OCTOBKR, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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his and said, pointing vvitli his fiuger, ' ' But 

 for the graft' of God, thtMo lies John B. 

 floiKjIi." And now, dear friends, when I 

 saw that story about that railroad conduc- 

 tor, I felt like saying, "But for the grace 

 of God, there lies A. /. Root." 



"Jane Doe" gave us a lot of caution in 

 regard to the things that bring about just 

 such tragedies as the one I have mentioned. 

 She was talking to young girls, or unmar- 

 ried women. 1 suppose her warnings could, 

 of course, apply to married women and even 

 to the heads of families as well as to the un- 

 married. It is common, this world over, 

 for young men and women — yes, for boys 

 and girls — to form acquaintance. Away 

 back in my schooldays when I recited a 

 lesson well I used to look for and expect an 

 approving glance from a certain bright girl 

 of about my age. I loved my schoolma'ams 

 — I think I may say all of them. An en- 

 couraging smile from those good women 

 was an incentive thru all my life. Now, 

 all these things are right and proper; but 

 after the man or woman enters matrimony 

 each should realize the sacredness of the 

 marriage contract — no more of what the 

 world calls ' ' flirtations. ' ' 



I said at the close of another Home paper 

 that a married man should be kind and 

 courteous and pleasant to all girls and 

 women; but he should make it his aim to 

 V^e very careful to try to treat all alike. 

 There should be no discrimination. The 

 girls and women of the present day per- 

 haps are doing more to make themselves 

 attractive than they ever did before, and 

 that is right and proper. Our lives are 

 made brighter and happier by seeing pleas- 

 ant girls and women nicely dressed, just 

 as our lives are made pleasanter and hap- 

 pier by the beautiful flowers that God has 

 given us for our enjoyment. God has wise- 

 ly planned the wonderful and powerful at- 

 traction between the sexes in order that 

 the human race may be perpetuated. But 

 Satan gets in right there. When so many 

 new styles and bright colors are brought in 

 jilay to attract admiring glances from men 

 folks of all ages, there is great danger of 

 there being too iikiiii/ admiring glances, and 

 also danger on the part of the young girls 

 who plan to attract men by their smiling 

 faces and repeated glances. In this way 

 great harm may be done, altho scarcely a 

 word is spoken. Old gray-haired men, 

 especially if they happen to be well to do 

 in this world 's goods, are some of the worst 

 sinners; and I do not know but a "gray- 

 lieaded sinner" is about the worst kind of 

 sinner we have. Witness the millionaires 

 who have put away the faithful old wife in 

 order to make room, perhaps, for some cele- 

 brated "actress." Who can describe the 

 awful anguish of a faithful wife when she 

 discovers that some unprincipled chit of a 

 girl is leading her husband away from her, 

 away from his religion, and away from his 

 God. Stealing money is bad, eapecially the 



money that has been earned thru many 

 years by honest toil; but stealing the affec- 

 tions of a married man or those of a mar- 

 ried woman is a thousand times worse than 

 stealing money. 



In closing, jny favorite text comes viv- 

 idly to mind, especially as it applies to mar- 

 ried men and perhaps to women, too, along 

 the line I have been talking about: 



' ' Let the words of my mouth, and the 

 meditation of my heart be acceptable in 

 thy sight, Lord, my strength and my Re- 

 deemer. ' ' 



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 A TRIBUTE TO THOSE GONE BEFORE US. 



"Order [uiid Accvracy] Heaven's First Law," 



I am sure the readers of Gleanings will 

 all agree witli me that Grace Allen's review 

 of the beekeepers and beekeeping of years 

 gone by is something for which she deserves 

 our devout thanks. Her article in the Aug- 

 ust number, and also its continuation in the 

 September issue, is what I allude to. What 

 particularly called my attention to the mat- 

 ter is her kind words for myself on page 

 569, especially when she mentions "stand- 

 ardizing hives. ' ' 



When my attention was first called to 

 bee culture by that swarm of bees flying 

 overhead, I was a watchmaker and jeweler, 

 or, perhaps, more accurately, a watch-re- 

 pairer and jeweler. If I remember correct- 

 ly, the episode in regard to the swarm of 

 bees occurred just about the time the Amer- 

 ican Watch Co. of Waltham, Mass., started 

 to make watches. Before that time, when 

 something gave out in a watch the repairer 

 liad to make it himself or buy something 

 that came as near to it as possible, requir- 

 ing a laborious fitting to make it answer. 

 The American Watch Co. started out with 

 the new idea of being able to furnish at a 

 moderate price any part of a watch that 

 would go right in and fit exactly, and they 

 did it. I was just rejoicing at this wonder- 

 ful achievement when I caught on to the 

 way bees were kept and the way hives were 

 made away back in those days. By the 

 way, I wondered all along thru those valu- 

 able papers from Grace Allen how it was 

 possible for the dear woman to get hold so 

 accurateln of things that happened before 

 she was born. Well, when I first caught a 

 glimpse of things, there were movable- 

 frame hives of course, but it never seemed 

 to have occurred to anybody that hives and 

 frames should be made, like American 

 watches. There were the Gallup frame, 

 about 11 inches square, and the American 

 frame a foot square; and Adair had an- 

 other frame; Prof. Cook still another; Quin- 

 by, after he adopted frames, had still an- 

 other. I gave diagrams and dimensions of 

 all these frames, and then urged beekeep- 

 ers, before it went on any longer, to decide 

 on one frame and then have all the hives 

 and frames, in the United States at least, 

 so that they would be interchangeable; but 



