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GLEANINGS lis BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 



truths bluntly and coarsely expressed ; yes, 

 those who had started heavenward and were 

 almost ready to take the proffered hand of 

 Christ Jesus, and follow him, have stumbled 

 and been set back by some, perhaps a pro- 

 fessor of religion, who foolishly and indis- 

 creetly told the truth. May God help us to 

 use sanctified common sense in keeping 

 this commandment. 



And now, friends, we approach the last of 

 the ten commandments ; and at first 

 thought one miglit say the command in re- 

 gard to covetousness could not be carried to 

 an extreme ; yet as we look at dissatisfied 

 humanity about us, who has not wished 

 that a certain friend were a little more 

 selJisM We occasionally see a boy or girl 

 who lets every thing slip through the fin- 

 gers. Tl\ey lend their money to everybody 

 who talks fair, and seem to have no sort of 

 an idea of taking proper care of " Xo. 1." 

 Again, we see people who are so listless and 

 inactive that they have to be cared for. A 

 healthy desire in their hearts to possess such 

 things as their neighbors have would be the 

 making of them. You see that almost 

 every one of the sins these commandments 

 strike at, may have an element of good in it 

 if sanctified by Christ's love, and held in 

 control by clear reason and common sense. 

 What would a human being be good for who 

 had no temptations whatever? He would 

 soon find a lodging-place in the infirmary. 

 And 1 have sometimes been tempted to 

 think that he who sees only one evil — one 

 sin or one crime in this world, and puts all 

 his energies in this one direction, to the dis- 

 regard of all other sins, is almost as useless 

 as he who has no temptation. May God 

 help us all to so live that it may never be 

 said of us, ve have been through these busy 

 lives ''straining out gnats and swallow- 

 ing CAMELS!'' 



CONDUCTED BT ERNEST R. ROOT. 



IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CLARK SMOKER. 



§OME time ago, you will remember, we 

 stated that we expected to make some 

 changes in the Clark smoker. Just 

 what these changes should be, was not 

 then definitely settled. That the smo- 

 ker needed some alterations, was plainly 

 evident. The principal defects were, the 

 clogging of the blast-tube and of the valve 

 —the latter wheezing when in this condi- 

 tion. To overcome this difficulty, one or two 

 (among whom was our friend Dr. Miller) 

 recommended making the blast-tube re- 

 movable, so that, when it became clogged, 

 it could be taken out, cleaned, and returned. 

 It was also suggested, that the valve be like- 

 wise made removable, so that the sooty ac- 

 cumulations could be the more readily 

 cleaned fiom the surfaces wiiich come in 

 contact. For a while we thought this was 

 the most feasible means of obviating the 

 difficulties. The more we experimented, 

 however, the more we became convinced 

 that the smokers so constructed could not be 



made at the price we are now selling them ; 

 and, furthermore, they would be ricket- 

 ty at best. To make a smoker with the 

 blast-tube removable would require cast- 

 ings, screws, buttons, and what not. We 

 finally came to the conclusion that the 

 blast-tube (the tube inside of the fire-box) 

 as we have made it for several years back 

 was too small, and that if enlarged would 

 not fill up so soon and would likewise clean 

 easier. Judging from the few trials we 

 were able to make late last fall and early 

 this spring, the large blast-tube is a great 

 improvement. Sucn a smoker was sent to 

 Dr. Miller, and in a letter he expressed him- 

 self as believing that enlarging the tube 

 was better than making the same remova- 

 ble. After we had made the change, we 

 remembered that the inventor of the Clark 

 long ago recommended that the size of the 

 tube be increased ; but for some reason or 

 other the matter was dropped for the time. 

 In order that the reader may more clearly 

 see what enlargement we have made, we 

 have had the following engraving made. 



THE NEW CLARK hJIOKER, WITH THE EN- 

 LARGED BLAST-TUBE AND LOOSE 

 VALVE. 



At the top of the picture you will notice 

 three circles. Circle l,the innermost, rep- 

 resents the end ot the blast-tube we former- 

 ly used. Circle 2 represents the size of the 

 muzzle end of the one now in use. Circle 

 3 shows the size of the breech end of Fig. 2. 



You will see that, although this large 

 blast-tube may fill up with sooty accumula- 

 tions in time, it will take much longer to do 

 it than with the small tube. It is impossi- 

 ble to tell just how much longer, because we 

 have not had an opportunity to test it fairly. 

 Those who purchased the old Clark smokers 

 will remember that, when they were new, 

 nothing Itetter could be expected. After 

 they had been in use for a month or so, the 

 little tube did not work so nicely. On the 

 contrary, the large tube will take some time 

 to get filled up, even to the size of the old 

 blast-tube : and, consetjuently, will not re- 

 (|uire so fre(iuent raking out to work freely. 



Besides the alteration in the blast-tube, 

 we have made a change in the size of the 

 perforations in the grate. We found that, 

 in using fine fuel, such as sawdust, small 

 pieces of rotten wocH, etc., burnt embers 



