American bee journal . e merit, besides ten illustrated articles,, essays, historical sketches, and con-siderable mLseellaneous matter. It is a largequarto, and each issue contains :18 beautifullyprinted pages. It is published monthly byThomas G. Newman & Son, 923 and !)25 WestMiuiison .Street, Chicago, 111., at a year. For clubbing rates with theBEE Journaj-see page 231 of this issue. 212 TH® mimmmivmm mmm jOIprksiu. REV. STEPHEN ROESE. On this page we reproduce an engravingshowing the features and appearance of Roese, of Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, whois one o£ the many success
American bee journal . e merit, besides ten illustrated articles,, essays, historical sketches, and con-siderable mLseellaneous matter. It is a largequarto, and each issue contains :18 beautifullyprinted pages. It is published monthly byThomas G. Newman & Son, 923 and !)25 WestMiuiison .Street, Chicago, 111., at a year. For clubbing rates with theBEE Journaj-see page 231 of this issue. 212 TH® mimmmivmm mmm jOIprksiu. REV. STEPHEN ROESE. On this page we reproduce an engravingshowing the features and appearance of Roese, of Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, whois one o£ the many successful beekeepers ofthat progressive State. At our request has written out a short autobiographyfor the American Bee Journal, and wepresent it to our readers. He was left anorphan when only 13 years old, but hasfought the battle of life, and is now 60years of age, having spent much of his lifein missionary work among his Germancountrymen in England and America, en-deavoring to do them good, and help them to. REV. STEPHEN BOESE. a better life. But we will let him tell hisstory in his own language. He says : I was born on July 3,1829, in the town ofWolira, Electoral Hesse-Cassel. My parentswere at one time well-to-do farmers ; myfather having served in the great war againstNapoleon Bonaparte, from 1806 to 1815, inbotn the decisive battles of Leibzig andWaterloo. He was given to strong drink,which brouaht the family to want and lossof home. My good mother died when I was10 years of age, aud my father was acciden-tally killed (while intoxicated) by a wagonbeing upset in a dug-out road, leaving me anorphan at the age of 13. While standing atmy fathers grave, and seeing my lastearthly hope lowered into its bosom, I gavemyself into the keeping of Him, who haspromised to be a father to the fatherless,and vowed sacredly to God, by His help,that as whisky had killed my father, itshould never kill me. This promise laid thefoundation for my life of total abstinence. At the age of 2
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