1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



405 



EIvECTRIC BELT 1-RKE: 

 Great electro-chemic belt! Why be a sorrowful, 

 weak mail, when thi.s electrochemic belt will restore 

 you to health and happiness? This great free offer is 

 made to \ on. and it holds good for a few days only: 

 so, write to-day — it is yours for the asking, without 

 one cent of co.st to vou. This is a real gift for adver- 

 tising purposes. We are anxious to give it if it will be 

 any help to you. You simply send us your name, and 

 we' send you' the belt. It is yours to keep for ever, and 

 ■we under no circumstances a.sk for or accept any mon- 

 ey for it, either now or in the future. 



I have often noticed this class of adver- 

 tisements, and sometimes, I am sad to say, 

 in the relig'ioiis papers. I have thoug^ht 

 several times I would write, just in order 

 to lind out what it was they give away 

 free, or how they would get out of it. To 

 tell the truth, I have several times been 

 tempted to think they really had something- 

 that was such a boon to humanity they 

 were sending it out free of charge in order 

 to introduce it. It seemed as if the thing 

 vitist have merit or they would not oflFer it 

 in that way. But the letter that friend 

 Freeman sends along explains the matter. 

 It starts out in this way: 



Mr. Steen Freeman : — Your marked symptom- 

 blank has received our careful and most thorough ex- 

 amination, and it will not be necessary for us to tell 

 what your trouble is. You know it, and presume you 

 know the cause of it. What you must consider now is 

 its cure, for you probably know what it will lead to. 



You see the above is so worded that it 

 will fit any malady, and, furthermore, it is 



printed on a printing-press, and not on a 

 tj'pewriter. "You know it, and presume 

 you know the cause of it." To make a 

 long story short, they say his trouble is of 

 such a serious nature it will require some 

 powerful medicine to go along with the 

 belt. The belt would not do him any good 

 without the medicine; and it would not be 

 any advantage to them to give it away un- 

 der the circumstances, but quite the contra- 

 rj'. With the medicine, however, it will 

 perform a great cure. The regular price 

 for such treatment as he needs and must 

 have (and that, too, at once) is $20 for a 

 course of two months ; but under the cir- 

 cumstances, on account of their sympathy 

 (?) for him in his bad predicament, they 

 will let him have the medicines at bare 

 cost, $5.90. The belt will be sent absolute- 

 ly free, according to contract. 



Now, I am not prepared to say that all 

 these things advertised absolutely free of 

 charge are of this character. The great 

 " Heidelberg Institute " is not quoted at all 

 by Dun or Bradstreet, as you may suppose, 

 although they profess to have a capital of 

 $100,000. Of course, they make a wonder- 

 ful parade of the great things that electric- 

 ity does. They do not make mention, how- 

 ever, of the opportunity it gives people of 

 this ilk to rob sick people by persuading them 

 that electricity performs wonderful cures. 



WAX PROFITS. 



Fig 169.— The Root-German Steam 

 Wax-press Price |14.00. Shipping 

 weight, 70 lbs. 



Many bee-kaepers allow old combs and 

 scraps of beeswax to collect, which, for lack 

 of time and the proper utensils, are scattered 

 or eaten up by moth-worms. A 

 big item would be added to the 

 year's profits by the timely ren- 

 dering of said wax by an econom- 

 ical process. We believe the -press illus- 

 trated herewith fills a long-felt want in 

 rendering wax. 



B. Walker, Clyde, 111., says: 

 Was inclined to believe at first that the German 

 wax-press was a failure; but after a thorough trial 

 I was well pleased. I secured 30 lbs. more wax 

 from one day's use of the machine than I would 

 have secured by the ordinary method of rendering. 



N. E. France, Platteville, Wis., State In- 

 spector of Apiaries, and General Manager 

 National Bee keepers' Association, says: 



The German wax press is by far the best ma- 

 chine or process to save wax from old black brood- 

 combs. 



M antxfactured by 



XShQ A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, OKio, U. »S. A. 



\\'t_- are now paving -''^c casli, S'Jc trade, for average wax delivered at Mtdin.i. 



