1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



119 



the skein had turned clear around in the 

 wooden hub and cut it out badly. I took it 

 to several shops, but they all said it was 

 past fixing. 1 wrote the Olds people and 

 they were fair enough to agree to furnish a 

 new wheel in case I was unable to make it 

 hold in any way. Well, some of our good 

 mechanics rather laughed at me when I 

 told them I was going to fix it with "brim- 

 stone." We heated a big bar of iron up to 

 white heat and held it inside the wooden 

 hub until the grease was all burned ofif and 

 the bruised and battered wood almost burn- 

 ed to charcoal; then Me wedged the skein in 

 its proper place so the wheel ran true, as it 

 did before the damage; poured in our brim- 

 stone w^hen all was quite hot, and that wheel 

 has done wonderful service for five or six 

 years, running many thousand miles, and 

 is as solid and strong to-day as it was when 

 I "toggled it up with brimstone " nearly 

 half a dozen years ago. 



I have taken all this space to describe the 

 process, because you can repair many things 

 about the house and farm in this same way. 

 If you have trouble with tools, knives, etc., 

 coming loose in the handles, brimstone ap- 

 plied as I have directed will do the business. 

 It is ever so much better than rivets or 

 wedges, for there is no "wiggle" to a brim- 

 stone joint. If you wish to fasten metal 

 posts into stone, brimstone is the thing. 



It occurs to me in closing, that perhaps a 

 little more hrimstone injected into law en- 

 forcement, in some parts of Ohio, might 

 bring about some important reforms, and 

 help them to "hold fast" a little better in 

 the years to come. 



Just one thing more: On page 55 for Jan. 

 15 I mentioned getting the engine started 

 by dropping a little gasoline in one of the 

 cylinders, but was afterward advised by the 

 makers that such a plan burned out the lu- 

 bricating oil, and was not to be recommend- 

 ed. The directions (with the car) mention 

 a "priming- wire," and I found a wire that 

 I supposed was for this "priming," but aft- 

 erward discovered the priming-wire was 

 omitted when the machine was sent off. 

 After I supplied the missing wire the en- 

 gine started, even on a cold morning, with- 

 out any trouble whatever. 



SUNDAY PAPERS, E. G. LEWIS, ETC. 



Mr. A. I. Root.— As a reader of Our Homes I make 

 bold to write you. I find many helpful things in 

 your sermons: but I am just wondering why you 

 do not give a sermon on the " funny sheets " of our 

 Sunday and daily papers as to their ruinous effects 

 upon the children of our land. I am astonished 

 when I see people of apparent refinement reading 

 those "sheets," and deliberately teaching children 

 to do so. I am a teacher, and probably able to 

 judge more of the evil than most people: but I cer- 

 tainly feel something should be done to make such 

 unpopular. 



I have been much interested In what you have 

 had to say about K, G. Lewis and his " League." I 

 am a member, " full paid," of the I^eague. and alto- 

 gether have forwarded him about seventy dollars. 



But I have just been wondering what my duty 

 might be. To tell the truth, I have lost faith. 

 But I, too, feel that the good that has come to me 



indirectly from my connection with this aflair Is 

 far more than fifty-two dollars' worth. Indirectly 

 I have been able to earn nearly ?1500, which I could 

 not have done had I not been a League member. 

 The incentive caraethrough the League. 



1 am taking the "dress-making course," and I 

 find it all they claim for it. I can follow it minute- 

 ly, and am learning to sew. There are several oth- 

 er courses I should like to take. But the question 

 with me is, Should I, feeling as I do regarding Mr. 

 Lewis, goon? I have paid for them. lam satis- 

 fied with treatment i-eceived, and have been bene- 

 fited thus far. Now, what do you think one should 

 do, you who are experienced in the world's ways, 

 and a good judge of right and wrong? 



It was the educational feature of the League that 

 led me to enter it. I never expected to get rich, 

 nor even to get all that was promised. 



I enjoy reading your experiences with poultry. I 

 am also interested in that. 



With best wishes for you and Mrs. Root, and 

 trusting you may reach your one hundred years, I 

 am Me.s. Jessie Baird. 



Elm Grove, W. Va., Oct. 21. 



My good friend, I have been pained for 

 years whenever I have picked up or exam- 

 ined one of the average Sunday daily news- 

 papers. I wonder, as you say, why parents 

 can be willing to submit such papers to 

 their younger children, who are just looking 

 about and grasping every thing that comes 

 along, especially the sensational things. I 

 have wondered how good careful parents 

 should want their children to look at even 

 the pictures — that is, the greater part of 

 them. One would naturally suppose that 

 the Sunday paper would be at least as truth- 

 ful and as dignified as the average daily. 

 But I have several times commented on the 

 fact that the very worst and most mischie- 

 vous things somehow seem to find a place 

 in the Sunday daily. During the St. Louis 

 exposition a daily came out giving an ac- 

 count, with pictures, of the different flying- 

 machines competing for prizes. The state- 

 ment was given with date, residences of the 

 inventors, etc., in sijch a way that I was 

 myself completely fooled. I submitted it 

 to 'the Wright brothers, and they at once in- 

 formed me that no such machines were on 

 exhibition at St. Louis, and never existed 

 at all except in the imagination of the re- 

 porter who was paid for "telling lies," and 

 perhaps paid extra for doing it on Sunday. 

 If parents would refuse to let these papers 

 come into their homes the publishers would 

 probably drop them on account of a lack of 

 patronage. 



I am very glad to get so good a report con- 

 cerning the Lewis Woman's League; but I 

 am glad, also, that you have refrained from 

 making a further investment. 



SABBATH DESECRATION: A KIND WORD FROM THOS 

 WM. COWAN. 



Please let Mr. A. I. Root know how much I appre- 

 ciate the article on page 703 of Glfanings, and am 

 so pleased that he makes such a firm stand against 

 the Sabbath desecration that is getting to be so 

 common. We have also remarked the number of 

 accidents that have taken place on a Sunday: but 

 the people do not see the hand on the v\-all, and it 

 will require an earlhquake to rouse them. 



Thos. Wm. Cowan. 



Upcott House, Taunton, Eng. 



