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OLEANlNGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Feb. 15 



protest it looks very much just now as if 

 the "whitewash" were not going to stick. 



Suppose when my beautiful plant was ap- 

 parently ruined by worms and poison I had 

 whitewashed the leaves and tried to paint 

 some more flowers on it; would anybody 

 have admired it? Would I have been 

 moved to say, "Put on thy beautiful gar- 

 ments, O Jerusalem?" Suppose a man, a 

 candidate for office, whose past record is too 

 black and filthy to be spoken of in print, 

 should, with the money he has gotten (prob- 

 ably by robbing our nation) — suppose such 

 a one as he should, with this money, get 

 whitewashed (white garments are, as a rule, 

 an emblem of purity, you know)* would 

 any one be fooled by his "beautiful (out- 

 side) garments'"? Yes, bad men can re- 

 pent, and I do believe Holtslaw honestly re- 

 pented when he confessed, and expected to 

 pay the full penalty of his crime; but his 

 friends would not let him do so. "The 

 blood of Christ" does "cleanse from all 

 sin;" and after this "cleansing" the veri- 

 est sinner may don the "beautiful gar- 

 ments" of righteousness, and stand un- 

 blushingly "with the white-robed throng." 



If the people of Ohio (or any other Slate) 

 who have sold their votes feel conscience- 

 stricken and seem inclined to confess, by 

 all means let them do so, and give them ev- 

 ery possible encouragement to pay the full 

 penalty of the law that they may once more 

 "put on the beautiful garments " of right- 

 eousness that justly belong to every law- 

 abiding man, and then shall come that 

 grand millennium when "God's kingdom" 

 shall come, and his "will be done on earth 

 as it is in heaven." 



THE SEARS AITOMOBILE UP TO JAN. 20, ETC. 



A few days ago 1 ran my machine up to 

 one of our three repair shops, where several 

 high-prioed machines were standing about 

 waiting for three busy men to get time to 

 look after the troubles, when the owner of 

 one of these fine cars called out: 



*The Cleveland Plain Dealer has for several days 

 past mentioned that the "searchlight" was just 

 now being turned on Danville, 111., in regard to the 

 matter of illegal voting. Here is a clipping from 

 the daily of Jan. 24. Note that part of it referring 

 to the celebrated Speaker's "raiment:" 



The little Illinois city that lias attained fame ag the home 

 of the great American tzar now niakts its bid for a notorieiy 

 that will turpass the ill fame of our own Adams Co. Unlets 

 the power of the federal machine is great enough to intim- 

 date judge, pro"ecutor. and grand jury it is evident that the 

 disclosures In Vermillion Co. will be far more intere-tlng than 

 the stories that have been eomlDg out of West Union. 



To begin with, Vermillion V,o. is a famous place. It is Ihe 

 place where resides Joseph 6. Cannon, the tyrant who has so 

 lonir dominated the American government. In the second 

 place, it Is a populous and prosperous community. Adams 

 Co. has never been tie home of a great man, has no citits nor 

 Important village, and bases its claim to celebrity solel) on 

 the possession of the "' serpent mound "— constructed by the 

 mound-builders before the vote traflic had become pre^alent. 



Adams Co. may live in memory as the pioneer; but its show 

 of wickedness will doubtless soon le outclassed. 



If Mr. Cannon escapes from the mire with raiment com- 

 pletely clean, many observers will be greatly surprised. This 

 aspect of the aU'alr is, after all. the most interesiing. If cor- 

 ruption has been as nearly universal as is indicated bv the 

 Initial developments, it seems impossible that " Uncle Joe" 

 could have be-n repeatedly elected to congress without hav- 

 ing voluntarily or unwillingly benefited by the accepted prac- 

 tice. The disclosures may prove to be one more push down- 

 ward for the falling dictator. 



"Why, hello, Mr. Root! I thought your 

 machine never needed to come to the repair- 

 shop; what is the trouble now? " 



"There isn't any trouble with my ma- 

 chine, and never has been any trouble with 

 it." 



"Well, why do you come here, if there is 

 no trouble ? ' ' 



"I came to see if I could not sell these 

 fellows ray old machine. I have no use for 

 two. ' ' 



When I told Mrs. Root about it she ex- 

 pressed a fear that I had given our new ma- 

 chine almost too good a write-up, and asked 

 if I really ought not to mention the various 

 things Wesley and I had done to keep it in 

 such good trim; and I am, therefore, going 

 to tell you about one thing we did that I 

 think may be helpful to many of you. 



The regular price of our car, $475, did not 

 include a speedometer, so I had one added 

 at an expense of $15.00; but after we had 

 used it a while I found it was not working. 

 Investigation showed the little wheel was 

 not in touch with the gears on the front 

 drivewheel. Well, although I could not 

 make out how this got out of mesh, I loosed 

 the bolts and set it up once more in place; but 

 it was soon olT again as before, and a more 

 careful scrutiny revealed that the whole front 

 wheel was sliding off from the steel skein 

 that rests on the roller bearings. This steel 

 skein was probably forced into the hub of 

 the wooden wheel by powerful pressure; but, 

 notwithstanding, it had been gradually 

 working ofif. I might have taken it to a 

 carriage-shop; but the wheels all ran so 

 beautifully nice and true I feared to have 

 the average repair man touch them. See 

 the letter on page 56, Jan. 15. This is what 

 I did. I took the wheel off; and, after care- 

 fully wiping off every bit of grease and oil, 

 I placed a common coal-oil lamp so as to 

 have the chimney just under the hole 

 through the wheel when it was supported 

 horizontally. In about an hour the whole 

 center of the wheel was hot enough to make 

 the wooden hub smoke a little, and hot 

 enough to melt some roll brimstone held 

 against this same steel skein. While doing 

 this we turned the wheel over and let the 

 flame of the lamp come under the wheel 

 from the opposite side. In this way we 

 "coaxed" the melted brimstone down be- 

 tween the wood and the steel, and thorough- 

 ly saturated the hot wood with the sulphur. 

 Perhaps you are not all aware that brim- 

 stone, like water, has the queer property of 

 getting larger when it changes from a liquid 

 to a solid; and it also has the property of 

 sticking with wonderful tenacity to wood, 

 metals, or any thing else when both the ar- 

 ticle and the brimstone are sufficiently hot. 

 Now, some of you may say (as Mrs. Root 

 did), " How do I know this wheel will not 

 still work off again in time, in the same old 

 way?" 



Listen: When I first got my first Oldsmo- 

 bile, seven years ago, one of the drivewheels 

 got loose in the hub in much the same man- 

 ner; and before we discovered the mischief 



