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EDITOR. 



Vol. mi. Dec. 6, 1890. No. 49. 



Death has claimed another of the most 

 prominent apiarists of the world. Pastor 

 C de Ribeaucourt died at Lausanne, Switz- 

 erland, on Oct. 24, 1890, at the age of 73 

 years. He died of paralysis preceded by 

 congestion. He was the author of the 

 Manuel d' ApicxiUure Ratlonelle, of which 

 there has been four editions published since 

 1871, when the first appeared. He was 

 the President of the National Apicultural 

 Convention, held in 1869, in Lausanne, 

 Switzerland, which we attended in com- 

 pany with our friend Mr. Ed. Bertrand, 

 editor of the Revue Internationale D'Api- 

 cxiUure, published at Nyon, Suisse. In fact, 

 he was the father of the organization, and 

 served many years as its honored Presi- 

 dent. He was a valued correspondent of 

 the Review, and an earnest advocate of 

 modern methods and progressive ideas in 

 apiculture, and his place cannot readily be 

 filled. He was an educated clergyman,and 

 for 46 years was a pastor in the Canton de 

 Vaud. 



Space at tbe Columbian Fair. 



— Dr. 1 A. B. Mason writes thus about the 

 amount that will be required : 



On page 788, sixth line from the bottom 

 of the first column, the types make me say 

 10,000 instead of 100,000, as I intended 

 to write, if I did not. It looks " kinder " 

 ridiculous to say that we may not need 

 more than 10,000 square feet fortbe entire 

 honey display, when 1 said that " I expect 

 to ask for about 3,000 square feet of space 

 for Ohio." 



The Doctor's article was copied by a type 

 •writer, and these figures were changed and 

 blotted, and as it said "from 10,000 to 

 150,000 feet," it passed the proof-reader's 

 eyes without detection. 



Canadians Not Americans.— 



On this matter, the Rev. W. F. Clarke 

 writes thus : 



In reference to the paragraph on page 

 771, of course there is a sense (^the geo- 

 graphical one) in which Canadians are 

 Americans. It is the same sense in which 

 Mexicans and Patagonians are Americans. 



But the geographical is not the only sense 

 in which the term American is used. In 

 this respect it differs from the word Euro- 

 pean. There is no one nation on the Con- 

 tinent of Europe which claims to be the 

 European nation, in the way the people of 

 United States claim to be the American 

 nation. 



Strictly speaking, the United States is an 

 American country ; so is Canada ; so is 

 Mexico ; so is Patagonia. When "the 

 American people" are spoken of, Cana- 

 dians are not included ; when "the Ameri- 

 can government " is spoken of, Canada is 

 not included ; when " American money " is 

 spoken of, it does not include the coin or 

 bank bills of Canada. 



The idea that Canadians are not Ameri- 

 cans is not a " foolish notion," but a matter 

 of fact. The people of the United States 

 should never have assumed the name 

 Americans, and probably would not, but 

 for their ideas of "manifest destiny." 



" No pent-up Utica contracts our powers, 

 But the whole boundless Continent is ours." 



No, it isn't, and probably never will be. 

 At any rate, it will be time enough to set 

 up the claim when it has a legal and actual 

 basis. 



Brother Clarke is again mistaken. We 

 who live south of the great lakes do not 

 Cloim to be "fhc American Nation !" We 

 are only (as in one place he correctly 

 says) "the people of the United States." 



Canadians and Mexicans, Brazilians and 

 Patagonians are just as much entitled to be 

 called Americans as we are, and we have 

 no wish to deprive them of the honor of 

 such a glorious appellation. 



When we go to other Continents, we are 

 all proud to be called "Americans" first, 

 and if further distinction is desired, then 

 we are from Canada or Mexico, from 

 Brazil or Patagonia, or from the United 

 States of Columbia, or the United States of 

 America ! 



We should not cavil about such hair- 

 splitting and nonsense, but devote our 

 energies to the interests of the pursuit, and 

 its prosperity. 



Enraptured. — This is the opinion of 



one who sent for a sample copy : 



I am enraptured over your beautiful and 

 artistic Home Jodrnal, and inclose 50 

 cents for a year's subscription. — A.T.Cook, 

 Hyde Park, N. Y. 



We hope the reader will think and do the 

 same as Mr. Cook, after examining the 

 sample sent last week. 



Xhe Discovery of Dr. Eoch, of 

 Berlin, of a cure for consumption in its 

 early stages is attracting world-wide atten- 

 tion. "Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper" will send a consumptive patient 

 from New York, for treatment, and will 

 print a full narrative of the method of 

 treatment, and its results, in "Frank 

 Leslie's,from week to week. 



Secrets for a Nickel-and-a- 

 Dime.— Mr. D. E. Weage, of East Gilead, 

 Mich,, writes as follows : 



Our Post-master has received a large 

 package of circulars like the enclosed, with 

 an offer of a (55 cent book for distributing 

 them. His name is F. Andrews, and he 

 hails from Chicago. Please look him up. 



The Circular is about a wonderful bee- 

 hive and bee-book called "Secrets of Bee 

 Keeping." That very title gives him away. 

 There are no "secrets" in bee-keeping 

 now-a days. 



He promises a return of from 825 to $60 

 from an investment of from $2 to $4, in his 

 hive and pamphlet. The pamphlet is a 

 poor reprint of N. C. Mitchell'.?, which was 

 published many years ago. 



We ventilated the whole thing in last 

 year's Bee JouRNAL,on pages 259 and 323. 

 Gleanings and the Bee-Hive also venti- 

 lated the Andrews bubble nearly a year 

 ago. He will only catch novices by his 

 fabulous stories — but even they should be 

 warned, when it is possible to do so, to 

 keep their nickel-and-dime for some more 

 profitable investment. 



1^" The Bee-Hive, heretofore published 

 by E. H. Cook, of Andover, Conn., has 

 been sold to W. T. Falconer Manufacturing 

 Company, who will publish it monthly 

 next year under the name of the "Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keeper," at 50 cents a year. We 

 club it with our Bee Journal at $1.40 for 

 both, as will be seen in our Clubbing List, 

 on page 812. 



Supply Dealers who are about to 

 publish catalogues, should be sure to get 

 the prices of books and periodicals cor- 

 rectly stated to prevent confusion. One 

 just received — the first for next year — 

 incorrectly quotes two — a bee-periodical 

 and a bee-book. In the former there is a 

 double mistake, as to frequency of issue 

 and price. Last year some catalogues 

 quoted bee-paperswhich had ceased to exist 

 for several years. In these progressive 

 days, such things ought not to be allowed. 



One of the IVIost attractive 



show windows in Boston, just now, is the 

 apothecary's store at the corner of Wash- 

 ington and Winter streets. The proprietor 

 has hit upon something that draws a crowd 

 around his window all day ; it is nothing 

 more nor less than a hive of Italian bees, 

 one side of which is of glass, exposing the 

 interior to the full view of the crowd. The 

 hive is elegantly-finished, and the honey is 

 of the whitest, and the show is certainly 

 attractive to look at ; but, after all, it is 

 the novelty of the thing that draws the 

 idler as he passes ; if bees were an every- 

 day sight in the country, as they should 

 be, there would be less curiosity in a street- 

 crowd, in Boston, to stop and look at them. 

 —Exchange. 



