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out in tlio room, and not at the top 

 of the chimney, for not only does the 

 fire consume the oxygen, hut it loads 

 the air with material that is heavier 

 than the ordinary atmosphere. I am 

 too busy to write much, as I have 400 

 colonies worlcing on buckwheat." 



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DEPIvORABIvE ECONOMY. 



On the first day of my trip to Cali- 

 fornia. 1 read in a newspaper an ac- 

 count of a man who denied himself 

 many things that he might amass 

 wealth. He would wear only the 

 poorest and cheapest clothing. He 

 denied himself love, "put his heart 

 in cold storage," as the newspaper 

 man wrote it. because a wife and chil- 

 ren would delay his becoming rich. 

 Rest and I'ecreation were not his un- 

 til he could count his wealth by many 

 thousands. Then he bought fine 

 clothes, "but they didn't fit upon a 

 body bent and crippled with rheuma- 

 tism." He married a wife, only to be 

 haunted by the fear that she cared 

 more for his money than for him. Both 

 taste and digestion were lacking for 

 enjoying the dainty dishes of food 

 with which he would have gladly re- 

 galed his palate in his youth. In short, 

 he denied himself many things that 

 he wanted and could have enjoyed in 

 his youth and early manhood, that he 

 might save money for his old age, 

 when the capacity for enjoyment had 

 well nigh faded. 



There may be a lesson in this for 

 some of us. 



There are ali. grades of bee- 

 keepers. 



AVhat a difference there is in bee- 

 keepers I Some are so slipshod and 

 slovenly, with hives sitting in a row 

 close together on a plank — and some 

 of them box hives at that. How dis- 



couraging It is for an inspector of 

 apiaries to get into such an apiary as 

 that when looking for foul brood. 

 Then there are bee-keepers of a little 

 higher grade. They have movable 

 comb hives, or hives that are intended 

 to be such, but no foundation starters 

 have been used, and many of the 

 combs might as well be in real box- 

 hives. Then there Is another grade 

 still higher, but it is not the highest. 

 It is the man who aspires to be a pret- 

 ty good bee-keeper, but he has too 

 many other irons in the fire, and he 

 neglects things. The frames are all 

 stuck fast, and stuck together with 

 brace-combs, and it is a task to get 

 out a comb. Then there is the man 

 who is a really first-class bee-keeper. 

 His hives are all made exactly alike. 

 He uses foundation; he keeps the 

 brace combs scraped from the top- 

 bars; his hives are level; the combs 

 can be removed with the fingers with 

 no prying from any knife or lever. 

 Everything is orderly in his honey 

 house. He has a place for everything 

 and everything is in it. The covers 

 are always put on square and true. 

 Reader, in which class do you belong? 



A CHANGE OF VIEWS. 



When in Chicago, and I have the 

 time, I like to call upon my friend, 

 F. Dundas Todd, editor of the Photo 

 Beacon. He is a Scotchman, and al- 

 ways has a good story to tell. While 

 on my way to the Los Angeles Con- 

 vention, I followed my usual practice, 

 and the story this time was as fol- 

 lows: When attending, at Saginaw. 

 Michigan, the Convention of photog- 

 raphers of Michigan and Ohio, Mr. 

 Todd was called upon to criticise the 

 pictures on exhibition. In accepting 

 the task, Mr. Todd announced that he 

 reserved the right to change his opin- 

 ion every three minutes if he saw fit 



