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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Apr. 



are having a pretty hard time of it from 

 what they say. Are you not sorry for them V 

 I often wish that I could bear a part of 

 it. Just think of it, boys ; all this would 

 have been saved had they not learned to use 

 it when young. I wonder if it is possible 

 tliat any boys who are reading these pages 

 are thinking of learning to use tobacco. I 

 asked a boy a few days ago why it was that 

 boys ever wanted to learn to use it at all. 

 He said it was just because they wanted to 

 put on style, aiid look as though they were 

 big men. We don't want to put on style, do 

 we? •but we want to be just what we 

 should be, — good honest children ; and 

 when we grow up we want to be the same, — 

 good, honest men and women. 



For promotion cometh neither from the east nor 

 from the west, nor from the south. But God is the 

 judg-e.— Ps. 75:6, 7. 



We are now waiting for the frost to get 

 out of the ground, to start that new factory 

 I have been telling you about. I am feeling 

 somewhat worried about the amount of 

 money it is going to cost, especially if we 

 have all the nice things in it that we have 

 been talking about. Eliza is to have a 

 counter store with room enough so she can 

 have shelves for all her tinware, etc. Then 

 she is to have a place in a large roomy base- 

 ment below for all her bulky goods. In the 

 room above her will be the clerks' office, 

 where the goods are put up and mailed to 

 you. The girls in the clerks' office are ask- 

 ing to have their room carpeted, and we also 

 talk of having a room which we are going to 

 call the sanitarium. You see, there are al- 

 most enough of us here to make a small vil- 

 lage, and all the rooms are so full of buzzing 

 people or buzzing machinery, and often- 

 times both, it is a rather bad place for one 

 who has a headache, or is sick. Well, in 

 this room w^e wish to have a comfortable 

 lounge, easy - chairs, plenty of air, wa- 

 ter, courtplaster, bandages and lint, for 

 accidents, and light, and every thing com- 

 fortable for those who are sick or hurt, where 

 they may be cared for until they can go 

 home, if need be. We talked about having 

 a doctor too, but finally decided some of our 

 nice careful women-folks would be almost 

 as good as a doctor. Besides this room, we 

 are going to have three fire-proof rooms, 

 one above the other. In the lowest one will 

 be all of the standing type for the ABC 

 book. The one on the first floor will open 

 right into the counter store for the Water- 

 bury watches, plated ware, and our most val- 

 uable goods. In the one above, opening 

 into the clerks' office, will be a place for our 

 subscription list, ledgers, and all valuable 

 books, lettei's, and papers. You see, children, 

 if our building should ever get on fire, and 

 burn up, we want to be able to send you the 

 Juvenile right along, and also have as lit- 

 tle delay as possible. There, I think this 

 letter is long enough for to-day. When you 

 come to see us, you can see all these things. 

 By the way, we are going to enlarge our 

 lunch-room, and put in many conveniences 

 for visitors as well as our own people here, 

 and may be we shall think of the little boys, 

 and girls too, that sometimes come with 

 their papas when they come to make us a 

 visit. Don't you think we ought to do so ? 



VIRGIli'S TREATISE ON BEES. 



CONTINUED. 



5^^011 remember that in last month's section two 

 W swarms of bees had been having a terrible 

 ' flg-ht ; and we were counseled to put a stop to 

 it by throwing dust over them. Now we are direct- 

 ed what to do next. 



SELECTION OF QUEENS. 



Truly when both contending leaders brave 

 Prom battle's bloody edge you chance to save. 

 Give him who looks Inferior to be slain, 

 Lest by the prodigal, strife rise again: (1) 

 Pee that the nobler reigns in peace alone, 

 With emptied hall and uncontested throne. (3) 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF QUEENS. 



Shining with colored segments dipped in gold 

 May be the better of those leaders bold; 

 Indeed, two different kinds there are of bees. 

 Of which the preferable sort are these: 

 Distinguished, as their bearing one may view, 

 And brilliant with their scales of orange hue. (3) 

 Unkempt with idleness the others show, 

 Dragging their broad, vile bellies as they go. (4) 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORKERS. 



And as the styles of kings two forms embrace. 

 So are the bodies of the common race; 

 Some bristle in their coats of dusty gray, 

 As when a traveler plods his weary way, 

 Quite covered o'er with sif tings from on high. 

 Earth he spits forth from mouth so parched and 



dry; (5) 

 Gleaming with gold the others flash and shine, 

 Their bodies marked in true and equal line. 

 This is the better race; betimes from these 

 Press the delightsome honey — j'ea, with ease 

 It doth surpass the cruel taste of wine; 

 Wine 's not so sweet, so liquid pure, so fine. (6) 



PREVENTING DESERTION. 



But when the fickle swarm would fly away, 



Despise their hives, and in the blue sky play. 



Leaving their dwelling desolate and coW, 



Do you their minds from empty nonsense hold. 



It is not hard to do; from off the kings, 



With no great labor, just remove the wings. (7) 



Not one, while they forbear the airy tramp, 



Will dare to move the standards and decamp. 



Gardens that breathe with saffron flowers invite, 



And help restrain them from untimely flight. 



Likewise a scarecrow for the thieves and birds 



The hive with some protection cheaply girds — 



Priapus, on the Hellespont adored, 



Armed with a sickle made of willow board. (8) 



MORE ABOUT PLANTING. 



Let him himself, to whom such things are care. 

 Young pines adown the lofty mountains bear, (9) 

 And thyme to freely plant around the stands; 

 And with hard labor let him wear his hands, (10) 

 And fix the plants in earth, for fruitful bowers, 

 And spread the friendly artificial showers. 



(1) By this we are let into a branch of apiculture 

 which we are very slow to admit that the ancients 

 knew any thing about; namely, improving their 

 bees by destroying the poorer queens and saving the 

 best. 



(3) Our grandfathers did not know even this much, 

 that only one queen could be tolerated in a hive. 

 The family arrangements of the man in the moon 

 were about as well known to them as the constitu- 

 tion and laws of the bees. 



