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try journals, also the Bible, and they all do me 

 good. I also read T. B. Terry's health book. 



The farmers here are mostly Germans. They 

 drink, smoke, and chew tobacco. I soon fell into 

 the same habits. I was getting to be a real drunk- 

 ard. I also got drunk sometimes, and received 

 some hard knocks. I did not care what I did. I 

 also smoked and chewed, but still supported my 

 good mother, for that is one thing I did not neg- 

 lect. I never was a very strong boy. so my health 

 was beginning to fail. But it was just then that I 

 commenced reading Gleanings and your health 

 notes. I soon found that fresh air is the best thing 

 for me to sleep in at night, as I had a kind of lung 

 fever. I also read your temperance talks, and 

 found out that hard drink was the cause of my 

 poor health. I was also having some sad experi- 

 ence in the way of drinking, so I thought I would 

 put a stop to it, and I did so. I soon found, after 

 leaving whisky alone, that my health was improv- 

 ing, and now I am as well as any young man, and I 

 am living happy with my young wife, whom 1 soon 

 fell in love wilh after I let drink and other bad prac- 

 tices alone. The experience I had with drink was 

 this: Whenever 1 went to help my neighbors shell 

 corn, thrash, or do Other things, they would give 

 me all the drink I wanted, and thus many of us got 

 drunk. When night came I would go home weak 

 and sick. I always thought the u-ork tired me out : 

 but it was the drink. I can now go home as fresh 

 as I started, after a hard day's work at my neigh- 

 bor's; and there are many others who are learning 

 from me now. You don't know how much I thank 

 you for your good talks in Gleanings. 



Elk Creek, Neb., Nov. 2. E. C. Ulrich. 



[May the Lord be praised, friend U., for the good 

 news you tell us 'in your kind letter. What you 

 say about your good wife reminds me of a beauti- 

 ful book that is almost worth its weight in gold. 

 The title is, "Fell in Love with his Wife." It was 

 written by E. P. Roe. Mrs. Root and I read it years 

 ago. and we have both very much enjoyed reading 

 it again. You can get it of Sears, Roebuck & Co., 

 Chicago, for 33 cents. God grant that you may con- 

 tinue to " fall in love " with the dear woman more 

 and more every year that God permits you to live 

 together.— A. I. RJ 



HOW A MAN WITH ELEVEN CHILDREN " MADE GOOD." 



I like Gleanings very much, and I thank God 

 for your fearless denunciation of evil, and your 

 kindly advice to the erring. 



I am much interested in W. S. Cohenour's letter, 

 p. 639. Oct. 15, as it sets forth the condition I was in 

 myself, twelve years ago. With a large family to 

 support, and keen competition in my trade, it was 

 like making two bites of a cherry. This was in old 

 Ontario, so we gathered our little all and moved to 

 this land of promise. New Ontario, Thunder Bay 

 District, 15 miles from Fort William. On arriving 

 here 12 years ago. the 20th of Oct., 1899, I had only 

 S18.00 left to face a winter and buy food and clothing 

 for a family of eight, besides buying all feed lor four 

 horses and nine head of cattle for two winters. The 

 only milk cow among these died in the spring, and 

 my finest horse died the following fall. 1 gave 

 another horse away for lack of feed, so was left with 

 a very unevenly matched team (a heavy mare and 

 a two-year-old bronco). We settled on an abso- 

 lutely wild farm. Now for results: There have been 

 rive added to our family. The eldest is now a Qual- 

 ified grain inspector, holding a steady position, 

 with a home of his own, paid for, in the city. The 

 next three are schoolteachers with salaries ranging 

 from §4.50 to 8525; the rest are smaller, but all aim- 

 ing in the same direction. We have 80 acres under 

 cultivation, farms well fenced, good buildings, 

 barn 40 x 100 feet, house 20 x 28, with kitchen 12 x 34; 

 cement cellar and cement walks; rural telephone 

 in the house, communication with neighbors and 

 the twin cities 'Fort William and Port Arthur). I 

 have laid out over si400 in vehicles and implements. 

 My farm stock has not diminished, and yesterday 

 I put in the cellar 84 colonies of bees. I was 39 years 

 of age when we came up here. We all rolled up our 

 sleeves and went at it — I at my trade (plastering), 

 and my good wife, boys, and girls doing their best 

 on the farm at home. 



Now. if I were an American, as is Mr. Cohenour, 

 instead of soliciting charity from the millionaires 

 I would strike Mr. Roosevelt for a bonus for the 

 fine large family. 



1 hope to see this man succeed, as I see that he 

 says as I do, "Owe no man any thing." 



As poultry seems to be what he aims at, I might 

 quote prices here. From 25 cts. in spring and early 

 svimmer to 60 cts. in winter. The demand for fresh 

 eggs far exceeds the supply. 



State River, New Ont., Can, Jas. M. ]Munko. 



IS 75, BUT NO beer nor TOBACCO. 



In reply to yours of Sept. 11, 1911, I would say that 

 I have been a subscriber to your paper for many 

 years— nearly twenty, I think. I have owned bees 

 for sixty years with the exception of two years 

 while in Nebraska. I value Gleanings highly, and 

 don't know that I have any suggestions to make, 

 realizing that it is managed by men who know a 

 great deal more about the bee business than I do; 

 and when I tell you that I am in my seventy-fifth 

 year, and never drank a glass of beer nor a glass of 

 alcoholic liquor except once (and that during a 

 terrible pain in sickness), and never drew a whiflf 

 on a pipe or cigar, and never put any tobacco in 

 my mouth, you can imagine how highly I value A. 

 I. Root's Home talks and the stand he takes on 

 temperance. 



I am pretty much discouraged in the bee busi- 

 ness. For three years in succession I have had 

 hundreds of pounds of honey-dew, and have lost 

 most of my bees from it during the winter. I don't 

 like to sell the black stuff; and whether it is a se- 

 cretion or an excretion I don't want to eat it. 



Athol, Mass., Oct. 23. A. M. V. Hager. 



" forecasting " LENGTH OF LIFE BY ONE 89 

 YEARS OLD. 



I have been reading Gleanings for a long time. 

 Some years ago, when you were teaching how to 

 live to be one hundred years old, you said all who 

 wanted to go along should "fall into the proces- 

 sion." I said, "All right, I will go with you, not for 

 a hundred, but for ninety." I shall be 89 the 17th of 

 November. I am well and hearty for my age. I 

 ride over my farm on horseback. I go to town, 

 three miles, in my buggy, every few days. I super- 

 intend all my affairs. I keep busy — so busy that 

 disease can hardly get in. 



Now, you may ask, how I do live. I aim to live 

 moderately — not excessive in any thing. Modera- 

 tion is the word I keep before me. I eat a little of 

 almost every thing placed before me; but I eat 

 moderately. I eat a little meat when I get hungry 

 for it, but I often do without it for a week or more 

 at a time. A boiled egg, a glass of milk, stewed 

 friiit, apples mainly, and a biscuit make up my 

 daily meals. 



Tell me the manner of a man's life and I can 

 reckon pretty close to the length of it. The manner 

 of life and the length of it keep pretty close together. 

 The young, many of them, go down from 18 to 30; 

 others from 30 to 60, when, by a proper manner of 

 living, they could reach the alloted threescore and 

 ten. I think I shall reach 90, although a little 

 feeble, and I hope you may go there and beyond. 



Your Home papers are doing good. Keej) them 

 going, for the viplift of our people. This is a long 

 letter for an old man; but I wanted to say what I 

 have, and more. 



Nicholasville, Ky., Oct. 30. H. C. Hersperger. 



A "high-pressure" a kind word. 



I received your letter telling me you would drop 

 my name if I didn't renew my subscription at once: 

 so I am aiming not to be dropped out of the finest 

 class of people on earth, beceause 1 fully believe 

 that they are the Gleanings family. Gleanings is 

 one of the purest ahd cleanest of all the reading 

 matter I have ever subscribed for. It is so straight 

 against the evil, and so strong against it in every 

 torm, that it makes me love its pages. May god 

 bless you all in your good work, and especially the 

 dear old A. I. whose talks have done us so much 

 good. You will find enclosed $1.00 for the book I 

 want, and Gleanings one year. 



Jellico, Tenn. C. Walker. 



the old-fashioned religion. 



We always plan to read what A. I. Root says in 

 the Home papers. Sunday evenings, as we are on a 

 farm, and find it difficult to get to evening service. 

 We endorse every word he says, and it does us 

 good to know there are a few yet who hold to the 

 old-fash iond religion. 



Neenah, Wis., Oct. 16. Mrs. J. B. Blakely. 



