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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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the country. I have found many really beauti- 

 ful closets, even in country homes — many that 

 were carpeted, and had tasty and wholesome 

 pictures on the walls; and in some ihere were 

 sciipture t< xts. Surely cleanliness is next to 

 godliness; and when we begin to discover that 

 cleanliness in the way I have men ioued has a 

 direct bearing on this matttr of health in 

 warding off pestilences, is it not one of the 

 bright and encouraging things of the present 

 age that we are surely, though perhaps slowly, 

 getting over this fashion of being heathenish 

 and savage when it comes to looking after 

 these matters that must be attended to every 

 day of our lives ? 



In some of my writings heretofore I have 

 alluded to the fact that we have occa-ionally, 

 or once in a great while, been annoyed by ob- 

 scene and i'npure scribbbng in closets. At 

 the present time I believe this is pretty much 

 done away with. In th.s case it is likely the 

 offender thought we had no means of telling 

 who did it. Poor deluded soul ! I presume 

 it never occurred to him that the man or boy 

 who will do a thing of this kind has it written 

 almost on his forehead ; because we know the 

 boys who would never do a thing of this kind; 

 and it is almost equally true that we know just 

 what boy might be guilty of such work. The 

 all-seeing eye of the great Father above knows 

 all about it ; and, besides this, good men and 

 women of mature age can almost always judge 

 pretty quickly who it is, when such work turns 

 up 



Since the above was in type I notice by the 

 papers that the city of Des Moines, la., has 

 passed an ordinance making it a $10 fine to 

 spit on the sidewalks ; and our stenographer 

 adds that the city of Marion, O., has also such 

 an ordinance, and he thinks they were among 

 the first to inaugurate this reform. If the dif- 

 ferent cities both north and south, and east 

 and west, should get into a strife as to who 

 should excel in clean pavements, how re- 

 freshing it would be ! 



MAGNETIC HEALING, VITAL SCIENCE, ETC. 

 Well, we are getting at the secret of Elec- 

 tropoise, Oxydonor, etc. We all have to con- 

 fess it is a great mystery how such senseless 

 traps could perform the cures and bring forth 

 the astounding testimonials that they do ; 

 and ministers, editors, and some doctors, I 

 am sorry to say, declare the thing did cure 

 just because of those testimonials. But just 

 now it begins to transpire that there are still 

 more astonishing cures performed without 

 any apparatus or any medicine ; and the doc- 

 tor does not have to see the patient at all, and 

 in some cases he does not even have to know 

 what the matter is. You pay him your five 

 dollars, without saying a word, and he cures 

 you without saying a word or even writing a 

 letter. Several have inquired about the great 



Prof. Weltmer, of Nevada, Mo. By the way, 

 Missouri s-eems to be specially prolific in this 

 kind of healing. Prof. Weltmer not only 

 heals every disease, but he takes pupils and 

 teaches them the art, and he never fails to 

 teach anybody to do it right, and the pupil 

 never fails to cure any disease whatever. Am 

 I getting it too strong? Well, here is what I 

 copy from the Weltmer circular : 



The results of learning this profession will be that 

 you can heal every known disease : can heal diseases 

 that can not be healed by medicine or any other 

 method, and you can earn from $10 to $~>0 per day. . . 

 . . . Every student can perform the cures, and when 

 you can do this you will get the business. 



You see, I thought of taking taking a course 

 of lessons, so I wrote to the professor, asking 

 him some questions. He sent me a nice long 

 letter, " dictated by Prof. Kelly." He thought 

 I would not know the letter was a printed 

 one, but I did. He winds up the letter by 

 saying : 



Our terms are cash in advance ; no other proposi- 

 tion will be considered a moment. 



Now, if there is anybody among our readers 

 who still insists that there is either sense or 

 science in the above, let him ask the family 

 doctor, the minister, the schoolteacher, or 

 anybody who is at all posted, what such 

 claims mean ; and notwithstanding these 

 absurd statements, there are people who still 

 insist that men are being cured by the whole- 

 sale by such professors. By the way, this 

 Prof. Weltmer sends out quite a magszine. 

 This magazine has pictures all through of 

 high-toned patients he has cured, and of his 

 beautiful large buildings that might grace a 

 State university. If these pictures are photos 

 of his real buildings he certainly has got a lot 

 of money from somewhere to start his medical 

 schools. I do not find any such institution 

 quoted by either Dun or Bradstreet. Here is 

 another : 



Dear Bro. Root: — Is Dr. Carson, who treats diseases 

 by what he calls "vital science," a humbug or not? 

 He keeps the temple of health, Carson City, Mo. I 

 say 'brother" Root, because I believe you to love 

 your neighbor as yourself. Subscriber. 



You see I am obliged to answer the above 

 in print because our friend did not give his 

 name. Well, in the first place I can not find 

 any such place in Missouri as Carson City, so 

 I could not hunt up any thing about this Car- 

 son. I think very likely that he, with his 

 " temple of health," is another Weltmer. By 

 the way, I forerot to mention that it costs only 

 $5.00 a month to learn hpw to "doctor," so 

 j'ou can cure any disease that ever afflicted 

 anybody on the face of the earth. 



One moral we may gather from all the 

 above is this : There must be a lot of people 

 in the world who think they are sick. I be- 

 lieve they are honest in thinking so, other- 

 wise they would not hand over five or ten 

 dollars as readily ns they do. Yes, they think 

 they are sick. Then these professors get five 

 or ten dollars for simply telling them there is 

 not any thing the matter with them at all. 

 It is only a notion they have got in their heads; 

 and these people furnish the money for the 

 Electropoise men and the health institutes to 

 build up these great establishments, and to 

 permit the " Prof." to revel in luxury and ease. 



