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great mass of work that has piled np ready 

 for my hands, I find that I mast, relnctantly, 

 give up this pleasure, but I wish to assure 

 each one that not one kind sympathetic 

 word has been wasted or passed unappre- 

 ciated, that I have really needed all that 

 came; that this warm sympathy has been 

 one of the factors in keeping me on my 

 feet. 



Ivy has apparently entirely recovered 

 from the efifects of her wounds, and Mrs. 

 Hutchinson is really better than I ever ex- 

 pected she would be. Sometimes I have 

 wondered if the terrible shock might not 

 yet work a change in her. I was away at 

 the fairs six weeks, or nearly that, and stop- 

 ped to see her on my way home. The terri- 

 ble excitement had passed away, leaving 

 her cool and rational, and her hallucination 

 of hearing voices had also been absent about 

 two weeks, and she was feeling better and 

 really hopeful that sometime she might be 

 able to come home; but, time only can 

 answer that qneation. 



8BCTIONB WITHOUT BEE SPACES; THE LATTEB 

 BEING FORMED BT THE 3EPABATOES. 



While on my way home from the fairs I 

 passed one day at the hospitable and pleas- 

 ant home of Mr. L. A. Aspinwall of Jackson, 

 the man who furnishes an article each 

 month for the first page of the Review. In 

 his back yard is an apiary that now numbers 

 ."lO colonies. During the past season it has 

 furnished him about :^,00(J pounds of as fine 

 honey as I have ever seen. A portion of it 

 was yet stacked up on the shelves of his hon- 

 ey room. X more even or perfectly filled 

 lot of sections it would be hard to find. Mr. 

 Aspinwall has for several f*easons used sec- 

 tions without bee-spaces, that is, they are 

 the same width all the way around, the bee- 

 spaces being furnished by metal offsets on 

 the tin separators. There are also openings 

 cut in the separators just opposite the meet- 

 ing point of each pair of sections. This 

 gives the bees a freer passageway through 

 the super and does much to lessen the pop- 

 holes at the corners of the sections. The 

 plump, full, smooth look of sections filled 

 in this manner, without the one-fourth inch 

 of wood standing up abov.' the comb-surface 

 does much to add to the attractiveness of 

 the sections. It is aliiio'^t impossible now 

 to sell the old-style of sections to Mr. As- 

 pinwall's customers. This style of section 



also allows the nse of a machine in clean- 

 ing off the propolis, by means of which it 

 can be done very quickly and effectually. 

 Mr. Aspinwall uses a super of the knock- 

 down style, with thumb-screws at each end. 

 whereby the sections can be pressed very 

 closely together, and when the season is 

 over these supers can be piled away in very 

 little space; but I won't steal his thunder, as 

 he has promised to illustrate and describe 

 all these things in an early issue of the 

 Review. 



nJi^P^^iLfi^n^n. 



NIAOABA FALLS. 



While on my way to the Buffalo conven- 

 tion I stopped over part of one day and 

 visited this greatest of the natural wonders 

 of the world. In visiting such a place one 

 needs a sympathetic companion to talk with, 

 and I was fortunate enough to pick up such 

 a one in one of the younger of the old vet- 

 erans who thought best to see the falls on 

 his way to the encampment. 



In approaching the falls we pass through 

 a well-kept park, the surface of which gen- 

 tly slopes down to the water's edge. The 

 first sight of the rapids above the falls 

 brings to my mind a great field of snow 

 drifts surrounded by the green fields of 

 summer. Then we went out and stood on 

 the bridge leading to Goat Island and look- 

 ed up stream at this great field of tumbling 

 waters hastening on for their final great leap. 

 Goat Island has many pleasant drives and 

 paths, but the management has been wise 

 enough to leave the great mass of primeval 

 forest untouched by the woodman's axe. 

 Not even the underbrush is cut out, or the 

 fallen trees removed. Here one can see 

 nature as she is. I think my companion 

 was one of the most ardent lovers of trees 

 that I ever met and it really did me good to 

 see him go into raptures over some of the 

 grand specimens we found here. 



Across the island we went down a long 

 and crooked stairway and out upon a long 

 bridge until we could stand within a few 

 feet of where the dark green waters bend 

 for their final leap over the horseshoe falls. 

 We could look down into the abyss below 

 and see the little steamer, the Maid of the 

 Mist, taking her pasengers upon the short- 

 est but most wonderful pleafure trip. 

 We could also look down the gorge below 

 the falls, spanned by three bridges, and in 

 the far distauce catch glimpses of the white 



