January, 1016. 



American ^ae Journal l\ 



an example too hard for him he took 

 it to the master's desk to be shown. 



No tasks were assigned to be taken 

 home ; when school " let out " in the 

 afternoon there was no need to give 

 thought to lessons until school " took 

 up " next day. 15ut there were si.\ d lys 

 of it each week ; Saturday was the same 

 as any other day. Neither was the 

 monotony entirely unbroken on the 

 Sabbath. In Sunday-school there were 

 classes in their a, b, c's and a, b, abs the 

 same as on week-days. 



Though crude in some respects, yet 

 in one respect the Sunday-school of 

 that day was ahead of today. We com- 

 mitted Scripture to memory as we do 

 not now ; stimulated thereto by the 

 hope of acquiring for a certain number 

 of verses a bit of blue or red paste- 

 board with a verse of Scripture printed 

 on it. One week I achieved 100 verses 

 which I recited at Sunday-school. 



When perhaps 12 years old, I spent 

 two years at Laughlinstown, clerking 

 in the country store of John G. Armor. 

 For the first year I got $24, and $50 for 

 the second year. I had my board addi- 

 tional, and my mother did my washing. 

 Saturday evening I walked home three 

 miles to Ligonier, and back again — I'm 

 not sure whether Sunday evening or 

 Monday morning. 



Then I went back home, and to 

 school. Later on I entered the office 

 of Dr. Cummins to begin the study of 

 medicine. The Latin terms were hard 

 for me, and I thought I needed a term 

 at the academy to help me out. Said 

 academy was a private school with one 

 teacher. The doctor urged that if I 

 gave up because the reading was too 

 hard, I would never develop a strong 

 character. But I persisted and went. 

 When I had finished one term I 

 thought I needed about two more to 

 make a finished scholar of me. By the 

 time I finished the third term I had 

 decided I would not stop until I was a 

 college graduate. 



I first entered Jefferson college at 

 Cannonsburg, Pa. I took matters seri- 

 ously, and devoted my time to study 

 literally. That was before the days of 

 athletics in colleges, and there was no 

 requirement that students should take 

 any form of exercise. Strange as it 

 may seem, I actually didn't know that 

 it was at all important to exercise. I 

 had never before exercised, that I know 

 of, although I had spent plenty of time 

 in play. At college the only kind of 

 play I indulged in was playing cards, 

 which doesn't afford a great amount of 

 physical exercise. The body of stu- 

 dents as a whole was card-crazy. Quite 

 commonly it was gambling, although 

 the stakes were small. But I drew the 

 line at playing for stakes, however 

 small. I became quite expert, and then 

 became tired of the game and quit. 



I had no regular hours for study, but 

 put in pretty much all my time in study. 

 At night I studied until I became so 

 sleepy I couldn't continue longer; then 

 lay down and went to sleep. When I 

 woke up I at once went to studying 

 again, whether I had slept all night or 

 only two hours. In the latter case of 

 course I didn't study very long before 

 I had to give up again with sleepiness. 

 So it might happen that the night 

 might be divided up into two or three 

 sessions of study, but not generally. It 

 might be thought that it would be 



Dr Mili.ek When a Young Man 



troublesome undressing and dressing 

 so often. I didn't undress at all. At 

 the time I clerked in the store at Laugh- 

 linstown, I had a fine, big bed fur- 

 nished me, with plenty of bedclothes. 

 It was spread out on the counter, and 

 in the morning rolled up and strapped 

 together with a heavy strap, and then I 

 lugged it upstairs, a barn-like place 

 filled with bins of country produce. 

 The stairs were winding, and none too 

 wide, and the task of getting it up was 

 almost beyond my strength. So, with- 

 out saying an>thing to make trouble 

 for any one else, I brought down merely 

 the bedclothes each night, and with 

 them I slept on the counter. It was at 

 first a pretty hard bed, but I soon got 

 used to it, and to this day no bed is too 

 hard for me. With boy-like foolish- 

 ness I went still further, gave up un- 

 dressing, and used no pillow except 

 my right arm. After I left Laughlins- 

 town, I took to sleeping on two chairs 

 — sometimes on three by way of luxury. 

 This in winter. In summer I slept on 

 the porch or anywhere that came 

 handy. No bench was too narrow to 

 serve; I never turned over in my sleep. 



To return to Cannonsburg. In addi- 

 tion to bad habits regarding exercise 

 and study, I boarded myself and had 

 poor food. Before the year was out I 

 had to go home. I made the journey 

 home on foot, on one of the days cov- 

 ering 40 miles. 



Although still in my teens, I taught 

 a term in the public school of Shells- 

 burg, and also in Johnstown, Pa., the 

 place which years afterward suffered 

 from such a terrible flood. Johnstown 

 was then a much smaller place than 

 now, and the school I had was made 

 up of boys only, the larger boys of the 

 place, and a pretty tough lot. 



Instead of returning to Jefferson col- 

 lege, I entered Union college, Sche- 

 nectady, N. Y., influenced thereto by A. 

 P. Botsford, a graduate of Lfnion who 

 had married my oldest sister. The 

 two years, junior and senior, that I 

 spent there, were two strenuous years. 

 It was all work and no play, for I had 

 not yet learned the lesson that " All 

 work and no play makes Jack a dull 

 boy." In those days there were no 

 college teams and no college games. 



and nothing to induce physical exer- 

 cise. One of the leading interests of 

 the students was their society member- 

 ship. I was a member of one of the 

 literary societies. Instead of being a 

 member of one of the Greek letter 

 secret societies, I belonged to the only 

 anti-secret society. 



(To be continued.) 



Narking Section Honey 



BY R. A. BURNETT. 



WE find great dissatisfaction on the 

 part of the retailers where sec- 

 tions are marked "Not less than 

 10 ounces to 10 ounces," packed in the 

 same case, /. <■., those that weigh 10, 11, 

 12, 13, 14, 1.5 and 16 ounces, should be 

 packed by themselves, and not mixed 

 in the same package or case. 



Then, again, where sections are 

 stamped " Not less than 10 ounces," 

 while some of them run 16 ounces or 

 more, the retailer finds great difficulty 

 in selling them at their actual weight, 

 as the purchaser says: This is marked 

 10 ounces, and you say it weighs 14 

 ounces. Now what am I to believe ? 

 Evidently it is going to resolve itself 

 into each section being weighed sep- 

 arately and marked. Actual weight. 



The question has been raised as to 

 whether or not it is nec'ssary to have 

 the weight on a section of honey that 

 is not in a carton ? 



Th;re has been much said in Glean- 

 ings in Bee Culture on this weighing 

 of sections, but this particular phase 

 of it has not been mentioned so far as 

 my observation has gone. 



It is really a very important point. 



While it is not necessary to have the 

 weights marked on sections produced 

 in the State of Illinois unless they are 

 sold to go beyond the confines thereof, 

 when sent to a large market like Chi- 

 cago they are liable to go anywhere in 

 the United States, thereby requiring 

 compliance with the Federal Law. 



Light weight sections and heavy 

 weight sections packed by themselves 

 sell to better advantage; thus it is a 

 matter of self-interest for the owner to 

 comply with this requirement. Many 

 reason that some people want heavy 

 sections and some want light sections, 

 and that where a retailer only buys one 

 case of honey it is necessary to have 

 different weights in the case. That 

 may be true in little towns, but it is not 

 so in the city. Time here is calculated 

 at so much an hour, and if the clerk is 

 detained in selling a section of honey 

 because of mismarking of weight, or 

 the mark of a minimum, whereas it 

 weighs much more, it militates against 

 honey being sold or pushed for sale 

 by the retailer. 



Chicago, 111., Nov. 22. 



[Iowa and some other States have 

 copied the Federal Law. To comply 

 with the law in these States every sec- 

 tion must be marked with the net 

 weight, even though it is not shipped 

 out of the community where it is pro- 

 duced. The actual weight should not 

 vary more than an ounce or so above 

 the weight marked on the section. — 

 Editor.] 



