Nov. 21, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



747 



sum of $150 per capita. More than this : All the debt- 

 ladened and burden-bearing countries of Europe are sinking- 

 deeper and deeper into the slough of debt and despondency, 

 while America is as steadily and surely rising from under 

 the weight of even her small obligation. Under our pres- 

 ent wise management our debt will sink to $600,000,000 in 

 1908, and will be all wiped out in 1920. I do not need to live 

 to be nearly as old a man as was my father when he left us, 

 that I may with the fullest expectancy look to see our be- 

 loved country wholly free from debt. 



If there is one topic that may well claim much time 

 about the dear home circle table it is this : " Our Country ; 

 the dearest, truest, best the world knows." 



DEBTS. 



It is a natural and easy step from national to personal 

 debt. Would it be far from wrong to say that a major 

 share of the worry and discouragement of the world comes 

 through debt ? Lifting the mortgage is the burden that 

 holds many a man in bondage, and that darkens many a 

 home. It is a privilege which all of us parents ought 

 richly to prize, so to influence in the home circle that our 

 dear ones may never smart under the severe lashings of 

 debt. My father was a living example of the wisdom of the 



scriptural text, " The wages of him that is hired shall not 

 abide with thee over night until the morning." The com- 

 mand, " Owe no man anything," meant to my father just 

 what it reads. He taught us children to avoid debt as we 

 would any other evil, and his example always enforced his 

 teachings. 



How much of unrest and discontent his kindly influence 

 has saved me. I have never known the worry of debt. Nor 

 has it stopped here. My children have been taught as I 

 was, and I rest in the firm assurance that they will never 

 be harrassed by constable, sheriff, or creditors ; and thus, 

 as " the evils of the fathers are visited upon the children 

 unto the third and fourth generation," so, too, are the blessed 

 influences of parents carried down not only to second and 

 third generations, but to all our descendants. 



It is so easy to contract debts when the habit is once 

 formed. It is so hard to meet them when due. Apd does 

 not the debt, like any other evil, court the lie and the fraud ? 

 And so on to the end of the gruesome chapter. 



I heard a story the other day like this : A mother told 

 a boy he must not go bathing. When he came home she 

 said, "John, you have disobeyed me." He looked her 

 sheepishly in the face and denied it. She said, "How, 

 then, comes your shirt on wrong side out?" He replied, "I 

 turned it crawling through the fence." 



As surely as disobedience courts the lie, just so surely 

 does debt court untruth, fraud, and imposture. 



THE noCKINQ-BIRD. 



We have him in California. Just the same one that 

 regales our friends of the Carolinas in the East, with his 

 incomparable song. He nests in the pepper near our house. 

 Who would not plant trees if only to attract the bird-song- 

 sters ? I am glad he and his spouse have children, and lots 

 of them. The little nestlings call forth the song. Who 

 could sing if there were no little nestlings ? He is not con- 

 tent with hymning his delight in the morning, but pours 

 out his heart's best gratitude at noon and at night ; and 

 even in the darksome hour of midnight. Just now one is 

 singing just out my window, as if he would waken, in all, 

 the delight and gratitude he feels. He has done just this 

 for me. I am glad of the tre«s, the birds, and I revel in the 

 songs of our birds. I do not see how one " with clean hands 

 and a pure heart " can suffer very serious worry or ennui 

 with a concert of bird-friends ever sounding in his ears. 



Satisfied Peoolci 



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A Good Year for Bees. 



This has been a fjood year for bees, with the 

 exception of a drouth we had in the middle 

 of the season. I commenced the season with 

 four colonies, which I increased to 11, and 

 ffot about 4.50 pounds of honey. The colonies 

 are all strong, with plenty ot stores to tal<e 

 them through the winter. I winter them in 

 a shed built for that purpose, packed iu 

 straw, and they seem to do well. 



The American Bee Journal comes promptly 

 every Thursday, and I always watch for it 

 with pleasure. I could not get along without 

 it. Fred R. Hawkins. 



Edgar Co., 111., Nov. 7. 



Selling and Shipping Honey. 



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speaks of 



his treatment by B. Presly i^; Co.. ot St. Paul. 

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I am aware Ihat there are quite as many 

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