just as good a man as any of them; but if they think to make me better by sending me back to prison, I do not know whether I shall ever try again or not." I could lift him up a little while; but before my next visit he would get away back again, and so I asked M. to go in, and others of the young men who belonged to our young people's meeting. Their bright young faces, and their trust in God, had its effect, and D. was rising up to where he could begin to hold on to the Savior, who died for just such as he. friends came in just when I was writing, and I asked them about the Sabbath-school in their neighborhood. They said it was given up, and the preaching too, because the people could not agree. These were Christian people too, but of several different denominations. Away down in Missouri I heard of a similar case, where the Sabbath-school was dropped, and it could not be kept up, because some belonged to one church and some to another. There were people enough to make a good congregation, but they could not forget their differences even long enough Well, on the evening I have mentioned, D. to listen to one sermon a week, and so they gave me a fuller history of his troubles than-well, I am not sure I know just what he had done before, and I was encouraged to they did do. Dear reader, is there any such see him take the blame himself as he had never state of affairs in you vicinity? and are you done before, instead of laying it on others. sure it is not to you that God is directing me After he had finished, I spoke in a kindly to read this little verse to day? way, and said, "Why, is it possible that you, D., really you, took your employer's property in the way you have mentioned, and tried to sell it ?" Now I beseech you, - brethren, -by-the speak-the-same-thing,-and-that-there-bename-of-our-Lord-Jesus-Christ,-that-ye-all no-division-among-you;-but-that-ye-be perfectly joined-together-in-the-same-mind It is true, Mr. Root; and to come right-and-in-the-same-judgment.-1. COR. 1:10. down to the facts, I do not deserve the companionship or recognition of a single good man or woman;" and he bowed his head in real thorough conviction of the great sinner he had been against God and his fellow-men. I do not mean these were his precise words, but it was the substance of them as nearly as I can recall it. A little later, he on bended knees asked God to be merciful unto him a sinner. D. had passed from death unto life, and it only remained for him to show God and the world that he could live what he had professed. Not only did angels minister unto him spiritual comfort, but kind friends began to be visible to him all around; and as the new life unfolded, he saw the world was full of people who "bear long, and are kind.". D., instead of considering the world as his natural enemy, was beginning, as in our text, to have confidence in it, and to be in the same mind and in the same judgment." Will any thing else but the Bible bring a man out and up in the way I have described? I prayed with and for D.. and then I wrote a letter to the man who owned the horse, and another to his old employer, and God heard and answered our prayers, and D. was given only 40 days in our jail, and then he is coming to work for me. Do you wonder I went home that night praising God for having turned me around in the road, and shown me what he would have me do? At such times, it seems to me that I can get at least a glimpse of the promise found in the chapter following the one containing our opening text,— Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.-1. COR. 2:9. M. went and visited him, and finally Mr. House followed up our efforts until D., instead of saying he would not go back to Columbus any more, on his knees asked God to keep him in jail until he saw it was best for him to come out, and, he would say, "Thy will be done." Now, my friends, it is not the boys in the jail alone who need our opening text, but sometimes it is church-members, and those who call themselves Christian people. Some Most of you know our neighbor Mr. W. H. Shane, whose reports have been given for weeks ago a little girl in our Sabbath-school several years past in our journal. A few asked her teacher if they might have children's prayer-meeting in the afternoon. She came to me with the request, and I gave notice that one would be held that afternoon. Quite a number of children were present, that they would like to be little Christians. and many of them signified, that first day, The meeting was kept up, and a few Sabbaths after, a wee little girl belonging to friend S. came to the meeting. Small as she was, she seemed to realize the full import and the solemnity of the occasion; and when opportunity was offered, she arose for the prayers of her little mates. On going home, she told her mamma what a real good meeting they had. A week later, and the little one failed to succumb to the usual remedies. I was prostrated with a severe earache, which called to see her, when it was feared she could not get well, and she lay like a fair flower in her little crib, insensible, for it had ing?" asked I. gone to her brain. Has she spoken of dy she asked her mother if little girls ever died gone. I called again, to say what words of Yes, 66 'Did "said he, and his countenance brightened. Shortly before she died, there her, she opened her eyes so intelligently, and came a change; and as we gathered around looked from one to the other. The pain seemed gone, and we waited to hear what she was going to say. Her lips moved, and as we listened in breathless silence, she spoke clearly and distinctly, Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.' As I told of this in our Sabbath-school, * and afterward to that school over among the hills, which now numbers toward forty, strong men and women were moved to tears. It was the little prayer her mother had taught her to say before she lay down at night. Has any one the hardihood to say that God, the creator of the universe, did not hear this simple little petition from the dying breath of the work of his hands? Can we not, my friends, so live that our dying beds may be like that? Except ye become as little children, ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven. FROM THE WORKERS BEYOND THE SEAS. As the following treats of bees as well as mission work, I presume it will be read with interest by all our readers. It is an extract from a letter sent to one of our bee-men from his brother, who is a missionary. Sending our journal free to missionaries may not be so bad an idea, after all; but I confess it did not occur to me how much help they might give us in the way of looking up the different races of bees that are to be found on our globe. As we catch glimpses of their work from these extracts from their letters, we feel better acquainted with them, and more like praying for them intelligently. I was invited into the house of a tea farmer, a Cantonese. I noticed that there were several bees around, and just then he asked me to change my scat. I had been sitting with my back against the table, and as I changed he pointed to a drawer in the table, which seemed to be full of bees. He drew it out an inch or so, and, sure enough, there was a swarm of bees. He informed me that they settled there last year. They seemed very good natured. One alighted on his neck, and his little boy began to call out; but he quietly waited a moment, and off it flew. As I came past the other houses on my way back, I was invited in, and found a man trying to read a book I had given him. I sat down and expounded it. He asked, "What is God?" and I tried to explain to him. Then he asked if I had any more curious things. After awhile I took out a pocketcompass, and a knife with a magnetized blade. They knew what the compass was, but did not know the principle on which it works, nor any thing about magnetism. Of course, they "ai-ya-d," and wondered, and admired. They passed around some rice turnovers. These are made of a glutinous rice, boiled, and then pounded into a hard dough. The inside is filled with a conglomerate of bean sprouts, greens, red pepper, garlic, salt fish, pork, and I don't know what else. They were piping hot. The first few mouthfuls tasted rather strong; but the taste improved as I ate, and I disposed of two and a half, without trouble. There was one man on the boat said to me one evening, that he would like to go with me to foreign lands; would do any sort of work for me if I would take him. I began to moralize on going to heaven as infinitely better. He said up in heaven we could see all lands at once. He asked how long one would have to practice Christianity before he could ascend to heaven. I replied, it was after death. He answered rather sadly, "When I die, I won't be." The Buddhists and the Taoists both believe in the possibility of translation, if one can only become perfectJy abstracted, and stay so long enough. Focchoo, China, March 1, 1880. Your wife has struck on one of the hard problems, friend L. I told you last month, that the question of what to do with criminals is one that is now puzzling our greatest minds. Well, it is not unlikely that your wife has to do with criminals in their earlier stages, and therefore I would bid her God-speed, and tell her not to be discouraged, even though her work seems the most hopeless. Any thing is better than giving them up and letting them go. If she has got 21 that care to come and listen to her, she has already proved her ability. I need hardly tell her that the first thing is the Bible for a daily teacher, and much earnest prayer to God for help. She seems to know what a power there is in visiting them through the week, because, if I am correct, it is in that look at books and papers, these are excellent way she has brought them in. If they will mediums for catching and holding their attention. If they won't, interest them with curiosities; show them simple tricks and experiments; post yourself on the leading events of the day, the news for instance; study the especial forte, or hobby, of each member of the class; learn their names, so you can call each one by his especial familiar title; set them to work, and, through it all, strive to show them of the spirit and love of the Master, who is calling to them through their better selves. Teach them how to be brave and magnanimous; teach them the true elements of gentility and refinement; get acquainted with their parents, brothers, and sisters, and call on all you help. Get everybody to help that you can lay hold of; get the boys themselves to labor for the salvation of each other; and every time you get discouraged, and feel like givfor them. Hold on and importune, and when ing up, go to that Master and beg and plead you see one soul safely into the kingdom, it will give you a joy that will brighten your whole life thereafter. Our friend M. has a class of little girls in that school over among the hills, and the light and hope that beams from his face as we go home after the school is over is-I can't tell it, but the Master can. Hear him: I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed the munto babes.- MATT. 11:25. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE MIDNIGHT ASSASSIN. I must confess I was somewhat taken aback when you said, “Perhaps it would be best to shoot the man that had his hand in cur trousers pocket." I really did not expect such advice from a teacher. When I am at work at the mill, and come home, I find the boys have brought in all the axes and bolted all the doors. Their ma asked them why they did not do it when pa was at home. They said, "Nobody can hurt us when pa is here." Can we not put that trust in our heavenly Father that our children put in us? None need fear when the Lord is near. When the war was over, and I was coming home on the steamer, it was so crowded I was compelled to take deck for my place of rest. Just as I bad got to sleep, I was awakened by a man trying to get his hand into my pocket, and one hand on my collar. What was I to do but say, "Lord, save or I perish"? and the thought struck me, I would give up my money and save my life; so I thrust my hand in my pocket as quickly and as best I could, to give up the coveted treasure. It would have done you good to have seen him run. I guess he thought "perhaps" I would shoot. Spring Station, Ind. GEO. W. STITES. the proper thing? In all, there were five or six of them. We saw five. I would like to have your opinion. I believe it is right for a man to protect his property, always in a legal way when it is practicable; in an emergency, the best way he can, according to his judgment. In support of this view, I give one section of Bishop Hopkins on the ten commandments. Comment on the sixth commandment: 'Yea, we find, Exod. 22:2, that God allows the killing of a thief if he breaks into a man's house by night, but not so if he attempts it by day. And possibly the reason of this law might be, because when any cometh upon another in the night, it might be presumed that he takes the advantage of the darkness, not only to steal his goods, but to harm his person; and therefore God allows it as lawful to kill such a one as a part of necessary defense; from which I think we may safely conclude, that it is law ful also to kill those who attempt upon our goods, when we have reason to fear they may likewise design upon our person." In the light of the foregoing, I think I was justified in my course. God permits men to own property, and also to protect it. We should form our conclusions, not from a single passage of God's word, but from the general tenor of JOHN BAIRD. Very good, friend S., and I am very glad indeed to have this side of this subject brought out. I would suggest, that some might say that it was the fear of the pistol after all that saved your money, and perhaps your life; but as you had no thought of a pistol, and was only trusting God, it seems to me your prayer was plainly answered. I know what some of you will say; but, my the whole, as it is its own best interpreter. friends, let us have a broad charity for each other on matters of this kind, for our opin- Elm Grove, Ohio Co., W. Va., Jan. 6, 1881. ions and our methods of acting would, I Now, friends, did friend B. err in letting know, differ very widely on such matters. them off so easily that they might go and I presume it would be well to ask you to steal his neighbor's fowls, and go on in such keep cool while reading the following, and work unpunished? or was he wrong in usto look out you are not swayed by these nat-ing a pistol at all, and in having one about ural feelings that well up so naturally while you form in your own mind an opinion as to what you would have done under the same circumstances. Bear in mind, we are coolly and deliberately discussing the subject of crime, with a view of deciding how best to treat it, just as we would do in regard to the yellow fever. Since reading your Dec. No., there was a little occurrence that gave additional interest to your question, "What is the proper thing to do in case you find a man with his hand in your pocket?" (A lady suggests that the proper thing is to "screech.") I will briefly state what I wish to bring to your notice. We have some fine turkeys, and, hearing a disturbance among them about 11 o'clock at night, I jumped out of bed, putting my head out of the window. I soon saw the cause, and called out to the persons to leave. They commenced to call their dogs, pretending that they were hunting; but I could see no dogs. They passed on to our next neighbor's, and went through their outbuildings, leaving open doors and gates, and in an hour and a half returned. I got up, but could not see them. I laid down again; then I heard the turkeys shriek, "quit! quit!" and, on looking out, saw one man running along the fence, under the cover of the shadow of it. I called out to him to "move on," three times; but he stopped with three or four companions under the tree where the turkeys were roosting, and seemed determined to have one. I told my brother to fire his revolver to see what effect it would have. As soon as he fired they called us names, and threw clods and stones at the house. We then told them to move on or we would fire closer the next time, and they, not doing so, my brother fired again in their direction; then they left our place, and gathered up chickens and turkeys from the neighbors. Did I do the house? What are you going to do when you find yourself in just such a predicament? By a recent arrangement, the manufactures of our planers have enabled us to offer the Gem plainer at the same prices as we have been selling the Lilliputian. The Gem is a much better machine, for, besides being heavier, the bed raises and lowers for stuff of different thicknesses, instead of having the cutters movable, as is the case with the Lilliputian. Where plaining is to be done, one of these machines will pay for itself in a very little time. THE SETH THOMAS CALENDAR CLOCKS. ABOUT 25 have applied for one of these, and the order is already at the factory. In answer to many questions, I would say, the clock is 8-day, spring strike. The height is 20 inches, and the diameter of the dials, eight inches. The case is beautifully finished in mahogany and rosewood, with a sort of octagonal top. The works are heavy steel and brass. The calendar tells, in large plain figures and words, the day of the week, the day of the month, the month of the year, and makes all the changes for the different numbers of days in each month, even to giving February 29 days one year in four, without a single motion or bit of prompting on your part, only to wind the clock once a week. If the clock runs down by carelessness, you can set the hands of the calendar just as easily as you set the hands of a common clock. This latter feature is a late invention. Every clock is guaranteed by the Seth Thomas factory, and their name attached to any clock is about the highest praise you can give it. Send on the $7.50, and you can have your clock by return express. If ordered with other goods, they can go safely by freight, as each one is securely boxed by itself. They will be shipped from here. GRAY'S IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING THE ALL-IN-ONE-PIECE SECTIONS. The three saws are set on an arbor so as to MACHINE FOR CUTTING THE GROOVES, OR be adjustable at different distances, as they DOVETAILING, IN THE ENDS OF THE PLANK. Our friends often complain of the expense of this machine; but unless it is made very strong, with a heavy mandrel, and wide pulley for the belt, much trouble will be experienced in having the mandrel heat, the saws smoke, etc. The whole expense of the machine, nicely fitted ready for use, will be $30.00. WOOD MEDINA O. CUTTER HEAD FOR MAKING THE ENTRANCE FOR THE BEES. After the bolts are grooved with the above machine, the passage for the bees is cut in each piece. This can only be done nicely and rapidly with a cutter-head, as shown. Just the head and mandrel are shown, that we may understand clearly the construction. It is as you see, really a small planer, having adjustable knives to be taken out and ground and set, like any planer knives. Besides these knives, there are four were last year; but instead of a drum to feed the pieces, we have a table that slides back and forth. The stripes are placed in a sort of hopper, which you see rising above the rest of the machine. Well, this sliding table pushes one piece forward so as to slide under the saws. This allows the pile to drop down, and the slide then pushes another against it, and so on. The mechanism that moves the slide is as follows: On the opposite end of the mandrel that holds the saws, from the driving pulley, is another smaller pulley. A belt from this goes on a wheel seen in the lower part of the machine. On the shaft of this wheel is an endless screw, working in the teeth of a wheel attached to an upright shaft. On the top of this shaft is a crank that carries the sliding table by means of a pitman. The machine grooves 40 sections a minute. After some rather expensive experiments with saws made of teeth of different patterns, we have got one that cuts a clean, smooth groove, without any fibers hanging. Two of the teeth are large half-circles, something like a chopping-knife, and then comes on a straight square tooth, to scrape out the wood. Next, two more knife-teeth, and so on. The speed of these saws is about 4500 per minute. For making Farmer's honey-boxes, or boxes of any kind requiring wider stuff, the pitman is detached, and the sliding table is moved by hand. The machine, as it is now made, can not well be furnished for less than about $75.00. The handle at the right, is for stopping the feed; the rod in the centre, is to be pressed with the foot, when putting in more strips. GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE lent samples of full-sized sheets, and I have ordered A. I. ROOT, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST-PAID. FOR CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE OF READING MATTER. a machine. A full explanation, with drawings, will be given next month. I need not say that any thing coming from friend F. is free to all." THE PEET CAGE. WE have decided to adopt, for the coming season, the Peet cage, with the water-bottle omitted. The candy of which friend Viallon gave us the formula on page 427, Sept. No. for last year, has answered so well that we have decided to adopt it, at least for the present. Lest it may be thought we are appropriating friend Peet's cage without permission or recognition, I will state that I have paid him freely to you all, but that he accepted the gift as a token of our appreciation of his services. I think we all owe him a vote of thanks besides. Do I not hear a second? All you who wish to tender thanks to friend Peet for his excellent shipping and introducing cage, as well as to friend Nellis for his zeal in bringing it so thoroughly before the public, please say "Ay!" I shan't offer any "contrary." MEDINA, FEB. 1, 1881. $25.00 for his invention-not that he did not give it Finally, by brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.-EPH. 6:10. We have now 3563 subscribers, which is 921 more than we had last month. Thank you. LOOK after your bees, and don't let them die; they will probably be scarce and high in price in the spring. FRIEND Deworth has consented to have the price of his mandrel put at $2.50, as I suggested last month, instead of $2.75, and therefore $2.50 is the price. OUR friends will see by our price lists, that we have succeeded in getting a reduced price on the Simonds saws that enables us to place them as low, or lower, than the common saws usually found at your hardware stores. DID you ever! We have just received from the manufacturers a solid cast-steel adze-eye hammer, weighing 1 lb. 5 oz., that we can sell for only 35 cts. The hammer is exactly like the 75-cent one, only the polish is not quite as good. If wanted by mail, postage will be 24 cents. WE have added to our printing-office a fine new Universal printing-press, especially for printing letter-heads, postal cards, bill-heads, etc. For specimens of our work, see the stationery we are now using. We shall next month have small job printing added to our counter store. WHOLESALE PRICES ON COMB FOUNDATION. IN answer to many inquiries in regard to the above, I would remind our friends that inasmuch as fdn. is offered in quantities for 35c, while the wax itself is 25c, there is no chance for a wholesale price. If you wish to sell fdn., you must buy a mill or machine for making it. SEVERAL friends have asked us to keep their names going, and they would remit soon. Well, when they remitted they sent it to Doolittle, without saying a word to us. Do you not see, friends, how this makes troubles come"? Nobody has authorized you to send money to friend D. that you are owing us. OUR OWN BEES? WELL, the most of them are wintering finely under the snow-drifts. Some of those in the house apiary are dying badly with the dysentery. Very likely it is because the snow-drifts can not cover them up, and because the hives do not get warmed up by the sun and dried out by the winds, as do the chaff hives. If you haven't got a house apiary, don't build one. WHEN any watch is first wound, it frequently needs a little shaking to start it, and especially is this the case with the Waterbury watches, owing to the nature of their peculiar escapement. I say shaking, but it would be more proper to say "twirling." Several have returned their watches, saying they would not "go" when wound, but it was only because they did not start them. One came clear back from California. OUR friend Oliver Foster has made very decided improvements in making fdn. We can hardly say by the dipping process, for he doesn't dip his plates at all; he, on the contrary, dips the wax on to the plates. The plates are kept constantly in water, or, rather, partially submerged in it. He sent us excel WHAT TO DO WITH COMBS FROM WHICH THE BEES HAVE DIED. I PRESUME I shall have to keep repeating, every spring, that combs and honey from which bees have died are excellent for new swarms, or even for putting a pound of bees and queen on, before new swarms come. A great part of the A B C class (and some others?) will have hives with the bees all dead every spring; and from reports, I think there will be an unusual number this spring. The hives may stand right where they are, if you are careful to close them up, so that no bees can possibly get in and carry off the honey left, as soon as they begin to fly. When it gets warm, it will be well to lift out the combs and brush out the bees; then you can set them back, and let them remain until you are ready to put more bees on them. Don't let any robbers get in, and you will be all right. If you have not got bees on all the combs by May or June, you will have to keep a little watch, and see that the moth miller does not get to working on them. The combs filled with stores are worth half the price of a hive of live bees, on an average. There is going to be a great call for bees by the pound in the spring, and our friends in the South should be able to do a nice trade on them early in the season. The fact of the bees having died on these combs will not hurt them a particle for use in the summer time, not even if they died with the worst kind of dysentery, but they may not be well to use for another winter. Get all such stores used up in rearing bees and brood. Honey Column. Under this head will be inserted, free of charge, the names of all those having honey to sell, as well as those wanting to buy. Please mention how much, what kind, and prices, as far as pos sible. As a general thing. I would not advise you to send your honey away to be sold on commission. If near home, where you can look after it, it is often a very good way. By all means, develop your home market. For 25 cents we can furnish little boards to hang up in your dooryard, with the words, "Honey for Sale, neatly painted. If wanted by mail, 10 cents extra for postage. Boards saying "Bees and Queens for Sale, price. same I have for sale one barrel of nice white granulated linden honey for sale at 10 cents per pound, including barrel. NATHANIEL MURRAY. Ada, Hardin Co., O. I have for sale 700 lbs. good honey, gathered from fall flowers, in one 22-gal. keg; the rest in 2-gal. tin honey-pails, at 13c per ib., money in advance. We will deliver on board cars. $150 extra for keg: cans, 25c apiece extra. DAVID KIRK. Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kansas. I have 4 barrels of light extracted honey, clover and basswood mixed. Barrels iron bound, painted, and waxed; will sell for 91⁄2c on cars here. F. R. JOHNSON. Box 354, Union City, Branch Co., Mich. I have about 1000 lbs. section and 1000 lbs. extracted white clover and linden honey for sale. H. R. BOARDMAN. East Townsend, Huron Co., O., Jan. 26, 1881. |