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measure seveuty-tive feet in height and 

 twenty-two inches through the trunk. This 

 pla_e I call '• home," and my pines are just 

 a little greener than those found elsewhere. 

 No, a rolling stone does not grow nice trees 

 nor make a nice home : find a good place 

 and stai/ there. 



Several little mounds mark the hills near 

 by. We call them graves. Our dead. What 

 a terrible thing is poverty and its conse- 

 quence, ignorance. With more intelligence 

 our loved ones might now be rejoicing in 

 health and strength. We should learn to 

 lire, not to die. 



I continued the practice of raising pretty 

 much what we needed to eat, and we still 

 practice it as carefully as at first, although I 

 increased my bee business until I produced 

 twenty-six thousand pounds of comb honey 

 in o)ie year. 



In this age, grab games of one kind or 

 another get away with more than half of all we 

 earn, when we sell the products of our labor 

 through the regular channels of trade, but 

 when we raise a crop of potatoes, beans, or 

 other foods, and then eat them at our otvn 

 tables, we get the whole result of our labor. 

 Yes, we should produce all we can to supply 

 our natural wants, and then consume it. 

 This would go far toward settling the (|ues- 

 tion of trusts and monopolies, for trade is 

 what monopolies feed on. 



I struggled many years with the idea that 

 we need to be rich in worldly goods. I 

 failed to realize my expectations, but finally 

 became rich by finding that we do not need 

 a great quantity of material things. Simple 

 habits and self-denial give better results in 

 contentment and happiness than over-abun- 

 dance and luxurious gluttony. It is about 

 time that we comprehend that, under exist- 

 ing conditions and social practices, it is im- 

 possilile for honest labor to win a fortune in 

 material things. The reason a rich man 

 cannot get into the kingdom of Heaven, is, 

 because Heaven is a condition, not a jjlace ; 

 it is justice, love, mercy and charity, and the 

 only means of becoming a millionaire is by 

 violating all these principles. 



Another way to help in bad years is to save 

 what we earn in good seasons. Ten cents 

 saved each day for fifty years and properly 

 invested, will make over i^9,(KX) in that time. 

 What a snug fortune for old age. Beer 

 drinkers and tobacco chewers and smokers 

 consume large fortunes in a lifetime by their 

 immoral habits. Don't take one of Brother 



Ftoot's smokers ; just think of the home that 

 this bad habit would pay for in fifty years, 

 and (luit without being hired. A family that 

 uses coffee in the average way for fifty years 

 will have consumed a fine mansion. Water 

 is God's drink, coffee is the devil's amend- 

 ment to it. In the things that experience 

 and science have discovered that our physi- 

 cal and mental well-being demands, I will 

 have, if I can get, without regard to cost ; 

 but, happily, these necessary things are very 

 cheap. Don't buy too many new things for 

 the apiary. There is not as much difference 

 in hives to the bee keeper as to the manu- 

 facturer. The attempted introduction of 

 fixed frames will do great harm to bee keep- 

 ers. It is easy to see that the leaders in 

 introducing the Hofifman and other fixed 

 frames are becoming badly mixed. I have 

 always made my own hives and fixtures and 

 would advise others to do so as much as 

 possible, and strive to do all your work of 

 every kind in first class fashion. I had al- 

 most forgot to tell that going in debt is the 

 road to the poor house. Keep out of debt. 

 FoKESTViLLE, Minn., Dec. ;30th, is;)2. 



Criticisms on Hasty's Sngar-Honey Article. 



C. C. MILLER. 



JAM exceedingly 

 sorry that you 

 did not wear out 

 some of your edi- 

 torial pencil in 

 crossing out all but 

 the last paragraph 

 of Hasty's article in 

 December Review. 

 I have too good an 

 opinion of Hasty to 

 think that he had 

 any but the best 

 motives in writing what he did, nevertheless 

 I am persuaded that evil and only evil can 

 result from it. 



Suppose that it were possible to have the 

 bees make good honey from sugar, dou't 

 you suppose that all the profit derived there- 

 from would be more than counterl)alanced 

 by the prejudice awakened in the minds of 

 consumers ? But have you any idea that 

 there's anything in the idea, even if it could 

 awaken no prejudice ? In this case, it would 

 have been wise for Hasty to have reversed 

 his motto, "After agitation comes experi- 

 mentation," Indeed, I don't believe the 



