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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIOIV. 



Single subscriber, one year, $2.00 



Two subscribers, sent at the same time. .. 3.50 



Three " " " " " ••• 5.00 



Six " " " •• •' ... 9.00 



All larger clubs at the same rate. 



RATES FOR ADVERTISING. 



1 month, per Une, 20 cents. 



2 " " " each insertion ,...15 " 



3 " " " " •' ....12 " 

 6 " " " " " ....lO " 



One inch in Length of Column makes Twelve Lines. 



Special Notices, and pages next to reading 

 matter, one-third more than the above rates. 

 Last page of cover, double rates. 



No advertisement received for less than $1. 



Cash in advance for all transient advertise- 

 ments. Bills of regular advertisers payable 

 quarterly. We adhere strictly to our printed 

 rates. 



Address all communications and remit- 

 tances to THOS. G. NEWMAN & SON, 

 184 Clark St.. Chicago, 111. 



"Write names and addresses plain— giving 

 County and State. 



Additions can be made to clubs at any 

 time, at the same club rate. 



When chansiiig post-office address, men- 

 tion the old address as well as the new one. 



Specimen copies, canvassing outfit, 

 Posters, and Illustrated Price List sent free 

 upon application. 



We send the Journal until an order for 

 discontinuance is received at this oflice, and 

 arrearages are all paid. 



We will give Hill's work on "Chicken 

 Cholera" (price 50 cents), to any one desir- 

 ing it, as a premium for two subscribers. 



It^ When you have a leisure hour or 

 evening, why not drop in on a neigliboring 

 family and see if you cannot get a subscrib- 

 er for The Ameiucan Bee Journal? 



Remittances to be sent at our risk must 

 be by Post-office Order, Registered Letter, 

 Draft or Express (charges prepaid). Make 

 Post-office Orders and Drafts payable to 

 Thomas G. Newman & Son. 



„^ "For the convenience of bee-keepers, 

 we have made arrangements to supply, at 

 the lowest market prices, Imported or test- 

 ed Italian Queens, full colonies, Laiigstroth 

 or other liives, Extractors of all the makes, 

 and anything required about the apiary. 



The only safe way to send money by 



mail is to get the letter registered, or pro- 

 cure a money order or draft. We cannot be 

 responsible for money lost, unless these 

 precautions are taken. Then it is at our 

 risk, and if lost we will make it good to the 

 sender, but not otherwise. 



'Attention is called to the advertise- 

 ment of Ropp's Commercial Calcula- 

 tor. It is in all respects what is claimed 

 for it, and is a very valuable work. 



Write Plainly. 



We have often requested our correspon- 

 dents to be careful to write their names and 

 addresses plainly. Friend R. B. Oldt asks 

 us to publish the following, which we do 

 cheerfully, it being good advice to all: 



"1 would request all who write to me to 

 give the nahie and address plainly, with 

 County and State. The signatures of 

 several letters I have received were so blind 

 that I could not read them, but tried to 

 imitate them as well as I could, hoping the 

 postmasters could decipher them better 

 than I could. Some years ago I addressed 

 a letter to Mr. Quinby, and received an 

 answer, but my signature was pasted on the 

 envelope, with the following: 'I cannot 

 make out the signature.' This learned me 

 a lesson. Names are not easily deciphered 

 by those who are strangers to the writer." 



This "advice is good and timely," and we 

 hope correspondents in general will profit 

 by it. This morning we received a letter 

 with $2 enclosed that had no signature. We 

 often have such with neither signature, 

 post-office, county, nor state. Is it any 

 wonder that vexatious delays follow such 

 negligence ? 



A little while ago, a person sent for a bee 

 veil, enclosing the money, but giving no ad- 

 dress. Of course we could not fill the 

 order, though he said he wanted it by 

 return mail. A week later, he sent us a 

 postal card telling us to send it at once, that 

 he didn't like our method of doing business, 

 etc., but still gave no name— the post-mark 

 on it showed the address, but that did not 

 allow us to fill the order. Another week 

 elapsed, and that brought a letter denounc- 

 ing us as swindlers and threatening to ex- 

 pose us in the daily papers as such. This 

 time he was angry, but fortunately not toO' 

 angry to give his name, but still gave no 

 address. By putting all three letters to- 

 gether and comparing the writing, we were 

 satisfied that they were all from one person, 

 and filled the order. We wrote him and 

 sent all the letters back, explaining the 

 cause of delay, and telling him never to 

 write again without giving full address — 

 and thus save his temper. 



We have several dollars here now await- 

 ing claimants, which came in letters giving 

 no name or address. Many of such, no 

 doubt, think we are trying to cheat them. 



Another cause of trouble is not putting a 

 stamp on letters. Such are invariably sent 

 to the "Dead Letter Office" in Washington; 

 the clerk having charge of such, notifies us 

 and tells us to send him a stamp. Here are 

 three letters and an expense of 9 cents in- 

 curred—and a vexatious delay of 2 or 3 

 weeks. Let all be careful, and thus avoid 

 mistakes and vexatious delays. 



