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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



promises in his holy word. I am ashamed 

 of myself, and I am ashamed to make this 

 acknowledgment; but as the rest of you 

 have passed through similar trials, my talk 

 may be helpful to you. 



Well, let us get back to our heading— 

 "doctoring without medicine." The pain 

 was stopped almost instantly, without any 

 medicine at all. He told me to get into the 

 bathtub and sit in water just as hot as I 

 could bear it; have a tea-kettle of boiling 

 water handy, and keep the heat up almost to 

 the scalding point. I laughed when he told 

 me what to do, because I knew it already, 

 and had talked it to people right and left for 

 thirty years or more. Almost any sort of 

 pain in any part of the body can be instant- 

 ly relieved if you can get the part where the 

 Eain is in the hot water, and keep the water 

 ot enough. * Make it so hot that the pa- 

 tient begins to "growl," and then see him 

 smile if you ask him if the pain is letting up. 

 I took this hot- water sitz bath for fifteen or 

 twenty minutes; then I did not have any 

 more pain till just before bedtime. Another 

 treatment of fifteen or twenty minutes re- 

 lieved me so much that I went to bed and 

 went to sleep, and did not wake up once till 

 daylight. To my great astonishment the 

 ' * seat of war ' ' where there had been such 

 a turmoil and carrying on the day before 

 was perfectly tranquil and quiet; in fact, 

 there was noth ng to indicate the locahty of 

 the trouble. 



I hope you will bear with me a little fur- 

 ther while we discuss what brought it about. 

 The doctor said it was the result of a sudden 

 acute attack of dysentery. As some of you 

 may say that was the windup or outcome of 

 my new diet— grains, nuts, and fruit— I 

 want to say the doctor said my diet was all 

 right, and had nothing to do with the distur- 

 bance. On the contrary, said disturbance 

 was more likely because I was not sticking 

 to the diet. I think this special doctor is 

 orthodox, too, because he is the one I once 

 introduced to my good old mother, saying, 

 "Mother, here is a doctor who does not 

 drink, swear, nor use tobacco in any shape." 

 That was several years ago; but this partic- 

 ular doctor stills hangs on to his peculiar no- 

 tions of what a doctor ought to be. Now, I 

 hope I shall not hurt anybody's feelings by 

 saying that I wish I could introduce every 

 doctor in our land to his various patients 

 with the same or a similar introduction. 



* Now, lest some of you may say you have not got an 

 up-to-date bath-tub, etc , I think I will explain that my 

 second treatment was without the bath-tub. I wanted 

 to arrangre it so I could read my papers, and Mrs. Root 

 found a large-sized tin pan that I could sit in comfort- 

 ably, and it answered the purpose exactly as well. Very 

 likely it was not a dignified position, but I think we can 

 let dignity go for a while when excruciating pains as- 

 sail us. If the idea of sitting in a tin pan of hot water 

 sounds almost too ridiculous, you can have some kind of 

 dressing gown to put around you and cover you up, 

 especially if you^are obliged to be among folks while you 

 are taking your "sitz bath." 



AUTOMOBILING ON SUNDAY, ETC. 



After I had closed the Home Paper in 

 last issue I came across the following in 



the Philadelphia Farm Journal which that 

 paper quotes from the Public Ledger's New 

 York correspondent: 



"Reports of the heartlessness of automobilists wh3 

 run down pedestrians and scurry away without waiting 

 to see whether their victims were badly injured, are 

 frequent enough; but vastly worse as well as startling- 

 ly novel was the conduct of automobilist after automo- 

 bilist, over on Long Island, on Sunday, for it is said that 

 not until vain appeals had been made to ten of them 

 was one found with heart enough to take to the nearest 

 hospital a young woman who was lying by the roadside 

 with a fractured skull, and to all appearance at the 

 point of death. As it happened, she had herself been 

 thrown from an automobile that hi.d collided with a 

 telegraph-pole, and the other automobilists might have 

 been expected to show special sympathy for one suffer- 

 ing from an accident which could befall themselves any 

 day. But seemingly they did not have a special sym- 

 pathy, or any sympathy at all Instead they showed, 

 according to report, a strange coldness and brutality al- 

 most unknown among human kind." 



It seems as if the above must be a mis- 

 take. My experience with people who drive 

 autos has been that they are all remarkably 

 ready to stop and offer assistance to any 

 brother autoist; but, of course, I have had 

 no experience with Sunday touring; and if 

 it is really true that all the worst characters 

 who handle automobiles are sure to be out 

 on Sunday, then the above is a tremendous 

 argument in favor of having all good people 

 let their automobiles rest on God's holy day. 

 Going to church with them is. of course, an 

 entirely different matter; and those who use 

 them as they do carriages for going to church 

 certainly do not scorch on the way nor be- 

 have in an unchristianlike manner in any 

 respect. Once more let me repeat — what 

 kind of crowd do you, my friend, want to be 

 classed with? 



CANTEENS IN SOLDIERS' HOMES RULED OUT. 



Mr. E. C. Dinwiddle, National Superin- 

 tendent of the Anti- saloon League, just now 

 sends us full particulars of a long and ear- 

 nest debate as to whether soldiers' homes. 

 State or national, should continue to keep 

 up the canteen. The result was almost two 

 to one in favor of ruling them out. May 

 God be praised for this victory, even if it 

 has been long in coming. 



COONS, MOSQUITO-HAWKS. ETC.t ALSO A SHORT SEQUEL 

 TO MY CHICKEN STORY OP LAST WINTER. 



Friend Root— A bunch of coons raided our chicken- 

 roost, got about fifty of them— the two hens with the 

 big broods, chicks and all. I trapped three of the coons, 

 but there are some more. 



You know I was skeptical about mosquito-hawks do- 

 ing much damage; but I give up. They came in swarms 

 last week, and would take bees right over the hive I 

 was working with. I lost seventeen young queens in 

 three days. The bees just quit work, and stayed in the 

 hive. The ABC said the hawks are easily frightened. 

 The children and I went for them with large palmetto 

 fans, and killed them by the hundred; but they kept 

 right on for about a week, then disappeared. 



The bees from the young queens are about as gentle 

 as the old one. I handle them without smoke. We are 

 glad you can take all the young queens. When we got 

 your first letter we were having so much bad luck we 

 felt a little blue; but this week the mosquito-hawks 

 are gone, and we just finished extracting 92 gallons of 

 nice honey. Your letter to-day makes things brighter. 



Your shrubbery, trees, etc., are all doing well except 

 the strawberries and Japanese persimmons. They are 

 dead. The papaya is looking extra nice, and the mul- 

 berries look well. I. T. Shumard. 



Osprey, Fla., May 26. 



