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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Oct. 



tie while more his baby troubles were all 

 over, and he was sleeping the peaceful sleep 

 of childhood. 



What agency or power was there in his 

 father's voice or his father's arms V had we 

 given him any sort of medicine, we might 

 have thought that the medicine had by 

 magic soothed his distress ; but he did not 

 have any thing — no, not even little pills; 

 but for all that, his troubles all seemed to 

 vanish, and sleep came as if by magic. Per- 

 haps I can explain a part of it by telling you 

 that Peter and I have already become very 

 good friends. He loves his pa, and his papa 

 loves him ; in fact, it does not seem as if the 

 word love half told the story. You know 

 how it is, the most of you ; there was perhaps 

 a sense of peace and rest came into his little 

 heart by feeling his father's loving arms 

 around him that perhaps nothing else in this 

 world could give. You need not any of you 

 think lam forgetting the mammas just now, 

 for I am very well aware that a mother's love 

 is above and beyond any thing that our sex 

 ever knew, perhaps ; but I want to empha- 

 size the fact that a father may often relieve 

 poor mamma ; and when baby is tired and 

 fretful, perhaps he can, for the time, easily 

 do what she can not possibly do. The tired 

 child sees its mother all day long, and the 

 sight of papa is a change to it that is a little 

 different; and God has intended that the 

 father should hold a place in the baby's af- 

 fection that is perhaps a little different from 

 the mother's. He has such a power to soothe 

 the pains and drown the sorrows of a little 

 "chick," that no other one on earth can till 

 his place. Can you not remember, dear 

 friends, the time when the privilege of rest- 

 ing on your father's arms with your head 

 against his loving breast soothed and almost 

 drove away sorrow, the earache, the tooth- 

 ache, or almost any other childish trouble or 

 pain V The consciousness of that great love 

 and willingness with which that father 

 would give his life for you was perhaps one 

 great reason why such a soothing quietness 

 came over you when he with his strong na- 

 ture undertook the task of comforting you 

 in your little sorrows. Do you suppose God 

 ever intended that you should look up to 

 him as trustingly and fearlessly as you look 

 to your father V Can you have faith to be- 

 lieve that God loves you as a father loves his 

 children, or, if you choose, as you love your 

 children V If you look back and think of it, 

 vou will recollect that you never feared your 

 ifather might consider you a burden; his 

 great love for you assured you to the con- 

 trary. You were not a bit afraid that he 

 would ever think you intrusive or a bother, 

 the least bit, m any way. He put out his 

 arms, and you just nestled right down into 

 them, and that was the end of it. Now, 

 then : — 



As a lather pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth 

 them that fear him. 



HONEY FROM THK VINE-MAPLE; SEE PAGE 503. 



We have not any vine-maple honey now, as we 

 sold ours all off; but I will send you some next 

 spring. I will send you some leaves of the vine 

 maple. I have two brothers and one sister. The 

 bees are doing very well now. CliABA M, WiLQOX. 



Salkum, Lewis Co., W. T. 



A SHORT LETTER. 



" Pa keeps bees," and has taken over 800 lbs. this 

 year, and is taking more to-day. My baby brother 

 is one year old to-day. Anne Fulton. 



New Berlin, 111., Aug. 30, 188;^. 



A NEW USE FOB A BEE-HIVE BUZZ-SAW. 



Our bees have done well for a wet season. Pa has 

 taken off a belt and the saw from our sawing- 

 machine, and put on an emery wheel for grinding 

 plow-p'>int8. He has made lots of money; he 

 charges 25 cents for grinding points. 



Mary L. Bedell. 



Kawkawlin, Mich., Sept., 1883. 



Well done, Mary. Your fact is surely a 

 valuable one. 



orlan's report. 



We bought some bees this summer. They went 

 to work right away. Their hives are full of honey, 

 and caps too. They are young swarms. Tuey have 

 not swarmed any this fall. Pa sent to you for a 

 bushel of buckwheat. It did well, but that frost 

 killed It, and we shall not get our seed ; but the 

 bees got their share of honey out of it. 



Geneve, Ind. Orlan Kraner, age 13. 



report in regard to queens hatched in cages. 



My father keeps bees, and I help him to watch 

 them. They are Italians. He raises his own queens. 

 He tried hatching them in cages, but thinks they 

 don't do so well as when hatched in with the bees. 

 He thinks the bees feed them as soon as they are 

 hatched, and they make better queens. I have a 

 little brother five years old, and he says he is going 

 to be a bee-man. Charlie C. Eveland, age 13. 



Goshen, Ohio. 



SORGHUM and BEES. 



My father has kept bees for a number of years. 

 He has 11 swarms now, and he says he thinks he will 

 have to sell the most of them. He commenced to 

 make sorghum last fall, and thinks the bees will 

 bother on account of the sweet. 



Nellie W. Cameron, age 10. 



Judd's Corners, Mich. 



Friend Nellie, I do not think the bees 

 would necessarily trouble about the sor- 

 ghum. When they can find honey to gather 

 in the fall, they will very often not notice 

 the sorglium-mills at all. 



Pa had two colonies of bees last spring; he in- 

 creased them by artificial swarming, to 31. He pack- 

 ed them in chatf in the fall, and they are all living 

 yet. We live on a farm; we raise a good many 

 strawberries, and we like the Crescent the best. 

 We have to go a mile and a half to church and Sun- 

 day-school. We have Sunday-school all the year; 

 our superintendent has been in for four years. 



Swan, Ind. Birdie Simon, age 11. 



HOW ETHEL POU^DED THE HIVE, AND WHAT SHE 

 GOT FOR IT. 



When I was a little girl, I went out and pounded 

 the bee-hives, and the bees came out and stung me 

 on my head so badly as to make me almost sick. Pa 

 has invented an introducing-cage which he warrants 

 to introduce a queen safely every time. Mamma 

 would like a few of those little printed cards for her 

 Sunday-school class; If you please, I would like 

 Silver Keys. Ethel Dyrb;, 



Pomeroy, 0., Aug. 23, 1883. 



