1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



361 



hundred dollars, but I do want Dr. Wilford Hall 

 to stop his iiighway robbery; and I hereby give 

 him warning, that, unlf^ss he does it at once, I 

 will lay the whole matter before the Postmaster- 

 General, or other proper authorities. How 

 much Christian spirit do we find in the little 

 extract I have given above? Well, there is 

 considerably more than a page of abusive slang, 

 very much like it. The Water-cure Manual 

 contains one whole chapter on this matter of 

 internal water cure, and much of it is so exceed- 

 ingly valuable that we shall probably give it in 

 our next issue. The press of our country is now 

 quite generally active in (exposing Hall. Sever- 

 al papers have copied our little tract entire; 

 and we call upon the jcjurnals of our land to 

 help put down this extortion and fraud. 



Of course, Dr. Hall is not the only one engag- 

 ed in this same swindle. Great quantities of 

 circulars have been sent out by one Lemke, 

 Menominee, Mich. I wrote him at once, asking 

 him if it were the same thing as Dr. Hall's se- 

 cret. After waiting som(> time for a reply, and 

 receiving none, I sent him .$3.00 (his price), but 

 I did not sign his promise or agreement; there- 

 fore I can give you tlie whole of it, without 

 leaving grounds for any one to say that I have 

 broken any pledge. We make extracts of all 

 we consider of any moment, as follows: 

 lemke's medicineless prescription for the 



CURE AND prevention OF DISEASE. 



Tlie larg'e intestine i.s about five feet ui length, 

 and it may be filled in an adult so as to present a 

 circumt'ereiice of twelve inches. 



The colon is tiiat part of the larg-e intestine which 

 extends from the ctecum to the rectum, and which 

 is divided into three parts, distinfjuislicil as tlie as- 

 cending-, the transverse, and the descending. Here 

 is where the excrementltious matter discharged 

 into it by the small intestine acquires the ffecal 

 smell, wliich increases the longer it is retained in 

 the colon. 



It may as well be admitted first as last as being- 

 true, that almost all ailments which afflict liumani- 

 ty come from impurities or disease germs, mi- 

 crobes, or parasites, whicli are carried in during 

 respiration and secure a lodgment and enter into 

 the vital circulation, only if they find a diseased 

 spot favorable to their propagation, or from the im- 

 purities that enter into the vital circulation from 

 ■what we eat and drink. These impurities may come 

 directly from unwholesome food we eat, or indirect- 

 ly from the absorption into the the circulation of 

 disease-bearing germs, which arise fi-om the stench 

 of the fetid matter which a person carries in the 

 colon. The quantity so carried about, whethei- there 

 be a i-egular daily movement of the bowels or not, 

 is estimated at from one quart to two gallons. Who 

 would, foi- a moment, carry about or sleep with 

 such an enormous mass of putridity and disease- 

 bearing stench if a way could be suggested by 

 whicli it could be got rid of without making the 

 t)rgans do it bj' drugs or laxatives? 



Who would not gladlj' embrace the opportunity of 

 adopting an agreeable, harndess, benefiting treat- 

 ment by which tins awful disease-producing, dan- 

 gerous, foul, dis-.igreeableness is diiectly removed, 

 while, at the same time, all soreness, stiffness, fe- 

 vers, and inflammations are driven out of the system'/ 

 This I propose to do, and am successfully doing 

 right along, by injecting into the i-ectum hot clear 

 water, enough to fill and distend the colon, or flush 

 it, the same as you would flush a sewer that is clog- 

 ged up. 



PRESCRIPTION. 



Buy a rubber fountain syringe at a drugstore (or 

 for il. 50 we can send you one) that will hold two 

 quarts or more. Screw a hook into the ceiling above 

 the foot of your bed; pour into the bag of this 

 syringe two to four quarts of clear water, so hot 

 that you can just bear to hold j^our hand in it with- 

 out being scalded (never use cold or tepid water). 

 Insert the rubber stem of the syringe into the rec- 

 tum; hold the water there for 1.^ nnnutes, if possi- 

 ble, and roll aljout on your lied, when you will be 

 ready to discharge tins enema, together with the 

 entire contents of the colon. 



Those suffering with Bright's disease or other 

 kidney troubles, or inflamniatorj' rheumatism, piles, 



inflammation of the bowels, or other organs, should 

 inject a second dose of half the quantity of first 

 dose of hot water into the rectum, and hold it there 

 against all efforts to break away, and go to sleep 

 with it. After a few hours you M'ill l)e ready to ex- 

 pel it through the kidneys and bladder. 

 doses. 



Children, 1 to .5 years of age, 1 pint; fi-om 4 to 15 

 years of age, 1 to 2 quarts; over 16 years of age, 2 to 

 i quarts. 



Persons aiUng should take this treatment once a 

 day before retiring to sleep; those in good health 

 should use it every second or third evening. 



SNAKES IN CHINA, 



THE I.AKV.K OF HEES AND WASPS A 

 DELICACY. 



Friend Root: — When one is oft' on a tour, and 

 sits down to eat all alone. Gleanings is a good 

 thing to read between bites, and make one feel 

 as if he had good company. But to-day I hap- 

 pened to open a number in which Prof. Cook 

 gets enthusiastic over snakes, which are not so 

 aiipctizing as bees and honey. I, too, can tell a 

 siuikc stoi-y. 



Last summer I was strolling in a wild glen, 

 seldom visited by man, along a path made by 

 wild pigs, when a loud hissing startled me, and 

 there on my rigiit, about four feet away, was a 

 large snake slowly coiling itself. Being empty- 

 handed I sprang forward; and, a tough little 

 vine catctiing my foot. I half tumbled, half 

 pitched, about five feet down a steep bank into 

 a tangle of viny bushes, from which I crawled 

 out with a sprained knee that has made me a 

 cripple for six months. The only good way out 

 of the glen was past where the snake lay. He 

 was coiled up where I first saw him, not in a 

 pile, but round and round, flat on the ground, 

 his triangular head resting on the central coil. 

 He was very nearly the color of the ground, and 

 in the shadow of the overhanging thicket, with 

 his body flattened down close to the ground, I 

 could but just clearly make out his outlines 

 from ten feet away, though he was as big 

 around as my wrist, and fully four feet long. I 

 saw that he was too far away from the path to 

 reach it at one spring, and began to move for- 

 ward slowly, when, without an instant's warn- 

 ing, his head was 18 inches up in the air, and 

 coming at me with jaws gaping almost six 

 inches wide. He struck out only about two 

 feet; but the suddenness of it made me spring 

 back, and, tripping again, I tumbled over on my 

 back. Then I got up; and, going down the glen 

 a little way, I climbed up to the path and limp- 

 ed home. I think that snake would make a 

 valuable addition to Prof. Cook's collection, and 

 I am sure I wish he had him. 



It seems strange, that, in so densely populated 

 a country as this, wild beasts should still be com- 

 mon; but so it is. Where I am to-day it is mar- 

 ket day, and I iiave seen three antelopes and 

 one armadillo carried past, and have myself 

 just dined on a golden pheasant. In this re- 

 gion, when the rice is in the milk, the farmers 

 have to guard it night and day from the rav- 

 ages of the wild pigs. A few Sabbaths ago I 

 was holding meetings in a village near Shaowu 

 and was told that, early in the morning, a ti- 

 ger had eaten a sow. She had been turned out 

 at daybreak, and, not coming back to her little 

 pigs, the men went to look for her, but found 

 only the remnants of a tiger's feast. Later in 

 the day I saw the tiger's tracks, and measui-ed 

 them with a tape-measure. They were a strong 

 five and a half inches broad. Such a beast 

 would eat up a pig just as a cat would a rat. 



Once as I was approaching a village I saw a 

 number of men coming from off the hills, armed 



