1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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brother and sister, if you are not already fa- 

 miliar with the latter half of this sixth chapter 

 of Luke, may I beg of you to read it again 

 and again ? Read it, and weave it into your 

 every-day life. Keep those beautiful words 

 in your mind all day long — words like these: 

 "Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing 

 again;" and, above all, strive each day to love 

 even your enetiiies. 



There is a story now going on in the Chicago 

 Advance, that I wish all might read. It touches 

 on this matter of putting foreign brands on cer- 

 tain goods that are manufactured here in our 

 own country. The foreign stamp is to make 

 them sell. Don't do it. Have nothing to do 

 with such work. Tell your employers that 

 you belong to Christ Jesus, and can not tell an 

 untruth, nor even be a party to an appearance 

 of untruth. If you have any thing to do with 

 advertising, or writing advertisements, make 

 such advertising agree with the spirit of our 

 text. Give better measure than you agreed to 

 give in the advertisements. Surprise people, 

 not because the things you sell are not up to 

 representation, but because they are even bet- 

 ter than they are represented to be. Have no- 

 thing to do with scant measure in any shape 

 or manner. If your goods have faults, let the 

 customer know about the faults before he pays 

 his money. Make his interest your interest, 

 and verily the promise shall be } ours — "For 

 with the same measure that ye mete withal, it 

 shall be measured unto you again." You will 

 have happy surprises, as well as Uncle Amos. 

 Men will be giving you good measure, shaken 

 down, and running over when you least expect 

 it ; and you may even say with reason, " Why, 

 look here, neighbor; how is this? You have 

 brought me more than a bushel of potatoes." 

 And then the neighbor will say, smilingly, 

 " Well, you gave uie more than /expecteci, at 

 such a time." Why, dear friends, this would 

 be a millenium here on earth if we could all 

 get to doing business in that way. 



I recently bought some Early Ohio potatoes 

 of a neighbor. I told him I did not believe I 

 could stand it to give the price he asked for 

 them. There were fourteen bags, and he put 

 a bushel in each bag. Finally I said, " Let's 

 pour out a few and see what sort of measure 

 you give." The Terry bushel boxes were 

 heaped up — in fact, the potatoes would not all 

 stay on. Said I, "Oh ! if that is the kind of 

 bushels you have in every bag I will willingly 

 pay the price." Now, he had not told me he 

 had given extra large measures. He did not 

 say any thing about it ; he simply said he had 

 brought me fourteen bushels. I have bought 

 potatoes several times where they did not 

 make the bushel boxes even level full. You 

 may suggest weight. Well, that is the proper 

 way to buy potatoes ; but even then we can 

 not always make it exactly fair by weighing ; 

 for where they are kept in a damp cellar they 

 will weigh considerably more than where they 

 have been kept in a cold cellar that is pretty 

 dry. There are many things to be taken into 

 account in handling goods, especially farm 

 produce ; but where the man has it in his heart 

 to be fair — where he is trying to live out and 

 to live up to the teachings in the sixth chapter 



of Luke, why, bless your heart, there will not 

 be any trouble anywhere. Everybody will be 

 glad to see a Christian who not only talks in 

 prayer-meeting, but who makes his every-day 

 acts talk louder than words can talk. 



Now, friends, shall we not just have fun 

 during this beautiful springtime, instead of 

 wearing out with care and worry, and, may be, 

 have a neighborhood quarrel on our hands be- 

 sides ? May the great Father be with you all ; 

 and may the Spirit of his only Son, Christ 

 Jesus, help you to love your neighbor as your- 

 self ; and not only this, but to love even your 

 enemies until they are enemies no more, but 

 dear friends and "good neighbors." God 

 speed you all. 



THE SHAWNEETOWN DISASTER. 



I suppose most of the readers of GlE.a.nings 

 have heard about the terrible flood at Shaw- 

 neetown. 111., and its consequent loss of life 

 and property. It turns out that there was a 

 bee-keeper among the number. Please read 

 the following letter : 



Dear Sir: — I was living in the suburbs of the town 

 where I have been living for the last 20 years. I had 

 tny bees, 200 stands, and all I had, there. Yesterday 

 at 4 P.M. the levee broke on the upper side of town, it 

 being over 20 feet high, and the water came in such a 

 rush it washed away nearly half of the town, drown- 

 ing perhaps 100 or more people. I lost my bees, luild- 

 ing, and every thing I had, e.xcepling the shirt I had 

 upon my back, and one blanket I had around me. 

 The water lacked 4 feet of being to the top of the 

 levee. No one was suspecting any thing. By some 

 means it cut under the bottom of the levee, though 

 the base was over 100 feet. My family all escapt d with 

 onlj- the clotlies they had on. I do not want, after 

 those long hard years of toil, to be taken to the 

 county-house, therefore plea.se cancel my order and 

 return to me the money. Now, friend Root, if you 

 can help me by appealing to the sympathy of the 

 bee-keepers of the country please do .so. Were I on 

 my feet I would ask no help; but in my condition 

 there is no alternative. 



Hoping you will be able to help me some in this ter- 

 rible misfoitune, I am respectfully yours, 



Shawneetown, 111., Apr. 4. Thos. McDonald. 



Perhaps I tuay add, by way of explanation, 

 that the writer of the above is a cripple, and 

 has had a very hard time in scraping together 

 his little property that was taken away almost 

 without a m Jinent's warning. Such disasters, 

 I am glad to say, are not of frequent occur- 

 rence ; and neither our friend nor any of the 

 sufferers could in any way be blamed for the 

 catastrophe. It seems to me no more than 

 fitting that the bee-keepers of our land, under 

 the peculiar circumstances, should give him a 

 little help. We will start the subscription at 

 $10.00, but hope that no one will be hindered, 

 even if he can give only a little. Let us have 

 it, friends, big or little, whatever amount yoti 

 feel you would like to give. Money may be 

 sent direct to the writer of the above letter, or 

 to us, as you choose. Perhaps it had better be 

 sent directly to Mr. McDonald, as he would 

 in that case get it sooner. We will give proper 

 credit through our journal for all that may be 

 sent. Large sums have been sent, not only in 

 money, but in donations of food and clothing 

 to the sufferers. Now let us see if the bee- 

 keepers of our land can not look after this, one 

 of our number, who seems so discouraged and 

 downhearted. You know how the bees in a 



