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GLEA:NmGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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lasts, and I can't afford to board and clothe and edu- 

 cate other people's children, in return for what 

 work they can do for me " between whiles." I can 

 hardly afford to send my own children to school all 

 the time. But if 1 have one hobby that I think 

 more of than any other, it is that all children should 

 be educated. When mothers talk to me with tears 

 in their eyes, and say they can't send their girls to 

 school, I tell them they can if Ihey really want to. 

 I tell them they can do without tea and coffee, lace 

 and ribbons, and (luit trying- to put on style till aft- 

 er the children get their education. I want people 

 to work and earn money, but 1 hate to see people 

 looking through colored glasses all thetr lives; and 

 uneducated people wear colored glasses as long as 

 they live. And with this conscience of mine, and 

 these educational views, you will see why it is that 

 1 can not have my twelve boys, but must go on tak- 

 ing all my own stejis till 1 almost drop with weari- 

 ness, while in all great cities are those very bojs 

 going to waste for want of the food and clothes and 

 right principles that I could give them just as easi- 

 ly as not. M.iHALA B. Chaddock. 

 Vermont, 111. 



Whj', my good friend Mrs. C, it surprises 

 me somewhat to hear that you have been 

 studying on this same problem that has lain 

 so near to my heart all the years of my life ; 

 and of late, "boys liave been c-nning to me, 

 begging for something to do ; yes, and guar- 

 dians have been bringing them to me, and 

 beseeching me to take them under my care 

 and tutelage. I, too, like yourself, love to 

 make every thing pay ; but we might as well 

 give up at the outset in tliinking of making 

 a boy pay his way when six years old, and go 

 to school. lie might pay liis way at home 

 with his father and mother, but he caji not 

 with anybody else ; or even if he could, who 

 would want a boy six years old to pay his 

 way V May God help us when we get tempt- 

 ed to bend every thing to money-making to 

 such an extent as this. It is true, however, 

 that a boy might earn enough from 1") to IH 

 years of age to make up for what he did not 

 earn when from 6 to 10 years of age ; and 

 tliis is often done by adopting boys. But 

 there seems to be a good deal uf unpleasant- 

 ness on both sides, so I don't see how it can 

 be done on a large scale. There is no good 

 substitute for tlesh-and-blood fathers and 

 mothers. Boys of 12 to 15 may be found who 

 can earn enough nights and mornings, by 

 saving steps and otherwise, to pay for their 

 board. I say they C(Oi earn enough nights 

 and mornings to pay for their board ; but 

 the sad part of it is, that a good many of 

 them wont. Others will for a time, but aft- 

 er a while they get tired of it. We pay such 

 boys from 6 to 71 cts. per hour, according to 

 their value ; and by getting up early they 

 can work three hours in the morning, and 

 jierhaps two at night. This would give them 

 from oO to 37^ cents per day, and such boys 

 can generally find board and lodging for tliis 

 sum. During a vacation, however, by put- 

 ting in ten or twelve hours a day, instead 

 of five, our young friend may be able to earn 

 enough, after paying for liis board and lodg- 

 ing, to clothe himself decently for the year. 

 But this gives the boy no time for phvy 

 or amusements, and little or none for read- 

 ing, aside from what lie gets iu st.hool ; and 



with some boys this seems pretty hard. Oth- 

 ers, however, who regard their choring and 

 other kinds of work during the five hours as 

 recreation and amusement, will get along 

 very well, and this latter class as a rule are 

 the boys who make our great men. Almost 

 every boy we get, sooner or later wearies of 

 being messenger-boy for the establishment. 

 I did find one boy, however, who said he en- 

 joyed the posilioli, because it gave him exer- 

 cise, both of body and mind ; of body, by 

 seeing how quickly he could execute commis- 

 sions off a mile away or such a matter ; of 

 mind, by cultivating his memory by making 

 it a study to remember eveiy word that was 

 tolil him, and to di.'-cliai'ge every commission 

 faithfully. Tiiat boy is climbing the ladder, 

 and I expect to sen the day wlien ho is anxn/ 

 up. I hardly need tell you that he is a faith- 

 ful, earnest Christian, and when he works to 

 please others he works with the tliouglit in 

 liis heart thtit it is a!l for the Master's sake. 



REMEDIES FOR BEE STINGS, ETC. 



ALSO SOMETUINC IN HKGAKD TO DOSINO WITH 

 PLANTS AND IlEIiBS IN OENKKAL. 



§N page 667 and 668, Gleanings for Aug. 15, the 

 rcqu' St is made for a temperance remedy to 

 remove the serious effects of bee stings. I 

 have heard the common plantain-leaf highly 

 recommended. The juice, or warm tea, is to 

 betaken internally, and the affected part maybe 

 bathed with it, or bruised leaves applied. A tem- 

 perance friend told us of a lady whom he found in 

 bed, very sick from the effects of a sting (I think it 

 was a bumble bee sting). lie gave her a tablespoon- 

 ful of the juice, obtained by pressing the biiiised 

 leaves, and in a short time she was better, and able 

 to get uj) and get dinner. 1 do not think any bad 

 effects could come from its use, as it is common 

 to cook it for greens. 



We have three stands of bees— two black and one 

 Italian. Wc got the queen from you in June, lf^85. 

 Our main honey-crop generally comes from white 

 clover; and as it was mostly over they did not gath- 

 er enough for winter, and we had to feed them. Wc 

 did not get much surplus honey this season, and no 

 swarms till Aug. ^'6, and then the Italians casta 

 swarm when we thought it was entirely too late in 

 the season for bees to swarm. My husband gave 

 them brood frames with fdn. starters, as he did not 

 have any frame of brood handy to get. The next 

 morning they came out and went to the woods in a 

 hurry. They did not build a bit of comb. The old 

 stand is in a chaff hive. The bees are gathering 

 some pollen, but that seems to be all they can get 

 now. M. E. 



Boonville, Ind., Sept. 11, 1886. 



I have given the above to illustrate what 

 seems to me to ba a very common fallacy, 

 not only in regard to bee-stings, but for dis- 

 eases in general. The afflicted person in this 

 case took a table-spoonful of the juice of 

 plantain leaves, and soon got up and went 

 to her work. Now, I am well satisfied that 

 she would (or, at least, could) have arisen 

 and got dinner, without any juice from the 

 plantain-leaves at all. A table-spoonful of 

 the juice would not affect a well person one 

 way OY the other. The proof is already giV' 



