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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Sept. 6. 1900 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & Co. 



118 Michigan St., Gliicago, 111. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicag-o as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter.J 



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 SOc a year extra for postage. Sample copy free. 



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 label shows that it is paid to the end of De- 

 cember. l'30O. 



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 change the date on your wrapper-label, which 

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 tion. 



Reformed Spelling.— The American Bee Journal 

 adopts the orthography of the following Rule, 

 recommended by the joint action of the Amer- 

 ican Philolog cal Association and the Philo- 

 logical Society of England: — Change 'd" or 

 "ed" final to "t'' when so pronounced, except 

 when the "e" aff "cts a preceding sound. Also 

 some other changes are used. 



ii va: Jte >ti sK ste. >ii rfi >fe >to >*i sfe >te ti 



IfeWeekly Budget J 



Mrs. M. L. Williams, of Wadena 

 Co., Minn., writing us Aug. 23, said : 



" My bees are doing a rushing busi- 

 ness." 



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Mr. D. Paterson, of Hardin Co., 

 Iowa, wrote us Aug. 25. as follows : 



" Bees in this part of Hardin County 

 have done very well." 

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Mr. O. p. Hkndkix, of Yazoo Co., 

 Miss., writing us Aug. 25, said : 



"This has been the poorest season 

 for honey that I have ever seen." 

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Mr. R. C. Aikin, wife .and little 

 daughter, of Colorado, were the first 

 bee-keepers from the West to arrive 

 for the convention last week. They 

 will visit Mrs. Aikin's relatives in 

 Kentucky, and then return home the 

 last week in this month. They were 

 all looking well, and seemed to enjoy 

 life as they should. 



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" One Hundred Years in the 

 White House," opening-the September 

 Ladies' Home Journal, gives some 

 highly interesting glimpses of the 

 social life of the century, and of the 

 home life of our Presidents since the 

 time the Adamses moved into the Exec- 

 utive Mansion as its first occupants, in 

 November, 1800. The " Romances of 

 Some Southern Homes," in the same 

 issue, pictures the most notable his- 

 toric mansions of the South, and re- 

 calls the incidents which made them 

 famous — their brave men and beauti- 



ful women. Some new anecdotes at- 

 tract further interest to the beloved 

 Phillips Brooks, as a man and a 

 preacher. They are characteristic, and 

 exceedingly well told. Anticipating 

 the rather radical change that fashion 

 has decreed in woman's attire, ten 

 special articles are devoted to the fall 

 and winter modes. The pictorial fea- 

 tures of the September Journal include 

 a page drawing of "Loiterers at the 

 Railroad Station," as A. B. Frost sees 

 them; "The Wonders of California 

 Gardens," and the beauties of Yellow- 

 stone Park. There are numerous prac- 

 tical articles, and much else that is 

 helpful in the departments. By the 

 Curtis Publishing Company, Philadel- 

 phia. One dollar a year ; ten cents a 

 copy. 



Reformed Spelling is supposed to 

 have had its quietus in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture, but " Uncle Lisha " gets 

 in the following skit in the last num- 

 ber : 



"Johnnie, what is the matter now ?" 

 said Tim Fasset to his boy who was 

 going by on his way home from school, 

 sobbing as tho his heart would break. 



"Oh!" said the little fellow, "I 

 didn't have any luck at spelling to- 

 day. The teacher put out s/ow to John 



Gilpin, and he spelled it s-l-o-w. And 

 then she put out mozv to Dick Carey, and 

 he spelled it m-o-w. And then she put 

 out dough to me, and I spelled it d-o-iv, 

 and the teacher said it wasn't right — 

 said it was spelled d-o-u-g-h. I don't 

 see why." 



" Come here," said Deacon Strong; 

 and he took the boy up in his arms and 

 told him he spelled right — the trouble 

 was, the English was wrong. 



" I can't have you talking sttch non- 

 sense as that to my children," said 

 Miss Barton, the teacher.rather crisply. 



" Why not?" said the deacon. 



"Why," said Miss Barton, "because 

 that is the way it is spelled, and that is 

 the way our fathers and grandfathers 

 spelled it. Words have a history, and 

 we should lose their history if we 

 didn't spell as our fathers did." 



"Suppose," said Tim Fasset, "we 

 were to keep bees just as our fathers 

 did, without making any change." 



" I guess the price of honey would 

 be higher than it is now," said Charley 

 Atkins. 



" I tell you," said Deacon Strong, 

 " if I could have my way I would have 

 a few more letters invented to repre- 

 sent every sound in the English lan- 

 guage, and *[ would then spell it 

 straight, and leave the history for the 

 dictionaries." 



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