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DLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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AWAY FROM "OUR HOME. 



^^ wife aucl 1, find ourselves quite unex- 

 pectedly, away from our home, and our little 

 ones. Fifteen years ago, hand in hand, we 

 r^tarted on a similar journey; the years have 

 passed, and changes have come, and the hand | 

 that grasped mine at the depot as I Iieard I 

 "Good bye papa," is almost as large and strong | 

 as my own. 



In the «7>/v5/.— Weather warm and passengers 

 Mppy, with car windows wide open. Officious 

 l>urter builds fire in stove notwithstanding 

 protests of all. As it gave ladies nearest 

 ^itove a headache, I volunteered to take "hot 

 place." Plead with porter, but he only put in 

 more wood. Appealed to conductor who 

 tried to "choke"' stove, but could tind no stove 

 hearth; said he guesstd it would burn down 

 -after awhile. Asked fashionable gent and 

 lady to "sit up" and give us a seat away from 

 stove; would not, so 1 tried to think stove 

 would prevent night air from giviug people 

 •eokls, and was happy in spite of heat. 



lo'clock. — "Waiting two hours for train at 

 country depot. Found a half dozen Sabbath 

 j^chool workers, and extemporized "teachers 

 Jiieetiug," but none of us had Bible or lesson 

 paper, so we drew-on our memories for what we 

 <-ould ollect in regard to PanTs conversion. 

 Made out nearly the whole lesson in that way. 



s A. J/.^Lost my stamped envelopes, got 

 <jtt"at Hornelsville, N. Y. to get more, or some 

 Tstamps, and before 1 could ask for the P. O. 

 was very kindly informed where I could get 

 nice lager, or any thing to drink. As office 

 was nearly haU a mile from train, looked for 

 some store where I might find stamps. No 

 ^>tamps, but every thing to drink. All the 

 way to P. O. I found glaring signs of beer and 

 'vvliiskey, and the faces of all I saw on the 

 r-tr«.-et, proclaimed the same things plainer 

 than any device in the way of gilt letters 

 n_-uuid do. Liquor dealers standing before 

 tlieir fine brick stores, talked of their superior 

 "drinks" and I really expected to find the P. O. 

 too, furnished with the glittering display of 

 bottles. It wasn't, but a red faced oflicial 

 gave me a pewter dime in change when I at 

 length got the coveted stamps. If all the 

 streets iu Hornellsville, are like the two long 

 ones I traversed, and all the towns in York 

 ^tate are like this, what is to become of our 

 people 'i Are there those who like a good 

 glass of "lager '?"' So do I too, and the old 

 appetite was pleading for it all the length of 

 that walk, but may God help me to fight 

 against this, as well as all other right hand 

 temptations, as long as life shall last if need be. 



11 A. M. — Somebody has a very pretty apia- 

 ry of American hives across the river a few 

 miles above llathburnsville. Who are you 

 friend '? With such beautiful river, hills and 

 scenery, dear York State, why cannot your 

 people be happy without marring their intel- 

 Kcts by "something to drink '?" 



lU^.d. J/, — Another pretty apiary of Amer- 

 ican hives near Stonington, but we fear they 

 stand too close together. 



1 P. M. — Somebody has a house apiarj' near 

 Elmira. Who? '^- 



'■'< P. M. — When we first struck acquaintance 



with the Susquehanna river (a man said it was) 

 this morning, one could almost skip across it." 

 But uovy it has grown so much that it resem- 

 bles a good natured lake, that has followed us 

 just for the purpose of tantalizing us because 

 we can't get into it and wash olfthe coal dust"! 



3^2 P. M. — 40 min. for refreshments. A neat 

 looking new hotel induced us to ask if a place 

 could be given the ladies to wash. We were 

 motioned to a place baek of the clerk's desk, 

 filled with men, who besides performing their 

 ablutions, were being supplied with the iu- 

 ev itable "drink" as fast as the clerks and all 

 hands could pour it out, and no one could 

 spare a minute to listen to anything else. 

 The ladies had their tea without washing, and 

 I preferred to run down the bank and wash in 

 the river without soap rather than try to iin- 

 dertake it iu that den behind the bar. Places 

 to get drinks are in plenty and seem to be do- 

 ing a thriving business at everj"^ station, and 

 that seems to be the only important item. . Js 

 it because our traveling people demand them 

 and pay for them and nothing else, that such 

 is the case right in the very midst of all this 

 glorious scenery ? The individual behind us 

 has been drinking himself profane, obscene, 

 foolish and silly, and that iu broad daylight, 

 right before the conductor, and with ladies on 

 every side of him ? Can not some temperate 

 man start an eating house ? And are ■ there 

 not enough of us to support such an wig. 

 ^lay God bless our native land and hefp the 

 faithful to reclaim it from this threatening evil. 



G^o P. .¥".— Not only does Pa present beaii- 

 tiful mountain scenerj', but we actually have 

 burning mountains. We • play" they are Tol- 

 canoes ; they are the low growth of forest 

 trees on fire, and as they burn out a circle, we 

 have a ring of conflagration visible clear 

 around as we view it across an intervening- 

 valley. These hills remind one of a boy Who 

 has dropped an armful of biscuit, and once in 

 a while a whole loaf of bread ; the latter might 

 have split square in two. From the way in 

 which the hills are piled about, 'one- might 

 imagine he didn't stop to pick anything up. 

 The scenery itself is worth the trip. Que thinks 

 "Rock of Ages." "'. . . '"■',■ 



Eirniag.—OvLv friend with the bdttle' fe 

 wishing he was president of the V. B. '-His 

 poor brain formed the desire, that he might 

 take the duty oil' whiskey. His wife sayS she 

 wishes site was, that she might annihilate 

 whiskey. He boasts loudljf of being a demo- 

 crat. / ' 



ICov. 3(1.8. A. 3/.— I love PMladelpliia Jll- 

 ready. Am away down ou the wharf atoong 

 the shipping, and the ocean breeze, the multi- 

 tude of vessels, and above all the pleasant 

 words and smiling faces, make oue feel it is 

 rightly named. Only found oue whiskey shop 

 in five minutes brisk walk, on a bu=y street. 

 Every body seems busy and happy ; even the 

 colored people unloading salt. When I. need 

 another business sign, it shall assuredly be 

 like those here. Paint your board, which may 

 be of some nice shape, as black as it can' be, 

 and then make the letters of the purest white. 

 Such a sign can be seen for a long distance, 

 and one can find what he wants at a ghxhce. 



CENTEKKIAL. , ; ,,...-^ ,,.„' i,,., 



10 A. 3/.— I recall all I have said' "in:, regard 



