Nov. 14, lyoi. 



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dreams and tlioir ineaniiif; to liinisclf. But, no, he must tell. 

 1 f<'ai- the show of hoasting may have been present to .sting 

 tlie already jealous and sensitive brotliers. He could but 

 have noticed tlieir unrest and displeasure at the narration of 

 Ills dream. Was it kindly, then, or modest, for him to tell of 

 the second dream? The less was this trin' in that it reachi'il to 

 the father who was to l)eco!ne subject to the son. 8urely. 

 those wicked brothers — and they were horribly wicked — were 

 in the way of some potent inllueuces which must have fed and 

 nourished powerfullv the rancor, hate and jealousv that re- 

 sulted so disastrously. 



Joseph's misfortunes certainly doveloped in him a char- 

 acter maguilicent almost beyond compare. That the brothers 

 were won in part from their evil thoughts and practices is as 

 surely true. Maybe many of us are most fortunate in the 

 irritating, vexatious, experiences that come to torment us. 



THE SUNDAY=SCHOOL. 



I lind a rich treat in the Sunday-school. My father al- 

 ways went with me to Sunday-school. He was for years the 

 superintendent. I early learned to love the study aiid discus- 

 sions. How different it might have been had not my father 

 cared for these Sunday privileges. Nothing could keep father 

 away. How could 1 but learn to respect this service? 1 have 

 always followed in my father steps. My children were the 

 companions of myself and wife as we almost invariably went 

 cacli Sunday to study that masterpiece in all literature. 



Today my son teaches regularly a large class in a large 

 and infiuential Sunday-school. A little sou has just come to 

 that home. How happy 1 am in the thought that "Little 

 Albert " will grow up to attend and love the Sunday-school 

 and all the blessed teachings that it hands over to its patron.s. 

 In just such influences lies the safety of our children. Such 

 teachings give to our nation a grand citizenship. We stand 

 appalled before the dastardly act of the anarchist. Anarchy 

 can not even sprout in the blessed seed-bed of the Sunday- 

 school. 



I am teacher of a large Sunday-school Bible class of over 

 30. There are seldom less than that number in the class. 

 Yesterday we had a gentleman and his wife with us who are 

 not wont to come. The father told me that he did not know 

 it was so interesting. Hi' assured me that they would come? 

 regularly. I am rejoiced. They have three bright boys. 

 One, the oldest, a very promising boy in many ways, with two 



other boys, ran away last year, and were gone, to the great 

 sorrow and agony of the parents, for days. The Sunday- 

 school does not favor such escajiades. It is almost sure to 

 replace any wish to ilo so with a better ambition. But if we 

 wish our children to love and benefit by the school we must 

 love and benelit by it ourselves. We often need its beneficent 

 influence fully as much as do the dear children. 



Oh. how glad I am that my father loved such things ! 

 How richly have his tendencies and habits in all these good 

 ways taken hold of my own \\U\ and. through me, they have 

 been iiassed on to bless my children and my grandchildren. 

 Can We do a more patriotic thing than to go each Sunday with 

 our child r<'n to a good Sunday-school ? 



A MINING TOWN SUNUAY=SCHO0L. 



As a child I was never strong. While [ remi'mber my col- 

 lege life as most delightful and as the best part of my whole 

 lif<', my poor health, however, was a constant menace to its 

 continuance. So this life was not all roses. 



I stepped from college much broken in health, and came 

 to California to mend it. 1 secured a school in a rough 

 mountain to«n. There was no church there, and so far as I 

 know I was the only professed Christian. The children, how- 

 ever, were just as interesting as others, and. I thought, full 

 of promise. Sunday was the busy day. Stores wc^re all open 

 and business was at its flood. Drunken brawls were very 

 common on Sunday. I at once started a Sunday-school. The 

 mothers — hless the mothers — and the children, largely came. 

 Only one man. He loved music, and played the little organ 

 which he loaned each Sunday. It was a good Sunday-school. 

 I know it did good. I desired a library. The day-school 

 director, also the leading merchant, came to me one evening. 

 He said he had heard how interesting the Sunday-school was; 

 wished he could come, but, of course, he couldn't. Asked if 

 he could be of service. I suggested the need of a library. He 

 said " You shall have it." He inquired the amount of money 

 needed for the purchase. I said anywhere from $.5U to 

 Si, 000. The next day " A Sunday-School Ball " was adver- 

 tised. I was invited to the ball, and did look in. We received 

 over $iOO and an excellent library. I feel sure that Sunday- 

 school added to the sum total of the world's happiness, and I 

 know that better citizens were the result of its influence and 

 teachings. 



Reader, may not you be able to work in the same way? 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



The weather is tine with hees flying nicely, 

 and gathering pollen yesterday. Honey was 

 a very light crop through this part of Wiscon- 

 sin the past season. My bees — S4 colonies — 

 go into winter quarters in nne condition, 

 although I had to feed some 20 to get them 

 so. L. G. Blair. 



Grant Co., Wis., Nov. 2. 



Honey Crop Short. 



The bee-papers seem to strike snags in 

 e.stiuiating the honey crop. In this locality 

 it is short; and this locality embraces the 

 territory in Pennsylvania and New Jersey 

 about the famous Delaware Water-Gap. We 

 have calls daily for honey, and some of them 

 come from considerable distances. 



1 handle the bees for my son — I do most of 

 the "chinnin;;," and he most of the smiling. 

 But atiout that honey crop; We started last 

 spring with 11 colonies, increased to 17 by 

 natural swarming, and averaged Sit pounds of 

 comb honey, spring count. A wet spring 

 bnmghl an abundance of white clover, bnt a 

 drcjuiii followed and killed il. Buckwheat 

 came on at a 'J:4ti gait, and the frequent rains 

 wiped tliat out, so that the bees did not get 

 in over a good weeli's work; they were just 

 fairly started when their hopes were blasted. 

 We. with others, had great expectations, and 

 prospects were unusually hriglit for awhile, 

 imt the pulling in wimble-wouible failed to 

 work— we counted the chicks a little too soon. 



We are right proud of a certain queen we 



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For Thanksgiving Day 



the Nickel Plate Road will sell tickets 

 within distances of ISO miles Nov. 27 

 and 28, at rate of a fare and one-third 

 for the round trip. Tickets good re- 

 turning until Nov. 29, inclusive. This 

 road has three express trains daily to 

 Fort Wayne, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, 

 New York and Boston, with vestibuled 

 sleeping cars. Also excellent dining- 

 car service; meals served on Individual 

 Club Plan, ranging in price from 35 

 cents to SI. '10. For reservations in 

 sleeping-cars or other information ad- 

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bought. We couldn't catch the little black 

 vixen, so we appropriated her brood and 

 young bees, and started our new queen on 

 her way rejoicing. All the little blacks are 

 gone now, and the yellow ones are pushing. 

 They are gentle as kittens, and seem very 

 energetic. We wish all the other colonies 

 were as gentle. 



Now, say, let's have a little gossip behind 

 the door. Wonder what's become of A. I. 

 Root's trap-nest. Wonder it he won't blos- 

 som out next with a rooster having a pencil 

 over his ear, and a tablet to keep tally, rais- 

 ing a racket with some old biddy that dis- 

 putes his account; and, then, again, how 

 would he decide the matter ! But I believe 

 he would get the feathers all smoothed the 

 right way, don't you >. A. C. Hunsberoer. 



Northampton Co., Pa., Oct. 28. 



Season a Failure— Bee-Management 



My bees were a total failure the past sea- 

 son. I got practically nothing -just a few 

 scrawny sections from 130 colonies. This is a 

 jaeklime(0 country, and nearly all soil is 

 sand, and nearly everything was dried up by 

 the hot weather; still the bees gathered 

 enough for winter. I have -used the screen- 

 wire in the center of the bottom-board for 

 two years. I think it is a grand thing, espe- 

 cially in swanning-lime and in winter, that is, 

 if you put them in the collar. 



This is the way I run my bees for honey 

 and increase: As soon as I see that they are 

 getting pretty strong in the spring, I prepare 

 a hive-body with a queen-excluder nailed to 

 the bottom. 1 put this body on a medium 

 colony. Now, as fast as I can tiud drone- 

 corn 1) sealed nil, I take iloul and put it in 

 uiy prepared hive, boring a "i inch hole in the 

 back, so the drones or bees can come out. I 

 use a drone-trap on this as soon as the drones 

 hatch out; then if I have an extra queen-cell 

 1 put it in here, and as soon as the queen 

 hatches I take away the trap. 

 Now, my theory is, that by taking out 



