1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



•479 



JAKE SMITH'S LETTERS. 



TRUBBLE INTO THE MEETIN HOUSE. 



A.l. Oleeninys—deer 

 Sir: — You know I 

 was a telling you 

 how Missus Bleeker 

 was a sayin, "It's 

 too bad, too bad," 

 and then Missus Welder 

 started for Joe Parks. 

 Sez Missus Welder to 

 Missus Parks, sez she, " I 

 was jist a goin by. and I 

 thought Ide drop in and 

 see if you wood let me hev 

 your reseat for making 

 pickels. You do make 

 the most charmin pick- 

 els." And she praised 

 sum more of Missus Parks 

 cookin, for Missus Parks 

 is a champean cook, and 

 no mistake. 



Then she sed to Missus 

 Parks, sez she, " Missus 

 Bleeker was a tellin me it 

 was too bad they was so 

 much hard feelin about our proecher." 



" Why, you doant tell me!" sed Missus Parks. 

 " I haddent herd a word of it." 



" Yes," sez Missus Welder; " and, as Missus 

 Bleeker was a sayin. we must do what's for the 

 best. Of coarse, it woont do to hev enny trubel 

 into the church. We much better let the 

 preecher go than to hev enny dlssention. A 

 divided church cant never prosper, and we 

 must hev peas at enny price. If they is as 

 mutch feeling as Missus Bleeker was a tockin 

 about, it's no useatryin to keep Mr. Bond enny 

 longer." 



The nex day Missus Parks was at the store a 

 gittin sum sort a dry goods, and Nat Boucher 

 was a waitin on her. Nat oans the store, and 

 his wife is a memberof the church. Sez Missus 

 Parks to him, sez she, " Who do you spose weal 

 git for our noo preecher?" sez she. 



" Why, I diddent know Mr. Bond was goin to 

 leave," sez Nat. " I thot he was well satisfide 

 and liked the place." 



" I doant know but he's satisfide enuff," sez 

 Missus Parks, " but Missus Bleeker sez they is 

 sitch a number dissatisfide with him that it's 

 no use tryin to keep things smooth enny longer, 

 and for the sake of peas we must all give up 

 our oan feelins. And if Missus Bleeker has 

 turned agin him it's no use to stand out, for 

 Missus Bleeker has always thot the world of 

 him." 



" Well, now, Ime kind a sorry," sez Nat, " for 

 I always liked the man, for all I doant never go 

 to meetin mutch." 



"Yes," sez Missus Parks, " it's a grate pity, 

 but ennything's better than to hev trubble in 

 the church." 



Well, things kep on in that way for some 

 time. 1 day Welder cums to me, and sez he, 

 "Jake, what do you think of the condishen of 

 our church ?" 



"It seems in pirty fair condishen," sez I. 

 " We hed a reel good prayer-meetin last nite," 

 sez I. Welder doant never tend prayer-meetin. 

 " Oh !" sez he, " I diddent mean the condishen 

 of the prayer-meetin, but of the church. Y'ou 

 know that the general feeling is against Bond. 

 Now, if youl use your influents with him I 

 think you can get him to nisine." 



" I doant think Ive enny call to use my in- 

 fluents in that way," sez I. " And I diddent 

 know the general feelin was agin our preecher. 



He jist soots me, and I think he soots most of 

 the members." 



" Well, now, that's where you make a mis- 

 take," sez he. " Besides yourself and a fue 

 uththers whitch you influents, they haint a 

 sole that wants him to stay." 



" I diddent know I was usin enny influents," 

 sez I; "but it doant seem to me that I stand as 

 much alone as you make out. But Ime always 

 willin to give in to the majority, and the best 

 way will be to take a vote and see how many 

 do stand on my side." 



"Oh, no!" sez he, " that wood never do, to 

 draw a line and stur up strife. We must keep 

 peas in the church. It wood never do to take a 

 vote. If you hev the wellfare of the church to 

 hart, yule withdraw yure oppasishen, and let 

 all go smooth." 



It diddent seem rite clear to me how I was 

 making oppasishen, but I diddent say nothin 

 jist then, and we parted. Jake Smith. 



The end next time. 



BALLOONING. 



how one feels up in the air, a mile above 



ground; from the pen of a 



bee-keeper. 



[A short time ago we received a letter from 

 W. T. Heddon, son of James H., of Dowagiac, 

 Mich., asking whether we should like to have 

 an article on ballooning. We noticed on his 

 stationery the words "Dowagiac Aeronautical 

 Combination;" and we had also heard that Mr. 

 Heddon, Jr., had made several successful bal- 

 loon ascensions. Well, we thought our readers 

 might like to hear how "one feels a mile up in 

 the air," especially as it comes from the pen of 

 a bee-keeper, and we asked him to send the 

 article in question. 



There are not many of us, we venture to say, 

 who are able to speak from experience on such 

 a subject.] 



The history of aerostation dates back to 1783, 

 when the brothers Montgolfier, of France, made 

 public their new discovery. After varied and 

 successful experiments in their laboratory, they 

 tried a larger balloon containing 6,5 cubic feet 

 of heated air, in the open air, which rose to a 

 height of from 200 to 300 ft., and, sailing ofl' 

 some distance, fell upon the neighboring hills. 

 They then made a very large and strong bal- 

 loon, with which they brought their discovery 

 before the public. 



June 5, 1783, the nobility of the vicinity were 

 invited to be present at the exhibition. After 

 some minutes consumed in inflating, the bal- 

 loon was released, which, to the vast surprise 

 of the doubting spectators, arose to a height of 

 3000 ft. It then described a horizontal plane of 

 7200 feet, and gently settled to the ground. This 

 forever crowned the brothers with the glory of 

 a most astonishing discovery. 



After serious trouble in obtaining the king's 

 permission, the first aerial voyage was made 

 from the gardens of La Mutte, near Paris, by 

 Pilatre des Roziers and Marquis d' Arlandes, on 

 the 21st of Oct., 1783. The balloon used was a 

 mammoth structure, being 7u ft. high and 4.5 ft. 

 in diameter, with a large car containing a fire- 

 grate and a number of bundles of straw, which 

 were used in kindling the fire on their trip over 

 Paris, that they might ascend and descend at 

 will. The voyage consumed 25 minutes; their 

 highest altitude was 3000 ft., and the flight G 

 miles from starting-point. 



