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JUVENILE GLEAKmOS. 



Jak. 



ing Yirgil in college, and he and I had quite 

 a laugh over " bee-cradles " only a few days 

 ago. Give us the rest of it, friend Hasty, and 

 put in plenty of your notes, to make it plain 

 to "us children." 



MRS. HARRISON TO THE CHI1.DREN. 



BEE-STINGS AND — PREMIUMS. 



CI HILDREN, I have just finished reading j^our 

 1/ letters in the last Juvenile, and you are im- 

 proving. Keep on taking pains, for that is 

 the way to succeed. 



If I were Mr. Root I should want all the boys and 

 girls who write, to he bee-keepers — own at least one 

 colony, and take care of it. Most of you could hive 

 a colony, could you not? and not get stung either, if 

 you are careful. 



There is one thing that you can do better than old- 

 er persons in the apiary, and that is the watching. 

 You see and hear quickly, and sing out, " The bees 

 are swarming!" before any one else knows it. If 

 you worked with bees more you would not bo so 

 afraid of them. That, at least, is the experience I 

 have had with children. With but one exception, 

 after they had been stung several times they cared 

 very little about them. How many of you can catch 

 a bee on the window, and put it out without being 

 stung? How many of you will be bee-missionaries, 

 and teach people to take better care of their bees? 

 In order to do this, see how large a club of subscrib- 

 ers you can get for Gleanings for 1883, and get 

 some of those nice premiums. A magnifying-glass 

 would be a daisy, wouldn't it? If you had one, you 

 could examine a bee's leg or wing, or see whether a 

 di'one has whiskers. A silver thimble would de- 

 light a girl; but how tall a boy would feel to gain 

 the Waterbury ! Mrs. L. Harbison. 



Peoria, 111., Jan. 1, 1883. 



DO THEY CHOOSE A LOCATION REFORE 

 SWARMING? 



BY ONE WHO ONCE WAS A BOY. 



¥'OUR article on bee-hunting recalls an incident 

 of my boyhood days, when I lived in this State 



— ' in the early settling of this section. An elder 

 brother (a man grown, and a great bee-hunter) and 

 myself were drawing a load of hay, and had to pass 

 more than half a mile through the woods. He was 

 driving the team, and I was lying on ray back on 

 the hay. As we passed under an oak-tree I could 

 see a stream of bees pouring in and out of a knot- 

 hole in the tree. I called to him, and we stopped 

 and looked at them, and then went home with our 

 hay; and after dark we came back prepared to cut 

 the tree and carry home a tine lot of honey. But, 

 lo! no comb, no honey, and but a single bee (evi- 

 dently belated, he had concluded to stay over night) 

 left of all the busy show of business but a few 

 hours previous. If they had not cleaned out that 

 tree for future occupancy, they were guilty of the 

 grossest deception I ever knew to be practiced by 

 the insect world. D. Binns. 



Addison, Mich., Dec. 30, 188-^. 

 Very good, friend B. Shall we not send 

 you a DookV 



Every giil or boy, under IS years of 

 agre. who writes a letter for this depart- 

 ment, CONTAINING SOME VALITABLE FACT, 

 NOT GRNEKALLY KNOWN, ON BEES O ' OTHER 



MATTERS, will receive one of David Cook's 

 excellent flve-cent Sunday-school books. 

 Many of these books contain the same 

 matter that you find in Sunday-school 

 hooks costing from 351.00 to $1.50. If you 

 have had one or more books, give us the 

 names that we may not send the same 

 twice. W^e have now in stock, six different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft, 

 The Giant Killer, The Robv Family, Res- 

 cued fram Egypt, and Ten Nights in a Bar- 

 Room. 



" A chiel's amang ye, takin' notes, 

 An' faith, I'll prent it." 



W8i>ID you ever see a promissory note, chil- 

 Mjj) drenV A promissory note is given 

 when one M'aiits to pay the money for 

 a thing, and doesn't have it, but has good 

 reason to think he will have it after a while. 

 For instance, suppose your father wants to 

 do his plowing, and has only one horse. 

 Well, he might wait until he got the money 

 to buy the horse, were it not that the plow- 

 ing must be done at the proper time, or it 

 would be too late to sow the crop. Well, if 

 he is a man of good reputation, almost any 

 one would sell him the horse, and take his 

 note for pay. The note would probably 

 read something like this : — 



$150.00 Ilcdina, O., Jan. 9, 1883. 



For value received.^ I promise to jxcy TJiom- 

 as Jones, or hearer, one hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars, ninety days after date. A. I. Boot. 



You see, I am just supposing it was my- 

 self that was going to buy the horse, and, to 

 tell the truth, I do need "one ; for although 

 old Jack plows very well when he has 

 another horse to help pull, he some way al- 

 ways seems disgusted when we try to plow 

 with him on the one-horse plow. 



Well, now I want you to notice the three 

 first words of the above note. They are, 

 "For value received." What do you sup- 

 pose that means Y What is the value re- 

 ceived ? Why, in the above case it is the 

 horse, of course, and it ought to be a pretty 

 good horse to be " value received " for $150 

 too. Well, I was a little surprised to be 

 told by my good friend Mr. Pond (he is a 

 lawyer, you know), that a " promise to pay " 

 would never stand law, unless it could be 

 proven there was a " value received " along 

 with it. True, we expect a Christian man 

 to keep his promises ; but the law recog- 

 nizes that no man, in his right mind, would 

 ever make a jyromise to pay, unless he had 

 value received., in some shape or other. You 

 see, they always go together, and one 

 balances the other. I presume they balance 

 about like the sandstone that the old gentle- 



