1907- AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER S:^ 



to investigate the wortcing plans of riglit along. I don't want to miss any 



all its readers; but it makes this per- of them, and I'll send the money when 



sonal appeal to each and all to assist I sell my honey." 



in the dissemination of apiarian know- The fact that this patron did not 

 ledge, by a free exchange of thought, want to miss a single number bore 

 through the medium of its columns, evidence to the fact that he was sen- 

 Pert, pointed paragraphs and plenty sible, and we were glad to accommo- 

 i)f pictures, are always wanted, and date him, but I couldn't help thinking 

 for good material of this kind, as well of Humphrey Johns, 

 as interesting articles, payment will While going to his work one morn- 

 be made during month of publication, ing and meditating upon the fact that 

 he owed the doctor a big bill and 



Photo. No. 3, in this issue was taken had only $3.65 with which to pay him, 



by Mr. F. R. Hoard, of Providence, Rufus Gadsten, a carpenter, was ac- 



R. I., a keen sportsman with the cam- costed by a plainly dressed stranger, 



era as well as with the rod and gun. "You're Mr. Gadsten, aren't you?" 



By the way, this gives me an oppor- asked the stranger, 



tunity to present to Bee-Keeper read- "Yes, sir," he replied, 



ers another likeness of the associate "Used to live in Milwaukee, didn't 



editor. He sent the picture, not for you?" 



publication, but to illustrate a story ''I did." 



as to how he had to remove a colony "Do you remember lending sixteen 



of bees that had taken up their abode dollars to a man up there named 



between the walls of a shed at a Humphrey Johns about nineteen years 



sportsman's club near Providence, ago?'' 



The proportion and size of the brood "Yes, I remember it distinctly." 



comb might lead one to think that it "He never paid it, did he?" 



had been out from a standard L. "Never." 



irame. "Well," pursued the atranger, with 



emotion and shoving his hand into 



PAYING AN OLD DEBT. his pocket. "I'm Humphrey Johns. I 



Sometimes there are real funny ^'"''"^"^ "^ver forgotten that debt, and. 



things happen, even in a bee journal ^'^^ go'"g ^o pay it with interest some 



office, where the work is usually pro- ^ay, but I'm a little hard up just now. 



saic and hum-drum. ^° yo" suppose that you could lend 



I presume on every subscription list '"^ '^^If a dollar for the sake of old 



there are a few names with which acquamtance. 



one becomes familiar and which are ' 



regarded as "slow pay." The other Burton N. Gates, Clark University, 



day, in going through The Bee-Keep- Worcester, Mass., is using a camera to 



er mail I came to an envelope from an excellent advantage in recording his 



old subscriber whose account had been scientific work. The Bee-Keeper has 



permitted to run behind about two received a number of fine illustrations 



years. "Ah," thought I, "I knew he'd from Mr. Gates, which will appear in 



get around to it some day," and im- connection with his instructive ar- 



agined I could see the blue money or- tides. 



der for $1.00, paying up for three The photographs used to illustrate 



years, right through the envelope. I Mr. Miller's article on Bee Veils, in 



tore it open and read. this number, were made by H. E. 



"Keep on sending The Bee-Keeper Hill. 



