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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



October 



the shares offered as they can aft'ord 

 to, and even to do so at some sacrifice 

 if necessary. The company is not in- 

 tended to supercede the Association 

 but it is a distinct concern created for 

 the purpose of developing and carrying 

 out on business lines the aims and as- 



pirations of the Association. As the 

 officers of the Company are practically 

 members and officers of the Association 

 there is no room to doubt that the in- 

 terests of all parties will be thoroughly 

 conserved. Bee-keepers! Arise and be 

 doing! — Jamaica Times. 



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Dear Brother Hill: 



''Leave hope behind, all ye who enter 

 here" 



was the legend Dante put over the 

 gates of Hell, and its what I stuck 

 above the door of the "House of Crit- 

 ics." If the critic says not what he be- 

 lieves, he despises himself and if he 

 states as he believes he is hated by the 

 criticised. It be rough either way. 



Now, "Stenog," of Gleanings, don't 

 like the critic with a sting, prefers "the 

 good natured man," presumably one of 

 the colorless, lackadaisical chaps, of 

 the type who on Sunday mornings ask 

 their wife if "we may put on our 

 Sunday breeches." He says some funny 

 literature consist of nothing but stings. 

 Well I reckoned that sooner or later 

 some one would "discover" that stings 

 were funny. Always thought so myself. 

 What's he'spose a critic's for? Just to 

 holler about the good and skip the 

 bad? Huh! And there's a powerful lot 

 of folks who wear a perpetual broad 

 grin carry their religion on their coat 



and at the same time pick your pock- 

 ets. Huh! I surmise Stenog ain't right 

 sure what he does like, for he com- 

 mends Brother Dadant for fighting 

 and calling a man a fool. Did the man 

 good and relieved Brother D. Tell 

 Stenog to go way ofif and sit down and 

 look at himself, and when he wants to 

 make comments to be careful how he 

 does it. Huh! 



Rip Van Winkle has been ripping 

 things in the American Bee Journal, 

 calling folks liars and cheats for mis- 

 ciuoting the money market, takes tiheir 

 own words and proves it so plainly that 

 those who run may read- And yet even 

 now Editor York can't see it. Just drop 

 a line to George and tell him he is 

 dense. To call him dense is charitable 

 and fits George's ideas of ethics. It just 

 ''happened" that all the testimony for 

 the quoters was given by themselves or 

 their associates and was printed by 

 those to whose financial interest it is 

 to have the market misquoted. Every 

 mother's son of them is a honey buyer. 

 And then they have the face to pose as 

 "The people's champion." Hurrah for 

 Rip Van Winkle! A few more like him 

 and that Donnybrook Fair will be well 

 under way and the mutlifaced "cham- 

 pions" will have the "scrap" of 

 their lives. 



What do you think of a "leader," a 

 "teacher." a ''shining light" who thinks 

 his colonies free from drones until he 

 puts on traps and finds them full of 

 drones no larger than workers. Queer 

 sort of "experienced bee-keeper" who 

 can't tell a drone from a worker except 

 bv size. Queer sort of trap that will 

 not let workers through and catch 



