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has made you spoil that word with an c on it 

 for a hundred years, and I don't know how 

 nuK'h more, and you iiaven't backbone enulf to 

 change it. while the wimnien change their 

 fashiuis." 



"But there's no way to change the spellin,"' 

 says he. 



"Isn't there?" says slie. "You know they 

 used to spell Atlantic, Paclfie, optic, and all 

 such words, with a k on the end. Some one 

 had backbone enutt' to leave off the k, and now 

 evry buddy does it. Then we h<\d honor and 

 favor and such words with the letter it in the 

 last syllable. They still spell that way in Eng- 

 land, but nobuddy does this side of the Atlantic 

 otion. There's no law that makes you keep on 

 spellin so many words in a foolish way. and I 

 think you better let up on Carline for followin 

 the fashun when you're doin a good eel worse." 



"Maybe I better not spend any more time 

 tryin to spell in the fashun," says I. 



Zed had been settin quiet, and seemed to be 

 reedin Gi>eenings. He spoke up then, and, 

 says he, " I've counted over a hundred sighlent 

 letters on one page of Gleenings. If they 

 would leave out all the sighlent letters we 

 could have a good bit more reading in it, and 

 lern more about bees and onyions." 



Jake Smith. 

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CALIFORNIA ECHOES 



B]i Ramhlcr. 



Looks rather discouraging for a crop' of self- 

 hivers, non-swarmers, traps, etc.. for the com- 

 ing season. 



She said pa always stopped so long to talk 

 when he met a bee-man that she felt like flying. 

 The fidgety thing! I've no doubt that pa some- 

 times wished she would. 



The best brush for removing bees from combs 

 is the Mexican fiber duster. It has quite a volu- 

 minous head and a rolling motion with it; 

 just cleans a comb instantly. This excellent 

 "machine" Is sold by novelty dealers. 



It isducks this time that can not be success- 

 fully reared where bees abound. If they sip 

 water from the same pond, the voracious duck 

 swallows the bee, taking it for an innocent fly. 

 The bee thrusts its sting into the internal rami- 

 fications of the duck; result, a dead duck: 

 post-result, bees must go. . , 



Good authority says that sugar syrup, when 

 fed to the bee, is not changed by the bee, but 

 from absorption of chemical matter from the 

 comb in which it is stored. Let the bee store 

 the syrup in old comb, wliere it comes in con- 

 tact with cocoons instead of wax, it remains 

 sugar syrup. Store it in fresh new combs, and 

 it absorbs a wax aroma, and tlius the so-called 

 change. Apropos, see what Dadant says about 

 rendering wax with acids, page 211, Gi,ka\- 

 iNGs; it destroys its perfumery, odor, etc. 



THE r^AHK. 



He rose, and, sinii^-iiiK past from sit^lil, 



A sliadow kincliiiiK with llic sun, 

 His joy 01 still ic tlanifd, till li^lit 



And iiuavi'nly sduh' were one. 



That is what the lark has l)een doing all win- 

 ter in this sunset country. The mockingbird is 

 now prospecting around for domestic purposes. 

 The Al[)ine bluebirds are unusually plentiful 

 and brilliant now. Oh, yes! we have some 

 birds in California. 



Three more live California bachelor bee-keep- 

 ers have gone and got married— Mr. Holley, of 

 Fillmore (I bet Mrs. Mclntyre had a hand in 

 the match), Mr. Zanft, of Riverside (just as 

 though there were not odd names enough now 

 in the world without raising any more); then 

 Prof. Guenther, of Redlands, the highly ac- 

 complished violinist, played right into the arms 

 of Cupid. Well, they must abide the conse- 

 quences. The Rambler has given them fair 

 warning in the past. 



Apropos to the above, I would call attention 

 to the fact that a Chicago woman, who has 

 been married seven times, says that all men do 

 not bear suffering alike. Nothing like expe- 

 rience to teach women these things. 



TO SAVE HIS BKOTHER. 



Santa Ana, February 17 — Georg'e Emerson, a 

 prominent vouns man of tliis city, shot and killed 

 Louie Yorba. a half-breed Mexican, at 8 o'clock this 

 morning, in Santa Ana canyon, about twenty miles 

 from tills city, during- a quarrel over the possession 

 of a Government claim which young Emerson and 

 his older brother liad recently filed on. It seems 

 that the Mexican took possession of tlie claim dur- 

 ing the absence of the Emerson brothers, and upon 

 their return attacked the older brother -with a club, 

 hoping to drive him off the claim, whereupon young 

 Emerson pulled a gun and fired, killing Yorba just 

 as he raised the club to strike his bi'other. Both 

 young men drove to this city at once and gave them- 

 selves up. The one who did tlie shooting is now in 

 the custody of the Sheriff. Yorba's body was 

 brought to this city to-night. He was shot several 

 times, one bullet penetrating the vicinity of the 

 lieart. It is claimed the sliooting was done m self- 

 defense. 



The Emerson brothers spoken of above are 

 successful bee- keepers; and the claim. over 

 which the fatal quarrel occurred was filed and 

 occupied for a bee-ranch. 



SUPERS. 



THEIK RELATIVE MERITS AND DEMERITS SET 



forth; the SINGLE-TIER WIDE FRAME 



PREFERRKD. AND WHY. 



By R. L. Taylin: 



Dr. Miller writes me, in response to some no- 

 tions I advanced in a letter to him, that he was 

 going to tear me into little bits; so, perhaps, in 

 anticipation, I am warranted in undertaking 

 to criticise some remarks he makes in Glean- 

 ings of March 1, page liM), on the above subject, 

 which I think are falhicious, and calculated to 

 mislead the inexperienced. 



1 have not used the section- holders, but have 

 used the T supers to some extent, and the Hed- 

 don super and the wide frames very largely. 



