1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



(luring the rest of the year, and this man 

 has his in two apiaries." 



During the past five years we have re- 

 ceived hundreds of letters from all parts of 

 the country,from persons desiring to find a 

 good location for bees in Florida, Some- 

 times it would appear that everyone is cast- 

 ing a wistful eye this way, and we always 

 endeavor to give honesta dvice in regard to 

 Florida as a bee-keeping country. There 

 are many drawbacks in this, as in all 

 other countries in which we are acquaint- 

 ed, and it matters not how much experi- 

 ence a man may have had in the North, if 

 he decides to locate in the far South, he 

 must again learn bee-keeping. There 

 would be found lots of obstacles on Key 

 Largo, but without having had personal 

 experience, we have good reason to believe 

 that for honey. Key Largo would be found 

 first-"lass. It should be borne in mind, 

 however, that the insects are very bad, 

 that societ}- is out of the question, and 

 that the hvim of bees would often be 

 drowned by the din of the rolling surf, 

 the howling of the wind and the scream- 

 ing of sea fowl. 



THEILMANN CATCHES A SH.VKK. 



Relating to Mr. C. Theilmann whose 

 picture is shown elsewhere in this number 

 of The Bee- Keeper, there is a short story 

 with a long moral, told in a recent issue 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Some three or four years ago there was 

 a nest of swindlers engaged in the produce 

 commission business in Chicago — several 

 "nests" in fact — who succeeded in rob- 

 bing unsuspecting bee-keepers of their 

 season's crop of honey. Mr. T. shipped 

 10,346 pounds of comb hone3- to one of 

 these, doing business under the name of 

 H. C. Bartling & Co. . for which he was to 

 receive 11 '4c per pound, f. o. b. Tlieil- 

 manton, ?>linn., one-third payable upon 

 arrival in Chicago, and the remainder in 

 60 and 90 days. He .says : 



"I waited about ten days after shipping, 

 and when no money came I went to Chi- 

 cago, and found that my honey was sold 



(pretended, or partly hid); I demanded a 

 settlement, when a report was made out, 

 which showed the honey all sold on com- 

 mission. With the freight charges, cart- 

 age and commission deducted form the 

 sales, it netted over |2oo less than the cash 

 sale I had made with the firm before the 

 honey was shipped. But I gladly accept- 

 ed their statement, on which they paid 

 me I250, and promised to pay the rest 

 later on. I got their check certified at 

 their bank, and took further advice from 

 my attorneys, Messrs. Masterson & Haft, 

 then demanded the balance due on the 

 statement, which they refused- to pay. 

 Bartling was then arrested, but the justice 

 of the peace dismissed the case. Then 

 Bartling ari'ested me for stealing the 

 statement his partner gave me. The case 

 was tried before Justice Hoffman, four or 

 five miles out from the center of the city, 

 and was also dismissed. I then was re- 

 arrested for libel, and sued for $[1,500, 

 and would have had to go to jail if I had 

 not had a rich friend in Chicago to go on. 

 my bond. At the same time Bartling was 

 sued for the balance of his .statement be- 

 fore the circuit court, which ended with a 

 decision and a judgment for $7 11. So 

 against Bartling. He asked tor a new 

 trial, which was granted, with the result 

 that the judgment stood good." 



Bartling later appealed the case to the 

 appellate and supreme court of the state 

 of Illinois, but the rulings of the lower 

 courts were in each instance sustained, 

 and the gentleman 1?) who sought to 

 luxuriate in the great windy, and wicked 

 city upon the proceeds of a country bee- 

 keepers' labor had to choose between pay- 

 ing up or going to jail. Mr. Theilmann 

 says that he decided to do the former, and 

 accordingly settled on Jan. 16, 1900. 



CLUBBING LIST. 



We will send the American Beb-Kbkpee with 



the— PUB- B^*™ 



American Bee Journal, - $100 f | 3| 



Bee-Keepers' Review. - ' | XX | ^ 



Canadian Bee Journal, 1 OU 1 » 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, - i 00 ^ « 



American Qu-en. . - - o" ~f 



Self Culture Magazine. - - 1 (W 1 w 



