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GLEANINGS IN l!EE CULTLIKE. 



Dkc. 



miles tf> his othpr ai)iary. keeping bees confined 

 til! after dark. Succeeds evej'y lime. Wouldn't 

 it do as well to have a small boy pound on the 

 hive as long as it would be ingoing seven miles? 



In avinterinct. Hasty says in Americdu Bee' 

 keeper that •' a cluster formed touching the top. 

 and stores below them, is very much safer than 

 a cluster formed away down, and stores above 

 them." His idea is, that moisture will collect 

 on the stores above and drench the bees. I be- 

 lieve in lots of stores, but Hasty's argument 

 looks rather against it. On the other hand, the 

 bees insist on storing above instead of below. 



A SMOKER without a cut-off blast is spoiled 

 by smoke getting into the bellows, and with the 

 cut-ofl the blast is weakened. For a long time 

 I have said that a valve should stop the air 

 from returning through the blast-tube of the 

 Clark smoker into the bellows, but the manu- 

 facturers said it couldn't be done. The Crane 

 smoker is certainly aimed in the right direction. 

 After I've tried it a season I can tell whether it 

 has hit the mark aimed at. 



LANGSTROTH'S REMINISCENCES. 



UNRULY students: makriage. 



The faculty liad been annoyed for some time 

 by students, whose class had been earlier dis- 

 missed, coming slyly to the door of a recitation 

 room and thundering upon it with a heavy 

 stick of wood. If the tutor went to the door, 

 of course the culprit decamped: and the laugh 

 which followed an unsuccessful attempt to 

 catch him was often quite mortifying. The 

 annoyance at la-t became so great that the 

 faculty passed a resolution thai the first student 

 detected in the act should be dismissed in dis- 

 grace from the college. One morning after dis- 

 missing my division I found that I had left 

 behind me the book in which I marked the 

 standing of the students. Returning to get it. 

 as I opened the door into the hall I saw a stu 

 dent battering with all his might upon an ad- 

 joining door. As soon as he caught sight of me 

 he ran through the hall into the open air. In- 

 stead of pursuing him I left the building in the 

 opposite direction: and as I entered the hall 

 of one of the dormitories, through which 1 

 thought he might be coming, he did not notice 

 me until he was fairly brought to a stand by 

 running right into my arms. Imagine his con- 

 sternation: Calling him by name. I said. 



" . is that you '? " 



*' Yes. sir," was the reply. 

 "Then you can come to my room after break- 

 last." 



Became; and as I addressed him he looked 

 as though his fate was sealed, but that he must 

 try to brave it out as well as he could. He was 

 a young man of good ability and generous im- 

 pulses, but he had fallen under bad inlluences. 

 and was rapidly losing his standing for scholar- 

 ship. His father had written to me sevei'al 

 times, with deep anxiety, and I had done all 

 that I could to save his boy. My heart was 

 moved at the sight of him. and I said, " You 

 know the resolution passed by the faculty con- 

 cerning this offense? " 

 '• I do. sir." 



"You know that duty may compel me to I'e- 

 port your case ? " 

 He assented. 



"Now, I can not bear to do it. Here are the 

 letters which I have received from your anxious 

 father. I want, if possible, to save you; and if 

 you will give me your word of honor that you 

 will try, from this time, to do your duty, I will 



never say a word to any one about the event 

 of this morning." 



He burst into tears, grasped my hand, and, 

 with every appearance of sincerity, gave me 

 the promise: and he kept it. Some'years after, 

 at a meeting of his class on commencement 

 wtek. I was invited, with some other of the 

 tutors, to dine with them. After dinner this 

 young man related these facts, saying, " When 

 I went to Tutor Langstroth's room I was des- 

 perate: for I felt that I should be dismissed, 

 and that the disgrace would almost break my 

 good father's h'^art. Probably, if the letter of 

 the law had been carried out. I should have been 

 ruined; but the kindness of Tutor Langstroth, 

 his moving appeals, and the generous confidence 

 which he gave me. melted my heart, and, under 

 God. he saved me." 



I will venture to give my readers a very short 

 story of love and courtship. One of the young 

 ladies' schools in New Haven, where I taught, 

 was under The care of Mrs. Harriet Tucker, 

 her chief assistants being her daughters. From 

 my first acquaintance with this family, the 

 second daughter. Miss Anna, possessed for me 

 peculiar attractions. One day she brought me 

 an algebraic problem for which she could find 

 no solution: indeed, that problem had been sent 

 by an instructor in some college, to Pres. Day. 

 as one which could not be solved under his re- 

 quired conditions. I furnished her with several 

 st)lutions which fulfilled these conditions. Be- 

 ing like myself of a mathematical turn. I gave 

 her ingenious solutions of other problems. One 

 thing led to another, and I eventually found 

 thi.t the arrow of the god of love could be tipped 

 quite effectively, even with a mathematical 

 point: so that I afterward used to say, laugh- 

 ingly, that I won my wife by mathematics. 



experience in the ministry. 



During my tutorship my health was far from 

 being strong, and I performed my college duties 

 and pursued my theological studies under great 

 drawbacks. I occasionally suffered from my 

 head trouble, but never fell under its complete 

 control. In the winter college vacation I 

 preached as a candidate two Sabbaths in An- 

 dover, Mass.. and received an almost unani- 

 mous call to become pastor of the Old South 

 church and congregation. It had become con- 

 siderably dividid in trying to settle a pastor, 

 and its leading deacons strongly urged me to 

 accept the call, my theological teachers also 

 advising the same. In following this advice I 

 probably made one of the great mistakes of my 

 life. Some ."iOO names were enrolled on the 

 church catalogue; my health was poor, and the 

 duties of a minister in such a large parish were 

 very arduous. One of my fii'st pastoral visits to 

 the sick called iiic about four miles from home 

 in the morninu. and another visit the same day 

 called me in the afternoon as far in an opposite 

 direction. As the Theological Seminary was 

 situated in tht^ bounds of the parish, and many 

 of its pupils were teach(M-s in its Sabbath- 

 school, it was obvious that a young man in 

 poor health, and with very few written sermons 

 ahead, would find his position as pastor of such 

 a prominent church an unusually difticult one. 

 The more 1 reflected on the great responsibili- 

 ties which I was about to assume, the more I 

 felt that the evpei-imeut was very hazardous, 

 and I ought to have listened to the monitor 

 within. If I had accepted a smaller charge, it 

 would have been far better. I was settled over 

 this large parish in May, LSSG. and was married 

 to my beloved wife. Miss Anna M. Tucker. 

 Aug. 2'Z of the same year. I had an affectionate 

 people who treated me with great considera- 

 tion, were willing that I should exchange pul- 

 pits quite frequently with neighboring minis- 



