1890 



GLE/VNINGS :a^ BEE CULTURE. 



757 



mail nature for him to si)rak of it to liis friends. 

 "That man actually i)aid me 10 cents a bushel 

 more for my wheat tlian he agreed to." You 

 know I told yon a short time ago of how Mr. F. 

 8chuinach<>r. of the Aki'oii ^Nlills. paid a man 10 

 cents a bushel more for his wheat than he 

 agreed to ])ay. Such kind of work soon gets to 

 be a big advertisement. It goes from mouth to 

 mouth. Peo])le say, " That man is honest. You 

 can depend upon it, he will do all he agrees to, 

 and a little iiKire, every time." Suppose a com- 

 mission man wlio sells honey should commence 

 by pnmiising little, and in every transaction 

 doing a little more than he promises. He would 

 soon get tlie good will of the whole bee-keeping 

 world. The reason is. that such things are so un- 

 common. Why, dear friends, there is a gieat unex- 

 plored region in this direction, in this matter of 

 doing business according to the precepts of the 

 Bible: and. oh what fun it is to just repeat one 

 of these little Bible texts, when something 

 comes up to make it fit ju.st nicely I 



Now, friends. I think you sec the point of our 

 little text: and you see how Christianity can be 

 applied to business. "Fervent in spirit, serv- 

 ing the Lcnxl." Do not, I beg of you, let A. I. 

 Root monopolize this whole matter of btiilding 

 up a great business, with Blhle te.rts for a foun- 

 dation. Run opijosition to him: beat him in his 

 own line: outdo him in generous acts and love 

 to your fellows. Don't you^see how ridiculous 

 it is? In Christianity there is no rivalry. 

 There is not any select few in the prayer-meet- 

 ing. If you have an enemy in the world, there 

 is just where you want to see him. for he is just 

 the man you long to do good to, above all other 

 men. "Love ye your enemies, and do good to 

 them that liate you." Do you fear there is no 

 room in this world for us all. if we slaould all be- 

 come Christians'? "O ye of little faith!" There- 

 sources of a great Father above are beyond etll 

 comiiiitntion. If this world in not large enougli 

 for the wonderful achievements that are about 

 to be brought forth in liis /ui/nc. the whole plan- 

 etary system is at his command. He Jmnself has 

 said (Malachi .3:10). "Prove me now herewith, 

 saitli the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the 

 windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing 

 that there shall not be room to receive it." 



EDIT0]^I^k 



He Shan lie like a tree planted by the rivers of water; and 

 whatsoever he doetli shall prosper.— Ps. 1: 3. 



" GKEAT INGENUITY." 



On page 711 of our last issue (I won't lay it to 

 the poor types this time) I notice I said, " It 

 took very great ingenuity " to modify the Ben- 

 ton cage for introducing. I would say nothing 

 about it, only it looks as though I were lauding 

 myself pretty highly for making only a very 

 slight improvement. What I meant to have 

 said was, that '" it took 7io very great ingenui- 

 ty," etc. E. R. 



•NO REDUCED HAILIWAD RATES FOR THE 

 INTERNATIONAL. 



In anotlier column we give the programme of 

 th^ I. A. B. A. It was not published as soon as 

 wa^; expected, because the secretary was wait- 

 ing to liear wiiat rates the Western Traffic As- 

 sociation would allow. After a long delay and 

 much corr(>spondence, we have been ol)liged to 

 say jve sliall probably get no reduced rates. Re- 

 member the date and place of the next meeting, 



Keokuk. Oct. 20, 30, 31, and come anyhow. Er- 

 nest and I expect to be present every day. 



OUR DAILY BREAD. 



When I dine at tlie large hotels, or on the 

 Pullman cars. I always pay particular attention 

 to the bread, and the way in which they sei've 

 hot cakes — the latter especially, if it is accom- 

 panied with nice lioney. Well, during the last 

 month or two we have been feasting on the 

 nicest product in the bread line tliat it has ever 

 been our fortune to hear of. And what do you 

 think it is? Why, simply gems made of flour 

 and water — not another tiling, except a little 

 baking-powder (we use Cleveland's), a teaspoon- 

 ful to a pint of flour, to make them light. Mrs. 

 Root found the recipe in a newspaper: and we 

 prefer these gems so greatly to any thing else 

 that all other kinds of hot cakes made of milk, 

 eggs, etc., are abandoned. Y^ou will want a 

 Hunter's sifter, then run your flour and baking- 

 powder through it three times, to mix thorough- 

 ly, and to work in plenty of air. Now mix with 

 cold water imtil right (say of the consistency of 

 cake) to ladle with a spoon into the gem-irons. 

 These should be heated on top of the stove until 

 quite hot; then ladle in your dough, bake in a 

 very hot oven, and pass them around. Wlien I 

 am in a hurry I just break one open, leaving it 

 hinged at one side like a snuflC-box ( I do not 

 like the illustration, but I can not think of any 

 other). Open the lid wide enough to put in a 

 generous slice of butter, spreading it along a 

 little, then shut the lid down, and eat as many 

 as you like. When you are pretty nearly satis- 

 fied, put in some alfalfa or mountain-sage hon- 

 ey, and you can tlien probably eat about as 

 many more. You need a glass of milk to go 

 along with them; and if you are doing severe 

 outdoor work a small pitcher of milk right by 

 the glass will come handy. If this sort of diet, 

 "milk and honey," does not give you strength 

 and vigor, there is something the matter. Huber 

 says these gems just from the oven are as nice 

 as hot popcorn balls: and, in fact, they have 

 much the flavor of nice popcorn. While flour 

 made of nice selected Avheat is a little nicer for 

 the purpose, yon can make beautiful light cakes 

 of the cheapest flour to be found in the market. 

 In fact, the way we discovered it was by having 

 a sack of flour that Mrs. Root said she could 

 not possibly make Into decent bread, and she 

 had tried and tried until she was about as des- 

 parate as— your wife gets undcn- similar circum- 

 stances. If your wife has some flour that will not 

 make nice bread, then tell her to make it into 

 gems as above. If you have not a gem-iron, 

 use gem-tins or small shallow tin basins, or 

 even pie-tins. They are nice, anyhow you can 

 fix them; but, if you want the real popcorn 

 flavor, you will need cast-iron gem-irons. They 

 are just as good when cold, as any bread; and 

 if we have any left over for supper, they always 

 go off like ■' hot cakes." 



