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planting such vegetables and fruits as you 

 have found to do well on your own land dur- 

 ing former seasons. Is not this pretty good 

 advice V and may it not explain so many 

 widely different experiences V I thing it an 

 excellent thing to try the novelties ; but 

 try only a few, and label them carefully. 

 When "you find something that suits you, 

 enlarge the area, and so on. Very likely, 

 with vegetables and fruits people have no- 

 tions, much as they do in regard to bee- 

 hives ; but when one succeeds in getting 

 good crops and good prices, we can excuse 

 him if he has a good many notions. 



THE WIFE'S SHARE. 



A BEE-KEEPER'S WIFE TAKES FRIEND TERRV TO 

 TASK A LITTLE. 



j^l RO. ROOT:— I have just been reading friend 

 ^i Terry's article, "The Wife's Share," page 86, 

 ^^ and wish to say that I heartily indorse nearly 

 ^^ all of it. I have seen many a wife who has 

 shriveled into a mean and narrow character, 

 or that has descended so low as to resort to decep- 

 tion and even theft, rather than ask her husband 

 for what she felt to be htrs equally with him. Again, 

 I have seen them become defiant and quarrelsome, 

 as well as the opposite— poor, little, wilted character- 

 less creatures, from whom the womanhood seemed 

 all taken away. My heart always goes out to them 

 in loving sympfl,thy, because I am so blessed. My 

 husband is one of those to whom friend Terry has 

 "nothing to say." I can say from experience that 

 the gentlemen will not have to complain of extrav- 

 agance if the purse is made equally free to both 

 husband and wife, providing she a!so knows every 

 thing about the business. Women, as a rule, are 

 not wasteful if trusted, but rather the reverse- 

 saving and careful. 



The part of friend Terry's article which 1 object 

 to is his unfortunate expression in regard to Paul. 

 Now, I have not the slightest idea that he thinks of 

 doubting the inspiration of our precious Bible; but 

 I do think that the critical reader might arrive at 

 this conclusion. Listen! "To be sure, Paul did 

 say over 1800 years ago that the husband was the 

 head of the wife: it wouldn't do for him to get too 

 far ahead of the times in which he lived. Were he 

 preaching in Ohio to-day I should expect very dif- 

 ferent sentiments from'his lips." Hark, again ! " For 

 1 have not shunned to declare unto you aftthe coun- 

 sel of God." " And how I have kept back nothing that 

 was profitable unto you"— Acts a0:30, 27. "But 

 though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any 

 other gospel unto you, than that ye have received, 

 let him be accursed "—Gal. 1: 8. Could'Paul get too 

 "far ahead of his times," when, guided by the Holy 

 Spirit, he wrote for the u'/ioJcof this dispensation? 

 Take friend Terry's own text: "Husbands, love 

 your wives, even as CJirist also loved the church, 

 and gave himself for it." This lesson of humility 

 and self-sacrifice is touchingly complete. 



Every true Christian woman will take no excep- 

 tion to the husband being the "head;" and he, if 

 fulfilling Paul's command, will never assume un- 

 christian authority over the " weak." The sacred- 

 ness of our Holy Bible can not be presented to the 

 mind with too much force. If we study it carefully, 

 praying to be guided by the Holy Spirit, we shall 



be surprised and rejoiced at the flood of light beam- 

 ing from its every page; and thus we can each 

 one say, "The Bible is truly a letter from my 

 heavenly Father to me." 



In these perilous times, when infidelity is rife in 

 every quarter, even in our churches; when it is 

 taught in our public schools, and the Bible is ex- 

 pelled from them, we, as Christians, will do well to 

 guard carefully our words, that even the weakest 

 may not stumble thereby. 



Mrs. E. M. Hayhurst. 



Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 15, 1888. 



My good friend Mrs. H., may I suggest 

 that we be a little careful about dwelling 

 too much on one side of this matter V What 

 I mean is this : I have seen husbands who 

 were " shriveled into a mean and narrow 

 character," and, in fact, who had "' descend- 

 ed so low as to resort to deception and even 

 theft," rather than go contrary to the wife's 

 orders. Now, you and 1 and friend Terry 

 know that, where Christ is foremost in the 

 household, and self and all else is secondary, 

 these sad spectacles are cured entirely. 1 

 think you are a little severe on friend 

 Terry. No doubt many veterans in Bible 

 study did smile a little at the way he ex- 

 pressed it. Suppose I put it in a slightly 

 different form : If Paul were at present 

 here in Ohio, I hope and trust he would not 

 find it necessary to speak to us as he did to 

 the people in that early age. One of the 

 most glorious things in regard to the spread- 

 ing of the gospel, is, that it protects the 

 weak ; and especially has it for ages uplift- 

 ed woman, and placed her wher* I am sure 

 God intended she should be placed. 



THE LAW RELATING TO QUESTION 

 NO. 10 OF THE QUESTION-BOX. 



also to bees in general. 



fRIEND ROOT:— While perusing some back 

 numbers of Gleanings my attention was at- 

 tracted to several answers in response to your 

 question: " If an employe discover a swarm 

 of bees dui-ing working hours, do (would) the 

 bees belong to the employe or to the employer?" 

 This inquiry, though not certain on its face, seems 

 propounded as a legal question. If the question, as 

 worded, were put in issue affirmatively by an em- 

 ployer, the employe might demur, alleging that the 

 affirmation does not set forth what certain service 

 the employe engaged to perform. If it be among 

 his duties to discover and hive bees, or search for 

 swarms, clearly then the products or fruits of his 

 service " during working hours " would belong to 

 the employer; but if otherwise, the legal title vests 

 in the employe. Bees are, in law, qualified property, 

 not fully reclaimed from their state; and the only 

 title which can be acquired is actual possession- 

 working in hives— or constructive possession— find- 

 ing them as strays and within view of them. But 

 in case a party finding bees not hived, and leaves 

 them not hived, and loses sight of them, and an- 

 other pary discovers them, the prior title is aban- 

 doned, lost because identity by former finder can 

 not be shown. If A finds a "bee-tree" on B's 

 land, A may hold the bees if B has not discovered 

 it; but as trees partake of the freehold, and the 

 combs being attached to the tree, the comb and 



