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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



acres has a little flock of valuable sheep on it, as 

 they do not interfere with the geese. He had al- 

 so a very pretty flock of buff Orpingtons in the 

 same yard. The wild ducks were also especially 

 pleasing to me; but I was in such a hurry to get 

 back to the conference that I did not see them as 

 much as I would have liked. If I remember cor- 

 rectly, they are allowed to fly; but they have been 

 so well trained to come back to their regular 

 feeding-place that they seldom get lost. Besides 

 the wild ducks and geese there are geese and ducks 

 and turkeys from all over the world; and not only 

 are full-grown fowls offered for sale, but eggs for 

 hatching. Instead of an hour or two one ought 

 to have a whole day to look over the wonderful 

 things to be seen at the Linvvood poultry-yards, 

 New London, Ohio. 



I told the man who repaired my machine that, 

 inasmuch as I was a delegate to the Wellington 

 conference, I would have to have the auto at a 

 certain hour, and it was already time for me to 

 start out when I got around. By the way, it 

 seems to me there is a great opening for bright 

 young mechanics in the way of repairing automo- 

 biles. When I told this man, Mr. Chas. Hartman, 

 of New London, that my time was quite limited 

 he, at once got right down under the ma- 

 chine, in the dust and dirt; and before he got 

 through, it was not only dust and dirt but dirty 

 water that got almost all over him, for he had to 

 remove the rubber tubing attached to the coils. 

 His charge for doing this work was only 40 cents 

 an hour. He did not get in any thing for "ex- 

 tras," and he did not make any part of the machine 

 •XL'orse instead of better; in fact, I think it never 

 ran nicer as it "galloped" up hill and down 

 toward my Medina home. 



I suppose I ought not to tell it; but after all of 

 Ernest's caution to me he took his larger machine 

 (and heafier) and followed me, and had to get 

 some farmers to bring rails and pry his machine 

 out of the mud where I got through safely the 

 day before. This is one of the advantages of a 

 light machine after it has been stripped of all ex- 

 tras, and I think it is a little advantage too to 

 have a man in the seat who has run the machine 

 more than ten thousand miles, even if he is al- 

 most 70 years old. Just one thing more: 



The man of age and experience, especially if 

 he is a Christian man, is not so likely to annoy or 

 interrupt the regular and legitimate traffic of horse 

 vehicles on our nation's great highways. 



TEMPERANCE 



whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in 

 me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about 

 his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. — 

 Matt. 18:6. 



More than six months ago, when glancing over 

 the anti-saloon periodicals from different States 

 my eye caught on to a picture of some boys, in 

 the Missouri Issue for Sept. 6, 1907. I looked at 

 the picture and read the matter above it and then 

 the matter under the two pictures, and meditated 

 over the matter for a Home paper in our journal. 

 The paper got covered up, however, with others 

 and got out of sight, and so I rather forgot about 

 it. A few days ago, one morning while at break- 

 fast, while reading our daily Bible lesson my 



eye struck on the words of our text at the head of 

 this talk, and I recalled the picture that was still 

 lying on my desk somewhere; and for the first 

 time it occurred to me that this text had direct 

 reference to the liquor-traffic, the traffic in cigar- 

 ettes, or any other business that will lead our peo- 

 ple down to death and ruin instead of up toward 

 righteousness and heaven. I hunted up that old 

 scrap in the Missouri Issue, and now take pleasure 

 in submitting to you (p. 698) two pictures. What 

 do you think of them.' And what do you think 

 of the men who would deliberately teach these 

 boys to drink and swear, and to smoke cigarettes.? 

 There is no exaggeration about this, friends. 

 These pictures are of just such boys as you have 

 in your own neighborhood and in your own 

 home. One part of the group is made up, evi- 

 dently, of the children of well-to-do families. 

 The other group shows some boys who, perhaps, 

 are not so fortunate, or are so considered by the 

 world; but if you had lived as long as I have, 

 and kept your eyes open, you would have found 

 out that the nicely dressed boys are no safer from 

 Satan's wiles than the other ones — sometimes I 

 think they are not as safe; for the boys who have 

 to work for every nickel they have to spend are 

 less likely, as a rule, to use it foolishly. The 

 boys who have plenty of money, and not much 

 to do, are the ones who get into bad habits. Just 

 recall what has happened to some of the boys 

 whose fathers are millionaires. Carnegie says it 

 is a disgrace to die rich; and I begin to think it 

 is a misfortune to be born rich. The great men 

 of the present day came, as a rule, from the class 

 on the right-hand picture that lies before you. 



The brewers and saloon-keepers are already 

 getting desperate because their trade is suffering. 

 They must have constant recruits or their busi- 

 ness can not hold up and prosper. Dear me! 

 What an a-ivful piece of sarcasm to talk about 

 " prosperity " in connection with any business de- 

 signed to educate and train those innocent, un- 

 suspecting little chaps in the course that leads 

 down to hell! Boys are full of mischief. Your 

 boys and my boys were and are. If they were 

 not full of mischief, and constantly looking about 

 for fun, and inquiring into the whys and where- 

 fores of things, they would not be " much good." 

 Their little minds are ready to be molded and 

 fashioned. They are ready to take up with any 

 thing that comes along; and when they get start- 

 ed they are, as a rule, full of enthusiasm and 

 push. You may get them interested in bees or 

 chickens, or in a printing-press or a garden, and 

 a thousand other things; but if you do not keep a 

 careful eye on them, and look out, somebody 

 else will get them interested in smoking cigar- 

 ettes, drinking beer, gambling, and things of that 

 sort. May God be praised that I shall always 

 have the mothers on my side, even if I do not 

 get hold of the fathers. May God hasten the 

 day when our mothers shall have a little more to 

 say in regard to the environments of the home. 

 There may be some fathers, but I trust not many 

 mothers, who will say they can take care of their 

 own children, and other fathers and mothers can 

 take care of theirs. In other words, tvhose boys 

 shall keep the ginmills running, your boy or 

 mine.? 



While Gleanings has had many encouraging 

 words in regard to the stand it has taken in the 



