of self-sacrifice is so foreign and opposite to that of selfishness, that there must ever be war between the two elements. An old friend said, a few days ago, that whisky would be drank, in spite of temperance people, just as long as it tastes good." I fear there is a great truth there. We have those among us who will drink any thing that "tastes good," no matter what the consequences are, and no matter what it does to other people. I once heard of a steamboat accident on the Ohio River, where the number of planks and floats was insufficient to keep all the passengers above water until help could be obtained. A great strong burly man knocked a poor weak woman from a plank, that he might have it to save his own life. What do you suppose that man did when he got ashore? He saved his life, did he? Jesus said, "He that saveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it." My friend, do you want to be one with Jesus and his followers, or with those like the man in the river?I fear it must be either one or the other. "He that is not for me is against me."

you have to make allowances for even your best friends. You know how rare it is to find one who is always perfectly fair, especially when he gets a little stirred up and contrary. Well, now, if there were in the world a perfect character, one without even a shade of selfishness and prevarication, would you know that person when you saw him? would you recognize Christ as the Messiah, if you should meet him in the world?

"Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." Those who wanted to find him would find him at once; and those who wish to find him to-day, dear friends, will surely find him. and hear his voice of entreaty too. The trouble is, that we in our selfishness and untruth do not always want to find him. There are at least times in the lives of most of us when his presence would be such a rebuke that we would want to hide in the bushes, as did poor guilty Adam and Eve. May God help us to guard well against such times as these!

When Jesus said he came into the world to bear witness to the truth, Pilate replied by asking. "What is truth?" I don't think Pilate wanted any information in regard to Jesus told Pilate that he came into the what truth is; but his uneasy, guilty conworld to bear witness unto the truth. His science, prompted him to make the remark in kingdom is truth in the hearts of men. a sort of evasive way. We often see this He who would be a true man must not be a spirit among intemperate men. They would selfish one. Truth and selfishness can not very much rather argue about things in the go together. If I mistake not, the greater abstract, than to consider the glaring sins part of untruth comes from selfishness. right square before them. I remonstrated When a man coolly decides to make self with a distinguished surgeon because he foremost and first, he lets go of truth. Men used oaths right before a company of boys. addicted to periodical intemperance are oft-"What is blasphemy?" said he “it deen truthful, frank, and honest, until they pends upon what a man means by the term." yield to temptation, and then their honesty, He knew he was guilty, but he was too proud as well as honor, is all gone. They have to acknowledge it, and so he tried in a weak dropped all love to God and their fellow-way to defend himself. Such arguing and men, or at least they have made it second-prevaricating is very common; but, friends, ary, and made self foremost. Those famil- do you not realize how very far it is from iar with such people can tell in an instant simple, honest truth? Consider the characwhen God and self-respect has gone out and ter of people who thus evade, as a whole. self and Satan has come in. Even if they Both Pilate and this great doctor were prohave not signed any pledge, nor promised bably guilty men at heart, and, what was the anybody they will not drink any more, it is worst part of it, they deliberately proposed almost impossible for an intemperate man to to be guilty, and to go on so to the end of have even a shade of honesty. It is the their lives. They had no sort of intention of same when we do violence to our honest saying, "God have mercy on me a sinner," convictions in the indulgence of any thing and then making a sharp turn toward a betelse we know to be a sin. The disposition ter life. A man who says by actions, if not to hide our infirmity is in itself a sort of words, We are all in for number one, and falsehood. We are anxious that the world every man must look out for himself," can may think us what we are not. Adam and hardly have a shade of truth about him, for Eve stood in the garden honest and pure be- he does not propose to be fair or just in the fore God. It was only after they had sinned outset; and one of the first elements of truth that they had any anxiety to hide in the is fairness. bushes, or to cover themselves with tig leaves. Dear reader, is there any thing in your life that you are anxious to cover up, or that you fear to have the clear daylight of truth shine on?

Jesus came into the world to bear witness to the truth. All who love simplicity and truth must love the gentle spirit with which he taught, and must love him. Any one who loves truth, and hungers and thirsts after righteousness and purity, must love to study the life and character of Jesus. Just after our text we read," Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." I believe there are no exceptions to this. Most of you know how imperfect is humanity; you know how

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Now, it was among a people like this, or largely of this element, that Jesus came to establish his kingdom. "Blessed are the meek," he said, "for they shall inherit the earth." The other class can't well inherit the earth, for their selfishness would destroy it, and themselves along with it. Shortly before our Savior's death on the cross, he was praying for his disciples. Poor weak fellows like ourselves at this minute, they little knew what was before them. He told Peter that Satan desired to sift him like wheat; but notwithstanding this. Peter, in his innocence and self-confidence, calculated that he alone was a match for Satan. How did it turn out? Well, in this prayer for

him of his warmest friendship, stating that he ap preciated his call, as he knew how much trade followed in his footsteps, assuring him that any thing he might want could be had at cost price in New York city. Mr. Smith bought a piece of cotton, pay

ing 15 cents; was told it cost the firm 16 cents. I examined the cost-mark and saw it was only 11 cents; and after Mr. Smith's departure I said, "George do you make a practice of selling many goods below cost?" He replied, "Examine the mark, and you will be satisfied with the sale." I said, “I have done so, and thought you were mistaken; surely you would not tell a falsehood to sell goods?" He answered," There is no other way to sell them," and that in figuring costs he only added his own time at the rate of five or ten dollars per second, or whatblue. I was now past bound to a most affable liar, in whom I could place no dependence. I was surely in trouble.

ever was necessary to make up the deficit. I felt

sad one, my friends, and I know, by my own experience, that it brings darkness, distrust, and trouble, if very long indulged in. Don't even tell your wife of people's faults; you will make her think ill of those she might otherwise think well of; and you will, besides, encourage in your own heart a way of thinking all the world is bad, while you alone are good; and this is a most mischievous trick Satan has, when he can get anybody foolish enough to listen to such tempt

ations.

Jesus was always the same.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.-HEB. 13: 8.

It was exactly this kind of fair, honest truth, that he came to bear witness of.

In closing this talk to you, I wish to give here a few words from our pastor, read to us at our last teacher's meeting. It sums up, in a few words, the results accomplished, by the crowning act of our Savior's life here on earth:

What did the atonement of Christ accomplish? This question is often asked. Any answer other than that which comes from Scripture is of little

value. There are in reason, hints of the need of an atonement; but the fact is set forth in the Bible only. We must, therefore, gather the value of this

great fact from the Bible: What does Christ's dy

ing for sinners accomplish?

1. It gained their attention.-JOHN 12:32.

2. It took away the fear of death from those repenting -HE3. Brought eternal life more clearly before men -II. TIM, 1:10. 4. Feed from sin,-1. JOHN 1:7.

5. Saved from hell -REV. 1:18,

6. Made plain the way to heaven. -JOHN 11:25, 26.

We have no record that he at any time talked to any of his disciples about some of the others who might be absent, in a way he would not talk right to the absent one. If BREWS 2:15. he had any complaints to make, these complaints were always made in a spirit of loving kindness, directly to the erring one. He never talked to any one about the shameful way in which some other person was going on. He wasn't kind and sympathe ic one day, and then proud and overbearing at some other time. The first two verses of one of my favorite hymns are as follows:

Ever patient, gentle, meek,
Holy Savior, was thy mind;
Vainly in myself I seek

Likeness to my Lord to find;
Yet, that mind which was in thee,
May be, must be formed in thee.
Days of toil 'mid throngs of men,
Vexed not, ruffled not thy soul;
Still collected, calm, serene,

Thou each feeling couldst control:
Lord, that mind which was in thee,
May be, must be formed in me.

The hardest battles I have to fight now are just in this line. It is only by hard striving that I can avoid saying any thing of the absent, which I would not say if they were present. Again and again I have resolved I would not tell even my wife of how I have been tried by people during the day. I know it is wrong to talk of people's faults, because it always impairs my nearness to God when I allow myself to do so. It also tends to make her think the world is all bad, and that I alone am good, which is by no means the truth. Whenever I keep down this spirit, and tell her of the good I have found in people during the day, I always feel a great deal happier.

BITTER HONEY, AND WHERE IT
COMES FROM.

ALSO SOMETHING ABOUT HONEY-DEW.

BOUT 30 years ago this country was overrun with a weed commonly called "bitter-weed," and sometimes "wild chamomile." It resembles the chamomile, but the flower is of a deep yellow color, and the stalk is quite hard, and it grows about 18 inches high. In the spring of the year it comes up with the grass, and the cows eat it (I think unintentionally), and yield bitter milk. It blooms from May till frost. But so long as there are better flowers, or honey-dew, the bees do not gather honey from it. In dry weather it yields but very little honey; but every fall our honey is made bitter by it.

This year there was a honey famine from June 1st to the middle of July, from which I lost several May swarms. About the middle of July, abundant rains began to fall, and the bitter-weed began 10 flower profusely. Everywhere yellow blooms greeted the eye, and from 10 o'clock A.M. till near dark every evening, the bees swarmed upon the bitter-weed. The arly morning hours they spent on the diminutive morning-glory and the poor land-weed, from which they gathered a little good honey. At first the honey was very abundant, but so thin that it Two things tempt me to find fa.lt with would pour out of the combs when tilted, like water. folks, and enlarge their faults. First, I do The bees, for the purpose of evaporating it (as I benot love the world as Jesus loved all man-lieve), kept up a continued roar in the hives night kind; and I do love myself as Jesus did not love himself. Self-love, instead of love to my neighbors, is the trouble. Whenever folks begin to talk about some of my especial friends, I can take the part of the absent one with a good grace, I tell you; now, why do I not have love enough, and charity enough, for the whole human family, to do the same when any one of them is assailed? Do you not think, friends, that such a life would be helping toward "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven"? It was the same kingdom that Jesus meant, remember, when he said,

To this cause was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

and day. In the latter part of August the bees capped their honey, after which the roaring, for the most part, ceased.

About this time I extracted five gallons of the

honey. It is as yellow as gold, and exceedingly bitter. It can not be eaten. Is there any way of purifying it? The color and taste are evidently from the pollen of the bitter-weed. Is it possible to filter it so as to purify it? In my past experience I have had bitter honey from the chiukapin bloom, but nothing to equal the bitterness of the bitter-weed.

this bitter honey. but now they have an abundant supply, and ought to come out strong next spring. I had three large swarms about the 1st of September, two of which I hived. I think they will store up honey enough to winter on. Had my bees been

Last winter my bees wintered on a small stock of

strong last spring I could have extracted much fine honey, for the flowers were very abundant, and rich with honey. We had swarms here as early as the 14th of March. These were the Italians. I never knew the black bees to swarm here sooner than the 30th of March.

HONEY-DEW, NOT FROM THE APHIS.

We have had no honey-dew here this year. Is there ever any of it on trees that bloom freely? I have noticed, that when my peach-blooms are killed by frost, the tree yields honey-dew, which is found at the foot of the leaf-stem, and no aphis about. The best years for honey-dew is when the early verdure is killed by frost. Both last year and the year before, the white-oak blooms were killed, and both years honey-dew was found upon them. It was very white, and formed sugar. Last year it sugared on the leaves, and the bees were unable to gather much of it. The fronts of the hives were white with it. Minden, La., Oct. 6, 1882. T. M. FORT.

As we go to press this 29th day of November, we have 5445 subscribers. The kind belp you have given me has made my task a pleasant one during the past year, and it has also enabled me to give you a call during the greater part of the year, a little oftener than we either of us expected, when we started in a year ago. Once more, I thank you.

WE can sell honey-labels for 25c per hundred, if you take such as we keep constantly in stock; but of course these can not have your name and address on them. In fact, we can not furnish any kind of a label with your name and address on, even if you wanted only a dozen, because it would not pay for setting up the job, and getting ready to print. I say this, because so many ask for 25c worth of labels, printed to order.

WE are surely going to run short of beeswax before another twelve months pases over our heads,

Thanks for facts given, friend F. Who and I fear all there is in the world will not meet the knows but that this bitter honey may not demand of the next year. A letter came to-day, askhave medical properties, say equal to qui- ing me what I would furnish a ton for, and I replied nine? Honey is often prescribed as a vehicle 30 cts. If this man takes me up I do not know for medicine, and here we have it already where I can get it back again, even if I should offer commingled by nature. I presume, friend 35 cts. It may be there are those who are holding F., you could put it up in nicely labeled bot-on for better prices; but the general report is, that tles a deal cheaper than doctors charge for there is none, for it has been all bought up. It will their bitter stuff.-I believe you have struck certainly do no harm for us to commence saving eva great truth in your conjecture about hon-ery particle of it. ey-dew after an untimely frost has killed the verdure. While I was reading your letter, something seemed to be glimmering in my mind in regard to the relation between frost and sugar; but it was some time before it bubbled up to the surface, that potatoes are made sweet by being frozen. The freezing converts the starch into grape sugar, and, presto! we have honey oozing out of wheat stubble, peach - tree leaves, and, possibly, corn-stalks. Don't I come pretty near being a scientist?

We have sold an immense quantity of the perforated zinc (for excluding queens and drones, and still allowing the workers to pass) during the past year, and friend Jones informs us it is just the thing for preventing the queen from going into the upper story, or to prevent the bees from building the space between the upper and lower stories all solid with honey. We are now fully supplied, and can furnish any-sized sheets at 15c. per square foot, or only 12c., if taken in the sheets, just as we get it,

3x8 feet.

A YEAR ago I promised to come again to the Mich

GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. igan Bee-Keepers' Association, and at present writ

A. I. ROOT,

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER,
MEDINA, O.

ing I expect to be on hand. The secretary sends us a printed postal that reads as follows:

MICHIGAN BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. The 17th annual convention of the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in Kalamazoo, Dec. 6 and 7, 1882. All interested are cordially in ited to participat in the discussions, which will emThomas G. Newman, A. I. Root, D. A. Jones, Prof. brace the live issues of the Aiculture of to-day. A. J. Cook, and many other distinguished apiculturists, are expected to be present. Low rates of board MEDINA, DEC. 1, 1882. at hotels have been secured for those arteding.

TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST-PAID.
FOR CLUBBING RATES. SEE FIRST PAGE
OF READING MATTER.

Thy word is truth.-JOHN 17: 17.

We are now fully supplied with honey, and could not at present pay more than 9c. for the best, clover and basswood, delivered here.

In our Nov. No. I said the price of waxed strings for sealing the Jones honey-pails was 60c. per 100. It should have read thirty cents only.

A NEW USE FOR THE 50 CENT SMOKER. It is capital to use in the printing-office to blow dust out of the type-cases. Every printer should have one. A regular bellows costs from $1.25 to $1.50. We will furnish the smoker bellows alone, without the tin part, for 25 cents.

T. F. BINGHAM, Sec'y, Abronia, Mich.

SOME of you will remember a man who wanted our

bee folks to subscribe a certain sum each toward getting stingless bees from South America. I believe few, if any, subscribed. Perhaps the prompt warning the journals gave was the reason they did not. Well, every little while somebody suggests doing something of this kind, if a certain number will give, say $100 each. Now, while I would not question for a moment the sincerity of those who start such projects, I would question the wisdom of such proceedings. If you feel like developing some new thing, do it with your own money, and trust to those who are benefited, to do the fair thing by you. If you feel you can not trust humanity, don't go in. to it.

Some of the friends may have noticed that we have advertised a gate tinned outside and in. We did this on the strength of a promise from the manufacturer; but finding they meant galvanized when they said tinned, we are obliged to fall back on the old kind of japanned gates. We can furnish the largest size, that we call "whoppers," neatly japan

ned, for 35c. each; or in lots of ten, for $3.00. If wanted by mail, 35c. each extra. These are the same we used to sell for 75c. each. We got this great re

duction by purchasing several gross at one time. The inside diameter of the bore is 11⁄2 inches. We can tin them, for soldering into a can, for 10c. each extra.

particularly. The name of your county is most im- COMB FOUNDATION MILLS.

I have several times explained to the friends, that galvanized iron, though it keeps bright and clean, apparently, is dangerous and poisonous for articles A GOOD containing food. It keeps clean, very much as a

piece of ice keeps clean; the surface is all the time 100 BUCKTHORN TREES by mail, postpaid,

of coating cast-iron with tin in the same way. They PURE ITALIAN BEES,