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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15. 



that the good pastor did not interfere in be- 

 half of the family; and where were the good 

 women of the church ? the Sunday-school su- 

 perintendent and the teachers? Something 

 may have been done, but Jacob did not go 

 back. He and his wife and children stayed at 

 home — perhaps had Sunday, and worshiped 

 God by themselves. But they soon became 

 very successful gardeners, as such a German 

 family would, of course. Oh how I do love 

 the sturdy, hard-working, quick-witted and 

 quick- moving German people! Sometimes 

 they are a little slow in getting the hang of 

 things; but when they find out just what is 

 wanted, I do not believe there is any people 

 on earth that can do more work in a day. And 

 then the}' are, as a rule, such clever, neighbor- 

 ly, kindly, and generous people. When it 

 comes to endurance there seems to be no limit 

 to tbe number of hours they can work, and 

 work faithfully, and this is true of the men 

 and women, and boys and girls. I know, for 

 it has been my good fortune to work with them 

 more or less a great part of my life. 



Jacob prospered — of course he did. He 

 learned how to grow better stuff than anybody 

 else, and his wife and children got it into 

 shape for market in better season and in bet- 

 ter style than anybody else. Y. kept on in 

 his domineering way, and pretty soon people 

 got a dislike for him, notwithstanding his 

 riches. He finally got into financial troubles; 

 and the church building, that had never been 

 paid for, became involved in some way. The 

 owner of the property threatened to shut it 

 up unless a certain sum of money was forth- 

 coming at once. They had been having bad 

 seasons, and the people were poor. Nobody 

 around there had the money to spare, unless 

 it was Jacob; and Y. was appointed to go and 

 see if Jacob would not lend them money to 

 keep up services. I do not think Jacob had 

 been working for revenge; but he did remind 

 Y. of the time when he drove him and his 

 poor wife and family out of God's house. 

 But he handed over three thousand dollars, 

 told the church people they could take their 

 . own time for payment, and I rather think he 

 let them have it at a low rate of interest; and 

 Jacob came back and brought his family, and 

 helped the rest to worship God and to remem- 

 ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Yes, and 

 Jacob came to church too with a span of 

 horses, and carriage big enough to bring the 

 whole family. The skill he had acquired in 

 gardening in that particular locality enabled 

 him to make sure ventures year after year 

 when almost everybody else failed. He added 

 farm after farm to his possessions; and as soon 

 as he got a new farm he let one of his boys or 

 girls take charge of it. Come to think of it, 

 I am not sure of this, for you see I am filling 

 out the story a little, when I didn't get full 

 details. God prospered him, for he was a 

 good, honest, square man. While he learned 

 to make every thing succeed that his fingers 

 touched, Y. seemed to be going in the opposite 

 direction. His property had to go until only 

 one farm was left, and that was to be sold at a 

 great sacrifice unless somebody interposed. 

 The only one in the neighborhood who could 



help him was Jacob. Would he do it ? Y. 

 went to see Jacob; and with bowed head, and 

 probably tears in his eyes, he told the stories 

 of his misfortunes. 



This time Jacob did not say any thing about 

 the un neighborly treatment of years before, 

 but he forgot and forgave all that unkindness 

 when he was a stranger in a strange land, and 

 handed over the money once more — stood be- 

 tween Y. and his merciless creditors, and made 

 things easy for him. Oh is it not a beautiful 

 sight, to find one who can really love his ene- 

 my, and do good to those who hate him? Aft- 

 er a while Jacob bought properly in the ad- 

 joining town; and not long ago he put up a 

 beautiful block of brick buildings; and in 

 great big letters that can be seen far up and 

 down the street you may read, "Jacob's 

 Block.'' And even though Jacob has wealth, 

 and power if he chooses to use it, his wealth 

 has not made him proud and arrogant. He is 

 still ready to extend a helping hand to — I came 

 pretty near saying, to friend or foe who might 

 be unfortunate. Oh that we had more Jacobs 

 in our land ! Oh that we had more rich men 

 who believe in following Christ's words when 

 he said, " Love ye your enemies; do good to 

 them that hate you " ! I do not know that 

 Jacob ever noticed the promise, " Blessed are 

 the meek, for they shall inherit the earth;" 

 but I do know that such a record as his is a 

 better sermon, many times, than some of the 

 sermons we hear from the pulpit. 



NOTES OF TRAVEL 



* BY A.t.ROOT . 



For many years I have been thinking of a 

 trip to Norfolk, Va., during strawlerry time, 

 not only to witness the strawberry harvest, 

 but to take in the truck gardening generally. 

 Well, along toward the last of May, when our 

 potatoes were mostly sold or planted, and the 

 seed business was pretty well over, I began to 

 feel a longing to get out in the world once 

 more; and when I noticed in one of the dailies 

 that I could get a round-trip ticket from 

 Cleveland to Washington for only $11 00, it 

 made me get the traveling-fever still more. 

 Before telling you more about my trip, may I 

 say just a word in regard to traveling generally ? 



To travel easily, expeditiously, and at small 

 expense, is a trade, or, I might say, one of the 

 fine arts. Of course, we want to go comfort- 

 ably, and we want to have due regard for 

 health ; for it is not only expensive business, 

 but it is rather unpleasant to be sick while 

 away from home. Although I have had quite 

 a little experience, I seldom make a trip but 

 that, after I look back, I see where I might 

 have lessened expenses and saved time; there- 

 fore one had better study the matter well be- 

 fore he starts out on a trip of any extent. 

 One does not want to lumber himself with 

 needless baggage, and yet he wants every 

 thing along that is really needed. 



