1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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some more. He gave me perhaps a dozen 

 copies of Gleanings. The more I read, the 

 more I was taken up with them; and, to make 

 a long story short, when he told me there 

 were back numbers for several years up in 

 his garret that I might have if I would go 

 after them, I went ami got the whole pile. I 

 read those journals off and on all winter, and 

 I said to my wife that I would enjoy meet- 

 ing that man, and having a talk with him." 



There, friends, you have the story of my 

 rebuke. God, in his infinite goodness and 

 mercy, was planning to give me a chance to 

 help a hungering soul, and I was cross about 

 it. While 1 am on this subject let me relate 

 another incident. I was crossing, on a pret- 

 ty little steamer called the "Sailorboy," 

 from Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to Menominee, 

 Mich. I thought I would keep quiet for once 

 in my life, and not let anybody know who I 

 was unless particularly asked. Of course, I 

 went around and chatted with the people I 

 got acquainted with, for my conscience would 

 trouble me if 1 did not try to bring sunshine 

 wherever I went, so far as I could consist- 

 ently. Just as we got in sight of our land- 

 ingplace a man whom I had been chatting 

 with for some little time said, "Did you say 

 you lived in the northern part of Ohio ?" 



I nodded. 



"May I ask your name ?" 



When I told him, he put out his hand and 

 said, "Why, bless your heart, Mr. Root, 

 why did you not tell us who you were be- 

 fore ?" 



I asked him if he was a bee-keeper. ' ' No, ' ' 

 he said, "I am not a bee-keeper, and I do 



not take your journal; but I read the Pratic- 

 al Farmer, and I saw what T. B. Terry said 

 about your coming to his house and making 

 a good square meal on six cents' worth of 

 rolled wheat, dried peaches, and nuts; and, 

 my friend, I think that man Terry is one of 

 the benefactors of the human race. He has 

 not only enabled me to save doctors' bills, 

 but through his teachings I am enjoying bet- 

 ter health than I ever did before in my life. 

 I am eating and enjoying the grains, nut.s, 

 and fruits, and taking a cold bath every 

 morning of my life, and a good bit of exer- 

 cise in the open air. 1 am doing more work, 

 and am of more use to myself and everybody 

 else than I had been for many a long year 

 before I followed his teachings." 



Then he went around among the passen- 

 gers on the boat, saying, "Here is Rooc, the 

 bee-man, and he never told us who he was 

 until just now." 



Now, friends, I am well aware thei-e is 

 such a thing as being in too much of a hurry 

 to tell people who you are and where you 

 live, etc ; but there is also another extreme 

 to be avoided. Jesus said— in fact, he laid 

 the commission right squarely on our shoul- 

 ders: "Go into all the world and preach the 

 gospel;" and how can we preach the gospel 

 of Jesus Christ, or even the gospel of good 

 health or pure air or any thing else, unless 

 we talk to people and get acquainted? Over 

 and over again in traveling I have said to 

 myself, " No w, old fellow, see what you would 

 have missed had you yielded to the temptation 

 to keep still and' not tried to interest your- 

 self in other people and their affairs." 



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