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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



to comfort and help you. With nil my ailments, I 

 can never be well again, but I am just as happy as if 

 I were well, and it is your privilege to be happy; 

 though the way to be happy is not to labor for hap- 

 piness, but labor to please our heavenly Father, and 

 happiness will be the result. This I know from ex- 

 perience. 



I am looking forward with pleasure to the coming 

 of warm weather, when I can again be out of doors, 

 as pneumonia has kept me indoors for nearly two 

 months, and other troubles have kept me upon my 

 bed; but I lie in the sunshine which comes in 

 through my window, and I can always be busy at 

 something, which, with the love of Jesus, makes 

 sunshine in my heart. It is not our Father's wish 

 that this world should be all dark to us. If it were 

 so, he would not have put into the world so many 

 things beautiful to the eye, so much that is charm- 

 ing to the ear, and so much love. If we show our- 

 selves lovely, even the dogs, cats, horses, and all 

 our domestic animals will learn to love us; even the 

 birds and wild animals may be taught to love us. 

 Sorrow and darkness may last for a night, but joy 

 and sunshine will dawn with the morning. It may 

 be night with you just now, and often the darkest 

 hour is just before day, but when morning dawns we 

 trust you will be happy. At all events, if you and I 

 love and serve Jesus a little while here, a long eter- 

 nity is in store for you and for me in that better 

 land not far away. Lovingly your friend— 



Roseville, 111., Mar. 16, 1880. S. J. W. Axtell. 



There is something wonderful in these 

 answers to prayer, especially in the way 

 God brings events about ; niany times the 

 relief comes in a way that we should think 

 least likely of all. W. O. thinks, that, with 

 his present trade on ink, he will almost be 

 able to take up the S700.00 this summer, but 

 he is much distressed by the great advances 

 on glass, and fears his friends will think he 

 has advanced the price more than he need 

 to do. I have assured him that we all know 

 he is doing the best he can. See the fol- 

 lowing: 



Friend Root : — I bought $3.00 worth of W. O.'s ink 

 as per advertisement in Gleanings, and sold over 

 half of it to-day in three hours, at a good margin. 

 The person who tries it is sure to buy from one to 

 six bottles. I retailed black, violet, and blue at 10 

 cents per bottle; the red and green at 15 cents. Here 

 is a good chance for the ladies to do W. O. a favor, 

 and benefit themselves. All colors sold readily ex- 

 cept the blue. Thanks to W. O. and his advertise- 

 ment. • D. D. Palmer. 



New Boston, 111., April 10, 1880. 



Is not this wonderful? I am very glad to 

 know, friend P., that your customers are 

 willing to pay 10 and 15c, but would it not 

 have been better to have charged them less? 

 We sell a great many articles on the 5c 

 counter that cost us 50c a dozen. It does 

 not give very much profit, but one has a 

 happy feeling of having benefitted some- 

 body, and with this, somehow, I always feel, 

 too, a Savior's approving smile. The ink 

 now costs $5.00 per gross, or $1.25 for a box 

 of i gross, but even if it should get up to 

 $5.00 per gross, I should retail the bottles 

 for 5c. "Where you have expensive express 

 or freight charges to pay, of course, you can 

 not do this, and so I presume it is well for 



each one to be the judge of what he can sell 

 for. 



It is with a little hesitancy that I give 

 place to the following, but I think those who 

 have followed these pages will catch the 

 true spirit that I wish to convey. 



Dear Brother Root: — Yes, now my brother too, 

 since by the influence of the Home Papers 1 have 

 been led down into the grave of our Savior, and have 

 risen with him " with a new song in my mouth, even 

 praises unto his holy name." I want to thank you 

 for the good you have done me and mine, through 

 Gleanings, and exhort you to keep on in the good 

 work. Do not grow weary or discouraged. In many 

 homes, all over the land, your quiet, earnest home 

 talks are working as leaven in meal, and many see- 

 ins' your good works will " glorify our Father which 

 is in Heaven." Clara V. Bunker. 



Eldara, 111., Feb., 1880. 



Dear Brother Root:— How can I do the most good? 

 is a question I often ask, and "What wilt thou have 

 me to do?" is a prayer I often use. The answer this 

 morning seems to be, "Write Brother Root now." 

 Paul says, "Those things which you have both 

 learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; 

 and the God of peace shall be with you." Now, I be- 

 lieve it; that is, if we do right. God will be with us 

 and bless us always. But the point is this: how can 

 I do the most good? Now, dear readers, Brother 

 It ^ot says his journal goes into over four thousand 

 homes, and I think if each one of us who profess to 

 love God would lend ours to four or five other fami- 

 lies, fifteen or twenty thousand persons or more 

 would be reached every month by a good sermon, 

 for Our Homes is good. I take the journal just for 

 that part of it, and lend mine to more than ten fam- 

 ilies each month. Now, if you want God to be with 

 you, do right," and live for and in him. 



Weymouth, O. E. C. Carrington. 



May God bless you both, dear friends, for 

 your kind and inspiring words ; but when 

 you send me such, pray for me that they 

 may not make me proud of the work my 

 Savior has seen lit to give me to do. Lend 

 the journal by all means, if your neighbors 

 care for it, and if it gets soiled and worn, 

 write me a postal and I will send you an- 

 other. God will furnish the money to pay 

 for all that may be used in doing his work. 



CIRCULARS AND PRICE LISTS OF KEI> 



KEEPERS' SUPPLIES RECEIVED 



DURING III E PAST MONTH. 



C. L. Sones, Sereno, Columbia Co., Penn., has a 

 neat Price List of Bees and Queens on a postal card. 



James A. Nelson, Wyandott. Kansas, sends us a 

 single leaf Price List of Comb Fdn. 



TWO-LEAF CIRCULARS, 



Advertising bee supplies in general, we have re- 

 ceived as follows: S. P. Bloomily, La Grange, Wal- 

 worth Co., Wis.; Edwin Thew, Morrisonville, Clin- 

 ton Co., N. Y.; I. S. Crowfoot, Hartford, Wis.; J. R. 

 Landps, Albion, Ashland Co., O.: and S. Valentine, 

 Double Pipe Creek, Carroll Co., Md., who also offers 

 Albino Bees. 



FOUR-LEAF CIRCULAR, 



Comes from Francis Dunham, DePere, Brown Co., 

 Wis. 



CIRCULARS OF 12 OR MORE PAGES 



Are sent by Scovell and Anderson, Columbus, 

 Kansas, and J. M. Shuck, Des Moines, Iowa. 



The account book for bee-keepers, as arranged by 

 friend Doolittle after having reviewed and exam- 

 ined all the plans that have been sent in, will be 

 given in the June No. 



If you imagine our new all-in-one-piece section is 

 not stout enough, just nail them after folding up 

 with }i or % wire nails; they can be nailed more 

 quickly and neatly than you can imagine, unless 

 you have once tried it. The corners can also be 

 glued very rapidly, but I can not see any sort of use 

 of nail? or glue either. 



