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Pause and Xtaink. 



Onr trials we could soften, 



If we'd only pause and think. 

 Tears would not flow so often, 



If we'd only pause and think. 

 Our skies would all be brighter, 

 And our burdens would be lighter. 

 Our deeds would all be whiter 

 If we'd only pause and think. 



We would not proceed so blindly 



If we'd only pause and think. 

 We would never speak unkindly 



If we'd only pause and think. 



We would cease unrest to borrow. 



Darkly clouding each to-morrow, 



We would banish worlds of sorrow 



If we'd only pause and think. — Scl. 



Awards at the Late Paris Ex- 

 position. — Concerning these Awards, we 

 would refer our readers to a circular issued 

 by the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, and dated at Washington, D. C, 

 March 10, 1890, which reads as follows; 



Frequent inquiries are being received at 

 this Department by those who received 

 awards at the late Paris Exposition, as to 

 how to go to work to obtain their awards, 

 when they can be obtained, etc. All that 

 ■we have been able hitherto to say in reply- 

 ing to these inquiries was, that, first, ac- 

 cording to a decision of the authorities, no 

 medals (except perhaps those of bronze) 

 will be struck, but diplomas indicating the 

 kind of award will he issued, and it will 

 devolve upon the awardee to pay for the 

 striking of the medal if he wishes one; 

 second, judging from experience with pre- 

 ceding Expositions, it will be many months 

 before the diplomas are distributed, and 

 they wiU be distributed, when ready, 

 through the State Department. 



The Journal des Debats of Jan. 10 last, 

 contained official information which will be 

 interesting in this connection. It announces 

 that : the copies of the diplomas intended 

 for exhibitors who received awards will 

 not be delivered before March 1, though by 

 the terms of contract, they should have 

 been delivered by Jan. 1. The delay is due 

 to an accident which happened to the en- 

 graver. It is further announced that, 

 "The diplomas will in any event be en- 

 tirely distributed, as at present advised, by 

 Aug. 1, 1890, by which time all of the 

 bronze medals which are to accompany 

 diplomas, indicating recompenses above 

 the grade of honorable mention, will also 

 be distributed. ' 



Further information as to details of cost 

 and methods of obtaining the higher medals 

 awarded, will no doubt be sent out by 

 Commissioner General Franklin as soon as 

 obtained. 



In this connection I take pleasure in 

 stating that, in addition to awards to 

 American exhibitors in the Agricultural 

 Exhibit there was received, some time 

 since, a supplementary list of awards to 

 collaborators who helped in their exhibit, 

 including the following not , mentioned in 

 the original list sent out last November. 



CLASS 76.— USEFUL INSECTS. 



SILVER MEDALS. 



N. W. McLain, St. Anthony's Park, Minn. 

 Philip Walker, Washington, D. C. 



BRONZE MEDALS. 



A. J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. 



G. W. Demaree, Christiansburg, Ey. 



W. T. Falconer, Jamestown, N. Y. 



G. L. Tinker, New Philadelphia, O. 



A. C. Tyrrel, Madison, Nebr. 



James Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich. 



C. F. Muth & Son, Cincinnati, O. 



Thomas G. Newman & Son, Chicago, Ills. 



A. I. Root, Medina, O. 



J. Van Deusen & Sons, Sprout Brook, N. Y. 



A summary of the awards in the Agricul- 

 tural Exhibit shows the following results: 

 Grand prizes, 7 ; gold medals, 40 ; silver 

 medals, 68 ; bronze medals, 54; honorable 

 mentions, 39 ; and a comparison with the 

 American awards in the same classes at 

 previous Paris Expositions, or with those 

 in other classes in 1889, must needs be 

 gratifying to all concerned in the agricul- 

 tural exhibit at the late Exposition. 



J. M. Rusk, Sec. 



We can see no reason for the long delays 

 in supplying the medals, etc. In August, 

 1879, we were awarded a sil-ver medal for 

 an exhibit at Prague, Austria, and though 

 eleven years have nearly elapsed the medal 

 has not been received. We need a reform 

 in the management of such exhibitions. 

 Let the management of the Columbian 

 World's Fair in 1892, set an example to 

 the world in this matter, by prompt de- 

 livery of prizes awarded. 



lia tSrippe. — The epidemic that raged 

 all winter throughout Europe and America 

 is a disease that makes its visits only about 

 once in a century in an epidemic form. 



It is claimed by the medical profession 

 that of itself it is not especially dangerous, 

 but is apt to fasten its fangs upon weak 

 constitutions, and especially upon those 

 who are subject to pulmonary troubles, or 

 any other constitutional weakness. Those 

 who died, scarcely without an exception 

 succumbed, not to the influenza, but by the 

 aggravation of some previously existing 

 trouble by the influenza. 



It is very likely that the mild winter may 

 have something to do with it. The medical 

 profession both of Europe and America 

 seems inclined to the theory that the dis- 

 ease is due to a microbe that fills the at- 

 mosphere, and enters the system by inha- 

 lation. If this be true, the mild winter 

 may have given rise to the creation of the 

 microbe. It is singular, however, that the 

 disease should come to us from Russia, 

 where the winters are very rigorous — Ex. 



An exchange contains the following 



" fishy " paragraph ; 



From the Skies. — In various parts of 

 Laurens county, S. C, an unusually quant- 

 ity of "honey-dew" is reported to have 

 fallen ; and in some cases the phenomenon 

 of a shower of sweet water from a cloud- 

 less sky caused not a little alarm. 



" Sweet water from a cloudless sky " is 

 drawingupon the imagination considerably. 



Fractional Currency. — What is 

 needed by those who live in the country, 

 more than any other convenience, is paper 

 fractional currency issued by the United 

 States Government. The law introduced 

 last year authorizing it was buried in a 

 "pigeon-hole" by a committee. Let it 

 now be resurrected and passed. The fol- 

 lowing from an exchange is to the point: 



The ten million people who live in large 

 cities, most Congress memVjers among 

 them, have no need of buying through the 

 mails. They can go to a store near by and 

 procure any article they may desire. But 

 the fifty odd millions of our population 

 living in the country and country towns 

 are difl'erently situated. Where are they 

 going to get many of the conveniences and 

 necessities of rural life — such as books, 

 papers, seeds, plants, roots, flowers, in- 

 secticides, horticultural implements, and a 

 host of other things, not on sale in their im 

 mediate neighborhood — if not by purchase 

 from a distance? 



These fifty odd million people must make 

 remittances by mail, and it is not always 

 convenient to do this by postal note or 

 money orders; hence the fifty odd million 

 of people thus situated should be supplied 

 with money suited to their needs. Postage 

 stamps were never designed for currency 

 and with their small size and sticky backs, 

 and not being legal tender, are in no way 

 suited for that purpose. Yet for want of 

 something better, millions of doUars worth 

 of stamps are thus in circulation — a dread 

 to the sender, and a poor apology for legal 

 tender money in the hands of seedsmen, 

 nurserymen and other shippers of small 

 merchandise, as well as of publishers. 



This urgent need can be supplied by the 

 re -issue of a few million dollars in frac- 

 tional currency. 



J^" Clubs for anything in our Premium 

 List may be for either of our Journals, or 

 for any number of either or both of them. 



New Catalog^nes and Price-Lists for 

 1890 are received from — 



Wm. H. Bright, Mazeppa, Minn.— 20 

 pages — Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



J. T. Wilson, Little Hickman, Ky.— 1 

 page — Italian Queens. 



C. F. Muth & Son, Cincinnati, Ohio— 32 

 pages — Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



F. A. Lockhart & Co., Patten's Mills, N. 

 Y. — 8 pages — Carniolan Bees and Queens. 



Thos. S. Wallace, Clayton, Ills. — 4 pages 

 — Bees and Queens. 



Smith & Smith, Kenton, Ohio. — 26 pages 

 — Implements in Bee-Culture. 



GUlett & Horsford, Southwick, Mass.— 32 

 pages — Wild Flowers, Shrubs, Trees and 

 Vines. 



Convention IVotices. 



B^~ The spring meeting of the Northern Illinois 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, will meet at the residence 

 of D. A. Fuller, in Cherry Valley. Ills., on May 19th, 

 189U. D. A. Fuller. Sec. 



ZW The next regular meeting of the Houthwes- 

 tern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Association will he - 

 held at Boscohel, Wis., on Thursday, May 1,1890, 

 at 10 a.m. Benj. B. Kice. Sec. 



J^~ The 12th annual session of the Texas State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, will be held at Green- 

 ville, Hunt Co., Texas, on May 7 and S, ISai. All in- 

 terested are invited. J. N. IIonter, Sec. 



tF" The spring meeting of the Missouri State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will be held at Marshall. Saline 

 Co., Mo., on Wednesday and Thursday, April 16 and 

 17, IHVK), in the County CourURoom. Reduced rates 

 at the hotel, for bee-keepers, have been secured, and 

 a committee is at work to secure rates on the rail- 

 roads. A cordial invitation is extended to bee-beep- 

 ers everywhere, and especially to those of Missouri. 

 A number of essays from prominent bee-men are 

 expected, and an interesting time is anticipated. 

 J. W. Rouse, Sec. 



