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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTtJUE. 



May 



den. Well, this man I want to tell you 

 about was a good deal like such children, 

 and like old Charlie; but he was a man 

 grown up. and we expect more of a man 

 than we do of a horse or even of a little 

 child. The Bible says God created man in 

 his own image. That means that he gave 

 him reason and sense, and ability to com- 

 prehend This man knew all this perfectly 

 well ; but his inclinations were so strong in 

 certain directions, and he was so stubborn 

 and contrary, that he did not pay much at- 

 tention to anybody or any thing imless he 

 happened to feel like it. His father and 

 mother talked to him about staying away 

 from meeting, and doing things he ought 

 not to do ; and his brothers and sisters talk- 

 ed to him. Some of them who were a good 



TlIK -AIAN WHO WAS CONTKAKY, AND THE 

 MESSENGER GOD SENT. 



way off wrote him kind letters ; but he still 

 persisted in doing as he pleased. When he 

 w^as a boy, I believe he used to be truthful, 

 as a rule ; but when he got into this con- 

 trary and stubborn spirit, he began to learn 

 to be untruthful, and to try to deceive his 

 father and mother and brothers and sisters. 

 When they told him he ought to be a Chris- 

 tian and a"^ good man he even tried to make 

 it appear that he was a Christian and that he 

 was a good man and meant to do right ; but 

 he didn't for all that : and if he had kept on 

 in the way he was going, tlie probabilities 

 are he would liave been by this time a terri- 

 bly bad man. (Jod, also, often spoke to him. 

 through the voice of conscience ; and finally, 



as a last appeal, as it were, God sent a little 

 messenger to him to plead with him. 

 Would you like to see that little messenger? 

 Well, right below, while I am writing, is a 

 picture of her and a picture of the man. 



The messenger was a little blue-eyed girl- 

 baby ; and almost as soon as this man began 

 to get acquainted with her, he began to feel 

 the influence of those appealing blue eyes. 

 He used to play with his girl-baby a great 

 deal; and long before she learned to walk, 

 he would take hold of her little hands and 

 say, " Now, then, 'way up high! Papa's 

 baby." Mamma used tD remonstrate some- 

 times, and tell him her little feet were hard- 

 ly stout enough to stand "'way up high " on 

 them just yet. But she was stout and 

 strong, and loved her papa; and she was 

 very ambitious to show off her strength and 

 intelligence. Well, papa taught the baby to 

 straighten up on his knees, " 'way up high," 

 and the baby taught poor papa to come 

 " 'way up high " in another way. Her 

 childish face rebuked his selfish and unkind 

 spirit ; and when she was not very much 

 older than she looks there in the picture, 

 this man, who had so many years been tend- 

 ing toward an attitude of heart that fears 

 not God nor man, changed over. Some way 

 all at once he got a glimpse of himself just 

 as he was. 1 do not suppose that anybody 

 will ever know how bad that man felt, nor 

 how hard he cried when alone by himself, to 

 think how ungrateful and wicked he had 

 been. He stopped doing every thing that 

 was bad that he knew of, and stopped being, 

 contrary. He went to meeting and to Sun- 

 day-school, and saw all the children there. 

 He listened to the little hymns that they 

 sang ; and through the intluences of the lit- 

 tle girl at home — yes, and his other children 

 —he became a good deal like a child him- 

 self. I am afraid he does not always stay 

 just as childlike as he was during those 

 days, but he tries hard, I am sure ; and he 

 prays to God every day for help, that he 

 may be, through all his life, like a little 

 child; for the Bible says, you know, that " of 

 such is the kingdom of heaven.'' And this 

 is the end of the story from Uncle Amos. 



jaYE^mE liEn^^fEl^-B^X. 



REPORTS ON THE SOURCES AND COLOR OF 

 POLLEN. 



We have to thank our young friends for 

 so generously responding in regard to the 

 sources and" color of pollen. We feel sure 

 that they have gotten together in a short 

 compass considerable valuable information 

 on the subject. Even the older folks may 

 learn something they did not know before ; 

 but there may be some mistakes, possibly, 

 as to the real color of pollen. If so, our 

 friend Doolittle, who wrote on this subject 

 on page 205, is fully competent to correct. 



POLLEN FROM SOFT MAPLE AND WATER-ELM. 



Our bees begau to gather pollen March 30, from 

 the soft maple. The color is greeu; and two days 

 later, yellow pollen from the water-elm. 



Ballstown, Tnd., Apr. 3, 1888. Elmer Davis. 



