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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Mar. 15 



How to Reach the CENTURY MARK 



T. B. Terry's New Health Book 



"HOW TO KEEP WELL AND LIVE LONG" 



Author's Introductory 



What I Know (bout the MaHet 



MY mother had eleven children. 

 Only three lived to mature 

 age. Of course I am one of them. 

 But you can see my start in life was 

 not a strong one. I was a sickly 

 child like the rest In college I 

 broke down from too much con- 

 finement and study, stayed out a 

 year, tried it again, but had to give 

 up. Doctor told me I must get out- 

 doors to work. Did so, and soon 

 got better. We moved on to our 

 farm where we now reside, 38 years 

 ago. Then I got along fairly well 

 by hiring help to do all the heav- 

 iest work, as soon as we could 

 make enough to pay them. I 

 learned to do the studying, the di- 

 recting, laid out the work, kept 

 every thing in order and moving, 

 and did myself mostly easy jobs, 

 like riding on a spring seat. Thus 

 in due time we succeeded quite 

 well, and the out-of-door employ- 

 ment gave me moderately good 

 health. But after a few years we 

 began to make so much on our lit- 

 tle farm that public attention was 

 attracted, and I was urged to write 

 for leading agricultural papers. 

 And about this time farmers' insti- 

 tutes began in Ohio and several 

 other States, and I was asked to 

 help at them. I didn't want to do 

 this work as it would take me from 

 home, and, of course, my farming 

 would suffer as a result. But the 

 demand was strong, and soon I 

 found myself away from home all 

 winter long, speaking two or three 

 times a day, breathing bad air in 

 the halls, living irregularly, often 

 traveling nights, and putting in 

 every spare hour writing articles 

 for the papers. Then on top of 

 this was the constant worry over 

 trying to keep the farm in as good 

 order and producing as well as 

 when I could give my full time to 

 it. I did so want to keep my prac- 

 tice up to my preaching. At home 

 I worked when the weather was 

 fine, and rushed in to write whf^n i1 

 rained, as well as at night. This 

 wasn't so much to make money as 

 that all this business had come to 

 me, and I did not like to give any 

 of it up. One hardly needs to tell 

 that the result, some ten years ago, 

 was— 



A Complete Breakdown 



I had so much ambition and push 

 that I kept driving on after nature 

 had given several danger signals. 

 In fact, I did not consider them at 

 all— hadn't time. The end came 

 when I was in New York. The doc- 

 tor said I was in a critical condi- 

 tion. But I surprised him by get- 

 ting up long before be expected, 



from sheer will power, and thenfjl 

 started for home by easy stages; 

 kept up until I got there, then 

 sick indeed. Would gain some 

 times, then be worse again, until 

 life became a burden that I was 

 really anxious to lay down. Our 

 good old doctor seemed powerless 

 to help me much. I remember 

 writing two articles in those dark 

 days when I was flat on my back, 

 so hard was it for me to give up. 

 My pen had almost to run itself. I 

 hardly knew what I was writing. 

 At last I urged our doctor to tell 

 me frankly if I could ever again be 

 as well as I had been before. He 

 replied that he didn't think I could; 

 that my kidneys were worn out, 

 liver was in bad condition, I had 

 serious prostatic and bladder 

 troubles, rheumatism, piles, etc. 

 He said that he could patch me up 

 a little from time to time perhaps, 

 but there was no chance for a cure; 

 that one should bear these things 

 philosophically, as they came to all 

 and there was no help for it. Now, 

 do you know he could not h?ve 

 said anything that would have 

 done me more real good? Up to 

 that time I had faith in a first-class 



thennn ooked s 

 tages; I really f( 

 I was ^aid: "1 

 me at ' world I 



T. B. TERRY 

 In his sixty-seventh year 



physician. I thought he could cure 

 one when he was sick. His words 

 knocked out all of this feeling, and 

 I paid him up, really in pretty good 

 spirits. Why? Well, it thoroughly 

 aroused what little will-power I had 

 left. I said to myself, "I don't 

 know what I will do, but I know 

 that I will not die. I am going to 

 get well in some way." 



Where there is a Will there 

 is a Way 



I began to study this matter of 

 health and proper living for all I 

 was worth. Of course, I was years 

 slowly working my way up, making 

 mistakes, but gradually gaining. 

 It was with much pleasure that I 

 met our doctor one day years after, 

 on the street. I was stepping off 

 like a boy, just as I felt. The doctor 



ooked so completely beaten that I 

 felt sorry for him. And he 

 Terry, I don't see how in the 

 could have been so mis- 

 taken in your case." He was not 

 mistaken. If I had gone on living 

 in the old common way it would 

 have turned out just as he said. 

 Probably 99 men out of 100 would 

 have died just as he laid out for 

 them to do. I was obstinate. I 

 have never recognized any such 

 word as "fail." To-day my kidneys 

 are as good as any man could ask 

 for. Every organ is in ideal order. 

 I have the strong, vigorous, quick 

 pulse of a young man. Have not 

 had a trace of piles, rheumatism, or 

 constipation for several years. In 

 fact, I am sound and well in every 

 way. Breathing, eating, sleeping, 

 working — all are genuine pleasures. 

 I really do not think I ever enjoyed 

 as perfect health before in all my 

 life as I have during the past five 

 years. And, wonder of wonders— 



I am Still Gaining 



Right living is naturally slow in 

 bringing results; but they are cer- 

 tain, and the best of health will 

 come in due time. Do you wonder 

 that I am enthusiastic ? Haven't I 

 earned the right to be? Now, you 

 will find no idle theories or fads 

 in the following pages. I shall tell 

 you what I have done and know. I 

 am going to lead you gradually to 

 improve your ways of living and 

 gain splendid health. Then, bar- 

 ring accident, there is no reason 

 why you may not live long, 20 or 30 

 years longer than people generally 

 do, and enjoy life fully all the time. 

 Few indeed know what fine health 

 really is. We have slowly drifted 

 away from simple, proper, natural 

 ways of living. As a result we have 

 diseases and ills almost without 

 number, and our lives are much 

 shortened. The truth along these 

 lines has not been realized by 

 many. It has been practically hid- 

 den by much that was wrong. But 

 now let us get down to business. 



If you are ailing, as most people 

 are, you can cure yourselves same 

 as I have myself, and as thousands 

 of others have done. You can be- 

 come so well as not to know what 

 it is to have an ache or pain or 

 bad feeling. I will tell you just how 

 to do it. If you are well now, or 

 when you get well, you can keep so 

 by continuing the same simple, 

 natural, healthful way of living. I 

 have long been urged to write a 

 book of this kind, but have held off 

 until years of personal success and 

 study give me the right to speak 

 quite positively. It is my aim to 

 make these pages entirely reliable, 

 a sage guide for busy people who 

 haven't the time to work for years 

 sifting truth from a mass of error" 

 This book is most earnestly dedi- 

 cated to all the people nf America. 

 T. B. TERRY. 



Mr. Terry's book is now ready for delivery. Price, cloth-bound, $1.00; 

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