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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Xhe Object of L,iviiig,it seems 

 to us, is to do what good we can, and, 

 like the bees, to industriously store up 

 treasures for our successors, and thus 

 prove ourselves to be the benefactors of 

 the race. This appears to be the lesson 

 taught by our very existence on this 

 planet. 



We should be good to ourselves, good 

 to those with whom we are daily brought 

 into business intercourse, and good to 

 those who are less fortunate than our- 

 selves in the battle of life. 



"He was good to the poor," is what 

 the people \vhom he aided declare with 

 one voice ot the late Cardinal Manning. 

 These words should be his epitaph. He 

 was good to the poor. Besides giving 

 of his means to them as long as he lived, 

 he also helped them in the far higher 

 and better way of being good to the 

 poor. He looked profoundly into ques- 

 tions of labor and capital, and used his 

 powers of heart and brain to place them 

 beyond the necessity of parish or char- 

 itable aid. 



The only way to really help a poverty 

 stricken jjersou is to put him upon his 

 own feet and enable him to work for his 

 living. Those who give money to street 

 beggars do more harm than good. So 

 do those who bestow food and clothing 

 indiscriminately upon all who ask it. 



The ragged creature who pursues street 

 begging for a vocation has sometimes a 

 flourishing bank account, built solely on 

 the weak and sentimental pity of the 

 thoughtless. Tlie true doctrine is that 

 nobody is entitled to a living who does 

 not in one way or another earn it. If 

 the impudent and whining street beggar 

 will not work for his living let him die. 



There are organizations that will take 

 all the charity one has to bestow and see 

 that it reaches the worthy poor. Aid to 

 tide over immediate necessities ought to 

 be forthcoming, but in every case the 

 unworthy ought to be made to work or 

 starve. The true helper of the poor will 

 be he who v.in in some way find work 

 for them to do which the community 

 ueeds to have done. 



Carelessness in ordinary corres- 

 pondence is so common, yet so utterly 

 inexcusable, that it becomes very annoy- 

 ing to those who wish to conduct busi- 

 ness in a business-like way. We have 

 before us a postal card stating that the 

 writer had sent for a sample copy of the 

 Bee Journal some time since, and asfl 

 he received no reply, he concluded that" 

 we failed to get the former request. Of 

 course we did not reply to it if, like the 

 card just received, it had no signature, 

 nor even a post-office address ! No doubt 

 this time he will put us down as very 

 unbusiness-like, when we cannot do 

 anything with his request except to 

 " file" it in the waste-basket. 



Another postal card has just come, 

 properly addressed to this office, which 

 is even more amusing and useless than 

 the one mentioned above. This one has 

 not even a single pen-mark upon its 

 back — it is a total blank ! It may be the 

 sender thought we could stretch our im- 

 agination to such an extent, and to such 

 a correct point, as to be able to guess at 

 exactly what the writer desired to say 

 when sending the card to us. We are 

 not adepts in mind-reading, nor at guess- 

 ing at what people want, or who they 

 are, hence we are unable to do anything 

 with such correspondence. 



These two instances should serve as 

 an illustration of the necessity of being 

 more careful when doing mail business. 



Krei^flit on extracted-honey is very 

 much too high. The National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, in company with quite 

 a number of apiarists, have for some 

 time been laboring to have the classifica- 

 tion on extracted-honciy changed to a 

 lower rate, and we hope at no distant 

 time to be able to announce good results. 

 Mr. T. J. Ripley, Chairman of the 

 Western Classification Committee has in- 

 formed us that the matter will receive 

 due attention at the next meeting of 

 the committee. 



Jacoto X. Xinipe and Estella 

 lloughtoling were married Mar. 1, 1892. 



