1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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through I found it was oozing out from al- 

 most every pore of my body * 



For some weeks back I had noticed that 

 not only was there a bad odor to my breath, 

 but in spite of repeated bathings I did not 

 smell sweet and clean as a person in good 

 health ought to smell. Well, this profuse 

 perspiration actually had a bad smell. I hope 

 you will excuse me, friends, for talking plain- 

 ly, for I am touching on a vital point. Old peo- 

 ple can, if they care enough about it, smell as 

 sweet and clean as a babe, or at least pretty 

 nearly so. When I was in Cuba during the 

 extremely hot weather, I mentioned that my 

 perspiration seemed to be sticky or gluti- 

 nous, and gave off a bad odor until I got en- 

 tirely free from it by using a shower bath 

 every day or twice a day. When I noticed 

 that peculiar glutinous perspiration that 

 seemed coming out all over my body at the 

 time in question, I began to think of a show- 

 er bath. I went back in the woods where 

 my celery garden used to be, pulled a plug 

 out of one of the large pipes, and the water 

 instantly shot clear up into the branches of 

 the trees overhead. It came out not only 

 by the pailful but by barrelfuls. I knew this 

 could not last, because it would exhaust the 

 reservoir at the spring. But I thought it 

 would last long enough for what I wanted it. 

 When I first got under the shower bath I 

 thought I could not stand it; but after a lit- 

 tle I found it just delightful. I not only 

 scrubbed my body with my hands, but I ap- 

 plied the full force of a stream that would 

 rise twelve or fifteen feet high directly 

 against every part of my body until I felt as 

 if I had had a massage. Then I dried my- 

 self in the sun, and thanked God that it was 

 possible to get such exhilaration without the 

 use of any drug or stimulant. I thought 

 again of that passage in the book of Job, 

 where, in speaking of the horse, it says, 

 "He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in 

 his strength." After that I managed to do 

 some kind of work that would get me into a 

 profuse perspiration almost every day, fol- 

 lowing it up with a shower bath with force 

 enough from the stream of water to give me 

 a good pounding, and it worked wonders. 

 May be the sanitariums have something as 

 good; but my medicine did not cost two or 

 or three dollars a day for board and lodging, 

 besides feeing doctors. It was God's air 

 and God's water. I have been tempted, 

 sometimes, to think that the water of the 

 springs around Grand Traverse Bay has pe- 

 culiar medical properties ; but the probability 

 is that almost any spring or other good wa- 

 ter will do equally well. 



Now, there is another factor I must not 

 omit. During all of this "treatment" I 



* I must not fail to add that the hydraulic ram does 

 its work beautifully. I hitched on a rubber hose and 

 then stood on the front doorstep and called Sue to see 

 that niy apparatus threw the water up higher than the 

 doorway and higher than I could reach. Then I added, 

 ' Why, I can pour a stream of water right down the 

 chimney of the house if you want it." 



"No, no, dear husband. Don't pour any water down 

 the chimney, for mercy's sake, for I have hard enough 

 work to get this little stove to draw as it is. Not any 

 water, thank you, in the chimney." 



was attending revival meetings every even- 

 ing, and getting my heart fuller and fuller 

 of God's precious promises and of the com- 

 forting influences of the Holy Spirit. There 

 may be other ways of giving old people 

 glimpses of the fountain of perpetual youth 

 besides those I have discovered away back 

 there in the woods; and I have no disposition 

 to quarrel with anybody nor to say my way 

 is best; but the pure air and pure water I 

 have spoken of are free to all. I can say to 

 every one of you, "Ho, every one that 

 thirsteth! come ye to the waters and drink. " 



Perhaps to be truthful I should say that, 

 while up there in the woods attending meet- 

 ings every evening, I did very little reading 

 of any kind, and very little writing. As a 

 consequence, when I got home a great lot of 

 correspondence was piled up on my desk, to 

 be answered. God did not intend these lives 

 here on earth to be altogether selfish ones. 

 Very likely there are times when the de- 

 mands on our time and strength are such 

 that we can not neglect life's duties long 

 enough to enjoy the very best of health — 

 that is, looking at it from a Christian stand- 

 point. 



Now, friends, don't you think my plan of 

 ' ' doctoring " is a pretty good one after all 

 —at least for most people? 



OUR 



HOMES, 



BY A. I. R O OT. 



Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for an 

 eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you. That ye 

 resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy 

 right cheek, turn to him the other also.— Matt. 5:38, 39. 



In this Christian nation, and during this 

 twentieth century, it does seem as if our 

 people might get over the fashion of think- 

 ing it gentlemanly to knock a man down 

 should he call you a liar, or to shoot a man 

 down if he does certain things. If a mid- 

 night burglar arouses you from your slum- 

 bers, and demands your money or your life, 

 I suppose the thing to do is to shoot him if 

 you can. This is self -protection ; for we 

 well know that at least the average mid- 

 night burglar carries a revolver, and sup- 

 poses everybody understands he shoots with- 

 out mercy if you interfere in any way with 

 his plan to rob you. You do not shoot him 

 down exactly to save your money, but to 

 save your life or the lives of those near and 

 dear to you. If the circumstances are such 

 that you have no good reason to think your 

 own life is in danger I think I would let the 

 midnight burglar take what he could find 

 and get away, rather than take any risk. 

 Circumstances would have to decide largely 

 what is best to do. But even in such a case 

 I would advise everybody to be slow about 

 deciding to take a man's life. 



A man whom I knew well found pomebody 

 was pilfering every little while from his 



