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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



a son of the senior member of the fine 

 firm of J. Van Deusen & Sons, the well- 

 known flat-bottom comb foundation manu- 

 facturers. All the bee-keeping world will 

 read this with sincere regret, and extend to 

 the stricken relatives their most earnest 

 sympathy in this very sad bereavement. 



Mr. and Mrs. Van Deusen were on their 

 way to visit the World's Fair, when through 

 some carelessness of the railroad employees 

 they were overtaken by death when two 

 trains met in the collision referred to. Mr. 

 V. was injured, and died within an hour or 

 so after the accident, but his wife was 

 burned to death in full view of those who 

 tried in every way to rescue her, but could 

 not. as she was pinned in the broken cars. 

 The account of her martyr-like death, as 

 portrayed by the daily newspapers, is too 

 horrible for reproduction here. When she 

 saw that death was Inevitable, she gave 

 one agonizing wail, and then her woman's 

 weakness gave way to her martyr strength. 

 '• I can die; oh yes. lean die if I must," she 

 said. '-I am a Christian," she also said, and 

 a moment later her voice was raised in 

 prayer. Oh, it was a terrible death! 

 Strong men wept at the heart-rending 

 sight that they were so powerless to pre- 

 vent. But at last the praying lips were 

 stilled, and the soul of the brave Mrs. Van 

 Deusen passed into eternal glory. 



Ah. scoffers at the true Christian's faith, 

 hide your heads in shame, and pause ere 

 you again speak lightly of that which helps 

 martyrs to bear up under persecution, and 

 even welcome death by the torturing 

 flames. Our brother and sister were called 

 very suddenly and unexpectedly from their 

 earthly existence, and none of us know 

 when we. too, may be summoned. Oh, that 

 we all might have that trusting faith, and 

 abiding "hope"' which we all can "have 

 as an anchor of the soul, both sure and 

 steadfast, and which entereth into that 

 within the vail." 



The Van Deusen comb-foundation exhibit 

 at the World's Fair was at once appro- 

 priately decorated in emblems of mourning, 

 in memory of the departed member of the 

 firm. 



that firm. Not much ! The Bee Journal 

 is as free as anything can be, to express its 

 approval or condemnation, just whichever 

 it sees fit to bestow. Neither is the Bee 

 Journal published in the interest of any 

 particular bee-supply firm. It is here to 

 furnish purely bee-literature, and to repre- 

 sent the best interests of its partners— the 

 regular subscribers. That its usefulness 

 may be greatly extended, let all turn in and 

 aid in increasing its number of weekly 

 readers. With a list of 15 or 20 thousand 

 annual subscribers, what a power the Bee 

 Journal could be ! If you, brother or sis- 

 ter, would like to know more definitely 

 what kind of " a power " we have in mind, 

 just begin to help make it possible to rea- 

 lize our ideal, by securing the above num- 

 ber of subscribers, and then you'll soon see 

 the "power " manifesting itself. 



Not Siiltxiaizecl !— Because we took 

 occasion to speak favorably of a certain 

 prominent firm's j)roduction recently, since 

 then it has been hinted that the American 

 Bee Journal was perhaps "subsidized" by 



Apiciilf iiral Experiments. — On 



page 563 we give another of the interesting 

 reports prepared by Hon. R. L. Taylor, of 

 the Michigan Apicultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. This time it is about the value of 

 comb foundation in the brood-chamber, 

 and shows that Mr. Taylor has made some 

 exceedingly fine experiments on this sub- 

 ject. 



We believe that so far we have published 

 every report of the experiments made at 

 the Michigan apiary, that Mr. Taylor has 

 written. Besides, we also reprinted an 

 article written by him for the Grange Visitor, 

 a rural periodical published in Michigan. 

 As Mr. Taylor's work is paid for out of 

 public money, his reports belong to the 

 public, or to all the bee-papers that care to 

 publish them. 



At the recent North American conven- 

 tion, during our unavoidable absence from 

 a portion of the first session of the second 

 day, it seems that Mr. Taylor advised 

 everybody to subscribe for the Bee-Keepers' 

 Jieview, as it contained all of his reports of 

 experiments. At least so we were after- 

 ward informed. Had we been present at 

 the time, we could, in justice to the Bee 

 Journal, have reminded the convention 

 that this paper had not only so far printed 

 all his reports, but that it expected to con- 

 tinue to do so. We were surprised that 

 Mr. Taylor could have so thoughtlessly in- 

 jured the Jieview, whose editor, we are very 

 certain, would not wish its friends to take 

 any undue advantage in order to advertise 



