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tVLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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es are submitted, there is usually but very 

 little difficulty iu gettiuo: a unanimous reply. 

 If it is a (luestion that involves eoniplicii- 

 tions. settle it by arbitration. Jjet each par- 

 ty tell his story, and then let some }»;ood man 

 or woman decide whethei- it is fair oi- ("hris- 

 tiaulike. 



Now, in regard to the second command 

 laid down in our text—love mercy. Is there 

 any dilliculty in undei-standing what the 

 prophet means by thisy Of late F have been 

 liidving this word nuMcy with Christ's words 

 1 iiave sitoken about it, bidding us to do 

 good on the Sabl)ath; also," A merciful man is 

 merciful to his beast."' I like to go around 

 on Sunday moi'uing, and see that tlie chick- 

 ens have every thing pleasant and comforta- 

 ble. I love to caress the mothers that have 

 lots of chickens. One of my ]?rahmas ilnal- 

 ly hatched 1.'! out of U. She is oidy half 

 Ih-ahma, and so she is not so clumsy and 

 awkward. She used to be very shy, but now 

 we are excellent friends. I love to make 

 friends witli the horses Sunday morning too. 

 Tiien I love to till the big stone watering- 

 trough in front of the factory, so all the 

 horses tluit pass by during the day may liave 

 a drink. Yes, I love to see the bees sii)ping 

 tlie water down by tiie brook. 



A few days ago a man with a big team 

 passed by our watering-trough. The horses 

 (piickened up at the sight of the water, and 

 by the motion of their lips showed how 

 thirsty they were. But he yelled at them to 

 go on," andiiit them with the whip. Their 

 ears dropped back, and they looked disap- 

 pointed and weary. The thought occurred 

 to me of trying to make him stop and water 

 those horses ; and it was not until after he 

 had got quite a distance past that I remem- 

 bered that I was President of the Society 

 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 

 for the town of ^ledina. I am afraid I am 

 a rather poor president. Of course, it is of 

 more importance to look out for suffering 

 humanity, rather than for the sulTering do- 

 mestic animals ; but in our locality human- 

 ity seems to be so well cared for, especially 

 as far as food and drink and clothing are 

 concerned, that I have not thought so much 

 about it. 



Now we come to the last clause of our 

 text. What is it to walk humbly before 

 (iod V Well, I think almost any child might 

 answer this question. The friend in jail 

 told me recently that he had nothing to 

 thank God for in the way of giving him an 

 existence. lie said he had never felt it to 

 be a favor, and that God could take away 

 his existence as soon as he chose— the soon- 

 er the better. This surely is not walking 

 humbly liefore (lOd. Walking humbly before 

 (iod is, as I understand it, letting (iod rule 

 —thy will, not mine be done. Von may say, 

 if you choose, '' I can not just see why (iod 

 put me hei-e in this world to endurepain, 

 atfliction, and sorrow; but as I am here, 

 and by his order, I am going to say, ' Prais- 

 ed be his holy name.' I am going to obey 

 him so far as I know how, and I am going 

 to make the best use I can of the powers he 

 has given me. I am going to strive to lion- 

 or and glorify him in all that I am and all 

 that I do. 1 am going to let thoughts of 



him come first and foremost, and in place 

 of every thing else. I am going to strive 

 against selfishness and pride ; against stub- 

 l)ornness and ill tempei-. I am going to be 

 his child, and he is to be now and evermore 

 my Father." 



Wiien I was studying the subject of be- 

 coming a Christian, years ago, I w'ent to the 

 pastor of the church where we usually at- 

 tended. 1 had got it into my head that, to 

 become a Christian, 1 should have to debar 

 myself fnmi many things, and must become 

 cramped, or under bondage, as it were, to 

 fixed rules and laws. To my surprise, he 

 stated that most of the things I mentioned 

 were more matter of opinion than any thing 

 laid down by church creed (* liy the Bible ; 

 and in reply to my questions he stated the 

 few essential things needed. 



" Why, Mr. Reed, is it really true that this 

 is all that is required?'' 



" It is all, as I understand it, Mr. Hoot." 



I can not: lemember now, but I think the 

 conditions he mentioned were pretty much 

 the same as our text to-day— do justly, love 

 mercy, walk humbly with (iod. As I started 

 to go home, after having knelt with him in 

 prayer, and promised before (iod to do the 

 best I knew how to follow Christ, it seemed 

 as if the greatest freedom and liberty that I 

 had ever known before was spread" out be- 

 fore me. All the barriers were removed 

 from every thing that I wanted to do ; for I 

 was, once in my life, free from the bondage 

 of sin, and walking in the broad sunshine of 

 God's great love to his cliildren. 



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REVERSIBT.K FRAMES; ROBBING, AND HOW TO 

 PREVENT, ETC. 



0CK rcvcrsibk' wire Siraplieity frames are still 

 giving- us excellent satisfaction; and the 

 more the l)()ys use them the better they 

 like them. As I now see the advantag-es 

 to l)e derived from their use, I wisli all our 

 frames were reversible. I do dislike to see coml)S 

 built within a hall-inch or so from the bottom-bar, 

 or holes eaten around the lower end of the brace- 

 wires. Such combs not only look badly, but are 

 more liable to make the top-bar sag-, unless a folded 

 tin bar is used for a brace. They give us less space 

 for brood and honey, and are more liable to break 

 down during- shipment than where combs are l)uilt 

 out solid, as is accomplished by reversing-. We 

 now have secured some beautiful solid sheets of 

 combs by it. Said combs look as if they might stand 

 shipment without a single wire, though T hardly 

 think it would be policy to ship them thus. How- 

 ever, it does seem to me that when combs are re- 

 versed they will need less feet of wire to tlie frame. 

 In the preseiU iss\ic, Mr. Heddon is of the opinion 

 that, were we to try his reversible L. frame on a 

 larg-e scale, we would like it better. While his Irame 

 would reverse a little (juicker, perhaps, 1 should 

 have this objection to it; luimely, that it has the 

 wood corners, which I never liked in any frame. I 

 suppose the ordinary tin corner could be attached 

 to the Heddon L. reversible frame. If T can get 

 to it I mean to ti-j a few of these fiames made on 



