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ku.iw what they are saying. For instance J. 

 M. llambatigh says, "Yes : If your neigh- 

 101 does not object. " As all men object to 

 fiil-e pretences, when the other fellow 

 inalves them,'he gives himself away— happi- 

 ly irives himself away— to the ett'ect that he 

 ir; not a rascal, but only a little heedless. 

 In fortunately we cannot get all of the seven 

 jtl iu that way. It gives me sincere pain to 

 juote ; and I am going to leave the names 

 oflF as I do so. 



'• It is all right if you kuow tho honey is good 

 There is no deception about it, at least none that 

 aeed worry your conscience. " 



Another says ; 



" Nothing is wrong that harms no person. If 

 the honey is as good as your own no one would 

 be harmed, and it would not be wrong. " 



Ah, but some one would be harmed ! We 

 should all be harmed— harmed more than 

 the total destruction of all the bees and 

 honey on this planet would harm us— if we 

 could no more believe the spoken and print- 

 ed words of our fellow men. There is no 

 other way to escape this sweeping, stifling, 

 demoralizing loss than to speak the truth 

 ourselves, and demand it of others ; and de- 

 mand it of them under pain of being classed 

 as criminals. 



A third head of the sermon might be 

 based on the answer of R. L. Taylor ; 



" It would be right to put your name on the 

 honey as a guaranty of its quality and parity, 

 but not in order to make your customers believe 

 Something tliat is not true. " 



There are various ways that a name can be 

 put on. We may put it ; " Honey from the 

 apiary of— John JoNKS, " or. "Pure Honey 



-John Jones i " or, " I guarantee the purity 

 of this and all honey which I handle— John 

 Jones." I presume we all would call the 

 third form O. K. if sufficient care in pur- 

 chasing were exercised; but a great many 

 buyers do not exercise that sufficient care. 

 3/os^ of Hs would surely call the first form 

 knavish, if Mr. Jones purchased the houey 

 of somebody else. Chance for preaching on 

 the second I reckon. It is a very common 

 form; also quite elastic, and capable of 

 several meanings ; also several of the respon- 

 ses seem to contemplate that style of label. 

 I can see in my mind's eye, a bee-keeping 

 son of Adam selling purchased honey with 

 that inscription. He inwardly hopes no 

 questions will be asked— dislikes to have it 

 known that he sells any other than the honey 

 from his own bees. After awhile somebody 

 does ask, and he evades : talks about some- 



thing else and gets off. Now after three or 

 four such evasions, if he is like some sons 

 of Adam, he will fib a little when he is pen- 

 ned up tight. To be safe against a prevail- 

 ing sin it is often necessary to beware of 

 standing on the brink of it. Let this parson 

 advise to use only forms that tell their own 

 story— and that story a true one. 



While I have my reproving clothes on I 

 guess I'll sail into my brother reviewer on 

 page 28() of the Review where we read ; 



" One of his colonies gnawed away and in r- 

 porated the fibres of an old red woolen sliawcn - 

 to its brood combs, especially brood cappings, 

 which had been given it for a quilt. " 



As our common schools teach grammar 

 and leave the youth to pick up rhetoric for 

 themselves, the idea obtains that rhetoric is 

 of less importance than grammar. Hardly a 

 correct idea. As it is better to be guilty of 

 a " bad spell " once in awhile than to mur- 

 der one's grammar, so it is better to sin 

 against grammar once in a while than to 

 tangle one's English all up into a snarl like 

 the above. There now, perhaps that's too 

 severe a dig at a yoke-fellow. Lots of good 

 company, dear pal. Quite recently, while 

 reading for some students in history, I 

 found a fair match for your sentence in a 

 standard encyclopedia. And of course the 

 writer of the above can write lucid English 

 when he will stop and take the requisite 

 pains. 



This view is to be all Round Up ; so there 

 is no use to be looking for sub-heads. 



Another man reports ten-frame hives as 

 doing all the swarming this year, on account 

 of the eight-frame hives nearly starving. 

 The smaller size led in number of swarms 

 previously. Gleanings, 694. 



Rambler came across some grape juice 

 honey on its native heath among the vine- 

 yards of California. Thinks it would not be 

 called good table honey— grape juice still 

 with the distinctive raisin taste. Gleanings 

 097. 



Even basswood is not a sure thing. W. S. 

 Fultz of Muscatine Iowa, reports that it 

 gives only about one yield in five years 

 there. >lo bloom this year : bloom last year 

 but no honey in it. Gleanings 700. Here in 

 Lucas Co. Ohio bloom sometimes yields al- 

 most nothing. 



Prof. Koons of the Connecticut agricul- 

 tural college gives us a notable article on 

 the weights of bees and their loads, in 

 Gleanings (599. Having scales of amazing 

 delicacy that will indicate minute fractions 



