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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



April 25, 1900. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



George W. York & Co. 



144 & 146 Erie St.. Chicago, III. 



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 tion. 



Reformed Spelling.— The American Bee Journal 

 adopts the Orthography of the following Rule, 

 recommended by the joint action of the Amer- 

 ican Philological Association and the Philo- 

 logical Society of England: —Change *'d" or 

 *'ed" final to **t*' when so pronounced, except 

 when the "e" affects a preceding sound. Also 

 some other changes are used. 



National Bee Keepers' Association 



OBJECTS: 

 To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honej-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitcomb, Thos. G. Newman, 



W. Z. Hutchinson, G. M. Doolittle, 

 A. I. Root, W. F. Marks, 



E. T. Abbott, J. M. Hambaugh, 



P. H. Elwooi), C. p. Dadant, 



E. R. Root, Dk. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. Aikin, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohio. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



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i Weekly Budget. I 



T. F. Bingham, of Clare Co., Mich., wrote 

 us April 18th that the bees in his region had 

 wintered fairlj' well, his own haying been in 

 the cellar just five months. 



Dr. C. C. Miller gave us a short call on 

 Saturday, April 14th. He is looking and feel- 

 ing much better than for some time past. He 

 said, " I feel 15 years younger than I did three 

 mouths ago." The good Doctor's many 

 friends will join in the hope that he may con- 

 tinue to improve, and be spared many years 

 to help make 'easier the paths of (luestioning 

 bee-keepers, and if need be say, " I don't 

 know." 



Dr. a. B. Mason, writing us April 12th, 

 had this to say about himself and his bees : 



Friend York; — It is tour weeks this morn- 

 ing since I had a fall and broke two of my 

 ribs just below the left shoulder-blade ; I also 

 bruised my hip, and am still wearing " cor- 

 sets." They do not allow me to lift as much 

 as a pail of water yet, but I tell you I have a 

 '■ bully " time doing nothing. I will be ready 

 for business again in a few days. 



( iwr liees are still in the cellar, and in splen- 

 did condition. It has been too cold to put 

 them out, but early this morning, with the 

 mercury at 33 degrees, it lookt as if they 

 might be put out to-day, but now at " o'clock 

 a m. it is clouding up, and prospects are for a 

 cool day. Yours very truly, 



A. B. Mason. 



We regret very much to learn of the Doc- 

 tor's fall, but are not surprised that it should 

 have resulted in Ijroken bones, as he is " no 

 small affair." When a "boy" of his size 

 begins to drop, something has to give way 

 when he strikes bottom. But all will hope for 

 his speedy and complete recovery. 



Fined for Cruelty to a Bot is the 

 heading of an item dated at Washington, 

 April 13tli, and found in the Chicago Record- 

 Herald, which reads as follows: 



Prof. Frank Benton, of the Agricultural 

 Department, was fined }ilO by Police Judge 

 Scott yesterday for his inhuman treatment of 

 Frederick Hahne, an 8-year-oId. 



For some time Prof. Benton, who is in 

 charge of the ^apiary at the Department of 

 Agriculture, has been annoyed by boys throw- 

 ing sticks and stones at the bee-hives. On 

 last Friday he made a raid on the boys and 

 caught young Hahne. Taking him by one 

 arm and one leg, the Professor carried and 

 dragged tlie struggling, screaming child to 

 the hives. 



" ril give you enough bees," said the Pro- 

 fessor, as he held the boy in front of one of 

 the hives. The angry bees settled on the boy, 

 stinging him severely about the face iind on 

 the legs. As soon as he could get away the 

 boy ran home, where he was treated by Dr. 

 Nicholson, under whose care he still remains. 

 John Hahne, the boy's father, procured a 

 warrant for the arrest of Prof. Benton, charg- 

 ing him with assault. 



The boy still shows the effects of the stings. 

 His face is badly swollen. His father is very 

 indignant at the light punishment inflicted by 

 Judge Scott upon Prof. Benton. M'hen Sec- 

 retary Wilson was askt this afternoon what 

 action he would take in the case of Prof. Ben- 

 ton, he said the matter had not been brought 

 to his attention. 



While we would not for a moment approve 

 of Mr. Benton'', severe treatment of the 

 naughty small bey, still we must admit that it I 



is very exasperating to a bee-keeper to have 

 his colonies pelted with stones and various 

 other missiles. We lost a good colony of bees 

 the past winter by its hive having been upset 

 by mischievous boys after we had it nicely 

 prepared for winter. The combs, heavy with 

 honey, were all broken from the top-bars, and 

 likely drowned the bees. At any rate it was 

 the only colony we lost in wintering, and we 

 can not attribute it to anything else than the 

 upsetting, as the other colonies came thru in 

 good condition. 



But wouldn't it have been better if Mr. 

 Benton had carried his boy into the house, set 

 before him some nice honey and biscuit, and 

 then explained to him in a kindly manner the 

 probable result of his annoying the bees ? It 

 would have been cheaper for Mr. Benton, and 

 he perhaps might have made a staunch friend 

 out of a careless boy instead of running the 

 risk of having the boy stung to death for 

 causing a little annoyance. 



What Next in the Temperance Reform ? 

 — The Board of Managers of the National 

 Temperance Society and Publication House, 

 believing that the times call for an active and 

 aggressive campaign of the Christian and 

 Temperance forces against the liquor traffic, 

 at a meeting held on Thursday, Feb. 21, 1901, 

 instructed the general secretary to send a cir- 

 cular letter containing the following series of 

 questions to a number of representative tem- 

 perance men and women, with the request for 

 replies. 



The Board believes that from the replies re- 

 ceived it will be possible to mature plans for 

 an aggressive campaign of the united moral 

 and Christian forces, that will make the new 

 century memorable in the entire overthrow of 

 the liquor-traflic. 



The replies will be collated and classified, 

 and copies of the results sent to all papers 

 printing this circular- 



questions. 



1. Now that the " Canteen " citadel has 

 been taken, what in your judgment should be 

 the next point of attack ? 



2. Is a union of the temperance forces of 

 the United States at this time desirable and 

 practicable ? 



3. If so, on what basis and along what 

 lines in your opinion could such a union b© 

 effected ? 



4. Would you advise holding in the near 

 future a conference (not a convention) of 

 representative temperance men and women as 

 a means to that end ? 



.5. If so, what place in your judgment would 

 be the best, and what time the most fitting ? 



Those of our readers who wish to answer 

 these questions may send their replies to 

 James R. Dunn, Nos. Sand 5 West 18th St., 

 New York, N. Y. 



The Sports that Make the Man.— Sir 

 Thomas Lipton, K. C. "V. O., has' written espe- 

 cially for the Saturday Evening Post, of May 

 11th, an article on this subject. He places 

 yachting high on the list, and gives some 

 interesting anecdotes of his own career as an 

 amateur yachtsman. Sir Thomas is hopeful, 

 if not confident, of ''lifting" the America's 

 Cup next autumn. He says, however, that if 

 it were a certainty he would not cross the 

 water; for there is no sporting interest in 

 "sure things." This article will appear ex- 

 clusively in the Saturday Evening Post, of 

 Philadelphia, Pa. It is one of the very best 

 weekly periodicals publisht to-day. 



