1880 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Enclosed find draft for $5.00. Send Gleanings to 



and ■. The 10c. credit you have 



allowed me will pay the postage. Send as soon as 

 convenient, and forgive me for my Last hasty letter. 



C. 



You will bear in mind, that our friend 

 had either overlooked or forgotten that 

 Gleanings had been enlarged, and that, by 

 our new rates, we only allow 10c for those 

 who send us a new name, besides their own. 



Our next is a sketch from real life, and by 

 it, I most earnestly pray, I may be able to 

 help more than one of you in the business 

 transactions of every day life. For conve- 

 nience, I will designate the three parties C, 

 D, andE; Candl) being brothers, it will 

 be remembered. 



Please give room in your Humbug- and Swindle 

 Department for the following, and charge me for 

 the same: 



C is requested to balance his account. He owes 

 me $30.63, since 1876 and 1877. I sent him statements 

 which were not answered, and drew on him, but the 

 draft came back for some excuse. I believe the 

 name had been spelled wrong. In September I 

 wrote to him, that, if not remitted during October, 

 he would find his name in our bee journals, among 

 the "dead beats." As Mr. C has shown no sign of 

 life yet, he must not think hard of it, if his name re- 

 mains in Gleanings from January on until he does. 



E. 



I wrote friend E that I would at once 

 write C. and hoped to get an answer. The 

 following came promptly, from his brother, 

 and I may here remark that it is very sel- 

 dom indeed, that I fail to get a reply, if my 

 letter is kindly, and charitably indited. No 

 one likes to be driven, — no, not even a bad 

 man ; but almost every one may be softened, 

 if we go to work in the right way. 



Yours of Dec. 11th, received. C is not at home; 

 his health failed him 3 years ago, since which time 

 he has spent most, of his means trying to regain it. 

 He is now in the Bahama Islands; at least, I sup- 

 pose so. I have not heard from him for some time. 

 The goods which Mr. E wants pay for, he undoubt- 

 edly should have had long ago. They were sent 

 here to other parties, and he persuaded my brother 

 to take them, and the goods have not been used yet; 

 some of them have not been unpacked. As to his 

 not answering his letters, if I am not very much 

 mistaken, he wrote to Mr. E last July when he was 

 at home. But should Mr. E think it advisable to 

 publish him as a humbug and swindler, by all means 

 let him do so. I have had some deal with Mr. E my- 

 self, and at some future time I may be able to show 

 up his straight way of doing business. D. 



You will observe, my friends, as is almost 

 always the case, that there was a mistake in 

 the outset, in the above. Our friend had 

 mistaken I) for C, not noticing probably the 

 difference in the initials. 1 do not mean to 

 excuse (\ by any means, for if a man is ab- 

 sent, he almost always selects some one, to 

 attend to his business, and who could more 

 properly do this than a brother? In his clo- 

 sing up, be turns around, and finds fault 

 with E. I can overlook tins, because it is 

 so nattiral for humanity, while excusing 

 themselves from any dereliction in duty, to 

 look about them for something to find fault 

 about. I know, for 1 am just so myself. I 



sent the letter to E, and wrote him that I 

 felt it a hard matter to put a man among 

 swindlers who at least had been doing busi- 

 ness fairly, and received from him the fol- 

 lowing, a copy of which was also sent 1). I 

 wrote I), urging him for his brother's sake, 

 if nothing more, to return the goods unused, 

 and pay for the rest. Below I give both of 

 the letters: 



In regard to C's matter I would say that the letter 

 shows a falsehood on the face of it, when he says 

 that those goods were unpacked yet, which he took 

 in October '77; for in the following month they or- 

 dered of me another lot. I say "they," because C and 

 D ordered and I had sold them goods for years. All 

 was booked for C, because we considered him the 

 senior, and with him our business relations had com- 

 menced. D, who- did almost all the ordering in '78 

 and the latter part of '77, had told me that his broth- 

 er was sick, etc. 



I leave it to your own judgement how much truth 

 there is in the assertion of D that part of those goods, 

 accepted by my persuasion, in October '77, were 

 still unpacked. May 27, '78, they sent me $25.00 an 

 account, also several small lots of honey, with which 

 they were duly credited; they had shipped before 

 and afterward. T had a good opinion of the men, 

 and everything was satisfactory to the best of my 

 knowledge. I could not understand why they did 

 not make a final settlement or answer my requests. 



You will please put C in your Humbug and Swin- 

 dle Column, every month until their account is set- 

 tled. 



In order to save me some trouble of writing, I will 

 send to D a copy of this letter. If he has not remit- 

 ted to you or to mo by the time you go to press, you 

 will please grace your Swindle Column with their 

 name. I am responsible for the consequences. E. 



D writes — 



Yours of March 1st received this morning, and 

 contents noted. I will say in reply that I certainly 

 think that Mr. E ought to have had his pay. I have 

 no doubt but that my brother owes him. I will say 

 farther, that when Mr. E says that my brother refus- 

 ed to answer his letters, that he knows better; and 

 as to the draft, which, in his letter to you, of which 

 he sent me a bulldozing copy, he claims to have 

 sent to the bank here, I never heard of it, until I re- 

 ceived his copy; and, according to his own state- 

 ment if I read it correctly, he hail not drawn on the 

 person that owed him. He says in his letter of the 

 13th of the following month, "they ordered" &c; and 

 "I say they, because C and D ordered." He lies 

 like a thief! He probably never knew, at that time, 

 that I was on the earth. And again, he says, that in 

 '78 D ordered almost all, and told me that his brot h- 

 er was sick, and that he sent them goods, &c., fee. 

 Now then, does he not know that he corresponded 

 with C while he was in Florida, and agreed upon 

 prices, and that his letters were sent to me. II' he 

 does not, I can very easily jog his memory so that he 

 will remember, because 1 have that correspondence 

 yet. He leaves you, Friend Root, to judge how much 

 truth there is in my assertion that part of the goods 

 are unpacked yet. Well, it does not make any differ- 

 ence to me whether he believes it or nut ; but to you 

 I will say that there are three boxes that were not 

 unpacked until yesterday, and one of them is not 

 unpacked yet. I might follow on through the rest 

 of his letter, but it would be useless. I cannot say 



