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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



made her a present of the book. I was sick when she 

 came home, and, of cc^urse, was the first "victim;" 

 and, "oh, my!" bow quick I got well! 



The improvised arrangements were a solid-bottom 

 chair with quilt or blanket folded to sit on and hang 

 down to the floor in front; then two or three blankets 

 folded around the patient from back to front and ^'ront 

 to back, reaching to the floor, then have a tin cup a 

 third full of alcohol (wood alcohol is just as good); 

 light it and set it under the chair. When perspiration 

 starts, tie a wet cloth around the head and give the 

 patient plenty of water to drink. Don't keep the pa- 

 tient in longer than twenty minutes; then wash off 

 under the blankets and cool off gradually. If taken 

 at night going to bed immediately, there is no danger 

 of taking cold, and it's equal to a Turkish bath. My! 

 how the epidermis does roll off, even if taken every 

 week! 



After the bath cabinet came out I went to see them 

 and took the measurement with my eye, and made 

 one which cost $3 00 (they wanted $10 00 for theirs), and 

 mine had much better oil-cloth. The cabinet is much 

 the best, as it allows the patient to do his or her own 

 washing. 



We raised a family of four boys, and none of the 

 family ever had the grip, although our neighbors had 

 three different runs of it. If any one were feeling 

 badly he took an enema, as large as possible, to flush 

 out the colon; took a sweat bath, and went to bed. 

 The next morning he would get up feeling floe. 



Right here is another thing. Flushing the colon I 

 found to be one of the greatest benefits to any one 

 threatened with a fever. It works wonders— will cure 

 almost all cases of indigestion, and that scourge 

 among babies (summer complaint) it will cure almost 

 immediately. 



The above way of taking a sweat bath would have 

 some advantages over your Michigan way by not hav- 

 ing to work to get up the perspiration, and it can be 

 taken in winter as well as in summer; but in winter 

 one wants to be very careful and wash off in cool water 

 at the last to close the pores, and not go out for one 

 or two hours after cooling off. Down here we have to 

 do very little work to get up the perspiration and the 

 last two months all I hav- had to do was to go out to 

 feed and water the chickens in the middle of the day, 

 and I am ready for the bath. 



I was born in Ohio, and lived there for fifty years, 

 so I know all about your Ohio winters 



I want to tell you about my bees. I took them on 

 as a side line three years ago, and increased up to sev- 

 en hives. I had an accident in January, and had my 

 right arm broken; so when bee time came I was no 

 good at lifting or anything else; but the better half 

 took pity on me and donned a hat and veil and march- 

 ed into the yard and helped through the season. Now 

 we have 21 fine stands of bees, and have taken a thou- 

 sand pounds of as fine honey as your best white clo- 

 ver How's that? J. H. Calktns. 



San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 28. 



Temperance. 



THE POISON OF THE BEE-STING AND THAT OF 



THE DRAMSHOP — ARE THJiY TO BE 



COMPARED? 



_ Mr. Root:—l read in Gleanings for Sept. 15, p. 1218, 

 " May God hasten the day when they be swept from 

 every Stateof the Union; and. better sill, from off the 

 face of the earth." I personally thank you for your 

 expression. Now, Mr. Root, if one of your bees would 

 sting one of your neighbors, and he should die from 

 the sting, should therefore every bee-keeper be wiped 

 off the face of the earth? Don't you know that life is 

 just as sweet to the Pennsylvania hotel-keepers as it 

 is to the Ohio manufacturer? Give me your explana- 

 tion on this point, and we go still further. Are you, 

 or do you pretend to be, a good Christian? If so, do 

 you not know that Jesus Christ came into the world 

 to save every soul? He did not come to wipe them off 

 the face of the earth. Who are you, anyhow? We 

 people around my home have churches, the Bible and 

 the law of Pennsylvania. If one man abuses arother 

 he has to suffer the penalty of the law; but we are not 

 going to wipe every thing off the earth. If you are 

 prosperous in your business, thank God that he has 

 done you so much favor, and pray that he may do so 

 in the future; and so everybody else should be thank- 

 ful for all he possesses, for every thing we have is the 



gift of God. If he withdraws his hand we shall soon 

 all be " wiped off the earth." Joseph Schatzlb. 

 Trachsville, Pa., Sept. 23, 1907. 



Well, my good friend, you have got me in 

 a corner, have you not? To begin with, I 

 think I can say as you do, and "personally 

 thank you" for your illustration; and I 

 thank you, too, for your very kind and 

 Christianlike letter. 1 do realize that hotel- 

 keepers who have been furnishing beer to 

 their patrons are a different class of people 

 from those who ordinarily run saloons. Yes, 

 it is true a few people have died from the 

 effects of stings, although such eases are 

 very rare; but, my dear friend, have you 

 not failed to consider that he who dies from 

 a bee-sting dies an honest death? He is in no 

 way to blame, and no slur rests on his repu- 

 tation as it does on that of one who fills a 

 drunkard's grave If the injury from bee- 

 stings were responsible for nine-tenths of the 

 crime, or something like it, committed in 

 this land of ours, do you think I would con- 

 tinue to be a bee keeper or to publish a bee- 

 journal? If you have been reading Glean- 

 ings and other periodicals you certainly 

 mvist know that the world is beginning to 

 wake up to the fact that our jails and peni- 

 tentiaries are almost all kept up bi-cause of 

 the drink-traffic*. Yes, indeed, Jesus Christ 

 did come into this world to save every soul, 

 as you put it, and not to wipe them off the 

 face of the earth; and, my dear brother, in 

 my expression to which you allude I never 

 thought of such a thing as wiping the saloon- 

 keeper himself off the face of the earth. 

 God forbid ! I would wipe out the saloon 

 and the saloon business that he might be 

 compelled to earn his money in some liveli- 

 hood that is not a damage to his fellow-men. 

 You say we have the laws; but you do not 

 seem to know that, at the conventions of sa- 

 loon people, their public speakers have re- 

 peatedly declared they could not make a 

 living if they were obliged to obey the law. 

 It is because the saloon business demands 

 that the law shall be trampled under foot, 

 not only on Sunday but every other day and 

 night, that our nation is waging such war 

 against it. I can give a most hearty amen 

 to all your closing words; and if it should 

 ever be my good fortune to go to your part 

 of Pennsylvania I shall most assuredly try 

 to put up at your hotel; but unless I go 

 pretty soon, dear friend, I do not believe I 

 shall find a bar attached to it. May God 

 help you out of the darkness, and into the 

 light that is breaking, not only throughout 

 our land but over the whole wide world, 

 along different lines in the way of banishing 

 intemperance. 



♦Lately there has been a tremendous excitement 

 several times in our region in regard to mad dogs 

 biting people right and left. In one case several 

 schoolchildren were bitten, and death has resulted in 

 some cases. Now. these children died an honest and 

 innocent death. It was death of the body and not 

 death of the soul; and yet we have been severely cen- 

 sured by thp liquor-dealers because we have some- 

 times claimed that a saloon with its attendant gam- 

 bling-dens and other things was like letting a mad dog 

 go loose where children were near and likely to be 

 bitten. 



