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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Every little while some man says to me; 

 "Mr. Hutchinson, I haven't seen you for 

 a dozen years, when I met you at the 

 State fair, and I can't see as you look a 

 day older than you did then." I don't 

 think these men are trying to flatter me; 

 they speak in a surprised way, just as 

 though they meant it, and I think they 

 do. I never felt better, stronger or more 

 full of vigor than at present, and I don't 

 expect to look so very much older in lo 

 or 15 years more. I expect "to realize on 

 my early investment of good sense in 

 spending the years of young manhood in 

 a right way." I have always lived a tem- 

 perate, regular life, free from every form 

 of dissipation, and kept my mind in a 

 quiet, cheerful, hopeful state. Nothing 

 can pay a man better, at any time of life) 

 than taking good care of himself. A bi- 

 cycle, a horse, a threshing machine, a 

 steam engine, a man, how long do they 

 last, if neglected or misused. Take good 

 care of them. 



Just a word more: Some may think I 

 have inherited my health and strength. 

 Not so; the opposite is true As a child 

 I was far from strong. The first 20 years 

 of my life were almost a struggle for 

 health. Only by taking the best of care 

 of myself could I keep well; and I have 

 sometimes thought the rigid discipline 

 through which I passed, so thoroughly 

 drilled me in correct methods of living 

 that they have become fixed habits — 

 greatly to my benefit. 



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BEE-KEEPERS A HIGH GRADE CLASS OF 

 PEOPI.E. 



As a rule, all bee-keepers, all those 

 worthy of the name, are an intelligent, 

 law-abiding class, not given to the vices. 

 There must be something about bee-keep- 

 ing that appeals to a man's moral nature, 

 and thus brings out and develops his bet- 

 ter qualities, or else there is something 

 about it that attracts men possessed of 

 those higher natures — perhaps it is both. 



Let me give one illustration: Years 

 ago, when H. D. Cutting and myself went 



to Detroit to make arrangements for hold- 

 ing the National convention, we had 

 some difficulty in finding a hall without 

 paying what seemed to us almost pro- 

 hibitive prices; At last we found a hall 

 on Michigan avenue, up in the third 

 story, the price of which seemed within 

 our means — in fact, considering what was 

 asked for other halls, we were not a little 

 at a loss to know why the price was so 

 low, but we asked no questions. After 

 the convention was over and I went to 

 settle the bill for the hall, the size of the 

 price was no longer an enigma. The own- 

 er kept a saloon in the lower story under 

 the hall, and, as I paid him, he remarked: 

 "You bee-keepers are a queer set. Only 

 one man has been in here and all he 

 bought was a glass of beer. If I had 

 known what kind of a crowd you were, 

 you never would have got that hall for 

 that money." Across the street from the 

 hall, at the Antisdel house, were the head- 

 quarters for the bee-keepers. Probably 

 100 of them stopped there. In one cor- 

 ner of the office was a cigar stand, and its 

 owner was heard to complain that "this 

 was a queer crowd. He had sold them 

 only three cigars and they were all to one 

 man." 



Whiskey, tobacco and profanity, do 

 not, as a rule, pass the lips of bee-keep- 

 ers. They are a clean lot of men, and I 

 am proud of those for whose good I labor. 



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HIRED HELP IN THE APIARY. 



By correspondence, conversation and 

 observation I know that many bee-keepers 

 are "keeping more bees." Right on the 

 heels of thislnove will follow the question 

 of hired help. While on the trip to Cali- 

 fornia, Mr. H. H. Hyde, a bright young 

 man from Texas, sat down beside me and 

 said: "Mr. Hutchinson, you have been 

 advi-sing us to keep more bees, and that 

 advice is all right, but how are we going 

 to get the work done? Shall we hire it 

 done or shall it be done on shares?" I 

 thought I should hire it done — I didn't 

 want any partnership. Just then Mr. 



