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rieties as he has, and in such great profu- 

 sion ! As his comfortable home is situated 

 on a hill, commanding an extended and 

 delightful view, we felt that it might very 

 appropriately be called "Rose Hill." "A 

 rose by any other name would be as sweet," 

 we presume, but Dr. Miller's roses are 

 simply sweetness and beauty doubly con- 

 centrated. 



Mrs. Miller is one of the very kindest and 

 most motherly of women we ever met. She 

 takes such excellent care of the Doctor, and 

 at all times sets him such a splendid ex- 

 ample of right and cheerful living, that we 

 don't see how he could well be otherwise 

 than the thoroughly good man that he is. 

 Well may he say, as he did some time ago 

 in Oleanmgs — " Glad I had a wife!" 



Now just a word about Miss Wilson, 

 though she is entitled to many words of 

 honest praise. Well, besides her many ac- 

 complishments, apiarian and otherwise. 

 Miss Wilson makes the best ice-cream we 

 ever had the pleasure of sampling. After 

 absorbing nearly a half dozen large dishes 

 of it in the time we were there, we feel that 

 we are competent to testify to its superior 

 merits, and to her ability in that line, as 

 well as in others. (This testimonial is quite 

 " unsolicited.") 



We cannot close without saying at least 

 a little about Dr. Miller's home life. (He 

 needn't read this part of our report.) Most 

 of you have only seen him at conventions, 

 or away from home, and at such places we 

 suppose people are expected to be "on their 

 good behavior." Well, we want to say that 

 Dr. Miller's " good behavior" has become 

 a sort of second nature to him," and so his 

 " behavior" is " good " all the time, whether 

 at home, where Mrs. Miller and Miss Wil- 

 son could look after him, if necessary, or 

 when away from their benign influence. 

 A person'.s home life will always reveal his 

 or her true nature. So after meeting Dr. 

 Miller and his family, both at home and 

 away from home, we want to assure those 

 who do not know them, that they are all 

 "pure gold;" never pretending to any 

 greatness or superiority, yet in their sim- 

 plicity of life and nobility of character re- 

 vealing daily that which is a blessing to all 

 whom they meet, and that shall endure 

 throughout the years. 



That Heaven's best blessings may always 

 attend Dr. Miller and his family; and that 

 long life and continued happiness may be 



theirs, is the sincere wish of the writer, 

 who is glad that he was permitted to enjoy 

 their kind hospitality, and hopes ever to 

 merit their highest esteem. 



Tliat "Real Estate Matter."— 



Bro. J. E. Pond, of North Attleboro, Mass., 

 wrote us as follows on June 32nd, about 

 " Business," who two weeks ago had a mild 

 criticism in the Bee Journal : 



I was amused at the letter from " Busi- 

 ness," on page 776, who finds fault with 

 " real estate talk." If he can't find enough 

 good, sound meat in the American Bee 

 Journal, even if he don't read about "real 

 estate," he can let it alone. Does he sup- 

 pose the Bee Journal is published for, or 

 in the interest of one man only ? If I were 

 going to find fault I should " go for " " Class 

 Representative" (page 783), and others, 

 but perhaps those articles will be of inter- 

 est to many others, if not to myself, so I 

 let the editors run their papers to suit them- 

 selves, believing they can judge better of 

 what their readers want than I can, and I 

 can, or at least have, always found value 

 received in every issue as yet. 



J. E. Pond. 



Bro. Pond, we don't think " Business " 

 meant to hit very hard, so we haven't 

 taken any offense at what he said. There 

 are all kinds of people in this world, and of 

 course no editor can suit them all, however 

 hard he may try so to do ; still, we do en- 

 deavor to please the great majority of our 

 readers, and sometimes we feel that we come 

 pretty close to making a success of it. At 

 any rate, we want always to do the right 

 thing, as nearly as we can see it, and that, 

 then, is the best we can do. 



It^" It has often been stated that it pays 

 best to run an apiary for extracted honey, 

 but my own opinion is that to obtain the 

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 Slrnmlns. 



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