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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



when Dr. E. F. Phillips told me the dash- 

 eens grew in those far-off islands of the sea 

 with their little white roots reaching over 

 into a rivulet of water. " His leaf also 

 shall not wither." How many times we feel 

 blue and troubled when it does not rain, and 

 the leaves of our crops begin to wither and 

 turn yellow ! When there is plenty of i-ain, 

 however, as we have had this season 

 (throughout Ohio and Michigan at least), 

 there is no withering of the foliage. It is 

 like my garden and the beautiful dasheens 

 with their leaves a foot and a half across, 

 on this last day of July, 1913. Then David 

 goes on to say, " The ungodly are not so." 

 They may prosper for a time, but sooner 

 or later they are gone, and their memory is 

 forgotten, " like the chaff which the wind 

 driveth away." 



As I come nearer to my 74th birthday, 

 and look back over the record of my friends 

 and acquaintances, those who ridiculed 

 God's holy laws are gone and forgotten. 

 Not so with those who labored for right- 

 eousness and the good of humanity. Their 

 memory still lives, and their work goes on. 

 Cliildren brought up in godly homes take up 

 the work of their fathers and mothers, 

 " and their works do follow them." 



My good friends, have you a Bible of 

 your own f Are you reading and listening 

 to its counsels every day? Have you dis- 

 covered that, although there may be a great 

 deal in it that you do not as yet understand, 



that it shows forth on every page that it is 

 the word of God and not of man? that it 

 holds up the highest type of cliaracter of 

 any book in the world. It enjoins right- 

 eousness, temperance, and purity, and pro- 

 tests vehemently against selfishness and 

 every thing that is low and ignoble. Are 

 you making that book the book of all books? 

 and is vour main delight " in the law of 

 the Lord"? 



At Traverse City I was agreeably pleased 

 to find a j^ouug friend of mine who had just 

 taken charge of one of the prominent hotels 

 of the town. Owing to the number of trav- 

 elers who wanted lodging all at once at a 

 late hour, there was difficulty about finding 

 rooms for all. But just as I prepared to 

 I'etire I had another pleasant surprise in 

 finding a nice substantial Bible with plain 

 clear i^rint on my table. Just inside of the 

 cover was a mention of the Gideon Band of 

 traveling men who had raised the money 

 and taken the trouble to place such a Bible 

 in the sleeping-rooms of every hotel in our 

 land. You may recall the fact that I men- 

 tioned a carload that went to Chicago for 

 this purpose. God bless the Gideon Band. 

 If they do not get back the money they 

 have expended in this missionary work they 

 will get back something of more value than 

 money, for they have indeed been " laying 

 up treasures in heaven " as well as here on 

 earth. 



Notes of Xravel 



THE OLD ^^CABIN IN THE WOODS" ONCE MORE. 



It is now just about two years since I vis- 

 ited our cabin in the woods on Grand Trav- 

 erse Bay — the place that figured so largely 

 in our Home papers some ten or twelve 

 years ago. Northern Michigan is a great 

 rendezvous for campers during the hot 

 weather; and when the Ann Arbor railway 

 announced an excursion trip from Toledo 

 to Traverse City and back for only $5.00, 

 right during the extremely hot weather of 

 the latter part of Julj^, a great lot of peo- 

 ])le responded. There were something over 

 500 on the train on the 24th of July. 



Our readers may not be aware that the 

 Ann Arbor Railway Co. was progressive 

 enough two years ago to start motor cars 

 twice a day from Toledo, Ohio, to Cadillac, 

 Mich. These motor cars are much like the 

 electric cars, but larger, and they are pro- 

 pelled by a gasoline -engine on each car. 

 They not only have regular stopi^ing-jDlaces 

 about a mile apart, but, if I am correct, 

 thej' stop and take in anybody anywhere 

 who is tired of going on foot. These motor 



cars are not only a great convenience to 

 people all along the way, but they enable 

 their steam-drawn cars to run something 

 on the plan of the " limited," stopping only 

 at the larger stations. The motors, you see, 

 pick uj) i:>assenger3 and leave them at the 

 regular stoj^ping-places for the steam cars, 

 in the larger towns. Each car contains, be- 

 sides the engine-room, a smoking-room, and 

 very nice accommodations for 83 people. 

 As they have been in successful operation 

 for two years, they probably will continue. 

 I was agreeably j^leased to see a great 

 improvement in agriculture all along the 

 railway. The sandy soil of Northern Mich- 

 igan has long been considered a difficult 

 problem, even for the Michigan Experiment 

 Station. On my trip I found greatly im- 

 proved dwelling-places as well as better 

 crops of corn and potatoes, oats, and some- 

 times very fair wheat all along the way. 

 When I got above Traverse City, on the 

 shores of Grand Traverse Bay, I found 

 cornfields that not only rivaled our best 

 corn-growing districts in Ohio, but some of 



