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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



Dear brother, I hope 30U are right, and 

 that appendicitis can be prevented. But 

 let me give you a little of our experience. 

 Our boy Huber, now almost 21, while at- 

 tending school was subject to strange at- 

 tacks that sometimes laid him up for sev- 

 eral days. He consulted physicians of dif- 

 ferent schools, and the final decision all 

 around seemed to be it was appendicitis, 

 and that he would have to submit to an op- 

 eration. The attacks were becoming more 

 frequent and more severe until he had one 

 that made us despair of his life. Our fam- 

 ily physician said if Huber recovered from 

 that, just as soon as he was well and strong 

 he should go to Cleveland and have an op- 

 eration performed — that another attack, in 

 fact, might cost him his life. Before doing 

 this we consulted the best physicians in the 

 great city of Cleveland. There seemed to 

 be a general agreement. The operation 

 was successful; and then came before me 

 an important point: If all these doctors 

 were right, the peculiar symptoms of his 

 trouble would be entirely at an end. Al- 

 most two years have passed, and he has 

 never felt the least symptom of any thing of 

 the kind. I think I have read in the papers 

 that about 90 per cent of the operations for 

 appendicitis, when taken in lime, are suc- 

 cessful. Oi course, there are many, and 

 some physicians among them, who have 

 some other remedy, and who say hard things 

 about the doctors who advise an operation. 

 So there are people and even physicians 

 who object to vaccination. I am greatly in- 

 terested in what you say about "sugges- 

 tion," and I am satisfied a great field for 

 alleviating human suffering is just now 

 opening up, right along in this liae; but I 

 am not prepared to go as far as you do in 

 your closing sentence about mind operating 

 directly on matter. I know this statement 

 has been in the papers and in some books; 

 but I am ready to give $100 for the man who 

 can move a plumbline as you describe, by 

 the mere effort of his will. I should want 

 to put up the apparatus, however, and have 

 the experiment performed on my own prem- 

 ises. Influencing one's digestive apparatus 

 by the power of his will is a different thing 

 from causing an inanimate object to move 

 by that same will. Perhaps we are getting 

 a little off from the line of our text; but 

 notwithstanding all that has been said in 

 the above, I for one am convinced that God 

 often shows his wondrous love by sending 

 us some aches and pains that seem very 

 hard to bear. A good parent reproves, cor- 

 rects, and even makes his child suffer pain, 

 of some sort, because he loves him so much, 

 and not because he does not love him enough. 



Temperance. 



"uncle SAM SAYS IT IS ALL RIGHT." 



Somebody has sent us a clipping of an 

 advertisement from a home paper called the 

 Home (.^) Queen. Here it is: 



UNCLE SAM SAYS IT IS ALL RIGHT. 



Uncle Sam, in the person of ten of his government 

 officials, is always in charge of every department of 

 our distillery. During the entire process of distilla- 

 tion, after the whisky is stored in barrels in our ware- 

 houses during the seven years it remains there, from 

 the very grain we buy to the whisky you get, Uncle 

 Sam is constantly on the watch. We dare not take a 

 gallon o) our own whisky from our own warehouse 

 unless he says it s all right. And when he does say so, 

 that whisky goes direct to you, with all its original 

 strength, richness and flavor, carrying a United States 

 Registered Distiller's Guarantee of Puiitv and Age, 

 and saving the dealers' enormous profits. That's why 

 our whisky is the best for medicinal purposes. That's 

 why it is preferred for other uses. That's why we 

 have over half a million satisfied customers. That's 

 why you should try it. Your money back if you're not 

 satisfied. 



Now, I am not politician enough to say 

 whether the above is all exactly true or not; 

 but if it is true. Uncle Samuel is for once 

 in his life not with the majority of his peo- 

 ple; and, God helping us, he will sooner or 

 later be straightened up. The Governor of 

 Ohio is in the toils already for having 

 favored the liquor interests rather than the 

 voice and thundering protests of the people 

 of this State. He has frankly admitted that 

 he does not think it right and fair that the 

 majority of voters should rule. If Uncle 

 Samuel is in the same boat we want him to 

 get out of it quick. 



A CLOTH- COVERED LEAN-TO GREENHOUSE. 



The little greenhouse I wrote about in our 

 last issue became so crowded with plants 

 the latter part of April I was obliged to 

 build an annex for some of the hardy plants 

 that would be alinost sure to die if put di- 

 rectly outdoors. The annex is very much 

 like the lean-to already described, but made 

 of cheap materials, and covered with cloth 

 instead of glass. In fact, the whole top is 

 cloth stretched on a wooden frame. This 

 frame is hinged up close to the walls of the 

 building, so that it can be raised up verti- 

 cally and hooked against the wall, leaving 

 the plants exposed to both sun and rain 

 whenever the weather will permit or as 

 deemed advisable. Now, such a structure 

 as this is a splendid arrangement to harden 

 off a great variety of plants before putting 

 them directly in the open air. First, it 

 makes quite a protection when there are 

 cold nights. The cloth cover I found suffi- 

 cient to keep off a C( nsiderable frost; then 

 whenever the sun is too hot for plants just 

 put out, or just received from a distance, 

 the cloth makes a splendid shade. You can 

 drop it in a minute when too hot, and raise 

 it up as soon as the sun comes out again. 

 One thing more: Even during the summer 

 months we often have storms of wind and 

 rain that do a lot of damage to both foliage 

 and flowers of many beautiful plants. I 

 have seen a coleus-bed that cost a lot of 



