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young- emperor is taking- some decided steps 

 to cut down its consumption. Verily the 

 world is moving-, because it can not De and 

 shall not be that it g-rows worse. There 

 never was a time when there was so much 

 healthy public sentiment against the drink- 

 evil as now. Some day this sentiment will 

 crystallize into one unit of force, and the 

 American saloon in our own borders will 

 be made to step down and out. There is 

 power enough in the churches to enable the 

 people of the country to do it now. The 

 trouble is, the enemies of the saloon are 

 not agreed as to the best method of killing 

 it, while the friends of the saloon are put- 

 ting up a united front. When we temper- 

 ance people can stop criticising each other 

 and can concentrate our forces into one 

 united effort we shall accomplish something-, 

 and that time is rapidly coming- in this 

 country. — Ed. J 





t/AOM0(//f NEIGHBORS FIELDS. ^^ 



■We think more kindly of the flowers 

 And the things that summer brings. 



After facing winter's tempests 

 And old Zero's frosty stings. 



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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



"Buckwheat Cakes and Honey. " Words 

 by Eugene Secor, music by G. W. York. 

 Send Pickings a copy, Mr. Editor. I hope 

 those cakes will not b-flat; and I hope the 

 do will not be sticky. Such cakes are the 

 stajf of life in a )iieasurc, at least on a 

 small scale. Can't you send us tenor a 

 dozen? 



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Some two weeks ago the Chicago Bee- 

 keepers' Association, of which Mr. G. W. 

 York is President, made out a brief state- 

 ment in regard to the canards relative to 

 manufactured comb honey. This statement 

 was verj'^ brief, and was signed by Dr. C. 

 C. Miller and Camille P. Dadant as well 

 as by the President. A copy of it was pre- 

 sented to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, 

 the worst offender in circulating this ab- 

 surd story. It was returned with the fol- 

 lowing gratifying intelligence: 



The editor of the Tribune regrets that he can not 

 make use of thf ma nscript. which is respe<t fully re- 

 turned herewi h. This does not mean necessarily that 

 the article is not meritorious, as, on account of the 

 la ge number of manu,scripts received, it is not possi- 

 ble to rint all. 



Mr. York makes a center shot in his re- 

 ply to this expressed determination to do a 

 great wrong and persist in it: 



Bu' little comment on thi- is necessary. The Titb- 

 iine thus admits that it had room to pub'ish lies about 

 honey, but it has not I he space to allow the truth to 

 appear ..bout it ! We hope those of our readers who 

 are s > unfortunate as to read the Tribune will let its 

 editor know what they think of its way of doing 

 things. It has plenty of space for liqu r-dealers' ad- 

 vertisements, sporting stuff, etc., but declines to cor- 



rect Us own statements that are of untold damage \.o 

 an honest industry. 



Doubtless this expresses the feelings of 

 all parties concerned. Whether this .strong 

 language will pierce the skin of these edi- 

 torial pachyderms remains to be seen. 



In refreshing contrast to all this is the 

 conduct of the Chicago News. The state- 

 ment that was refused a place in the Trib- 

 une was printed in the News in full, with 

 large screarner headings, as we learn by 

 Mr. York's paper of the 23. He saj^s: 



When it is known that the Chicago Daily Nejvs has 

 an evening circulation of about :-iOO,000, it will be seen 

 what a i\ide reading the report will h ve. Up to the 

 time of this writing, no other daily paper in Chicago 

 has published the report, though all the morning pa- 

 pers were furnished a copy of it by us in person. 



The complete refutation of the slander 

 will now probably be an easy matter, as so 

 many editors have come to see the light; 

 but, like a suppressed fire, it will stand 

 watching lest it break out again in a few 

 months. King Error wields a strong 

 scepter over the minds of men to-day. 



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 BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 



" The Biolog-y of the Honey-bee: its De- 

 velopment Dtxring the Nineteenth Century," 

 is the title of two articles that appeared in 

 our London exchange last November, from 

 the pen of that able writer Mr. R. Hamlyn- 

 Harris. They now appear in the form of a 

 little tract of four pages. It would be hard 

 to find more of interest in so little space. 



The writer gives a brief history of bee- 

 keeping down to the present tiine. He says 

 the Dickel theory has been shown to be er- 

 roneous and incorrect, but lays great stress 

 on the Dzierzou theory. Concerning the in- 

 troduction of the movable-frame system, the 

 author saj's: 



Dzierzou, by h's careful observations and practical 

 ideas, whichviltim telv found outlet in the introduc- 

 tion in his api ry of tha mov ble-frame hive, brought 

 about a vast improvement on the old skeps of his day. 



There can hIso be no doubt that lo g before Dzier- 

 zo I's time hives of somewhat similar construction 

 were used by single individuals, as is shown in the his- 

 tory of the ancients. 



Delia Rocca's book, " Traites Complets sur les 

 A' eilles " (dated 7!i0), which appeared in Paris, • hows 

 that the movable-frame hive was m t >inknown to him, 

 and the conclusion has been arrived at— couseqiunt 

 upon Delia Rocca's work — 'hat the discoverers of the 

 movable frame were the Greeks, but that Delia Rocca 

 was the first to utilize the same in a wooden hive fitted 

 up for the purpose. The Napoleonic and other wars 

 of ihe peri d were, no doubt, instrumental in causing 

 this work to be almost entirely forgotten for the time 

 beinv; so that we owe to Dzierzou tlie fact that during 

 his life, and on his initiative, the movable frame hive 

 should have come into general use. 



Mr. Harris does not claim that Dzierzon 

 invented the movable frame, but his bias, if 

 not lamentable prejudice, prevents him, as 

 the reader will see, from making any men- 

 tion of Mr. Langstroth. We are informed 

 on good authority that movable frames "ul- 

 timately found outlet" into Mr. Dzierzon's 

 apiary only when their general acceptiince 

 rendered his further opposition to them ri- 

 diculous. To give Mr. Dzierzon any praise 

 for the introduction of movable frames, and 

 yet omit any mention of Mr. Langstroth's 

 name, is strange indeed. The world's ver- 



