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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



chard. But I was sick, and could not attend 

 to it. The hired men came to me when they 

 were not more than half done, saying they 

 were out of chemicals. I told them they had 

 been making the solution too strong. They 

 said they found it out after they had gone a 

 little way, and made it weaker. Now, on the 

 first trees they sprayed they killed pretty 

 nearly all the foliage. I supposed the apples 

 were done up, and perhaps the trees also; but 

 it was a bad year for apples, and about all the 

 crop I had was on those trees they had spray- 

 ed so unmercifully. More leaves came out in 

 place of those that had been killed, and more 

 blossoms came. The fruit was later, but it 

 was free from scab and worms " 



At both the Akron and the Randolph fairs 

 there were more Carman No. 3 potatoes on 

 exhibition than any other kind. Quite a few 

 potatoes were wrongly named. There were 

 potatoes at both fairs labeled "Early Ohio," 

 but I am sure not a potato at either place was 

 a genuine Early Ohio. 



Well, by one o'clock I had seen all the fair 

 I cared to, and had a little visit with my rela- 

 tives, and I was re?dy to go home. But my 

 wheel was six miles out in the country. My 

 friends almost insisted on taking me that far 

 with a horse and buggy; but to do this, some- 

 body had got to leave the fair just at a time 

 when the racing and bicycle-riding were going 

 on. I told them that, rather than make them 

 that trouble, I would start a little earlier and 

 go those six miles on foot. My friend, how 

 long would it take you to walk six miles ? I 

 thought I could do it easily in an hour and a 

 half ; but it took just two full hours, and it 

 was awful hard work at that. As I did not 

 want to be seen on the fairground in my shirt- 

 sleeves I carried my light coat ; but before I 

 had made the six miles I felt as if I would 

 have given 25 cents gladly to have somebody 

 carry it for me. It took me two hours to go 

 on foot a distance I could easily have made in 

 30 minutes with my wheel. When I once got 

 my hands on it I thanked God with unusual 

 fervor that he permitted me to live during the 

 age of wheels. Now, something queer hap- 

 pened right here. I had been many times 

 curious to know whether one could ride a 

 wheel with vigor after he has been tired out 

 by going on foot. I was just about used up 

 walking those six miles that warm day ; but 

 when I got hold of the wheel I sat on its easy 

 comfortable seat and rested. The set of mus- 

 cles that help you walk are used scarcely at 

 all in propelling a wheel ; or. in other words, 

 the muscles needed to push that wheel up hill 

 and down over those sandy roads did not seem 

 to be tired at all by my exhausting walk. 



Because of the longer time it took me to 

 walk the six miles, I found I could not make 

 my train at Akron, and so I stayed over night 

 with the friends I have mentioned in the 

 Home Papers, and enjoyed the pleasure of 

 listening to the young minister of whom 

 Mahlon thinks so much. 



Just about as soon as I could see, Monday 

 morning, I was on my wheel again ; but I did 

 not have any coats or fur cap to bother me. 

 I bundled them all up aud told my friends 



to express them to Medina the first time they 

 went to Akron. Oh what fun it was riding 

 those 25 miles during that beautiful October 

 morning, almost before people were up and 

 stirring ! All along the road — that is, early in 

 the morning — I met people with overcoats, 

 gloves, and fur caps, and even then shivering 

 in the damp and almost frosty air; but I in 

 my shirtsleeves, and with my vest unbut- 

 toned, was warm, happy, and well. I had a 

 light lunch at starting, and then I had my 

 breakfast at about half way. I have learn- 

 ed by experience that it is not best to 

 undertake to ride too far before breakfast. 

 When you are just tired enough to think 

 of resting a little, and have a real good 

 chance, then get your breakfast. After a 

 good meal and a little rest you can ride a good 

 many miles before noon, if need be. But 

 please bear in mind, if you wish to enjoy 

 wheel-riding you must put your requirements 

 into a very light package or else send them 

 forward by express, to reach you about the 

 time you will have need of them ; and do not 

 forget, dear brother or sister, through this 

 journey of life, to put aside in like manner 

 the sin which doth so easily beset us, as we 

 have it in that beautiful passage I have quoted. 

 Then shall we run and not be weary ; and we 

 shall walk and not faint. Yea, we have the 

 promise in the Scriptures that we shall mount 

 up with wings as eagles ; for they that wait 

 upon the Lord do renew their strength. 



ROBBING DEAF AND LAME PEOPLE ; A SEQUEL 

 TO ROBBING SICK PEOPLE. 



One of our readers in Mississippi sends me a 

 lot of circulars from one W. J. Tindall, of 

 Cohoes, N. Y. The writer of the letter to me 

 is deaf ; and Tindall claims, after long years 

 of study and experiment, to have invented an 

 apparatus to cure deafness of every description. 

 He calls it an electricon. I clip the following : 



The electricon applies a mild currant of pure gal- 

 vanic electricity directly to the diseased or weakened 

 parts of the ear and its connections, and to the nerves 

 of hearing, re-establishing perfect circulation, and 

 giving full tone, strength, and life to each affected 

 part. 



I do not know whether the kind of " cur- 

 rants " he is writing about is the kind that 

 grows on bushes or not, but he spells it that 

 way. And, by the way, these medical frauds 

 are almost sure to betray their ignorance by 

 their bad grammar and bad spelling. Tindall 

 tells a long and pitiful story of how he first 

 went to the family doctor with his deafness, 

 then from one city specialist to another, all 

 making him worse instead of better; and then 

 he says a great scientific man (who does not 

 doctor or do any thing else for money') told 

 him that medicines and instruments could 

 never cure deafness ; it would have to be done 

 by means of a galvanic currant (c-u-r-r-a-n-t, 



