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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 17, 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. John L. Nail, of Brevard county, Fla., has been 

 treating the editor of his local newspaper to a feast of fine 

 comb honey, and of course it " Nail-ed " that editor's sweet 

 tooth completely. The honey was gathered from palmetto 

 bloom. 'Twould be a good thing if other bee-keepers would 

 follow Mr. Nail's example. It helps to advertise your honey, 

 as well as to sweeten the life of ye country editor. 



Me. H. H. Porter, of Wisconsin, intending to leave that 

 State for several months, asked that his subscription to the 

 American Bee Journal be discontinued ; but as he did not go, 

 he sends for the paper again and says : " I am getting lone- 

 some without the Bee Journal, Please commence where I 

 stopped." We have no doubt many others would " get lone- 

 some ■' without the regular visits of a favorite paper. But so 

 far as we are concerned, we stand ready to help prevent any 

 lonesomeness whenever we can. The American Bee Journal 

 wants to go regularly to every bee-keeper in the land. 



Rev. M. Mahin, D. D. 

 learn, has been very sick. 



of New Castle, Ind., we regret to 

 In a letter dated Sept. 2 he says : 



"I am just coming out — at least I hope I am — of a 

 month's severe illness from biliary calculi. I have suffered 

 more than tongue can tell. I am not yet able to do any work, 

 except a very little of the lightest kind." 



We hope Dr. M. may soon be quite himself again, and 

 live many happy years to aid and bless the church of which 

 he is an honored minister. Our readers well know him as one 

 of the number who furnish answers to the conundrums in our 

 " Question-Box." In regard to the bees. Dr. Mahia says this : 



" Bees are gathering some honey now, which is almost 

 the first this season. I hope they will get enough to winter 

 them." 



Mr. Allen Pringle's Death has called out the follow- 

 ing expressions of sympathy and regret : 



Editor Hutchinson, in the Bee-Keepers' Review, among 

 other things, said this about Mr. Pringle : 



"Canadians have lost one of their brightest bee-keepers 

 and truest men in the death of Mr. Allen Pringle. He was a 

 scientist and scholar, and model farmer as well as a bee- 



keeper, but, best of all, he was a man of sterling integrity, 

 one who scorned to do a mean act, and was ever ready with 

 tongue and pen to defend the right. One of his greatest re- 

 grets in leaving was that at such a comparatively early age 

 (55) he should be compelled to leave so much work undone. 



" Since the foregoing was written, I have received a letter 

 from Mrs. Pringle, its sorrow and tenderness showing above 

 all things how true a man was her husband." 



The Canadian Bee Journal, after publishing a notice of 

 Mr. Pringle's death, said : 



"We were shocked to see the above item in The Toronto 

 Daily Globe. The late Mr. Allen Pringle was undoubtedly an 

 able writer. As a bee-keeper he assisted materially in put- 

 ting bee-keeping before the public in its proper light. Mr. 

 Pringle has held a number of prominent positions in the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association." 



Hammond, Ind., Aug. IS, 1896. 

 Mr. York : — I regret exceedingly to learn of the sudden 

 death of Allen Pringle. I feel as if I had lost a friend, al- 

 though I had no acquaintance with him except through the 

 American Bee Journal. I will miss his able, interesting, and 

 incisive articles on apiculture. Truly, our loss is his infinite 

 gain. Roderick McKenzie. 



Gleanings in Bee-Culture had these words from Editor 

 Root : 



" While not a prolific writer, what Mr. Pringle did say 

 commanded attention. The diction of his articles was beauti- 

 fully smooth, and there was something in them, too, that 

 reminded the reader that their author was a scholar of no 

 mean order. A number of years ago, when bee-keepers every- 

 where were harassed by the reports that were going the 

 rounds of the daily papers, to the effect that honey-comb was 

 manufactured, and filled with glucose, nothing seemed able to 

 stem the tide of it. Editorials in the bee-journals, protesting 

 and denouncing It as untrue, had little or no effect. The 

 " Wiley lie,'' that gave the start to these reports, appeared 

 originally in the Popular Science Monthly ; and Mr. Pringle, 

 appreciating the fact that we were fighting through the 

 wrong channels, conceived the idea of refuting the canard 

 right where it started. The result was, he sent an article to 

 that monthly, denying the comb honey yarn, and explaining 

 how impossible it was to make it. This was given the same 

 prominence as the original Wiley lie, and was subsequently 

 copied widely by the general press. How much effect it had 

 •n stopping the course of this famous comb-honey canard it 

 would be impossible to estimate at the present time." 



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