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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15 



my make years ago, for the good brother had 

 brought them all the way from "old Mis- 

 souri. ' ' They had served to hold tons of hon- 

 ey, and were, apparently, good for tons 

 more in the future. The next morning, the 

 proprietor of the hotel said, when I took his 

 hand at parting, "Mr. Root, it has been a 

 great privilege to feel that I have met and 

 had a talk with one whose writings I have 

 followed for so many years," for he too was 

 a bee-keeper at one time in his life. 



Now, friends, are you sure I am wrong 

 when I feel that God calls 7ne, at least, to 

 make Sunday a busy day when there is so 

 viurh to be said and done ? It is a day of 

 rest to me, because my week- day duties are 

 all laid aside. "Wherefore it is lawful to do 

 well on the sabbath day." 



POCKETS AND HOW TO USE THEM, ESPECIAL- 

 LY WHILE TRAVELING. 



I don't suppose this will apply very well 

 to the women-folks, for they do not have any 

 pockets, or at least very few; but we men- 

 folks, in the way clothes are ordinarily made, 

 have a dozen or more. Now, I have learned 

 be experience, and sometimes by sad experi- 

 ence, how to use my pockets. When I start 

 out traveling 1 always keep one pocket for 

 my ticket. I never put it anywhere else, 

 and I never put any thing else in my pocket 

 with the ticket. Then I never have any 

 trouble from hunting for my ticket when the 

 conductor comes ai'ound for it, if he comes 

 along when I am not looking and touches me 

 on the shoulder. Then I have another pock- 

 et for my milage-book — the one I am going 

 to use next. I never put any thing else in 

 that pocket. How often we see people, es- 

 pecially on trains, pull a whole lot of stuff 

 out of one pocket, and then hunt in another 

 place and then another for a ticket ! If they 

 do not find it at all, there is sometimes seri- 

 ous trouble. Then I have another pocket, 

 for my railroad folder; and I study that 

 folder so as to find out all about the road I 

 am traveling over, and all about my connec- 

 tions where I take another road. After I 

 had lost some hard-earned dollars by not be- 

 ing posted in time, I have learned to save a 

 good many dollars. Then I have another 

 pocket, for my silk handkerchief. I do not 

 want any kind but silk, but other folks can 

 do as they please; and I do not want any 

 thing else in the pocket where my handker- 

 chief is. If you push your ticket in on top 

 of your handkerchief when you are in a hur- 

 ry, you may pull it out with the handker- 

 chief and lose it, and so with other things. 

 In a similar way I have a pocket for my 

 change, one for my bills, a pocket for my 

 2)ocket knife, a pocket for my spectacles, and 

 a pocket for my watch. One of my hip- 

 pockets I use to put my handkerchief in 

 when it is not very clean. That is in order 

 to have at least one clean handkerchief all 

 ready for instant use. My other hip-pocket 

 is for shoe-laces. You may ask what in the 

 world I want of shoe-laces. Well, when I 



rode a bicycle I kept them to tie packages 

 on my handle-bars; and if you want to tie 

 up a neat handy package of any kind, there 

 is nothing else so neat as shoe-laces of as- 

 sorted lengths. Then I have still another 

 pocket, for letters that I am not ready to file; 

 another one, for addressed postal cards and 

 envelopes so I can write home on the train, 

 and still another, for lead-pencils. May be 

 you wonder where I find room for so many 

 pockets as I have enumerated. Well, there 

 are five in each coat; five in my vest; five in 

 my overcoat, and five in my pants. That 

 makes twenty at least. Oh, yes! there is a 

 little pocket in my overcoat 'that I use for 

 checks when I check my baggage. I never 

 put any thing else in.that pocket, and I can 

 always put my fingers on it in a moment. 

 Now, I do not know that I would have 

 quite so many pockets if I were bossing the 

 job; but they are already there, and I have 

 outlined as above so as to make use of them; 

 and it helps me a good deal to keep happy 

 and to keep my nerves steady, to feel that I 

 can put my fingers instantly on whatever 

 may be needed when I am traveling. 



OtTTDOORS BETTER THAN HOUSE. 



" Home is the most dangerous place I ever go to," 

 remarked John Muir, the famous geologist and natu- 

 ralist- He was on the train returning from Arizona 

 to his home in Martinez, Cal., after the earthquai^e. 

 "As long as I camp out in the mountains, without 

 tent or blankets, I get along very well; but the min- 

 ute I get into a house and have a warm bed and begin 

 to live on fine food, I get into a draft and the first 

 thing I know I am coughing and sneezing, and threat- 

 ened with pneumonia, and am altogether miserable. 

 Outdoors is the natural place for a man. Walk where 

 you please, when you like, and take your time. The 

 mountains will not hurt you, nor the exposure. Why, 

 I can live out for $50 a year for bread, etc. All I need 

 is a sack for the bread and a pot to boil water in, and 

 an ax. The rest is easy. "— IFor^c^'s Work. 



The above may be putting it pretty strong, 

 but there is certainly lots of truth in it, and 

 thousands of people are just beginning to 

 find it out. Both "chickens" and human 

 beings, in many localities, would be far bet- 

 ter off if their houses were burned up and 

 the occupants turned loose right out in God's 

 open air. 



GIVING THE WOMEN A RIGHT TO VOTE AT 

 LOCAL-OPTION ELECTIONS. 



Below is the resolution of the recent Anti- 

 saloon League Convention: 



We recognize the merit and value of the measures 

 championed by the Woman's Christian Temperance 

 Union to give women the right to vote at local-option 

 elections. Without committing the League to the 

 general proposition of Woman's Suffrage, we deem it 

 just that the wives and mothers should have equal 

 opportunity with the husbands and fathers to protect 

 their homes and families against the peril of the liquor 

 traffic, and we pledge to the W. C. T. U. our hearty co- 

 operation in securing the passage of their measure. 



