Gleanings in bee culture . littleirrelevant to our subscribers? When Mrs. Root andI formed a partnership we had planned not to havea very large family, if any at all; but man pro-poses and God disposes; and I feel like adding, Blessed be the name of the Ijord. Suppose Godhad not overruled our poor weak judgment andoverruled our plans. I shall have to confess that, asthe little prattlers came trooping along, we sometimesthought God was imposing a pretty heavj burden;but where would this beautiful home be, with its lov-ing children and grandchildren, had we been permit-ted to have our own way? N
Gleanings in bee culture . littleirrelevant to our subscribers? When Mrs. Root andI formed a partnership we had planned not to havea very large family, if any at all; but man pro-poses and God disposes; and I feel like adding, Blessed be the name of the Ijord. Suppose Godhad not overruled our poor weak judgment andoverruled our plans. I shall have to confess that, asthe little prattlers came trooping along, we sometimesthought God was imposing a pretty heavj burden;but where would this beautiful home be, with its lov-ing children and grandchildren, had we been permit-ted to have our own way? Now let me go a little further. There are severalof you, both men and women, whose eyes rest onthese pages, who are not married, although of mar-riageable age. Perhaps you are preparing to livesingle. My friends, where would I have been at thismoment had I to selfish plans and selfish im-pulses ? Does not God know best ? and has he notwith wonderful wisdom fashioned humanity with in-finite love and care after all?. Our bungalow cottage that Mrs. Root and I found finished when we chfd Medina lioine last April. GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE the back side. Please notice the first flooris but little above the level of the lawn infront, so there is not much climbing up anddown to get in. Well, on the back side Jiebasement is also on a level with the garden,for the house is on a little side hill. Thebasement floor is really above the level ofthe ground outside, so that if the watershould ever get into the cellar it will runout of the outside door. But that is notlikely. The cistern is under the pantry, andis partly under ground and joartly in thebasement. When we have plenty of rain itcan be filled up nearly to the main cistern is planned so that, by unscrew-ing a four-inch iron pipe, every drop willrun out by gravity; and when it overflowsthe overflow all comes from the bottom, tak-ing up sediment or whatever may havecollected from the rains. Without our know-ing any t
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