1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



501 



EveiT ffirl or boy, under 15 years of 

 af?e, who writes a letter for this depart- 

 ment, CONTAINING SOMK VALUABLE FACT, 

 NOT GKNKRALLY 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 costinfT from SI. 00 to $1.50. If you 

 have had one or more books, give us tlie 

 names that we may not send the same 

 twice. We have now in stock, six different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Ott, 

 The Giant Killer, The Roby Family, Res- 

 cued from Egypt, and Ten l^ights in a Bar- 

 Room. 



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

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



-ELL, little friends, you see Juvenile 

 has doubled its size this month, do 

 you noty Well, there are several 

 reasons why we decided to make Juvenile 

 as large as its " mother." The letters in re- 

 gard to the National Convention could not 

 well wait until the regular issue ; besides, as 

 many of the little folks read Our Homes, we 

 thought it might be just as well to have that 

 in your part of the journal ; and thus, you 

 know, we can have old Gleanings all bees, 

 or pretty much all. You see, if I throw in 

 the Juvenile, and do not make any addi- 

 tional charge for it, nobody will feel like dis- 

 puting my privilege of making it just as I 

 have a mind to — partly old and partly young 

 folks, and partly of somethiug that will in- 

 terest all classes alike. I presume it will 

 settle down where it should be eventually, 

 for I am a great believer in the doctrine of 

 the " survival of the fittest," or the survival 

 of the best, if you choose to put it so. That 

 is why I have such firm faith that we shall 

 soon do away entirely with saloon-keeping. 

 The best people are all in favor of temper- 

 ance. Now, if there were no God above, 

 wicked men might prevail ; but as there is a 

 kind Father who watches over all, I am sure 

 he will never let them prevail. Therefore 

 right and truth must triumph finally. 



Do you want to hear about Peter V Well, 

 in the first place the friends and relatives all 

 scold so much about his name, that I do not 

 know but that we shall have to have a differ- 

 ent one, and so 1 told them we would call 

 him Peter until some one else gives him a 

 better name. Do you know any nice little 

 name for a little rosy-posy, chubby, dimpled 

 boy-babyV If so, you can just mention it 

 when you write. He is just now delighting 

 himself in the knowledge of the fact that he 

 has a pair of hands, lie doesn't know very 

 much about them yet, but he has progressed 

 far enough to discover that his little pink 

 thumbs are his property, and uuder his con- 

 trol ; and I am sure you would just" giggle" 

 if you could see him look a while cross-eyed 

 at his thumb, preparatory to fetching it, by 



several awkward movements, around until 

 he can get it into his rosy, juicy mouth. If 

 you want to please him, just call him " dood 

 boy." He seems to take this as the tallest 

 kind of a compliment ; and sometimes he 

 just crows when you tell him so. And I am 

 glad to say that he is getting every day to 

 deserve the name more and more. There, 

 shall I let you talk now ? 



My papa has twenty stands of bees. He has taken 

 103 lbs. of honey in section-boxes from 3 swarms. 

 He had one swarm that went away; it swarmed 5 

 times. He hived them three different times. 



Sunny Side, N. J. Lillie Sheets. 



I thought I would write and tell you how our bees 

 are getting along. We have had 15 new swarms; 

 one swarm came out, and we hived them, and in 

 about two hours we went out there and found a 

 queen dead. I help my ma milk the cows. 



Rock Spring, Mo. Katie Gough. 



My brother and I have each a hive of bees. There 

 was a man who lives about eight miles from our 

 house who died from the effects of bee-stings. 

 There are a good many bee-trees in this neighbor- 

 hood. John E. Alvis. 



Montrose, la., July 16, 1883. 



CAUTION ABOUT SAWING LIMBS OFF WITH SWARMS 

 ON THEM. 



My uncle has eight hives of bees, and a smoker. 

 He takes Gleanings, and I like to read it. The 

 Italian honey-bee is different from our native, or 

 black bee, in color and size. One time my cousin 

 was sawing off a limb of a tree that some bees had 

 swarmed on, and the bees all came at him and stung 

 him badly. Charley Beardsley, age 13. 



Titusville, Pa., June 25, 1883. 



My pa has 24 stands of bees; my ma has 3, and I 

 have one. I must tell you how I got them. The 

 bees came over, and ma and I fought them with 

 water, and that is the way we stopped them; they 

 alighted in a little peach-tree, and ma and I hived 

 them. Pa has one swarm that came out and swarm- 

 ed 4 times — July 25, 26, 38, 39. Pa killed six young 

 qneens. I have a little pet lamb. I go to Sunday- 

 school when it doesn't rain. 



Elyria, O. Charley Drusendahl, age 10. 



THE BOY WHO CAN FIND QUEENS BEFORE HE IS 

 THREE YEARS OLD. 



Reading over No. 10 of the Juvenile for Jan , 1883, 

 I notice a piece over the signature of L. G. Hallup; 

 this signature should be S. G. Holley, my mistake, 

 no doubt, in not signing plainly. I read this piece 

 to my little boy (his name is Cleland, but we call him 

 Clelie), and asked him what he had to say in reply to 

 your note at the bottom, and he says, "'Tell Mr. 

 Root I will show him a queen bee at the convention 

 next fall." So I hope, if all goes well till then, to 

 help him keep his promise. He is not yet 3 years 

 old. He claims the Juvenile as his bee-paper, and 

 is very prbud of it, and asks mo to read it to him, 

 and we have great chats about our interesting little 



pets. S. G. HOLLEY. 



New Hamburg, Ont., Canada. 



Many thanks, friend II. I should be very 

 glad indeed to see our little friend, and to 

 have him hunt out the queens. So there 

 will be another attraction to be considered 

 at the convention, won't there, Clelie V 



