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It did no good, and A. had his first great 

 lesson to learn, that not all who called on 

 God in our prayer meetings, necessarily live 

 out Christian principles, still later, he 

 found where he could sell the wood for cash, 

 and asked me what I thought about his 

 drawing it away, and selling it elsewhere. I 

 thought there could certainly be no objec- 

 tion, as it was nearly all where he piled it 

 originally; but. to my surprise, B. threaten- 

 ed to arrest him for stealing, if he touched a 

 stick of it. They both talked a little hard to 

 each other, but I was enabled to silence 

 them, by reminding them of their duties as 

 professed followers of Christ. In despair, I 

 went for our minister, lie proposed when 

 he found that B. was so set in his way, that 

 we should all kneel in prayer, and ask God 

 to guide US. As we were on B's premises, 

 his consent was wanting. His reply was in 

 substance as follows: 



"Mr. 11., I never object to kneeling in 

 prayer under proper circumstances, and up- 

 on proper occasions, but, just now, I beg to 

 be excused. 1 '' 



That ended ii ; there was nothing more to 

 be said. Those of you who know of the 

 temptations which a man who has been ad- 

 dicted to drowning troubles in drink often 

 has under similar circumstances can under- 

 stand how poor A. felt. Some of his friends 

 advised him to recover the wood or money, 

 by law. 



"No." said he. "Poor as I am, and hard 

 as I have worked to get out that wood, I can 

 afford to let him have it better than I can 

 afford to go to law with a fellow man.''' 



If I am correct, he got a part of it in the 

 way of trade, and the rest is due him yet. 



Now, it is possible that B. would make a 

 different story of it. and that there were ex- 

 tenuating circumstances, but the point I 

 wish to emphasize is, that he refused to set- 

 tle it as his minister (who certainly had no 

 partiality towards a member of another 

 church) advised him to do. andhealso re- 

 fused to kneel in prayer, or to let A. have a 

 stick of the unpaid-for wood, back again. 

 What shall we do with such Christians? 

 lie came to the next weekly prayer meeting, 

 shook hands with his minister among the 

 rest, and called him brother, and took part 

 in prayer as usual. Had my boys in jail 

 known the above incident, I am really afraid 

 they would have felt themselves oh better 

 ground there in jail, than over across the 

 way in that brick church. .My friend, you 

 would better lose every cent you have in the 

 world, you would better give up your right 

 hand, and your left, too, rather than kneel 

 before God and attempt to call upon his 

 name, with the memory of transactions like 

 the above, nnrepented of and unconfessed, 

 scarring your souls. Xo wonder scepticism 

 thrives, and no wonder churches get to be 

 only heaps of "dry bones.' 1 



Did B. thrive and prosper, and continue to 

 be one of the pillars of the church V lie 

 surely did not. lie soon failed in business, 

 his home was sold at less than its value, and 

 a curse seemed to have fallen on him. 



HOAV THE SECTION-BOX < 'AOKS AN- 

 SWER FOR LONG DISTANCES, ETC. 



E have always had much trouble in 

 sending queens to Oregon, and so 

 tried 3 on the 29th of May, just 

 after the new cage was invented. Below is 



the result. 



I received all three queens alive this time. A few 

 of the workers were dead. I introduced the queen 

 without any trouble. George Ebelt,. 



Baker City, Oregon, June 14, 1879. 



And here is one sent June 6, to Texas. 



Your card, also the queen, received on the 12th. 

 The queen was in fine condition, is introduced all 

 right, and I think will do well. There was one dead 

 bee and one dead drone in the cage. They had 

 plenty of honey left. I think the section box a suc- 

 cess in shipping- bees. Lizzie A. Kodgers. 



Farmington, Tex., June 19, '79. 



Now the section boxes for sending 1 lb. of 

 bees have failed in one or two instances. 

 Yesterday, the boys were putting up some 

 packages, when I chanced to pass, and saw 

 that one lot was suffocating. Three section 

 boxes were fastened together, the bees were 

 put in, and they were about fastening the 

 last piece of wire cloth on. To tack it on, 

 the cage was placed on a hive, in such a way 

 as to close the opposite end. Now although 

 this i lb. of bees had a surface of coarse wire 

 cloth, of about Ki square inches, they would 

 all have been dead of suffocation in a very 

 few minutes. The bees covered the wire- 

 cloth, and crowded so hard that they forced 

 it up and crawled out, looking as black and 

 wet, almost, as if they had been dipped in 

 ink. Had they been in the shade, the dan- 

 ger would have been much less; but they 

 had been set down in the full blaze of the 

 noonday sun. Beware how you put confined 

 bees where the sun strikes the wire cloth, 

 on which they depend for air. I left out the 

 middle section, and united the two remain- 

 ing ones with a b and of wire cloth, making 

 a package something like this: 



SECTION-BOX QUEEN CAGE, TO HOLD i LB. 

 OF BEES. 



You see the box cannot well be put down 

 in such a position as to (dose more than one 

 of those six, 4x4 squares of wire (doth, and 

 they have a comb of food on each side of 

 them. 



Several new feeders will be 

 feeding- time comes again. 



illustrated when 



MARTIN'S CIRCULAR APIARY. 



fi NOTICED, in the last No. of Gleanings, friend 

 Hasty' S plan for an apiary. We arc all studying- 

 — ' for the best method of managing our pets, and, 

 if we get our ideas fixed upon anew plan, we are 

 liable to make a hobby of it, and become blind to 

 the merits of all other plans. While conceding the 

 merits of the grouping- system, I think there are 

 several points that, to say the least, are inconve- 

 nient. For instance, we use a cart in our apiary, 

 and, in our examinations, It is our constant compan- 



