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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTtfRE 



But Mrs. Calvert replied, "Well, if 1 

 lake 30 cents 1 am going' to give you more 

 than a dozen eggs." 



I really do not know how they settled 

 their differences. I am not particularly 

 interested, in fact, in regard to the outcome. 

 What interests me is that Mr. Calvert, who 

 overheard the discussion, came forward at 

 this crisis, and, going up near his mother- 

 in-law, he looked down at her with his gen- 

 ial and contagious smile and said: 



" Mother, if all the world could settle 

 their transactions in the way of bujdng and 

 selling as you and Maude do, what a happy 

 world this would be to live in! " 



Now, friends, I am sure you can see here 

 where the texts come in — the first one par- 

 ticularly, and I rather think all the rest. 

 If all the world could feel toward each other 

 as mother and daughter usually feel (and 

 all otight to feel), would not tliis world be 

 a happy one indeed? 



When Mrs. Root repeated to me the little 

 incident it was a rebuke and a reproof to 

 my poor self. Once in a while I get to feel- 

 ing so kindly toward this old world that I 

 come pretty near loving my neighbor as 

 myself. 



When keeping chickens down in Florida, 

 especially about moulting time, when eggs 

 hardly pay for the feed, I can hardly help 

 feeling glad when they get up to 40 or 45 

 cents. Well, later on, when the hens get 

 to laying, and the price gets down to 20 

 cents, I ought to feel glad also, because it 

 makes it easier for poor people, and I do 

 try to feel glad. 



Last winter I was hunting for a peculiar 

 kind of clasp envelope in which to put the 

 dasheen tubers for the readers of Glean- 

 ings. After hunting all over the town, I 

 finally found something I thought would 

 do, and took a sample home to try. The 

 young printer (recently started), before he 

 found just what I wanted, spent quite a 

 little time in overhauling things on the top 

 shelves, etc. He was a busy man; and 

 instead of waiting for the few cents change 

 coming to me I told him to keep it for the 

 bother he had been to in hunting up what 

 I wanted. His face softened into a smile, 

 and he seemed astonished to find a customer 

 who was willing to pay more than the price 

 named, even if he did have to stop his 

 presswork to wait on me. 



I have told you once or twice about a 

 beekeeper who w^s going to have an exten- 

 sive lawsuit with a certain wealthy man who 

 declared the bees a nuisance. When the 

 lawsuit was under full headway the bee- 

 keeper's daughter and the rich man's son 

 (regardless of consequences) fell in love 



with each otlier. The two fathers stormed 

 and scolded; but llie young people came out 

 ahead, and the two belligerents shook hands 

 and became from that time forward the 

 best friends in the world. 



You may suggest that it is all right for 

 relations to stick together and " do good, 

 and lend, hoping for nothing again." But 

 when 1 undertake to declare the great out- 

 side world should deal with each other, say 

 like mother and daughter, I have a big job 

 on hand. Yes, my friends, we have a big 

 job on hand, and I willingly admit that it 

 is something that can never be accomplished 

 in this world without " the love of Christ 

 that constraineth us." 



Our various secret societies have under- 

 taken to do what we are considering, with- 

 out the help, or any particular help from 

 Christianity. But 1 object, and always have 

 objected, on the ground that all secret so- 

 cieties discriminate against some and in 

 favor of others. I always reply that I 

 cannot consent to join any thing that does 

 not embrace the whole wide world. I be- 

 long, body and soul, to Him who said, 

 " Love ye your enemies, and do good to 

 them that hate you." 



Just now there is a lot of jangling and 

 dif(:erences in the way of getting the neces- 

 saries of life from the producer to the 

 consumer. If the producer and consumer 

 could get together with the same feeling 

 that I have mentioned between mother and 

 daughter, what a relief it would be! There 

 would be no room for crowding, no room 

 for bribes and bribe-taking, no room for 

 stealing, because nobody would want that 

 which he had not lionestly earned. Let me 

 digress again. 



There is in the city of Cleveland a hus- 

 band who, with his wife, came here several 

 3'ears ago from the old country. Perhaps 

 on account of ijrejudice they had a notion 

 that our banks, are not safe. They had 

 together scraped together about a thousand 

 dollars, and were looking about for a little 

 home they could buy. To be sure and have 

 it safe, the wife carried this amount of 

 money in a pocket in her clothing, and in 

 some way the secret got out. Two burly 

 men invaded the home when the husband 

 was away, knocked the woman down, and 

 secured the money. Then a discussion arose 

 as to whether they had not better kill her. 

 for fear she might identify them; and this 

 poor woman, to save her life, feigned death. 

 One of the burglars suggested that he give 

 her three or four strokes with his dagger 

 to make sure she was dead. The other gave 

 her a brutal kick, and said, " Oh ! she is 

 dead all right. Let us get away." What do 



