. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT $ PER 35tli Year. CHICAGO, ILL., NOV. 14, 1895. No. 46. Cot;)tnbuted /Vrticles^ Oil Important Apiarian Subjects, Remiuisceuces of Rev. L. L. Laugstroth. BY REV. TV. F. M'CAULEY. (Continued from page 710.) Mr. Langstroth was a graduate of Yale College, and at the time of his death only eight or ten older alumni were liv- ing. He was also a patriarch in the Dayton Presbytery, of which he was a member many years. His home at Oxford, as well as that in Dayton, was within the bounds of the Presby- tery named. Ho was seco
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT $ PER 35tli Year. CHICAGO, ILL., NOV. 14, 1895. No. 46. Cot;)tnbuted /Vrticles^ Oil Important Apiarian Subjects, Remiuisceuces of Rev. L. L. Laugstroth. BY REV. TV. F. M'CAULEY. (Continued from page 710.) Mr. Langstroth was a graduate of Yale College, and at the time of his death only eight or ten older alumni were liv- ing. He was also a patriarch in the Dayton Presbytery, of which he was a member many years. His home at Oxford, as well as that in Dayton, was within the bounds of the Presby- tery named. Ho was second on the roll, which was prepared according to the dates of the ordination of the members. He never attended but one or two meetings of the Presbytery, to my knowledge, in the last eight years of his life, on account of bodily infirmity or distance; but I remember that on one occasion when he did attend, he came to the front at a point in the session, in a manner both striking and pleasant. I have been the bearer of his regrets to the Presbytery for his inability to be present. Evidently he never lost interest in the church of his choice, or in the affairs of the denomination at large. When a church difficulty was under consideration in a committee room, he expressed a desire to meet with those who were dis- cussing the matter, saying that he knew of an incident, the relation of which had settled two church quarrels, and he thought it might be effective in the case in hand. The inci- dent was simple enough, but contained a wealth of philosoph- ical suggestion : A farmer's sons had gone West to look up a home, and having founds desirable location, wrote back, ex- tolling the merits of the place, but added: "And 'sassafig' grows here, too !" Said the father, indignantly, on receiving the epistle, "I have been all my life contending with ' sassa- fig,'and I am not going West to fight any more 'sassafig!'" Mr. Langstroth said that we could not get away from &qu
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