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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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sumptuary regulation, which still continues to sub- 

 sist, and marks the distinction of ranks among the 

 Chinese; the higher classes having appropriated to 

 themselves the exclusive privilege ot wearing the 

 silk stuffs, and assigned to the inferior orders, cot- 

 ton and cloth dresses. 



There, friends, tloseu't that sound a great 

 deal like bee ciilture V and is it not funny 

 that two industries have developed so mnch 

 alike ? IIovv I should like, if 1 dared, to go 

 into the study of silkworms and silk-raising ; 

 but many, many times over have I been 

 obliged to say to myself, ''No, my friend, yon 

 must not scatter your powers, when life can 

 not compass all industries, and it is more im- 

 portant that you do well what you do do, 

 than that you have a little smattering of so 

 many things." Another thing, friends : Do 

 you not notice how the development of 

 silk-growing seems to have been almost en- 

 tirely in the hands of women y What more 

 litting work for the wife of a king V and 

 what more praiseworthy work can there be 

 for women of the present day who stand 

 prominently before the people, than to en- 

 courage industries like silk-raising and bee- 

 culture V The study of the natnral history 

 of these insects that one must do to progress 

 in the work, leads, as it were, almost into 

 the portals of God's own domain. We see 

 God, as it were, through his mighty works. 



ANNA AND HEK LIGHT-HOUSE: HOME). 



ALSO SOMETHING ADOU'i; "PETEIl'S" NKW NAME. 



^1? LIVE on an island ;it the loot of Lake Ontario, 

 Jr([ near Sackctt's Harbor. My papa keeps the 

 light-house. My auntie lives hero too. and 

 keeps bees, and she takes Glv:aning.s. I should like 

 to sec that l)aby-b">y of yours very much, and I look- 

 ed tlear through auntie's A B C book to find his pic- 

 ture, but did not succeed. I have road that you 

 want a name sent for yourlitile boy. I have brothers 

 named AValler aud Ralph. I think those :u-e nice 

 names, and I have cousins Gruce and Hugh, and I 

 thick those are nice names too. A few days ago 

 there was a bad storm, and we are afraid some poor 

 sailors were wrecked. We have an old cat eleven 

 j-eai's old. Axna M. John'Sox, age 9. 



Henderson, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1883. 



Thank yon, Anna, for the names you sug- 

 gest, but our baby is already named. A short 

 time ago a kind lady suggested we should 

 name him lluber, after the father of bee 

 culture ; and as the name seems to please all 

 the baby's friends and relatives, he is already 

 christened Iluber, or "Hubie," for short. 

 And now everybody is inquiring who Iluber 

 was. And that makes me think of what 

 friend Langstroth said when I last saw him, 

 that there is no good translation of Iluber's 

 writings in the English language ; and, for 

 that matter, it would be pretty hard to get a 

 copy of the only translation that ever was 

 made. 2s'ow, friend Hasty, I wonder if you 

 see what is coming. You told us you could 

 " quack Latin." Can you quack French? 

 Now, let us turn in, and even at this late 

 day or hour hunt up all we can in regard to 

 poor old blind father Huber. If any of our 



readers can tell us where we can find a copy 

 of Iluber of any sort whatever, they will 

 confer a favor, for we want to be able to 

 teach little (I almost said little Peter ; and, 

 by the way, I think we will have Peter for 

 the second name ) Iluber all about his illus- 

 trious namesake, when he gets old enough. 



Every prirl or boy. under ].5 years of 

 age. who writes a letter for this depart- 

 ment, CONTAINING SOME VALl'ABLK FACT, 

 NOT GENERALLY 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 j-ou find in Sunday-school 

 books costing from $1.00 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 

 hooks, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft, 

 The Giant Killer, The Roby Family, Kes- 

 <'ued from Egypt, and Ten liights in a Bar- 

 Room. 



' A chlel's amang ye, takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



MY UNCLE BEN. 



fTOLD you last month I had an Aunt 

 Sarah. Well, I have got an Uncle Ben, 



! ■ but I have not seen him for a great long 

 while. AVhen we were children, the word 

 Uncle Ben always used to bring pleasant as- 



: sociations with it. When somebody said, 

 "Uncle Ben is coming," there was always a 

 general rejoicing; and when we went down 

 to grandfather's it used to be the nicest kind 

 of fun to go with Uncle Ben. He used to 

 take us fishing and chestnuting, and he was 

 an adept in climbing trees, and shaking down 



' the nuts, and then we used to pick them up 

 on halves ; that is, he had half for shaking 

 the trees, and we had half for picking them 

 up. I used to think it was the nicest way to 

 get rich that ever was thought of, picking up 

 nuts on halves. But I believe the most fun 



' for me was in helping Uncle Ben make ma- 

 ple sugar. When he made sugar it was al- 

 most always sunshiny days, and he used to 

 go around from one tree to another with a 

 couple of tin pails ; and all the funny things 

 he found he used to call us to see. I used to 

 carry sticks to make the kettle boil; and 

 when it came noon. Uncle Ben would sur- 

 prise us by skimming boiled eggs out of the 

 sap-kettles. My I but were not those eggs 

 nice? Sometimes they cracked open, and 

 the sweet syrup would get inside, and then 

 we had boiled eggs sweetened with maple- 

 sugar syrup. I can taste that maple syrup 

 now, when I think of the tin dipper. Well, 

 we have all grown up ; Uncle Ben has got to 

 be almost an old man, and perhaps he is 



, more bald-headed than I am. But what do 



i you suppose made me think of Uncle Ben 



