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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct 15 



over the Commercial. The Carman was fully 

 equal in yield, and ever so much better in 

 shape. The Commercial is generally disposed 

 to be prongy, and the eyes are very deep, and 

 in quality it is not equal to the Carman. 



Tobacco Column. 



HONEST AND CONSCIENTIOUS, EVEN THOUGH 

 CONQUERED BY A BAD HABIT. 



Mr. Root: — You will find inclosed $1.40 for payment 

 on the smokers you sent me for my friends G. J. Pot- 

 ter and L. M. Potter as a reward for their quitting the 

 use of tobacco. I feel differently about the matter 

 now, and think that the above is your due. They 

 paid me for the smokers, and requested me to pay 

 you for the same. Floy Potter. 



Silver Creek, Mich., Sept 29. 



Dear friend P., I rejoice to know your two 

 friends are straight and square men, even if 

 they have gone back to the tobacco habit ; bui 

 I hope and pray that they may change their 

 minds, and for the sake of health, if nothing 

 more, give up the weed after all. Let me tell 

 you a little story — something that happened 

 right here on our premises, and you may tell 

 the story to your two friends. The man who 

 files our saws, Mr. Albert A. Herkner, has 

 been for many years in poor health. He con- 

 sulted different doctors. One called it stone 

 in the gall-bladder, or something like that ; 

 another, heart-disease, and I guess they did 

 not know exactly what did ail him. He kept 

 having his bad spells every little while for 

 two or three years. Finally, some time in the 

 summer, he had to give up work entirely, and 

 it was talked around among his friends that 

 he probably never would do another day's 

 work for The A. I. Root Co., or for anybody 

 else, for that matter, in this world. We all felt 

 sad about it, and a new saw-filer was install 

 ed. But he greatly needed a little instruction, 

 especially in regard to using the saw-filing 

 machine, by Mr. Herkner himself, and we ac- 

 cordingly asked Mr. H. if he could not get 

 down to the factory long enough to tell the 

 new man something about the new work. One 

 day I was greatly surprised to see him on the 

 street, looking fairly well. I stopped my bug- 

 gy, and asked him to get in and ride. Then I 

 began to ask him what doctor or what means 

 had been used that he should be so much bet- 

 ter. What do you think he said ? Why, it is 

 the old story. His last doctor was sensible 

 enough to tell him that, in his opinion, it was 

 the tobacco he used that was killing him, and 

 that he would have to make his choice and do 

 it soon — to go on with his tobacco, just as he 

 was doing, and die, or give it up and live. The 

 doctor told him he had tobacco heart, and the 

 announcement waked him up somewhat. He 

 said if tliat was the case he would stop then 

 and there, and stop entirely. He did stop, and 

 gained so rapidly that in two or three days he 

 was out on the street, and has been at work a 

 good deal of the time for ten hours a day for 

 several weeks. He says he has a terrible fight 

 with the old habit, but physically he is gain- 

 ing strength every day. He seems glad to 

 talk about it, and to tell his friends his expe- 



rience, and has given me permission to'tell it 

 here in print. 



A particular friend of mine who takes care 

 of my teeth, in speaking of Mr. Herkner's 

 case said he too had quit the use of tobacco in 

 all shapes. He said he was getting to a point 

 in life where he needed all the nerves .here 

 were to be had — that is, in order to do his dif- 

 ficult and intricate work as it ought to be done 

 — and he had satisfied himself that tobacco 

 saps the nerves of life more than any other 

 one thing. Well, there are several more right 

 around here who are getting very rapidly to 

 this very point, where it is a matter of life and 

 death. No doctor can do any thing for any 

 man when tobacco is killing that man, unless 

 he gives up its use ; and our best physicians* 

 are asking their patients, "Which will you do 

 — ire tobacco, and die, or give it up and live?" 



Barnes' 



Hand and Foot Power 



Machinery. 



This cut represents our 

 combined circular saw, 

 which is made for bee- 

 keepers' use in the con- 

 struction of their hives, 

 sections, boxes, etc. 

 Hfoo/i /nes on t rial. 

 Send for illustrated cata- 

 logue and prices. 

 W.F.&John Barnes Co., 



545 Ruby St., 

 Rockford. = - III. 

 In writing, mention Cleanings 



Pierce 'X 



i-4 and 1 H. F. For Sep- 

 arators, Churns, etc., Sta- 

 tionary to 20 H. P. Pump, 

 ing Kiigine* all sizes. 

 Send for circulars stating |j 

 uze and for what use. 

 PIERCE EfNGINE CO., 

 BOX 17. Racine. Wis 

 Tti writing, mention Gleanings. 



I ItiSrtM Combination 



union saw. 



For Ripping, Cross- 

 cuttingj Mitering, 

 Rabbeting, Groovm 

 Gaining, Boring, Scroll 

 sawing, Edge- mould" 

 Beading. Full line ] 

 and HAND POWEB mach 

 ery. Send for Catalog A 

 Seneca Palls Mfg. Co., 

 44 Water 3*. Ssneea Falls, N 7 



In writing, mention Gleanings 



HENS LAY 



—in fact they lay double the eggs winter 

 and summer when fed Green Cut Bone. 



Mann's New Bone Gutters 



cut all hard and soft bones, meat, gristle, 

 &c, fine, fast and without choking and run 

 easy. Clover cut with our Clover Cutters 

 helps wonderfully. Mann's Granite Crystal 

 Grit and Feed Trays too. Catalogue FREE. 

 P. W. MANN CO., Box 37, Milford, Mass. 



In writing, mention Gleanings 



