1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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wish to go so often, for only 20 cents ! The 

 steamer makes daily trips so as to connect 

 "with the railway trains. 



Perhaps 1 should explain that Carp Lake, 

 on which the little steamer runs, is about 20 

 miles long. At its extreme northern point it 

 empties into Lake Michigan ; and this is 

 where Leland, the county seat of Leelanaw 

 Co., is located. Now, there are so many 

 springs all around the banks of Carp Lake 

 that there is quite a waterfall pouring over 

 into Lake Michigan ; and years ago they found 

 by damming up the outlet they could get a 

 fall of 12 feet. The landlord at the hotel told 

 me there was a water power there equal to 800 

 horse power, wasting its strength year in and 

 year out. For many years there was a saw- 

 mill there, but now it is gone or going to ruin. 

 At another time there was a blast furnace util- 

 izing this same water power ; but just now 

 the whole thing seem to Ye waiting for some- 

 body to convert all this energy into electric 

 power to be used for running railways, and 

 lighting Leland and the adjoining towns. 



A correspondent sends us a letter and a lot 

 of circulars from the Non-medicine Cure Co., 

 Cleveland, Ohio. The heading reads, "Dis- 

 eases cured without medicine and without 

 cost ; ' ' and then follow some wonderful claims 

 in regard to their institution. Here is a sam- 

 ple : 



WE GUARANTEE A fTRE IN EVERY CASE. 



We have never yet made a failure with the^^e treatments, 

 not one of which but what have stood over 1000 tests, and 

 some have stood over lOO.OJO te^ts. We have only 29 cures so 

 far on our list but we are constantly adding more slowly. 

 But we never have, and we never f-li ill add one until we are 

 absolutely positive that it is infallible. Ninej'ears ago we 

 had eonquPied but one disease. We are proud of our prog- 

 ress, and believe that we are Jiistilied in being- so. 



Among the 29 diseases they cure we find 

 catarrh, grip, colds, malaria, sleeplessness, 

 neuralgia, etc. Under each one we read, 

 " Cure guaranteed in every case. Price -Sl.OO 

 for each disease." I sent at once a dollar for 

 the cure of colds ; then I added that if they 

 wanted to send the other ones mentioned 

 above I would remit the dollar just as soon as 

 I received benefit from any or all of the in- 

 structions for curing the whole six diseases 

 mentioned. I have never been troubled with 

 sleeplessness ; but Mrs. Root is, so I called 

 for that on her account. Now, we can not 

 take space to print all of these remedies, even 

 though each one is on a little slip of paper. 

 Instead of getting a good-sized book, on the 

 cure of the grip for my dollar, I simply got 

 the following : 



NON MEDKINE CURE ; NO. 5. LA GRIITE. 



Grip seizes upon the weak and upon the strong who have 

 become temporarily weakened bv some dissipation. Very 

 late hours will invite a cold -, the omission of a single meal, 

 or the abuse of the stomach by eating improper food and 

 thereby destroying the normal ai)petite, is neavly always fol- 

 lowed by a cold. There are numberless temporary causes for 

 a told, but above all causes is the lack of vitality. The hu- 

 man body when in vigorous health is i)roof against any con- 

 tagious disease. Eat regularly of any proper food, take plen 



Treatment.— When once attacked with grip, recourse should 

 be had to red pepper. This destroys the germ life. A dose 

 consists of a small quantity of pure red pei>per- H(|urtl in siz" 

 to a jiea, Moated ui)iin a l.-iige spoonful of milk, lollowed by 

 a drink of milk or water ; take this abo\it the middle of 

 the meal, two or thiee times a day- Mass^igc of the head, 

 neck, and chest should follow. The iKitient should take a hot- 

 water bath, rinse in lukewai-ni watci-. wi|i.- di v, anil go to bed. 

 Sleep in the afternoon, and laily .-it rii,L;lit. Red pepper, sleep, 

 and the restoration of vitality, aie the es.-eiitials ol a cure 



No doubt they are correct in saying that the 

 cause of a cold i,-* a /ack of vitaliiy ; and I 

 think they are also right in saying that to cure 

 a cold you must restore vitality. I do not 

 know but this would apply to almost any dis- 

 ease. The main point is, how can we get back 

 this lost vitality ? Sleep is good, I am sure. 

 About the red pepper that masquerades so 

 prominently in all their circulars, I can not 

 feel so sure. 



Their cure for catarrh consists principally 

 in drawing a large amount of air into the lungs, 

 and letting it out in different ways, through 

 one nostril and then the other, etc. When a 

 cold begins to loosen up, I know by experience 

 this is an excellent thing ; but it would be 

 very hard to convince me that such external 

 manipulation is going to cure catarrh. I once 

 heard a great doctor say that many of the 

 remedies in common use amounted to just 

 about as much as it would to keep pouring 

 water on a hot stovepipe to make it cool while 

 you pay no attention whatever to the roaring 

 fire kept constantly burning in the stove. Of 

 course, we can cool the pipe by pouring on 

 water enough ; but as soon as you stop the 

 water the pipe gets hot again in a twinkling. 

 Well, these wonderful remedies, so far as I 

 have tested them, where they do any good at 

 all, it seems to me, are about on this plan. 



The first remedy, that for sleeplessness, is : 

 " Partake of the juice of from one to five doz- 

 en oranges per day." 



To get clear of malaria we read, "Never 

 use wines or liquors, and especially American 

 beer. Avoid glucose syrups and glucose can- 

 dy." I do not know but the above remedy 

 might be worth a dollar to some people. 



The cure for neuralgia is in taking a great 

 big breath, filling the lungs to their utmost 

 capacity, and then holding it there for a while 

 when walking or taking other exercise. Most 

 of the suggestions are very good. If one 

 were to take the juice of five dozen oranges 

 every day he had better go to Florida and 

 start an orange grove. Growing the fruit 

 would doubtless help him to sleep nights. 

 Now, granting these remedies are good, and I 

 think some of them are of some value in the 

 way of keeping well, one must have a better 

 foundation than this for restoring lost vitality; 

 and I think the foundation of good health 

 should come about something in this way : If 

 your digestion is impaired by eating too much 

 fruit or other stuff between meals, stop it. If 

 it is impaired by a lack of exercise, get to 

 work at something outdoors or take a vaca- 

 tion. If you are getting toward chronic in- 

 digestion, stop eating fruits and every thing 

 sweet. If this does not help you, stop for the 

 time being vegetable food tif eveiy sort, and, 

 in short, try the lean-meat diet that has been 

 talked about so much in our p.iges. Get your 

 digestive apparatus to working nicely, and fur- 



