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Show Intelligent and thoughtful parents and teachers can do very much to form and stimulate the growth of purpose in the minds and hearts of the children who look to them for guidance. The larvae of the worker and of the queen-bee are identical in kind. The food given makes all the difference. When the queen bee dies the larvae of a worker is selected and so fed and housed that it develops into a queen-bee. Sad to say no feeding of a drone will make anything but a drone, and when frosts come he is ignominiously destroyed. It is not wise to spend moral force in making mere resolutions. It is wise, however, when the ship is drifting or going out of its course to put strong hands to the rudder bands, and with the eyes on the compass to hold the ship to a certain course and steer for a certain port. <br><br> N.Y. Tribune. <br><br> THOUGHTLESS MISCHIEF - The following incident should warn boys and girls that their thoughtless fun may do much injury: a female elephant at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens died last Thursday from an illness which set in the day after the Fourth and whose cause was a mystery to the keepers. A post mortem examination showed, however, that the animal had taken into her stomach a large quantity of pebble-stones, sticks, wads of paper, and peanut bags inclosing [enclosing] direct, which indigestible substances undoubtedly caused her death. It is considered certain, too, that mischievous children had taken advantage of the poor creature's fondness for candy, cake, etc., to toss these articles down her throat on the Fourth. |