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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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by iho Sim. ilis miisflrs liail (levcloi'i'ii iiml 

 i'oiin>1iMl oiil, and you woulil hardly know he 

 \\a< tin' ^ann- man. To-day he is slH)vcliim 

 dirt and ;n>ts the pay of a sjood sloiit man. and. 

 in faot. I siionld |)rononni'(' iiiin to be a good 

 stoiil man forahnost any kind oi liusinoss. lit' 

 may not ajirtM' with nn-. and pcriiaits ho docs 

 not iiimsi'if feci tliat severe ontdooi- work lias 

 b«MMi llie means of i)uilding iiim np: bnt I fet'i 

 pretty sn re ihal lie lias been takin^i no medi- 

 cine at all latply. I think lie found by experi- 

 ence in the lumber-yaril. .just u hat I have 

 found out by my experience on the wheel. Of 

 course. I have lui riglit to lay down rules for all 

 sorts of people, and apply tliiMii to all sorts of 

 disease: but I think that, if you look about you. 

 you can lind instances .just like tlnMuies I have 

 given. One may lie worn out and used up by a 

 certain line of work — especially work that does 

 not take him into the open air and frive full 

 swins to all liis muscles and joints. 



Now. let us not l)e in too great haste in con- 

 demning doctors and medicine. In the hand of 

 a skillful and intelligent physician, medicine 

 may serve as wise a purposr as the P. iris gi-een 

 and copper sulphate we use to banish tlu^ 

 woi'ms and scab fiom oui' apples. These rem- 

 edies, however, are th(; result of careful experi- 

 ment, with a delinile end in view-, and are not 

 at all to be compared with commencing work 

 on Friday or working in the right lime of the 

 moon. The world is just now struggliug to 

 have science and sense put down superstition 

 and nonsense: and God the Father is not only 

 willing but anxious to help us up thi-ough igno- 

 rance and superstition into the light of true 

 wisdom: and our vet ran texcher Paul was 

 riglit when he used tlie words. "Unto him that 

 is able to do exc<'eding abundantly, above all 

 thai we ask or think. "' 



Years ago some of our agricultural journals 

 decided they would no longer accept advertise- 

 nienis of any patent medicia(>s. The Americau 

 Agriculturist, under the administi'ation of 

 Orange Judd, was perhaps the litvt one to take 

 this stand. "No patent medicines of any kind 

 shall be advertised in these columns, no mailer 

 how much money may be olT(H'ed." was the way 

 they started out. Since then the Runil Neir- 

 Yorker. Pltilddclpliid F(ir)n Jourudl, The 

 Orange Judd Farmer, and perhaps a good 

 many other home journals, have taken the 

 same stand. Il is a little sad to,lhink that our 

 agricultural peiiodicals were in advance of our 

 religious and scit-ntiHc journals in this line. In 

 fact, nearly all of our religious papers seem to 

 think it fair and right to advertise almost any 

 thing, providing the advertisement is pr//(/ for. 

 I should be glad to add thai the Ainerlcati Ag- 

 riculturist r^uW holds out in that line: but only 

 a few^ months ago I noticed an electrical-belt 

 advertisement occupying the greater pari of a 

 page, displayed with great headlines; and the 

 proprietors even offered to send one for thirty 

 days on trial. A good many of you may ask- 

 how the proprii'iors of these things can be will- 

 ing to send tlnun out on trial if lliey possess no 

 virtue whatever. My dcai' friend, people base 

 their faiih in such things exactly as they stout- 

 ly maintain that Friday is an unlucky day. 

 They have tried il so many times they think 

 there can not be any mistake about il. just as 

 the farmer insists tiiat the moon affects the 

 weather and planting potatoes, etc. You doubt- 

 less lemeinbcr how many years I have iusisied 

 that none of the thousand and one rernedi. s for 

 bee-stings had any effect whatever. I am sure 

 I am right, even while I am met at every turn 

 by neighhors who stonily insist they have tried 

 this. that, and the olhci-. and they kuow il does 

 good. If I am correct, the truth li^ s right here: 

 As soon as we receive hurt or injury of any 



kind, naturi' goes to work al once to r<'medy lh<^ 

 mi^chii'f: and we sliouki icmembei- that ^^he 



iisiiallv Slice ds. Most of our aches and pains. 



as well as our beeslings. are gone in a lillle 

 while if we just let nature alone. Now. this 

 superstition and blundering come about because 

 somebody takes a remedy and feels better al- 

 most immediately, just exactly a,s would have, 

 bi'en the case had no remedy been administered. 

 Many and many a time have my good friends 

 and neighbors insisted on my taking fiuiiiine, 

 or some other sort of bitters. U'ell. if 1 did not 

 take it (and most of the time I didn'u I was 

 careful to watch and see if I did not get belter 

 soon. Sometimes the trouble would disapiiear 

 in a v(^ry short space of lime. For instance. I 

 would iiave neuialgic pains, and my friends 

 would urge quinine, but I did not lake a bit; 

 nolwiihstanding. the next morning I was per- 

 ftH'lly w<>ll. Had I taken IIk; quinine. I myself 

 would have been ready lo declare thai it was a 

 wonderful medicine. While traveling in the 

 cars in the South, a lady with whom we had 

 become acquainted insisted so stoutly that Fel- 

 lows' hypophosphil(! was just the thing to make 

 me entirely well that she almost ])ersuaded me 

 to have faith. Said sh(>, "' Mr. Root, you just 

 get a bottle, and take it: and you will wriU' me 

 a hotter of thanks in less than two weeks. Here 

 is my address. Now, be sure you do il, if it 

 makes you well, as I am sure it will.'" Shortly 

 after I got home one of our Medina doctors 

 mentioned favorably the same remedy. Then 

 auolhi'r doctor prescribed it for our eldest 

 daughter. The evidence was so strong that I 

 purchased and took several bottles according to 

 directions, and, in fact. I came very near writ- 

 ing to this good friend of mine, thanking her. 

 as she said I would do. But I made up my 

 mind lo be very sur<' that I was right before I 

 pushed ahead. I commenced taking the medi- 

 cine and studying the case, exactly as our peo- 

 ple at the experiment stations kepi track of the 

 moon and the weather. After having given 

 the matter a very full and faithful test I became 

 perfectly satisfied that the medicine had noth- 

 ing to do whatever with my bad feelings or 

 good feelings. The price is -SI."/) per bottle. 

 At the very time I was taking it I felt sure, from 

 what I know of drugs and chemistry, that the 

 whole expense of these .?1..50 bottles was less 

 than 2.5 cents. I believe patent-medicine vend- 

 ers admit this. They claim, however, that the 

 expense of advertising is so great, that, in order 

 to get a medicine fairly going, they must have 

 tln'se enormous profits. Now, if the advertising 

 were square and honest, it would not be so bad; 

 but whal kind of subterfuges do you suppose 

 they resort lo? Hei'o is an illustration, i-ight 

 from our own county paper. The heading that 

 I quote comes right along in the reading-matter. 

 The type and every thing else is exactly as 

 local news, and right in among their local news. 



WAR ECHOES. 



Exciting Experience of Commander 



One of th(! .Most Popular (r. A. R. Veterans in 

 the Country. 



A Wonderful Thiii^i-. and We Believe il to be True. 



You will notice ihe atjove seems to be a head- 

 ing put on by the editor, es|)ecially. where he 

 says, " We believe it to be true.'' The ire is 

 understood to b'- ilie editor. .Somelhing re- 

 markabh^ has ccjine within hi-^ ob-^ervaiion. and 

 lie describes the- whole iransaclion to hi'^ read- 



