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probably on the theory that the producer 

 was helpless with his honey in the city 

 and unsold. The bee keeper declined his 

 offer for the time, and stated that he 

 would look around and see if he could 

 do better. The dealer had no fear of 

 losing the chance of purchasing the 

 honey, for he had a "phone, and when 

 the bee keeper got around to the other 

 honey merchants' establishments he re- 

 ceived exactly the same ofTer as the first. 

 He returned to the dealer who gave him 

 the first quotation to talk over the situa- 

 tion, and finally decided, and stated, that 

 before selling at the quoted price, he 

 would run up to Boston and see what he 

 could do there. But there are wires 

 between New York and Boston, and 

 evidently they had been used, for when 

 the bee keeper arrived in Boston, quo- 

 tations were the same as in New York, 



and the bee keeper was finally obliged to 

 sell his honey at the first quotation. 



This transaction was related to my 

 informant by the dealer who made the 

 first quotation and who is said to have 

 slyly intimated that the telephone and 

 telegraph had been used with such 

 disastrous effect in plucking the bee 

 keeper. 



Bee keepers, if you are ever caught in 

 a similar predicament, do not "fall down" 

 too easily. Remember, that while there 

 are dealers who would pluck you, that 

 there are also friends who would aid you. 

 There are storage warehouses in large 

 cities that are glad to store goods at a 

 fair rate, and a few days' time is all that 

 is required to communicate with some of 

 the editors of the bee journals for advice, 

 or with reliable dealers in other quarters. 

 Continued next month. 



Only one Disease Called Rheumatism, and 

 Bee Stings Won't Cure That. 



A. F. BONNEY. 



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differ from my 

 worthy rural 

 colleague, in that 

 I have but one 

 emotion on read- 

 ing the many 

 articles written 

 by bee keepers, 

 and some medi- 

 cal men, about 

 rheumatism, and, 

 incidentally, the poison of the bee as 

 a remedy for it. Editorial comments 

 alike excite my pity, for if 1 know 

 anything, it is that there is but one 

 disease called rheumatism, and that is 

 what is variously known as Rheumatic 

 Fever, Inflammatory Rheumatism, Artic- 

 ular Rheumatism. I know doctors speak 

 of "Muscular Rheumatism," while ad- 

 mitting that it is Myalgia. They also 

 talk about "Gonorrheal Rheumatism," 



while it is only a name for pains in the 

 joints resembling rheumatism in those 

 who have gonorrhea. 



Of course there are various conditions 

 arising from an acute attack of rheuma- 

 tism which we call chronic, but the 

 cause is the same. It is rheumatism 

 "gone to seed," with the bent bones, the 

 hardened tendons, the ossified joints. 

 These in no wise disprove my assertion 

 that there is but one rheumatism, and I 

 opine that no bee keeper ever got to 

 treat (with bee stings) an acute case. 



Some of the statements you comment 

 on in the article copied from Gleanings 

 are all right. For instance, "anyone 

 who is looking for a cure for rheumatism 

 is searching for what he will never find," 

 though "never" is a long time, and until 

 now I had hopes that the Art of Healing 

 might advance. I am doubly surprised 

 that my colleague thus puts a bar to 



