stored the batteries, of ihe electiic auto (as it st-inds 

 in it J garage,), that carried the potatoes to market. 



the trouble l^es is in sharp contrast to some 

 of the young men in repair shops who have 

 to puff at a cigarette before diag-nosing tlie 

 seat of trouble. I have had for years a 

 ]iuin)iiiig windmill that starts ])efore the 

 lank is t'm|ily. George fixed it in a few 



