Cleanings in Bee Culture 



YOU HAVE HEARD OF T. B. TERRY 



AND HIS WONDERFUL BOOK 



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HOW TO KEEP WELL ANO LIVE LONG 



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But unless you OWN and READ this valuable publication you will never know or under- 

 stand what the author says about HOW TO REACH THE CENTURY MARK. 



Read this remarkable intro- 

 duction, written by the 

 author— WHAT I KNOW 

 ABOUT THE MATTER. 



M^ 



r Y 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 col- 

 lege 1 broke down from too much 

 confinement and study, stayed 

 out a year, tried it again, but had 

 to give up. Doctor told me I must 

 get outdoors to work. Did so, and 

 soon got better. We moved on to 

 our farm where we now reside. 38 

 years ago. Then 1 got along fairly 

 well by hiring help to do all the 

 heaviest 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 

 everything in order and moving, 

 and did myself mostly easy jobs, 

 like riding on a spring seat. Thus 

 in due time we succeeded yuite 

 well, and the out ofdoor employ- 

 ment gave nie moderately good 

 health. But after a few years we 

 began to make so much on our 

 little farm that public attention 

 was attracted, and I was urged to 

 write for leading agricultural 

 papers. And about this time 

 farmers' institutes 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 (arming would suf- 

 fer as a result. But the demand 

 was strong, and soon I found my- 

 self 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 

 ti'ying to keep the farm in as good 

 order and producing as well as 

 when I could give my full tinae 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 

 when it 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 an.v 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 consid- 

 er them at all — hadn't time. The 

 end came when I was in New 

 York. The doctor said I was in a 

 critical condition. But I sur- 

 prised him by getting up long be- 

 fore he expected, from sheer will 

 power, and then started for home 

 by easy stages; kept up until I got 

 there, then I was sick indeed. 

 Would gain some at 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 m.y 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 1 had been before He re- 



T. B. TERRY 

 In his sixty-seventh year 



plied that he didn't think I could- 

 that ray 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 per- 

 haps, but there was no chance for 

 a cure; that one should bear these 

 things philosophically, as they 

 came to all and there was ro help 

 for it. Now, do you know he could 

 not have said anything that 

 would h.ave done me more real 

 good? Up to that time I had faith 

 in a first-class 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 thorough- 

 ly 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 beg.an to study this matter of 

 health and proper living for all I 

 was worth. Of course, 1 was years 

 slowly working my way up. mak- 

 ing mistakes, but gradually gain- 

 ing. 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 looked so com- 

 pletely beaten that I really felt 

 sorry for him. And he said: 

 "Terry, I don't see how in the 

 world I could have been so mis- 

 taken in your case." He was not 

 mistaken. If I had gone on liv- 

 ing in the old common way it 

 would have turned out just as he 

 said. Probably t)9 men out of 100 

 would have died just as he laid 

 out for them to do. I was obsti- 

 nate. 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 yeans. In 

 fact, I am sound and well in every 

 way. Breathing, eatliig.sleeping, 

 working — all are genuine pleas- 

 ures. I really do not think 1 ever 

 enjoyed as perfect health before 

 in all ray life as I have during the 

 past five years. And, wonder of 

 wonders — 



I am Still Gaining 



If you are ailing, as most people 

 are, you can cure yourselves same 

 as I have myself, and as thou- 

 sands of others have done. You 

 can become 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 sarae 

 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 per- 

 sonal success and study give me 

 the right to speak quite positive- 

 ly. It is my aim to make these 

 pages entireLv reliable, a safe 

 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 dedicated 

 to all the people of America. 



T. B. Terry. 



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