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much simpler and less trouble. Now about 

 the tireless aeroplane: My attention has 

 just been called to it by the following, which 

 I clip from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



The Wright brothers annouuce the completion of 

 a tireless aeroplane. Anybody can fly now — there's 

 no danger of being drowned if one wears a cork 

 belt, and why be hanged if you have a good lawyer? 

 And now that one can't get burned up while flying, 

 immortality is assured. 



We don't know how much of the above 

 is newspaper pleasantry and how much is 

 truth; but the clipping calls to mind that I 

 have neglected, until just now, to thank the 

 kind friends who sent Christmas greetings 

 to Mrs. Root and myself about the first of 

 the New Year; and, while thanking you all, 

 I want to tell you that I feel a lot of pride 

 in pointing to a neat booklet on our center 

 table that contains inside the following: 



1911—1912 

 A Mekry Christmas and a Happy New Year 

 WiLBER Wright, 

 Orville Wright, 

 Katherine Wright. 



When I go back to Ohio in May I am plan- 

 ning to go and see that "flreless " and then 

 I can tell you more about it. 



GRAPE FRUIT FOR RHEUMATISM. 



I have before mentioned that grape fruit 

 alone gave me almost immediate relief from 

 a kidney trouble that had been afflicting me 

 more or less for years. See the following: 



A WONDERFUL FRUIT; MOST VALUABLE OF ALL. 



Last month we mentioned that the grape fruit 

 would cure rheumatism. We thought that this 

 fact was universally known in Florida, but it seems 

 that many of our people right where the grape 

 fruit grows did not know that a most complete and 

 sure cure grew right at their hands. The editor 

 was a great sufferer from muscular rheumatism 

 and sciatica, and it departed years ago. We do not 

 hesitate to say that, if properly taken, and only If 

 properly taken, the use of grape fruit will cure any 

 case of rheumatism that can be found. It is na- 

 ture's cure. The fruit mvist be eaten without su- 

 gar, or juice can be taken by a reamer, such as is 

 used for extracting lemon juice, now made and 

 sold generally for grape fruit, being larger. Take 

 freely of the fruit or juice, from the fruit with a 

 spoon, preferably every morning before taking 

 other food. In severe cases it may be well to take 

 before each meal. Take fresh fruit. Do not think 

 that a half of a stale fruit is of any benefit. Many 

 who come to spend a winter in Florida with rheu- 

 matism can go back north free from the disease. 

 But they rarely ever want to go permanently. This 

 recipe Is not copyrighted.— jWoc/eiZo Tropical Topics. 



Kind Words From Our Customers. 



Dear Mr. i2oo<.— We read the Home papers first. 

 The notes on temperance indicate an individual 

 who is not afraid to fight for the right. Our home 

 city, Knoxville, is a dry town. Our Tennessee cities 

 and towns would all be " dry " if the law were not 

 flagrantly and openly violated. 



Louisville, Tenn., Nov. 20. Sarah A. Rule. 



BEES AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. 



A little over one year ago I knew nothing con- 

 cerning bees. I became interested, and purchased 

 one stand. They increased to three stands last 

 summer. They wintered outdoors well, and now 

 number five stands. They are a great pleasure to 

 Mrs. Porter and myself, even if we received no prof- 

 it other than the study of their lives and to work 

 with them; but they will much more than supply 

 us with honey. 



We look forward to the coming of Gleanings to 

 our home anxiously, and read it with great pleas- 

 ure and profit. The Home department is especial- 

 ly Interesting to us. and alone is well worth the 

 cost of Gleanings. The stand you have taken on 

 the liquor question, the instructions and advice, 

 the application of God's word, must come from one 

 led by the spirit of true patriotism and of Christ. 



Byesville, O., July 12. H. C. Porter. 



"get thee behind me, SATAN." 



Mr. A.I. Root: — After reading your talks for Aug. 

 1, wherein you give your experience with the rail- 

 road agent, I feel I must tell you of a similar expe- 

 rience I had. When I was a boy, money was very 

 scarce with me, so the temptation was that much 

 stronger. I was walking along the road one day, 

 and a little negro boy was just in front of me when 

 I saw him drop a ten-cent piece. I picked it up 

 and asked him if he had dropped any thing. He 

 said no, so I put it in my pocket. As nearly as I 

 can remember 1 kept it about a year. I could not 

 stand it any longer, so I gave it back to him. A 

 few years after that I went into a store in my home 

 town and bought a dime's worth of something, and 

 gave the clerk a fifty-cent piece. He gave me back 

 90 cents. There was the old tempter again. I took 

 the money and walked out of the store. But the 

 next day I carried it back to him. A few years aft- 

 er that I was in Richmond, Va., and wanted to go 

 to a place on the James River. The fare was 81.40. 

 I gave the agent a S2.00 note. He handed me back 

 83.60. The tempter had left me then. I did not 

 touch the notes, but took up the 60 cents and said, 

 " That was a two-dollar bill I gave you." He ap- 

 peared very much embarrassed, but said, "I am 

 very much obliged to you." I know what it is to 

 be a Christian, and I would not give it for all of the 

 riches in the world. I know you are a busy man, 

 and I don't know that you will read this; but I felt 

 as if I must tell you about it. 



R. Z. SCLATER. 



" MARCHING ON." 



LOOKING FOR A CHANCE TO GET "A CRACK AT THE 



SALOONS." 



I have been a subscriber to Gleanings for two or 

 three years, and I am a friend of the bee, but look- 

 ing all of the time for a chance to get a " crack " at 

 the saloon. That God may bless you in your fight 

 against intemperance and all other evils is my 

 wish. 



Cranbury, N. J., Oct. 9. Oliver Croshaw. 



I want to confess to taking, without your permis- 

 sion, from your excellent magazine a part of an ar- 

 ticle which appeared some time ago in regard to 

 the amount of spirits consumed in the United 

 States, and including it in an article I wrote for the 

 Baptist Record, of Pella, Iowa. However, I gave 

 you credit for what I took. Now tell me what's to 

 pay. 



One thing more. 1 notice in Gleanings, Oct. 15, 

 you refer to John Brown as a martyr. Now, I want 

 to say that I had two brothers with John Brown at 

 Harper's Ferry. One was sacrificed to the Moloch 

 slavery in Virginia, and the other afterward in 

 Missouri. It does me good for this reason, and be- 

 cause he has been so misrepresented by historians, 

 to hear John Brown spoken of as a martyr. 



Again, I have read with much pleasure and profit 

 your lay sermons, and hope to read more of them. 

 I have been preaching the glorious old gospel my- 

 self for almost half a century; and the older I get, 

 the more precious it seems. I am especially pleas- 

 ed with your warfare against the saloon. It seems 

 to me the time has come when every lover of right- 

 eousness should speak out against this evil of all 

 evils. 



Shall tongues be mute when deeds are wrought 

 Which well might shame extremest hell? 



Shall freemen lock the indignant thought? 

 Shall pity's bosom cease to swell? 



Shall honor bleed? shall truth succumb? 

 Shall pen and press and soil be dumb? 



No! by each spot of haunted ground 

 Where freedom weeps, her children faU, 



By Plymouth Rock, by Bunker's mound. 

 By all above, around, below. 

 Be ours the indignant answer — no! 



Chambers. Neb., Sept. 29. J. C. Coppoc. 



