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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



October 



Chicago, Sept. 1". — The demand is good for all 

 grades of honey, but supply is not heavy. We 

 (juote, for best white comb, 14 (S> l.')c.; amber, 10 & 

 12c.; e.xtracted, 6 to 8c. Beeswax is scarce and 

 sells at 28c. 



Prices are fully equal to those obtained last year 

 and it now appears as if this would be a season of 

 high prices. K. A. Burnett & Co. 



Buffalo, Sept. 17, IDOO.— The demand for honey 

 is improving, but supply is still light. Fancy 

 Comb sells at 1.5(5 Itic; other grades 10 ch Uc. 

 vVe have always a good demand for beeswax while 

 the supply is always moderate. Prices — fancy, 30 

 6i' Hlc; other grades, 25 (a 28c. 



lleally fancy 1-lb. comb is wanted and moves 

 well at Ij @ 16c., other grades slower and accord- 

 ingly lower. B.\TTEKsox & Co. 



LITERARY NOTES. 



In the October Lculies' Home Journal 

 Edward Bok take.s up the cudgel again 

 against the cramming methods inflicted 

 on school-children, and urges as a step 

 toward a reform of the abuse '"that 

 every parent who lias a child at school 

 will send a note to the teacher that, 

 under no circumstances whatever, will 

 the father and mother permit any 

 home-study by the child. 



"This may seem to be a very simple 

 thing to do,'' he contends, "but often 

 the simplest things are the most effect- 

 ive. If the teachers of this country 

 should, within the next month, receive 

 thousands of notes from parents to the 

 effect pointed out, which they could — 

 and I can speak for hundreds of teachers 

 when I say that they would gladly do 

 so^— hand to the heads of their schools, 

 it would practically mean a re-adjust- 

 ment of the entire system of study. 

 This may be better understood when it 

 is realized that the entire system of 

 study during school hours in many of 

 the schools is so arranged as to allow 

 for some of the work to be done by the 

 pupils at home. Let this taken-for- 

 granted home study be stopped, and a 

 change would have to be made. The 

 studies at school cannot be increased in 

 number, for already they are too many. 

 The school hours cannot be lengthened, 

 because the tide has set in to shorten 

 them. Hence, some studies would have 

 to be thrown out. if liome study were 

 eliminated. And this i.>i the result 

 desired." 



The Sutunlay Evcn'uKj Post for Sep- 



tember :2U is a special double nunibi^r. 

 Tlie cover is by (Jibbs, and is in color. 

 The opening feature, is the lirst install- 

 ment of (Gilbert Parkei's new s(>rial, Tii<> 

 Lane that Had No Turning. Those wlio 

 have read this story pronounces it thi- 

 strongest work that Mr. Parker has yet 

 done. United States Senator A]b(>rt .1. 

 Beveridge, of Indiana, lias a brilliant, 

 paper on Facing the World at Fifty, in 

 which he marshals an imposing array of 

 successes after tin/ half-century mark 

 had been passed. Ma.jor .lames B. Pond 

 contributes two pages of remiscences of 

 Mark Twain, giving for the first timo 

 letters and anecdotes referring to his 

 last lecture tour across the American 

 continent. The short fiction of the 

 number includes complete stories by 

 Ian Maclaren. Lilian Quiller-C'ouch, 

 Gertrude F. Lynch and Madeline 

 Bridges. Honorable Champ Clark has 

 a lively article on Stumping in Old Mis- 

 souri. There are installments of 

 Mooswa of the Boundaries. W. A. Fra- 

 zer's animal story and of The Eagle"s 

 Heart, Hamlin (iarlaiufs novel of tlie 

 farWest. On the page denoted to Men and 

 Women are stories of people prominent 

 in the public eye. The editorial page 

 treats of politics, the census and other 

 current thfunes. The "Publick Occui- 

 rences'" department tells how. through 

 coal and gold the Tnited States has 

 captured the supremacy of the world. 

 Besides tliese attractions tiiere are 

 articles giving the latest, scientific dis- 

 coveries, Secretary Wilson's views of 

 Farming as a ]iusin<'ss. Old-time Min- 

 strel Men, with n<>w stories and anec- 

 dotes: the latest gossi]) about books and 

 literary people, and short articles and 

 sketches. 



The question whether bees should be 

 subject to ta.xation the same as other 

 property has Ixmmi much discussed ol 

 lat<;. and it has been pointed out witli 

 plausibility, at least, that since bee-men 

 desire protection of the law for hives 

 and their contents and (ieunmd special 

 legislation (spi'aying laws etc.). there 

 can be no valid protest against a reason- 

 able amount of taxation lieing U'vied. 



