188-5 



tiLKANIXr^S IN KEK CULTURE. 





Kvcry l)o.v or s,'irl. under lo 



vears or aye. who writes a 



letter for this department, containing 



SOME VALUABLE Fact, sot generally 



KNOWN. ON BEE.S OR OTHER MATTEKS, 

 will receive one of David Cook's excel- 

 ■ ^'' lent five - cent iSunday - school books. 



>V ' Many of these booLs contain the same mat- 

 ter that you find in Sunday-school hooks 

 ,. costing: from 81.00 to 81.50. If you have had 



I one or moie books, give us the names that we 

 may not! send the fame twice. We have now 

 in stock six different books, as follows; viz.: 

 Sheer Off, The (iiant - Killer, The Robv 



We have now in stock Our Homes, 

 Part I., and Our Homes, Part 11, which will be sent the same 

 as the above. Besides the above books, you may have a pho- 

 tograph of our old house apiary, taken a great many yeai-s 

 ago. In it is a picture of myself. Blue Eyes, and Caddy, and a 

 glimpse of Ernest. We have also some pretty little colored 

 pictures of birds, fruits, flowers, etc., suitable for framing. 

 You can have your choice of any of the above pictures fur 

 every letter that gives us some valuable jiiece of information. 



• A chiel's amang ye takln' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



But whoso shall offend one of these little ones 

 which believe on me. It were better for him that a 

 mill-stone were lianMed about his neck, and that he 

 were drowned in the depth of the scu. — Matt. 18: ti. 



UBER is now jiettiiig to be larjje 

 enough to talk, and ask (juestions : 

 and, oh my! doesn't he .just makfe use 

 of liis little tongue! One thing ini- 

 I)resses me now, very strongly— how 

 wonderfully like wax are these little niiuds. 

 taking <ind storing impressions! and the sol- 

 emu part of it is. that tiieir little minds are 

 just as ready to take in bad iuipressions as 

 good. ll(i\v very, very careful, then, ought 

 we to be, how we act, and w hat we say and 

 do before the little (mes! 



.V few days ago. in trying to jmt on his 

 mittens I spoke to hini about liis thumb. 

 Then I asked him. " Where is thumb?" IJy 

 way of reply he put his hand down anil 

 pointed to one of his fat toes. " No, no." 

 .said I, •• that is toi. Where is ilnnnh.'" 

 Iiolding it up before him. Now. he did not 

 know about thumbs and toes, but he had 

 learned by sad experience where tlie kitch- 

 en .s/oir was: so he replied. '" Y'/'M-r. toe." 

 And it was quite a time before I could make 

 him comprehend the difference between 

 "toe"' and "■stove." His mamma made 

 him comprehend it, however: and when I 

 came home he was very much pleased to tell 

 me that there was the atovc over there, and 

 here was a /o(Might down on the little foot. 

 The weather has been very cold for a few 

 weeks, so he could not get down to the pond, 

 and his greatest deliglit lias been to visit the 

 little greenhouse that belongs to the factory. 

 We all have dinner at the factory, with the 

 hands; and after dinner I have generally 

 taken him down to the greeidion.se. then let 

 him see the big engine when it starts up at 

 half-past twelve. After about three times 

 he learned the programme, and so he would 



begin along in the forenoon to tease. 

 •• L)inny, papa ;" •' dinny, papa." He would 

 keep saying it over and over : and llnallv 

 when his mamma took him over, after a bite 

 ov two. he commenced. '•Papa. gagen." 

 meaning that he wanted to see papa's garden : 

 and the dinner wasn't anywhere, in conse- 

 quence, compared with the' wonderful sight 

 in the greenhouse, of the little plants just 

 pushing through their earthy covering, and 

 enlarging day by day. so rapidly that even 

 his little mind comprehended that very soon 

 there would be •■num nums" to eat. Xo 

 wonder he loves the garden. During these 

 sunshiny Janiuiry days, when the ther- 

 mometer is down to" zero, or lower, the 

 ■•gagen" is even to me the most enticing 

 place I know of. 



A few Sundays ago he got hold of one of 

 my collars of the previous week, and 

 got it around his chubby neck, and was hap- 

 py for a couple of hours in the possession of 

 a "'callow" like papa's. The next Sunday, 

 just as soon as it was evident that I was go- 

 ing to stay with him instead of going off to 

 the factoiy. he began to tease for '■callow" 

 again, and now he calls every thing •■ cal- 

 low. " Even the white wristbands are 

 ■• callows." with every thing else of the sort. 

 The same way he calls every puddle of 

 water a pond, even if it is not bigger than 

 a cow-track. IJodies of water are ponds, 

 and lie never tires of talking about ponds, 

 and iiaving every thing pertaining tiieret<t 

 explained to him. 



.Now. then, what a wcmderful opportunity 

 of teaching truth. )»urity. love, and kind- 

 ness! Do you see it? Suppose his little 

 ears are witness to (luarrels and harshness, 

 oliscene and l)lasplienions words, cruelty and 

 falst'liood. is it not lair to presume that he 

 would catch hold of these things just as 

 (|uickly as he grasps, holds, and dwells on 

 •■ gageiis." ■• callows." jionds. and the like':' 

 Shall we not. then, be very very careful? 



Hut whoso shall olTend one of these little ones 

 which believe on me. It were better for him that a 

 millstone were handed about his neck, and '//f»Mic 

 wen- drowned in the depth of the .sea. 



•VIO I, us. 1»K IIO^K.V KKO.M 1.5 SW.VKMS OK UKKS. 



I am a faiiners boy. We have 15 swarms of tiees. 

 We jrot .'.m II ;-. nt hone.v. C. H. GKiTfiKV, ag-f i:f. 

 Wooslcr, (>., N(.v.:{0, ISst. 



FHOM lTi to T,, a.vd only 12.") i.bs. op ho.nkv. 



-M.v father has i") hives of bees; he jrot only two 

 nutiiral swarms. It was a ver.v poor season. He 

 took only I2;'» lbs. of honey. Cakkik Wilms. 



Vociimtown, Pa., .Ian. 1, ISR".. 



SAK.\H S SHOUT I.ETTEK. 



Inelc .lohn keeps bees, and ho made a bec-cellai-. 

 My unties name is .lohn Walden. He has your 

 bee-book. Sauah T). Haui.ow. 



Northfltid, Minn. 



3200 I. us. OK HONEV PKOM 77 STANDS <JP BEES. 



My pa has 77 Stands of bees; we took ;«()() lbs. of 

 honey. Pa Kuve me 5 stands of bees, and somebody 

 stole one. Ma anil pa went to California, and they 

 went to the ocean ami Cliff house and saw the sea- 

 lions. The bees were working on the gum-tree 

 blossoms, and the bees that thej' have out there are 

 little black fellows. Paul Lathan. 



Papilliou, Neb., .January 2-t, 1885. 



