1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



83 



would not look well for either Terry or my- 

 self to be caught sick after all we have said 

 about getting well and keeping well. In 

 the same way it would look very bad for 

 one who had confessed his sin before his 

 friends in the church to go back and be 

 found guilty of the same thing once more. 



Let us remember Him who is not only 

 able to "forgive all our iniquities, "but who, 

 as well, "healeth all our diseases, and who 

 also knoweth our frame. He remembereth 

 that we are but dust." Let us also remem- 

 ber that beautiful little text that has for 

 generations been learned by heart and re- 

 peated by thousands of children, "Where- 

 fore, let him thinketh he standeth " in his 

 own strength, "take heed lest he fall;" for 

 the only strength that can carry us safely 

 through all life's battles as we'd as through 

 the failing faculties of old age, and not only 

 through life but through death, is the 

 strength that comes through Christ Jesus, 

 the Savior and Redeemer of all mankind 

 throughout the whole wide world.* 



In my talk above there is one thing I 

 omitted to touch on. We should use every 

 means to relieve the memory of unnecessa- 

 ry burdens. To illustrate: For years past I 

 have been sure to leave my umbrella some- 

 ■w here, whenever I started out with one. 

 Finally I headed off the trouble by always 

 placing my cap on my umbrella as I stood 

 it in a corner; and when I went for my cap I 

 was always reminded of the umbrella. In 

 this wav we can make sure in similar cases 

 of avoiding causing useless steps and de- 

 lays, not only for ourselves but for our 

 friends and neighbors also. With my old 

 Olds mobile there were serf n different things 

 to be done in starting, and almost as many 

 to be remembered in stopping. Well, for a 

 time it seemed that I never could remem- 

 ber all of them; and the consequence was 

 that I left the oil or gasoline (or both of 

 them) turned on when I stopped, and 

 then there was not only trouble in start- 

 ing next time but a waste of fuel, and 

 unsightly grease spots all the time, more 

 or less, on the cement floor of the auto- 

 house, making it almost impossible to 

 keep things looking tidy, even if we tried 

 never so hard. Well, I finally learned by 

 sad experience to get over forgetting these 

 trifling matters most of the time. I almost 

 forgot to mention that leaving the switch 

 turned on when I stopped might result in a 

 total loss of the expensive batteries. Xow 

 listen while I try to tell you how the great 

 inventors of the day have helped old people 

 and every one else right along in this line. 

 When you start the new machine, if you 

 start on the magneto there is no switch to 

 be turned off, for there is no electric current 

 for ignition until the machinery is run- 

 ning, and, as a consequence, when the ma- 

 chinery stops the electric current is already 



* None but CJirist Jesus can unlock the clutches of 

 Satan when he once gets a poor sinner well in his 

 terrible grip, " For there Is none other name under 

 heaven given among men, whereby we must be 

 saved."— Acts 4 :12. 



stopped. In a like manner the oil is fed to 

 the bearings by a little pump that pumps oil 

 only when " the wheels go round." When 

 the wheels stop, the oiling stops. In a like 

 manner the gasoline is fed only when gaso- 

 line is needed to run the engine. In short, 

 if you find the chickens over the fence in 

 the garden when you get home from church 

 you can hop out of your auto and chase the 

 chickens without waiting to do any thing, 

 if you choose. Of course, you swing around 

 the two little levers when you slow up; but 

 this is all done with one finger; and if you 

 are going to stop but a little while you may 

 leave the engine running very slowly and 

 very quietly, so as to avoid the laborious 

 crankmg when you want to start uj) again. 

 Speaking about tbe "cranking," yes, it 

 does take, at times, quite a little effort un- 

 less you are pretty strong in the arms; but 

 if it isn't too severe on you I think it is an 

 excellent exercise to develop the muscles 

 and chest. Yes, I know there are devices 

 on the market for "automatic starting," 

 but so far as I can learn they are pretty ex- 

 pensive as yet. 



Now to get back to my subject. When I 

 started out writing this talk on my new 

 typewriter I was very much pleased to find 

 I could write almost a page without mak- 

 ing a single mistake; yes, I succeeded even 

 in using a capital letter when I came to the 

 pronoun "I," and nothing vexes me so 

 much as to find, when reviewing my copy 

 before sending it to press, to find I have 

 backslid into my old habit of using a little 

 "i" when speaking of myself. Do you 

 wonder why I mention so trivial a matter? 

 Well, there is a moral and a lesson to it. 

 It is this: I find I can stand the confine- 

 ment of writing only about so long without 

 getting so tired that it takes a very unusual 

 effort to avoid making mistakes. The 

 moral is this: If you are past or nearing 

 the seventies, keep busy; but don't try 

 to work too long at one thing until you are 

 too weary to use your memory and other 

 God-given faculties to the best advantage. 

 Drop your typewriter and go and see how 

 the hired man is getting on in making a 

 new yard for that flock of downy beauties 

 that should come out of the incubator 

 about to-morrow. That is just what 7am 

 going to do now; so, "good by," as they 

 say over the telephone. 



"the truth about sweet clover" in 

 florida; also something about al- 

 falfa in that state. 

 After having talked with many people, 

 and getting various kinds of reports in re- 

 gard to alfalfa and other clovers in Florida, 

 it finally occurred to me that the agricul- 

 tural experiment station at Gainesville 

 would most likely be able to give me the 

 "truth" in regard to the matter, and at the 

 same time an unbiased statement; and 

 since there have been so many inquiries in 

 regard to the maner I feel ashamed of my- 

 self to think I did not go to headquarters. 



