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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



night and pay his money out for him. Now, 

 I do not like that way. May be it is best un- 

 der certain circumstances; but I have con- 

 cluded to let my ward draw his pay; but 

 I did insist that he should get a memo- 

 randum-book and put down every copper he 

 paid out. Pretty soon I found some items 

 for candy. May be you will think me a lit- 

 tle rough on the l)oy; but I told him that, in- 

 asmuch as he paid $4.00 a week for board 

 (and I found out that he was having good 

 fare) he should get every thing he wanted 

 to eat at his daily meals, three times a day. 

 I told him if he wanted apples or fruit there 

 was an abundance over at our place near his 

 work, and he could help himself at any time. 

 Buying candy leads to patronizing soda- 

 fountains; and even if these soft drinks are 

 harmless it takes money that many of its pa- 

 trons can ill afford. I am often pained to 

 see boys — yes, and girls too — spending their 

 nickels at soda-fountains when I know the 

 wages they receive do not warrant any such 

 expenditure. Besides, our best physicians 

 are pretty well agreed that many of the mod- 

 ern diseases are.largelj^ the result of the ex- 

 cessive use of sugar: and sugar between 

 meals is certainly worse than when it is taken 

 along with the other food. May be you will 

 think me a little .severe again if I suggest 

 that patronizing soda-fountains is very apt 

 to pave the way to intoxicating drinks. Our 

 boys who are striving to get an education, to 

 learn a trade, or get a little something ahead, 

 certainly can not att'ord these luxuries. 



In closing I wish to tell you of a recent 

 event that makes me shudder every time 1 

 think of it. The thing was so horrible and 

 so incredible here in our own neighborhood 

 of respectable people that I took pains to see 

 the guilty party to talk with him about it. 

 It was a boy only seventeen years old. While 

 he talked, his breath smelled of tobacco, and 

 I should guess cigarettes, and perhaps some 

 other dx'ug I am not very well acquainted 

 with. It is bad enough to iind an old man 

 with a breath so unpleasant on account of 

 drugs and narcotics that one can hardly talk 

 with him in the open air: but never before 

 in all my experience had I talked with a 

 young boy when I was obliged to stand out 

 of the way so the breeze would not blow the 

 fumes from his breath into my face. Well, 

 this boy is reported to have made an attempt 

 that might have cost him his life had he 

 been a colored boy instead of a white one.* 



Now in regard to this lynching business, 

 the opinion seems to be prevailing that the 

 colored men who have Iseen lynched were al- 

 most if not all of them under the intiuence 

 of drink when they committed their outrages. 

 In our great cities we are horrified by at- 

 tacks on women or good-looking girls by a 



* My impression is that cigarettes, drink, or some 

 drug, prompted the aft. A boy of seventeen is " al- 

 most a man." and even a little sjmrk of "manhood" 

 should prompt him to be the prntectov of any little 

 girl whom duty called on an errand off by herself. Is 

 it possible that an American boy, of average intelli- 

 gence, in /lis rialit -mind, should assail such a c/ii!'l just 

 as drunken colored vagabonds have been doing in the 

 South? 



class of people whom the people are pleased 

 to call "mashers." Right in broad daylight 

 some vagabond grabs hold of a respectable 

 woman and undertakes to kiss her. How 

 does it come about? What does it mean that 

 men shall risk their lives in such stupid fol- 

 ly? I think it is the outcome of the saloon 

 business — perhaps more often smoking cigar- 

 ettes; and even they are the product or out- 

 come of saloons, and stimulating drugs that 

 are fostered and encouraged by the saloon 

 business. Just now we are told that San 

 Francisco is confronted with such a reign of 

 terror that public meetings are being held to 

 decide what to do with the criminals. One 

 of the W. C T. U women was bold enough 

 to suggest that they had none of that work 

 previous to the opening of the saloons, and 

 that it would stop immediately if the saloons 

 were closed once more. The mayor replied 

 meekly that he did not believe the saloons 

 were aKuf/etho' to blame. Well, suppose the 

 saloons were onlj j^artly to blame; why in 

 God's name can't they shut them up again'} 

 They got along very well during the first 

 two or three months after the tire, without 

 saloons. What is to hinder trying the same 

 thing again? 



Now to get back to our subject and text. 

 My impression is that the reason why so 

 many boys are going hopelessly to the bad 

 while they are in their teens is that we as 

 parents and guardians are not heeding the 

 injunction of our text. A good farmer looks 

 after his horses, cattle, pigs, and chickens. 

 He studies them, not only daily but hourly. 

 He knows all about them. Why not study 

 this growing boy daily and hourly? . Ask him 

 to keep a memorandum- book and let you see 

 what he does with every copper he earns. 

 Let him handle his own money: and if he 

 makes a "fool" investment now and then, do 

 not scold. It may be money well invested, 

 to acquire lessons that can be learned only 

 by experience. Make that boy your hobby, 

 your study, both day and night, and great 

 shall be your rewai'd when you see him turn 

 from boyhood to a noble manhood. 



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