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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



KLECTROPOISE, OXYDONOR, ETC., ONCE 

 MORP. 



The Electropoise is considered one of the household 

 blessings here. I put myself through a spell of ty- 

 phoid with it. I never saw a doctor nor had a dose of 

 medicine. I never lost a fine head of hair, and the five 

 or six weeks' illne.'s cost only the ptice of the ice used. 

 I coulr' > ive a dozen rases of other troubles man is 

 heir to. cured by it. We have been u.singitin our fam- 

 ily for nearly twenty years, and consider it ore of 

 God's good gifts. Sarah A. Tillinghast. 



Morganton, N. C, March 8. 



My good friend, I am exceedingly glad 

 you got through the typhoid so well, and 

 without any doctor; and may God help me 

 in my effort to convince you that the Elec- 

 tropoise had nothing whatever to do with 

 your recovery unless it was to keep you 

 quiet and give you faith that all would be 

 well. Let me repeat what I have been say- 

 ing again and again througfh Gleanings 

 for nearly ten years past: There is no elec- 

 tricity, no oxygen, no sense nor science 

 about Electropoise at all. Furthermore, 

 the wicked men who sell it know this. If 

 you will take the thing apart you will find 

 the metal shell is filled with sulphur and 

 graphite, or something of that sort. Some 

 of them contain one thing and some anoth- 

 er. But the machine will work exactly as 

 well if 3'ou empty out the contents — that is, 

 if your imagination would work just the 

 same. It is not an apparatus in any sense 

 at all. It is only an empty fraud. You 

 speak about the expense of the ice. The 

 manufacturers claim that the cold, or some- 

 thing else produced by this melting ice, 

 passes along that single wire. Your fami- 

 ly physician, schoolteacher, or anybody 

 else at all conversant with electricity and 

 science, will tell you the whole thing is 

 ridiculous. Prof. H. W. Wiley, United 

 States Chemist, pronounced it at once pure 

 charlatanism. The back numbers of 

 Gleanings will give you any amount of 

 proof of every thing I have said. Before the 

 inventors could get a patent (and it is true 

 they have a sort of patent) they were obliged 

 to admit to the experts at the Patent Office 

 that the device was simply to work on the 

 imagination of the patient. No patent 

 would be granted so long as they claimed 

 thermo electricity or any other sort, nor so 

 long as thej' claimed it took oxygen out of 

 the air and put it into the human body. In 

 order to get any patent they had to be hon- 

 est, at least toward the Patent Office, /bra 

 few tninutes. Then they kept on publish- 

 ing their fraudulent statements about elec- 

 tricity and oxygen just as before. 



Now, if the thing continues to cure j'ou 

 people after the above explanation, all right 

 — go ahead. But, my dear friend, you have 

 unconsciously given us a wonderful revela- 

 tion; and this fact is being emphasized 

 again and again if the world would only 



wake up and recognize it. It is this: Thou- 

 sands of dollars, and I might almost say 

 millions, are spent for things to cure dis- 

 ease that neither help nor hinder in any 

 way. Probably a greater part of the med- 

 icines used have nothing whatever to do 

 with the recovery, for nature makes the 

 cure and the medicine gets the credit. You 

 have given us plain proof that people can 

 get through typhoid fever, and get well, 

 without any medicine or doctor. Many of 

 the best thinkers of the present day are 

 suggesting that people might, many of them, 

 get along better without a doctor — that is, 

 the kind of doctors that are altogether too 

 common. The physician who comes into 

 your home, and looks after the water you 

 drink, the air you breathe, and tells you to 

 keep still long enough to give nature a 

 chance, is all right. May God speed phy- 

 sicians of that class; and where the patient 

 would not be satisfied unless he could have 

 some medicine, because it has so many 

 years been the fashion, perhaps a harmless 

 medicine is all right. It simply takes the 

 place of the Electropoise as in the case men- 

 tioned above. May God hasten the day 

 when people may come out of darkness into 

 the light in this matter of helping the sick. 



MY ROASTED-CHESTNUT POTATO; SOME- 

 THING ABOUT IT PROM THE ORIGINA- 

 TOR. 



I advised you not to plant them, not only because they 

 were hollow, but because most of them rotted badly 

 around the hollow. I started those and the white 

 ones and manv others from the same seed about seven 

 years ago. All were soon discarded but the red and 

 white, and now comes the strange part of it. The sec- 

 ond year fro-n the seed the red ones grew as large as 

 they do now, and I had about a bushel of them, and 

 not a hollow in them ; and such beauties to cook ! and 

 such a flavor! But you know about that. The third 

 year they were the same, and we thought we had a bo- 

 nanza The next year a little hollow appeared, and 

 grew worse and worse until I sent some to you, when 

 they were so bad I thought it would not pay to raise 

 them any more. May be you can bring them back 

 again to their first excellence. If you can, you will 

 have a prize. I can not understand why Ihev grew so 

 badly, as the others did not on the same .soil, side by 

 side. I called them "Pink Beiuties," for I never saw 

 a finer sight in the potato line than fney were when 

 first dug. stretching across the field like a pink rit>- 

 bon. If you raise them again, just take a look at them 

 in the row when first dug. Benj. Passage. 



Detroit, Mich., March 20. 



Since friend Passage mentions it, I re- 

 member that many of them were disposed 

 to rot around the hollow. It is very strange 

 indeed that they should be all right two 

 years, and then suddenly develop that hol- 

 low peculiarity. Will friend Passage tell 

 us if he tested them on different soils? We 

 now discover they have been tested only in 

 Michigan; and perhaps our Medina clay 

 soil may give us some that are not hollow. 

 " Pink Beauties " would be a very appro 

 priate name. When I first picked them out 



