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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Aug. 



Mr. E. H. Wynkoop, Catskill, N. Y., has sent us a 

 section for surplus which he calls the Gilbert Sec- 

 tion. He says it is patented by a Mr. Gilbert of that 

 town. It is similar to the cue made by Lewis & 

 Parks, though not nearly as nicely made, and is but 

 a tritie thicker than the ordinary berry-box material. 

 The corners are gouged out and then it is bent to 

 place. Dr. Southard, of Kalamazoo, Mich., has used 

 such for sections for years. Mr. Wynkoop has made 

 arrangements to make and sell these sections. They 

 can be produced cheaply, but we prefer something 

 having' a little more strength for comb honev^ 



— American Bcc Journal fur April, 1879. 



And on writing to friend Wynkoop, we 

 find that these sectional honey-boxes were 

 made as long ago as 1873. The section is 

 virtually the same kind of a honey-box as 

 that made by Mr. Forncrook, only that it 

 contains no slot for holding the strip of fdn., 

 and this we have never used on the one- 

 piece section, and do not want to. A patent 

 was given the parties alluded to, years ago, 

 for this plan of making boxes of one piece of 

 wood. Friend Fiddes, whose letter I have 

 given above, made these sections as long ago 

 as 187.5, and sold considerable crops of honey 

 in them. They were made of thick strong 

 wood, and had entrances cut for the bees, 

 exactly like those made nowadays. Besides 

 using "them himself, he made them and .sold 

 them to his neighbors, and one of his neigh- 

 bors also manufactured them, and sold hon- 

 ey in them. Without taking time to enumer- 

 ate all these cases that have come to light, I 

 give the letter below, showing that so prom- 

 inent a man as our friend Quinby used such 

 sections some time before he died. A pic- 

 ture of the way in which they are used is 

 given in the American Agriculturist for Feb- 

 ruary, 187.5, page -52. 



Friend Root : 



I saw all-iu-one-piece sections in Oil City as early 

 as 1869, at one Mr. Stevenson's apiary. They were 

 used by Mr. Quiuby previous to that. I think Mr. 

 Stevenson got his idea from him. The sectious 

 were made of very thin basket stuff. I sent my 

 broth'>r at Pioneer, Venango Co., Pa., a lot of bass- 

 wood plank to cut into one-piece sections as early as 

 1874; he cut the V-shaped grooves with a barrel- 

 mnrker. J. McGonnell. 



Waterford, Erie Co., Pd., May, 1883. 



And now, my dear friends, does it not 

 seem to you that my cause is a just and. 

 a right one ? Is it possible that I have a 

 wrong and selfish purpose in thus resisting 

 Mr. Forncrook's efforts to monopolize this 

 industry V In other words, have we a right, 

 for it is a common cause, to pray that God 

 may aid us in the cause of right V Will he 

 desert us hereV In the language of the open- 

 ing text, " He trusted in the Lord, that he 

 would deliver him." And will God deliver 



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You may say it is a plain and'^Simple case ; 

 there is no need of being troubled or alarm- 

 ed ; but, dear friends, we are told that this 

 is a case before the United States court, and 

 we must go to law. Plain and simple though 

 it is, I am told that an expensive lawyer 

 must be employed to conduct the case. I do 

 not know whether Mr. Forncrook is a Chris- 

 tian or not. I know that I claim to be, and 

 stand before the world as such. Have you 

 ever read the 6th chapter of I. Corinthiaus V 

 Let us look at it a little. 



Dare any of you, having a matter against another, 

 go to law before the unjust, and not before the 

 saints? 



Paul seems to lake it for granted, as you 

 will observe, that most of the lawyers to be 

 had in those times were not in the church, 

 and he seems to intimate, too, that some 

 one in the cliurch, pastor or some good dea- 

 con, ought to be al>le to settle quarrels, as 

 well as lawyers. [ liave always done this, 

 fjiends. and about the lirst thing T did was 

 to take tlie case to mv i)istor. lie frankly 

 tolil me that, in a matter tliat was to come 

 bpfove the United States court, he feH un- 

 able to advise. We agreed that we wauled 

 a Ciiristian lawyer. Now. I really hope that 

 my brethren of "the bar will not feel hurt by 

 ariv thing that I may say in my ignorance or 

 awkwardness. I do not know lawyers very 

 well ; but I do know that some of our kind- 

 est and best friends among our customers 

 have '' Attornev at Law " printed at the top 

 of their letter-heads ; not only kindest, but 

 wisest. I am always glad to get a letter 

 from a lawyer, because he always seems so 

 clear and bright — he always seems to have 

 such a command of language, and reasons 

 so intelligently. I love and admire intelli- 

 gent, intellectual, and educated people. I 

 love my friends of the law, as far as I know 

 them. As I read their letters over day after 

 day, I fall to wondering, can this man be a 

 bad manV is he not a Christian V Why, it 

 seems to me he must be. I wonder if he 

 charges $10 a day for helping people who 

 need help in his line ; and when he is sent 

 off to some distant city, does he always put 

 up at the hotels where they charge $3 a day 

 or more V and do common people like you 

 and I have to work a week to get money 

 enough to pay him for just one day's time 

 in settling a quarrel we may have got into ? 

 If he does. I think I shall try awful hard not 

 to get into any more quarrels. In fact, I 

 wouldn't quarrel now ; I would give M;r. 

 Forncrook almost any thing he wanted, rath- 

 er than have a great big lawsuit, providing 

 I could feel quite sure that we should 

 not be paying a premium to dishonesty and 

 fraud, and also if I were the only party con- 

 cerned. It may be better to give a couple of 

 thousand dollars to lawyers than it would be 

 to give it to your neighbor who is over- 

 reaching and grasping. But I am not quite 

 satisfied on the point. How I have longed 

 for some good, wise, able adviser in these 

 days past ! Oh how I should love to present 

 the whole matter to dear, kind, good old 

 Paul, and ask him what I should do ! If I 

 could find an able lawyer who is full of the 

 spirit of the Master, and was seeking every 

 day to do his will, how gladly would I put 

 it into his hands, and tell him to manage it 

 for me ! But, dear friends, now please ex- 

 cuse me if I am uncharitable or ignorant ; I 

 have not yet been able to find such a lawyer. 

 There are those who are professing Chris- 

 tians, but thev do not seem to be the proper 

 ones to cope with a problem like this. There 

 are others who, it would seem, have the abil- 

 itv, or, at least, pretty near the ability, need- 

 ed for the occasion ; but, alas ! — Paul says, — 



I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not 

 a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be 

 able to judge between his brethren? 



