1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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worshipers. This is about the only thing you 

 can be quite sure of. The wealthy Chinese 

 have very fine houses, and there are few poor 

 ones that do not live in good ones. They man- 

 age to live very well on a little, because so many 

 live together in a single house. As a race they 

 are vei-y energetic and thrifty. It is plain to be 

 seen that they will ere long crowd out the lazier 

 and less hardy races. Thi' Malays and Indians 

 stand no chance, for they can not and do not 

 even try to compete with the Chinese. Ninety- 

 nine hundreths of the government revenue 

 comes from them. They have been well called 

 the Anglo - Saxons of the East. Sir (Garnet 

 Wolseley has expressed the opinion recently, in 

 an impoitant article, that, in the future, thei'e 

 will be but thi'ee great powers in the world — 

 England. Russia, and China. The Chinese un- 

 doubt<'dly possess the elements that go to make 

 up a great nation: and, when refined and ex- 

 alted by Christianity, or. rather, by Christ, 

 there will hardly be a limit to their possibilities 

 of greatness. 



But I must tell you about our mission to the 

 Chinese. About "two years ago Dr. West, from 

 Ci'awfordsviile, Ind.. latterly from Iowa, open- 

 ed a medical mission in the Chinese quarter, 

 and immediately began to treat the sick bodies 

 and sicker souls of the poorer Chinese, the 

 coolies particularly. Almost the first man who 

 came was an opium smoker who wanted med- 

 icine to cure his opium habit. The doctor 

 pointed him to the Great Phj'sician as his only 

 hope. He looked, as did the bitten Israelites 

 upon the brazen serpent, and lived. He gave 

 up opium, found Christ, and is to-day walking 

 in the light of tlie gospel. 



Not many weeks ago I baptized several Chi- 

 namen, and organized our first Chinese church. 

 It numbers eight, and ten baptized who will, in 

 a few months, be received into full member- 

 ship. 



In our Anglo-Chinese school we have not a 

 few true disciples of Jesus. Some of our 

 brightest and most promising boys are firm be- 

 lievers, and. so far as we can judge, truly con- 

 verted to God. 



Thei'e is great joy in this work. It must 

 make the angels' harp-strings ring again as 

 they behold the sight. Native lands and all 

 earthly ties are nothing if they would keep a 

 true missionaiy from thi.s grand service for our 

 God. 



A year ago Dr. West went to China to study 

 the language. So many dialects of Chinese are 

 spoken here along with the Malay. Tamil, and 

 English, that a man must go to the district in 

 China where a particular dialect is spoken in 

 oi'der to learn it in its pui-ity. When the doctor 

 returns in March, and gets well settled down to 

 his work, we expect great things. There are 

 100.000 Chinamen here, and surely the Lord has 

 some hundreds of people among them wlio will 

 be gathered out very soon, we hope, and unit- 

 ed into Christian churches. Prav for us. 



R. W. MuNsox. 



Singapore, S. S.. Malaysia, Nov. 30, 1890. 



[Friend M.. you can not tell how interesting 

 the picture you send us is to me. But I must 

 confess that, were it not for the places occupied. 

 I do not think I should be able to tell by the 

 dress which is the I'ich man and which is the 

 poor one. When you spoke about cariying 

 passengers for five cents a mile, it occui-red to 

 me that we might possibly bring the jinrick- 

 shas into our own countiy.thus furnishing em- 

 ployment for some of those who beg so hard for 

 something to do. But I am afraid that our 

 American people would make a protest. It is 

 true, we have poor men, and we have million- 

 aires; but for all that, it would be hai'd to find 



men in America who would submit to the posi- 

 tion of the coolies. A man might peddle milk, 

 possibly, with a cart, and not mind it; but he 

 would not draw his rich neighbor: neither 

 would the rich neighbor submit to be drawn by 

 his poorer neighbor, and I thank God for it. I 

 am looking for and praying for the time when 

 there shall be still more neighborly feelings be- 

 tween the rich and the ooor: and I am praying 

 with a pretty bright faith too. The answer is 

 to come just where you are looking for answers 

 to your troubles, dear brother— through Christ 

 Jesus. 1 



WOULD THE TRUTH INJUEE THE FOUNDA- 

 TION TRADE! 



FKIEXD HASTY EXI'LAIXS HIS I'OSITIOX. 



I see that, on page 94, friend Rice desires that 

 I should explain. The state of the case is. that 

 I have no quarrel with foundation in the hands 

 of those who use it and know why. My com- 

 bat is with the musty old untruth, that a pound 

 of wax costs the bees twenty pounds of honey 

 to make it. This misstatement makes a multi- 

 tude of beginners in our art think they must 

 use foundation, whether they can see any profit 

 in its use or not. Many of these beginners are 

 in localities where apiculture can not be pur- 

 sued with profit, except in the most economical 

 ways. Foundation costs money, and very fair 

 brood-combs can be secured with only the ex- 

 pense of a little time and cai'e. Moreover, in 

 many lean locations, my own included, it is 

 plain that full sheets of foundation in the sec- 

 tions very seldom pay for themselves. Where 

 the bee-keeper can see plainly that they do pay 

 for themselves, let him use them; but let there 

 be no assuming that it must />e -so, on account 

 of a big story about wax secretion. Let there 

 be no hiding of our faces from the facts. I re- 

 joice to see that Langstroth's work, as at pres- 

 ent edited, comes down "several cats" from 

 the old wild statement. In the last edition, 

 bees are credited with being able to make a 

 pound of wax from seven pounds of honey. I 

 am pretty well convinced that there is room to 

 come down considerably more; but I can be 

 thankful for the concessions we already have. 

 Both brood-combs and super combs foi- extract- 

 ing, in the hands of careful keepers, are per- 

 manent fixtures, or nearly so: and thus the 

 trade demand for heavy foundation is quite 

 largely to supply the \\ants of beginners. As 

 for those careless folks who let their combs be 

 eaten up. and then buy sheets of foundation to 

 rei>lace them, I guess they are always beginners 

 — beginners who seldom know whether the ma- 

 terial they buy pays for itself or not. I did not 

 mean that a liee-keeper in a good location in 

 Southwestern Wisconsin would necessaj'ily use 

 less foundation if he knew the facts. I meant 

 that the total amount used, the country over, 

 would be much less if the stimulant to its use, 

 which an absurd statement furnishes, were 

 withdrawn. You see. I am very fiee to retract 

 what I didn't say: but as to this last assertion, 

 I think I shall be hit by a good many stale cab- 

 bages and tui-ni]js first before I take it back. 



Richards, O., Feb. 3. E. E. Hasty. 



[It now becomes our duty to make a little 

 apology. Over a month ago. friend Hasty sent 

 us the short tem which ajjpears below: but 

 instead of going into the journal promptly, it 

 got laid away somewhere and was not used.] 



FRIEXD HASTY MAKES THE " AMENDE 

 HOXOKABLE." 



Friend Root: — It seems to be a proper time 

 for me to eat a little "humble pie." I do not 



