1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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more frequent than ever. When we came 

 to the church, the streets were literally filled 

 with crowds; and then I discovered that 

 the game was in a park a little beyond the 

 church. I had been, for a mile or more back, 

 in with the crowd of Sabbath-breakers, go- 

 ing to see girls play base ball on God's 

 holy day. With a sad heart I reached the 

 church. Its doors were not open, and I sat 

 down on the steps. Nine o'clock came ; 

 quarter-past ; then half-past. Not even the 

 sexton came to open the doors of the mag- 

 nificent structure that the worshipers might 

 go in. The crowd still surged past to the 

 ball-grounds, and finally two women, but no 

 men, came to prayer-meeting. I could not 

 help thinking then of the time when all the 

 world had given up and lost faith in Christ 

 Jesus, our Lord and Savior, and only a 

 couple of women came in the early morning 

 to perform the last rites to his dead body. 

 It just then occurred to me that I was then 

 so far away from the Congiegational church, 

 where I pioposed to attend preaching, that 

 I could not get back in time, even by the 

 aid of the street-cars. But by inquiry I 

 found there was a small Congregational 

 church not far away from the Trinity Meth- 

 odist church. I reached there in good time, 

 only to be told that, for some unaccounta- 

 ble reason, the minister had failed to come. 

 Where was the sexton V and where was the 

 leader of that Methodist prayer-meeting at 

 half-past nine? Where, too, was our Con- 

 gregational minister at half-past ten? Now, 

 don't be hard on me, dear friends, if I did 

 wonder just a little whether it was not pos- 

 sible that these brothers had caught the 

 infection, and gone with the rest of the 

 multitude to see girls play base ball. By 

 the way, is it customary to have base ball 

 on Sunday? How is it where you live? 

 May God forbid that this custom should 

 ever get to be common ; and a thousand 

 times more may God forbid that the other 

 sex should take up the game on that holy 

 day — the sex that we have been taught from 

 childhood up to regard as a model of every 

 thing that is pure and holy. May be I am 

 finding a good deal of fault with the city of 

 Milwaukee ; but I do feel that it was a 

 burning shame that the good people of that 

 city should allow at least a great portion of 

 it to be hung with posters as it was on that 

 pleasant Sabbath morning — posters that 

 were conspicuous because of the display and 

 prominence that was made of the bare legs 

 of the women or girls who were going to 

 play base ball. 



I am now going to tell you what I found 

 in Milwaukee that was good. The Sabbath- 

 school in the little church I have mentioned 

 was well attended, and a true Christian 

 spirit seemed to pervade every heart. My 

 heart went out in love to the dear brother 

 who conducted the Bible class, wherein I 

 found a place. His voice betrayed a slight 

 foreign accent ; but his words, that came 

 from the very depths of his heart, showed 

 unmistakably that he was intimately ac- 

 quainted with the dear Savior. The Y. M. 

 C. A. building is one of the finest edifices I 

 was ever in. I think I have been told that 

 it cost something like a quarter of a million 



of dollars, and that there is perhaps no other 

 Y. M. C. A. structure like it in the United 

 States. The address to the young men was 

 most grand, and fully up to the times. The 

 city is one of the neatest, cleanest, and pret- 

 tiest that I have ever visited. The rooms of 

 the W. C. T. II. were in plain sight, light 

 across the street from the Plankinton Hotel, 

 and I intended to call there; in fact, I did 

 think of applying there for a Bible; but I 

 was a little timid about going out, even on 

 such an errand, so early on Sunday morning. 

 1 suppose that Milwaukee is as well supplied 

 with Bibles as perhaps any other city, and 

 perhaps there were thousands that very 

 morning who would gladly have extended to 

 me the family Bible, had my wants been 

 known. The absence of worshipers at the 

 places of worship may perhaps be explained 

 by the fact that my visit was about the sea- 

 son when many ministers take their vaca- 

 tion. But I tell you, dear friends, it seems 

 as if we ought to bear in mind the fact that 

 Satan vircr takes a vacation ; and 1 should 

 not be at all surprised if he plans his work 

 and masses his forces so as to make his very 

 biggest hits just about vacation time of the 

 church and Sunday-school. The thought of 

 the little ones being led by their parents to- 

 ward that base-ball game on Sunday morn- 

 ing still haunts me— those little ones rigged 

 out in their Sunday best, and in tiptop trim 

 for Sunday-school— little ones ready to be 

 led to Sunday-school, or ready to be led into 

 the very clutches of the evil one. Dear 

 brother and sister, how is it with you ? and 

 how are you leading your children? l)o 

 they know, and have they already learned, 

 that God's word is a lamp unto your feet 

 and a light unto your path ? 



dim 0wn jinnw, 



CONDUCTED BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



RAISING CELLS A LA DOOLITTLE. 



J^URING the last few weeks we have 

 |Jc|| been raising, or, rather, completing 

 wj cells, in the upper stories, above per- 

 *& forated zinc, of two or three strong 

 colonies. The plan is a success after 

 cells have been given them already started. 

 Although vve anticipate doing so soon, we 

 have not yet made the little cells with the 

 rake tooth, described in Doolittle's book, 

 and giving the same, when filled with larvae, 

 to the Doolittle upper stories, as we call 

 them. So far we have been selecting here 

 and there cells started, and which have al- 

 ready in them the larva and its royal food. 

 These have beeu stuck on to the combs in 

 the Doolittle upper stories. In process of 

 time they were built out nicely, and com- 

 pleted. At tirst our Mr. Spafford thought 

 they were larger than cells built in queen- 

 less colonies ; but now he thinks lie sees no 

 difference. Those cells that I examined 

 were very nice, but 1 did not think them 

 any larger than cells built in queenless col- 

 onies. But more anon on this subject 



THE DOOLITTLE QUEEN-CELL PROTECTORS. 



Some years ago we illustrated and de- 



