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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April 15. 



not say, " Blessed are the meek, even if they 

 are exposed to great temptation, and have rea- 

 son to think that nobody is looking after them 

 nor watching them ; " but I think it was im- 

 plied. He did not say, "Blessed are they 

 which do hunger and thirst after righteous- 

 ness, no matter what inducement or bribes 

 may be offered on every hand to turn them 

 from the straight and narrow path ; " but I 

 think his talk included all this ; and I do 

 firmly believe that not only the people of this 

 country, but the whole wide world, need tneek 

 and lowlv and humble people more now than 

 they need wealth, new discoveries, or any 

 thing else. The great cry all the way from 

 the county court-house to the capitol at Wash- 

 ington is for men and women who will not be 

 " puffed up " if you give them an important 

 office where great sums of money shall be in- 

 trusted to their care. We want marshals, po- 

 licemen, judges, senators, who can not be 

 swerved one hair's breadth from what they 

 knoiv to be their duty, by all the machinery 

 and wealth belonging to the brewers and liq- 

 uor-trusts. What the whole world needs is 

 the spirit of Christ Jesus and his teachings in 

 the hearts cf all men. In that first sermon on 

 the mount, the Master seemed to think it is 

 more important that he should warn us against 

 pride, and against being puffed up by respon- 

 sibility, more than any thing else. And is it 

 not as true to day as it was in olden times? 

 Intemperance, crime, and all other sins and 

 evils, would vanish if people believed the few 

 words of these little simple beatitudes. 



WHY DOES A YOUNG BEE DANCE WHEN IT 

 GETS HOME WITH ITS FIRST LOAD 

 OF POLLEN ? 

 Dr. Miller and Ernest both gave their ex- 

 planation on p. 251, April 1, but I think they 

 miss the main point. The young bee dances 

 about for just the same reason the little child 

 dances out in the twilight. It is its way of 

 showing its thanksgiving and praise and grat- 

 itude to the great Father above for having 

 given it a place in this world of ours. The 

 dog and the cat, and all domestic ariimals, 

 have their special fashion of indicating that 

 they are happy and grateful to the great God 

 who gave them their life and being. I have 

 watched these young bees for hours (just as I 

 am watching flowers nowadays in the green- 

 house), and I am sure I am not mistaken. 

 Sometimes when they are tumbling about in 

 this sort of fashion they get in the way of 

 some of the old veterans, l he ragged-winged 

 workers do not seem to share in their enthusi- 

 asm, and probably do not see any thing to 

 make such a fuss about. But this young bee 

 has just had, may be, its first flight away out 

 in the outside world. Just think of the con- 

 trast compared to the close hive where it has 

 spent all its life. It has been out in the sun- 

 shine amid the flowers, perhaps buzzing from 

 one soft-maple blossom to another. Why, it 

 would be funny if it did 7wt feel like dancing 

 when it gets home with its load of luscious 

 food so handsomely padded on each little 

 thigh. To be sure, it is important news to in- 



dicate ; but, besides all that, I am sure it is its 

 way of praising God for the wonders that even 

 a bee can comprehend in this beautiful and 

 wonderful world of ours. 



something favoring the vegetarian 



diet, and a little concession to 

 The battle creek people. 



Some of you may remember that I said 

 some time ago I would give a thousand dollars 

 for any sort of treatment or medicine that 

 would enable me to eat fruits and vegetables 

 as other people do, or as I did when a boy. 

 Well, I have not yet reached that desideratum, 

 but I am making progress along that line. 

 Perhaps a year ago, in the Good Health maga- 

 zine publishtd at Battle Creek, Dr. Kellogg 

 advised people who could not eat fruit, to try 

 a meal of fruit only, eating nothing else what- 

 ever ; and he declared that even a dyspeptic 

 could assimilate the fruit under such circum- 

 stances. I first tried baked apples and bread 

 and butter for breakfast. I got along very 

 well, but it was not quite a success. I tried 

 again, making my entire breakfast of baked 

 apples — not even a crumb of bread. To my 

 great surprise 1 felt very well indeed all the 

 forenoon. I did not feel any more faint and 

 used up at dinner time than usual — perhaps 

 not as much. I tried the same thing with ap- 

 ple sauce, but it did not answer. Then I con- 

 sidered that the sauce was sweetened, and the 

 baked apples were not. So Mrs. Root began 

 making apple sauce especially for me, without 

 any sugar; and for several months I have been 

 rejoicing in a good dish of sauce three times a 

 day. But I find I must not eat sugar or sweets 

 of any kind if I want the apple sauce to " be- 

 have itself." 



After many tests, my firm conviction is that 

 sugar, or the excessive use of sugar, is at the 

 bottom of most of the indigestion in our land. 

 My good friend, if you are troubled with head- 

 aches or sour stomach, cut off sugar (especial- 

 ly sugar in tea and coffee) and see if you do 

 not get the benefit. 



Now I have something better yet to tell you. 

 For years past, along in the afternoon, say 

 three or four o'clock, I get exhausted, men- 

 tally and bodily, so that I am almost unfit for 

 any thing ; in fact, I have oftentimes counted 

 the minutes until our five o'clock supper time. 

 A cup of malted milk refreshes and revives 

 me, but I do not get really braced up until my 

 evening meal. I have tried having my dinner 

 of pure lean meat, and tried eating a larger 

 quantity, so that my strength might hold out ; 

 but the larger quantity of food, I found, work- 

 ed the other way. Some time in January^ 

 when we were gathering our first Grand Rap- 

 ids lettuce, I decided to try a good dish of let- 

 tuce well moistened with good cider vinegar. 

 To my surprise, it did not seem to disturb my 



