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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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Dear Brother Hill: 



•^ Any fool can give advice, and he 

 is continually at it/' I'd just like to 

 know who you had in mind when you 

 picked that quotation for the September 

 i^^sue. I know several of the boys to 

 whom it might apply. Say, why did you 

 put it right after my letter ? Er - - I 

 want a little private conversation with 



vou. 



Well. I cannot quarrel with any one 

 now. rve been laughing so much that I 

 am amiable way through. The late is- 

 sues of some of the bee papers are out- 

 stripping Puck. Listen to this from 

 Gleaabigs for August 15th : First the 

 Dr. of Straws uses German authority for 

 suggesting our sitting around, smoker 

 in hand, watching for the opportune 

 moment to hustle out a swarm with it. 

 Then he proceeds to stir the editor by 

 writing about preconstructed and post- 

 constructed cells. Then ye editor 

 rushes recklessly in with one of those 

 nice little foot notes and says not one 

 reader in ten has any knowledge of Latin 

 and may be confused, and suggests emer- 

 iiency cells and swarming cells, the latter 

 embracing supersedere cells. Mind the 

 Latin words he uses. Oh, 'tis rich ! 

 In the same issue Rambler has broken 



loose again. Listen to the kind of vege- 

 tation they have out in California : 

 "Buck brush, artemisia, purple and 

 white sage, cactus, live oak and aivaij 

 beyond/' I can't find the last in my 

 botany. Hope he will never try to 

 "write as funny as he can.'' 



Yes, Bro. York is well over his " bad 

 spell," and if he will now just study up 

 on geography and locate his correspond- 

 ents more definitely than by mere 

 counties, we may be able to forgive him 

 for setting that other fellow to Quirin 

 our language with his "fonetik" spelling. 

 So you are interested in the Texas oil 

 wells. Slippery business. But you must 

 not be too anxious to make a market for 

 your goods or you may antagonize some 

 of the boys. This editorial from The 

 Bee-keeper for September sounds sus- 

 piciously like a free " ad." "Upon the 

 erstwhile placid bosom of apicultural 

 journalism a significant ripple appears 

 in some quarters. It is to be hoped that 

 the ' stoi-ms ' of the eighties are not to be 

 repeated. Better lei go a little oil now 

 before the seas rise." (You can't sell 

 me any.) Let the waves ripple and rise; 

 a good storm will clear the air. Open 

 fight is far better than the hitting in the 

 dark, the veiled slurs and illy concealed 

 innuendoes which are in evidence now. 

 Oh, but I dearly love a " scrap !" 



Sorry not to have seen you at the Con- 

 vention; will give you some of the side- 

 lights by-and-by. Yours as ever, 



John Hakdsckabble. 



Warm genius shaped what quick emotion 

 found.— Schiller. 



If every one who wrote books now would 

 be satisfied to dust books already written, 

 whit a regenerate world it would become. 

 —Beatrice Harraden. 



