1895. 



TEE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



63 



This month we are again sending a 

 large number of sample copies to 

 those who are not subscribers. We 

 wish everyone who receives a copy to 

 regard it as an urgent invitation to 

 subscribe. The unusual inducements 

 offered elsewhere ought to bring in 

 many new subscribers. 



New England customers will save 

 freight by purchasing their supplies 

 of W. M. Gerrish, East Nottingham, 

 N. H. 



It is our intention always to mail 

 the Bee-Keeper about the fifth of 

 each month, but owing to an extra 

 large edition this month we have been 

 delayed a few days in getting out this 

 number. 



BICYCLE CHEAP. 



We have a Lovell Ladies' Wheel, which 

 was used a part of last season, and is now 

 in perfect condition, which we will sell for 

 135.00 cash, or good wax. This wheel 

 originally sold for $125.00, and at our 

 price is a bargain. It has 28 inch wheels, 

 Hartford Pneumatic Tires, Brake, very best 

 grade Saddle, Tools, etc., complete. Weight 

 without tools, etc., 35 lbs. Also, a 22 lb. 

 Rambler, purciiased in August from the 

 factory, now in perfect condition, good as 

 new, belonging to the editor of tiiis maga- 

 zine, cost $125.00. Will sell for $65.00 

 cash, or wax. This is equally as good a 

 bargain as the offer on tiie Ladies' Wheel, 

 Add ress 



American Bke-Keeper, 



Jamestown, N. Y. 



TO MRS. GRUNDY. 



However with all my faults I might have 

 regained my footing, had you not promptly 

 crushed me to earth again. I might have 

 retrieved my losses, had you not sent me to 

 Coventry. 



As for yourself, Mrs. Grundy, you have 

 at heart the welfare of mankind ; otherwise 

 would you subscribe so liberally to the fash- 

 ionable charities, or premit the daily press 

 to trumpet forth your benevolent work ? 

 Let me not do you wrong. Having no in- 

 surance on my own glass houses, I am wary 

 of flinging stones at Eminent Respectability, 

 assessed for millions of real and personal 

 estate. 



But 1 have a boon to ask. I beg you, 

 when you talk behind the back of friend or 

 stranger, to weigh your words with care. 

 Be plain. Tell only that which you your- 

 self do know. Do not blur your meanings 

 with generalities. Stick a pin in your epi- 

 thets. Above all, distinguish more sharply 

 between ordinary weakness and vitriolic 

 crimes. — C. W. Lucas in March Lippincott's. 



LACK OF ORGANIZED FORCE. 



Congressman Hainer, of Nebraska, in a 

 very pertinent speech before the National 

 Dairy Union, at Washington, said that he 

 had learned one thing in Congress, and tliat 

 was that there was almost a total lack of 

 organization among the Dairymen of the 

 United States in favor of laws against adul- 

 teration of dairy products. What a com- 

 ment that is upon the citizenship of dairy- 

 men. Ask any man among them if he is in 

 favor of such laws and lie will answer yes. 

 Ask him if he has done anything practical 

 to impress his opinion on the law makers, 

 whether in Congress or his own state, and 

 not one in a thousand will answer yes. 



No wonder that Bynum, of Indiana, and 

 a host of other Congref^smen will figlit the 

 Grout bill or any other bill that interferes 

 with their friends, the eleo combine. It is 

 because the eleo combine is organized and 

 the dairymen are not. It is because the 

 eleo men will spend thousands upon thous- 

 ands of dollars to dettroy the dairy interest, 

 while the dairymen stand indifferent. The 

 eleo men are practical ; the dairymen are 



