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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



photograph for you all would have cost seve- 

 ral hundred dollars, while this cost only $85. 

 " Blue Eyes," now eight years old, is grow- 

 ing rapidly in wisdom as well as stature. A 

 few days ago, as I passed the door, I was at- 

 tracted by sounds of loud merriment. I 

 looked in and found the cause was that Er- 

 nest had her Second Reader, and was hold- 

 ing his hand over the page so as to cover all 

 the reading, but show the picture. In an- 

 swer to my inquiry, they told me she could 

 repeat the whole contents of each page, when 

 shown the picture only. When I expressed 

 incredulity the book was handed me, and I 

 found that the child had indeed read the 

 book through so many times, and with such 

 intense earnestness, that, after once getting 

 a view of the picture which accompanies 



each lesson, she could repeat the lesson word 

 for word, with scarcely a failure, from the 

 suggestions which the picture gave. It is 

 my love of pictures, my friends, that has 

 prompted me to illustrate Gleanings as I 

 have done, and I presume she inherits it. 

 Last week one day, she spent the whole af- 

 ternoon intensely busy, teaching school up 

 stairs to a row of dolls. I will tell you, my 

 friends, why I love her picture particularly. 

 She was a year and a half old when it was 

 taken, and it was those pleading, innocent 

 blue eyes that did perhaps as much as any 

 other one thing in teaching your poor friend 

 to lift up his eyes, and recognize the awful 

 chasm that yawned between him and his 

 God, and helped him on his way from 

 "death unto life." 



NOVICE AND "BLUE EYES." 



It has been said that editors never apologize ; if 

 they do not, I do, whenever I see I am wrong. I sug- 

 gested last month, that Dees might easily have been 

 kept in the ark, as it was only 40 days and 40 nights, 

 but it was before we had that Sabbath school lesson 

 in Genesis. My friends, would it be a hard task, 

 think you, for God, who created the bee, to preserve 

 a queen and a few bees a whole year or more? 



Four or five of my Southern friends will have it 

 that I was discussing North and South, or politics, 

 last month, whereas I only intended to discuss sin 

 in the human family. Whatever sin there was rest- 

 ed on our nation, exactly as the sin of intemper- 

 ance rests on our nation to-day. There is as little 

 room for politics in my crowded brain, as there is 

 for ill will or prejudice toward any one of you. If, 

 in my awkward way, I touched on things that were 

 better left untouched, please forgive me; will you 

 not ? 



THE RED CLOVER QUEEN IN HER SECOND YEAR. 



I have been waitinar to see the honey season slack 

 up, that I might see if the red clover queen would 

 sustain her character of last year for producing 

 bees that woidd amass stores while others did not. 

 I am very glad to say that her colony is the most in- 

 dustrious, with one exception, of a whole apiary of 

 nearly :i00. She lays fully up to any queen we have, 

 and seems fully as prolific this year as last. This is 

 another good point. Her bees are rather cross, but 

 are finely marked, and her young queens are con- 

 siderably lighter in color than those reared directly 

 from our imported stock. Ernest vehemently urges 

 that our whole apiary be supplied with her daugh- 

 ters. Although it is not probable that all would in- 

 herit this special tendency to amass stores during 

 the fall months, it is more than likely that some of 

 them would. As it is just as easy to raise queens 

 from her brood as from any other, such queens will 

 be furnished at our usual prices. 



