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Vol. XXX. 



AUG. I, 1902. 



No. 15 



For throat and lun^ troubles, with in- 

 fluenza and fever, the followinf,'- drink is 

 palatable and healing-: In a pint of water 

 squeeze the juice of half a lemon, and add 

 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls of warm honey. — Oesf.- 

 i'figar. Bztg. 



I READ to my sister the last Straw, p. 

 588, to see if you had quoted her correctly 

 at the close. She said, " Yes, indeed, I 

 aj,''ree with him that it's easier to get out 

 the Hoffman frame than the dummy, for 

 sometimes you can't get out the dummy at 

 all till you get out a frame. But that's 

 with Hoffman frames. With Miller frames 

 it's an easy thing to lift out the dummy, 

 and then you can take out any frame with 

 no trouble." Then she made some remarks 

 about handling Hoft'man frames that it 

 isn't necessary to repeat here. [Sa3\ doc- 

 t 'r, why didn't you quote her verbatim et 

 literatiuif Then in the meantime I could 

 conjure up a lot of arguments ready to meet 

 her when I see her in Marengo, going to or 

 coming from Denver. — Ed.] 



P. Nf,umann, in Centralblatt. says that, 

 while formalin, as shown by Prof. Harri- 

 son, the Canadian, will destroy the spores 

 of foul brood, it can not be considered a 

 cure, onlj' a disinfectant. He agrees with 

 the view persistently held by the editor of 

 Gleanings that no drug can be a cure for 

 foul brood; for whatever will destroy foul- 

 V)rood spores will destroy bees. I think 

 Prof. Harrison sa3-s all brood is destroyed 

 by formalin. [It is a pleasure to me to 

 kuow that m3' own humble opinion in this 

 matter has been confirmed by Prof. Harri- 

 son. I based my belief on the almost in- 

 destructible nature of the spores of foul 

 brood. I said almost, for the}' are destruct- 

 ible; but I did not believe it possible that 



an antiseptic that would not kill bees would 

 destroy the spores of foul brood. In any 

 expressed opinion on this question it is well 

 to err on the safe side. — Ed.] 



I'm muddled about this fastening busi- 

 ness. I asked, page 587, Mr. Editor, if one 

 strip at each corner instead of four at each 

 corner would not fasten hives securely 

 enough, and your reply sounds as if you 

 really use only four to the hive, whereas 

 your former advice to use four at each cor- 

 ner would make sixteen strips to the hive. 

 [I have repeatedly told you to label your 

 jokes. In my hurried reading I took 3'ou 

 seriouslj', and now I see 5'ou "have the 

 laugh on me." I only ask the indulgent 

 reader not to read Dr. Miller's joke, but to 

 read my footnote to the same on pages 587, 

 '8. When a poor little chap like me is re- 

 vising and running off the ABC book at 

 the rate of 64 pages between the issues of 

 Gleanings, gets out one number of the 

 journal, and spends a few hours each day 

 with the bees, to say nothing about the office 

 correspondence coming in mj' department — 

 well, do you wonder that I sometimes do 

 not read every word? Never mind, doctor; 

 I will have my revenge when I see you next 

 month. — Ed.] 



You WAIT till next time I see you, Mr. 

 Editor, and you'll be taught that tautology 

 does not necessarily follow from having on- 

 ly one name for a thing. You refer me to 

 the Standard. It says: "That form of 

 pleonasm in which the same word or idea 

 is unnecessarily repeated; unnecessary rep- 

 etition, whether in word or sense; useless 

 iteration" Genung's Rhetoric is quoted 

 assaying: "Tautology is the repetition of 

 the same sense in different words." Ac- 

 cording to that you may repeat a thing a 

 thousand times without tautology, unless 

 the repetition is unnecessary. And if you 

 have a case of tautologj' in which "bee- 

 keeper" is used five times, it will none the 

 less be tautologj' if j'ou substitute "bee- 

 grower " for " bee-keeper " one or more 

 times. I'm with you in favor of a wealth 

 of words "capable of expressing fine shades 

 of meaning," but one word for each shade 

 of meaning is enough. [Like the woman, 



