1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



501 



ing-press. As the world of thought progresses, 

 however, and as a multitude of new inventions and 

 discoveries springs up, the need becomes very great 

 indeed of some method of answering a great num- 

 ber of people, on many different subjects, faster 

 than we can write with a pen. For years 1 have 

 enjoyed the pleasure (and I tell you it is a pleasure) 

 of "being able to talk to any single individual, or 

 any lai-ge class of individuals, simply by dictating 

 to a stenographer, who takes all the responsibility 

 of not only taking down my words, but sending 

 them just where I dictate. Of late we have been 

 using type-writers with much satisfaction— so much 

 so that, for several months, I have been wondering 

 if it were not possible to get almost every thing 

 necessary to read, in plain clear type-writer print. 

 1 want to read all our clerks write; but it is now 

 quite a task, especially when -the clerks are so 

 crowded with business they are obliged to write 

 rapidly. And now the dawn of a new era bursts 

 upon us in the shape of a little type-writer that 

 costs only $8.00. Why, bless your heart, the little 

 chicks that go to school can have a type-writer as 

 well as a Waterbury watch; and the type-writer all 

 complete is not very much larger nor heavier than 

 the slates they have been wont to carry. With 

 these type-writers they can do all their work by 

 means of plainly printed letters; and when they 

 write to Uncle Amos he can read their letters at 

 arm's length a good deal easier and a good deal 

 faster than he reads the print on these pages. We 

 have just decided that every clerk iia our establish- 

 ment shall have one, and hereafter there will be no 

 more jangles and disputes in regard to whether a 

 letter or word was plainly written or not— that is, 

 after everybody gets a type-writer. We can not 

 give a picture of it in this issue, hut hope to in our 

 next; and I expect, when Huber commences to go 

 to school next April, that, instead of letters and fig- 

 ures made with slate and pencil, even his juvenile 

 work will be mostly done with the typewriter. Who 

 can Imagine the effect of permitting even a child to 

 write as plainly and clearly as the most skillful pen- 

 man—yes, and a great deal plainer and clearer than 

 any penman ever wrote? 



We can furnish the machine on receipt of the 

 price mentioned. The manufacturers claim to have 

 sold already 30,000 within the last six months. 

 They do not permit us to make any better terms on 

 the price of a single machine. Of course, these 

 cheap machines do not equal in speed those costing 

 toward $100; but they are much more rapid than 

 the pen, and most people will write faster with 

 them than they can write otherwise, after only a 

 few hours' practice, without the attendant fatigue 

 of pen-writing. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



PLEASED WITH THE WHEELBARROW. 



The goods were received some time ago, and I am 

 particularly pleased with the wheelbarrow. 

 Marshallville, O. C. Weckesser. 



I received the smoker and sections last night, and 

 am satisfied that I got more than you led me to ex- 

 pect by your circulars. L. J. Stage. 



Warwick, N. Y., June 8, 1888. 



Your letter and my bill of goods received last Sat- 

 urday. The goods came in fine order. I am well 

 pleased with them. I consider you very prompt in 

 business. E. W. Pettys. 



Windsor, Broome Co., N. Y. 



" FILLS A LONG-FELT WANT," 



Our friend A. F. Bright, remarking upon the new 

 department In Gleanings, says:- 



May 15th Gleanings is at hand. "Honey Statistics " is just 

 the tning, and fills a want long felt. Go oii with them. 

 Mazeppa, Minn., May 21, 1888. A. F. Bright. 



THE LAWN-MOWER A GOOD INVESTMENT. 



Tbe machine has arrived in good condition. 

 Please accept my thanks for the interest you took 

 in looking after the goods. I have mown nearly 

 h^lf our lawn already. The mower works like a 

 charm. I am well pleased with the investment. 



W. K. Weatherwax, 



Spring Mt., 0-, June 13, X888, 



THE YOUNG \MER1CA LAWN-MOWER. 



Dear- Sir:— The lawn-mower arrived on Saturday 

 eve, and we tested it thoroughly yesterday. It does 

 the work in an excellent manner. 



Butler, Pa., June 5, 1888. A. G. Williams. 



Gleanings comes to hand bright and clean, al- 

 ways on time, and makes me happy. I love the 

 Home Papers. I would rather do without all my 

 other secular journals than Gleanings. May the 

 Lord bless you ! W. H. Laws. 



Lavaca, Sebastian Co., Ark. 



Gleanings has been a great source of encourage- 

 ment to me in many ways; and your practical 

 talks can not help doing gi'eat good to all who read 

 them; and God help you in your crusade against 

 tobacco and rum, and In helping to save souls from 

 sin and sorrow. I wish there were thousands more 

 like you in this good work. Mrs. H. J. Skinner. 



Harrison, Sioux Co., Neb. 



THOSE HOME TALKS. 



If you only knew how much good you are doing 

 me by the Home talks you would rejoice. It is just 

 what I need to help me walk uprightly before God. 

 Oh, if all the young Christians could have the Home 

 talks to help them along! I wish Gleanings were 

 a weekly, for it does me so much good. May God 

 spare you, and bless you for the good you are doing. 



Angus, Neb. Daniel Miner. 



A KIND WORD FOR OUR STENOGRAPHER. 



Dear Sir;— Several things in May 15th Gleanings 

 please me very much. Your stenographer, In reply- 

 ing to Mr. Lighty, shows an admirable " art of put- 

 ting things," and has good things to put. He should 

 be heard from ol'tener. Your own reply was also 

 good. I was especially interested in your state- 

 ment of the business record of ministers. It cor- 

 responds with a fact which I learned when a com- 

 positor many years ago, that paper - dealers are 

 more willing to trust the publishers of religious 

 newspapers than others. David Strang. 



Lincoln, Tenn., May 23, 1888. 



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