Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-18
kAMpEskA AND HIGHLAND.
This and That.

this. This preacher or Sunday schoo
teacher may have thought, or heard
OF, or read, or been taught this ides
or fact or conception of miracles az
concerns the Bible and Christianity
at least such outspoken or public
miracles as was known in the time Of
the prophets, Christ and the apostles
That the possibility of miracles to
day as far as the power of Jehovah is
concerned or the obedience Of nature
and her forces is the same as 2,00C
years ago we doubt not, but we car
assume that it would require today a
greater degree of faith on mans part
to perorm a public miracle because
we are unused to such a thing now,
However, it is no doubt true that
real miracles do occur in these years,
and IL one reads the literature Of the
Christian Science church he is led to
the belief 1--WE write here with all
true respect) that numerous instances
of miracles, or practically 30, occur
in our midst today.
But here is the thought concerning
the miracles OF Christ and the apos-
ties. The thought was given to us
by a man. a big hearted, big Drained,
we'll trained preacher that dropped
into a certain church and was asked
to preach. He did. After the SER
vice he tackled, by request, a big
class OF boys. We were one Of the
boys. He had no trouble with us
boys, for he was oon n of us, only
q big boy himself. (Ah! that we had
more OF those sort of big boy preach
ers and men!) The story was of
miracles and among other things he
told this. He was a young man in
the theological seminary taking his
anal examination before graduation.
1t was an important examination; he
desired every question to be well and
properly answered. Directly here
came the question, "What was the
Office work of the miracle?" He said
he was absolutely stalled right there
and then. He pondered and pondered
until like a flash came this thought
offthe office work of the miracle that
an old gentleman, his Sunday school
teacher when he was a small boy,
gave his class and to enable his boys
to grasp the idea he compared the
miracle to the fence or framework
that one puts around a small tree
or shrub to protect it until 1t becomes
established and able to stand alone,
to care for itself. And SO he answer
ed the difficult question with that
idea which he had remembered all
these a and he scored 80 per
cent on the question.
The boy, you see, had grasped the
thought. He had remembered 1t all
these years (what a wonderful mem
DRY a boy has) and there came the
time when it helped him out a lot.
And with a boys memory, mister,
we have remembered 1t and last
night while thoughts miscellaneous
and memory's pictures, too, were
passing through mind this thing
canlasaahkssng and after this fashion
~enpnssi 1T to yoay-sfr. thinking it may
~perchance give you a new thought of
the Bibles miracles, those of Christ's
time, and that it may, happily, some
day, help you.
Not long ago the purity of certain
honey sold in the vicinity came up for
q little discussion as we'll as whether
pure strained honey would turn to
sugar.
The dissertation was made by a young
man who seemed to feel that he knew
that good honey even though trained.
that lis, separated from the comb
cells, would not g%ranulate a turn to
sugar" as we say. The same gentle
man also stated that an adult work
er could be made into a e by
proper feeding.
These statements, especially that
concerning the queen bee, impressed
us so that WI took it upon ourselves
TO write letters to a practical bee
man we know. to the state entomol-
'ogist at Brookings, to the bureau OF
entomology OF the U. s. department
Sof agriculture, asking each OF them
concerning these two subject.
The reply from the apiculturist OF.
the y. S. bureau stated in part: saThe
testing OF honey for purity Is a lob
for chemist. You could submit q
sample to your state food chemist. or
the bureau of food chemistry Of this
department.
Moneys vary considerably In the
rapiditv of gra~nnlation. Some gran
ulate quickly. while others rarely
grannlate. Rapid changes of temper
at,ire probably hasten grannlation
and Il honey is kept In a warm place
this process is retarded.
s'Queen bees cannot he produced
from adult workers by feeding, but
are produced from larvae identical
with worker larvae by changes in
The letter from he state entomol.
ogist % this state located at Brook
inHs gave us this information: .dPrac-I
tfealiy all honey viii granulate or
sugar, some honeys doing this IN d
shorter time than othersH honey