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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



tie ones created in God's own linage and en- 

 trusted to our careV Remember what the 

 dear Savior said— "Of such Is the kingdom 

 of heaven." 



If there Is a girl or woman who reads 

 Gleanings and loves babies, and would like 

 a place to work helping the mother, we 

 should l)e glad to publish her name. Now 

 who will be first on the roll of honor? 



TREASURES IN HEAVEN. 



The following, from the Cleveland Leader, 

 ought to cause a thrill in the heart of every 

 American citizen: 



San Francisco, April 28, -The army transport Bu- 

 ford, placed at the disposal of the Christian Herald in 

 its effort to relieve the starving in China, will sail for 

 China Tuesday. 



Its stores of 28,000 barrels of flour, valued, with trans- 

 portation charges, at $150,000, will be taken to Chin 

 Kiang, China. E. R. Johnstone, once editor of the 

 Cleveland Leader, is commissioner in charge of the re- 

 lief expedition, and will supervise the distribution in 

 China, when the Buford's four-week trip ends. 



Commissioner Johnstone and Rev. Dr. Talmage will 

 speak at services on the pier just before the sailing 

 of the ship. 



And the above ought to make every man, 

 woman, and child feel happy that they have 

 got something invested in that shipload of 

 flour. If you neglected to invest something 

 when the call came, make haste and get 

 something in the next shipload; and then re- 

 joice that you have got some treasure laid 

 up in heaven, where moth and rust doth not 

 corrupt, and where thieves do not break 

 through and steal. 



FLYING THROUGH THE AIR, SKIMMING OVER 

 THE W^ATER, ETC. 



For some time past I have had in mind 

 something on the principle of a flying-ma- 

 chine, to be used on the water, not in the 

 water, like a boat, but to skim over the sur- 

 face of it the way flying-fish do sometimes. 

 My plan is to have a machine propelled by 

 propellors that work in the air, so that the 

 craft could, if desired, get clear out of the 

 water and skim on the surface or over the 

 surface, sinking back into the water when 

 the speed slackens or when the operator 

 wants to stop. The higher the speed, the 

 higher out of the water the craft would nav- 

 igate. Of course, this is not new. Experi- 

 ments along the same line have been made 

 across the water as well as here in America. 

 You may imagine with what interest I read 

 over and over the following which I copy 

 from the Dayton Journal of March 1, 1907: 



WRIGHT BOYS SCORE ANOTHER TRIUMPH. 



INVENT A HYDBOPLiANE AND ATTRACT WIDESPREAD 

 ATTENTION BY THEIR EXPERIMENTS IN MIAMI 

 RIVER NEAR BRIDGE-STREET BRIDGE— EN- 

 GINE REFUSES TO WORK AND TEST IS 

 INCOMPLETE. 



Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of the fa- 

 mous Wright flyer, who have startled the scientific 

 world with the wonderful progress they have made in 

 connection with the difficult problem of aerial naviga- 

 tion, have diverted their attention for a time to new 

 channels and have invented a hydroplane which bids 

 fair to elicit widespread attention. 



The art of secretiveness has been thoroughly mas- 

 tered by the Wright Brothers, and entirely without 

 the knoweldge of their most intimate friends they 

 have perfected their most recent invention. Yester- 

 day they put their queer little craft to a practical test 

 on the Miami River, near the River-Street bridge. 



There is but little overt appearance to distinguish 

 the boat from the ordinary vessel of its size, save the 

 fact that there is no visible means of propulsion. The 

 motive power is furnished by a 20-horse-i)ower gaso- 

 line-engine, and this part of the entire device was the 

 only obstacle in the way of perfect success in the ex- 

 periment. The engine refused to operate pi-operly, 

 and, of course, the test was unsatisfactory. 



Another distinction of the hydroplane, however, is 

 the fact that it is so constructed that there is very 

 little displacement of water, the craft being practical, 

 even for water but a few feet deep. The front of the 

 vessel has an upward tendency as if supported by 

 aerial buoyancy. 



This is not the first hydroplane that has been in- 

 vented, although never before has such a craft been 

 seen in local waters, or ever been devised by any one 

 in this section of the country. It promises to become 

 another triumph of more than passing interest for the 

 Dayton inventors who have already attained interna- 

 tional renown by their marvelous achievements in the 

 degree of perfection they have realized in the field of 

 aerial navigation. 



In a talk with the Wright Brothers a few 

 days ago they said such an apparatus might, 

 without question, make moi'e than a mile a 

 minute, rivaling the ice-boats which fly over 

 the frozen lakes in winter. They do not, 

 however, seem to think it worth while to 

 experiment further in that direction, since 

 they have succeeded in flying so easily 

 through the air. The machine described in 

 the above clipping was operated first by one 

 person. When they found it would go all 

 right both the brothers got aboard, and final- 

 ly one of their helpers besides. This sunk 

 it so low in the water that the blades of the 

 propeller made the water fly pretty lively. 

 The craft was given buoyancy by a couple of 

 hollow drums tilled with air. The above ex- 

 periment was made with one of their old dis- 

 carded engines, and the power was hardly 

 sutticient to make high speed. There would 

 be one advantage in making experiments of 

 this kind, for in case of accident the opera- 

 tor would be in the water where he could be 

 rescued instead of being up in the clouds. 

 Well, friends, I can not help thinking that 

 some of us may live to see the time when we 

 shall have crafts skimming over the water 

 at a higher rate of speed than automobiles 

 now move over the best roadbeds. 



In regard to the above I have just i*eceived 

 from the Wright Brothers the following 

 statement: 



Dear Mr. Root:~Our only objection to publishing 

 any thing about our experiments is that it may cause 

 people to write us for information, and we haven't the 

 time for answering. Wright Brothers. 



Dayton, Ohio, May 2. 



There will be an international pure-food 

 exposition held in the Coliseum Building, 

 Chicago, from Nov. TJth to the 25th. Now, 

 why not get together and make a grand dis- 

 play of honey and beeswax? The time, the 

 date, and the place are all that can be de- 

 sired. What is wanted now is a display that 

 will surpass any thing of the kind ever seen 

 anywhere. If the National will take hold, 

 this can be accomplished. 



