1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



751 



on — that may be I was a religious crank, or 

 something of that sort. There are so many 

 people who seem ready to sacritice a qniet home, 

 and rest and peace, for the sake of making a 

 big thing, that I do not know but that others 

 will feel as did this friend, that my talk about 

 other things being of more importance than 

 making money was something put on for effect. 

 But there is a sad moral right here. The man 

 who, in his anxiety to make a big thing, would 

 sacrifice his home, make his wife a drndge, and 

 let his children go without an education, in 

 order that he may get rich, does not. as a rule, 

 get rich after all. He wrecks his own happiness 

 and that of those who should be near and dear 

 to him. and becomes bankrupt in the end.* 



The Bible tells us, " Whosoever will save his 

 life shall lose it"— that is, he who makes his 

 sole anxiety the accumulation of property and 

 money, and in so doing neglects to make things 

 pleasant and easy for his wife, and to look out 

 for the education of his children — in short, to 

 attend to the higher and graver responsibilities 

 — shall surely lose even that which he works so 

 hard for; but, on the contrary, the one who is 

 willing to lose his life for lietter and higher pur- 

 poses shall find after all that he has made the 

 very shortest cut toward the thing he especial- 

 ly coveted. 



Now, in this connection let us consider this 

 matter of spending one's time and energies in 

 the pursuit of what this world has to offer — or 

 in ministering to self and selfish demands. 

 Jesus said, '■ Not to be ministered unto, but to 

 minister." Below is a clipping in regard to a 

 man who spent his life in ministering to self . It 

 is taken from the ChvLstidn Standard, of Cin- 

 cinnati: 



A methodical man died in Berlin re- 

 cently at the ap-e of 73. Wiieii 18 years 

 old he began keeping- a record -which 

 lie continued for .53 years, whicii is the 

 best commentary we liave >,een on the 

 life of a mere worldling;. His life was 

 not consecrated to a liigli ideal. The 

 book shows that, in r>2 years, tliis " nat 

 ural man " had smoked 63,871 cig-ars, of 

 which lie had received i3,693 as pres- 

 ents, wliile for the remainder lie had 

 paid several tliousand dollars. In 53 

 years, according- to his book-keeping-, 

 he had drunk 27.78t) glasses of beer 

 and 3<i,ll.S6 g-lasses of spirits, tor all of 

 whicli lie spent *ij34 . Tlie diary closes 

 with these words: "I have tried all 

 tilings, 1 have seen many, 1 have ac- 

 complished nothing-." A stronger ser- 

 mon could not be preached than to 

 put this testimony ag:ainst that of the 

 first missionary: "I have louj^ht a 

 g-ood Hght, I have finished my course, 

 I have kept my fiiith; henceforth 

 there is laid up forme ;i crown of right- 

 eousness, wliich the Lord, the right- 

 eous Judge, shall give me at that day." 



No wonder his decision was, at the end, '■ I 

 have accomplished nothing." But he is not 

 alone. We see illustiatioiis in this line all 

 around us. Perhaps we have been ourselves 

 doing the same thing moi-e or less. How this 

 little story brings out in sharp relief the pure. 



unselfish life of Saint Paul I Yes, we have also 

 the exaiuple of such lives right around us. in 

 our very midst — perhaps in our next-door neigh- 

 bor. These, however, are so quiet and unassum- 

 ing that the great world seldom notices them 

 particularly, unless some unexpected incident 

 brings it to th(> front, and lets people have a 

 glimpse of the unselfish lives they are living. 

 Who shall finally inherit the earth ? Not those 

 who have ministered unto themselves; but the 

 meek, the lowly, the humble, and the unselfish. 

 '• lih^ssed are the meek, for they shall inherit 

 the caftli.'" 



Notes of Travel 



ON THE AVHEEL. 



You will remember that, in our last. I started 

 to see that steam-ditcher. In our book on tile 

 drainage, page 79, friend Chamberlain says: 

 "Such stones, in such numbers as they usually 

 occur on boulder clays that need drainage, 

 make machine digging at any time of the year 

 unprofitable." As soon as I got in sight of 

 the machine I was most pleasantly astonished 

 by seeing rows of ditches so straight and true 

 that it seemed almost as if it must be some fine 

 piece of mechanical work instead of such ditch- 

 es as we usually dig by hand for laying tile. 

 The dirt was piled up in a beautiful, straight, 

 true, sharp ridge, just neai- enough the ditch 

 so it did not tumble back into it, and the ma- 

 chine was puffing and blowing and traveling 

 along at a rate that was really astounding to 



*I want to pause right here long- enoug-h to say the 

 man went away without buying- the strawberry 

 book after all. I spent about iialf an hour of my 

 valuable time with him; yet all he wanted to know 

 was told a great deal better in that strawberry book 

 than T could possibly tell it. A nd the book also took 

 in the outside matters that must be considered in 

 arccpting the advice I gave him; and yet he was 

 not willing to pay 35 cts. for it. Please do not think 

 tliat I feel hard toward him. I am quite willing to 

 do as much wlienever I can help anybody; but if he 

 is g:oing to raise strawberries and strawberry-plants 

 for a living, he is the loser-. I feel sorry that he 

 should stand in his own light . 



A MACHINE FOH DIGfilNG lillCUKS FOK LAY- 

 ING TILE. 



my inexperienced eyes. It was my great plea- 

 sure to find the inventor and builder. Mr. James 

 B. Hill, of Bowling tireen, ()., there at the time 

 running the machine himself. Before we go 

 any further I want to tell what it looks like. 



The special feature of Mr. Hill's invention is 

 the large wheel at the left hand. This wheel 

 is peculiar in tliat it has neither shaft nor 

 spokes. In fact, it is just a big stout ring of 

 metal, made of plates of malleable iron secinvly 

 bolted tog<'ther. There are teeth along the in- 

 side edge of this great wheel, and a stout gear- 

 wheel works in these teeth. Thus you observe 

 the enormous power needed is applied at the 

 rUn of the wheel. In fact, no sliaft nor spokes 

 would stand the tremendous strain. Well, this 

 big whe(>l is quickly raised or lowered by turn- 



