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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



May 



about Dickey, the tame jackdaw. Your 

 plan of catching birds is quite ingenious, 

 and no doubt it would work ; but where 

 shall we lind the adhesive substance, strong 

 enough to hold a bird by his feet? ^Vill 

 friend Baldensperger, when his eye meets 

 this, bear in mind that we are all waiting to 

 have him give us the desired information ? 



MKS. HARRISON TO TBE JUVENIIiES. 



A SHORT LETTER ABOUT HENS AND QUEENS AND 

 POSIES. 



t-ELL, juveniles, how are you by this time? I 

 did not write any thing for you last month, 

 because I thought that you wanted the 

 journal all for yourselves. I see in the last Juve- 

 nile that Bettie G. Faris tells how to make hens lay. 

 Who will tell us how to feed a queen, so she will lay 

 " a heap of eggs " ? Do you think red pepper would 

 make her lay, or sneeze? I have a shelf across my 

 bedroom window, to hold flower-pots, and roses and 

 fuchsias are now in bloom upon it. In one of the 

 pots some spider plants came up, and they are now 

 about six inches high; and as soon as it does not 

 freeze at night I will transplant them in the garden. 

 Who among you is going to raise the most seed of 

 honey-plants? Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria, 111., May, 1883. 



MARRIED. 



At the residence of the bride's father. May .-i, 1883. 

 by the Rev. P. P. Graham, Miss Ida M. Chapin to Mr. 

 Ed. E. Wood, both of Medina. 



Another victim ! alas, there are three ! 

 Yet, still here's a trio who will faithful be 

 To ledger and desk — oh ! time will tell. 

 So, Ida, we bid thee a tender farewell. 



— Lu, Carrie, and Eli.en M. 



WhenBess left usa few years ago,itseem- 

 ed for awhile as if such a one as she would 

 never be found again, to take her place in 

 the clerks' office. By God's providence, how- 

 ever, her friend and schoolmate, Ida, soon 

 took her place, and managed her duties so 

 well that we almost began to think that 

 there was not such another one as Ida. Al- 

 though she is in our office still, and promises 

 to stay with us during the busy season, when 

 she does come to leave, not only will she be 

 sadly missed here, but I fear our customers, 

 who have long depended on her to straighten 

 out and unravel every misunderstanding, 

 will meet with a loss that perhaps no other 

 one can very soon make up. While I feel 

 sad to think of having these faithful girls go 

 away from me, and take up other duties in 

 life, yet with this sadness comes a cheering 

 thought, because our business has, perhaps 

 more than any other, demonstrated woman's 

 ability and capacity for business. May God 

 bless and be with you all, Stella, Bess, and 

 Ida ; and may you often think of us here, 

 though you are with us no longer. 



My work in life has been, as you know, to 

 a great extent, testing and trying humanity. 

 I have been constantlv looking and watch- 

 ing and praying for helpers with bright, 

 strong, clear intellects, and those who had, 

 together with these intellectual powers, a 

 sense of fairness and right, that, in our 

 business relations, we may do none of you 

 injustice. Well, in our office work it may 



be no more than right for me to say that I 

 have found woman's capacity in all these 

 points fully equal to any thing I have ever 

 met in our own sex. I feel to thank God for 

 it, because it is only in these latter days that 

 woman's sphere of usefulness has been de- 

 veloped as it is now ; and although Ida and 

 Bess may not be here, I confidently expect 

 God to send us another who will do the work 

 for you, my friends, as they have done it. 



Every girl or boy. under I.t years of 

 age. who writes a letter for this depait- 

 ment, coxtaining some valuable fact, 



NOT generally known, on bees O ■ OTHER 



MATTERS, will receive one of David Cook's 

 excellent five-cent Sunday-school books. 

 Many of these books contain the same 

 matter that you find in Sunday-school 

 hooks costing from Sl.OO to 51.150. If you 

 have had one or more books, give us the 

 names that we may not send the same 

 twice. We have now In stock, six different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft, 

 The Giant Killer, The Roby'Faniily, Res- 

 cued from Egypt, and Ten Nights in a Bar- 

 Room. 



" A chiel's amang ye takin' notes, 

 An' faith, I'll prent it." 



W'ELL, children, it is the middleof May. 

 The fruit-trees are in blossom, and 

 every thing is lovely. The bees are 

 busy, and so are we here in the factory. In 

 fact, I am so busy that I think 1 will put in 

 your little letters, and stop right here, and 

 not say another word. We are good friends 

 all the same, aren't we ? There, now, go on. 



the assistant "p. m." 



Pa's 8 stands of bees got through the winter all 

 right; he keeps the postofflce, and I am his assistant 

 postmaster. Katie Gough. 



Rock Spring, Washington Co., Mo., April 19, 1883. 



My uncle has 2 colonies of bees. We took out over 

 100 lbs. of white honey. They did not swarm last 

 year. They are working well. 



Fred G. Travis, age 10. 



Watkinp, Schuyler Co., N. Y., April 20, 1883. 



ALBERT'S CANARY. 



My pa has no bees, but I have a canary bird which 

 will, when I open the cage, fly out and allgnt upon 

 my shoulder; and if I move my head it will perch 

 upon my ear; and when I go up to the cage it will 

 kiss me. Albert Howard, age 12. 



Staunton, Ind., April, 1883. 



A composition about birds. 



There are many kinds of birds — the rcdbird and 

 the canary, blackbird and the jay-bird, and the cat- 

 bird. The sweetest birds to sing are the canary and 

 the redbird. The latter has red feathers, and the 

 canary has yellow feathers. C. Carmikle, age 11. 



Staunton, Ind., May, 1883. 



