1881 



GLEAN1NG8 IN BEE CULTURE. 



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really believe in are bucliwheat cakes and sausage." | 

 So to-day, if any one should ask me what my creed | 

 is, I would say warm tlannels, and plenty of wraps. ( 

 Vermont, 111. M.\hal,.\ B. Chaddock. \ 



I suppose, Mrs. C, wlien you wrote the 

 above you thought that "a stitch in time i 

 saves nin8." Well, T think I agree with you. 

 A few days ago I fell to discussing with my- 

 self as to which is the greater evil— to take ! 

 my overcoat along when I did not need it, 

 or omit to take it when I did need it ; and 

 after experimenting several times I conclud- i 

 ed by all means that the greater evil wns hi 

 leaving it at home ; for if I did not need it, 

 I could carry it on my arm, or leave it some- 

 where temporarily ; and I finally concluded, ■ 

 even if it got lost I would buy a new one 

 sooner than to have siich colds as I have 

 sometimes contracted by omitting it. It is 1 

 an excellent thing to have children toughen- ' 

 ed by exposure to the open air daily ; but, 

 let them be properly protected while Ihey j 

 take the open air. If one is going to have 

 violent exercise, let him take off his wraps ; 

 but the minute the exercise is over, gel Ihem ' 

 right on, and that speedily. Poor little 

 Iluber is just recovering from a cold that 

 was almost if not (piite lung fever, and he | 

 got it by going with papa out in tiie night to 

 see the stumps " burny burn.'' ^lamma ob- 

 jected at the lime ; but baby iind pajia over- 

 ruled, and the above was liie consecpience. 

 The doctor told us that the number of deaths 

 among children was fearful, and that the 

 sight of saddened homes and b.-reaved fami- 

 lies ought to be enough to teach p;uents les- 

 sons ; for the saddest part of the whole of it 

 was. that thesa deaths among the little ones 

 could almost always be traced to improper 

 food or clothing. Xow, then, ye mammas. 

 and papas too, remember that at this season 

 of the j'ear a very little imprudence or heed- 

 lessness may lay that precious little form 

 cold and silent in death. You can not plead 

 poverty, for flannels are cheaper than doc- 

 tors and physic, and you will have to pay the 

 bill one time or the other. 



A BOY WHO WANTS TO WORK. 



WHAT SHALL HE DO.' 



TT^ MAN of such varied experience lecomes 

 j^Ki, fruitful in invention. What is there I can do 



1^' to earn enough money to buy a buzz-saw 

 -*-^ and an extractor, in time to get my bees in 

 prime working order for the opening spring? 

 This town is stagnant; tradesmen scarcely make 

 th? enormous rents demanded during the summer 

 months; depend iu)on the butiar winter months to 

 equalize matters. With several large, fine church- 

 es, there are no congregations; 3 large school build- 

 ings, said to be improving, since the war times so 

 depleted them— perhaps! There arc ."> nourishing 

 saloons, out of one of which I counted 1.") empty bar- 

 rels rolled out, as the months' work therein. Why 

 do I remain in a place so ineligible? My mother is 

 compelled by circumstances to live here, and I, her 

 only remaining child, can not feel justified in add- 

 ing another trial to those from which she has 

 scarcely recovered, against her known and often 

 reiterated desire to have me with licr while she 

 Jives. 



When the Bermuda grass brought postals calling 

 for seed, I thought perhaps here was an opening; 

 but upon consulting one of our druggists, Mr. S., a 

 Philadelphian originally, but having b.ad many 

 years' experience as a farmer in this country, I saw 

 the futility of my hopes from that quarter, as the 

 seed does not mature well here. I might have hus- 

 banded my resources, etc., at the beginning of the 

 bee business; but lacking experience, I walked ac- 

 cording to my light; and now I am anxious to begin 

 the spring profitably, increasing my apiary as it 

 now stands, until it becomes remunerative. Lum- 

 ber and freight are heavy items with us; still, with 

 an income and energy much may Le overcome, and 

 I propose to know no such word as fail, and I feel 

 confident of building up and making a fair sui)pcrt, 

 if I can only manage to got the foot powei- saw and 

 extractor. 



The American silver watch I got of you scenic time 

 ago has been running steadily over two mouths, 

 and has not varied more than a minute in that time. 

 I am well pleased with it. C. H. ('. IIdi-kins. 



Port Gibson, Miss., Oct. 30, 18S-1. 

 Friend II., you have struck upon the great 

 problem, so it seems to me. Tliousands of 

 l)eople arc wanting things ; and especially 

 are touLs wanted with which towoik, just 

 as you want your buzz-saw and extractor; 

 and the question is, How shall they get them':' 

 I think I can tell you how you or any one 

 else can manage it if you are willing to take 

 my advice, and 1 have watched boys and 

 girls lor a good many years. I think I have 

 had expenencri enough in the matter to 

 ! know about it. In the first place, you want 

 ! to go to work. If work is scarce, work in 

 j tinding it ; and when there is nothing better 

 on liand, work around your home. People 

 who want to hire are greatly in the habit of 

 going for busy luen, and they are very sensi- 

 ble in it too. (io to everybody you know 

 who employs men ; take up with any kind 

 of a job t)r t\ny kind of pay, rather than re- 

 main idle. When it becomes known in your 

 neighborhood that you are willing to ^- tack- 

 le" any thing, there are enough who will 

 want you. Put away all foolish ideas about 

 pride ; do any thing that is respectable. Of 

 course, yoti wouldn't sell bet r at any piice; 

 but of course you would clean out hog-pens, 

 cisterns, and the like, whenever such a job 

 otters. 1)0 your work well. If you aie not 

 very strong, and can not do a man's day's 

 I work, get your employer to let you work by 

 the job ; then try to have every one you work 

 for pleased. Do not be discouraged, but 

 { make up your mind that you are going to 

 ■conquer ditlicultics — that" you are going to 

 I conquer the people in your vicinity, if that 

 is the way to i)ut it. and that you are going 

 to conquer circumstances, (iod being yoiu" 

 helper. When a boy or man gets right down 

 to work, and holds on luitil he can see things 

 improving before him. the task grows easier 

 and easier, and pretty soon, instead of no 

 one having any faith 'or confidence in him. 

 everybody will begin to have faith and con- 

 fidence, and work jiours in upon him, with 

 good pay, more than he can possibly man- 

 i age. Nothing in this world helps like \vd\- 

 ] ing a Christian spirit back of it all — a faiui 

 in God and trust in the Savior. Then get 

 : up early in the morning, and come down to 



