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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



understand, of course, it does not require 

 so many bees in these nuclei over lower 

 stories, for the simple reason that the 

 warmth from the cluster below rises and 

 gives plenty of heat for the babies above. 

 As an additional precaution, we keep the 

 entrance of this nucleus closed for 24 hours, 

 or until the young bees are hatched out 

 and can defend their home. Of course, 

 there are other ways of forming nuclei, but 

 the hatching-brood plan we consider best. 

 The Somerford method, as described in our 

 ABC book, under "Nucleus," could be 

 used very well — in fact, any other good plan 

 whereby too many bees do not leave for 

 their old home. — Ei>.] 



r And the I<ord •■aid. It is not good that the man should 

 be alone. I will make a help meet for him. — Gen. 

 2: IS. 



Kye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en- 

 tered into the heart of man, the things which God 

 hath prepared for those that love him. I Cok. 2:i). 



I wish to talk to-daj' to married people 

 who have brought tip families — especially 

 those where the children are married and 

 gone awa}', or perhaps have gone away 

 without being married. I wish to talk to 

 the htisbands and wives who are living 

 alone together, or perhaps mostly alone, 

 much as they did when they were tirst mar- 

 ried, before God sent any children into 

 their home. It is a subject I have touched 

 on once or twice before; but it is one that 

 has so much to do with the happiness of the 

 homes in the world that I think I may be 

 excused fur taking it up again and again. 

 Come to think of it, I do not know but it is 

 a talk that all married people need, from 

 the time they are first married until God 

 calls them. 



Somehow during my brief life I have had 

 quite a little to do with husbands and wives 

 who could not get along together. I have 

 talked and plead with both, before divorce 

 proceedings were started, and I have talked 

 with both after the divorce. I have urged 

 that th.- teachings and the spirit of Christ 

 Jesus would do awaj' with all this trouble 

 and anxiety, unrest, and misery. In talk- 

 ing with a neighbor I was visiting a few 

 days ago he said there were four families 

 right in his neighborhood where the father 

 and mother separated after the children 

 were grown tip and gone. They lived to- 

 gether and got on very well, apparently, 

 while busy with the cares of rearing the 

 family; but after the children were gone, 

 and the father and mother were in shape to 

 take a little rest, or, suppose we say, in 

 shape to take a good long vacation with oc- 

 casional visits to the children — I should sa}' 

 just when they were at the best time in 

 their lives to have a really good time to- 

 gether, they quarreled, and finally — were 



separated by law. Why, what a sad thing 

 this is! I suggested to this friend of mine 

 that the gospel of the dear Savior would 

 have made such a thing impossible. And 

 then he told me this story. He said he 

 knew the two parties quite well. They 

 were pious in the extreme; had family wor- 

 ship regularly, no matter what was on 

 hand. He gave me the following incident: 



One day he went over to these neighbors 

 quite early, on an errand. It was just time 

 for prayers, and he was asked to sit down 

 and wait until worship was over, then they 

 would attend to his wants. The boys were 

 outdoors, but they had to be called in. The 

 father read from the Bible, then he and his 

 wife sang a part of a hymn, and perhaps 

 the children joined in. I can imagine the 

 older girls would, even if the boys didn't. 

 Then all were expected to kneel down, even 

 the stranger who was with them. If I re- 

 member correctly, he, even as a boy, did 

 not "take much stock "in such proceedings, 

 and did not kneel down; but he did wait 

 tnitil it was all through before he could get 

 the thing he came for. 



You know, friends, I have often exhorted 

 you to hold fast to the old-fashioned style of 

 family worship. I have said that, if dis- 

 cord did not drive away family worship, 

 then family worship would certainly drive 

 away discord. Well, mj' informant thinks 

 the Bible-reading, the hymns, and the pray- 

 ers, kept right on; but notwithstanding all 

 these influences, after the children were 

 gone this father and mother began to have 

 disagreements. It grew upon them gradu- 

 ally; and in a couple of years it culminated 

 in the old gentleman giving the poor wife a 

 pounding. Why, it fairly makes my blood 

 chill to write it; and this was simply be- 

 ciiuse he happened to be the stronger of the 

 two. He took upon himself the responsibil- 

 ity of striking the poor woman whom God 

 had given as a help and companion, as in 

 the language of otir text. Some of 3'ou may 

 say the less such things are mentioned, the 

 better. They are too sad and shameful 

 even to talk about. Well, God knows, dear 

 friends, I would much rather not talk about 

 them; and I have taken this subject up onl3^ 

 because I wish to inquire into the matter, 

 and find out, if I can, the remedy. It is a 

 very strong case — at least so it seems to me 

 — of going through ^forin of worship with- 

 out making anj' practical application of it 

 to the aftairs of everj^-day life. It is pro- 

 fession without possession ; and, oh how 

 much there is of it in this world! 



In one of David C. Cook's Sunday-school 

 papers a few weeks ago I read a story of a 

 great missionary conference. A wonderful 

 address was made by a missionary right 

 from Africa. The audience was moved to 

 tears, and a great contribution was raised. 

 Well, during this stirring address from one 

 of the world's greatest mission workers, 

 two "street Arabs" crept slyly into the 

 building to get out of the storm. One of 

 them was a colored boy who was already 

 well along in consumption. The great 



