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his hand on his father's arm and whispered: 'I 

 know what you mean, father, and I know it's true.' " 



I can say with that boy, " I know it is 

 true." The boy spoke from a limited ex- 

 perience, promi^ted by the voice or con- 

 science, while I speak from the standiaoint 

 of a man over 70. It is true in youth, it is 

 true in middle age, and it is most emphati- 

 cally true when a man gets to be threescore 

 and ten. 



Ye are of more value than many sparrows. — Matt. 

 10:31. 



We clip the following from the Press 

 Bulletin of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion for October 25 : 



THE ANIMAL VERSUS THE HUMAN BEING. 



Inquiry was recently made of the Minnesota State 

 Board of Health as to a certain family affected with 

 tuberculosis. The family was large and the house 

 small, so that such care could not be given to the 

 atiiicted as to prevent the infection of others. The 

 father had means and could afford to care properly 

 for those diseased, if compelled to do so. A State 

 inspector was sent to investigate, and this is what 

 he found. A well-to-do farmer, with a farm of 320 

 acres, worth $100 an acre or more; a breeder of 

 horses, having at the time of inspection seven im- 

 ported Percheron horses and a herd of about twenty- 

 five horses in all ; a breeder of registered hogs, his 

 hogs being among the tirst in the State to be given 

 the serum jirotective against hog cholera. This 



farmer has lived in County for about thirty 



years. Sixteen years ago his first wife died of tuber- 

 culosis, leaving three childi'en. He married again. 

 His second wife had thirteen children. The family 

 now consists of father, mother, and fourteen children. 

 A daughter of the second wife, aged 15, died last 

 August of tuberculosis. A son of the first wife, aged 

 19, has been ill with tuberculosis for at least two 

 years. No precautions have been taken to prevent 

 his infecting others. The mother, with one newly 

 born child and another too young to walk, is respon- 

 sible for the care of this family of fourteen living 

 children. There is no medical icare being given the 

 son afflicted with tuberculosis. Apparently this farm- 

 er can appreciate the breeding of horses and the pro- 

 tection of hogs from hog cholera ; but he can not 

 apprejciate the danger of tuberculosis or the need of 

 protecting not only the members of his own family, 

 but others also, from this disease. The annual loss, 

 in Minnesota, caused by the death of wage-earners 

 from tuberculosis, is about $12,000,000. The num- 

 ber of deaths annually from tuberculosis in Minne- 

 sota is about 2250. The estimated number of cases 

 of tuberculosis in Minnesota at the present time is 

 10,000 or more. Is this human disease worthy of 

 the same efforts for its extermination as is hog chol- 

 era or glanders ? 



APPLES AND OLIVE OIL. 



We clip the following from the Rural 

 Xeiv-Yorker : 



The latest "sure cure" for catarrh is living 90 

 days on apples and olive oil. 



So far as apples are concerned, I am 

 fully in accord. I do not know much about 

 the olive oil, but very likely it might make 

 a " balanced ration " with apples, some- 

 thing like the little bit of cheese that I use 

 with my apple supper. Who will test the 

 above and report? 



ILYING-MACHINES UP TO DATE; 900 MILES 

 IN 900 MINUTES. 



As Gleanings was the first periodical on 

 ihe face of the earth to give an eye-witness 

 account of the Wright brothers' "first flight 

 to make the machine come back to its start- 

 ing-poinl, it is no more than proper that 

 Gleanings should occasionally notice the 

 progress that is being made in navigating 

 the air. The steps of progress are so rapid 

 now, and as our daily newspapers and mag- 

 azines are full of it, it would take too much 

 space to give here an account of all that is 

 bfing done. Just now, however, the world 

 is startled by M. Pegoud, who not only 

 " loops the loop," but flies quite a little dis- 

 tance with the machine upside down. Of 

 course he has straps to hold him securely 1o 

 hife seat. At flrst the world was inclined lo 

 say his success was accidental — that he could 

 not do it again; but he has done it again 

 and again, and I think he says it is no very 

 difficult trick. The whole tiling is described, 

 vith some very good illustrations, in the 

 Independent for Oct. 23. We give below 

 the closing paragraph of the article: 



At the present time the cost of aeroplanes still 

 ranges from $5000 to $10,000 per machine, which 

 is too high for the average man ; and the sportsman 

 and enthusiast has an extremely safe craft in the 

 water aeroplane — the airboat, which is essentially a 

 boat with wings, and the hydro-aeroplane, which is 

 an aeroplane with floats to enable it to land on water. 

 Water-flying is much more safe than land-flying, 

 because the water always presents a flat surface to 

 start from and land on; and, in case of a spill, the 

 aviator, who is dressed in a floating icoat, just gets 

 a drenching. A score of American sportsmen ac- 

 quired airboats in the past summer and flew them 

 continually, and made from 60 to 80 miles an hour 

 while they flew them ; and two of them actually flew 

 from Chicago to Detroit, 900 miles, which they 

 covered in 900 minutes, going through a succession 

 of storms which no boat could have weathered; but 

 there were no accidents, not even a drenching. The 

 demonstration of the safety of water-flying was so 

 conclusive that scores of other sportsmen were (Con 

 verted, and the four principal aeroplane constructors 

 — the Wrights, of Dayton, Ohio; Curtiss, of Ham- 

 mondsport, New York; Burgess, of Marblehead, 

 Massachusetts, and Benoist, of St. Louis, Missouri, 

 are working overtime turning out this sort of ma- 

 chine. 



New York City. 



I am not prepared to say exactly who 

 should have the credit for the water aero- 

 plane, as it is called above; but I do know 

 that the Wright brothers made experiments 

 wth a craft to skim over the water of the 

 Miami River, that passes through Dayton, a 

 good many years ago, and before any thing 

 ot the kind was mentioned in the papers. 

 This I did not get from the Wright broth- 

 ers themselves, but from one of their work- 

 men. The Wright brothers certainly have 

 the credit (and I guess it is acknowledged 

 world-wide) of making the first heavier- 

 than-air machine to rise up from the 



