Dec. 28. 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



907 



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This catalogue will 

 save yt)u numey on 

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-FREIGHT PAID- 



What do your groceries cost you a year? Will you buy them 

 of us if we can prove that we will save you from lU per cent to 

 20 per cent and pay the frei<jht^ That certainly is an amnunt 

 worth saving; it is worth the trouble of asking for the proof, 

 tietour large Grocery List and c^)njpare our prices with what 

 yoQ have been paying. Then put us to a greater test— send 

 us a trial order and compare the goods and the prices. If 

 we do not save you big money, send the goods back at our 

 expense. The grocery bill is the biggest part of the family 

 erpenses. We will cut it almost in the middle and guarantee 

 everything we sell. We can do this because we buy in 

 immense quantities — carloads and trainloads — and we give 

 you the benefit of our ability to buy cheap; in fact we can 

 sell to you at just about the figure your local dealer would 

 have to pay. We save you his prnftt and ttie/rfi((/t( besides. 



To save still another 10 per cent, become a 

 member of the Co-operative Society of the 

 National Supply Co. Well tell you how to get 



this extra 10 per cent discount, if you will write 

 for full information. An easy way to make money. 



If you want to save money get our catalogue and learn Just how cheap you can buy groceries 

 from us. Catalogue is ready and lists everything in the grocery line. We send it Jri-e. 



Co-operative Society of the National Supply Co., Lansing, Mich, and Chicago, III. 



American Bee Journal 

 Novelty Pocket-Hnlfe 

 Gold Fountain Pen 



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$2.75 



Worker 



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HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



(This cut is the full size of the Knife. ) 



NOVELTY POCKET-KNIFE 



(Name and Address on one side— Three Bees on tbe other side.) 



Your Name on the Knife. — When ordering, be sure to say 

 just what name and address you wish put on the Knife. 



The Novelty Knife is indeed a novelty. The novelty lies in the 

 handle. It is made beautifully of indestructible celluloid, which is as 

 transparent as glass. Underneath the celluloid, on one side of the 

 handle is placed the name and residence of the owner, and on the 

 other side pictures of a Queen, Drone, and Worker, as shown here. 



The Material entering into this celebrated knife is of the very 

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 proper usage. 



Why Own the Novelty Knife?— In case a good knife is lost, 

 the chances are the owner will never recover it ; but if the " Novelty " 

 is lost, having name and address of owner, the finder will return it. 

 If traveling, and you meet with a serious accident, and are so 

 fortunate as to have one of the "Novelties," your Pockkt-Knife will 

 serve as an identifier; and, in case of death, your relatives will at once 

 be notified of tbe accident. 



How to Get this Valuable Knile. — We send it postpaid for 

 $1.25, or club the Novelty Knife and the American Bee Journal for one 

 year— both for $2.00. (Allow two weeks for Knife order to be filled. ) 



SOLID GOLD FOUNTAIN PEN 



Finally, we have found a good Fountain Pen that is reasonable ia 

 price. The manufacturers of this pen say that if you pay more than 

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We mail this Gold Fountain Pen for only $1.25, or for $2.00 we will mail it and the 

 weekly American Bee Journal for a whole year. 



1^" Sample copy of the American Bee Journal free; trial trip of three months (13 copies) 

 for 20c; regular yearly price, $1.00. Address all orders to 



GEORGE W. YORK S CO., 334 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 



nectar from the broken berries is no doubt 

 correct, and no wonder, but that is not the 

 question that sends such a glow under my 

 linen collar. 



In deprecating the statement regarding the 

 bees immediately follows a cold-blooded accu- 

 sation against the "sparrow pest." Now, 

 that is not the s(/imre deal 1 am accustomed 

 to find in the usually considerate American 

 Bee Journal. I feel this is an oversight— 

 don't believe the Editor was at home when 

 the poor birds were called hard names. The 

 little sparrow has a hard row to hoe, at best, 

 without bearing the stings of malice heaped 

 upon it by inconsiderate persons who con- 

 stantly instigate their persecution and death. 

 Let us all carefully investigate and give the 

 little fellows a fair show. What have they 

 done? tJreatgood and but little harm, the 

 latter only incidentally, as we all do. If the 

 millions— nay, billions of insects which the 

 sparrows destroy every year were allowed to 

 mature and bear their kind, life would long 

 since have been a hideous nightmare, and 

 vegetation a thing of the past. 



It is within my easy recollection when East- 

 ern parks were made desolate by myriads of 

 what are known as " inch worms " — the little 

 caterpillar that fed so ravenously upon the 

 leaves of the elms in particular, and all other 

 trees in general. How they spun from ground 

 to tree-tops in thousands, having a special 

 predilection for resting on the fair, bare 

 shoulders of the ladies reposing under the 

 shade of some monarch trees. Soon the dames 

 arose and left in disgust. 

 i Since the considerable introduction of Mr 

 and Mrs. Sparrow, you can sit in the parks 

 I all day with never a vision of the crawly 



things. 

 I Fate has ordained it that every long-eared 

 amateur must dwell upon the vicious nature 

 of everything living, of which they know 

 little or nothing. What they do not know is, 

 of course, not worth considering. Could they 

 but think and observe they might have 

 divined the real purpose sparrows have of 

 pecking into fruit— not wantonly to destroy 

 it, but to find the luscious little worm that is 

 snugly nestling in that grape, or that peach, 

 or that curculio-punctured plum. Just as the 

 "yaller hammer" thrusts his strong bill to 

 the core of a red-cheeked apple for the codling 

 grub in its seed-bed, or as the robin steals off 

 with the early-matured cherry, with its fat 

 little wiggler waiting to develop and take its 

 fiight, 60 does Mrs. Sparrow persistently in- 

 vestigate for opportunities to find Palmer 

 House fare for her ravenous fledglings. How 

 can the birds help doing some harm in their 

 effort to do great good? 



By all means give the boys a chance to 

 study bird-life around them, that they may 

 learn of the beauty and usef uless cf the birds 

 they try to destroy because of the ignorant 

 superstitions acquired from those whose op- 

 portunity for truthful study has been denied 

 them. Em Dee. 



Chicago, 111. 



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