May. 1010 



GLEANINGS TN BEE CULTURE 



337 



ler male to get the worst end of any matri- 

 mony he may contract onto hisself, so I am 

 tellin him now in advance he may get to 

 corresjiondin so much with some of those 36- 

 year-old litttle innocents tliat they wont let 

 him go short of about ten thousand dollars, 

 so they wont. There is worse things to be 

 holdin tight holt on than a red-hot kitchen 

 range, Will, and a No. 1 bear trap don 't hold 

 no faster onto a yearlin cub than a 36-year- 

 old female of our species sometimes holds 

 onto a object of matrimony. Before you get 

 to frolickin too much with 36-year-olds out 

 on the matrimony promenade. Will, I wanted 

 to slip you the aforesaid informashun. Now, 

 then, just as I said to the girls and widows 

 above, after considerin all I have said to 

 you, crack ahead if you want to. I don 't 

 feel no further responsibility. Praps I had 

 orter say too. Will, if j'ou love fishin 

 and aint strong on gardenin and are given 

 to yieldin to temptashun, there aint no 

 worse thing on earth than matrimony to get 

 into. For you mix matrimony and fishin and 

 beekeepin and gardenin and lawn mowin 

 and a increasin family and some poverty 

 and combine with these leadin factors in a 

 continoosly stirrin life a disposishun to yield 

 to temptation on nice days when fish '11 

 bite, and you '11 find you '11 get to tryin to 

 lie out of it to your wife and then your 

 self-respectin manhood will get to oozin out 

 of you and you will get to crabbin and you 

 never '11 be happy again atall only jest the 

 little time you can sneak off to the creek 

 alone and that ends allays at sundown — 

 and then you gotta go home and face it 

 again. I. tell you. Will, if you love fishin 

 forever shun matrimony as a object. Don't 

 ever again, if you are a true fisherman, 

 think of advertisin it as a object at least. 

 It aint no object whatsoever to a fisherman, 

 so it aint. But now havin said so much, 

 and havin let you into my department 

 when they shut you out of classified ads, I 

 say again, crack ahead if you want to. I 

 feel I done my duty. 



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E. E. Mott of Glenwood, Mich., wrote to 

 a beekeeper friend as follers: "The real 

 bee men are nice fellows, ' ' and he goes on 

 to say as how some stranger at a beekeep- 

 ers' convention at Grand Eapids, Mich., 

 stepped up to him and said beekeepers ' con- 

 ventions was the only ones where he never 

 saw discord come up — nothin more than keen 

 interest. Oh! bi sulphide, where 's Mott 

 been to a beekeejjers' convention anyhow? 

 Has he ever attended one in Wisconsin or 

 the Western New Yorkers' association? If 

 he aint he better not. When they all get 

 to talkin at oncet includin the deliberative 

 presidin ofiicer it may not jest be discord 

 exactly but it 's a time when everybody 

 present is keen interested of course and 

 knows he or she is exactly right and nobody 

 else is and he or she is sayin so emphatic. 

 If the same sort o thing happened at my 

 house I wouldnt probably say it was discord 

 {Continued on paue 340.) 



WANTED 



Collectors of Flowers 



The undersigned desires the services of 

 collectors of the flowers of honey plants in 

 the Southern and Western States, either 

 boys, girls, men or women. The desire is to 

 obtain fresh flowers from the above States 

 to be photographed natural size. They should 

 be packed and shipped as follows: 



Select flowers which have recently opened 

 or are still in bud. Wrap the ends of the 

 stems in damp cotton or moss and tie firmly 

 in place. Pack in wooden boxes, lined with 

 waxed paper (pasteboard boxes will break). 

 Fill in the empty space with cotton or other 

 soft material to prevent the flowers shaking 

 about and being spoiled. Wrap the box in 

 paper and mail by parcel post, insured. 



I will pay postage, cost of packing ma- 

 terial and also a fair price for collecting. 

 Write at once for further particulars. The 

 flowers of any rare honey plant especially 

 desired. 



Mail no flowers without writing me first. 



John H.Lovell, Waldoboro, Me. 



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