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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Nov 



coming. Jind work is going to be done. As 

 I sat still afterward no immediate answer 

 Was perceptible, but I tliouglit l)efore I en- 

 tered the yard that I was going to be re- 

 ceived pleasantly, and lioped, jnst a little, 

 tliat the mail might in time be converted. 

 1 had no thought that he would then, that 

 night, give liis heart to God, and much less, 

 tliat liis conversion woidd have such an ef- 

 fect on tlie saloons and morals of Medina. 

 The lawyer for the defence did, it is true, 

 say I went off 10 miles that Sunday night, 

 with the express idea of making troiible, but 

 the trouble that came, was purely of God's 

 making, not mine. I am not at all sharp 

 and far seeing, but I have faith in God, and 

 faith in ])rayer. He can, and I ho])e does, 

 look ahead,' and plan and direct my work 

 for me. In looking back at it. it seems to 

 be sometliing as it was with David, when he 

 1)icked the peblile out of the brook. He had 

 faith, and threw the stone as hard as his 

 feeble strength would jiermit. God guided 

 it, anil gave it the additional force needed 

 to do the Avork. 



There is another class of my readers who 

 believe in non-resistance ; these good friends 

 will say there was no law about the work, so 

 far as i was concerned. I simply went to 

 the man and talked kindly with him. I 

 have no objection to that way of taking it, 

 and I most firmly believe that in a great 

 part of the cases, love and kindness would 

 do the work, with nothing more. 



Was the Sabbath school shut np y Simon 

 and his father went there, and told the child- 

 ren they had better go home, as 1 was not 

 coming, but unfortunately for their case, 

 the cliildren's faith in me, even if I was ab- 

 sent, was greater than in him who was i)res- 

 ent. I persuaded him to come in and sit in 

 a class, and when the school was over, he 

 went out and got one of the largest apples 1 

 ever saw, and told me to give it to my wife 

 with his respects. The Sabbath school is 

 God's work, you see, and it would be pretty 

 hard for a human being to break it up, by 

 any course, while the school and their teach- 

 er had faith in ids strong arm. We may be 

 eventually turned out of the school house, 

 but if we are, we shall, most assuredly, pitch 

 our tent a step nearer to the saloon and 

 brewery. 



Drunkenness is not yet stopped on our 

 streets, by any means. Many times, 1 have 

 liad hard work to find the names and resi- 

 dences of offending parties. Day before 

 yesterday, a tine looking young liian was 

 staggering toward me. As I looked at him 

 pityingly, he came up and took me by the 

 arm. I talked with iiim kindly and then 

 asked his name. His voice Avas so thick, 1 

 could scarcely make it out ; I took out my 

 pencil, and while his arm was around me 

 lovingly, I wrote his name and address. 

 "Why yer a goo' writer, Koot, ain't yer?" 

 "I ought to be, for I write a great deal." 

 "Wha' yer write my name ferV" 

 "Oh, I am coming to make you a visit 

 some day." 

 "ZassoV 



"Yes ; I like to know all the boys." 

 "Why yer a goo' feller, ain't yer, Koot V" 

 "I try to be." 



I added mentally, may God help me to be 

 a good friend to you, my poor brother. Do 

 I want to put this boy in jail V May God 

 forbid. But if nothing else can be done, if 

 pleading and entreaties amount to nothing, 

 I feel that I shall be compelled to take some 

 otlier course, to put a stoi) to such examples 

 in our streets, as those I have given. Use 

 gentle means at first, and be patient and 

 long suffering, but when tlie day of proba- 

 tion is passed, may God give us the firmness 

 and decision that is needed to rescue our 

 land from the toils of Satan, and when noth- 

 ing Ijut the sword will deter wicked men, 

 may lie give us grace to grasp that sword 

 unllinchingly. 



QUEEN CEIiliS TO ORDER. 



i« PTEIl reading your article in Oct. No., my 

 i.V^ tlioughts ran thus: take a piece of wood, sim- 

 liTTd ilar to tlie top bar of a frame, a half inch or 

 more iii thickness, and cut a notch iti each end so it 

 will tit down on the rabbets even with the top bar of* 

 the frames; take a bit similar to a countersink, 

 made for the purpose, and bore holes, of proper 

 depth and distance apart, in the bottom of the 

 stick; then take small pieces of thick cnmb fdn. 

 and shape with the ting-ors and press into the h;)les 

 and, while warm, take a queen cell stamp, and with 

 one l)lovv with the hammer, the cell is ready for 

 the larva. 



I want a queen cell stamp and bit for making' the 

 holes. Please get them up forme, unless something 

 better is devised. 



You will probably have thought the matter all 

 over bi 'fore receiving' this, but I send it with the 

 idc:i that there is a bare possibility of hcdping the 

 matter along. P. Undkkwood. 



North Lawrence, Kansas, Oct. ", 1878. 



I am inclined to think both your ]tlan and 

 friend Scovell's will work during the swarm- 

 ing season, but it m;iy be rather ditlicult to 

 get them to succeed yet this fall. We are 

 trying hard. 



After reading "queen cells to order," I turned 

 Sf)me knobs and nailed them to a piece of wood, 

 then wet them in water and dipped them in melted 

 wax. I got nice "acorns" in this way, and fastened 

 them on the under side of an empty brood frame, 

 by warming the base over a lamp. I do not think it 

 will amount to anything, as about 4-5 of them arc 

 cither torn down or have the larva'^ removed from 

 them. In transferring the larva^, I use the long- 

 tube of a glass atomizer. Put the pointed end in 

 the cell and suck jjciitly, and you will draw the lar- 

 va' up in the tube; now remove the tube to the cell 

 you wish to graft and blow gently, which will depos- 

 it the larva. With this you can remove the milky 

 food, which you can not do with a stick. I think a 

 tube could be made expressly for this; it should be 

 longer than the one I have, and should be curved at 

 the point. L. Heine. 



Smithville South, N. Y., Oct. 31st, 1878. 



Well, my friend, I am glad to hear you 

 have succeeded, if only with a few of them ; 

 it is better than we have done. I fear your 

 tube injures the larvae. Supi)ose we take 

 the Avhole liottom out of the cell, and insert 

 it wax and all. 



To anyone who sends ifl for Gle.\nings one year, 

 before Jan. l.sf, '79, we will send, as a premium, 

 either of the 35c ABC books, or any one of the 35c 

 premiums. The premium to be sent on receipt of 

 the money; but the sender must state that a pre- 

 mium is wanted, and the kind of premium, at the 

 time of writing, or none will be sent him. See table 

 of premiums. The purpose of this is to avoid the 

 necessity of tearing down our mailing list, at the 

 end of the year. 



