. Gleanings in bee culture. pents, the cabbage worm, the Coloi-ado bee-tle, and all that class of depredators, in self-defense;but we should not wantonly take the life of anycreature, nor cause unnecessary pain. We have di-vine authority to kill animals as innocent as thelamb, for food; but we should kill them outright,not torture them to death. When I see an able-bodied man armed with a double-barreled gun goout into the fields to make war upon the beautifulbirds and other small game, I think he is commit-ting a grievous sin, and letting himself down evento a level with the man who finds enjo
. Gleanings in bee culture. pents, the cabbage worm, the Coloi-ado bee-tle, and all that class of depredators, in self-defense;but we should not wantonly take the life of anycreature, nor cause unnecessary pain. We have di-vine authority to kill animals as innocent as thelamb, for food; but we should kill them outright,not torture them to death. When I see an able-bodied man armed with a double-barreled gun goout into the fields to make war upon the beautifulbirds and other small game, I think he is commit-ting a grievous sin, and letting himself down evento a level with the man who finds enjoyment in thecruel sport called trap shooting. 1 would havethe motto, Br, kirnl to the lower animaJs, framedand hung upon the wall in every dwelling andschoolroom, thus keei)ing it before the minds of thechildren. Hoping that the rising generation may be morehumane than the one whose vacated places they aresoon to fill, I remain— Edwin Stanley, age , N. Oct. 23, l.«84. 780 GLEANINGS IN UEE CULTURE. Nov, :-^-. in stocklslxi dittei-ent books, as lollovvs; viz.:Sheer Oft, The Giant - Killer, The RobyFamily, RescuedJrom Egypt, and Ten Nights ina Bar-Room. A chiels aniang ye takin notes;An faith, hell prent it. T SUPPOSE, little friends, you would ex-M pect that Iluber would be a temperanceM boy, without doubt. Well, I think he^ will be; but Uncle Hen (that is Neigh-bor IL) jokes about the wonderful pro-ficiency he shows in getting corks out ofbottles and jugs. He will take his thumb-nails and take the cork out when almostanybody else would give it up. A few daysago he got at oiu- jug of boiled cider, pickedthe cork out, and as he had been quite stillfor some time, his mother thought best tohunt him up. She found him dipping aclothespin into the mouth of the jug, andthen let ting the cider drop off into his time she wanted the clothespins shethought someliow they seemed not to holdout, and she went to the boiled-cider jug,and upon investigation found 21 cl
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