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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 26, 



these poisonous gastric juices flow into 

 the stomach, and irritate the delicate 

 nervous membrane thereof. But A. I. 

 Eoot caters to these poisoned gastric 

 Juices, and gives lean beef for them to 

 gnaw on, instead of the delicate mem- 

 brane of the stomach, instead of regu- 

 lating the gastric juices, as should be 

 done, and can be done, positively, every 

 time, by simply manipulating the above- 

 mentioned nerves with the hand. I 

 never have failed in a single instance. 

 Any one can learn to do the same in 

 short order. Therefore I know that I 

 must be right. Certain kinds of drugs 

 corrode, as it were, the entire nervous 

 system. The result is what is called 

 " nervous prostration," which is cured 

 mechanically so quickly that many call 

 it a miracle. 



Mr. Editor, I dislike to hear of any of 

 our bee-keeping friends being sick, when 

 it is so simple to learn how to avoid sick- 

 ness of all kinds. In olden times, one of 

 the rulers of Israel was sick. His name 

 was Asahel. The Good Book says Asa- 

 hel was sick, and he sought not unto 

 God, but unto the physicians, and (poor) 

 Asahel slept with his fathers. How do 

 you suppose Mother Eve raised Cain 

 without a corner drug store or a drug 

 physician? 



Now I have certainly cured many 

 cases that could not eat honey, so they 

 could eat it like any other white person. 

 Why should honey hurt me when no 

 other kind of food does? Simply be- 

 cause honey needs no digestion ! On 

 taking honey into the stomach the poi- 

 sonous gastric juices find nothing to do, 

 and consequently gnaw, file, or rasp, as 

 it were, on the delicate mucous mem- 

 brane. The honey does not hurt. 



The drug or disease-producing doctor 

 has apparently sought out the invention 

 of how to get the most of your money 

 and keep you sick as long as he can, 

 while the health-producing doctor has 

 sought out the invention of how to cure 

 you in the least possible time, with the 

 least expenditure of your money. Fur- 

 thermore, he has sought out the inven- 

 tion of bow to avoid the sickness entire- 

 ly. What are you going to do about it ? 



Orange Co., Calif. Dr. E. Gallup. 



Poor Season for Honey. 



This has been a poor season for honey 

 in this locality— not quite one-half of an 

 average crop. It was too cool and rainy 

 till late in the spring, and too dry in the 

 summer. 



Three cheers for the American Bee 

 JoiTial. T. H. Waale. 



Sara, Wash., Nov. 9. 



Death of Ernest H. Tuttle. 



It is with a sad and aching heart that 

 I inform you of the death of my beloved 

 son, Ernest H. Tuttle, a subscriber to, 

 and great admirer of, the Bee Journal. 



He passed away on Oct. 1, after an 

 illness of two weeks, of pneumonia, com- 

 plicated with fever and quinsy ; aged 21 

 years, 10 months. Although a young 

 bee-keeper, as it has been but little more 

 than two years since he first began his 

 work and care of bees, yet he was very 

 successful ; being very observant and 

 enthusiastic, and having a deep love for 

 the work. He dearly loved his bees. 

 His greatest enjoyment was working 

 with them and watching their habits. 



He found several wild swarms the 

 past summer, and one of the last things 



The papers are full 

 of deaths from 



Heart 

 F'ailure 



Of course 



the heart fails to act 



■when a man dies, 

 but " Heart Failure," so called, nine 

 times out of ten is caused by Uric 

 Acid in the blood wliich the Kidneys 

 fail to remove, and -which corrodes 

 the heart until it becomes unable to 

 perform its functions. 



Health Officers in many cities very 

 properly refuse to accept " Heart Fail- 

 ure," as a cause of death. It is fre- 

 quently a sign of ignorance in the 

 physician, or may be given to cover 

 up the real cause. 



A Medicine with 20 Years of 

 . • Success behind it . . 



will remove the poisonous Uric Acid 

 by putting the Kidneys in a healthy 

 condition so that they ■will naturally 

 eliminate it. 



iMentityii the .American Bee Jov/t'oc.', 



40,000. 



THENebraska Farmer 



Has made a contract wiUi 

 tlie N liraska Club, to print, 

 tor them 40.000 copies over 

 and aljove the regular week- 

 ly issue, eacb montfa for six 

 months, ot reliable inlorma- 

 tlon about Nebraslca. 



If Interest d. send for free 

 copy, to 



Mr. Chas. E. Williamson, 

 Secretary Nebraska Club, 



O.MAHA, Nebr., or 



Nebraska Farmer Co. 



liincoln, Nebr. 



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44A13 Mention the American Bee Jimmal. 



AllilKl I OR SALE Su?pVusCo'S)^!'knE'v°- 

 tractor, etc. S acres of land, laouse. shop, etc. 

 10 min. walk from P. O. Will sell land and 

 bees separately. J. HI. DOIIONA. 

 47 A2 Ale.xandria. Minn. 



Mentityn the A.in\e,rican Bee Journal 



Bee-Keepers' Pliotog-raplt.— We 



have now on hand a limited number of ex- 

 cellent photographs of prominent bee-keep- 

 ers — a number of pictures on one card. The 

 likeness of 49 of them are shown on one of 

 the photographs, and 131 on the other. We 

 will send them, postpaid, for .30 cents each, 

 mailing from the 121 kind first; then after 

 they are all gone, we will send the 49 kind. 

 So those who order first will get the most 

 " faces'- for their money. Send orders to 

 the Bee Journal office. 



he worried about in his sickness was a 

 colony that he had been feeding. "Are 

 they letting my poor bees starve ?" was 

 his plaintive questioning. Had he lived, 

 he would have made a grand bee-keeper, 

 for he was so energetic and ambitious, 

 with an exellent capacity for business. 



He looked eagerly for the weekly 

 visits of the American Bee Journal, and 

 read and re-read each number. Indeed, 

 since he began taking it he cared but lit- 

 tle for other papers, although reading 

 everything he could find on the subject 

 of bees. 



Ernest was a noble young man, brave, 

 manly and sincere, with an affectionate 

 disposition, and a nature pure and true 

 — the basis of a high and unsullied man- 

 hood. This is the third time in the past 

 year that this terribly afllicted family 

 has been bereaved of a beloved member. 

 One year ago Oct. 9, the youngest and 

 idolized brother of Ernest, after three 

 weeks of awful suffering, passed away ; 

 and only three months later the loved 

 and honored father followed the dear 

 son to the silent tomb; and now our 

 dearly loved Ernest has suddenly been 

 cut off in the first bloom of his fair 

 young manhood, leaving but one son for 

 the solace of the sorely bereft mother 

 and sisters. 



Thou'rt pone : and those who loved thee here 



Are left so lone and sad; 

 The hearth is dark where once thy smile 



Had made it blight and glad. 



Mks. Sophia J. Tuttle. 

 Blue Earth Co., Minn. Nov. 6. 



[The Bee Journal desires to exten'd to 

 the sorrowing ones, sincerest sympathy 

 in their bereavement. — Editob.] 



The Poison of Tobacco. 



Tobacco is a drug. Its principal con- 

 stituent is nicotine, which, excepting 

 prussic acid, is the most deadly poison 

 known to chemistry. It is so called from 

 John Nicot, who introduced the herb to 

 Queen Catherine of France in 1560. 

 Nicotine poisons the stomach, affects 

 digestion, produces dyspepsia, and ren- 

 ders the whole system liable to disease. 

 The system tries to throw off the poison, 

 but soon it permeates blood, bone and 

 muscle. — Anti-Tobacco Journal (Eng- 

 land). 



Wax-Extractors. 



O. O. Poppleton makes the following 

 reply to R. L. Taylor in Review: 



"In speaking of rendering wax, he 

 says : 'At best, the solar wax-extractor 

 is cumbersome, can be used only about 

 two months in the year, and is of no 

 practical utility in rendering combs con- 

 taining cocoons.' I challenge all three 

 of those statements. A properly made 

 solar extractor is easier to handle and 

 less cumbersome than is a large boiler to 

 be lifted on and off the stove, filled with 

 water, etc. It can be used at least three, 

 if not four, months in the year, instead 

 of only two, and I have always met with 

 excellent success in rendering the oldest 

 and toughest of combs. Perhaps Mr. 

 Taylor's experience with solar extractors 

 has been limited. I cannot conceive any 

 other reason why he should think as he 

 does. 



" One spring, in Iowa, I rendered out 

 over 500 old combs in better shape and 

 more satisfactorily than if I had used the 

 method he describes. These combs had 



