THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



hive and spend the whole night fuldhng 

 for a company that don't want to dance — 

 tliat perchance they might consent to 

 dance the next da}-, to escape being fid- 

 dled to death. My indolence gets the 

 better of me. — don't believe I'll do it. 

 Say, lets locate a colon\' by a tiny water- 

 fall, and have a water-wheel geared to 

 fiddle while we sleep. To come out in 

 the morning rubbing my eyes, and find 

 'em all readv to swarm would be more to 

 mv mind. Then I'd be less inclined 

 I or more ) to say, "Oh fiddle!" Aside from 

 jokes, perhaps Mr. Pridgen's suggestion, 

 that a cornstalk fiddle gives the tone of 

 the queen's piping, may be of value. 

 But I rather think that a tinj- cog-wheel 

 wrestling with a tiny splinter would hit 

 the tone more exactly, take less space, 

 and require nuich less motive power. 



That opening photograph in last Re- 

 view nearly knocks the breath out of me. 

 Almost inclined to take back what I .said 

 about the old section being good enough. 

 At first glance I cried out that those four 

 sections up top were not a fair selection, 

 and ran to my old stack of sections for 

 proof. Still think they are a little below- 

 average; but they're too near it. May be 

 by next month I shall get my second 

 wind enough to "argie;" but just now I 

 shall ga.sp for breath. Alas, a photo is a 

 tough antagonist to argue against, don't 

 vou mind? 



PACIFIC Bee journal, 



The Pacific of late has been a monthly 

 ])aper instead of a quarterly, and a very 

 l)eautiful little paper too. vStill more 

 recently it seems to have had its shawl 

 and kombi blown away by breezes of ad- 

 versity or something. But breezes do 

 not last forever; and we'll hope that the 

 aforesaid outer integument and inner 

 light will be recovered all right at no di.s- 

 tant day. The Pacific has not ceased to 

 be a live paper, as to its internal spirit. 

 The apicultural novelets which were so 

 in evidence the la.st time the Pacific's turn 

 came in this View have .sub.sided; in fact, 

 they seem to have gone below the bee- 



keeping horizon everywhere. May the 

 dew have plenty of time to fall before 

 they rise again. 



Editor Bennett thinks three nouns 

 bother our craft very greatly — selfishness 

 — bigotry — pride. The first objects to 

 every move lest somebody not in the ring 

 might get a share of the benefits. The 

 second, on broad general principles, ob- 

 jects to e\-ery move whatsoever. The 

 third won't let us live within our incomes 

 — nor retail our own hone\- — lest we 

 appear too much like the "peddling Ger- 

 man Jew." Says he practices what he 

 preaches, drops off the boughten luxuries, 

 and eats honey. Wants all bee men to go 

 and do likewise — be missionaries, first 

 under their own roofs, .second to their 

 next neighbors, and then "go ye into all 

 the world, and preach the honey gospel to 

 ever)- creature." All right friend Bennett; 

 reckon I'm with you, if not a little ahead. 

 .\ chronic half invalid, I'm just now tr\-ing 

 desperately to recover the many, many 

 hours that go to waste ( or worse ) from 

 bodily and mental oflf-the-track-ness. 

 Concluding that poor digestion is at the 

 bottom of most of it, I am experimenting 

 -A-ith several food regimens — and w-ith- 

 draw-ing from the family table entirely, 

 for greater convenience in taking only 

 just what I decide to take, and especially 

 to get more time at meals than current 

 table customs will allow. One of these 

 regimens calls for two meals a day, each 

 to con.sist of two ounces of granola ( made 

 \\\) with half a cup of milk ) three ounces 

 crackers, and si.x ounces candied honey. 

 Another regimen in which dates take the 

 place of the granola, and of most of the 

 honey too, shows some signs of coming 

 out a neck ahead. Both seem beneficial; 

 and at present I alternate, first three days 

 of one and then three days of the other. 

 As to the benefit I am getting, I can now 

 read till eleven o'clock in the evening if 

 I want to, instead of .speedily falling aslee]) 

 in my chair. 



The first thing I tried was a modifica- 

 tion of the Salisbury system — lean flesh 

 and nothing else. In some respects i^ 



