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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



nieiit still farther, and make the improve- 

 m&ni prniiaiii'ii/, it may prove a valuable 

 variet}'. 



Youatt, who was, doubtless, the best 

 informed man of his time as to what had 

 been accomplished by careful selection, 

 says: "It is the magician's wand by 

 means of which he may summon into 

 life whatever form or mould he pleases." 



This discussion will be concluded in 

 another paper. 



MlDDi^EBURY, Vt. Dec. lo, 1S97. 



FACING CASES OF COMB HONEY. 



The Subject turned this way and thai and 

 Viewed in Varioys Lights. 



DR. c. C. MllvLER. 



Who shall decide when doctors disagree?— P0/'£. 



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b.«Id 



URIEND H.. I 

 -1- read over what 

 you said on page 

 60, 61, about put- 

 ting the best sec- 

 tions of a case at 

 the outside. Then 

 I read it all over 

 again, carefully. 

 Then I discussed 

 the qiiestion in 

 my own m i n d 

 whether a man could hold such views and 

 be entirely honest. I recalled, however, 

 having more than once slept in the s nue 

 room with you and yet having found my 

 Waterbury all right in the morning, liut 

 I don't suppose a thief is always born a 

 thief. So I questioned whether it might 

 not be that you had been entirely honest 

 as to any overt act up to the time of in\- 

 sleeping with you. Then the painful 

 question arose, " Could it have been the 

 silently unconscious influence of sleeping 

 companionship that first started you on 

 the wrong track ?" 



I referred the matter to a friend in 

 whose utter integrity I had the most im- 

 plicit confidence, one that I knew 

 wouldn't steal. Not to misrepresent you 

 in the least, I simply presented the case 

 by reading your own words. Looking up 

 for an answer at the close of the reading, it 

 came promptly with decision, •' Hutchin- 

 son's right." I'm glad the effect on me 

 was only temporary. It must be very un- 

 pleasant to have the ha}- fever, when you 

 have long spells of gasping for breath. 

 But on recovery I knew that the holding 

 of such views was not entirely incompati- 

 ble with strict integrity of character. 

 Must be something in the point of view. 



Now I'm going to show you my point 

 of view; you come and stand there with 

 me, and then if you find there's any ocu- 

 lar deception, 



'And things are not what they seem,"— 



you take me to your stand-point and show 

 me just how it ought to look. 



Perhaps we can start on nearly common 

 ground with that proposition of yours, 

 that ' ' The whole world has been putting 

 the best side out so long that it is nolong- 

 eif deception." That is, every body's 

 l)een fooled so many times you can't fool 

 him any more, so its no harm to trj' to 

 foul him when you're sure you can't suc- 

 ceed. Maybe it oughtn't to be put just 

 that way. The best side has been put out 

 for so long, that every one understands 

 that the outside is the best, so no one is 

 deceived, and it isn't for the sake of de- 

 ceiving that the best side is put out. But 

 if we accept that as of universal applica- 

 tion, then it's all right to put culls in the 

 middle of the barrel and face with fancy, 

 for that's been done so much and so often 

 that no one is deceived. And yet you 

 yourself draw the line at culls in the 

 heart of a barrel of fancy apples. Evi- 

 dently we nui.st modify the rule, and say 

 ihe middle may be poorer than the out- 

 side, but not too nuich poorer. 



Perhaps we can fix it up better l)y tak- 

 iny honey instead of apples. And we'll 

 take that case of honey you were talking 



