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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



February 



witnering rcouKo oi me lawyers, was a 

 -terrible retributioD lor poor John. 



But more was yet in store. Redman 

 saw, by the evidence at court, that he had 

 been cheated out of 100 feet of ditch actu- 

 ally dug, so he commenced suit against 

 John. Again camo the sheriff, again he 

 went to court, and again he received the 

 cold cuts of the attorneys and the sneer of 

 the people, with the verdict of guilty and 

 the order of full pay to Redman and the 

 costs of court. 



And yet more was in store for him. The 

 long rod pole was still kept for another 

 use, the worst of all, for now the church, 

 of which John had been to all outward 

 appearances an exemplary member, took 

 the case in hand and expelled him from 

 their communion and fellowship. 



Thus did the biter get bit. Thus swiftly 

 did the retributive justice of God overtake 

 the poor cheat who secretly tried to rob a 

 poor honest man of the fruit of his toil. 

 The wretched John never heard the last of 

 the long rod pole. It was the standing 

 joke for a generation, and, although nearly 

 all the actors have long since settled their 

 accounts with that Being who measures 

 all things justly, the lesson still remains 

 and should teach us that in all our deal- 

 ings with our brother man God will only 

 prosper us when we deal honestly and 

 justly. When tempted to do otherwise, 

 let U3 remember the story of John, who 

 made his rod pole too long. — Exchange. 



THE MAGNETIC GIRL. 



Living on Milk. 



There is a "whole" milk treatment a« 

 well as a skimmilk cure, and an advocate 

 of the former says that a patient requires 

 from five to six quarts daily while con 

 fined to bed and from one to four quart- 

 more when working. To digest all this.- 

 free action of the skin, lungs and other or 

 gans must be secured by daily warm baths 

 and an unlimitud supply of fresh air night 

 and day. Under this treatment the heart 

 quickens, the alimentary canal enlarges, 

 and its glands increase in size and num- 

 ber, and the arteries enlarge and furnish 

 to all parts of the body an increased sup- 

 ply of blood. A patient with a supposed 

 mortal disease was cured under this treat- 

 ment between July 15 and Oct. 38, and 

 during tJKittime increased in weight from 

 106 pounds to 129 pounds 14 ounces. — San 

 Francisco Examiner. 



An Explanation of Hovr Her Tricks May 

 Easily Be Duplicated. 



While in Chicago I saw the announce- 

 inent of an electric girl who included 

 in her repertory ai new trick, or at least 

 one that I had not yet seen. A stick 

 about four feet long and as thick as a 

 broomstick was produced, and I and an- 

 other gentleman were requested to hold 

 it in a vertical position before us while 

 grasping it firmly in both hands. The 

 girl, standing in front of and facing us, 

 placed the palm of her open hand against 

 the lower portion of the sticir, resting 

 it on the side nearest to us and farthest 

 from herself. After rubbing her hand 

 tip and down for a few moments in or- 

 der "to make better electric contact, " 

 as we were informed, and after enjoin- 

 ing us to hold the stick perfectly verti- 

 cal, we were told to press down on it as 

 hard as we could. 



This we did until the veins seemed 

 to stand out on our foreheads; but, ex- 

 ert ourselves as hard as we could, we, 

 two strong inen, were unable to press 

 down hard enough to make the stick 

 Blip past the open palm of her hand. 

 Had the girl grasped the stick with her 

 two hands, I am sure she could not have 

 withstood my downward pressure alone. 

 I would have borne her, stick and all, 

 to the floor. But there she stood, with 

 but one open hand bearing against the 

 side of the stick, and both us could not 

 by our united efforts force the stick past 

 that wonderful hand. Surely there 

 seemed something uncanny about this. 

 But it is very simply explained. 



The whole secret consists in insisting 

 upon the men holding the stick in a 

 vertical position. When the girl's open 

 baud is first placed against the lower 

 portion of the stick, she moves it two 

 or three times up and down, pulling 

 gradually more and more against it. As 

 this tends to pull the stick away from 

 the vertical, she insists that the men 

 keep it straight. Thus cautioned, they 

 vill exert more and more effort until, 

 vhen she feels that the pressure against 

 ierhand is sufficient, she instructs them 

 push down with all their might. 

 They do so and imagine that they are 

 jxerting a tremendous vertical thrust, 

 ivhereas their vertical effort is actually 

 ?ery slight — insufficient even to over- 



