GLi:ANlXCS IN litK CULTfllE. 



Feu. 



tier? Am I to rise up in the morning and lie down 

 at night to the music of the Shot gun? Will the 

 boards with bits of white paper tacked on them , 

 spring up nil over our door.vard, and be leaning up i 

 against trees and feneesV Shall I be called upon to 

 net as hospital surgeon everj' time the gun kicksV 

 and shall I, oh! shall T be expected to be blind to 

 evei-y shot that misses, and to rejoice in all that liit r 

 For now our boj- is big, and he wants a gun; ho 

 doesn't want it as the girls want ribbons and rings, 

 but he wants it as if his very life depended on it. 

 When any one mentions a gun, he sighs; and if he 

 hears a shot lie turns pale to the lips; and when the 

 wild geese and ducks fly over in the spring and fall, 

 flying low down so that we can see the colors, and 

 tell the drakes from the ducks, he goes off Ijy him- 

 self so that we may not see him cry. He wants a 

 gun just that bad, and now what am I to do'.' Tell 

 me, ail you that have boys. 



M.VHAL.\ I{. (HADIKX K. 



Vermont, III., ,laii., 1885. 



THE WASTE-BASKET. 



THE TWO THINGS THAT JOHN HAS 

 DONE DURING THE PAST YEAE. 



LL I have done this year is two things; viz., I 

 Js went to town one day and found a crowd 

 collected around a small tree. I saw pretty 

 soon that it was bees they were watching. 

 They had already taken the most of tlie bees 

 to the harness-maker's house, he being the first one 

 to see them. There was about a hatful left, and 1 

 s:ii(l to tlif boy that was with me, "George, let's take 

 the rest ol these liecs to Mr. Smith the harness- 

 iiiaker." 



" All right, " said he, and 1 held my hat under tlie 

 limb, and he shook it, and the bees all fell in my hat. 



We took the bees and put them in the hive and 

 eanu" on down town. Abovit tliree weeks after that, 

 one of the neighbors who has black bees came to 

 borrow our smoker. Their bees are in the house, 

 in a hive al)out 7 ft. long and It. liiuli. with a dooi' 

 that you can walk in at. 



When tlx'y came an<i asked for the smoker I eon 

 eliidi'd to go and rob their bees foi'thein, tiierefore I 

 got manii.ui's veil and a pair of gloves, and started. 

 Wlien 1 got there I lighted the smoker and walki'il in. 

 and began to smoke tliem ott' the comls. 



The bees began to sing, and made an uproai- like 

 an engine letting off steam. T got jibnut six gallons 

 lor them, and got stung only once. 



After 1 had taken out two or three gallons, I start- 

 ed in and knelt down. I had on linen pants, and I 

 knelt down on a bee, and he made me know he was 

 under my knee. One bee got inside the \-eil, but I 

 had seen in (>i,U.vninos for that month that bees, 

 when they got inside a veil, were ahva.\ s anxious to 

 get r)ut, and it did not scare me much. 



'i'liese two tilings are all I have done this >car 

 working at bees. At the beginning of last spring, a 

 year ago, mamma got a hive of bees of Mr. Theo- 

 tjald.of Centerville, a town about t> miles from here. 

 She made it a rule to open tiio hive onee a day, and 

 papa said that we iiad better leave the bees alone, 

 as they did not do as well, he said, as when they 

 were left alone, .\fter awhile he took an interest 

 in bees, and would open tlie liive onee, and some- 

 times three and four times a day. 



New Vienna, (Ihio. Wm. M. NonovKE. 



standing in a darksome corner, 



With its ghastly mouth outspread. 

 'Tig more frightful, more forbidding, 



Than a phantom of the dead; 

 It has caused more real terror. 



Filled more hearts with quakiiik' dniul. 

 Than any fancied, fiei-y demon 



Of a mind with reason Hed; 

 Vet this horror of all writers 



Is the best friend of the Ed. 

 Many hearts have quaked and qui%eied, 



Many eyes have torrents shed. 

 When they found their fancied genius 



Swallowed by this specter dread. 

 Oh could 1 tell each writer 



Of our Gleanings here to-day, 

 That this greedy, cruel monster 



Had departed, flown away. 

 Left the corner in the sanctum, 



Never more with us to stay, 

 What a shout, what grand hosaunas. 



Would go up along the way ! 

 But, then, may we speak the senlenn-? 



Would it not cause more dismav. 

 Should this specter, at our bidding. 



Close its mouth and soar awayf 

 Could our Editor sui-vive it! 



Cfiuld he live one single day. 

 If his best friend were denied him. 



His sole prop cast away? 

 I'ome to think, it would be better 



To Yield eracefullv to fate; 

 So I'll send these verses forthwltli. 



Though they leave me desolate. 

 Never more 1 hope to see them. 



In tile iiivstictonn called fame, 



But Ic.satUllelllis IM.jMsler. 



Selected and modified to suit GLE.\MN<is, by 



W. W. ADDISON. 



Pi'ieiul A. and others. I liave often thouglit 

 what a nice tiling it would be to puhlisli 

 every thing that might be sent in— good, 

 bad." and indifferent, thus virtually annihi- 

 lating the waste-basket, as you are yileased 

 to term it. But. would our subscribtrs l.e 

 satished V (iLKAXixos would not only be 

 so voluminous that very few could ie;id it. 

 but. worse still. 1 am afraid a still Mualh r 

 few would be willing to p;iy the eNjjfnye of 

 putting every thing in print. I do not see 

 but it IS one of the laws of nature, that the 

 fittest must survive and the nthers go to the 

 wall. I will tell you how to get your coni- 

 inunicatioiis into' piint, and at i>resent I do 

 not believe llure will l.e iiiiich trouble in any 

 case, if ><iii go according to the folh.wii g 

 rules : 



1. Do not write until \()ii have scnu thing 

 to tell : and wiien you tell it. tell it in the 

 fewest words you can, keei>ing constantly in 

 mind that inany other brothers ])robabl> 

 liave something good to tell, and want ;i 

 chance too. 



'2. Put a heading on every articde. if you 

 please, and then stick to your head ; that is. 

 do not mix u]) things ; Or if you must mix 

 them up. niiike a little sub-head to the dif- 

 ferent subjects you touch on. Write plain- 

 ly, and ]ninctuate it as you want it. 



H. Write for the good of your fellow-men. 

 and for tlie glory Of (Jod! not to show how 

 smart you are. luir with tlie view of getting 

 money for what you write. Ilie latter is all 

 well in its place." but the lirst motive should 

 be doing good to your fellow-int ii. and the 

 money part will follow of itself. 



4. Above all. be brief, especially if you are 

 new at the business. When yoii are recog- 

 nized as a regular paid contributor, then it 

 is very well to write several pages, if you 

 liave enough worth telling to cover several 

 pages. 



