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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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digestion. Soon after, I ate some more lettuce 

 and vinegar, and took a dish of baked beans, 

 and forgot all about it. When the whistle 

 blew at five o'clock I was over in the green- 

 house, and was greatly astonished, for I had 

 not even thought of supper time — no head- 

 ache, no faintness ; in fact, I did not care par- 

 ticularly about a>iy supper. Mrs. Root sug- 

 gested it only happoied so; so I tried baked 

 beans and cider vinegar next day, eating no 

 meat, mind you, and nothing with the beans 

 but a little dry bread. I am more rejoiced 

 than you can think, to tell you that there has 

 been no failure. After a few days, with im- 

 proved health I found my chills disappearing; 

 and I got along very well without my over- 

 coat, even when the weather was down to 20 

 or 25 — no more sitting over the radiators or 

 putting my feet in the oven. 



I have avoided the use of vinegar for years, 

 thinking it produced indigestion ; but now I 

 find that, taken with beans at least, it aids di- 

 gestion. The weather is not yet suitable for 

 riding a wheel ; but when I take my next 

 wheelrides I am going to carry along a lunch 

 of baked beans and good cider vinegar. I 

 recognize, dear friends, that what is one man's 

 meat is another man's poison, but I have giv- 

 en this because I feel assured others may be 

 greatly benefited by the suggestions I have 

 thrown out. May the Lord be praised that I 

 am daily gaining in strength without any ani- 

 mal food, for at least one meal during the day. 

 The diet mentioned does not answer so well 

 for the last meal of the day. It is a diet that 

 needs exercise after it ; therefore I am having 

 beefsteak for my last meal, with a piece of 

 dry bread. 



In connection with this matter a valuable 

 suggestion from one of our womenfolks in re- 

 gard to preparing beans for food will be found 

 interesting. We have tried it, and I, at least, 

 am very much pleased with the plan. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — Having had Gleanings in our 

 family for years, and thereby learned that you believe 

 in wholesome living, I have thought that you might 

 be interested in a method I have originated of cook- 

 ing dry beans which removes the skins and germs. 

 No one seeing the tough skins which have been re- 

 moved would want to eat beans again with the skins 

 left on. By this method old beans cook as easily as 

 fresh ones. 



Pour one quart of beans into two quarts of boiling 

 water on the stove ; add two level tablespoonfuls of 

 baking soda. Stir thoju so that all will heat alike, 

 for about ten minutes, or until the skins are loosened 

 enough to slip off easily when pressed between thumb 

 and finger. Drain the soda water out through a col- 

 ander, and put the beans into a dish-pan containing 

 cold water. Rub them between the hands nntil the 

 skins are removed from the beans. Then stir them 

 up, and the skins, rising to the top, can be poured off 

 before thej' settle. Add more water, and stir and pour 

 off the skins several times till all are removed fro:n 

 the pan. The germs will settle to the bottom, and re- 

 main after the beans are dipped out. Then pvit the 

 beans into XVo quarts of water; salt to taste, and cook 

 about an hour. Jf desired, meat can be cooked with 

 them, though we omit the meat, and usually sift them 

 through a colander when done. Add cream, and bake 

 in oven, though this is not neces.sary. 



Farina, ill., Mar. 21. Mrs.'T. P. Andrews. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I have been quite interested in 

 your talk on tobacco. I want to tell you that it is 21 

 years to-day since I quit using the vile weed. I used 

 to smoke y^ lb. every 24 hours. I will never backslide. 



Dryden, Oregon, Mar. 22. John McKeon. 



ROBBING SICK PEOPLE. 



OXYGENOR KING, OXYDONOR, ELECTROPOISE, ETC. 



Mr. A. I. Root : — As former editor and proprietor of 

 the Northzvest Horticultjirist, I have frequently read 

 and admired your Gleanings for its terse homely 

 truthfulness, and am surprised to see any criticism 

 emanate from you regarding Oxygenor or Oxydonor. 

 I am an agent of the Oxygenor because I have seen 

 with my own eyes cures effected by the instrument, 

 and it seemed to me to be indeed a Godsend to the af- 

 flicted. In my own family, cures of neuralgic and 

 catarrhal affections and iufiammatory attacks have 

 been made. I am now about well of an attack of lum- 

 bago, which was treated solely by this instrument. 

 That it cures di-seases there is no doubt. I shall never 

 forget the first instrument I sold, an Oxydonor, to an 

 aged gentleman of this city, for use by his son on the 

 verge of death, given up by the phj'sicians — in fact, a 

 son who had for many years been dissipated and dis- 

 solute. The Christian father was anxious to keep the 

 son alive until he could be induced to confess Chri.st. 

 The doctors gave him 24 hours to live. The Oxydonor 

 kept him alive 4 months, during which time he con- 

 fessed Christ, and his aged father and mother, pleased 

 beyond expression, died shortly after. The father, a 

 personal friend of mine, said that the instrument had 

 iaeen beyond value to them in having thus prolonged 

 the life of his son. 



Here is another case of a party, as shown in the in- 

 closed circular, who paid nearly 15000 in treatment for 

 .stomach troubles, without a cure, and was cured in 

 three months' treatment by a SI5 Oxygenor. Which 

 was the fraud in this case— the Oxygenor or the physi- 

 cians and druggists who had failed to do for nearly 

 85000 what the Oxygenor accomplished at a cost .f S15? 

 I doubt whether you have made a thorough investiga- 

 tion, or a practical one, to arrive at the decision you 

 ^eem to hold. Have you reft-rred to the U. S. Health 

 Reports as per citation, and found the quotation not 

 there? W. H. Boothroyd. 



Tacoma, Wash., Mar. 26. 



Our friend, in his concluding sentence, re- 

 fers to government indorsement, and I copy 

 the following from the circular he incloses : 



STRONG GOVERNMENT INDORSEMENT. 



The Oxygenor is strongly indorsed by the United 

 States Secret Service Bureau, on page 8. No. 8, Vol. 

 XXIV. of United States Health Reports. With other 

 statements are the following : " In this treatment will 

 be found the only pos-itive cure for all chronic diseases 

 of men and women, such as nervous debility, female 

 weakness, nervous prostration, loss of memory, weak 

 back, insomnia, rheumatism, malaria, piles, lung, liv- 

 er, stomach, bladder, and kidney troubles." "The 

 Oxygenor is so simple, .so perfect, and ,so complete, as 

 to be a means of self-cure in the hands of every intel- 

 ligent oerson." "This investigation was made with- 

 out the knowledge of the Oxygenor Co." 



I am exceedingly glad to get that govern- 

 ment indorsement, and it has already been 

 forwarded to Washington with the plea to 

 have this thing dealt with as the postal au- 

 thorities have dealt with Francis Truth. 



Let me briefly answer Mr. Boothroyd, and 

 everybody else who feels inclined to defend 

 this senseless trap. No doubt our friend is 

 honest — at least I hope he is — in telling what 

 he has seen with his own eyes. I am glad to 

 know that people got well ; but judging from 

 former experience I fear I shall fail in making 

 him believe the senseless rigging had nothing 

 to do with the recovery. The same remarks 

 that I made in our issue for March 15, p. 230, 

 about water-witching, will apply to this. It is 

 not along in the line of scientific investigation 

 at all, and would not stand honest scrutiny a 

 single instant. There is no "oxygen" and 

 no sense or science about it anywhere. In re- 

 gard to the testimonials and wonderful cures, 

 Francis Truth had the biggest testimonials of 

 anybody. The greater part of them were 



