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this matter. In fact, the litle of his book is, 

 " How to Keep Well and Live Long." If 

 we keep well as long as Ave do live, we shall 

 certainly be of some ivie to the younger 

 generation. How often have I seen an old 

 grandmother who interested the children 

 and looked after them in such a way that, 

 when God took her, she was missed most 

 keenly by every member of the household, 

 even though she may have passed her four- 

 score! 



After the above wns put in type T sent a 

 proof to my friend T. B. Terry, and offeifd 

 to send him (he book if he had not already 

 seen it. Below is his reply : 



Dear Mr. Root:- — I haven't seen the book you 

 refer fo, "Old Age Deferred." When you are through 

 with your copy I certainly shall be glad to get it. 

 But, as I understand from your article, Dr. Lorand 

 allows a moderate use of liquor and tobacco; and I 

 have very little confidence in any man's teachings 

 who takes such a Ftand. With such, lo be popular 

 is more than to be strictly truthful and helpful to 

 humanity. Of course, one can get some good thoujchts 

 from such writers; but, you see, one d ms not dare 

 accept any thing they .'-ay as true which l^e does not 

 know himself is so. 



Friend Root, I do not believe for an instant that 

 God intended we should be helpless or lose any of 

 our faculties in our old age. I do believe that we 

 bring all such so-called old-age infirmities on our- 

 selves by wrong habits of life. They are punishments 

 for natural laws violated. The older I get, the more 

 I study and experiment, the more certain I am of 

 being right. Ten years ago it would hardly have 

 done to say this. But the world is waking up to the 

 truth at last. 



Mr. Root, I do not believe you half realize how 

 much good your articles are doing. I always like to 

 get the views of an outside friend. So let me g've 

 you mine by saying you are doing better work than 

 you could 20 vears ago. And why not? You have 

 had more experience, your business cares are less, 

 and your head is as clear, thanks to right living. 

 Ten years from now your writings will be worth 

 more to humanity than they are now. 



I have now had a four-weeks' vacation and " let- 

 up," and outdoor work, for the first time in 25 years. 

 Really it does seem as though I felt better now than 

 when I was 40. I hope you and your good wife are 

 feeling as young and vigorous as I do — yes, more so. 



Hudson, O., June 17. T. B. Terry. 



Dear friends, I have received many kind 

 words — in fact, many kind and encouraging 

 words are coming every day; and I fre- 

 quently say to Mrs. Root, " Sue, I have had 

 a letter to-day more encouraging than any 

 heretofore;" and I think I can say the same 

 in regard to the closing sentence to friend 

 Terry's letter. May God give me grace and 

 physical strength and inspiration to con- 

 tinue finding something helpful to all our 

 readers, young and old, for ton years to 

 come. 



A LOVE-LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS 



Some time ago (p. 473, July 1, 1913) I 

 mentioned that one of our Anti-saloon 

 League workers. Mayor White, of Barnes- 



ville, Ohio, during his temperance talks, 

 read us a " love-letter " from one who had 

 been fomerly a saloon-keeper; but after his 

 conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ he 

 turned and wrote a. love-letter to the man 

 whom he used to fight. Well, I have re- 

 ceived a love-letter too ; but it comes from 

 a friend, and one who has always been my 

 friend, so far as I know. Here it is: 



Dear Mr. Boat ■ — 



" I hing hae thought, my .youthfu' friend, 



A something to have sent you, 

 Tho' it should serve nae ither end 



Than just a kind memento; 

 But how the subject theme may gaug, 



Let time and chance determine; 

 Perhaps it may turn out a sang, 

 Perhaps turn out a sermon." 

 I love you, Mr. Root. I have been acquainted with 

 you for only about live years ; but from the first 

 number of Gleanings that I received, began an 

 affection "that has increased with the years, and bids 

 fair to last until you reach that hundred-year mark 

 that you have set for yourself. The beautiful sim- 

 plicity of your life appeals to me, and shows that 

 you give the Lord not only lip service but also heart 

 service. 



For eight yen is I was a salesman for a wholesale 

 grocery house in .Vtlanla, and left them only last 

 January to go into the grocery business for myself. 

 Kirkwood is a suburb of Atlanta, being only four 

 miles from the city. 



For the past five or six years I have been interest- 

 ed in bees, and have studied them pretty thoroughly. 

 They are intensely interesting to me; but since I ara 

 now in business for myself, and ain closely confined, 

 I have not the time to give them. From reading Mr. 

 Frank Benton's writings, I became interested in the 

 Carniolans, and have kept them and their crosses 

 with Italians. I much prefer the Carniolans, as they 

 are gentler, have a large force of bees early in (he 

 spring, and don't stick up the hives as the Italians do. 

 They do not swarm any worse for me either, in spite 

 of their reputation to the contrary. 



I run for extracted honey. I have only seven 

 hives, and not the time now to give even that num- 

 ber the proper attention, and I have had only two 

 swarms this year. I hived both right back in the 

 old stand after raising the brood-chamber over the 

 second story, and putting an extra set of combs in its 

 place. Of course, I cut out the cells, and they went 

 to work with a vim. 



There was a plot of red clover about fifty feel 

 square near my home, and I was surprised to see m\ 

 bees hard at work on the blossoms. I thought that it 

 is very unusual for bees to work on red clover. 



I have a Novice extractor, but I have never learn 

 ed to use it without breaking the combs. I use wired 

 foundation ; but even combs three or four years old 

 break in the extractor. I am now selling the honpy 

 in my store at 17 ^/^ cts. per pound for bulk comb, 

 and I get 25 cents for a pint jar of extracted. The 

 firm for which I sold groceries for eight years handle 

 Wilder's honey in the pint jars, and I had lots of 

 experience with it. Privately, in spite of his plan 

 of exposure to the sunlight, it granulates badly, and 

 I have bought many a case of 12-pint jars from retail 

 grocers for $1.50 after they had paid $2.60 per case 

 for it. 



I carried five colonies and two three-frame nuclei 

 through the past winter. The five were chock full 

 of goldenrod honey, and had a big force of bees ail 

 ready to go to work in the spring. I have taken 

 about 150 pounds of bulk comb and extracted al- 

 ready, and have not touched several of the supers. 

 The honey is from poplar, locust, blackberry, daisy, 

 and fruit. It is dark, but it is vgry finely flavored, 



