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trifling things, that they were tempted at 

 times to think he was not quite level in his 

 head. The boy finally ran against electric- 

 ity; and he was so eager in experimenting 

 that he would hardly take time to eat his 

 meals. His first success in wireless was in 

 getting communication from one corner of 

 his father's farm to the other. Then he 

 began to have visions of great things. But 

 some neighbor dampened his ardor by tell- 

 ing him he could not get over hills and 

 mountains. In order to test the matter he 

 secretly got one of his father's hired men to 

 help him, and then the two went away to 

 where there was a considerable hill. The 

 attendant was to go to the furtlu-r side of 

 the hill and report if he received any sig- 

 nals. The signal came through all right, 

 as we now know it would do; but the boy 

 did not know it then; and when the atten- 

 dant returned the signal, and told him the 

 hills were no obstacle, he was so overpower- 

 ed by the good news that he went into a 

 dead faint, and the attendant found him 

 unconscious. 



The above illustrates the intense eagerness 

 with which tlie boy worked, and his pecul- 

 iar sensitiveness to disappointment or the 

 reverse. Now, here is a moral. I have 

 frequently talked about the "sports" among , 

 fruits and vegetables. It transpires that 

 there are sports in humanity. This boy, 

 with his queer passion for the wonderful 

 things in nature, was for a time thought by 

 the neighbors, and perhaps by his fathei-, 

 not quite evenly balanced. 



Some time ago I told you of a young girl 

 with whom 1 became acquainted in my early 

 manhood. After I had set lier at work in 

 our factory her mother made some inquii'- 

 ies, and ended up by saying, " Well, Mr. 

 Root, if she is of any use to you in the 

 factory, do, ' for the land's sake,' keep her 

 as long as you want to. She is ' not a mite 

 of use ' in doing housework around home." 

 Her mother did not understand even her 

 own child, and did not recognize that God 

 calls us in various directions. 



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EALTH NOTE 



CHERRIES AS A HEALTH FOOD. 



May God be praised for the beautiful 

 luscious cherries that we have been having 

 since about the middle of June, and are still 

 having to-day, June 27. Just as my apples 

 began to give out (about June 12), beauti- 

 ful cherries appeared in the market, and 

 they are about the finest ever grown in this 

 vicinity, so far as I can remember. In our 

 new home, when we moved into the bunga- 

 low there were just two cherry-trees that 

 did not stand in the way of the buildings. 

 These were so full of bloom shortly after I 

 returned from Florida that I told Mrs. Root 

 it would be impossible for all the blossoms 

 to produce cherries; but when the trees 

 were loaded with beautiful fruit, one ripen- 

 ing perhaps ten days or more before the 

 other, I began using them in place of my 

 accustomed apples, and it was one of my 

 " happy surprises " to find that they an- 

 .swered just as well, and, in fact, a little 

 better; and just now my verdict would be 

 that plenty of sweet luscious cherries are 

 fully equal to grapefruit for kidney or 

 ui'inary troubles. In order to satisfy myself 

 in regard to the matter I ate a gTeat lot of 

 them not only at my five-o'clock supper, but 

 I ate more just before going to bed to see if 

 they would disturb my digestion or my 

 sleep ; and good old dame Nature did not 

 make the least bit of protest. In fact, I 



have never felt better, and it seems I have 

 not for a long while had so much strength 

 for working in the garden with my light 

 keen hoe as since I have been on the "cherry 

 diet."* By the way, there is one thing pe- 

 culiar about the abundant cherry crop this 

 summer. There do not seem to be any of 

 the mischievous curculio or other insects, 

 and as a result there are but very few 

 wormy cherries. Let me give you a clipping 

 in regard to the matter, from the Plain 

 Dealer : 



CHERRIES 00 DOWN TO $1 PER BUSHKL. 



Cherries were in the heaviest supply ever knowu 

 ou this market, and the prices were the lowest ever 

 known. Sales of pretty good stock were made at 

 from $1.00 to $1.50 a bushel crate; there were sales 

 at $2.00 in the early morning. One grower had a 

 wagonload on which he offered to take 80 cents a 

 Imshel. Good sweet cherries still bring $3.50 and 

 $3.75 a bushel, and as high as $4.00. 



I wonder if this great crop of cherries has 

 not been a blessing to others as well as to 

 myself. When I first began to go to school 

 some seventy years ago the teacher taught 



* Later. — Since the above was in type I have eaten 

 some cherries that were rather tart, and not fully 

 ripe. The result was not quite so encouraging. I 

 think it is best to add that the fruit shoiild be dead 

 ripe, and perhaps not too tart, in order that we may 

 eat it with impunity. And, by the way, if you are 

 going to eat a7i;/ kind of fruit to the extent I do, 

 especially if you are elderly like myself, be sure the 

 fruit is dead ripe. Apples that are not real mellow 

 and well ripened have often disagreed with me in 

 the same way as did the sour cherries not perfectly 

 ripened. 



