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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1. 



two weeks since the rent was due. How 

 about the rent for these two weeks? " 

 The answer came something like this: 

 "Oh! the premises have been occupied 

 these two weeks because he was making such 

 a fuss about the matter. That is all right. 

 He will not make any fuss about the two 

 weeks. He will be glad enough to get the 

 pay for the month that is overdue." 



When I was told this was the customary 

 way of doing things of that kind I remon- 

 strated again; and I have been told that the 

 landlord or landlady, I do not know just 

 which it was, was a good deal astonished be- 

 cause I arranged the rent should all be paid, 

 not only for the month that they quarreled 

 about, but also for the two weeks they had 

 said nothing about. Now, my friends, this 

 thing is all wrong. I know something of the 

 many difficulties there are, and the quarrels 

 that come up, in consequence of renting prop- 

 erty. People who rent all their lives are, I 

 suppose, poor people, and no wonder. The 

 best way to get rich, and avoid paying any 

 rent, is to pay every cent you owe to anybody, 

 no matter if he is mean. If there is a differ- 

 ence of a few cents v pay it. Better be wronged, 

 by far, than to try to go to sleep at night with 

 the conviction resting on your conscience that 

 you have wronged somebody. I suppose there 

 are people who gain a few cents every day by 

 shirking responsibilities. There may be some 

 who manage to cheat somebody else out of a 

 dollar or two every day of their lives; but do 

 people get rich that way? Wiry, one might 

 almost think they would, to take only one 

 view of the matter. The old adage is, "A 

 penny saved is a penny earned;" but it does 

 not say that a penny saved dishonestly is a 

 penny earned. It is an easy thing to get a 

 reputation for being small and mean and dis- 

 honest, and the man who gets such a reputa- 

 tion suffers. He suffers in a thousand ways. 

 He loses the confidence, friendship, and as- 

 sistance of his fellow-men. He loses all that 

 is bright and good in this world. He loses 

 happiness ; and finally our text tells us he 

 loses his own soul ; and who will ever be able 

 to tell all that is implied and comprehended 

 in these words that our Savior himself once 

 used ? 



LAGER BEER BY THE MILK. 



We clip the following from the advertise- 

 ment of a well-known American brewery: 



When 219 carloads of our beer were shipped to 

 Manilla, the world wondered. What industry was 

 this that shipped its product by a mile and a half of 

 trains to that remote spot? 



Yes, indeed, we may well repeat, " What 

 industry is this? " In former times our peo- 

 ple had some experience in teaching the 

 American Indians to respect our United States 

 laws. But they very soon made it a heavy 

 penalty for any white man to sell whisky to 

 an Indian. The whole world — or at least a 

 greater part of it — is discussing the right 

 and wisdom of the United States in undertak- 

 ing to reduce the Filipinos to subjection to 

 our laws. Now, then, what kind of civiliza- 

 tion and Christianity is this, to send in intox- 



icating liquors, not only by the carload, but 

 by the miles of carloads, at the very time 

 when we are fighting the savages in a foreign 

 land, and their own land too as it seems to 

 them ? I am not disputing the right of the 

 United States to subdue the Filipinos; but I 

 am disputing the right of the United States to 

 subdue any nation or any people where our 

 people use whisky and firearms at one and the 

 same time. 



GROWING STRAWBERRIES IN A BARREL. 



As there has been considerable inquiry in 

 regard to this matter, Mr. J. P. Ohmer, of 

 Dayton, Ohio, the originator of the plan, has 

 sent out a little circular describing the process. 

 Here it is : 



Take any iron-bound barrel except those which 

 have been used for pickles, sauerkraut, or vinegar ; 

 take all hoops off but four; bote four holes in the 

 bottom. Then space holes around the barrel so that 

 twelve plants will go around it. Five rows high will 

 make sixty plants to the barrel (the fifth row can be 

 placed five inches from top of barrel). Bore two 

 holes, one above the other, and cut out the wood be- 

 tween the two holes. By using a bit 1J£ inches, you 

 will have ah le 1% by 3 inches. When you plant, put 

 the plants as near the top of the holes as possible, to 

 allow some for settling. Use cay ground, well mixed 

 with rotted manure. Put two inches of gravel in the 

 bottom of the barrels to keep the drain-holes from 

 getting stopped up. Put in the dii t till about three 

 inches above the first row of holes. Be careful to have 

 dirt not too wet. 



The first row of holes must be 8 inches from the 

 bottom of the barrel. Get in and tramp the dirt solid, 

 then loosen the dirt with a tiow'el where the plants 

 go ; then plant that row. Spread the roots out well, 

 then put dirt r.bout half way up to the next row of 

 holes; then take a common drain tile. 12 inches long 

 by 3 or 4 inches in diameter; put it in the center of the 

 barrel, and fill the tile with coarse sand ; then fill up 

 the barrel with dirt a little above the next row of 

 holes ; tramp again. Be careful not to move the tile. 

 Cover up the tile, so as not to get any dirt in it. Afier 

 planting the second row, lift the "tile. See that the 

 sand seltles, then fill the tile with sand again, then 

 put in dirt above the next row of holes ; tramp again, 

 and plant that row, and repeat the operation until the 

 five rows are planted. But don't fail to tramp. 



After you are done planting, the tile remains in the 

 barrel : have it empty, so as to take the water. In 

 watering, you water in the tile for the lower rows; 

 on top of the barrel for the two top rows. It would 

 be impossible to water the lower plants without the 

 tile and the core of sand. You can water the plants 

 too much Fill the tile once per dav, and put at out 

 two qu irt* oi water on the outside of tile After cold 

 weather sets in. we quit water. ng They want no 

 wmier protection. S< t the barrel oil brick, to keep it 

 off the ground. If any should die in the summer you 

 can replant them by taking a runner and putting the 

 young plant in the hole, and stuk it fast with two lit- 

 tle sticks. 



Use the largest fruiting variety that does well in 

 your local ty, and perfect blooming sort, if possible. 

 Planted eai lv in the spring, you may expect a fair 

 crop the same stason. Paint barrel any light color, 

 for contrast 



After hearing Mr. Ohmer describe the barrel 

 at the horticultural meeting, he added that 

 no one had better undertake it unit ss he could 

 attend carefully to all the details, for a little 

 neglect in watering will ruin the whole thing 

 very quickly. Such a barrel is too heavy to 

 carry indoors. It must be wintered right in 



