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hear from you, you may be sitting in a 

 corner crying, because the sting got into 

 your nose a little below the tip, and it is 

 hurting, you in a way that a sting never 

 troubled you before. 



The mission of The Stinger is to reform 

 the bee-keeping world. (Did I hear you 

 say that that is impossible, dear reader?) 

 There is no man in the world that needs 

 reforming more than the Rambler, and so 

 his threats to expose me if I do not cease 

 troubling him, fall upon me as uselessly as 

 if he had never uttered them. For shame, 

 on you, Rambler! to intimate that you will 

 silence my pen. You might as well try to 

 melt the snow on the tops of the high 

 mountains away back of where you live, 

 with that genial smile of yours, as to keep 

 The Stinger from performing his mission. 

 Rambler, beware of the day when I shall 

 meet you in battle array. 



Some one has sent me a copy of the De- 

 cember number of the Cidiforida (■idtmdor 

 fnul Poultry Keeper. It is a nice publication, 

 but I do not see how it manages to live un- 

 der such a load of a name. As it has a well 

 edited apiary department, I imagine that 

 the publisher will some day add Bee- Keeper 

 to the already long title. 



A correspondent writes to know if The 

 Stinger is a woman ; she says she thinks 

 The Stinger must be a female, because 

 males do not sting. I would inform the 

 fair writer, and all other persons who have 

 doubts as to the sex of The Stinger, that he 

 is a male ; this male stings, if other males 

 do not. 



What is the difference between a swarm 

 of bees and a sewing bee ? 



None, as far as buzzing is concerned. — 

 Kx. 



Charlie — "Papa, why is it that honey, 

 money and funny rhyme ?" 



'•I don"t know, unless that it is often 

 very funny to get honey out of a bee-hive 

 when the bees are all about your head, and 

 because it is worth all the money one gets 

 for it to get the honey from the bees. I 

 heard a man say that he would not take 

 honey from bees at any price."' 



Charlie — "Well, that's funny."" 



Student in apicultural class at agricul- 

 tural college — "Professor, why is it danger- 

 ous for a person with the blues to go into 

 an apiary ?" 



Professor (perplexed) — "I do not know; 

 the text-books do not say anything on the 

 subject." 



Student (with much glee) — Because bees 

 are said to have a preference for blue ! 



" To be or not to be stung," might have 

 been written by Shakespeare instead of all 

 that stuff about shuffling off this mortal 

 coil, that school boys are so fond of spout- 

 ing on declamation days. If he had said 

 that about the bees, and a little more too, 

 we might now be classing the Bard of Avon 



as something of a bee-keeper ; and pei'haps 

 we would be having a peep into his immor- 

 tal works through the pages of our friend, 

 Oleanings. 



Mr. Maybee — I have read that a professor 

 in one of our agricultural colleges says that 

 there is considerable difference between 

 the sting of a wasp and that of a bee. 



Mrs. M. — I am not willing to take that 

 learned man's word for it, as I was stung 

 by both, and did not see the difference; 

 both are too hot for me. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt that they 

 owed the Rev. L. L. Langstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his invention of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-keeping- throughout all the 

 world. In order that his few remaining years 

 may be made as happy and as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-keepers who consider 

 It a privilege as well as a duty, might have an 

 opportunity to contribute something toward 

 a fund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father Langstroth as a slight token of their 

 appreciation, and regard felt for him by bee- 

 keepers everywhere. No amount above $1.00 

 is expected from any person at one time — but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here. — Ed.] 



Lrist of Contributors. 



Previously Reported $79 95 



Margaret Swain, Pendleton, Ind 50 



Ed. Weidner, Earlville, Ills 1 00 



Scott LaMont, Jarrett, Minn 90 



Wm. Kittinger, Caledonia, Wis 1 00 



Total $83 35 



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