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VOL XXX. CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 22, 1892. NO. 26. 



A Merry Christmas to All the 



readers of the American Bee Journal 

 is our sincerest wish at this time. Before 

 another number reaches you, that hap- 

 piest day of the year will have come and 

 gone. Again we wish you — 



A MERRY CHRISTMAS. 



Change of Ohio Meeting.— 



Secretary Miss Dema Bennett, of Bed- 

 ford, Onio, writes us as follows : 



The date of the Ohio convention has 

 been changed so as not to conflict with 

 the North American, to Jan. 2 and 3. 

 I hope that some of the Western bee- 

 keepers will buy their tickets to Colum- 

 bus, and from there to Pittsburgh, if 

 they wish to go as A. I. Root suggested 

 in Gleanings, and on their return from 

 Washington stop off at Columbus, 0., 

 and run down to our meeting at Wash- 

 ington C. H., which is only 39 miles 

 below Columbus. It is only 39 miles 

 further from Chicago via Columbus, O., 

 to Pittsburgh than it is by the Fort 

 Wayne route, both of which are the 

 Pennsylvania railway lines, although 

 the former is operated by the P. C. C. & 

 St. L. Railway Company. 



Dema Bennett, Sec. 



A $1,000 Poem.— The following 

 poem brought its author $1,000, being 

 the sum offered by a syndicate of West- 

 ern editors for the best appeal poem to 

 subscribers to pay up their subscriptions. 

 The prize was won by the editor of the 

 Rocky Mountain Celt, and this is the 

 " valuable" poem : 



Lives of poor men oft remind us 

 Honest men won't stand a chance ; 



The more we work, there grows behind us 

 Bigger patches on our pants. 



On our pants, once new and glossy, 

 Now are stripes of different hue, 



All because subscribers linger. 

 And won't pay us what Is due. 



Then let us all be up and doing, 

 Send your mite, however small, 



Or when the snow of winter strikes us, 

 We shall have no pants at all. 



Although the above may not truthfully 

 represent the condition of our " pants," 

 yet those three stanzas will serve to re- 

 mind several of the Bee Journal read- 

 ers of something that they had forgot- 

 ten. Is your subscription paid up? 

 Look at the pink label on the wrapper, 

 and see what it says. 



By the way, no blue mark will be 

 placed on the Bee Journal of those 

 subscribers who have paid to the end of 

 this month and are marked " Dec92." 

 Please make a note of this, and don't 

 fail to renew at once for 1893. We are 

 planning some grand features for the 

 Bee Journal next year. You can't 

 afford to miss them, either. Send us the 

 dollar — we'll do the rest. 



