1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



95 



The Care of Books. 



When we were children, we were 

 taught that it was uext door *.^o a crime 

 to destroy books. Of course books are 

 not as expensive or as hard to get now 

 as they were a quarter of a century ago, 

 but all the same they are too valuable 

 to waste or throw away. 



Children should be taught how best 

 to take care of books and ought never 

 to be permitted to throw or bang them 

 about or tear them in pieces. They 

 should be encouraged to accumulate 

 volumes, and to do this must have a 

 place in which to keep them. Good, 

 plain bookshelves cost but little, and 

 every child should have a set. 



In one well ordered household there 

 are five youngsters, between the ages of 

 5 and 15 years. Each child has a book- 

 case, one of the ordinary, plain sort 

 that cost $4 or $5. There are curtains 

 made from the skirts of wornout dresses 

 or of paper muslin, for the family has 

 but little of this world's goods to use, 

 and every dollar, even every cent, has 

 to be counted. But there is in this 

 household a spirit of consideration that 

 will not allow interference with private 

 property, and each member is expected 

 to take care of his or her own posses- 

 sions, to be responsible for them and to 

 exercise absolute control and ownership 

 over them. Especially is it the case 

 with books and toys. These are borrow- 

 ed and loaned only with the owner's 

 consent. New books are carefully cov- 

 ered and marked with the owner's 

 name, not only on the cover, but also 

 across the first page of the story or read- 

 ing matter. Names on the flyleaf may 

 be obliterated or torn off, but when 

 placed across the beginning of the sub- 

 ject matter they are apt to remain and 

 are easily identified. — New York Ledg- 

 er. 



Some French Dnels. 



The most prosaic, the most bourgeois, 

 of all eminent French statesmen and 

 historians, the late M. Adolphe Thiers, 

 fought a duel when a young man with 

 the irate father of a pretty girl whom 

 Thiers, while anxious to marry, did not 

 wed, because he was too poor to support 

 her. Shots were exchanged without re- 

 Bults, and the combatants embraced. 

 The famous journalist and litterateur. 



M. Emile de Girardin, editor of La 

 Presse, fought four duels in 1834 with 

 the editors of other Parisian journals 

 because, the annual subscription of 

 French daily newspapers being at that 

 time at 80 francs, he had reduced the 

 price of La Presse by one-half, with the 

 result that the circulation of his paper 

 was enormously increased. In the last 

 of these duels he had the misfortune to 

 kill Armand Carrel, a man of talent and 

 a popular idol. Girardin, who was shot 

 in the hip, had lingered between life 

 and death ifor weeks before he recovered 

 from his wound, and never, in spite of 

 repeated provocations, could be induced 

 to fight another duel. "Dueling, "he 

 said, "is a fault of our education against 

 which our intelligence protests." But 

 in France you must have killed your 

 man to be able to say that. — Comhill 

 Magazine. 



According to the Mosaic law the lo- 

 cust was "clean" and might be eaten 

 by the Jews. 



Honey and Beeswax MarkeTReport. 



Below we give the latest and most authen- 

 tic report of the Honey and Beeswax market 

 in different trade centers : 

 r Kansas City. Mo., Mch. 1, 1897.-Good demand 

 honey. Light supply. Price of comb He to lie. 

 per lb. Extracted 5 to Tc per lb. No beeswax 

 now on the market. Supply of comb honey very 

 light, with a fair demand from Jobbers. 



Hamelin & Bkarss o14 Walnut St. 



Detroit, Mich.. Mch. 1, 189T.-The demand for 

 honey is slow. Good supply. Price of comb 9 

 to 13c. per lb. Extracted 5 to 6c. Fair demand for 

 beeswax. Good supply; prices 24 to 3oc. per lb. 

 There is more comb honey in sight at this time or 



year than usual, -., ,, t, i. hi- u 



^ M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch. Mich. 



Cincinnati. 0.. Mch. 1. ISD-.-Very slow de- 

 mand for honey. Fair supply., Price of comb 10 

 to 14c. per pound. Extracted 3!^ to 6c per pound. 

 Fair deuiand for beeswax ; good supply ; prices 

 32 to 25c per pound for good to choice yellow. 

 Chas. F. Muth & Son. 

 Cor. Freeman and Ceatral Aves. 



Albany, N. Y., Mch. 1, 1897.-Fancy white 12 

 to 13c. No. 1, 11 to 12c. Fancy amber. 9 to 10c. 

 No 1 dark, 8 to 9c peg lb. Extracted white, 6 to <c 

 per lb. Dark iYiC per lb. The receipts of both 

 comb and extracted honey are very large and prices 

 are somewhat lower. We have an ample stock ot 

 all styles except paper cartons weighing less than 



*"^^Ch°as! W. McCollough & Co., 380 Broadway. 



Boston, Mass., Mch. 1, 1897,— Fancy white 14 to 

 15c. No 1, 12 to 13c. Extracted white, b to 7c. ; 

 amber, 5 to 6c. Beeswax 25c per Ppund. 



E. E. Blake & Co., ai Chatham St. 



Chicago, 111., Mch. 1. 1897.-Honey; Fancy 

 white 13c. No. 1 white 12c; fancy amber lie ; fan- 

 cy dark 10c; No. 1 dark 9c; extracted white 6 to < ; 

 amber 5 to 5Mc; dark 4 to 41^0. Quote beeswax at 

 26c to 27c. Demand not very active; stocks light. 

 S. T. Fish & Co., 189 South AVater St. 



