Kkbri'Arv, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEK CULTURE 



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Around the Office— Continued 



' ' opinion of any one indulging in such 

 langunge. " Good old Mr. Nelson from away 

 up in Centralia, Wash., sends along " the 

 thought of foolishness is sin," Provs. 24:9, 

 and some last-judgment considerations that 

 ain 't pleasant to me. The Boots take their 

 regular mornin' and eveniu ' exercise on my 

 back. There's more like 'em, too, that don't 

 seem to think I've got any feelin's that 

 weren't made to be tromped on by anybody 

 any time. But there are some good fellers 

 in tlie world just the same. They ain't all 

 for makin ' me miserable here and burnin ' 

 iiie hereafter. Oscar Brandt out at Musca- 

 tine, la., put in a word -for me with the 

 Roots. E. G. LeStourgeon of San Antonio, 

 Tex., sends thisword: "Darn the censors, any- 

 «vay. If this censor thingke:ps up, I '11 become 

 pro-German or anti-Root or something just 

 as awful." He also sends real sympathy on 

 my side of gettin ' potatoes in late and no- 

 body 's business. I 'm goin ' to take to that 

 man LeStourgeon if he stays on my side. 

 There's some more good Samaritans that 

 have written me and I am keepin ' every one 

 of their precious names separate from any 

 of the rest of the Root business. They are 



too good to get mixed up that a way. 



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Mt. Pleasant, Ala., Dec. 30, 1917. 



" Dear M.-A.-O.: — I had wanted to ship 



a car of bees this spring, and was just 



thinking how thick a screen would be, and 



that it took 700 screens for a car of bees, 



and, if they were stacked up together in 

 one pile, the pile would be nearly 70 feet 

 high. As a car is only eight feet high at 

 the highest part I would like to know where 

 I would put the bees after I got all these 

 screens in the car, provided I got them in the 

 car. — Jos. S. Schott." That's easy, Joe. 

 Lower the car floor and knock the roof off. 



In a lucid interval of mine last year I 

 said somethin' sensible oncet. It was about 

 a beekeeper and his wife at Brownstown, 

 Ind., who from 23 colonies of bees had sold 

 enough honey durin' the season of 1916 to 

 send their oldest boy to college. I said 

 somethin' about his learnin' more than foot- 

 ball, cigarets and a college yell. Those bees 

 have grown to 46 colonies now, and they 

 are keepin ' that boy in college yet and doin ' 

 somethin' besides. The boy is doin' his 

 part, too, his grades bein' pretty nigh per- 

 fect. 



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Roy L. Johnson of Groveland Sta., N. Y., 

 wrote me a sort of philosophisin ' letter. I 

 owed him and finally paid him all up when 

 he wrote this: " Time is passing swiftly by 

 whether our debts are paid or not." That 

 sentiment is all o. k., Roy, but I've noticed 

 time when it didn't slip by so durnd fast 

 when I owed a man and he was present and 

 continuin ' to be present and insistin ' on 

 talkin ' about it. I rather be fishin ' myself. 

 That 's when time slips by just a-whoopin ' 

 with me. 



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