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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



rejected, and Satan is accepted. Do you 

 know what it is to accept Satan V Listen, 

 and I will tell you. As 1 tell it from memo- 

 ry, I may not nave it all quite correct, but 

 it is substantially so. 



The detective produced his papers, and de- 

 manded their surrender. One of the robbers, 

 with an oath, shot him at once, although be- 

 fore he died he shot one of the robbers. 

 Of course, the people were aroused; the 

 station agent was one of the next to demand 

 iheir surrender, but he was shot. One of 

 them was secured, and this left two at large. 

 In a few minutes over four hundred people 

 were in pursuit of them. One was soon tak- 

 en. The more desperate one of the two, 

 however, fled ; and when he found they 

 would soon run him down he met a man on 

 horseback, and ordered him to get off. The 

 man refused, when the robber shot at him. 

 He thus obtained the horse ; but as it was 

 not a fa'it one, he soon fixed his eye upon 

 one driven by two women. He ordered 

 them to get out of their buggy. They also 

 refused, when he fired at the two helplfess 

 women . Of course, this state of affairs soon 

 created the wildest panic in the neighbor- 

 hood and vicinity. Perhaps never before 

 were people aroused to a higher frenzy of 

 indignation. Three men were dead; others 

 were being fired at, and the desperado was 

 still at large, dealing death and destruction 

 to whoever stood in his way. 



He at length passed by a man and a boy 

 who seemed to have about the kind of horse 

 he wanted in order to make his escape. He, 

 as before, peremptorily ordered them out of 

 their wagon. They refused, until his re- 

 volver was again used. Then the man got 

 out; but the boy showed fight, and in the 

 struggle the robber fired again, cutting one 

 of the lines with the bullet. The horse ran 

 away, the vehicle struck another, and was 

 overturned in the streets, and the desperado 

 stood, the center of the indignant crowd 

 who now came up around him. He now 

 showed his cowardice, for such men are al- 

 ways really cowards. The miserable, lost, 

 and ruined soul called on the crowd to spare 

 his life because of his mother. He evident- 

 ly thought that the holy and sacred word 

 ""mother," used at such a time, might have 

 the effect of winning sympathy. Now, my 

 dear friends, I do not mean to say that what 

 the crowd did was right; for in fact I am 

 pretty sure it was not right. It is right to 

 kill, to save life, and he told them he surren- 

 dered, and begged them not to kill him. 

 But before the words were hardly out of his 

 mouth he was riddled with bullets. 



Truly, "the way of the transgressor is 

 hard." Just think of it, children, what an 

 awful fate, and what an awful scene, right 

 here in the midst of schools and churches 

 and civilization ! Is it possible, that the love 

 of money can prompt rational human beings 

 to acts like this V When you are prompted 

 by selfish feelings ; when you are thinking of 

 self, and forgetting God, your neighbors, and 

 your native land, think of the awful end of 

 these men who deliberately and coolly set 

 aside and ignored that little precept which 

 Jesus gave us, "Thoi] shalt love thy neigh- 

 bor as thy self. " 



the: disco vs:r¥ of silk. 



COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY MISS NELLIE LINCOLN 

 ROSSITER. 



fHE discovery of silk, by one of the imperial 

 family of China, some three thousand years 

 ag-o and more, has brought forth one of the 

 most important and valuable Industries of the 

 world. We are told, that " since that time, there ifs 

 set apart in the gardens attached to the Chinese roy- 

 al palace, a special place allotted to the cultivation 

 of the mulberry-tree (called in China the golden- 

 tree), and to the raising of silkworms." "It was 

 during the reign of the Emperor Hoangti that a new 

 epoch commenced in the culture of silk. The in- 

 sects were sheltered and carefully tended, and the 

 real rearing then began." 



From the history of China we learn, that " 3700 

 years before the Christian era, the Emperor Hoang- 

 ti, the Emperor of the Earth, who reigned for more 

 than one hundred years, taught the Chinese to con- 

 struct houses, carts, ships, mills, and other useful 

 things of a similar kind, and persuaded, moreover, 

 his first and legitimate consort, Si-ling-che, to attend 

 to the silkworms, and to try several experiments in 

 order to increase their utility; wishing, as he said, 

 that his wife the Empress might also contribute to 

 the welfare of his subjects. The Empress accord- 

 ingly gathered the silkworms from the trees, and, 

 with the women attached to her household, tended 

 them with much care in the imperial apartments, 

 supplied them abundantly with mulberry leaves, 

 and kept them very clean. It was soon discovered 

 that they thrived better in rooms than in the open 

 air, where they were constantly exposed to their 

 natural enemies, birds, serpents, and spiders, and to 

 the ill effects of changes of temperature — all which 

 were obviated by subjecting them to domestic care. 

 The cocoons gathered in the open air and in the 

 rooms were also very different; the latter being not 

 only more numerous, but of a better quality, and 

 richer in silk. Care was afterward taken that the 

 eggs were hatched within the rooms, and there were 

 thus two kinds of silk culture— the natural and the 

 artificial; the superiority of the latter becoming 

 more and more manifest." 



" Similar exertions for the domestic culture of 

 silk were made by the succeeding empresses, among 

 whom the consort of the 'Augustus of China,' Yao, 

 principally distinguished herself. The art became 

 thus the principal occupation of the empresses, and 

 several apartments of the imperial palace were giv- 

 en up to it. From the highest rank of females, it 

 came to be exercised by the whole fair sex, and ob- 

 tained such favor that it proved to be the principle 

 source of the wealth of China, which was from 

 thence denominated ' the inexhaustible storehouse 

 of silk.' " The fair sovereigns of the empire did 

 not, however, content themselves with the rearing 

 of the worms, but attended also to the carding and 

 the weaving. The original promoter of that art in 

 China, the Empress Si-ling-che, had already taught 

 her women, "to convert the raw material into cloth- 

 ing stuffs, and to embroider them with representa- 

 tions of flowers and animals." Soon, from the em- 

 peror down to the learned classes, the princes, 

 courtiei-s, and mandarins; and, in short, all who 

 were in sufficiently affluent circumstances, were 

 dressed in satin or damask. This greatly encour- 

 aged the rearing of worms and the weaving and 

 ioai)i){acturing of silk, especially as it occasioned a 



