1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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time a passenger wants to know when the 

 train leaves, he ciphers the difference out be- 

 tween sun time ana standard time, and he gcMi- 

 erally nialves a niisial<e, just as he did in my 

 3ase. Never mind. I went bacl< and linishcd 

 my strawberries and visit. Then I rode 1(5 

 miles up and down some pn^tty hard sand-liills 

 1 part of the way, in just '.m; minutes. I found 

 the boys had piclved the berries e.vcept those up 

 Dy the windmill (see picture on page 517), which 

 it'cded picliing more tiiaii ail the rest. They 

 )ioked 111. bushels, and sold them, so they did 

 iH'tty well, any way; and as they did not see 

 my thing of the boss at the time he agreed to 

 •oine, they went home tired, and concluded 

 liat those great big berries on the clover sod, 



I lii Terry, would have tu siand it till Monday. 

 ■^(1 much for having a clock run bv sun time. 



/.'(fer.— June •,':!. wiiile trying to ride uphill 



II I lie sand. 1 passed a buggy, and thought the 

 aces looked familiar. It was friend Pierce 

 uul his wife. After a little talk I said: 



• How much did you get for those strawber- 

 ies that you left on the vines until the next 

 tl.inday ?" 



■Oh: I got lOcts. for those I got into the mar- 

 :et Monday forenoon: but some of them that 

 he boys took in Monday night brought only 6. 

 suppose they were pretty soft in consequence 

 if being overripe." 

 There you see it. friends. Had the straw- 

 ciries been picked Saturday afternoon, and 

 iished into the market Saturday evening, they 

 oiild have brought almost twice as much 

 luney as they did Monday afternoon, when they 

 eie overripe and everybody else was pushing 

 lieni into market. A little later, on the same 

 lorning. I saw a large crop of peas, just right 

 -1 pick, between the rows of celery, at friend 

 ^wood's celery farm, near Copley. He said 

 e could not get around to it to market them 

 liat day, because it was Saturday, and he 

 uessed they would have to wait till Monday, 

 ven if some of them were a little past their 

 rime. 



3fo77j;.— When you strive with all your might, 

 nd leave no stone unturned to get a tine crop 

 f any thing in advance of the market, do not 

 't your enthusiasm ooze out at the last mo- 

 if'ut, when the most critical time of all comes 

 I turn your product into cash. 



Ni t to be ministered unto, but to minister.— Matt. 



From reports that are coming continually 

 iiniigh the papers it would seem that there 

 ivi-r was a time; before when honest, unselfish 

 I'll were needed so mucli as they are needed 

 ijt now— especially men who can be intrusted 

 I till important olfices. In fact, it would al- 

 io>t seem as if our republican form of govern- 

 :' lit was in danger of going to pieces, even at 

 II ~ late day. unless men can be found who are 

 ■>'■■ from avarice and greed. We pay large 

 il tries to the police and officers of the law 

 1 fact, they receive so many thousands that 

 I' would think that they ought to be .satisfied- 

 It recent developments in New York city 

 '■rn to show that large numbers, not content 

 ith the salaries they are receiving, have been 

 ■cepiiiig bribes and blackmail to let trans- 

 •essors go free. It is not alone that they were 

 King money that they had no right to; but 



while they are employed to enforce the laws 

 they make ii their business to see that such 

 laws are not enfoiced, and spend their time in 

 aiding trau>gressors to (tvoid the law. Of 

 course, they rec<Mve large pay for so doing. No 

 one need tell us what the result of such work 

 will be. Lookers-on conclude that the only 

 thing to do is to scramble for the bi'St, regard- 

 less of how ihey get il; and I am afraid there 

 are a good many who love iniquity rather than 

 righteousness, who are beginning to conclude 

 there is not much to fear from the law or from 

 the olhcers of the law, after all. I tell you 

 friends, it is a dangerous thing to let trans- 

 gressors go, and continue to let them go, un- 

 punished. 



The mayor of the city of Chicago was recent- 

 y shot down in cold blood. The man who shot 

 him had not even been misused, so far as we 

 can find out. The case was a very clear one. 

 Ihe culprit was tried, found guilty, and con- 

 demned 10 die. Now, I do not know why he 

 did not die. I felt troubled and anxious when 

 I heard that the execution was postponed. It 

 may be that the man is not of sound mind 

 ilieii he is uut entirely responsible for the act, 

 as you and I would be; but the stories of crime 

 which we read daily if we choose seem to in- 

 dicate tliat there are tliousands such as he 

 They are presuming on public sympathy, or 

 something of that sort, and this incites them to 

 push forward in this foolhardy way. I may be 

 wrong; but I fear the cunscqnenees of letting 

 such startling crimes go unpunished. It looks 

 to me as if others of like spirit and disposition 

 would be deterred from giving loose rein to 

 their evil passions if this man had been prompt- 

 ly executed. I heard a man say that the reason 

 why the mayor's assassin was not put to death 

 was that foolish women seui him bouquets of 

 flowers, and that he had so many sympathizers 

 the governor suspended the sentence. Sym- 

 pathy for a criminal is all right when shown in 

 a proper way and to a proper extent; but any 

 sort of sympathy that would seem to say to 

 this man, and others like him, that he had done 

 a good thing, is certainly a foolish and silly sort 

 of sympathy. 



Tne scenes of riot, bloodshed, and destruction 

 of property, that are going on even while I 

 write, are, 1 fear, largely the result of a foolish, 

 misguided sympathy. 



A few years ago a great complaint came up, 

 to the effect that *" farming did not pay." But 

 this expression has gone by, and another is 

 taking its place; if not in words, we see it in 

 acts and in conduct. It is to the effect that 

 hibor does not pay— that is, ordinary labor with 

 brain and muscle. In other words, a man can 

 not, by honest day's work, stand any cliance 

 with the one who gets into office and accepts 

 bribes, or gets a chance to pilfer from the gov- 

 ernment or from some railroad corporation, or 

 to prove dishonest to liis employer. There 

 seems a pretty large and general disposition to 

 think that strict honesty does not pay, or that 

 honesty is nof the be^t policy. This feeling is 

 encouraged, very likely, because the laws are 

 not enforced as they once were. And, finally, 

 there has been a great longing— in fact, almost 

 a clamoring- perhaps I should say a hungering 

 and thirsting, for honest mc/i— men who can be 

 intrusted to any extent, with money belonging 

 to others or to the government; and the" old 

 foolish claim, that there is not an honest man 

 anywhere, has been repeated again and again, 

 and expressions to tlie effect that "every man 

 has his price." Where, oh! where are those 

 who know and acknowledge that they are not 

 their own— that they have beeu bought by 

 Christ Jesus, and that they are laboring for 

 him, and not for self— for him who uttered the 



