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THE AM Kill CAN BEE KEEPER. 



January 



Old Settlers' Yarns. 



They were two old picueers of nppei 

 Michigan eutertaiuiug the gullible re- 

 sorters. 



"When I first came to this region," 

 said the veteran who owns a log cabin, 

 a flatboat and a turnip patch, "we had 

 a good deal of trouble with bears. 

 They'd com.e sniffia round the shanty 

 at night, and you could go out any 

 moruin and lay in a stock of bear beef. 

 'Bout the best luck I ever had was one 

 fall when I was pokin about just beyaut 

 the clearin. I was shovin a bullet home 

 with an iron ramrod when I see a she 

 bear and three cubs comiu toward me. 

 They see me at the same time, and all 

 went up in a row on their hind legs. Uf 

 course I was naturally excited and 

 banged away. When the smoke cleared 

 there was them four bears strung on 

 that ramrod, and there wasn't a good 

 kick left in none of 'em." 



The other entertainer looked troubled 

 for a few seconds, but soon rallied and 

 looked as honest as an owl. 



"Hank," he began, "you mus' reca- 

 leck that red cow of mine. There was 

 the beatiuest critter I ever see. She 

 could ketch more fish than airy a man 

 in the settlement. She wasn't no ex- 

 pense 'cause she could steal a livin the 

 year round. She could pick a lock with 

 her horns, and ole Jim Clayter swears he 

 see her climb a tree after a black bear 

 once. I wont make no afiSdavy to that, 

 but I know she used to bring in bear 

 reg'ler. She could do more with them 

 horns of hern than any man could with 

 a rifle. Wa n't she a corker, Hank?" 



"I hain't spinnin this here yarn, 

 Lige, " declared the other pioneer, who 

 was plainly jealous, "but the only cow 

 you ever owned since you come up here 

 wasamooley." 



Though ihey are both old they are as 

 tough as pine knots, and it took five 

 minutes to part them. The friendship 

 of years is broken and each declares the 

 other the prince of liars. — Detroit Free 



Altitude and Phthisis. 



I have spent considerable time in 

 traveling in the Catskills, Adirondacks 

 and the Rt)cky mountains, investigating 

 with some care these localities, with 

 their varying altitudes above sea level 

 and their influence upon the lungs, and. 



.:_i:c pcriiii] s a ijigii aLcl ar^ aiii. ..^^,. 

 er air may be Ic ueLciul iu soniediieates 

 and for its iLfn ( nci' i pun the geneiul 

 health, I do not believe that it has tLe 

 slightest etect upon the growth an pro- 

 liferation ot the tubercle bacillus itself. 

 In this opiinon I am heartily confirmed 

 by the judgDjtnt of ruauy able and care- 

 ful practiticLcrs with whom I have 

 most earuchtly ccnver.-xd, and I repeat 

 that altitiiuL has no influence whatever 

 in destroying the tubercle bacillus. 



A considerable experience with this 

 disease has led me to believe that no 

 place is better for its treatment than 

 New York city. Patients have come to 

 me from every state in the Union, from 

 Canada, from the Sandwich Islands and 

 from Europe, and it appears to be the 

 general belief among them all that the 

 climate of New York city, with its 

 clear air and bright sunshine, is quite 

 as favorable under all circumstances as 

 is that of UiCst other localities. I have 

 under my care at this time patients 

 from several towns in Colorado, from 

 New Mexico and California, and all are 

 doing better iu this city than in their 

 own localities. — Dr. Hubbard Winslow 

 Mitchell in New York Medical Eecord. 



Leprosy. 



Leprosy is an exclusively human dis- 

 ease. It is not inoculable to animals. It 

 is never of spontaneous origin, but is in- 

 variably derived from the lesions or se- 

 cretions of a person similarly diseased. 

 Its development in a country previously 

 exempt from the disease may always be 

 traced to its importation in the person 

 of a leper from an infected center. We 

 know nothing definitely of the mode of 

 infection or the channels of entrance 

 through which the bacillus gains access 

 to the organism — whether by direct con- 

 tact, by inhalation or imbibition of the 

 germs or by other intermediaries. Ob- 

 servation proves conclusively that every 

 leper is a possible source of danger to 

 all with whom he may come into inti- 

 mate and prolonged contact. — Dr. Prince 

 A. Morrow in North American Review. 



Experts have come to the conclusiou 

 that what kills trees in London is not 

 the soot flakes nor the want of air nor 

 the drouglit, but the sewer gas, which 

 attacks the roots, so that the tree soon 

 withers and dies. 



