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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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good can and should be done. I make the 

 suggestion or reconinieudation, if you please, 

 to die Board of Directors of the U. vS. B. K. 

 U., that that body send its General Manager, 

 Hon. Eugene Secor, or its .Secretary, Dr. A. 

 B. Mason, to this congress, for there will be 

 reduced railroad rates. It might be wise to 

 invite one or two others to be present with 

 him, also members of the Association, but 

 who should be in the immediate vicinity of 

 Washington, to save railroad fare. I am now 

 thinking of our friend Danzenbaker, who is 

 in the city, and no man is more interested in 

 pure food than he. Perhaps apicultural ex- 

 perimenter C. H. Lake would be another. 

 The new Union is already preparing for work; 

 and it seems to me that, meeting with and co- 

 operating in this way with the other friends of 

 pure food, it will be one of the first moves for 

 the new Union, and should by all means be 

 recommended by the Board. In a letter re- 

 cently received it appears that the General 

 Manager is looking now toward the adultera- 

 tion question. 



THE LANGSTROTH-MONUMENT FUND ; LOVING 



OUR NEIGHBOR BETTER THAN OURSELVES. 



We have already made several appeals for 

 funds from bee keepers, for the erection of a 

 monument or a tombstone for father Lang- 

 strolh. Money has been coming in in little 

 amounts, so that now the aggregate is some- 

 thing like $()0.00, including the amount secur- 

 ed by the Auieiican Bee Journal I had hop- 

 ed that we might be able to raise !j!100 easily. 

 It seems to me we surely ought to make it 

 $75.00, and therefore hope that bee-keepers 

 will send in what they think than can afford. 

 Any amount from five cents up to a dollar will 

 be received and credited to the Langstroth- 

 monument fund. I do not expect to make an- 

 other appeal, and hope, therefore, our readers 

 will heed this our " last call. "' I am well aware 

 that there are suffering Cubans and starving 

 Armenians, and that calls for funds from mis- 

 sion fields were never more urgent than now. 

 I would not ask for one penny for any one of 

 these benevolences ; but if you have a nickel, 

 a quarter, a half-dollar, or a dollar, that you 

 are going to spend for something you do not 

 really need, let us have it for the monument 

 fund. One of our workmen, a few moments 

 ago, handed me a dollar. 



" What is that for? " I asked. 



" Why, that is to go to the fund that you 

 are making up for the suffering Cubans."''" 



"Why," said I, "if all were doing as well 

 in proportion as you are, the Cubans would 

 have enough and to spare." 



" Well," Slid he, " I know I really can not 

 afford it ; but I had taken the dollar to buy 

 sugar with; but I concluded that my brother- 

 man in Cuba needed the bare necessities more 

 than I needed the sugar, and here is the dol- 

 lar." 



Now, friends, what a beautiful world this 

 would be if every one were to show a similar 

 spirit ! and I might say in closing that we will 

 receive money for the Cuban sufferers as well 



* The A. I. Root Co. sent .fW for the Cubans. 



as for the monument to the memory of father 

 Langstroth. 



STEALING THE OTHER MAN'S THUNDER. 



When a thing has pronounced merit, and 

 there is a big demand for it, others are liable 

 to copy it, or, if they can not copy it, make 

 something like it, and give it nearly the same 

 name. A case is in point in the matter of 

 plated silverware. One Rogers made plated 

 silver spoons, knives, and forks that earned 

 for him an enviable reputation. Ver}^ soon, 

 perhaps half a dozen otlier concerns adopted 

 the same name, with a slight change. There 

 are, I believe, Rogers Brothers, Rogers &Bro., 

 Wm. Rogers Mfg. Co., etc., all making the 

 same goods. The same has been true in re- 

 gard to certain patent medicines. Jtist as soon 

 as their proprietors have secured for them a 

 big demand ( whether they have merit or not ) 

 other firms begin making the saine stuff, and 

 calling it by almost the same name. The av- 

 erage person does not know exactly the name 

 of the article; and if he sees a name that is al- 

 most like the original he jumps at the con- 

 clusion that it is the original. 



Within a year or so, or since our "Weed 

 new process " foundation was put on the mar- 

 ket, various persons in this and other coun- 

 tries have advertised their own " new process;" 

 and lately the}' are getting to call it " new pro- 

 cess " and nothing else, the evident purpose 

 being to borrow or steal the advertisiui^ pres- 

 tige secured at an enormous cost. The fact of 

 the matter is, the " We< d new process " is en- 

 tirely different from any- other so-called new- 

 process foundation. All the other continuous- 

 sheet-making machines employ the old dip- 

 ping process; but the Weed machinerv makes 

 continuous sheets on an entirely different 

 principle. 



THE LATEST NEWS, JUST AS WE GO TO PRESS. 



To-morrow, Feb. 1st, Blue Eyes leaves her 

 home and starts out to make a home of her 

 own with Mr. Arthur L. Boyden, formerly of 

 Saline, Mich. At the same time. Miss Con- 

 stance surrenders her place as a member of the 

 A. I. Root Co., in favor of Mr. Boyden, who 

 has been for several years the right-hand man 

 of our business manager, Mr. J. T. Calvert. 

 The young people will take a trip to the bride- 

 groom's home in Michigan. As both are con- 

 nected with the office more or less, they have 

 deputized your humble servant, A. I. R., to 

 take their wedding trip for them while they 

 remain at home (after a week's absence ) and 

 look after business in the office. Accordingly 

 your humble servant expects to sail for the 

 Bermuda Islands on the steamer Trinidad, 

 sailing from New York at 10 o'clock, Fe >. 9. 

 Look out for notes of travel describing the 

 way they grow Bermuda onions, potatoes, etc., 

 for the New York markets. Bermuda is said 

 to contain more than 100 miles of the best 

 roads for wheeling, on the face of the earth. 

 As these roads are all made of coral, as is 

 nearly the whole of the island, for that mat- 

 ter, there is never either dust or mud. All the 

 water g( es down through the coral so quickly 

 that you can start riding anywhere as soon as 

 it stops raining. 



