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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



December 



LITERARY NOTES. 



THK IKL U. UIC'KS 1!I01 ALMANACK 



Whatever may be said of the scientific causes 

 upon wliich the Hev. Irl K. Hicks bases his yearly 

 forecasts of storm and weather, it is a remarliable 

 fact that specilic warnings of every great storm, 

 flood, colli wave or drouth, have been plainly 

 printed in his now famous Almanac for many 

 years. The latest startling proof of this fact was 

 the destruction of Galveston, Texas, on the very 

 day named by Prof. Hicks in his lilOO Almanac, as 

 one of disaster by storm along the gulf coasts. 

 The 1901 Almanac, by far the finest, most complete 

 and beautiful yet published, is now ready. This 

 remarkable book of near two hundred pages, 

 splendidly illustrated with charts and half-tone 

 e igravin^s, g03s as a premium to every subscril)er 

 wiio pays one dollar a year for Prof. Hicks' jour- 

 nal, vVord and Works. The Almanac alone is 

 sent prepaid for only twenty-five cents. Order 

 from Word and VV^orks Publishing Company, 2201 

 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo. 



We have just received from the publishers, Wil- 

 mer Atkinson Co.. Philadelphia, Biegle Pet Book 

 Number Seven of the Biggie Farm Library. This 

 book has been prepard especially for young people, 

 but will interest everybody. Naturally the greater 

 part of the book is devoted to those almost uni- 

 versal pets and companions of men — the dog and 

 cat. Particularly interestin'.; chapters are devoted 

 to shepherd dogs and their training for field and 

 farm work. But little attention has been paid to 

 the sporting side of dog life. Other chapters are 

 devoted to rabbits, guinea pigs, squirrels, pigeons, 

 bantams, canary birds, ponies goats and other 

 pets. The illustrations are of the kind which 

 really illustrate, nearly all of them having been 

 made from photographs of the animals themselves. 

 There are one hundred and thirty illustrations in 

 all, the book contains one hundred and forty-four 

 pages pirinted on coated paper with good clear 

 type, and handsomely bound. The price is fifty 

 cents by mail. 



UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. 



A southern plantation containing the original 

 cabin of "Uncle Tom" is designed as an attraction 

 of great interest in the Midway at the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition next summer. This old relic is the 

 property of the Shelby family, who are loaning it 

 for the occasion. The Old Plantation will repre- 

 sent the better side of southern life as it existed 

 before the war. A spacious mansion, cabins for 

 the slaves, cotton fields with the necessary culti- 

 vating tools and picker's outfit, grinding mills 

 showing how the slaves prepared their meal, in 

 fact everything that properly belonged to a well- 

 regulated southern plantation of fifty years ago. 



Singing before the cabin door according to tradi- 

 tion by happy, careless negroes will form a pleas- 

 ant and attractive feature of tliis interesting con- 

 cession. Old plantation songs accompanied by 

 skillfull musicians who have thoroughly mastered 

 the banjo, neverfail to please an audience under 

 any circumstances. \\ ith the proper old-time set- 

 ting, which only natural surroundings can give, 

 the interest will be greatly augmented. 



THE NOVEiMBEK AMERICAN BOT. 



The thirty-two profusely illustrated pages of the 

 November American Boy are full of stories, his- 

 tory, science and sport, for boys. As usual, the 

 matter is clean, inspiring and helpful to the grow- 

 ing and ambitions boy. The stories are: Weall's 

 Deer; Three Boys in the Mountains; Jack Holli- 

 day — the Boy Who Told Tall Stories; Cruise of the 

 Yacht (iazelle; The Beerli<-k Christian P^ndeavor 

 Society. 



Other titles of interest are: Joining a College 

 Fraterhity; VVendall Phillips; Boy Singers; Novem- 

 ber in History; Hints About Football; How a 

 Western Boy " Got His Start in Life; The First 

 Thanksgiving Dinner: Something About the Post- 

 office; Squirrels and a Squirrel Hunt; Hints on tlie 

 Study of Insects; The Beginner's Guide to Stamp 

 Collecting; Where to Find Stamps; How Boys 

 Make .Money Out of Binding Books; Boys as Photo- 

 graphers and Printers; Boys as Collectors of 

 Stamiis, Coins and Indian Curios; Boys' Exchange, 

 Puzzles, etc. 



One Dollar per annum. Sprague Publishing 

 Company, Detroit, Mich. 



The Christmas Ladies' Home Journal offers a 

 superabundance of literary and artistic features in 

 most attractive form. Among its nearly twoscore 

 contributors are Mrs. Lew Wallace, Elizabeth 

 Stuart Phelps, Charles Major, William Perrine, 

 Clifford Howard and Elizabeth Lincoln Gould, 

 while A. B. Frost,3 W. L. Taylor, Reginald B. 

 Birch, Henry Hutt, George Gibbs and as many 

 other illustrators supply its pictorial features. 

 Apart from the articles having special holiday 

 timeliness"of interest, the notable features of the 

 Christmas journal include The Innkeeper's 

 Daughter Who Dissolved a President's Cabinet, 

 What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years, 

 Jerusalem as We See It Today; Two Women's 

 Gifts of Twenty-five Millions, The Little Men 

 Play, a dramatization of Louisa M. Alcott's de- 

 lightful story. Where Children See Saint Nick, 

 The Fourteenth Man, Two Christmas Days at 

 Rock F'arm and the Successors of .Mary the First, 

 The Story of a Young Man, and the Blue River 

 Bear Stories, which ara continued. Edward I>ok 

 has a thoughtful article on Christmas celebration, 

 and there are various articles on women's wear, 

 Cliristmas presents and edibles, while various 

 other practical, helpful themes are ably jiresented. 

 By the Cuitis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. 

 One dollar a year; ten cents a year. 



THE YOUTH'S CO.MPANION IN 1901. 



The ends of the earth will be laid under tribute 

 for the litOl volume of the Youth's Companion. 

 Statesmen, diplomats, travelers, trappers, men 

 and women of many vocations will contribute to 

 the entertainment of young and old in Companion 

 homes. Theodore Roosevelt will write upon The 

 Essence of Heroism. The secretary of the treas- 

 ury will answer the question. What is Money? 

 Frank T. Bullen, the old sailor who spins fascinat- 

 ing yarns of life at sea, will contribute a story. W. 

 D. Howells will describe the relations between 

 young contributors and editors. Paul Leicester 

 Ford will write about The Man of the Dictionary- 

 Noah vVebster. There is not space here to begin 

 to tell of the good things already provided for 

 readers of the new volume of The Y'outh's Com- 

 panion — interesting, instructive, inspiring — from 

 the pens of famous men and women. 



Hlustrated Announcement of the IdOl volume 

 and sample copies of the paper sent free to any 

 address. 



All new subscribers who send in their subscrip- 

 tions now will receive not only the fifty-two issues 

 of The Com|)anion for 1901, but also all the issues 

 for the remaining weeks of 1900 free from the time 

 of subscription, besides the beautiful Puritan Girl 

 Calendar for 1901, lithographed in twelve colors 

 and gold. 



The Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. 



THK LIGHT OK THE WORLD, Olf OUB SAVIOU IN 

 ART. 



Cost nearly one hundred thousand dollars to 

 produce. Contains nearly one hundred full-page 

 engravings of our Savior and His Mother by the 

 world's greatest painters. True copies of the 



