January, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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20,000 smokers were sold, besides the one 

 thousand or more I had given away. Do 

 you see, my good friends, liow this story 

 corroborates the promise of that beautiful 

 text, " and all these things shall be added 

 unto you'"? 



A few days ago I was faking a little 

 crowd of Christian friends lo see the dif- 

 ferent departments of our establishment. 

 A German boy or man, rather, was at work 

 making smokers, and I stopped by his bench 

 long enough to tell them the story as above ; 

 and as I concluded, a bright smile came 

 over his face as he said something like this : 



" Mr. Root, I know all about that story 

 you have just been telling. I was the boy 

 who made that first cold-blast smoker, when 

 you brought me the one to look at that came 

 by mail." 



M.v good friend Jacob Kramer had been 

 making those smokers, off and on, for 33 

 years. Shortly after that talk with me 

 which I have mentioned, he was taken sick, 

 and a few daj-s ago I visited him and was 

 told he was near death. He came to me 



right from Germany, when he could speak 

 scarcely any English. Shortly after he 

 lea r nod to make smokers he also learned to 

 love tlie Lord Jesus Christ, and to put all 

 his trust in him; and when near death he 

 talked with me freely about the future.* I 

 once said to my good old mother, when I first 

 began to consider that wonderful text., 

 " Love ye your enemies ; do good to them 

 that hate you," etc., that this text was an 

 unexplored region. That was years ago; 

 and I still think, dear friends, that the 

 matter of returning good for evil is a com- 

 paratively unexplored region ; and I am im- 

 pressed, too, by the thought that our three 

 texts in this Home paper are also, in the 

 eyes of the world, an unexplored region. 

 Let me say, therefore, in the langiiage of 

 our text. " Take no thought what ye shall 

 eat or what ye shall drink, but seek ye first 

 the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

 and all these things shall be added unto 

 you." 



* Mr. Kramer died Oct. 8, 1916. 



HEALTH NOTES 



SOMETHING MORE ABOUT T. B. TERRY 



As I expected, ever since the time of our 

 good friend's death on New Year's morn- 

 ing, 1916, now almost a year, there have 

 been more or less inquiries in regard to 

 Mr. Terry's life, notwithstanding the sketch 

 I gave in our journal for March 15. We 

 can well say of him as I said of Prof. Cook, 

 " Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord 

 from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, 

 that they may rest from their labors, and 

 their works do follow them." No matter 

 where I go, every little while somebody has 

 something to say about Terry. Away up 

 in the northern part of Wisconsin some 

 years ago, in crossing a certain body of 

 water on a steamer a stranger found out 

 where I was from, and commenced to tell 

 how much he owed Terry for his writings 

 on health, and how they had brought him 

 from near death up to strong and robust 

 manhood. 



In the Practical Farmer for May 15, 1916. 

 there appeared the following sketch, to- 

 gether with an excellent 2iicture as our good 

 friend and benefactor used to look just 

 after he had walked with us around his 

 beautiful home and farm. May God be 

 praLsed that such a man was permitted to 

 have a fairly long life, and to spend that 



life as he did, unsparingly, for the bene- 

 fit of his fellow-men. 



MY FATHER 

 By Robert S. Terry. 

 {EDITORIAL NOTE.- — Since the sad announce 

 ment, in our issue of Jan. 15, of the death of our 

 good friend and Associate Editor, Mr. T. B. Terry, 

 we have received a number of letters from our sub- 

 scribers, askinff' that we publish his biography. It 

 has been our intention from the time of Mr. 

 Terry's death to do this; but we were anxious to 

 have it as complete and authentic as possible, and 

 accordingly preferred to wait until we could obtain 

 a biographical sketch from the pen of a member 

 of Mr. Terry's family. It is with gratification, 

 therefore, that we present the following sketch 

 written by his son and helper in his work. — The 

 Editor.) 



Theodore Brainard Terry was born in Lafayette, 

 New York, January 2, 1843. He was one of 

 eleven cliildren, the son of Fanny Howell and 

 Reverend Parshall Terry. His father was a Con- 

 gregational minister. 



He was always of a very ingenious and inven- 

 tive disposition. At the age of fourteen he took 

 first prize at a county fair for a steam-engine which 

 he had made, and wliich actually ran. He attended 

 high school in Painesville, O., until he was seven- 

 teen, when he entered Western Reserve College in 

 Hudson in 1860. He broke down from too much 

 confinement and study, stayed out a year, and tried 

 again to continue his work, but his health would 

 not permit him to do so. While in college he, with 

 two others, stood at the head of a strong class, 

 taking first prize for written translation in Greek. 



