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GLEANINGS IN BEJi) CULTtJllE. 



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formed, and this work of intimidating any 

 who attempt supplying the place of tlie 

 strikers j,'oes on in broad oi)cn dayliglit, and 

 in a land that we fondly call a land of liber- 

 ty. In onr neigiiboring town of Akron, 

 strikers have even intimidated the proprie- 

 tors of boarding-honses, threatening them 

 if they entertained those who propose to 

 take the places of the strikers. Jesus said, 

 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inlier- 

 it the earth." Strikers seem to think that 

 the right and proper way to inherit the 

 earth is to do it by scaring the people with 

 bowie-knives and revolvers; and these 

 things go on, and nothing much is done 

 about it. Well, I am not sure that much 

 can be done about it, unless we begin at the 

 root of the matter. 



AVhen a man tells me that he can not get 

 along with his wife because she has got to 

 be so ugly, I usually inquire if there is not a 

 2xtir of them that have got to be " ugly." 

 And where a manufacturer has strikes 

 among those in his employ, it seems to me 

 that it indicates not only a bad spirit among 

 his hands, but a bad spirit in the employer. 

 A short time ago I went with my daughter 

 Maud to visit one of her college mates. 

 This college mate had just begun housekeep- 

 ing, and the young couple were a model 

 husband and "wife. After a while the hus- 

 l)and incidentally remarked that they had 

 had their wages cut down. I asked liim 

 how the employers managed to do it. His 

 reply was, " They did not manage at all." 

 They had been working all the week just as 

 usual, and supposed they were to receive 

 their usual wages. Saturday night, instead 

 of receiving the usual amount, they found 

 that about HO per cent had been kept back. 

 Some of the most intelligent of the men 

 went back and asked if it would be out of 

 place to ask for an explanation, telling the 

 paymaster that, if business was dull, and 

 the cut-down was a necessity, they were not 

 disposed to be uiu-easonable, but felt as 

 though something ought to be given by way 

 of explanation. The paymaster replied in 

 a harsh, overbearing way, " If you don't like 

 the pay we give you, you know what to do." 

 These same proprietors have had terrible 

 troubles within the past few weeks ; and if 

 I should treat my hands in that way, I 

 should be sure that terribh; troul^les would 

 come here. Why, I wouldn't hurt their 

 feelings, as I know such a thing must hurt, 

 for all the money the world could furnish. I 

 have sometimes had to cut down Avages ; 

 but I have never done it, I believe, without 

 talking the matter over, and arranging for 

 it in a neighborly and friendly way a week 

 or more hcforG the reduction was to com- 

 mence. Sometimes my hands go away be- 

 cause I can not pay them more, but almost 

 always with a friendly liand-shaking, and 

 kind words on both sides. Dear reader, is 

 it not worth sometiiing to so live that your 

 relations with your fellow-men may be like 

 this y and is there any name given under 

 heaven whereby we may be saved from these 

 troubles except that of Jesus Christ? 



This very matter, by its strong contrast, 

 gives us a wonderf id glimpse of the beauty 

 of the character of Christ. He came among 



men, a man himself, and yet a man that 

 coveted nothing belonging to his friends 

 and neighbors ; a man who, although he was 

 intensely human, yet labored and died for 

 others, and never performed even one mir- 

 acle for himself — no, not even when he 

 hungered and thirsted. Thank God, the 

 spirit of Christ exists in other human hearts, 

 even at this date. Multitudes of earnest, 

 honest Christians are laboring for the good 

 of their fellow-men, scarcely thinking or 

 caring for self ; and through such as these, 

 such as are living examples of the Christian 

 spirit, we are to lind relief from all these 

 troubles. So long as great multitudes are 

 living for nothing but money or gain, so 

 long shall we have tierce conflicts ; but Avhen 

 men can be educated and taught to obey in 

 spirit as well as action the commandment 

 at the head of this, then may we expect "thy 

 kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as 

 it is in heaven." 



A miEND IN TROUBLE. 



AND SAID TROUBT.E CONTAINS A VAI,UABLE FACT 

 FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF BEE-KEEPERS. 



J WROTE to ask the editor of the Baltimore 

 Weekly Sim if ho could tell mo how to get x'id 

 of honey-bees from our house. He replied 

 that ho would advise me to write to A. I. Root, 

 Medina, Ohio, " who is authority on all such 

 subjects." The bees took ijossession of the side of 

 the house, between the plastering' and weather- 

 boarding, and have been there for 15 years and 

 more. Twico avc had them removed, with the 

 promise they would not return ; but the next season 

 they came with double ollantity. A year ago the 

 moths destroyed them; but in May, three largo 

 swarms came in, and are still in possession. The 

 house is suffering for need of I'cpairs, and 1 am in 

 great distress, as I can't get any one to go near 

 them, as they seem to be very spiteful. Is there 

 any way to keep them off, or to destroy them? I 

 shall bo truly grateful for any thing you can tell 

 me to do. I am a poor woman, with no gentleman 

 to act for me. C. T. Fenwick. 



West River, Md., April 10, 188G. 



Why, my dear friend, your little story con- 

 tains something wonderful for the encour- 

 agement of bee-keepers. If you can not find 

 some enterprising bee-man to help you out 

 of your trouble, it will be strange. We have 

 for years been working and devising to get 

 some arrangement that would induce bees 

 to take up, of their own accord, with some 

 hive already prepared for them, instead of 

 going to the woods. Now, your house, or, 

 at least, that portion of your house, seems 

 to have, by accident, met the requirements 

 entirely ; that is, if, as you say, bees persist 

 in coming to you for a lodging-place. Are 

 you not mistaken in thinking that three large 

 sirar'nis came all at once ? If so, it is a 

 phenomenon beyohd any thing heretofore 

 recorded in this line. If you don't hear 

 from somebody who will help you out of 

 your dilliculty within ten days after the 

 issue of this paper, let us know, and I think 

 we can help you. We are very much obliged 

 indeed to the editor of the Baltimore Week- 

 ly Sun for his good opinion of us. 



