1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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prepared to offer a plan for securing such an end; 

 but it is very clearly important that something 

 should be done in this dircciion. 



FOOT-POAVEK SHEARS, FOR CUTTINO 

 TIN, PASTEBOAI^M, THIN WOOD, ETC. 



SOMETniXG ABOUT A HANDY TOOFi FOR A BEK- 

 KEEPEI!. 



fjIIE machine we illustrate below was in- 

 tended originally for cutting sheet iron 

 — ■ and tin ; but we found them so handy 

 for a great variety of purposes, that we have 

 had them for years in the different rooms of 

 our factory. As they are all made of iron, 

 and the bed-plate, or table, planed perfectly 

 true and level with the different gauges, it 

 affords great facility for cutting peffectly 

 square, and with great accuracy. As it cuts 

 paper as nicely as any paper-cutter, wlien 

 not more than, say, 1^4 sheets are cut at once, 

 it is really superior to most paper-cutters for 

 any thing like the money. For several years 

 Gleanix(;s was trimmed on one of these 

 machines, and it did it quite as well, and al- 

 most as fast, as the cutter we use now, cost- 

 ing several Inuidred dollars. Amateur print- 

 ers will lind thein very handy for trimming 

 circulars, cutting cards, paper, etc. 



infant before alluded to. Will it be strange if these. 

 children shall grow up to be common drunkards? 

 Will it be strange if this inborn desire for strong 

 drink should lead thom to the felon's cell, or bring 

 them to an old age of pauperism and misery? 



Conceived in inebriety, born in inebriety, and 

 suckled at the breast of an inebriate mother! What 

 a terrible legacy is this for a parent to leave a child I 

 And yet, ii is a legacy wliicb, eight times out of ten. 

 will cling to that child, and produce its legitimate 

 fruits as long as he may live. 



This I conceive to l)c the root of the matter. Men 

 are what they are, not so much by instruction and 

 training, as by what they have inherited from their 

 parents. Let our reformatorj' institutions and as- 

 sociations bear this fact in mind; and while they 

 battle with the evil which is present, let them not 

 forget its fertile source, but let them proclaim 

 through the highways and the liyways of the land 

 the immutable laws of the Creator, which place 

 within the power of parents such a controlling in- 

 tluonce over the destinies of their unborn children. 



James McNeill. 



Hudson, N. Y., Jan. iU, 1883. 



L can not forbear giving here an extract 

 from Doctor Kellogg"s excellent book. Flam 

 Facts, as it lias such a direct bearing on the 

 subject friend M. has so vividly and power- 

 fuhy brought up before us. >See what our 

 nation has to battle with: — 



A SOURCE OF CRIME. -THE "JUKE" FAMILY. 



Who can tell how many of the liars, thieves, drunk- 

 ards, murderers, and prostitutes of our day are less 

 responsible for their crimes against themselves, 

 against society, and against heaven. thHu those 

 wtio were instrumental in bringmg them into the 

 world? Almost every village has its boy "who was 

 born drunk," a staggering, simpering, idiotic repre- 

 sentative of a droaken father, beastly intoxicated 

 at the very moment when he should have beeu most 

 sober. 



An interesting study of this question has recently 

 been made by Mr. Dugdale, a member of the Prison 

 Association of the State of New York. Wnen visit- 

 ing the various jails of the State, he found in one six 

 persons detained for crimes of vari(jus character, 

 between all of whom there was a family relation. 

 Upon further inquiry, he found that of the same 

 family there were twenty-nine relatives in the vi- 

 cinity, seventeen of whom were criminals. Still 

 further investigation developed the following facts: 

 Within seventy-tive years, a family of 130IJ persons 

 have sprung from five sisters, several of whom 

 were illegitimate, and three of whom were known 

 to be unchaste, and who married men whose father 

 was an idle, thriftless hunter, .a hard drinker, and 

 licentious. 

 Of this family, the history of but 7i9 was traced. 

 Of these, the facts set forth in the following in- 

 complete summary were found to be truer- 

 Paupers 280 



Years of pauperism, •. 798 



Criminals, ■ MO 



Years of infamy 750 



Thieves 60 



Murderers, 7 



Prostitutes and adulteresses, 165 



Illegitimate children, 91 



No. of persons contaminated by syphilitic disease 480 



Cost to the State in various ways 81,308,000 



Without doubt a complete summary would make 

 this showing still more app-.illing, since of the TU9 

 whose histories were traced, it was in many in- 

 stances impossible to determine whether the indi- 

 viduals were guilty of crime or unchasiity or not, 

 even where there were grounds for suspicion. Such 

 oases were not included in the summary. 



No amount of argument on this question could be 

 so conclusive as are these simple facts concerning 

 the "Juke" family. It is certainly high time that 

 our Ipgislators began to awaken to this sub.iect, and 

 consider whether it would be an unprcjfitalj'.e ex- 

 periment to make some attempt to prevent the mul- 

 tiplication of criminals in this manner. We are not 



22-INCn FOOT-POWER f-QUARIXG SHEARS. 



You will observe by the cut, that there are 

 sliding gauges, both on the back and front. 

 Other gauges make it easy to cut wood, met- 

 al, card, or paper, into any size or shape, 

 bound by straight lines. Tin can be cut into 

 squares or strips, l)y air expert, faster than 

 you could well count the pieces. Thin wood 

 is also easily cut, and we use one constantly 

 in the wax-room for boxing fdn. As we use 

 mostly thin basswood, we cut it across the 

 grain readily, where the thickness is from i 

 to i inch ; and with the grain, we can quick- 

 ly shear olT even ^ stuff'. Nail the pieces on 

 your box, letting the stuff extend over; take 

 it on the shears, and clip off closely clear 

 around : now linish witii one of our cheap 

 planes, and yon have a neat job, done in a 

 twinkling. "With a lot of tliin basswood, 

 such as you can have made at any shingle 



