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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 6, 1901. 



Harper's, The Forum, North American Review, and an art 

 magazine. These are passed each week, and each one has his 

 magazine to keep in the end. I take and keep one magazine. 

 I have the reading, or opportunity to read, eight of our best 

 magazines. I feel rich in this arrangement, and I am glad to 

 suggest that many of our home circles enrich themselves in 

 some such way. 



Our book club is another of our neighborhood co-operative 

 institutions, which is now several years of age. This has a 

 still larger range. Eighteen of our Claremont "home circles'" 

 profit by this admirable arrangement. We all wish to see. 

 possibly to read, surely "to thumb over," all the best books of 

 the year. We each pay $1.50. This secures 18 books. We 

 all unite in securing the volumes, and as we are all alert dur- 

 ing the year, we are likely to make a good selection. We 

 rarely secure a book that we regret later to have purchased. 

 There are one or two such each year. We each keep a book 

 two weeks, and must date the day we receive it. Each day 

 that a book is kept beyond the specified time requires a fine of 

 5 cents. At the close of the circuit the books are sold to the 

 members by auction, and always bring in more than half cost. 



[ recommend this, or some kindred plan, to all our home 

 circles. It is very popular, and deservingly so, with us. I 

 presume I read about one-fourth of the books, and " thumb 

 over" all of them. Mrs. Cook reads many more, and daughter 

 Bertha some more than do I. Thus we get as a family quite 

 an insight into the best that is written in America and England 

 each year. 



Anything that incites those in our American home circles 

 to read more and more thoughtfully the best books and papers, 

 should receive the fostering care of all of us. May not our 

 bee-keepers profit by something like our magazine plan ? 

 There is always something in each of the bee-papers that is 

 valuable to each of us. There are articles in each, and some 

 number of each, that some of us do not care for at the time. 

 To have them all would be a signal gain. In almost every 

 neighborhood are there not five bee-keepers that get mail at a 

 single post-office ? In such case, five magazines or journals 

 could be taken, and by a convenient exchange all have all. If 

 such an arrangement could be generally carried out, can any 

 one doubt but that it would be a substantial gain to our in- 

 dustry ? When any one reads, and so handles his business 

 more wisely, all are gainers. The slovenly, unlettered bee- 

 keeper slumps the market with his inferior product. The up- 

 to-date, thoroughly-read bee-keeper advances the market, as 

 all first-class products are sure to raise prices. 



THE FARM FOR CHILDREN. 



Mr. Coggshall keeps his farm at a loss because Mrs. Cogg- 

 shall wishes it for the children. God be thanked for such wise 

 mothers as Mrs. Coggshall. Such mothers will not have to 

 grieve over wayward children as the years roll on. A distin- 

 guished writer, and college president, says in one of the last 

 month's magazines, that our cities would soon die of rot were 

 it not for the fresh blood from the country that pours an- 

 nually into them. Strange that the city business man does 

 not recognize that his virility comes from the vigor of body, 

 mind, and integrity, which was bred in the country home of 

 either his or his father's boyhood. If he recognized this he 

 would do business in the city and live in the country. It 

 would take time to come and go. Mrs. Coggshall would say 

 time given that our " best crop," the boys and girls, should be 

 a truly " best crop," is time best employed. 



The country home builds industry, purity, truthfulness, 

 righteousness, into character. The country home is the very 

 saviour of our country. The rush from country to city is full 

 of menace. May we not hope that a better judgment may 

 swing the tide, and that we shall soon see a flood, at least for 

 the boyhood of our people, from city to country ? I wish Mrs. 

 Coggshall's words could be sounded into the ears of every 

 parent our country over. 



COMMITTINQ SCRIPTURES TO MEMORY. 



My fortunate boyhood's home circle was richer, better, 

 for hearing the Bible read each morning. I would not have 

 had that part of my early culture omitted for a fortune of 

 what the world calls riches. I, to-day, can hear the words 

 and comments of my dear father, though he has been dead for 

 years. These memories are a priceless legacy. I could not 

 deny my children what had been so precious to me. So I 

 have always read daily from the " Book of books." I have 

 often wondered if my words read, and my comments, would 

 be such a benizen to my children as were my father's to me. 

 Some parts of the dear old Book are so incomparably precious 

 that we have learned them. Thus we have the Ten Com- 

 mandments, many verses from Isaiah, the 1st, •2d, 8th, 19th, 

 23d, 24th, 121st, and llTth Psalms, the Beatitudes, Romans 

 12th, and 1st Corinthians iSth, etc. We often, instead of 

 reading, repeat. It is blessed to know these chapters by 

 heart. It is blessed frequently to repeat them in concert in 

 the home circle, after the morning or evening meal. 



The Novelty Pocket=Knife. 



Name and Address on one side— Three Bees on the other side. 



HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



[This Cut is the ^'cli- Size of the Knife.] 



Your Name on the Knife.— When oideriug-, be sure to say just what name and 

 address jou wish put on the Knite. 



The Novelty Knife is indeed a novelty The novelty lies In the handle. It is 

 made beautifully of indestructible celluloid, which is as transparent as g-lass. Un- 

 derneath the celluloid, on one side of the handle is placed the name and residence of 

 the subscriber, and on the other side pictures of a Queen, Drone, and Worker, as 

 shown here. 



The Material entering into this celebrated knife is of the very best quality; 

 the blades are hand-forg-ed out of the very finest English razor-steel, and we war- 

 rant every blade. The bolsters are made of German silver, and will never rust or 

 corrode. The rivets are hardened German silver wire; the linines are plate brass; 

 the back springs of Sheffield spring-steel, and the finish of the handle as described 

 above. It will last a last-time, with proper usage. 



Why Own the Novelty Knife ? In case a good knife is lost, the chances are the 

 owner will never recover it; but if the " Xovelty " is lost, having name and address 

 of owner, the finder will return it; otherwise to try to destroy the name and ad- 

 dress, would destroy the knife. If traveling, and you meet with a serious accident, and are so for- 

 tunate as to have one of the " Novelties," your Pocket-Knife will serve as an identifier; and id 

 case of death, your relatives will at once be notified of the accident. 



How appropriate this knife is for a present! What more lasting memento could a mother 

 give to a son, a wife to a husband, a sister to a brother, or a lady to a gentleman, the knife having 

 the name of the recipient on one side? 



The accompanviug cu' gives a faint idea, but cannot fully convey an exact representation of 

 this'beautiful knife, as the "Novelty" must be seen to be appreciated. 



How to Get this Valuable Knife.— We send it postpaid for fl.2S, or give it as a Premium to the 

 one sending usIrtREE new subscribers to the Bee Journal (with $.".'».) We will club the Novelty 

 Knife and the Bee Journal for one year, both for $1.'X). 



GEORGE W, YORK L CO, 



fl^Please allor' --bout two weeks for your knife order to be bin 



St., Chicago, IlL 



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Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and oug'ht to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 pages, being revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant cSc Son. 

 Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

 success with bees. 



The book we mail for $1.25, or club 

 it with the American Bee Journal for 

 one year — both for $1.75 ; or, we will 

 mail it as a premium for sending us 

 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with $3.00. 



This is a splendid chance to get a 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 ,i 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



