Gleanings in bee culture . tronger. Sunday, the 17th, the windand rain were just as bad. I glanced atthe entrances of all the colonies at the homeapiary, and found five had died Avhile I wasabsent. These were the ones I did not feed. Continued on page 815. DECEMBER 15, J9V. 807 A NEW WAYJOF^DEMONSTRATING WITHBEES AT FAIRS Success in Spite of Misfortune; How One Man has been Able to Look on the Bright Side, even though Crippled for Life BY L. RIEBEL Just thirty years aj^o, on the morning ofDecember 15, 1882, 1 was lielpiiig a uei,sli-hor move a house. Througli a little care-lessness on the part
Gleanings in bee culture . tronger. Sunday, the 17th, the windand rain were just as bad. I glanced atthe entrances of all the colonies at the homeapiary, and found five had died Avhile I wasabsent. These were the ones I did not feed. Continued on page 815. DECEMBER 15, J9V. 807 A NEW WAYJOF^DEMONSTRATING WITHBEES AT FAIRS Success in Spite of Misfortune; How One Man has been Able to Look on the Bright Side, even though Crippled for Life BY L. RIEBEL Just thirty years aj^o, on the morning ofDecember 15, 1882, 1 was lielpiiig a uei,sli-hor move a house. Througli a little care-lessness on the part of the nmn who wasmanaging the affaii*, and having a bad placein the road to get my team across, I slip-ped, and the building caught my left footand broke the large bone just above theankle. I was taken home at once and thedoctor called, who visited me every day forover a week. This doctor did not under-stand his business, however, on account ofusing too much liquor, as I afterwardlearned; and my leg, not getting along as. L. Riebel, Chariton, Iowa, with a set of his comLdemonstrations at fairs. well as it should, iiad to be amputated onChristmas afternoon. If 1 liad known thenwhat T know now 1 would not have neededa doctor at all, and that thigh amputationwould have been entirely unnecessary. Asit was, I have been a cripple all these years,just because of one mans mistake. Doc-tors generally bury their mistakes, it issaid; but it seems tliat they do not alwaysdn so. About a year after my leg was amputat-ed 1 placed my order for an artificial manufacturer of it did not wear onehimself, neither did any of his employees;but he had a nice working model withsprings and cords; and to hear him tellabout it one would think that it only had tobe wound up, wdien it would walk off almostby itself. How^ever, wlien I got it I wasvery much disappointed, for I could notuse it Avith any kind of control. It painedme all the lime, had no knee action, andwas a dead drag con-tinually. I
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