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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. IS 



handle them. Sometimes I had fair returns, and as 

 often very little; but in all that time I have no recol- 

 lection of selling one pound of honey on Sunday. 

 Once I did give one section to parties passing, going 

 on a visit, and they paid for it as they passed back. I 

 have refused a great many; but to my knowledge not 

 one was offended — usually they came again. Once in 

 mv absence parlies came eight miles, and no one at 

 home but my daughter. They coaxed her hard, tell- 

 ing her that I would not know it. " Yes, but God 

 would know it," she said. "That will do," they said; 

 " we don't want it." 



Now, I am not particular. If they get offended they 

 can. I won't sell on Sunday except for sickness, and 

 then I alwaj-s give it free. J. Lammey. 



Dugger, Ind., Oct. 15. 



Friend L., I may be wrong in the posi- 

 tion I have taken; but I still think we do a 

 g-reater harm in driving people away from 

 Christ Jesus than in doing a little business 

 on Sunday. I can agree with you pretty 

 well except where you say, in your closing 

 sentence, "Now, I am not particular. If 

 they get offended, they can." Please bear 

 in mind that Jesus, while here on earth, 

 most vehemently rebuked the Pharisees for 

 laying so much stress on their careful and 

 punctilious observance of the Sabbath. It 

 is hard to lay down cast-iron rules for a 

 Christian to follow. If he has at all times 

 the love of Christ in his heart for his fellow- 

 men, this love will guide him safely and un- 

 erringly. I still think we should be doing 

 more harm by stirring up a man's bad feel- 

 ing, especially if he is one who has never 

 had much of a glimpse of Christ's love, 

 than by going out of our way just a little to 

 serve him on Sunday. May the Holy Spirit 

 guide us in this matter. 



NOTES OF TRAVLL 



I BY A. I. ROOT . 



OUR CABIN IN THE WOODS. 



When we got back to the cabin in the 

 woods in the fore part of October, I found 

 every thing around there grown up to weeds. 

 I confess I lost some of my enthusiasm 

 somewhat. In the first place, I had been 

 taking things easy, and was unused to 

 work. I was strongly tempted to think I 

 was pretty old to perform hard manual la- 

 bor; and I will tell you confidentially I 

 made up my mind that first day to get men 

 enough to gather my crops, what there 

 were, and get back to Ohio, where I did 

 not have to work unless I felt like it. Such 

 thoughts did not make me feel happ3', how- 

 ever. I knew from past experience that 

 about the worst calamity that could befall 

 me was to think of taking things easy, and 

 getting along without hard manual labor. 

 Josh Billings once said he knew by expe- 

 rience that it is bad to tell lies. Well, I 

 think / can say from personal experience 

 that Satan always finds some mischief for 

 idle hands to do. Yes, old as I am (I shall 

 be 64 the 9th of next month) I know from 

 personal experience that, if I do not have 



something good to occupy head, heart, and 

 hand, Satan will get in his work some- 

 where. When God said to Adam, " By the 

 sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," 

 that curse fell heavily on my poor self. 

 Come to think of it, I do not know but that, 

 in my case, it is riot a curse. I have some- 

 times been tempted to thiok it was almost a 

 blessed promise. Listen a minute. I 

 spent a great part of one day in going 

 around among my neighbors trying to find 

 help. Everybody had just all he could do, 

 and more too. Two of the boys who had 

 worked for me heretofore worked one day 

 each in the rain. I kept along with them 

 as well as I could. One of them, while 

 digging potatoes by the bushel last year, 

 made something over $2.00 a day; and he 

 worked fully as hard that rainy day as he 

 did while he was digging potatoes by the 

 bushel. This present season I could not 

 very well have them dig by the bushel, be- 

 cause there were so many different sorts 

 that had to be kept separate. Another 

 thing, the ground had been in potatoes the 

 year before, and there were more or less 

 " volunteers " that I wanted sorted out. 

 When night came I do not know but the 

 boys were a little surprised when I paid 

 them $2.00 each. During the summer I had 

 been in the habit of paying them only $1.25; 

 but I told them I should feel ashamed to 

 offer them a less price, especially after the 

 way they had worked in the wet. Of 

 course, it did not rain very hard, and oc- 

 casionally the sun came out and encouraged 

 us. Well, after that rainy day the boys 

 said they could not possibly neglect their 

 own work anymore; and I decided I would 

 finish up the potatoes myself, taking plenty 

 of time. Dear friends, I have been over 

 this ground before, again and again; but, 

 notwithstanding, the experience of the last 

 three or four weeks was a revelation to me. 

 You know how often I have prayed for wis- 

 dom and understanding in regard to this 

 matter of human infirmities. I have asked 

 God to give me wisdom in advising my fel- 

 low-men who were sick and ailing. I have 

 considered the medical advertisements and 

 the well-filled drugstores. Did God intend 

 his children to get well by " dosing " them- 

 selves? I think he intended there should be 

 phj'sicians in the world, for the evangelist 

 Luke was called "the beloved physician." 

 When I commenced harvesting my crops 

 alone I would get tired in about two hours, 

 and then I would read a daily paper while 

 I rested. Then the weather would be catch- 

 ing, or there were particular circumstances 

 that rendered it important that a certain 

 task should be finished by a certain time. 

 Pretty soon I skipped the newspaper till it 

 was too dark to work. I worked right 

 along till Mrs. Root announced dinner. In 

 fact, I worked so hard under the enthusiasm 

 of getting the work done, that when I came 

 to dinner it seemed as if I ached in e%'ery 

 bone and muscle, I was so tired. A good 

 many times I would take a little nap before 

 dinner. But, oh such dinners! Perhaps 



