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just l)e(;uii Id clusl.er, iintl every one (if llie 

 beuB woiil<l (,'0 ""to It. I Imve held it up 

 whore the liees were thick iitul reiidy ti) clus- 

 ter (nil a liuib), luid tiilien in tlie Ihim. W'licii 

 I ^;o to tiilve liown ii elustei" I shal<e tliciii 

 j;eiitl.v until llie most of tluMu are ulT the 

 limb on arul in tiu^ Im)\. llien I hold the ho\ 

 out iind cleiir from the pliiee of elusiiTinv', 

 and with u pole and liooU slmke the liudi to 

 keep the liees from setllinif. In ft few min- 

 utes the i)ees ui'e all in the box, then I ean 

 carry them anywhere or set them down, if 

 another swarm eomes out befiire this iiue is 

 hived. 1 have had ttU my eiitehers full more 

 than once. I have found l)ees and carried 

 them '4 of a mile on my shoulder, all sunt? in 

 this catcher. It is the best catchier I have 

 ever tried, the bees take to it kirully, and are 

 easily enrried to where you want them. A 

 slight jar on the handle, or pole, and the liees 

 are on t.lie platform ready for the hive. 

 I'iattCo., III. J. W. C. Okay. 



Foul Brood- Bacteria and Their Rela- 

 tion to Diseases. 



We speak of bacteria as causing diseases, 

 then, again, as preventing diseases, and some- 

 times as curing diseases. These opposite and 

 apparently irreconcilable properties in objects 

 that can only be seen in a microscope, have 

 caused the bacteria to be looked upon as 

 mythical bodies by many intelligent persons 

 wlno have not made them a special study. In 

 explanation of the ways in which bacteria 

 act, I propose adopting a method frequently 

 >jsed by lawyers in court, (. f., of stating a 

 case, and I present the case of the boy learn- 

 ing to smoke. If a boy takes five or si.K 

 whiffs of smoke froni' a tobacco-pipe, he will 

 in three or four minutes turn pale and have 

 to lie down. He will be a very sick boy for 

 half an hour, when he will begin to recover, 

 and in an hour he will be nearly well again. 

 The nicotine poison in the tobacco acts 

 quickly, and only for a short time. If the 

 boy had taken one whiff the first day, two the 

 second, and three the third, he could have 

 gone on for a month, and, without being sick, 

 have made himself an educated smoker — likely 

 enough proud of his accomplishment. Men 

 and women have educated themselves to take 

 with impunity a dose of opium or morphine 

 sufficient to kill a dozen persons, and men 

 have been known to take, without any imme- 

 diate ill effects, a quantity of arsenic sutti- 

 cient to kill a score of men. They com- 

 menced by taking small quantities. 



We will now suppose that there are bacteria 

 which secrete nicotine poison as their weapon 

 in the battle of life. The poisons secreted by 

 the bacteria are very similar to the poisons 

 formed in the leaves and flowers of plants, 

 and the bark of trees, to protect them from 

 their enemies, so that the nicotine bacteria 

 are not impossible bacteria— they may exist. 

 If the smoking boy, and another boy not edu- 

 cated to smoke, should be infected with these 

 bacteria at the same time, no effects would be 

 noticeable for several days, the period of incu- 

 batioQ— say ten days — when the bacteria 

 would begin producing nicotine. The smok- 

 ing boy would not be affected by it, while the 

 other boy would be killed veryquickly — prob- 

 ably in an hour. Now. if we had taken this 

 boy before he died, taken him on the day he 

 was infected, or the day after, and had given 

 him a whiff of tobacco-smoke, the next day 

 two, and so on, until the bacteria commenced 

 secreting nicotine, he might have been sick 

 from the larger dose, but he would have re- 

 covered to find himself as accomplished a 

 smoker as the other boy, the bacteria having 

 completed his education. 



We would have saved the boy precisely in 

 the same way as a person bitten by a rabid 

 dog is saved in the Pasteur Institution, and 

 the smoking hoy's protection from the nico- 

 tine bacteria showshow immunity from small- 

 pox, by vaccination, may be produced at will. 



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Revised by Uadant— 1900 Edition. 



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"What Happened to Ted" 



BY ISAEELLE HOKTON. 



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