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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Sept. 



Every prirl or boy, under 15 years of 

 ajje, who writes a letter tor this depart- 

 ment, CONTAINING SOME VALUABLE FACT, 

 NOT Gf'NKRALLY 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 And in Sunday-school 

 books coating from SI. 00 to $1.50. 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 Robv'Family, Res- 

 cued from Egypt, and Ten Nights in a Bar- 

 Room. 



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

 An' faith, ht'll prent it."' 



BO you want to know about that baby 

 again, my little friends V Well, he is big 

 — enough now so he can sit up in a clothes- 

 basket, and Caddy and Connie have just 

 been carrying him around the house by tak- 

 ing hold of the handles of the basket. Well, 

 he enjoyed the fun amazingly, as long as 

 they carried him about ; but when they put 

 him down he would grunt and scold, as I 

 have told you. Well, Caddy came to her 

 mother one day, and, said she, " Why, 

 mother, just see what an ungrateful little fel- 

 low he is. We have carried him around un- 

 til our hands ached until we could hardly 

 stand it. And when we set him down he 

 just grunted and scolded !" 



What do you think about it, little friends; 

 is his ingratitude so very unusual V No 

 doubt your mothers or your older brothers 

 and sisters have carried yoi* about until their 

 wrists ached, and backs' too, perhaps. But 

 instead of being thankful, you looked cross, 

 and grumbled and complained. I wonder if 

 you are looking happy and pleasant, and 

 ifeel thankful for what has been done for 

 you. How is it, my little friends, are you 

 looking pleasant now ? Suppose you take a 

 look in the looking-glass, and then write me 

 how that face looks that you see in there. 

 And that reminds me, we have a great deal 

 of fun in holding baby up before' the look- 

 ing-glass. I carried him up to the glass the 

 other day ; and when he saw me in the 

 glass he laughed and began to " coo." That 

 set me to laughing, and Maude came up. 

 When he saw her he laughed and crowed 

 more. Then came mamma, and he gave her 

 a greeting, and the same with Blue Eyes. 

 Then his great blue eyes opened wide in as- 

 tonishment. He looked at the crowd in 

 the glass, and then he looked at us, and his 

 crowing and merriment all at once changed 

 to astonishment and then to fright. How 

 could it be, that there were two whole fam- 

 ilies V Even though his little life spans 

 only a few brief weeks, he has learned some 

 things by experience. He had found Out 

 what a loving little circle God had dropped 



him into, and he had learned to know his 

 brother and sisters, and father and mother. 

 But he had not yet had experience in look- 

 ing-glasses, and he Anally rolled his eyes in 

 such a fright that we were obliged to take 

 him away and pacify him. 



Poor little Peter! With his baby sense he 

 doubtless thought he had learned pretty 

 much all there is in this world ; and when 

 he ran against this big problem of looking- 

 glasses, he was frightened, because he could 

 not solve it. Now, little friends, our baby's 

 memory goes back perhaps not to exceed 

 eight or ten weeks. You who can remem- 

 ber eight or ten years feel old and wise in 

 comparison ; and some of us who can look 

 back and remember forty years, or even 

 more than that, think we are very old and 

 wise ; but is it not likely that our span of 

 life and experience is but as an infant's, 

 compared with the great eternity yet before 

 usV 



Except ye be converted, and become as little chil- 

 dren, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

 —Matt. 18: 3. 



how joseph got a swarm of bees. 



My pa has 33 swarms, and I have one. Last sum- 

 mer, one noon when pa ate dinner I watched the 

 bees. He told me if a swarm came out they should 

 be mine. Out came one! They alighted on a peach- 

 tree right by a hive, so I got a swarm of bees. 



Homer, Mich. Joseph Benham. 



My pa has got 5 colonies of bees; he had 7, but two 

 colonies died. Pa has an extractor of your make. 

 He got it of Mr. Scovell. He is very much pleased 

 with it, although he has not extracted very much 

 with it yet. I go to Sunday-school every Sabbath at 

 Sparta. Nellie Gorden. 



St. Joseph, Mo., June 15, 1883. 



how JAMES SPENT HIS FOURTH OF JULY. 



My pa has 151 colonies. I help him very much; I 

 have sat three or four hours at a time, wishing that 

 a swarm would come out, for I do love to hive them. 

 I stayed home almost all day the Fourth of July 

 helping my pa. James T. Leffingwell, age 13. 



Nonewac, Wis. 



Pa had a swarm of bees to-day. The bees that 

 were in the cave wintered the best. Our school Is 

 out now. We have taken off 3O0O lbs. of honey. We 

 have 124 swarms of bees. Eva L. Farrington. 



Strawberry Point, la., Aug. 1, 1883. 



Can't you tell us a little more about that 

 cave, Eva V 



HONEY FROM COTTON. 



I have three colonies of Italian bees In the Lan^- 

 stroth hive. I have been reading the Juvenile and 

 Gleanings for some time to give me knowledge 

 about bees. My bees are in good order, and work- 

 ing on cotton-blooms, and I think on sunflower too. 

 My brother has three colonies, and ray sister has 

 two colonies of bees. Pa helps us attend to them. 

 Howard Granberry, age 13. 



Austin, Texas, Aug. 4, 1883. 



harry and his FATHER. 



Papa has 6 swarms of bees in chaff hives, and two 

 in box hives. I should like to see your mill where 

 you make bee-hives. I suppose you have a great 

 many swarms of bees. Papa got five bee-hives from 

 you. He and my brother have been making chaff 

 hives. Papa has a little mill, and he turns it with 



