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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Tub. 



lator, and one with the real heart and spirit 

 to make bees and Latin " connect." If you 

 will excuse me, friend 11. , it seems to me 

 you have not laid stress enough on this mat- 

 ter of covering the bees with forest leaves. 

 In that line,— 



Put loosely o'er a mass of forest leaves, 

 he has given us the plan followed by the 

 iJadants, exactly, and I am inclined to think 

 that no better covering for the frames has 

 ever been devised. We have had ample 



Eroof, you know, that bees have wintered in 

 ives very open at the top, where they did 

 not when well packed in chaff. Loose leaves 

 seem to be just about what is wanted ; and 

 if I do not change my mind, I am deter- 

 mined, next winter, to try filling the upper 

 story of some chaff hives with loose forest 

 leaves, and nothing more. Would it not be 

 funny, if we should take Virgil, in place of 

 all modern writers, on this matter of an ab- 

 sorbent over the frames V 



FIRES. 



MRS. HARBISON TALKS TO THE CHILDREN ABODT BE- 

 ING CAREFUL. 



^T has been a very cold winter, and I have thought 

 Jt|[ a great deal about fire, and the last month more 

 — than ever. I shudder whenever I think of the 

 burning of the Newhall house at Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin, whei-e seventy-live persons lost their lives. 

 Men, women, and children burned alive ! how 

 fearful I 



We should all be very careful about fire. In dry 

 hot weather, sometimes the gi-ass is of a brick color, 

 and crumples under my feet, and then I'm afraid to 

 light a smoker to quiet the bees. I like the bellows 

 smokers, because we can smoke our bees with so 

 much more safety than in the old way. I got on fire 

 once, whilst smoking the bees with a pan of chips ; 

 and if 1 had been alone I might have burned up, and 

 the bees and our house too. But, providentially, my 

 husband was at home, and put out the fire. 



Now, children, while you are young, and your hab- 

 its are forming, you should cultivate carefulness, 

 and that attribute called "presence of mind." When 

 you are in danger, if you do not get excited, but 

 keep calm, it may save your life. 



Mr. Edison is a great inventor, and has found out 

 a great deal about electricity, and has taken out 

 more patents than any man in America. Since the 

 Newhall fire, I have wondered why some one of in- 

 ventive powers does not construct a ladder in sec- 

 tions that could be carried on the firemen's hose- 

 cart, and shot out against a building. Persons have 

 been rescued from a sinking ship by a line being 

 shot over a vessel, and it seems terrible that people 

 should be burnt up, for want of a ladder to reach 

 them. Why don't some of the bee-keepers who have 

 such a fancy for getting out patents get up a ladder 

 for our use? Bees cluster pretty high, sometimes, 

 and I've always expected to tumble, and get badly 

 mixed up with a swarm of bees and a basket or dish- 

 pan clattering about my ears. It might be fun for 

 those who look on, but I don't believe I should enjoy 

 it very much. Do you think I should? 



Peoria, 111. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



There are a multitude of patent rights, 

 my friend, for fire-escapes, as they are call- 



ed, and our friend Oldroyd, who makes the 

 ink, "• W. O.," you know, has just got out a 

 new one. It is made to slip on a rope ; and 

 although he is an old man, he says he can 

 come down from a five-story window in just 

 half a minute. These machines may save 

 much valuable life ; but at the same time, 

 I think our houses should be so made that 

 one can easily get out, in case of fire. It 

 was on this account, for one thing, we have 

 a back stairs to our new house, as well as 

 front stairs. 



DOORS. 



A LESSON TO BE LEARNED FHOM THEM. 



fT makes but little difference to us about the 

 beauty or polish of our doors, if they fail to per- 

 ~^ form their duty of opening and shutting at our 

 pleasure. If they don't do this we go to work with 

 hammer and saw, with chisel or plane, or whatever 

 instrument will best serve our purpose, and in the 

 end that door is brought to " its senses," as it were. 

 In some such way the Lord deals with his children. 

 "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." 



Doors were not made to be banged and beaten and 

 scarred; they are weak and inoffensive; and how- 

 ever much they are defaced by abuse, they are gen- 

 tle and uncomplaining, ever ready to have their 

 " faces washed," and, if need be, scrubbed and paint- 

 ed and varnished. Now, don't slam the door. Do 

 not abuse it; and don't leave the door open this cold 

 weather, for some one to get up and close. 



Don't open the doors of all houses, especially ale- 

 houses. 



Let yoMT door be open to the poor, to God's chil- 

 dren, and let the door of your hearts be open to re- 

 ceive every good impression, and closed against the 

 many sins that would enter. As you open the door 

 of this new year, drive out the little foxes of sin, 

 and, turning your back on Satan, enter into the fold 

 of Christ. 



If any one should be so bold or so wicked as to try 

 to come in at the window, or to make an opening in 

 our houses where it might seem more convenient 

 for them to enter, we would treat them as the law 

 would allow. Jesus says, "I am the door; by me, if 

 any man will enter he may come" into a place of 

 safety. Let us not try an j' other way, or we shall be 

 classed with the "thieves and robbers," who are 

 never safe, neither here nor hereafter. 



Anderson, Ind., Feb., 1883. E. Mohan. 



ABOUT THINGS THAT GROW. 



SOMETHING FOB LITTLE FOLKS TO HAVE AND TO 

 LOVE. 



t^Y pa doesn't keep bees; but mayn't I come 

 nsjl and see you? I wonder how many of you 



■ ' have flower-gardens, all your own. And 



what flowers do you have in them? Did you ever 

 sow seeds in the house, and do you know how inter- 

 esting it is to watch them sprouting, and then grow- 

 ing day by day, so tender and velvety green ? And 

 do you wonder, when the first two leaves are grown, 

 what the next will be like? Did you ever see 

 " MoUie Heath " poke her brown hood above the 

 soil in the pot, and try to push her back again (as I 

 did), thinking there was something wrong? You 

 see, she comes up the way the beans do; and, by the 



