1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



pracUi-e — in short, what has become of that one 

 pupil you mentioned, who made more progress 

 than she did ? " 



I can not remember the exact I'eply he made, 

 but it was something like this: 



"That one pupil, after she left me, availed 

 herself of the best masters America afforded, 

 and then she went to Euiope to graduate; and 

 now she gets a salary so high up in the figures 

 I would hardly dare mention it." 



•' But, my dear sir, does she not get this great 

 pay by playing for theaters? and is she not 

 obliged to go among classes whose society we 

 might at least call questionable?" 



"Oh, dearl no. They pay her great sums of 

 money to play before the finest, most intellec- 

 tual, and best audiences to be found in the 

 largest cities in the world."' 



" Mr. B., I have been told you are a Christian." 



He smiled, and nodded his head. 



•'You have over forty pupils now, and have 

 been engaged in just this kind of work for 

 years, and yet regard it as worthy of the time 

 and attention of the best people in the world. 

 Well. I think I know a little more than I did 

 yesterday. I thank you for your kind counsel 

 and advice." 



I presume likely runny parents are reading 

 what I have written here; and perhaps they 

 are deeply interested. Perhaps some of them 

 may say, " Well, brother Root, what are you 

 and your good wife going to do about it?" 



We have done this: Constance has already 

 done some work in the office; she knows how; 

 and if you want to see a Root work up to his 

 best, you want to see him have an object in 

 view, just ahead of him. She is going to help 

 us in the office, so that she may have that 

 violin that is so dear to her heart; and then 

 she is going to work her way through so that 

 she may be able to go on of herself, or, at least, 

 without letting her father pay (til of the ex- 

 pense. wSlie is. as I was saying, through her 

 own exertions, going to push ahead in this (to 

 us) singular line of choice. While at her 

 boarding-place, our host (he used to be a bee- 

 man), who boards and lodges twenty young 

 students, told me the following story: 



A well-to-do German moved to Oberlin in 

 order to educate his children. A daughter of 

 his made remarkable progress: but the de- 

 mands on the father's purse were much greater 

 than he had anticipated. But she was smart, 

 and the father was proud of her; and, altogeth- 

 er, he expended .?800 in giving her a good sub- 

 stantial education. So far, so good; but just at 

 this crisis some presuming young man took a 

 shine to the smart daughter, and — they got 

 married. Her father was in the habit of telling 

 the sad story to his friends, and he would al- 

 ways wind up with something like this: 



"After I had paid out 6800. and given her all 

 this education, she went and got married. Just 

 think of it!" 



At this crisis, the friends who hear his sad 

 story usually laugh uproariously; but the poor 

 father can not see where the laugh comes in. 

 He evidently seems to think that it is .SSOO 

 thrown away. Now, dear parents who look on 

 these pages, be careful that you do not fall into 

 the error of our good German friend. Let us 

 have faith in education; let us have faith in 

 these children who are growing up or have 

 grown up around our hearthstones. Let us 

 remember that it is the <jreat. God nhovc who 

 has given us these singular likes and longings; 

 and when we perceive that some one of them 

 has a rare and unusual (and perhaps unlooked- 

 for) gift from God the Father, let us not lose 

 faith in them; and let us not lose faith in the 

 great Giver of all good, who has seen fit to 

 create us with so much alike and yet so unlike. 



Judffe not, Uiat ve be not j lulled; for with what judgment 

 ye judKe. ye shaU be judged.— Matt. 7: 1. 



The Crane smoker is nearly perfected. Dr. 

 Miller, to whom we submitted a sample, says, 

 "That double-acting valve, so simple and 

 effective, is a stroke of genius. * * * * As 

 nearly as I can tell without using it [the smo- 

 ker] a whole season in the apiary, I believe you 

 have the best smoker ever gotten up." 



By the way the goods ai'e going off. it is evi- 

 dent that there is much faith in next season. 

 We have not had a good cold winter for some 

 years. Who knows but that a good cold snap- 

 ping winter, such as we have just had, when 

 the ground has been covered with snow a large 

 part of the time, is just what the clover needs 

 to make it yield honey? Our winters have of 

 late been peculiar, and so have our honey sea- 

 sons. Let us hope that an extraordinary win- 

 ter may bring an extraordinary flow of honey. 

 But don't let our " hopes "" cause us to invest 

 unwisely. 



Wp: are all " broke up." We have been sit- 

 ting before the desk trying to scribble off an 

 editorial, as it was one of the Kind that wouldn't 

 "dictate." We've got something to say, but 

 for the life of us we don't know how to say it or 

 whether, indeed, we ought to say any thing at 

 all. We refer to some kind, very kind things 

 said of us in a biographical sketch, accompa- 

 nied by a good portrait, in the American Bee 

 Journal, of your humble servant. We serious- 

 ly fear we do not deserve all of it; at all events 

 we tender our awkward " thank you,'" and in 

 the meantime will try to ward off that peculiar 

 insidious malady that sometimes affects young 

 men— the " big head." 



The Edison phonograph, which we placed in 

 the office about a year ago, has proved to be a 

 grand success and a great aid to the office. So 

 valuable was it that we have recently put in an- 

 other. Besides enjoying of an evening occsion- 

 ally the pleasure of hearing choice music from 

 world-renowned artists, we are enabled to clear 

 up nearly all our correspondence every day. 

 Before the days of the phonograph, our letters 

 —at least some of them — had to lag simply be- 

 cause we could not get to them. The machines 

 take the records evenings or at any time of the 

 day most convenient, or when we can "get to 

 it." They are always ready, alid never get 

 sick nor married. The dictated records are 

 transcribed on a Smith Premier typewriter, the 

 best business typewriter, in our estimation, of 

 any writer on the market. These machines 

 had such decided advantages over our old 

 standard Remingtons that we replaced the 

 three in the office for Premiers. As we have 

 had some inquiries relative to our correspon- 

 dence, perhaps the above will answer for all, 

 and it is certainly a pleasure to us to be able to 

 add our testimony to the value of these labor- 

 saving devices. 



N. b.— Matter for Gleanings, at least the 

 greater part of it. is given to our old standby 

 stenographer, " W. P."' 



CERESIN FOR FOUNDATION. 



Look here. Dr. Miller; did it never occur to 

 you that your second straw in this issue might 

 turn out like one of the celebrated straws that 



