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less, but senseless. The proof of this is, that the 

 article of glucose laid down in California is worth 

 quite as much as the honey itself. Therefore, add 

 to this cost the additional expense of tanliing-, mix- 

 incr, the cost of new ]>ackafres which would be re- 

 (juired, all told, say '^' 2 cents i)er pound, it makes a 

 total cost of, say I'll, cents, when the pure honey 

 itself can be boii'glit at 1',. cents. 



It seems to me as if the spirit of the evil 

 one himself were running rife among tlie 

 newspapers, in their efforts to make out 

 that everybody bnt themselves is all the 

 while up to some sort of trickery and fraud. 

 The article quoted from the "Phihiddphia 

 Times above says: " It is generally supposed 

 that two-thirds of the milk sold in our large 

 cities,'' etc., and that " most of the honey 

 we eat is manufactured ;'' '' not even a drop 

 of genuine honey about it."' Well, my 

 opinion is tiiat the* ])enple who affirm such 

 falseliood and villainy as the above, general- 

 ly judge tlieir felhnv-men by the blackness 

 existing in tlieir own evil hearts. Because 

 lliey would adulterate and steal whenever an 

 opportunity of any sort offered. Ihcij think 

 tlie world are all just like them. 



In this connection I feel moved to men- 

 tion something I once thought I never 

 should mention. At the bee-keepers' con- 

 gress in Xew Orleans, a man we all know so 

 well by name, C (). Perrine, wanted to 

 speak. Well, although I did know some- 

 thing of the mans past character, I did not 

 know, and it did not even occur to me, tliat 

 we had a man in our broad land wlio had the 

 unblusliing effrontery to get up before an 

 intelligent audience, and brag of the way in 

 which he had told lies, and swindled the 

 people of America. He told about liT)W he 

 had put up sugar syiup, and sold it through 

 Cincinnati and o\her cities, labeling it 

 "•Pure Honey," and then boasted, too, that 

 when glucose came into market lie sold stiilT 

 in glass jars, consisting of from •".() to 7(1 per 

 cent glucose, lalteled it " Pure Ilonev," and 

 put his name on the label. He did all this 

 without even a frarc of color on his face to 

 indicate that such a thing as shame could 

 find a lodging-place in his vile heart. He 

 closed up by saying he was out of the busi- 

 ness. JMo wonder ; aiul I felt almost sorry 

 he could stand there before a group of intel- 

 ligent and honest men, letting them know 

 that he was, contrary to liis just deserts, 

 outside of the penitentiary walls. I have 

 heretofore taken Perrine's part somewhat, 

 for I could not believe the stories that were 

 told about him; but he stood up there and 

 seemed to enjoy telling worse tilings of him- 

 self than anybody had ever told about him. 

 In closing up he did not even claim that he 

 had left off his wicked practices, or pro- 

 posed to do so. He had simply gone into 

 other business. Is it any wonder that ])eo- 

 l)le are suspicious, and somewhat ready to 

 credit these newspaper stories, when things 

 like this come to light? When you want to 

 buy honey, or any thing else, be sure that a 

 good mail's naine is on the label. Thank 

 (lOd, we have ;</'/»/// of good men left— men 

 who will live and die honest. 



It was some years ago that J*errine was in 

 this wholesale business of adulterating hon- 

 ey; but even at the high price of honey and 

 the low price of glucose, it seems he did not 

 make money, and I should suppose that x>rcs- 



ent pay was all that such a man ever thinks 

 of. I do not know of anybody now who 

 makes a business of adulterating honey. 

 The Thurbers put a piece of comb honey in 

 a glass jar, pouring a tine article of glucose 

 around it ; but a label is put on, explaining 

 that this surrounding liquid is " corn syrup." 

 lam sorry to say, however, that the" roia 

 ayriq) " label is' not as conspicuous as it 

 riiight be. I do not believe any man ever fails 

 in business because he has been lo<> honest. 

 The lives of our successful men will bear 

 me out in this, as evervbodv will admit. 



I BEE - KEEPERS' CONGRESS AT NEW 

 j ORLEANS. 



j Contiiuirtl from Last y^umha: 



T: ATE in the afternoon of the 2oth we 

 1^ came to the end of our long journey, 

 1^' and stepped from the cars to the plat- 

 -'^ form, in the city of Xew Orleans. On 

 our left lay the veritable steamers with 

 their heaps of cotton bales, and on our right 

 was broad Canal Street, running up into the 

 city. Ernest and I felt for a time like a 

 couple of strange "cats" in an enormous 

 I " garret." Zero weather and the snow-clad 

 1 fields were gone in very truth, and yet I 

 could not make it seem possible that the 

 weather had not changed, and that our folks 

 were having green grass and sunshine away 

 up in Ohio. There was no time to waste. 

 It was in the afternoon of the second day of 

 tlie bee-keepers' congress, and so we hunted 

 up a lodging-i)lace that had been recom- 

 mended to us ; and as soon as we had de- 

 posited our cumbersome overcoats and other 

 useless traps, we jumped on a street-car for 

 the Exposition grounds. These street-cars 

 i were literally chasing each other all the 

 ; while between the city and the grounds. It 

 i is a good thing they "are, too, for it is very 

 ' convenient indeed to be able to find plenty 

 I of room to sit down and look out of the wiii- 

 ! dows at your ease. Pretty soon my eye 

 caught a sight of the watched-for orange- 

 I ti-ees, laden with fruit, and many were the 

 I exclamations of surprise. The people seem- 

 ed very pleasant and sociable. They had 

 doubtless become fully accustomed to the 

 \ expressions of the Northerners. Our bee- 

 t keepers' badges once or twice called forth 

 some expressions of curiosity, but they did 

 us good service in helping us to recognize 

 bee-men when we passed them. Every 

 thing seemed to me so much like the Ceii- 

 I tennial of ISTH that it does not seem as if it 

 would be worth while for me to attempt to 

 describe it all. It is pretty much like the 

 expositions we have now "in all our large 

 cities, only, as a matter of course, it is on a 

 more extended scale than the world has 

 ever seen before. 



The grounds and the greenhouse were 



I special attractions to me. but Ernest did 



not care so much for them. In the way of 



j manufactures, one can see almost every 



thing going there that is to be witnessed oil 



the face of the earth. Exotic plants, and 



j plants from every part of the tropics, and 



from almost every part of the world, were 



I to be found growing there outdoors, or in 



