reports ? Mr. Root proclaimed tlie qualities 

 of glucose, aud that was enough ! ! 



Is not selling solid glucose under the name 

 of grape suj^ar, and refusing to publish the 

 truth about it, a kind of swindle ? The so- 

 called grape-sugar, such as isoifered here, 

 is a far poorer article than liquid glucose. 

 In France, solid glucose is obtained by 

 evaporating liquid glucose. Here it is ob- 

 tained by putting in it a greater quantity of 

 chalk, and the vendors of that compound, 

 under the name of " grape sugar" (Mr. Root 

 included), should be published as swindlers 

 and humbugs in Oleaiiings ! 



I was one of the six who remonstrated 

 against introducing religion in a newspaper. 

 Like Mr. D. D. Palmer, I would be glad to 

 have my letters published in Oleanings. 

 As the editor of that paper insulted all the 

 free-thinkers, by saying that there can be no 

 honesty where there is no faith in the Bible, 

 I will examine the motives of his conversion. 

 I find them related in Gleanings for August, 

 page 273 : 



" Several years ago, a very intelligent bee-keeper 

 paid me a yisit of several days. At the time 1 was 

 not a believer in the Bible, or at least I claimed that 

 1 was not, and he seemed to rejoice when he had dis- 

 covered the fact. If I recollect aright, he made the 

 remark that the greater part of our number were 

 skeptics; that Mr. A did not believe in religion, and 

 worked his bees on Sundays, also Mr. B, and C, and 

 D, and E ; that Mr, F. was spiritualist, Mr. H some- 

 thing else, and so on. I remember a little feeling of 

 pain at this, for lightly as I was in the habitof speak- 

 ing of the Bible, I could not help feeling a slight 

 shudder. Would he, while visiting other bee-keepers, 

 say of me : Yes ; and Novice, too, does not beheve 

 in Bibles, and churches, and Sunday-schools ; but 

 says it is an old piece of superstition, and it is high 

 time that it was all done away with, and reckoned 

 amongst the things of the past. It is true, my 

 friends, I was fond of saying just those words " 



Mr. Root has always one eye to business. 

 He shuddered at the idea of being known by 

 bee-keepers as a free-thinker ! What would 

 become of the metal corners, the Simplicity 

 hive and Olednlngs f It was just to avoid 

 so great a danger. To make a parade of a 

 miraculous conversion was notenough ; was 

 it not necessary to accuse of dishonesty all 

 the unbelievers in the Bible ? This new de- 

 parture having proved a good investment, 

 our new saint boasts, every month, more and 

 more of his religion and of his good deeds, 

 and pockets the money beside ! 



I began my article with a quotation from 

 the Bible ; I will terminate it with another : 



" Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, 

 do not sound a trumpet before thee, as do 

 the hypocrites in the synagogues and in the 

 streets, that they may have glory of men ! 

 When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the 

 hypocrites are ; for they love to pray stand- 

 ing in the synagogues and in the corners of 

 the streets, that they may be seen of men." 

 —Matt. 6 : 2, .5. Cha,s. Dadant. 



Hamilton, 111. 



P. S.— I have yet on hand a few hundred 

 copies of the petition that I would be glad 

 to send to send to parties, to have them 

 signed. Ch. D. 



^M° The Sorrento Saw for attaching to any 

 sewing machine, advertised in another 

 column, is a nice thing, and may be seen in 

 our Museum. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Whyjs_It? 



We have just returned from a trip to the 

 St. Louis Exposition, one of the best, if not 

 the best Exposition held in the West. 



While there we looked around carefully 

 for a display in the apiarian line, but not a 

 thing to be seen in that way, nor a bee or 

 beehive, nor a single ounce of honey. We 

 could but inquire of ourselves, why is it? 

 We speak of lioney markets but what effort 

 is or lias been made to work up a Western 

 market. None that we know of, save friend 

 Muth, of Cincinnati. 



Sorry that we cannot attend the National 

 Convention this season, but otlb?r engage- 

 ments prevent. W. J. Andrews. 



Columbia, Tenn., Sept. 17, 1878. 



For the American Bee .Tournal. 



A Curious Incident. 



In Italianizing, I placed a small colony, 

 with queen cell, on a strong colony that I 

 wanted to change queens with, with wire 

 cloth between, expecting after the young 

 queen was fertilized to remove the old 

 queen and let them all go together, but she 

 was lost in going out to meet the drone, and 

 so made a strong colony of the upper one, 

 letting them raise a (pieen, and took them 

 off. After the time had passed by for the 

 young queen to hatch, I found that the young 

 queen, on returning from her wedding trip, 

 had gone into the lower hive, and being of 

 the same scent, had passed unnoticed, met 

 and killed tiie old one (which was clipped) 

 and remained in that hive. May we not get 

 a hint from this incident so as to make the 

 changing of queens more easy ? You may 

 set me down a strong disbeliever in tlie 

 Dzierzon theory, in regard to drones being 

 pure from a queen that has met an impure 

 drone. S. S. Butler, M. D. 



San Jose, Cal., Sept. 4, 1878. 



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For the American Bee Journal. 



Wire for Foundation, Extractor, &c. 



When I wrote the article for the July num- 

 ber on " Wire for Foundation," I described 

 bedding the wire in the foundation by placing 

 in the sun and pressing the wire in with a 

 guui rolli'r. I have now got something bet- 

 ter and cheaper. Make a wheel of wood 13^ 

 inches in diameter. J^ inch thick ; place in 

 this oval tin cogs, }4 inch apart and % deep; 

 set this wheel in a .socket, and you are ready 

 for work. Fasten the wires to foundation 

 as described in the July number ; wet a 

 board to fit the frame ; place the foundation 

 on this with wires on the upper side ; then 

 run the wheel over the wire, just hard 

 enough to bed the wire into the foundation. 

 The wire should be fine, so that it will cut 

 into the foundation, and if it should be a 

 little loose in the frames this wheel will kink 

 it, so that it will work all right. Coarse 

 wire will not bed well, and is a detriment to 

 brood-rearing, as the queen will skip the 

 cells it passes through ; but the fine wire 



