1885 



GLEANINGS IN JJEE CULTUiiE. 



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SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITIES. 



WHY FRIEND DANIELS DOESN'T LEND HIS HARROW 

 ANY MORE. 



fRIEND ROOT:— You have told so good a har- 

 row stori' that comes so near my own experi- 

 ence iu that line, I am tempted to relate it, as 

 it will g-ive you one more glimpse of certain 

 phases of human nature that you rather seem 

 to think indicate "whole-souled fellows." Well, 

 here it is: 



One morning 1 was accosted thus by Mr. S., a 

 renter: " Mr. Daniels, Mr. R. sent me down to see if 

 you could lend me your harrow to put some wheat 

 in that I am sowing on his place." 



" Yes, Mr. S., you can have it. But ! rhall want it 

 in a few days to put mine in." 



"All right; we shall not be using it long." 



I waited two weeks before I really had to have it, 

 and it had not been sent home. Tlien I was in a 

 hurry, and started to hunt it up. I saw it over in 

 the middle of the field, where they had finished and 

 left it. I went to see Mr. S., to have him bring it 

 home. He said Mr. R. was to furnish him tools; 

 and if Mr. R. had not taken it home yet it might 

 stay there. I went to see Mr. K., and told him what 

 Mr. S. said. Mr. I{. remarked that he didn't borrow 

 the harrow; and il Mr. S. did not take it borne, he 

 wouldn't. 



I said, " Mr. S. was your tenant, and got the har- 

 row through your influence, and you ought, as a 

 gentleman, to bring it home." 



He said he told Mr. S. that he could get a harrow 

 of me, but that was all. I told Mr. R. that if a, ten- 

 ant of mine should use my word, ami get a tool of 

 him, I would take it home. He said he was not that 

 kind. So I took a sled and went after my hai-row. 



Such, Mr. Root, is one of in.\ experiences in lend- 

 ing harrows, and it has done me worlds of good, for 

 I then and there swore otf from lending a harrow 

 (that much-abused tool), and I think I have ample 

 excuse, and have been amply paid for my trouble 

 in going after my harrow, and all my neighbors 

 understand it. This is not written for publication. 

 It is written to you, Mr. Root, and I have given vent 

 to my feelings to at least one man. Rut I believe 

 that such examples should be held uj) to the scorn 

 of the world, and not he considered " whole-souled 

 fellows." If they should happen to have a handle 

 to their name, as " Ur.," or "M. D.," it is no better. 

 I want men who have a sense of justice established 

 in their hearts. S. Daniels. 



Pine Grove, O. 



I hare given place to tlie above, because il 

 illustrates so well the point I wish to bring 

 out. There are many quite good peoi)le in 

 this world wlio are in the liabit of doing 

 something (]uite like tlie neighbors mention- 

 ed above, in claiming lliai they liave wrong- 

 ed no one. Now, the truth is,'that responsi- 

 bilities rest on us a great many times when 

 we have individually been in no' way at fault. 

 A few days ago a paragraph in the news- 

 papers mentioned the ease of a young wo- 

 man who jumped into a canal to rescue a 

 drowning boy. Some men stood around, 

 but made no attempt to do anything to save 

 him. They might have said, *■' The boy got 

 into the canal himself ; we had nothing to do 

 with it whatever." They might have gone 

 further, and claimed it was none of their 

 business. But it is our business— everv one 



of us, to help anybody who is suffering, and 

 it seems awful to think there are people who 

 will borrow tools, and refuse to bring them 

 home, under just such circumstances as the 

 one mentioned above. One claims that the 

 responsibility rests upon " t'other man." and 

 '' t'other man "' claims just the reverse. 

 Friend Daniels, suppose you put the matter 

 this way : " Suppose, neighbor, I had refus- 

 ed to lend my haiTow. w'ho would have been 

 the sufferer V" The moral seems to be, that 

 it is a very bad practice indeed to get in a 

 way of borrowing, or lending either. 



Not an hour ago 1 sent for a mortar-box 

 which has been lent for several months. 1 

 wanted a mason to go to work at the walls 

 of a gieenhouse. before our pleasant fall 

 weather was ended. In fact, a storm is 

 pending just now. AVhen one of my men 

 got there Avith my horse and wagon tlie box 

 was in use, and they could not spare it with- 

 out very great lroid)le and expense, so he 

 came back without it. If I should stop right 

 here you might reasonably accuse me of the 

 same unchantableness I have been talking 

 about so much lately ; but I am very glad to 

 lie able to add, that the neighbor who was 

 using it sent word to me that I should go to 

 work' and make a new one at lii^i cjcinmsi. 

 Now, that is what 1 call Christianlike. I 

 felt happy al)Out il as soon as the message 

 was delivered ; but instead of putting our 

 neighbor to this expense I concluded to take 

 the risk of putting my work off one day 

 more ; and even if it does rain, I am not go- 

 ing to feel cross about it. 



HOW TO SELL COMB HONEY AT 

 PAIRS. 



LSI) SO.MLTIIlNCi AUf)lT TUK WIDTH Of SECTION.-* 

 TH.VT WILI, UK WANTED KOII NEXT SEASON. 



E take the following from the Canndl- 

 an Bee-Journal of Sept. HO : 



At the Toronto Exposition it was veri 

 easy lor a person passing through the hon- 

 ey-house to i)eroei\(' the siinplc and easy 

 method oi'disposing ol scciioiis wliicli had been but 

 partially tilled out. 'riiousaiiils of sictions may be 

 sold at every fair l>v the method there adopted. We 

 think the credit is due Mr. .1. B. Hall, of Woodstock, 

 as the tirst who eoinnieiu'ed selling in this way. It 

 is (lone by cutting the sections from corner to cor- 

 ner, niakint; four triangular pieces, laying them 

 down on the wood, slmwing otf the honey to the best 

 pdssitilc advantage. The pieces sell xcry rapidly at 

 ti\-e cents each. gi\ing you twenty cents tor each 

 section. It would not jniy to take sections tlnit con- 

 tained a full ])ound or more ol honcx , iimi cut them 

 in this way. Every year liee-keepirs aic getting 

 more and more into the ha!:)it of using thinner sec- 

 tions; and we are becoming convinced that sections 

 more than Ifi or I's inches are too thick to be prof- 

 itable. We do not think many of our customers 

 will use sections thicker than l^^a inches, perhaps 

 not that thick, ('titling up the sections, and selling 

 the pieces at five cents each at the e-xhibition, has 

 becorpe so popular that there must have been twen- 

 ty-live or fifty thousand people fed with honey dur- 

 ing the two weeks' fair. 



We intended to try the above at our own 

 county fair; but unfortunately otn* apiary 

 of about 4(10 hives is less than a fourth of a 

 mile from the fair-ground, and there were so 

 many bees around our honey-stand during 

 the whole three days of the fair that we 

 dared not undertake to cut up comb honey. 

 — I agree with friend Jones exactly in regard 



