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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



all of us. Time passes, and, to your great 

 surprise, that boy or girl does tiptop. This 

 quality of manliness has developed, and 

 come out in an unexpected way. The fellow 

 actually manages well, and, in difficult cases, 

 he exhibits a wisdom you did not expect. 

 You had been thinking of him as a boy ; but, 

 in truth, he is a man. lie has gotten over 

 his boyish pranks and tricks, and deports 

 himself as their master, which he truly is. 

 He knows what the world expects of him. 

 He knows what the pupils expect of him, 

 and this expectation has braced him up and 

 made him all at once, as it were, a man. 



Several years ago, in making some experi- 

 ments in building up colonies by frames of 

 brood with no old bees at all, I discovered 

 the young bees would go off in the Held to 

 gather pollen at a much earliei' age llian 

 they would ordinarily. The poor little chaps 

 were obliged, by force of cu-cmnstauces, to 

 take up mature duties. In the same way 

 these young school-teachers or clerks or 

 businessmen in dilferent departments are 

 obliged to develop their talents of manliness, 

 anil it does them good. Only last week the 

 printers were a little doubtful about my be- 

 ing able to get out on time the number con- 

 taining this article, and at the same time 

 keep the large printing-press running on the 

 A B C book day and night. I suggested that 

 one of our bright young boys be set to mak- 

 ing up the forms' for the journal, at which 

 some of the older ones smiled. I replied, 

 *■' The quickest way in the world to teach a 

 boy to swim, many times, is to throw him 

 right in to deep water.'' Inourbusiness Ihave 

 done so a good many times, when I was 

 pretty sure I was not mistaken in my esti- 

 mate of the young man ; and although I 

 sometimes crowd these young people a little, 

 I think that moretlian one of them have had 

 reasons to feel grateful to me for it; for I 

 demonstrated to themselves as well as to 

 their friends, that they possessed this latent 

 power or quality of manliness, which we all 

 liave in a greater or less degree. 



Paul had a vivid idea of what it is to be 

 manly. He said it is manly to suffer long 

 and be kind. He said it is manly to put 

 down all feelings of envy. lie also said, 

 that the true man would I'lot be ])utte(l up, 

 even though (iod blessed and prospered him. 

 He said that the spirit of manliness would 

 make one behave himself in a seemly way, 

 and that such a man would not be always 

 seeking his own, and that one who has a 

 true manly spirit would not be easily pro- 

 voked, neither would he be constantly think- 

 ing evil. One who is manly would never re- 

 joice to hear of iniquity, but would always 

 rejoice in the truth. The remembrance that 

 we are men should cause us to bear patiently 

 Avith people in general, and to i)atieiitly and 

 constantly hope for better things in oiir fel- 

 low-men, "and this should help us to endure 

 not only for a while, but through time and 

 eternity, whenever it seems probable that 

 endurance may work out good, or develop 

 the quality needed. 



Within the past few montlis I have been 

 greatly helped against temptations by keep- 

 ing in mind that (iod and my fellow-men 

 expect me to deport myself in ;i manly, way. 



in a way in which one should Avho is created 

 after God's likeness. Why, it almost makes 

 me tremble to use such words; yet, dear 

 friends, they are words of Holy Writ. I do 

 not know your surroundings or circum- 

 stances, and I cannot tell what there is there 

 to brace you up. I will illustrate it by giv- 

 ing you part of my own: 



A little time ago I told you about the 

 schoolmaster. Well, I am a schoolmaster, 

 and a young one too. The school is a pretty 

 good-sized one. Some of the pupils have a 

 pleasant sort of way of calling me "boss." 

 Well, I suppose they are right ; for if I am 

 not boss I ought to be. 



If any one in this world needs to be man- 

 ly it is the boss. A good deal is expected of 

 the boss. He ougiit, by his looks, to let the 

 boys and girls see that he is boss, and there- 

 fore capable of managing. Not by any 

 thing "put on," dear friends, but in a true 

 spirit of manliness, just as I put it above in 

 my quotations from Paul. lie ought to be 

 above any thing mean or underhanded. He 

 ought to be transparent and truthful as a 

 little child, and at the same time as brave as 

 a general. He ouglit to forget self and self- 

 ish interests in looking after the welfare of 

 others; and the thought should be constant- 

 ly before him day and night, that lie must 

 be manly. By no means should any bad 

 temper ever be allowed to exhibit "itself. 

 Neither should he ever forget himself so far 

 as to argue or dispute with anybody. 

 Nothing approaching the character of a 

 threat should ever pass his lips. He should 

 possess the true dignity of manliness. That 

 word dignity often proinpts me to be careful. 

 Perhaps', dear reader, if you are not a boss 

 you are the father of a" family. What do 

 those little boys and girls expect of you V 

 Their eyes are not always upon you,"^it is 

 true ; but sometimes they are when you 

 least expect it ; but suppose they are not, 

 can you be a true man, and be guilty of any 

 thing under any circumstances that Avould 

 startle you if 'they knew of it ? It may be 

 you are away from home where nobody 

 knows you. "May be it is also in the dark'- 

 ness of the night, and it may be suggested 

 to you that they will never know or hear of 

 it ;" l)ut if you are a man, what odds should 

 that make ? A man should be a man after 

 dark as well as at noontime. He should be 

 a man away from home as well as in the 

 family circle. He should ever and under all 

 circumstances deport himself in a way that 

 not only his own children, but all the world 

 would call a manly way. A man a.iu\ mco- 

 man now call me father. They look up to 

 me and feel an anxiety that I may be called 

 and thought of as a man. I know how they 

 think and how they feel, and I know that 

 their instincts are God - given ; for what 

 holier relation is there in this world than 

 the relation between parent and child V 

 Now, I have been greatly helped, as I have 

 told you of late, in keeping this thought in 

 mind"; and not only is it my duty to deport 

 myself in a manly" w ay, but it is my duty to 

 cherish no thoughts or feeUngs that I would 

 be ashamed of before these two who are now 

 capable of mature judgment in this matter 

 of which we have been speaking.' 



