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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



forgot to pour ilowii its Icrrihle and rclt'iitlfss 

 stream? I'antiiijj ami j^asping I said to the 

 ijiii«le, "jDo we liave to yjo hack the way we 

 came? " 



"Oh! hless you, no. We \^n in one way 

 and come out the other. Vou have t^ol all 

 through it;" and for the time I was glad. 

 Yes, I paid a dollar for the privilege of going 

 " hehind the curtains," and being for a few 

 brief moments right in the midst of the roar- 

 ing and seething monster. And it was worth 

 a dollar too. I shall never forget it ; but I do 

 not want to go through it again, even if the 

 guide did say, "After you have been through 

 three or four times you can breathe without 

 any trouble at all. One has to get used to it." 



Our guide seemed to be quite a sensible, in- 

 telligent, and bright fellow, and I felt a good 

 deal of respect for him until just as we reached 

 the top of the stairway, when he said, "It is 

 customary for geutlfiiieii to remember the 

 guide before they go away, by some remuner- 

 ation for his services. " ' 



You pay a dollar for the privilege of going 

 under and through the falls. This is fully ex- 

 plained in circulars, and at the office before 

 you go down ; but not a word is said to the 

 effect that you are expected to pay any more 

 after yoti have paid a dollar ; and I would sug- 

 gest to the proprietors of the aforesaid institu- 

 tion, that, if they wish to preser\-e the respect 

 and confidence of their patrons, they will put 

 a stop to this sort of begging for a little more 

 money. If I am correct, the whole thing is 

 getting to be in disrepute. After you have 

 paid tiie advertised prices at a hotel, in a Pull- 

 man car, or anywhere else, you are not ex- 

 pected to pay the waiter or porter something 

 extra for being decently waited on. I told the 

 guide I did not believe in that sort of way of 

 doing business, and did not think it my duty 

 to encourage or sanction it. 



HOW HUGH VANKIRK, OK WASHINGTON, PA., 



GETS 20 CTS. A POUND FOR HIS HONRY, 



BOTH COMB AND EXTRACTED. 



In the first place, he produces from the 

 white clover on those Penns^-lvania hills about 

 the finest article of clover honey I ever saw or 

 tasted. He works his apiaries for both comb 

 and extracted honey. The former is cut out 

 of the frames or sections, and put into glass 

 jars, and the liquid honey is poured around it. 

 All this may be cjuite familiar to you ; but 

 when he showed me one of his jars contain- 

 ing '.\ lbs. of honey, I raised my hands and 

 uttered an exclamation of surprise. The jar, 

 I should think, is flint glass. It is made by 

 the Hazel Glass Co., Washington, Pa., and 

 the co.st, I think, was only about 7 cts. apiece. 



Of course, this is almost twice as much as 

 the cheap Mason jars; but if it has the effect 

 of making the honey sell for almost twice as 

 much, we can well afford the extra expense of 

 the jar. The honey is put up only as fast as 

 it is sold. None of it is allowed to candy on 

 the dealer's hands; neither is said dealer given 

 so many jars at once that they get dusty and 

 flyspecked, etc. When I took one of the jars 

 in my hand I was almost ready to say I would 

 give 60 cts. for such a jar of' honey, just be- 



cause it looked so pretty; and when my friend 

 took off the cover and handed me a spoon, 

 and asked me to ta.ste it, then I was fully 

 satisfied to pay (10 cts. for it just to put on my 

 own table. May l)e my long wheelrifle had 

 given me an appetite for honey, and an appre- 

 ciation for nice-looking things ; but it .seemed 

 to me then I had never before found any 

 honey equal to that, both in looks and in 

 ta.ste. Friend V. insinuates that there is not 

 anywhere in the world any honey equal to 

 that from the Pennsylvania hills ; and that is 

 a pretty good way to think of one's own 

 locality. Of course, the price of the jar has 

 to come out of the .'> lbs. of honey ; and when 

 he leaves it at the stores he gives them 10 cts. 

 commission on each jar they sell ; but where 

 he carries it around to the hon.ses, and retails 

 it out, he actually gets 20 cts. a pound for his 

 honey, package thrown in, as I have explained. 

 Now, then, what is to hinder people in other 

 places from getting a like fancy price for an 

 equally "gilt-edged" product? This clover 

 honey was not as white as the California sage, 

 biit it had a beautiful crystalline amber ap- 

 pearance, even though it was so thick that a 

 spoonful could be turned over safely, even 

 during a warm day, without danger of drip- 

 ping. I wall tell you more about friend Van- 

 kirk some other time. 



Our Neighbors. 



Thou Shalt have no other gods before me. . . For 

 I the lyord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the ini- 

 quity of the fathers upon the children unto the third 

 and fourth generation of them that hate me, and 

 showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me 

 and keep my commandments. — Exodus 20 :•'!, 5. fi. 



I had been having a 25-mile ride on the 

 wheel, the latter part of it over some very long 

 hills. My destination was Silver Lake, Sum- 

 mit Co., Ohio. I sat in an easy-chair to rest 

 after my fatiguing ride, and was having a 

 plea.sant chat with the proprietor of the place. 

 Suddenly somebody called him to the tele- 

 phone, and a minute later he seemed some- 

 what disturbed, and asked me to get my hat 

 and follow him quickly. I did so, and on our 

 way through the darkness he explained to me 

 that his boys had ju.st rescued a woman on the 

 opposite shore of the lake. They heard some- 

 thing on the other side, and sprang into the 

 electric launch, which was all ready to shoot 

 out into the water with incredible speed by 

 .simply pressing a button. They very soon 

 reached the point whence the sounds proceed- 

 ed. A woman was in the water, and they had 

 rescued her. By the time he had finished 

 telling me about it w^e were down at the land- 

 ing. The boys had carried her into one of the 

 buildings ; and while the women-folks were 

 busy in getting her a change of clothing, sev- 

 eral attempts were made to talk with her ; but 

 she did not seem inclined to speak. She was 

 a young woman, well dressed, and of attractive 

 appearance. I decided in my own mind from 

 the first that it was an attempt at suicide. And 

 then I began wondering, as I looked upon 

 her, how it was pos.sible that one just in the 



