1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



893 



of the world ! After we get our homes paid for, 

 and are in comfortable circumstances, all we can 

 mase after that surely belong-s to the Lord. It 

 would only burden us to keep it. But if given 

 back to him it is a source of great happiness ever 

 afterward. It must yield in the conversion of 

 souls more than compound interest. It is between 

 us and our God whether we give or not. But I feel 

 that we are impoverishing our souls to all eternity 

 if we withhold what belongs to him. It is the 

 greatest joy of this earth to labor for him who has 

 done so much for us. But give God— our faithful 

 God— all the praise, and us none, only as feeble in- 

 struments in his hands, willing to be and do any 

 thing for the advancement of his kingdom." 



I am happy to be able to give j'ou a pic- 

 ture of this good friend wlio was raised 

 from her bed of sickness tlirough God's 

 blessing, by the work of the honey-bees, 

 and it rejoices my heart to thus end this 

 grand and beautiful story I have been tell- 

 ing — this story so fiill of comfort, not only 

 to those who are healthy and well, but even 

 those who recline on beds of sickness. 



Here is my finishing text : 



Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that 

 there may be meat in my house, and prove me now 

 herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open 

 you the windows of heaven, that there shall not be 

 room enough to receive it.— Mai^. 3: 10. 



P. S. — Just one word more about that gift 

 of which I get glimpses in my dreams. God 

 has not yet seen tit to give it to me ; he has, 

 however, in his infinite mercy and good- 

 ness, seen fit to grant me a privilege that I 

 had scarcely hoped might ever be mine. To 

 explain what this privilege is, 1 want to 

 give you a glimpse of a friendly letter. 



Mr. Root:—Jn looking over Gt-EANiNGS of Oct. 1 

 this evening, I noticed for the first time that you 

 are coming to Southern California soon. Now, I 

 have not an apiary such as I should feel proud in 

 showing you, owing to various causes; but I have a 

 strawberry patch in bearing now that I do think is 

 first class; and as I am but a half-hour's ride from 

 Los Angeles, it might not bo unprofitable for you 

 to run out and see our pretty section of country, 

 and I should esteem it a rare favor. If you can 

 come, take the Los Angeles and Glendale railroad. 

 Drop me a line just before, to Verdugo, and T will 

 meet you with a team. Glendale and Verdugo are 

 practically one town, and but 7 miles from the city, 

 and have .5 trains daily each way, over a narrow 

 gauge. I can show you a remarkable water supply 

 and system here, and some noted orange-groves. 

 I hope you will favor me with a call. 



Geo. B. Woodberry. 

 Verdugo, Cal., Oct. 24, 1888. 



Dear friends, the invitation was accepted ; 

 and ere this meets your eyes, I shall, Provi- 

 dence permitting, be speeding my way over 

 the vast expanse that lies between my home 

 here, and the fruit and honey belt of Lower 

 California— not over the tree-tops, as in my 

 dream, but in a manner almost as strange to 

 the children of but a little more than a cen- 

 tury ago ; and, in the great Father's good 

 time, possibly the glim|)He of my dream may 

 be verified to all his followers ; for we are 

 told, that '' eye halh not seen, nor ear he;ird, 

 neither hath it entered into the heart of 

 man, the things which God hath prepared 

 fof theni that love him," 



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 (he God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. — Amos 



Takk a lock through our premium-list. It will 

 pay you— see if it doesn't. 



We have just enjoyed a pleasant visit fr-om Mr. 

 T. B. Blow, of England. We will make further 

 mention in next issue. 



our friend fr.\nk uenton. 

 The American Bee Journal for Nov. 7 publishes a 

 letter from a bee-keeper in New South Wales, (-om- 

 plaining that friend Benton received his money, 

 acknowledged the receipt of it, and sent him one 

 dead queen; and that, although he has waited for 

 two years and written him four letters, he can not 

 get any further reply. Inasmuch as there are oth- 

 er complaints of alike nature in regard to li-iend 

 Benton, we feel it our duty to advise sending no 

 more money to him until these matters be straigh i- 

 ened up and a satisfactory explanation be given. 



"UNSTITCHED AND UNTIMMMED MAGAZINES" 



is the caption to an editorial in the Bewjeu) for Ort. 

 10th. As it echoes i ur sentiment better than wo 

 can express it, we take pleasure in copying it. 



There is not a f,)reign bee journal that comes to 

 our desk t rimmed, and some of them are unstitch- 

 ed. The hist number of the 4di'a)ice also came iiii- 

 trimmed. Yes, and there are two leaves in nenrly 

 every number of the C. B J. that, for some reason, 

 are uncut. To some this may seem like a sinall 

 matter for criticism; but to the busy or tired man, 

 who must hunt up needle and thread, and stitch a 

 paper (and he can't do it so neatly as it is done by a 

 prol'essional), then hunt up the shears and haggle 

 off the edges, or use his pocket-knife and leave the 

 edges of the leaves looking like the cutting edge of 

 a fine-tooth saw, to such a man this condition of 

 affairs sometimes assumes sufficient magnitude to 

 induce him to toss the magazine into the drawer 

 unread. The leaving of magazines unstitched and 

 untrimmed is a nuisance for which thei'e is no ex- 

 cuse. 



"WHITE PLUME " LETTUCE. 



Some of you maybe glad to know just how it is 

 prospering. Well, out of a great lot of plants, I 

 have succeeded in getting just one nice plump head 

 of lettuce, and 1 am happy to tell you that this 

 head it almost milk-white all over. The extreme 

 ends of the leaves have patches of green on them; 

 but it now becomes quite evident that the goal is 

 not very far off'. The main thing now is to get this 

 head of lettuce to send up a seed-stalk, and form 

 seed, before winter or during winter. It has not 

 started to sluioi up .\ et at all. Wo are going to kcp 

 it outdoors until the last possible moment that it 

 can bo kept so safely, then wo are going to give it 

 the best place in our groenhouse, and secure seeds 

 if possible. The mostof the plants shot up to seed be- 

 fore forming a lie 3 Inal, as I havj told you before 



