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THOMAS «. r«EW]»IAl*, 



EDITOR. 



VdLXXIX, 



Fen. 18, 1892, 1, 8. 



Editorial Buzzings, 



A Bee's Small Sting* is a red-hot thing, 

 And " gets there " without fail ; 



It points a moral in language oral, 

 And besides adorns a tail. 



Missouri has a small city by the 

 name of Miami, located in Saline 

 county, which contains a lot of small 

 souls, who are worried about the harm 

 they say bees do to fruit, They have 

 signed the following petition and sent it 

 to the City Council : 



To the Honorable Mayor and Council of 



the City of Miami : 



We, the undersigned, tax-paying citi- 

 zens of Miami, having been greatly 

 annoyed, during the past two years, by 

 the bees, located within the limits of the 

 city of Miami, visiting our premises, 

 injuring or destroying our fruits ; by the 

 said bees stinging and frightening mem- 

 bers of our family ; respectfully ask 

 that our honorable body take such 

 action, and use such measures as will 



afford us relief from the said nuisance, 

 assuring you of our hearty support in 

 any steps you may take in accomplish- 

 ing the abatement of the nuisance. 



By the Miami Neios of Feb. 6, we 

 notice that the petition was presented at 

 the meeting of the City Council on Feb. 

 2, 1892. An Ordinance was also pre- 

 sented, and rushed through at the same 

 meeting, prohibiting the keeping of 

 bees within the corporated limits. 



NoWp we shall see what more the city 

 alderman will DO to make themselves 

 the laughing-stock of the world. 



If there is One Thingf more 

 than another that should be universally 

 condemned, it is a fraud — no matter 

 how practiced, nor by whom it is ad- 

 vocated. Dr. Miller, in Gleanings for 

 Feb. 1, makes a good point as follows : 



Feeding sugar to produce honey, in 

 the shape of the Wiley lie, has kept us 

 fighting for years ; and now comes a 

 correspondent of the Review, and gravely 

 raises the question whether, in bad sea- 

 sons, we may not have good comb-honey 

 made, by feeding sugar, in the right 

 way, and at the right distance. 



The Wiley affair was an attempt at 

 murder ; the present effort coming from 

 one of our best men, in one of our best 

 periodicals, is an attempt at suicide. 



Anything that weakens the pillars of 

 truth, justice, morality and honor, which 

 support human integrity, should be 

 regarded with excessive repugnance and 

 disgust. Even the deliberate contem- 

 plation of dishonestly obtaining honey in 

 the comb, by deceiving the bees and 

 making them a party to the fraud, is in 

 itself a crim,e ! 



We doubt if anything has ever been 

 seriously suggested which has been 

 quite so despicable as that. To put it 

 into practice would be to kill the in- 

 dustry, and hold its advocates up to 

 view as a set of base swindlers. 



No. No. It would be preferable to 

 die poor, even iu an alms-house, than to 

 be rich with such a stain on the soul ! 



Abhor the thought ! Condemn the sug- 

 gestion ! Cqrse the practice ! 



