1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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brown and white, and are very attractive. Tlierc 

 they were all winter: but one day wc drove bj', and 

 not a hive was to be seen. I knew what that sig-n 

 meant, and although ^I have not spoken to him 

 about it I know that all his bees arc dead. 



Mahal A B. Cfiaddock. 

 Vermont, HI., March 2T, 1H8."). 



A KIND LETTER FROM A YOUNG BEE- 

 KEEPER. 



AI.SO SOMK WISE WO!!DS IN ISKCAItl) TO BEINf! SICK. 



DITOK GLEANINGS:-! have been studyinjf 

 bee-keeping for three years. Durinjr the 

 summer or 18S3 I visited the " Home of the 

 Honey-Bccs," in company with my father. 

 We spent a veiy pleasant day there, and 

 were very kindly treated by the proprietor and his 

 son, who took pains to show us over the factory and 

 grounds. Owing- to my occupation, that of railroad 

 station agent, I have not had much time to devote 

 to bees, but have had a few every year since I be- 

 came interested in them, in order to get practice. 

 Last spring- 1 bought si.x colonies of a bee-keeper, 

 at $6.(0 each. I let a friend have them on shares, 

 and when tliey had increased bj- natural swarming 

 to 18 colonies I sold out, just doubling my money on 

 them. 



I ha\e been muc'.i helped by the Home Paper.?. 

 It ism.>' humble opinioii, that j ou are doing a greater 

 work ill them than in all the lest; but tlie bee-work 

 is necessary, in onlcr to gain acces' to the people, 

 and carry Our Homes to many hungri" souls. I 

 loaned Gleanings of Jan. 1.5 to a neighl)or. Ik- 

 was so pleased with it he wanted to know if he could 

 get the Home Papers published separately. He did 

 not care anything- about bees, but he liked that 

 number of OurHomes so much he had read it twice. 

 I was especially pleased with the one in Gleani.nos 

 of Feb. 15, under the te.\t, "Tear not, little flock." 

 I fully agree with you, and I am ready to " follow 

 with my coat off." 



Jt seems to me God has surrounded u.? with innu- 

 merable blessings «liicli many do not see, mueli 

 less take advantage of them. Is there not also an- 

 other reason than those pointed out by you why so 

 many people, and csi>ecially Christian i>eople, fail 

 to get on prosperously? They fail to do their duty 

 in rcgai-d to giving of their substance to carry on 

 the Lord's work. Oh if they only knew the l)lessing 

 that would follow the giving of the tenth of their 

 income to the Lord! Arc we not reciuired to give 

 that much? ruid can we e.\pect to prosper while we 

 wrongfully withhold wliat belongs to him? He 

 says, " Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, 

 that there may be meat^ in my house, and prove me 

 now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not 

 open you the windows of heaven and pour you out 

 a blessing that there shall not be room enough to 

 receive it." 



I should like to gi\ L' my e.vporienee in regard to 

 this matter. A few years ago, both myself and 

 wife had poor health, and were paying out money 

 for doctors' bills and medicine. I was constantly in 

 fear lest I should be thrown out of employment, 

 and poverty seemed to stare me in the face. I had 

 been in the habit of giving more or less at random 

 for gospel purposes, but finally we were led to see 

 that it was our Christian duty to consecrate a tenth 

 of oiii- earnings to the Lord. We began to do so, 

 and this is the result : We were soon led to see that 



we should stop paying out money for medicine. 

 God had given us pure air and sunlight, and these, 

 with temperate living, were all the medicine we 

 needed. For over a year we have not used any 

 drugs in our family; our health has become good; 

 we have been prospered in every way. 1 have 

 saved more in one j^ear's time since we began to 

 give the tenth than in three or four years previous- 

 ly; but better than that, all fear and an.xiety re- 

 garding our living is gone; we are willing to work : 

 we love to work, and we know our Father will keep 

 his promise. This giving of the tenth is a great in- 

 centive to diligence; it is the best cure for discon- 

 tent and slothfulncss thai I ever knew of. 



HAitRY Lathisop. 

 Browntowii, Wis , March 20, 18.S5. 



AVliy, my young friend, your concludinu,- 

 leniarks area wliole sermon in themselves. 

 Saving doctors' bills by lending to the Lord— 

 what a grand thoughtl And I am jnst as 

 sure you have got it right, as I am tliat the 

 air Avas made for us to breathe. 



HAVE AN OBJECT. 



Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatso- 

 ever ye do, do all to the glory of God.— 1. Cok. 10: :{1. 



E.\U .irVENILES, do you have an object 

 ahead when you begin to play? Now you 

 know that most people, when they work, 

 have an object; that is, they work to accom- 

 plish something. Now, when you commence 

 to play, if you would say to yourself, " I am going 

 to have a good time with my dolly or my dog, now 

 how shall I begin?" don't you think that your play 

 would do you more good, and then you would be 

 learning something besides? Maj' be you can not 

 see what there would be to learn in playing for any 

 especial object. Well, I have seen men, and wo- 

 men too, who would work hard all their lives, and 

 never accomplish much. You see, they had not 

 learned to work to tlie best advantage for an object, 

 so I want you all to try to work or play so that you 

 can get the most good out of it. 



If you do not quite understand me, ask i)apa or 

 mamma to explain to you what I mean, and don't 

 think, " (ih, 1 am only playing, and it m-'kes no dif- 

 ference what I do." It does make a difTerenee, if, 

 while i)laying, you throw things about and leave 

 them so; don't you see you are foi-ming a habit 

 that you may never get over? Now just try to be 

 neat, and teach yourself to put away things you 

 have got through using. You see (hat you have an 

 object in takti'g care of them. Hist, because you 

 will want them again; and second, because a good 

 habit gained is a grand object to attain. Some 

 work or play, as an acquaintance of ours (ells a 

 story. He will eominence to tell a'-out a certain 

 thing like this: " Mr. Smith was going (o harness liis 

 horses to go to "— And then he would branch off 

 and tell where he got the horses; what Mr. So and So 

 said, and would go fro:n one thing to another until 

 sometliinu- would happen so that he would not have 

 time to (ell you what Mr. Smith was going to do; 

 and if you were to remind him (he next time you 

 saw him of what he had commenced to tell you 

 about Mr. Smith, he would, may be, finish telling 

 what Mr. Smith was going to do, but he would have 

 to tell a great many things first. 



Now J ou see, if you don't look out you may have 

 a good object to work for; but if you don't stick to 



