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Show Must Work or be Worthless. "If I were thou, O working bee, And all that honey gold I see Could delve from roses easily, I would not hive it at man's door, As thou that heirdom of my store, Should make him rich and leave me poor." The fact that the bee does work at man's door is because the insect has learned, in temperate zones, that by staying around man's door it gets a better house than it can safely pick up In the woods, and that it does not have to travel so far for the raw material which its secret miracle converts con-verts into honey. One patch of alfalfa is worth more to a bee than a whole wilderness. The domesticated bee is an evidence that the little creature in its struggle for food has learned in a measure, at least, to recognize In man a great superior being, who builds for it a house and for its' especial benefit plants and rears the material that, it wants to work upon. ' And the man who is in full harmony with the insect is never harmed by it. We have all seen one boy in a family that could go among the bees, fix their homes and cut off the limb on which they had swarmed, carry it and put a house over it and never once be Btuhg, yhile all the rest of the fam- 'H ily had to fight shy of .them. H This is due to some instinct, doubtless the same that pauses the house dog, when half a dozen guests arrive, to go directly to one of the party, show him that he is glad to meet him, but at the same time hold himself aloof, from the jH other five. iH The poet who wrote the above was neither a generous man nor a close observer, for he took the same ground that the hornet has taken .B through all time, with the result that it has no house except a patched up affair on tho limb of lH a tree, and it is an Ishmaelito among insects; every man's hand is against it, and its sting is . against every man. jH Again, from the bee we can learn why most 'H of the races of men in the tropics are worthless. When the first pair were turned out of the gar-den, gar-den, they wero given the whole earth. Everything 'H was promised them, but thero was one condition imposed; that was they must work. It was not .H put upon them as a penalty, but to bring out all that was best in them, so when man gets in a climate where ho does not have to work for .H clothes to keep him warm, ho ignores one gar- lM ment after another, his pride decreases in the same proportion, and when there are fruits, nuts, and wild grain growing spontaneously around him, flH with game and birds and fish that he can easily secure, he gradually sinks until ho becomes a loafer and utterly worthless. It is the same way with the bee. So soon as it gets to understand that it need fear no winter, it, too, becomes a loafer, takes' to the woods, does no work except to go out in the morning and breakfast off a flower, then lolls on a leaf all day 'fl and becomes as trifling as are the men and wo-men wo-men who inhabit the same region. The chances 'M are, too, that the bee does not live out half its ' 'M days, for it grows careless and sleeps while the , spider spins its web around it. Tho lesson of it all is that man and animals 'iH need the discipline of labor to bring out whatever 'M good lies dormant in them, else they become in-dolent in-dolent and cruel. The tropical man when aroused has all tho instincts of the tiger, which sleeps all day and goes out at night with no thought save lk that of the assassin. Tho man who preaches that when the world's wealth is equally divided among 'H tho world's people all men will have an easy time, " 'M flies straight In tho face of tho edict that was put upon man from tho first that if he is to have ' anything worth having ho must work for it. |