APKIL 15. 1915 



Our older readers will recall that Glean- 

 ings has been fighting this thing (almost 

 single-handed until the liiiral Ncw-Yurker 

 stepped in), for more than 20 years, and we 

 have been repeatedly threatened with "suits 

 at law " by the dili'erent promoters of the 

 " senseless toy." Not only that, but 1 have, 

 every time 1 have shown it up, made some 

 man or woman an " enemy for life," it 

 would almost seem, because I continued to 

 declare there was *' neither sense nor sci- 

 ence " in running " oxygen " through a 

 wire. Just think of it — over a million dol- 

 lars has been paid for it by sick and ailing 

 people! It just started at $25.00 for a 

 senseless rig that could be sold at a profit at 

 25 cts.; and as if this were not a big enough 

 profit, the jirice has recently been raised to 

 $35.00. The miserable thing has also been 

 copied, again and again, by some vender. 



Some one who had no scruples about 

 " robbing sick people," seeing the money 

 the " promoters " were getting, copied the 

 thing, hence the various names for it. Some 

 years ago I appealed to the authorities at 

 Washington, D. C, and they sent a man to 

 investigate; but as they didn't claim it to 

 be a medicine he said there seemed to be no 

 law to stop such cases. Yes, they did have 

 a sort of patent granted for it, as a device 

 that cured peoj^le by working on their 

 imarjination, etc. 



Now, friends, there is a big moral right 

 here that we all ought to recognize. Dear 

 kind old Dame Nature is all the time work- 

 ing cures, did we but stop and recognize it. 

 When we are feeling badly, if we go to a 

 doctor or get something in a bottle at the 

 drugstore, and suddenly recover, we of 

 course give the doctor or the medicine the 

 credit. Just 24 hours ago I took a sudden 

 cold — almost the first severe cold since I 

 omitted a regular supper four or five years 

 ago, took a daily bath, etc. I had sore 

 throat, earache, with droppings from my 

 nostrils almost continuously, etc. Next day 

 I had a good nap before dinner, but still 

 felt so badly I thought after dinner I would 

 really have to go to bed and stay there, and 

 Iierhaps would have done so had it not 

 seemed quite necessary I should take a trij) 

 out into the country. Well, while writing 

 this (just before bedtime) my cold is all 

 gone, my nostrils are clean and free from 

 congestion, fever, etc. What did it? I 

 don't know unless it was the ride, well bun- 

 dled up, out in the Florida sunsliine. Sup- 

 pose, now, 1 had had an electropoise, and 

 had gone through with their senseless rig- 

 marole. What a testimonial I could have 

 hi/tiesthj given! Shall we not investigate, 

 and try things? Sure! But take a lesson 



from our various experiment stations. (Jo 

 and visit them if you have never dune so, 

 and learn how they make test experiments 

 over and over again before they accept 

 conclusions and give the results to the 

 world. The station folks are honest, and 

 have no ax to grind — no object in life, 

 except to benefit humanity. 



" OLD AGK DEFERRED. FROM A GOOD FRIEND WHO 



WAS AN " INVALID " 30 OR 40 YEARS AGO. 



Dear Bro. Root: — I have been thinking of writing 

 to tell you that, although I am getting near my 83d 

 birthday, I did lots of work last summer and fall — 

 more than usual, as I have had some of our houses 

 to repair, and the outdoor work has improved my 

 general health very much. 



As I tell it, I have spent $200 or $300 on the 

 houses, and have received one hundred dollars in 

 health. I am very much interested in the Home 

 department, especially poultry and health. Mrs. 

 Axtell's article pleased me very much. I have been 

 for some years rubbing myself (or massaging) all 

 over when I wake up in the night, and sleep al- 

 ways comes, though sometimes I massage for half 

 an hour or more before sleep comes. I also practice 

 deep breathing with very much benefit. I do it 

 nearly every night. 



I was interested in what you said about your 

 daughter's Plymouth Rocks. I have one little pullet, 

 said to be a cross between a Rhode Island Red 

 rooster and a Black Minorca hen, whicli laid 28 

 eggs from Nov. 22 to Dec. 22. She has laid ten 

 eggs more up to to-day, Jan. 5. I think she is 

 something like your Buttercup, as she comes out to 

 me, following me around and talking, and I talk 

 back to her. I feed her extra on wheat at $2.00 a 

 hundred, and she eats out of my hand. We get 50 

 cts. a do:«en here now for fresh-laid eggs. 



Billy Sunday did a great work here, and I doubt 

 if the state would have gone for prohibition but for 

 him. Tie seems to have done a greater work in Des 

 Moines, Iowa. Bible classes were started all over 

 the city, and are still kept up. Fifty doctors organ- 

 ized a prayer-meeting among themselves. 



Denver, Colo. J. L. Peabodv. 



" both BOUND for THE HEAVENLY SHORE," ETC. 



I recently dreamed twice in one night that I met 

 you traveling through the country, and felt very 

 fortunate to have a few minutes' talk. 



I trust the time is coming when it shall not be 

 limited to " a few minutes." 



We are both bound for the heavenly shore, and 

 no doubt soon will meet. 



I sometimes wonder if you have trials and diffi- 

 culties like myself, and if you always know just 

 what to do. I am a class leader, steward, Bible- 

 class teacher, and sometimes organist. I have almost 

 three miles to go up hill to church, and have to 

 walk all winter over terrible roads, and often 

 through rain. I am 54 years old, and am bothered 

 a good bit with rheumatism, and it is not the easiest 

 task for me to get up there. However, I don't mind 

 all the hardships. I am doing it for Christ's sake, 

 and don't want publicity or pity. But what does 

 hurt me is that people so seldom respond. I can't 

 see that I am accomplishing much. I have, how- 

 ever, one satisfaction — ^my own dear children are 

 trying to serve God. 



Laurel, Oregon, Feb. 24. S. Pakr. 



My good friend, " Be not weary in well 

 doing, for in due time we shall reap if we 

 faint not," and also remember who it was 

 that said, " Inasmuch as ye have done it 

 unto the least of one of these my brethren, 

 ye have done it unto me." Yes, my good 

 and patient friend, I do have trials, and I 

 often wonder if others have as many; but 

 had these trials not come I should not have 

 found my little short prayer, " Lord, help." 



