1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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think he Is doinK pretty well 1/ he can have all his sections 

 ready to take off in twice ten days. Possibly, however, it is 

 not so much the locality as the management. While others 

 try to limit the number of drones, Mrs. Thornton kindly fos- 

 ters them, and they repay this fostering kindness by fanning 

 the air to ripen the honey. But has she not a different strain 

 of drones ? for probably no one else has ever known drones to 

 fan the air while in the hive. 



KEV. L. J. TEIWPLIN. 



L. J. Templln was born at Danville, Hendricks Co., Ind., 

 Dec. 20, 1S3J:. He grew to manhood in Delaware and Henry 

 counties of that State. He got his education in the public 

 schools and by close reading aud study at home. At the age 

 of 20 he began teaching in the Indiana common schools. In 

 the spring of 1850 he was married to Miss Mary A. Lerner, 

 of Howard Co., Ind. Two years later he entered the ministry 

 of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the North Indiana Con- 

 ference. After four years of labor in this field, during which 

 be was much of the time in the midst of great revivals, hun- 

 dreds being converted ana added to the church under his 

 labors, his health failed, and he has been a great sufferer from 

 asthma. 



After the failure of his health, Mr. Templin located at 

 Kokomo, Ind., and engaged in the nursery business. Dr. J. 

 M. Hicks, of Indianapolis, became a member of the firm, add- 

 ing a bee-department. It was here that Mr. T. became inter- 

 ested in bee-keeping. His health proving too bad for the 

 business, he sold out, and after traveling two years as emi- 

 grant agent for the Santa Fe Riilroad Co., he moved to 

 Hutchinson, Kans. Here he engaged in teaching the common 

 schools, and also had charge of the scientific department of 

 the Teachers' Normal Institute of his county for several 

 years. His health continuing to decline, and his wife's health 

 having utterly broken down before leaving Indiana, their next 

 ujove was to Canon City, Colo. Here he engaged in fruit- 

 raising and bee-keeping, in both of which branches he was 

 quite successful. 



On account of several attacks of la grippe, the health of 

 both Mr. and Mrs. Templin became so impaired again that 

 another change seemed imperative. This time Southern Cali- 

 fornia was chosen. On arriving there Mr. T. purchast a ranch 

 at the foot of the San Miguel mountains, fronting on the 

 noted Sweetwater reservoir, near a station and post-office, 

 about ten miles east of San Diego. Here he is engaged in the 

 bee and poultry business, to which he is adding the raising of 

 Belgian hares. For many years Mr. Templin was a very 

 ardent Republican, but becoming disgusted with the subser- 

 viency of that party to the liquor power, in 18Si he became 

 a working, voting Prohibitionist. In this work he has been 

 very active, having served five years as chairman of the 

 county central committee of his party while in Colorado. He 

 also served one term as chairman of the Colorado Prohibition 

 Slate Central Committee; and canvast that State quite ex- 

 tensively in the interest of prohibition and The Challenge, the 

 organ of the party in that State. 



Mr. Templin has been a rather prolific writer for the pub- 

 lic press; dealing largely with rural and scientific topics. 

 Political and religious subjects have also engaged his pen to a 

 considerable extent. Some of his writings have commanded 

 considerable attention, being reproduced in leading publica- 

 tions in both America and Europe. A Friend. 



cir Mk. Thos. Glancv, of Hardin Co., Iowa, gave this office 

 a call March 10, when in Chicago with stock. He sells his 

 honey crop In the home market, having about 30 colonies. 



Mr. Geo. C. Lewis, son of G. B. Lewis, of the G. B. Lewis 

 Co., called at this office March 5. He reported a busy time at 

 their bee-supply factory. -They are preparing for a large 

 trade this season. 



"No Business Done on Sunday" Is a prominent line 

 In the bee-supply catalog of M. H. Hunt, of Michigan. We 

 were pleased to note it. There are too many who reserve 

 their bee-work or bee-business until Sunday. If a man can- 

 not keep bess without doing the work on Sunday, he would 

 better let bee-keeping alone. We believe in resting on Sun- 

 day, in getting our mind off of week-day business cares and 

 work. Six days labor out of seven is enough. All the world 

 would be better off did it rest a seventh of the time. And as 

 the great majority have agreed on Sunday as that " seventh," 

 all should unite in seeing that everybody may rest on that 

 day, and that no secular work be done. 



Mr. Allen Lathaji, of Norfolk Co., Mass., has this to 

 say of the Bee Journal of last year ; 



" I consider that the 1897 American Bee Journal is the 

 best Of all years for at least 10 years." 



last years numbers 

 one ordering, at 60 

 the volume — pretty 



Well, we have some complete sets of 

 still on hand, which we will mail to any 

 cents each. There are 832 pages In 

 cheap at 60 cents. 



Mr. Latham has kindly sent us a sample of aster-golden- 

 rod extracted honey, which is of a rich, golden color, and most 

 excellent flavor. For a fall honey we do not know of better. 



Mr. T. S. Ford, of Scranton, Miss., the February Bfse- 

 Keepers' Review reports, died last November. Mr. Ford for 

 - — ral years wrote excellently for the Bee Journal as well is 



) other bee-papers, especially on the subject of bee-paral- 

 —'"- — ""'^h he had considerable experience. He ""- 



severa 

 some I 



ysis, with which ue uau cuusiuerauie BApwiieuuo. u-cj rvun 



one of the two or three that preferred to do without the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal rather than see its reformed spelling. We 

 regretted that so evidently intelligent a man should take such 

 a stand, but he did, and we doubt not, had he lived, in a few 

 years he would have been surprised that he ever could have 

 lookt at the subject as he did. 



Mr. John Detwiler, a Florida bee-keeper, is also inter- 

 ested in oyster and clam culture. In a local newspaper he 

 has two articles, one on " Experimental Oyster Culture," and 

 the other on "The Propagation of the Soft Clam." About all 

 we know about oysters is that we like to eat them ; and as to 

 clams — well, like a clam, we're softly mum. 



Pre.s. E. S. LovEsy, of the Utah Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, sent us this testimonial, Feb. 17 : 



"lam well pleased with the grand old American Bee 

 Journal. It seems that there is some new feature, or some- 

 thing new and interesting, every week, for the benefit of bee- 

 keepers." 



Catalogs for 1898 are on our desk from the following 

 who are among those patronizing the advertising columns of 

 the American Bee Journal ; 



Marilla Incubator Co., Marilla, N. Y.— Incubators. 



M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich — Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, Minn. — Seeds of all 

 kinds. 



W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co., Jamestown, N. Y.— Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Supplies. 



Reliable Incubator and Brooder Co., Quincy, III.— Incu- 

 bators and Brooders. 



Gus Dittmer, Augusta, Wis.— Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Electric Wheel Co., Quincy, III.— Wide Tire Wagon- 

 Wheels. 



Mr. S. T. Pettit, of Canada, writing us lately said : 



"I enjoyed the ' kicks and growls' sent in by Mr. Jenkins, 

 on page 120, tho I don't agree with him in kicking at your 

 improved way of spelling. My wife and I rather like the 

 shortcuts — it never 'shox'us a bit. But, soberly, I am get- 

 ting used to it, and like it." 



In a few years we expect to find plenty more people com- 

 mending us for our stand on spelling reform, who now look 

 upon it with disfavor. Many unpopular things of the past are 

 now " right in style." Before the first locomotive was in- 

 vented, some peoble said it never could be made to run ; then 

 when they saw it running at about 10 miles an hour, they 

 said it couldn't be made to stop '. Of course, if some people 

 want to go on writing sit letters where four will do better, 

 that's their privilege. See a few of them: Capt for cappci/, 

 ript for ripped, nipt for nipped; then five in place of seven : 

 dropt for dropped, shipt for shipped, stopt for stopped, etc. 



