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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 26, 1903. 



PUBLISHED WEEK 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY 



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EDITOR, 



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DEPT. EDITORS, 



Dr. C.C. Miller, E.E. Hasty, Emma M.Wilson 



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Dr. C. C. Millek, of McHenry Co., 111. 

 wrote us March IT : 



"To-day the few colonies that are out of 

 the cellar are having a tine Bight— 65'^'." 



Evidently celebrating St. Patrick's Day 1 



Thomas G. Newman was announced last 

 v,-eek in these columns as having passed away 

 Maft-ch 10, in San Francisco, Calif. The Philo- 

 sophical Journal (of which he was editor at,the 

 time of his death) contained the following in 

 the issue of March 14 : 



PASSING OF THOMAS i-i. NEWMAN. 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman passed to spirit 

 life Tuesday, March 10, at 12;4."> p.m. 



For several years Mr. Newman had been an 

 invalid, and about three years ago he was 

 stricken with nearly total blindness. 



From the latter affliction he was slowly re- 

 covering, and, in the last few months, was 

 thanking the good angels for their minister- 

 ing care in restoring to him his sight: 



About six weeks ago he was taken with the 

 grippe, but persisted in attending to his work 

 until Feb. .5. when, overcome by weakness, 

 he fell on the pavement in front of the St. 

 Nicholas Hotel. 



He was carried to his home, and all that 

 the most solicitous care could do was done to 

 insure his recovery. 



For a few days it was thought that restora- 

 tion to health and usefulness was possible- 

 even probable— and especially was this true 

 after arrangements had been perfected which 

 insured the permanency of the Journal, 

 which had been his life work in recent years, 

 and the perpetuity of which was his absorb- 

 ng ambition. 



Early last week there came signs of a re- 

 action, and day by day his friends saw the 

 life-force slipping from him. Hope was com- 

 pelled to give way to resignation to the de- 

 cree of fate. 



His son. Mr. A. H. Newman, was tele- 

 graphed for from Iowa, and arrived in time to 

 see his father before he passed to the uncon- 

 scious state, which, for several hours, pre- 

 ceded his final transition. 



Mr. Newman was born in Bridgewater, 

 Somersetshire. England, and was married to 

 Eliza Powell (who has remained his staunch 

 help-meet these nearly ."lO years) Feb. 5, IS.")4. 

 The same year Mr. and Mrs. Newman came 

 to America on their wedding tour, and have 

 remained in this country continually since, 

 except during the years ISOI! to 1869, when Mr. 

 Newman was engaged in business as printer 

 and publisher at Teignmouth, England. 



Mr. Newman has been engaged in many 

 newspaper ventures, the most important hav- 

 ing been the American Bee Journal, which he 

 conducted from 1873 to 1S93, and the Philo- 

 sophical Journal, which he has conducted 

 since, first in Chicago, then in San Diego for a 

 brief time, and since 189? in San Francisco. 



Mr. Newman was one of those true-hearted 

 men whom all men knew to love, and who 

 thought vastly more of the welfare of others 

 than of himself. 



Besides his wife, there survive him his only 

 son, Mr. A. H. Newman, Mrs. F. H. Cheno- 

 weth, and Mrs. H. P. Cook, the first two of 

 whom were at their father's bedside at his 

 passing out. The other daughter was in the 

 East, and could not get here in time to see 

 him in this life. 



Mr. A. H. Newman, in a letter dated at San 

 Francisco, March 16, said concerning his 

 father's picture used on the first page of last 

 week's issue, that it is " the latest and best in 

 existence." To which he added this in ref- 

 erence to what we have reprinted above from 

 the Philosophical Journal: 



In relation to further information I will 

 say that the latest number of the Philosophi- 

 cal Journal, which has undoubtedly reached 

 you before this time, contains a little synopsis 

 of my father's life, and I don't know of any- 

 thing that I could add excepting that the 

 funeral took place on Sunday, March l.">, at 2 

 p.m., from the Lodge Room of the Pacirtc 

 Lodge of F. ifc A. M., and at the request of 

 Golden Rule Lodge No. 7'J6, of Chicago, of 

 which he was a life member; and it was his 

 request that he be buried with Masonic hon- 

 ors. Yours truly, 



A. H. Newman. 



The King-Bee of Northern Colorado, 

 says the Rocky Mountain Bee Journal, is M. 

 A. Gill. He will enter the honey harvest of 

 1903 with 1250 colonies, Bays the same jour- 

 nal. That's banking agood deal on successful 

 wintering on the part of Mr. Gill, seeing the 

 statement was made in the January number. 

 But the success of the past may fully warrant 

 such banking. 



Read All the Bee-Pai'Ers. — In the March 

 Bee-Keepers' Review is a characteristic edi- 

 torial by Mr. Hutchinson, with this heading; 

 " A Man Can't Know Too Much About His 

 Business." From it we lake these para- 

 graphs: 



It a man is making a specialty of bee-keep- 

 ing, I believe it is a mistake not to take all of 

 the journals and read all of the books on the 

 subject. He can't afford not to read them. 

 Ever since I began bee-kee|iing I have read 

 allot the journals, and have found it profit- 

 able to do so. Many a time one little item 

 has contained information that' was worth 

 dollars and dollars to me. In my travels 

 about the country I find that the most suc- 

 cessful bee-keepers read all, or nearly all, of 

 the journals. Men who have been in the 

 business the longest, who have kept the most 

 bees, those who have had the most experi- 

 ence, '[and who, it would seem, stood in the 



least need of advice or help from journals, are 

 the ones who are the most anxious to read 

 them. They have learned their value. 



Let no one imagine, however, that the 

 reading of all of the journals will make of 

 him a successful bee-keeper. Neither will 

 the keeping of a large number of colonies 

 alone lead to the same result. Successful bee- 

 keeping does not depend upon any one thing ; 

 it is a well-rounded whole of many parts. But 

 don't forget that any lack in one or more of 

 the component parts makes a bad showing in 

 the final summing up. 



We believe we have seen all the bee-papers 

 that have been published in this country dur- 

 ing the past 20 years, and, with perhaps one 

 or two exceptions, every one of them has 

 been worth many times its subscription 

 price to those interested in bee-keeping. 



We can not understand how any one who 

 expects to make a success with bees can 

 hope to do so without taking several of the 

 best bee-papers published to-day. For about 

 S.5.00 we suppose that all of them could be 

 taken — less than 10 cents a week ! It's a 

 poor business indeed that could not stand 

 that. At any rate, every bee-keeper should 

 have at least one good bee-paper. If this 

 journal doesn't " fill the bill," then try 

 another. That is the way we should do, if 

 we couldn't afford to take all of them. 



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