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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUilE. 



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home, the porter furnishes a very good 

 breakfast at a half-hour's notice. I)o you 

 ask what all this costs? Well, if you take 

 the best of every thing it will cost you five 

 or six dollars per day for board and lodging; 

 but if you wish to economize you can, if you 

 choose, live quite moderately. A Pullman 

 car costs $sM per day ; but if you ride in an 

 ordinary car, except during the night, it will 

 be only $2.00. The regular price for meals 

 at the dining-stations is the same as prices 

 in the East— To cents per meal ; but there 

 are lunch-counters at all eating-houses, or 

 nearly all. Here you can get tea or coffee 

 for 5 cents ; bread' and butter, sandwiches, 

 large doughnuts, etc., at 10 cents each. On 

 the Pullman car you get coffee for 10 cents; 

 a large dish of baked beans, 20 cents ; bread 

 and butter, 10 cents ; fried potatoes, 10 

 cents, etc. A good many carry lunch from 

 home, and get only hot coffee of the porter. 

 There are about 250 stations between New 

 Orleans and San Francisco. A great part 

 of these are right in the wilderness or des- 

 ert, and many of them 10 miles or more from 

 any habitation. How shall these stations 

 away off here get up a city dinner? The 

 daily trains each way are their only hope.* 

 These bring all the supplies, even to water, 

 when the water is scarce or alkaline. I will 

 give you their bill of fare, and tell you 

 what! consumed at one meal, at the same 

 time. I wish first to say, I had never before 

 had such an appetite as on this trip. One 

 morning for breakfast I ate a good slice of 

 turkey, same of chicken ; slice of steak, ditto 

 mutton ; both fiied and mashed potatoes ; 

 two hot biscuits ; dish of peaches (very tine), 

 piece of pie and cup of coffee. By noon I 

 was ravenously hungry for just such a meal 

 again. Oh, yes I I ate a dish of oatmeal, 

 besides which they brought in the regular 

 line. At the above rate it cost me almost 

 as much at the lunch-counter. Now, there 

 is a grand thought to me in regard to these 

 250 stations. Each one will soon be a town 

 if not a city. In fact, many of them are al- 

 ready. More than a hundred of them, per- 

 haps, are now just a single cheap building — 

 hardly that. The occupant has a family ; 

 very soon he needs helpers. Pigs and chick- 

 ens are brought. The chickens take kind- 

 ly to the prairie or desert. Soon come a 

 cow and a horse ; then a store and black- 

 smith shop. You know the rest. With the 

 advent of children, comes a school; and, 

 may (4od grant, very soon a cliurch. My 

 friend, what better opening can there be 

 for the millions who are asking " what to 

 do, etc." ? Do you just begin to see what 

 my long story has to do with the one I wrote 

 lately, "What to Do," etc.? Now, may 

 (rod bless these great railroad companies. 

 May he bless the pioneers of all races who 

 start out to carve out these new homes; and 

 may it all result in very truth in making the 

 "• wilderness to blossom as the rose, and the 

 desert place to rejoice," as in the words of 

 Holy Writ. 



To he continued. 



* Immense quantities of canned ^oods are used in 

 tliese wild reg-ions. Agrreat heap of empty tin cans 

 liei-alds the approach to every station, and marljs 

 the location of every deserted camp on the desert. 



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HOLDING FOR BETTER PRICES . 



Don't hold yovu- honey too long to get good 

 prices. While you are waiting they may come, and, 

 lo! they're gone. The best prices usually rule 

 about the holidays. 



GONE TO HER REST. 



OiiK friend and correspondent, C. C. Miller, has 

 just been passing throiigh a severe affliction. His 

 mother, after a long illness, has finally passed away 

 to her rest. While no one is better prepared to meet 

 trouble than is friend M., we tender to him our 

 heartfelt sympathies. 



OUR HOMES FOR THIS ISSUE. 



Notes of Travel will take the place of the usual 

 matter in the department of Our Homes of this 

 issue. Our readers will appreciate the old adage of 

 "books 1q running brooks, s«rmo7is in stones, and 

 God in every thing." While Our Homes takes up a 

 little different line of thought, we feel sure there is 

 not less of God in them this time. 



using a map to follow up the notes of 

 travel. 

 Our readers will And Notes of Travel much more 

 realistic if they will follow up the trip on the map. 

 If you can get hold of a railroad guide it will be 

 just the thing. You know, in studying our Sunday- 

 school lessons it helps a good deal if we understand 

 where the children of Israel were at different peri- 

 ods in their history. So it will help you to under- 

 stand the country better if you will follow ui) the 

 line of travel. 



" PUTTING IT OFF." 



Our colonies are all nicely prepared for winter, 

 and have been for some time back. Now that the 

 cold weather accompanied with snow is on hand it 

 is a pleasure to think that they have had every 

 needed attention. Reader, how is it with y lur bees? 

 Are they nicely housed, or are they tolerahlu well 

 prepared? or are they not prepared at all as a re- 

 sult of " putting it off "? If they are in the condi- 

 tion of the last named, don't say again that " bees 

 don't pay " until you get over "putting it off." and 

 don't ask next spring why your bees all died. 



PAPER BOTTLES FOR HOLDING LIQUIDS. 



In a late issue of the Cleveland Weekly I/edder 

 is a paragraph to the effect that paper bottles have 

 finally been manufactured which will hold liquids. 

 It is claimed that the same are cheaper, and per- 



