1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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good-sized doctor book, and one that comes 

 from good authority. 



ABSENT-TREATMENT HEALING, ETC. 



It does rae good to see you still after the humbugs 

 and swindles ; and I often think it is a burning shame 

 that influential and apparently respectable and honest 

 papers will, instead of crj'ing down these scoundrels, 

 sell them advertising space ; and I sometimes really 

 wonder if a large part of the hard-working people 

 are going crazy. And now I want to tell you of a case 

 in this county. Magnetic healer No. 1 ( I will call him) 

 went to Nevada, Mo., a few months or weeks, and 

 "learned the trade,'' and, for a consideration of some 

 kind, taught it to healer No. 2. Both are making 

 some wonderful cures, according to reports. No. 2 had 

 an accident and hurt his arm. He supposed he had 

 sprained it, and went about with it for several days. 

 One day he complained to a gentleman who is a doc- 

 tor by profession, but has not practiced for many 

 years. Healer No. 2 said he could take away the 

 swelling by his own ireatmoit, but it would return. 

 The doctor took hold of his arm, and discovered at 

 once that one bon^ of the forearm was broken. He 

 said he could easily feel the broken parts grating 

 together. How would you like to take the "absent 

 treatment" from a man who does not know it when 

 his arm is broken ? S. E. Miller. 



Bluffton, Mo., April 11. 



We have a healer and a school here. The mag- 

 netic healer, IMr. Yates, says Weltmer, of Nevada, 

 Missouri, takes in as high as f'220'0 a day. They 

 have about 60 typewriters. They say about one in ten 

 healers who graduate practices. They work through 

 the will and imagination, and wonderful cures take 

 place. It is the life principle which cures, and not 

 medicine, so say scientific men. This explains why 

 quack doctors, Electropoi.se, magnetic, little potatoes 

 in the pocket. Christian scieipce, electric belts, mes- 

 merism, and all such, have equal success, and all the 

 patent medicines, and many doctors. One drug clerk 

 told me they had for years sold goose grease, skunk 

 oil, etc , out of the same jar. It works just as well 



Shenandoah, Iowa. O. H. Hyatt. 



Why, old friend, you started off quite scien- 

 tifically, and I was reading your letter with a 

 long sober face until I got down to the con- 

 cluding sentence ; but where you drop so sud- 

 denly from the sublime to the ridiculous we 

 had a biJ laugh over it all around. Now, in 

 justice to our reader.'; permit me to add a 

 postscript to the above letter that contains a 

 great truth, and a great truth that covers this 

 whole business : 



The world has been hypnotized by the Devil since 

 the time of Eve, and only Jesus himself can break 



that spell. 



A NEW PORTABLE ELECTRIC LAMP. 



I have from time to time, as you may know, 

 described important improvements as they 

 came into the market for a portable electric 

 lamp. Just now we have something ahead of 

 any thing that has heretofore appeared, espe- 

 cially where you have electric lighting in your 

 home or place of business. Of course, the 

 lamp can be used where there is no electric 

 plant ; but, in this case it must be run entire- 

 ly by cheap batteries. As a storage battery it 

 weighs less than any thing heretofore put on 

 the market. In fact, the little lamp I am 

 using to visit the greenhouse after dark, to 

 look at the barometer, to go into the barn or 

 warehouse where I do not wish to take an oil- 

 lamp, etc., weighs only 1 lb. all complete. 

 This is not a dry battery ; and, in fact, the 

 great objection to the dry batteries is, they 

 must be used within a certain period or they 



are no good, as some of the friends have al- 

 ready discovered ; and when you want to re- 

 plenish your dry battery, you have got to get 

 a new one; and where they are sent by mail or 

 express, the transportation costs more than the 

 battery itself. Well, this new electric light 

 is run by a battery costing at first 35 cents.* 

 This will run a little lamp nicely for about ten 

 hours, either as a flash light or as a continuous 

 light ; and you may take a month or two to 

 use up the whole ten hours if you choose ; but 

 after the battery is run out, or, in fact, before 

 it is quite run down, it can be cheaply re- 

 newed. We have given these lamps to our 

 night watchmen, and to men in charge of the 

 warehouse, where they have to look into dark 

 corners in handling goods, and anywhere else 

 where an oil-lamp or lantern might otherwise 

 be used. These lamps will not set any thing 

 on fire, and therefore enable you to dispense 

 entirely with matches and oil for lights. 



When Benjamin Franklin flew his kite, and 

 charged a leyden jar, the world said he had 

 bottled up the lightning ; but Franklin did 

 did not live to see lightning bottled in such a 

 way as to use it a little at a time for lighting 

 up dark corners. This latter achievement 

 seems now to belong principally to the United 

 States Storage Battery Co , 253 Broadway, New 

 York, to whom you can write for prices and 

 full particulars in regard to storage batteries 

 and portable lamps. They promise to send 

 me an improved bicycle-lamp in a few days, 

 charged in the manner specified. When they 

 do I will tell you about it. 



There is also another similar apparatus, 

 made by the Vesta Accumulator Co., 53 Dear- 

 born St., Chicago, but it weighs quite a little 

 more ; and this latter battery, when charged 

 with liquid, is really a regular storage battery, 

 and will give a light continuously for two 

 years or perhaps more. It can be stored by 

 attaching it to the socket where any electric 

 bulb is attached ; and it receives a charge in 

 10 or 12 hours to give a very good light for 12 

 to 15 hours. Either firm will furnish j'ou full 

 particulars in regard to these new portable 

 electricwlights. When I wish to go out after 

 dark on my wheel in a hurry I just pick up 

 the electric lamp we use at our bedside nights, 

 for a flash-light to tell what time it is. This 

 lamp is so light I can just hang it on the 

 handle-bar, or even carry it in my hand. The 

 latter method is rather preferred, because I 

 can easily direct the light on any spot I wish 

 in passing or in turning it toward a vehicle 

 coming my way. I very much prefer such a 

 lamp, all complete in itself, to one where the 

 battery is one thing and the lamp another 

 thing, the two being connected by wires. 

 In this age of hurry we want something we 

 can pick up and turn on the light by touch- 



* These cheap batteries are packed in a box, the 

 liquid being securely put up in a bottle; and in this 

 shape they can be kept months or years without any 

 deterioration until you wart to use them. When re- 

 quired, the liquid is poured into the battery. Then it 

 is ready to be put into the lamp to give light as above. 

 These batteries can be shipped at small expense by 

 freight, and kept till required for use. It makes the 

 whole apparatus more practical than any thing we 

 have had heretofore. 



