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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



July 



Juvei\ile Gleai\ii\gs. 



JTJIj^Sr 15, 188S. 



Contents of this Number. 



Anti-Tohacco itS 



Australia 414 



Bell-ringing 419 



Bees. To Resuscitate 420 



Cells under a Hen 421 



Oovers, fLeaky 431 



Cow Convention 416 



llrone-Cells. Curious 421 



Kasterrlav's Fdn. Machine. 418 



Editorials 42C 



Harrison 4iri 



Hives, Dollar 430 



H oney , Fi rst-prathered 416 



Hone'v -stand. New 417 



Ida's "Letter 415 



Jessie's Letter 417 



Kangaroos 414 



Kind Words 423 



My Neighbors 411 



Pelhani Fdn. Machine 420 



Polli-n, VVIiite 4-Jl 



Sw'g and Sunday-schools... 4T0 



Toads 420 



Virgil 413 



Art thou lor u.-i, or for our adversaries!— Joshua 5:13. 



Those desiiiug the blank books refei-red to by 

 Mrs. Gray in Our Homes this month should address 

 "Headquarters W. C. T. U., Y. M. C. A. Building, 

 Cleveland, Ohio." Some have written us that the 

 address then given was not full enough, and hence 

 we give it in full. 



OiiDERS are now all filled, very nearly up to date; 

 and with the large force we have at work, we hope 

 soon to be able to say they are c'car up. Last week 

 we sent out 600 smokers in five days, and this did not 

 quite fill all orders, even then. Who could have sup- 

 posed that the smoker business Avould have assumed 

 such proportions? We are a little behind on extrac- 

 tors, fdn., and sections; but almost any thing else 

 can go about as soon as the order is recei^'ed. 



D. A. Jones, Bectou, Canada, has sent us his "Cir- 

 cular and Price List" for the spring of 1883. It con- 

 tains 48 pages, 4 X 1. In his interesting remarks about 

 terms to students, we find the following plain English 

 relative to the personal habits of apprentices at his 

 bee-farm : 



The use of intoxicating drinks, tobaccos, and profane lan- 

 guage, is prohibited. These are unnecessary elements in bee 

 culture, and will not be tolerated. 



It is gratifying indeed to see such an influence as 



that which friend Jones exerts, thus i-esolutely on 



the side of correct habits. It strengthens us all. 



ITNTBSTBD QUEENS. 



FoH the present, we shall pay $60.00 a hundred for 

 nntested queens; and we expect to ship them prompt- 

 ly by return mail, guaranteed, postpaid, at the old 

 established price of $1.00 each. We can furnish you 

 queens of any grade as soon as the order is received, 

 with the exception of select tested and select import- 

 ed. We have plenty of imported queens on hand 

 that are select in ever.y way except color, and are 

 probably just as good as any. An importation of 50 

 more is now on the way, and we expect them daily. 



ADDITIONS TO ORDERS. 



Some wa.y our business is, of late, getting into a 

 shape so that the many friends keep continually 

 sending additions to orders previously made. Now, 

 we have no ob.iections to this, only that, during this 

 busy season, it keeps one clerk pretty busy to find 

 out whether certain orders have gone or not; and as 

 the mail, express, and freight are in the hands of 

 different departments, it will aid us greatly if .you 

 will state, when making additions to orders, which 

 way they were to be originally shipped. 



I TELL you, friends, we have had a boom since you 

 last heard from us. Instead of a slack-up about the 



Fourth of July, as we usually have, business seemed 

 to go all the other way this year. When overburden- 

 ed clerks got sick, and had to take a rest, new hands 

 were pressed into service to fill up the ranks; and, 

 as a consequence, more tangles and misunderstand- 

 ings arose. Quite a lot of them are probabl.y unset- 

 tled yet, although most of the orders have been filled. 

 In order to place the things in your hands when you 

 needed them, we have divided orders, substituted, 

 and done almost every thing that we in our judg- 

 ment thought to be the lessor of two evils; and in 

 the absence of old clerks who could explain intelli- 

 gently, a good man.v things have been sent without 

 explanation. Do not be. uncharitable enough, how- 

 ever, to let the idea get possession of you that we do 

 not intend to explain, and fix every thing as near 

 right as can be. Where money was coming to mc, 

 I have passed it b.y for the jircoent a good many 

 times, preferring to give attention rather to those 

 cases where money or goods were due somebody else ; 

 for I would much rather lose myself, than to have 

 any of .you suller, where I was obliged to choose be- 

 tween tlie two. We have now a short-hand writer in 

 O'jr office (besides one in the type room ), and if you 

 will tell us what is amiss, I will try, through hiin, to 

 make things right — or, at least, tell you that we are 

 disposed to make them right. 



I WONDER if all of our little friends arc enjoying 

 their vacation. Now if you will let me advise, I feel 

 sure you will enjoy it better if .you have something 

 to do. There is almost alwa.ys some work that chil- 

 dren can do where bees are kept. They will enjoy 

 their play a great deal better if they have work 

 enough to do until the.y are just a little tired. We 

 find some of the children in our factory who seem to 

 consider their work as pla.y ; and they seem to prefer 

 work to play when they can have their choice; and 

 then where they work, e\'ery Satui'day night they 

 have their wages in the shape of clean dollars or half- 

 dollars. We have them here as young as ten or 

 twelve years; and on some kinds of woi'k these little 

 chicks will do as much, and do It better, than a grown 

 man or woman will. Isn't that funny? You ought 

 to see them now, busily at work making queen-cages, 

 cages to send bees off in, tying up frames in bundles, 

 putting frames and sections together, picking and 

 shelling peas, etc., etc. You see, here in our factory 

 e\'erybody, or, at least, almost everybody, com- 

 mences when he chooses, and stops when he chooses. 

 Some of the children are here with their dinner-pails, 

 as early as 5 o'clock in the morning; and then, per- 

 haps, toward night they get tired, and stop early, 

 and have a play spell; or if they choose, they can 

 stop any time during the day and have a rest. If 

 they get hungry or thirsty they can go down to the 

 lunch-room and get any thing they choose, by pay- 

 ing for it. Thus, you see, they are in the habit of 

 doing business as men and women do, and men and 

 women they are, on a small scale. We endeavor to 

 give them the utmost liberty consistent with doing 

 their work propei'ly. There are no rules or regula- 

 tions to be observed that I think of now, except 

 against swearing, drinking, and tobacco. I believe 

 they generally consider me quite an easy man to 

 work for; onl.v some of the boys think I am terribly 

 hard about tobacco. But I am sure they will all 

 thank me for it when they grow up. In faot, a good 

 many have thanked me already for being the means 

 of causing them to break off from the use of to- 

 bacco. 



