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Xo-I>ay and Xo-MorroM'. 



"Build a little fence of trust 



Around to-day : 

 Fill the space with loving work. 



And therein stay. 



"Look out from the sheltering Bars 



IJlinn to-morrow ; 

 God will give grace to bear whate'ermay come 



Ofjoy and sorrow." 



Xhe Country is Flooded with that 

 article which was written by a sensational 

 reporter for the Philadelphia Record, and 

 by it published on June 18, 1889. Now it is 

 appearing in hundreds of papers all over the 

 country. It being only the results of the 

 " vain imagination " of the reporter, dished 

 up in a sensational style, it is all the more 

 acceptable, and " spreads like wild-fire." 



The heading of the article is a triple one, 

 and reads thus : " Bees Can Take a Rest. 

 They are No Longer Needed as Honey- 

 Makers. Commercial Cunning Makes the 

 Comb of Parafflne and the Honey of Glu- 

 cose, and the Public Can't Detect it." Then 

 it goes on in this manner : 



Wooden nutmegs must now yield the 

 palm to bees' honey in the comb, marmfac- 

 tured from parafflne and glucose. The 

 good old father of hymns, Isaac Watts, in 

 the innocence of his heart, wrote these lines : 



How doth the little busy bee 

 Improve each shining hour. 



And gather honey all the day 

 From every opening flower. 



All this, however, is but an illusion, for 

 the bee has lent itself to the deceitful prac- 

 tices of scheming men, and, Instead of dili- 

 gently buzzing from flower to flower and 

 gathering the sweetness thereof, the little 

 deceiver now loafs around in the sweetly 

 scented garden, while a few wicked bee- 

 culturists fill a parafflne comb with syrup 

 glucose and send it broadcast over the land 

 as the honest product of the hard-working 



Here is the secret revealed by a confiding 

 grocer, whose enthusiastic explanation of 

 the bee-rearer's deception overshadows the 

 ardor with which he sanded his sugar and 

 put peas in his coffee : Ton see, there 

 was a time when honey was honey, and 

 honey-comb was pure beeswax, but, like 

 everybody else, some bee-rearers wanted to 

 get rich more rapidly, and the Simon-pure 

 products of the bees would not yield suffi- 

 cient profits, so the anxious seeker after 

 wealth cast about him for an easier and 

 more rapid road to riches. 



It was first found that parafflne closely 

 resembled beeswax, and after many trials 

 combs were produced which were scarcely 

 distinguishable in shape and geometrical 

 accuracy from those actually built by the 

 bees themselves. 



Then this scribbling mephistopheles gets 

 his foolish story mixed up in this fashion : 



It was then found that when these arti- 

 ficial combs were placed in the hives the 

 bees took to them as if they were of their 

 own making, and filled them with honey. 

 This plan once in operaton became a great 

 saving to bee-culturists, as the bees no 

 longer had to make their own comb, but 

 were able to put in all their work making 

 honey. Of course, now and then somebody 

 objects to the quality of the wax, but the 



bee-raisers never minded any little thing 

 like that, and they thought that they had 

 struck the acme of success, until they made 

 their next and greater discovery. This was 

 that glucose, or grape sugar, closely resem- 

 bled honey in appearance, and was a very 

 fair counterfeit as far as taste was con- 

 cerned. The7i there appeared in the mar- 

 ket parafflne hoyieycomb filled with glu- 

 cose honey, and the occupation of the bee 

 was gone. The first attempt was simply an 

 adulteration of honey with glucose, and the 

 proportion of the latter was gradually in- 

 creased until there was little or no honey. 



The Philadelphia Record here boldly as- 

 serts that "parafflne comb filled with glu- 

 cose " has " appeared in the market." We 

 ask M-Iien and ^vhere it has appeared 

 on the market ? 



We demand that the Record find some 

 of it to prove its story ! Nothing else can 

 save it from the Infamy which attaches 

 itself to the wilful fabricator ! 



A thousand dollars are offered for a single 

 pound of the " parafflne comb filled with 

 glucose and sealed over by machinery." 

 Now the Record must either put up or 

 sliut up. 



The last paragraph reads thus in the 

 Record : 



Tub Busy Bees' Occupation Gone.— 

 Nowadays the vitiated public taste scarcely 

 recognizes pure honey when it is found, and 

 ninety people out of every hundred eat their' 

 glucose in blissful ignorance, and a firm be- 

 lief that they are partaking of the honest 

 fruits of the labors of the diligent bee. All 

 bees are not so depraved as to lend them- 

 selves to the deceptive practices of un- 

 scrupulous honey raisers, and some pure 

 honey is still to be had, but it takes a long 

 hunt to find it. 



This is simply given to try to cover up its 

 tracks ! The statement is made that there 

 is some pure honey— that is generous in the 

 Record to allow that there is some pure 

 honey on the market, but when it says that 

 it " takes a long hunt to find it," it utters a 

 diabolical lie. 



Pure honey is now being industriously 

 gathered by the bees, and Is put up in im- 

 maculately pure combs, made of pure bees- 

 wax, and all done by the bees ; and more, 

 it can be found by any person in every mar- 

 ket in America. Tons of it can be procured 

 at market rates on a few days notice at this 

 offlce. 



Now the Record must either produce a 

 sample of the bogus comb-honey It talks 

 about, acknowledge that it was imposed 

 upon by a reporter, or else rest under the 

 odium of having told wilful lies for the 

 sake of lying and injuring a legitimate 

 pursuit ! 



Which horn of the dilemma will it take ? 

 Several copies of the Philadelphia Record 

 have been received from our friends. One 

 each came from the following : D. Marshall 

 & Bro., Philadelphia, Pa. ; George L. Tran- 

 sue, Easton, Pa. ; and Geo. P. Howell, New 

 Orleans, La. ; the latter remarks as follows: 



The enclosed article, copied from the 

 Philadelphia JRccord, was published in the 

 Times-Democrat of this city. 



There are some mighty smart men in this 

 world, and the father of the enclosed must 

 consider himself one ; on the other hand the 



balance has its share of fools that will be- 

 lieve every line in that article. 



Yes ; it is because of " the fools who will 

 believe the article," that we demand that 

 the charges be substantiated or the author 

 of the falsehood be severely censured. 



Xhe Hot ^Veatlier which usually 

 prevails in North America during May and 

 June, "slipped a cog" this year, and jump- 

 ing the Atlantic Ocean, prevailed all over 

 Europe. The Government has issued a 

 pamphlet, giving the report of the statis- 

 tician, which gives the following for the 

 different European countries named : 



England.— May has made a particularly 

 good record, and we enter into June with 

 every prospect of an abundant harvest. 

 There has been a prevalence of brilliant 

 sunshine with high degrees of heat both 

 day and night, which has pushed forward 

 vegetation at rapid pace. Such tropical 

 heat in May has seldom been heretofore 

 recorded, and coming after periods of rain, 

 the result is highly satisfactory. 



France.- With the exception of too fre- 

 quent rain-falls the month marks a satisfac- 

 tory progress in all vegetation, and the 

 change to bright sunshine, which prevailed 

 for the last four days, will speedily allay 

 the fear of damage from moisture. Outside 

 of any abnormal change in the weather, an 

 abundant harvest is in prospect. 



Gekmant has had fine forcing weather 

 during much of the month of May, which 

 closes with good reports from nearly all 

 sides. 



Italy.- The general condition of the 

 Italian crops has lost no ground in the 

 month past. 



AustriaHungaey'.- In the official re- 

 port of the Austrian Minister of Agricul- 

 ture, published about the middle of the 

 month, high mention was made of the bene- 

 ficial effect of the weather upon the crops. 

 The condition of the winter and spring 

 crops were in most provinces excellent, and 

 in some most favorable. The outlook is 

 said not to have been so promising for 

 years, the only region in which the expecta- 

 tions were moderate being Galicia. 



Xlie New Era Expositon will be 

 held at St. Joseph, Mo., commencing Sept. 

 3 and closing Oct. 5. It has been urged by 

 those responsible for the financial success 

 of Expositions, that unless the horse-jockey 

 had a chance at a purse of thousands of 

 dollars, while the farmer competed for pre- 

 miums of from fifty cents to five dollars, 

 that the Exposition could not be sustained. 

 The New Era Exposition will try the Ex- 

 periment of reversing the order of things, 

 relying on the Agriculturists (who have 

 hitherto loudly and justly complained) for 

 an appreciation of efforts and a hearty co- 

 operation. It offers premiums amounting 

 to nearly 83,000, for all products of the farm, 

 including fruit, live stock, BEES, poultry, 

 etc. The list and rules governing exhibits 

 will be mailed on application. Address, 

 The New Era Exposition, Kooms 5 and 6, 

 Post Offlce Building, St. Joseph, Mo. 



Many 4)iood Advertisers invite our 

 readers to send for their descriptive Circu- 

 lars, etc. It will pay to get these, and see 

 what Is for sale, by whom, at what prices, 

 and what things are offered. Every one 

 can learn something in this way. Please 

 always tell advertisers where you saw their 

 cards ; they like to know, and we like to 

 have them. 



