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TH091AS «. NElrViuAH, 



EDITOR. 



.Toimi N07,29,1890, No. 48. 



nnd if you want a motto, 



To aid your pathway through 

 This life of double trouble 



For me as well as you, 

 Why then I offer this one. 



Although it is not new : 

 It's never trouble trouble. 



Until trouble troubles you. 



" Honey from the Rock of Ages," by 

 Rev. Albert Sims, of Otterville, Ont. (35 

 cents) , is a collection of practical stories. 



Mr. Justus R. Van Deusen was 



niarried to Miss Cora L. Bow man on Thurs- 

 day, Oct. 33, 1890, at Buel, N. Y.. This is 

 the junior member of the firm of J. Van 

 Deusen & Son, Sprout Brook, N. Y., manu- 

 facturers of the justly celebrated flat-bot- 

 tomed comb fojindation. We wish the 

 newly wedded pair much happiness and 

 prosperity. 



This item should have been published 

 before this, but was over-looked in the 

 "rush " we have been in since the Conven- 

 tion, trying to catch up our work which 

 had to lay over during our absence. 



We have Received a copy of a 

 new pamphlet of 150 pages, published by 

 Milton Weston, 149 Michigan Avenue, 

 Chicago, Ills., entitled, "World's Fairs 

 from London (1851) to Chicago (1893) by 

 C. B. Norton, illustrated with views and 

 portraits in the Maas art type." It con- 

 tains full particulars concerning the ten 

 World's Fairs which were held during the 

 past 40 years, and is illustrated with 30 

 full page engravings. Its beautiful pictures 

 are well worth preservation, and will cause 

 admiration to every beholder. A copy of 

 this V)Ook should be in every house in North 

 America. 



The North Kmerican Bee-keepers' 

 Association is now of age. It celebrated 

 its aist birthday at Keokuk, Iowa, last 

 month. We have given over 70 columns 

 of a report of the proceedings of that Con- 

 vention — the largest ever published during 

 its whole existence. Our readers will 

 appreciate this, as they will all be able to 

 read a very full digest of all that was said 

 and done at that meeting. 



Bro. Root has our thanks for the verj' 

 kind allusions contained in the paragraphs 

 copied below. Coming from such an ex- 

 cellent periodical as Oleanings hi Bee- 

 Calture, the commendation is all the more 

 appreciated. Apiarists have cause for 

 much congratulation upon the general 

 excellence of their periodical literature, as 

 well as the friendship and harmony among 

 the editors of the different bee periodicals. 



Further particulars in regard to the mat- 

 ter will be found in the Ameuicas Bee 

 JouK.N'AL, as also a full report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Convention, which we do 

 not give here, as we do not wish to have 

 our pages contain something that most of 

 our readers will see in the Ameku an* Bee 



JOUKNAL. 



I hope I may digress enough right here 

 to urge every reader of Gteoiwigs to sub- 

 scribe for the American Bee Journal at 

 once, if he does not now take it. Its editor 

 has perhaps done more to keep up our 

 conventions, report their proceedings, and 

 labor for the geuei'al interest of the bee- 

 keepers of America than any other one 

 among us. The field occupied is so differ- 

 ent from the one covered by Gleanings, 

 that you will not find much repetition^ if 

 you take the two. 



Here is another thing that we want to 

 present to our readers, and we can do no 

 better than to give the following from 

 Oleanings iorNov. 15 ; 



The Convention was one of the best I 

 ever attended. The attendance was not 

 only large, but our Western friends came 

 and handed in their dollars in order that 

 they might become members, more gen- 

 erally, I think, than in any other Conven- 

 tion I ever attended. 



Perhaps I might mention right here, that 

 one of the troubles in our conventions is in 

 this very line. A good many attend every 

 session, take great interest in the proceed- 

 ings, and sometimes take part, to a consid- 

 erable extent, in the debates ; yet when the 

 call is made for the funds to keep up the 

 necessary expenses, in many localities 

 there has been considerable hanging back. 



Dr. Miller, Dr. Mason, Prof. Cook, and 

 others, have urged so hard that every one 

 should hand in a dollar, that sometimes we 

 have almost had hard feelings in regard to 

 the matter. If we move our National Con- 

 vention all over the United States, or, at 

 least, over a great portion of it, as we have 

 been doing, it happens, as a matter of 

 course, that a great part of the members 

 (and oftentimes the presiding officers) are 

 made of people who never attended before, 

 and perhaps who may never attend again. 

 This seems a little unfortunate ; and yet if 

 all parts of the United States are equally 

 represented, it must be so, to a greater or 

 less extent. 



During this last session, arrangements 

 were made whereby we might have a cer- 

 tain number, at least, who would be mem- 

 bers year after year, whether they could 

 be in attendance or not. This is secured 

 by making anybody a life-member upon the 

 payment of .*10. 



If I am correct, the editor of the A.meki- 

 CA.v Bee JoLitSAi, was the first one to pay 

 $10 and become a life-member. Ernest 

 and I have also agreed to become life-mem- 

 bers, aud I said at the Convention that I 

 thought the United States should furnish 

 at least lio who would pay a like sum, and 

 hereafter be members for life. 



Now, theu, who is there among our 

 readers who is ready to stand by us for the 

 purpose of making a permanent institution 

 of the North American Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety, as it is to be styled, in order that it 

 may stand on a permanent basis, and not 

 be left to be blown about by the wind, and 

 dry up and die like autumn leaves ? 



It is proposed to have it incorporated 

 according to the laws of the United States, 

 and it seems to me this would be a very 

 sensible and wise proceeding. 



These life-members will be the binding 

 link, and will insure premanency and 

 stability. The Association wiU be incor- 

 porated soon, and the life-members will be 

 the incorporators. {[^^ Let any one who 

 wants to share in this honor send ten 

 dollars to C. P. Dadant, the Secretary at 

 Hamilton, Ills., and be enrolled as a life- 

 member of the Association. 



Editorial Courtesy. — This is what 

 the CatuuUan Dee Journal says about the 

 very inappropriate essay by the editor of 

 the Review, which was read at the Keokuk 

 Convention : 



We defy anj- one to point out any way in 

 which we have ever written down other 

 people's hives or fixtures to boom our own. 

 The Canadian Bee Journal impartially 

 treats all subjects presented in its columns, 

 and is just as williugto permit good things 

 to be said of hives and fixtures sold by 

 competitors as to have such said of our own. 



Yes,Brother Macpherson ; and they all do. 

 It was a great piece of foolishness to send 

 such an essay to a Convention. It was an 

 editorial written for the Review, and its 

 "personal chats" with subscribers, and 

 individual suggestions were totally out of 

 place at a Convention. But as Bro. Hutch- 

 inson was indisposed and "out of sorts," 

 we must overlook his editorially-youthful 

 indiscretion, and cover it with the mantle 

 of charity. It was a mistake ; but it did no 

 harm. Of the editors present, not one 

 referred to his own publication, or tried to 

 outvie the other in anything. In fact, just 

 the opposite was the rule — practicing this 

 injunction : " In honor preferring one 

 another." With such a state of things 

 existing, the unfortunate essay was power- 

 less to do harm, and did not cause the least 

 ripple on the waters of cordiality. 



Speaking of sending for a sample 

 copy of the Bee Journal, Brother Henry 

 .A.lley, in the Amo-lcan Apiculturist for 

 November, remarks as follows concerning 

 the Illustrated Home Journal : 



By the way, reader, when cyou send for a 

 copy of the American Bee Journal, why 

 Dot, at the same time, enclose teu cents 

 and get the Illustrated Home Journal 

 three months '. We receive this publication 

 each month, and find its columns filled 

 with choice and interesting reading. 



