1902 



THE AMERICAN B'EE-KEEPER 



83 



week in March, it suddenly turned hot to get the bees started to raising brood, 



and the hills bursted into bloom before and when the bloom comes they will be 



there were any bees to gather the nee- on hand to gather the nectar. 



tar. I am trying to get afiead of a rep- Wishing the Florida bee-keepers a 



etition of that occurrence, but the prosperous season, I remain, 



rains have interfered with my feeding. Yours resoectfully, 



Should it now clear ott, I will be able Ernest H. Schoeflfle. 



SCRIEIS 



Dear Bro. Hill: 



Oh, me! Oh, my! Phwat is that 

 Straw Doctor trying to do? List to 

 this from his stack in March 1st Glean- 

 ings: "Bees and poultry have had a 

 somewhat prominent place in Gleanings 

 and now a swine department is to be 

 added." 



Did ^he Doctor intend that for a 

 sugar-coated pill? 



"Ye healers of men for a moment de- 

 cline 



"Your feats in the rhubarb and ipecac 

 live, 



"While you shut up your turnpike your 

 neighbors can go 



"The old roundabout road to the re- 

 gions below." 



Say, what's struck some of the pa- 

 pers? Such jumbles of make up I never 

 saw before. The whole contents of ye 

 editor's desk must have been poured 

 indiscfiminately into the hopper, while 

 he steadily turned the crank. But the 

 editor of Gleanings has some excuse, 

 even if the others haven't. Hark! 

 "While I was away I made a business 



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of visiting saloons. . . . Went into 

 all I could find."— (Glea. Mch. i, p. 

 i8o). 



"Jack, said my lady, is it grog you'll 

 try, 



"Or punch or toddy, if perhaps you're 

 dry? 



"And said the sailor, though I can't re- 

 fuse, 



"You know, my lady, -'taint for me to 

 choose; 



"I'll take the grog to finish off my 

 lunch, 



"And drink the toddy while you mix the 

 punch." 



THE EDITORIAL GRIST MILL. 



Harry, what are you trying to do? On 

 page 42, you let a chap urge all begin- 

 ners to begin where their grand dad- 

 dies did. Just tell him to try the same 

 scheme with all his enterprises and you 

 will hear something drop. Glad you let 

 Bro. Rankin use the next page in 

 shouting Advance! Say, is he married? 



