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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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<listressed, and hardly able to drag one foot after the other, I 

 would go out to the bees and sit down and watch them; and in 

 watching the little fellows tumble over each other in their haste 

 to get into the hive, it seems to drive away the blues and makes 

 me feel better, and I get much pleasure in working with them. 

 I trust that 1 may be able to meet you some time, as I feel that 

 we are old friends. John T. Elliott. 



Colliers, W. Va., Sept. 26. 



Friend E. , we are exceedingly obliged to you 

 for this little story, for it contains a wonderful 

 truth, and one that may help, nobody knows how 

 many other fellow-travelers. It is this: That 

 where one sets to work, resolutely with a faith in 

 himself, in humanity, and in God, wonderful 

 things may be done. First, your life was doubt- 

 less saved, at the time of that accident, by a cheer- 

 ful resignation to the will of God. You did not 

 get frightened or rattled, even if the doctor did 

 tell you that you could live only a few hours. I 

 once had a similar experience. Something got 

 into my windpipe and stopped my breath. My 

 fright because I thought I was going to die very 

 much aggravated the trouble When, however, 

 I faced the dark valley, and said mentally, 

 " Thy will, not mine, be done," I quieted down 

 and the distress let up. My good wife's encour- 

 aging words also helped me greatly. I feel quite 

 sure that many people lose their lives through 

 fright, when, if they would make an effort to 

 keep cool, and trust in God, they would come out 

 all right. And you unfold to us another won- 

 derful truth — namely, that even where the or- 

 gans of speech are damaged or gone, nature will, 

 in time, supply something that can be used as a 

 substitute; and I do not know but many dumb 

 people might even now learn to talk enough to 

 make their wishes known, if they tried as hard 

 and perseveringly as you did. May God bless 

 you in your efforts to learn what further lessons 

 the great Father above is striving to teich you. 

 T. B. Terry, Cornaro, and perhaps thousands of 

 others have regained their health in just the way 

 you learned to talk; and I am firmly persuaded- 

 that God has placed the means within our reach 

 to get over and climb out of almost any trouble 

 in the way of disease and sickness, if we can on- 

 ly put our hands in his and make use of all the 

 means that lie within our reach. 



T. B. TERRY, IN THE PRACTICAL FARMER, ON TY- 

 PHOID FEVER. 



Not long ago a young woman from Iowa was visiting us. On 

 her way here she stopped in a city for a week. When she got 

 here she was pretty well used up. A bowel trouble set in which 

 became quite serious. One morning she did not get up, as she 

 had been bad off during the night. She thought it would be best 

 to send for a doctor, and was evidently quite worried. Of course, 

 there was grave danger that typhoid fever would be the result. 

 At this point I quietly told the lady th^t I understood exactly 

 what the trouble was and how to get rid of it; that if she would 

 eat absolutely nothing, and drink water freely, four glasses dur- 

 ing the first hour, and lie still, that she would be comfortable 

 soon. She did as directed, and hot things were placed at her feet 

 and about bowels to keep her very warm. The water given was 

 our pure filtered rain water. The result was that she was dressed 

 and downstairs in a few hours, and fairly well the next day. 

 The trouble was she didn't have strength to digest the food eaten, 

 and it decayed in the intestines, and nature was rushing it out to 

 prevent further poisoning of system and dangerous inflammation. 

 No more food for a time, and pure water, and rest, was all that 

 was needed. In the old way with typhoid fever there was a long 

 tedious illness, and about one in four died. In the new way, the 

 natural common-sense way, 1211 cases of typhoid have been 

 treated and quickly cured by some great doctors in Boston, with- 

 out a single loss of life, it is stated. I have just been reading 

 about it. How marvelously it backs up what we have been try- 

 ing for several years to impress on our readers. The teachings of 

 these " Hints " can no longer be called radical, as they were at 

 first. The greatest physicians and authorities in the whole world 



are fast coming out in full accord with simple, natural ways of 

 preventing disease and curing it. 



I wonder how many of our doctors will in- 

 dorse the above — at least that part of it to the ef- 

 fect that four glasses of water, taken inside of an 

 hour, keeping still, and eating absolutely noth- 

 ing, will ward off an attack of fever. And then 

 this other one that, on the average, about one in 

 four die with the ordinary treatment; that in over 

 a thousand, treated in " the common-sense way," 

 every one recovered. In our locality at the pres- 

 ent time there are very few deaths from typhoid 

 fever in the course of a year — perhaps one in ten, 

 or perhaps not more than one in twenty-five. We 

 have had some experience with it in our own 

 family, but it was mostly years ago. Since we 

 have been careful about our drinking-water there 

 has been none of it, and only a little in our neigh- 

 borhood and locality. If the above statements 

 are all true, it is not only a startling fact but a 

 terrible arraignment of our methods in the past. 



A GREAT CITY DAILY THAT DOES NOT ACCEPT 



WHISKY ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Mr. Root: — You speak in the last issue of Gleanings about 

 wishing there were a large newspaper that would not accept 

 liquor advertisements. There is one in Worcester, Mass., the 

 Worcester Telegram, which has the largest circulation of any 

 newspaper in Massachusetts (outside of the Boston papers) that 

 will not take an advertisement for even a cider-mill. 



Worcester has gone " no license " two years in succession, 

 for the first time in its history. I am sending you a copy of this 

 morning's paper. Worcester going no m^ans " no " for almost 

 every town around it. There were only two adjacent towns 

 that went " yes " last year, and it is said that, very strongly, 

 they have had enough and will go dry next year. 



Our town, I am sorry to say, is a strong license town normal- 

 ly, but it went dry last spring, largely on account of Worcester 

 going "no." We hope to carry it again next year. I wish we 

 could vote on the question here by counties as you seem to in 

 Ohio. One town dry and the next one wet amounts to about the 

 same thing as both going wet. 



I want to express my appreciation of Gleanings in all its 

 departments; and should I give up my bees, as long as 1 have a 

 dollar to spare I will be a subscriber if you keep up its present 

 standard. E. C. Putnam. 



Millbury, Mass., Dec. 9. 



Our friend is right about it. The sample copy 

 of the Worcester Telegram he sends is a larger 

 daily, if any thing, than any paper we have in 

 Cleveland. It has been published 23 years, and 

 yet there is not a whisky advertisement in it from 

 beginning to end. In fact, the copy he sends is 

 full of the temperance war from start to finish. 

 May God be praised for at least one great daily 

 that will " dare to be a Daniel." 



BIG SUM OFFERS ARB SPURNED BY WRIGHTS. 



Pau, France, Jan. 19. — All the money which the Wright 

 brothers have gained by taking prizes offered for aviation is in- 

 significant compared with the sum they could earn by accepting 

 the offers made by many local authorities, and the owners of cer- 

 tain fashionable resorts, as well as by the officials of French 

 railways, to induce them to carry on their experiments in differ- 

 ent neighborhoods. The town has gone mad on the subject of 

 flying. Street musicians are singing impromptu melodies with 

 words glorifying the American brothers. A number of French 

 painters have arrived, with the view of committing to canvas 

 their fiist impressions of a real fiying-machine, and exhibiting 

 them at this year's saloon. A legion of photographers is also in 

 sight, while scores of dainty damsels belonging to French high 

 society may be seen to-day going toward the aviation ground, 

 with cameras under their arms, in the hope that they may be able 

 to get a snapshot of Wilbur Wright, who slept last night with his 

 two workmen beside his precious machine. Mr. Wright tells 

 the correspondent of the Chicago Daily News that he did not ex- 

 pect to compete at the forthcoming race from Monte Carlo to Cap 

 Martin and back, since the distance and other conditions will 

 not be sufl^ciently interesting. He added, however, that he 

 might go over there " by the side entrance " with his machine to 

 see how his colleagues are getting along. 



