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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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in their blindness, and then blame the commission man, very 

 likely. If anything is wrong, or different from what was ex- 

 pected. And yet, if some folks think they know it all, and 

 won't read, they will have to take the consequences, of 

 course. 



Now, don't ship comb honey by express. Put the ship- 

 ping-cases of honey In large crates holding perhaps 200 

 pounds each, with several inches of straw in the bottom and 

 at the sides of the crate. Then nail a 3 or 4 inch board on each 

 side a third of the way down from the top, letting the boards 

 extend about eight inches at each end, for handles by which 

 two men will carry the crate. Honey thus packt will stand 

 lots of bumping around, and will almost invariably reach its 

 destination without any breakage whatever. 



Pacific Bee Journal Discontinued.— We 



have received the following notice, dated May 8, and signed 

 by Editor Bennett: 



The publication of the Pacific Bee Journal has been post- 

 poned, owing partly to my connection with the National 

 Guards of California, who daily await orders from the Govern- 

 ment to take the field; and partly to the lack of support 

 owing to the unfortunate dry year. I intend to resume the 

 publication at some fitting time, advancing all paid-up sub- 

 scriptions. B. S. K. Bennett. 



c:^ Money but Pio Names. — We have receive d two 

 letters accompanied by a dollar; each, but the senders were 

 evidently in such a hurry to pay up that they forgot to sign 

 their names. On the envelop of one the postmark is "Pueblo, 

 Colo.;" on the other, "North Adams, Mass." Will the guilty 

 subscribers please write us at once, so that we can credit the 

 money properly. 



A 'War Relief Fund. — We appeal to our readers 

 to join with us and thousands of other patriotic citizens 

 throughout the country in raising within the next 30 days a 

 relief fund of one million dollars to be placed in the hands of 

 the American National Red Cross and of the Central Cuban 

 Relief Committee, appointed by President McKinley. 



We, with other publishers and merchants throughout the 

 country, are volunteering to receive donations of .$1.00 each 

 for the fund. It has been arranged to present every one, who 

 donates .SI. 00, with a copy of a beautiful picture, "The 

 Accolade." This picture is a beautiful historical souvenir of 

 this great uprising of the American people to defend and set 

 free outraged Cuba. Every patriotic American should sub- 

 scribe at once ! Your help is needed '. Our boys are at the 

 front! Let us stand by them ! We do not reserve any com- 

 mission of any kind, and no profit is made by any persons 

 from this fund. 



The souvenir that is given in return for each dollar do- 

 nated is a work of art fitted to adorn any parlor wall. It is a 

 large picture, IS by 38 inches in size. It presents Columbia, 

 the allegorical figure of the United States, bestowing the 

 Accolade on wounded Cuba. Judge Noah Davis, of New York, 

 speaks thus of the picture : 



"The Accolade is the name of the kiss given as the final 

 ceremony in the bestowment of Knighthood upon the worthy 

 heroes of the Age of Chivalry. It was the token of love for 

 noble deeds — deeds done in the cause of Virtue — in the defense 

 of innocence and in the rescue of the humble and poor. It 

 was therefore 'The Kiss of Love " — the tenderest and sweet- 

 est kiss when given in the cause of suffering and helpless 



humanity It is well, then, that in this hour of her awful 



agony, America should clasp to her bosom the wretched and 

 unhappy Cuba and give her 'The Accolade'— the kiss of 

 charity and love, and the token of hope for peace and happi- 

 ness, bestowed by a mighty people in the name of God and 

 Liberty." 



c Now let every one of 'our readers send promptly to this 

 office $1.00 toward ;this Million-Dollar Relief Fund. The 

 cause will commend Jitself to every liberty-loving humane 

 American. 



Remember no commissions are paid to any one for raising 

 this fund. The contributions go intact to the Relief Fund. 



All help, and help at once- 



Mr. Hamilton Piper, of Calcasieu Co., La., writes : 

 "The American Bee Journal is good. The number for 

 May 12 is worth a year's subscription to any bee-keeper." 



Mr. D. W. Heise— the Ontario bee-keeping chap that 

 noses around and picks up notes on bees wherever he can find 

 them, for the Canadian Bee Journal— wrote us May 4 that 

 his " bees are all right, but the weather unfavorable." 



Mr. E. W. Brown, of Erie Co., N. Y., writing May 16, 

 said : 



"I had my first swarm May 13. It was brought down 

 from the top of an apple-tree by my wife, while 1 was in 

 Buffalo." 



Dr. Peiro is now located at Central Music Hall, Chicago. 

 Any of our readers contemplating consulting him are informed 

 that the Doctor will be absent from his office during July. 

 Appointments to see him should be made by letter in advance 

 of starting, to insure certainty of personal interview. 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman, of San Francisco Co., Calif., 

 writing us May 12, reported : 



"The weather is cold and disagreeable here this spring. 

 Fruit is killed, and of honey there will be none to spare, even 

 If there is enough to keep the bees over." 



Mr. J. O. Gkimsley, of Pickett Co., Tenn., writing us on 

 May 16, said : 



"A very backward spring, but bees are working nicely 

 now. Poplar is just in bloom." 



Mr. Grimsley edits the bee-department of The Ruralist — a 

 monthly paper publisht in Maryland. 



Mr. Harry S. Howe is the Secretary of the New York 

 State Association of Bee-Keepers' Societies, organized at 

 Geneva, N. Y., March 16. Mr. Howe's picture appears In 

 the May American Bee-Keeper. He has become famous in 

 his section of the country a? the lightning extractor of honey 

 and general all-around apiarian hustler. Howe's all right, 

 "any-Howe." 



Rev. W. Anderson, of Bureau Co., 111., called on us May 

 18, when attending a convention in the interest of his (the 

 Congregationalist) church held in Chicago at that time. Mr. 

 Anderson has some 30 colonies, and finds their care both 

 pleasant and profitable. There doubtless are many preachers 

 throughout the country that might find it to their advantage, 

 both physically and financially, to have a few colonies of bees 

 upon which to spend their leisure hours. 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle, of Onondaga Co., N. Y., writing us 

 May 12, said : 



" Since March our spring has been wet and cold — so wet 

 that farmers are ' blue ' on account of not being able to get in 

 their crops, and bees have had only two days in which they 

 could get anything from hard maple and willow — the only 

 thing in blossom so far. Bees are really in poorer condition 

 now than they were the middle of March. I will have to feed 

 soon unless good bee-weather comes." 



Editor Hutchinson's father-in-law died May 1, at the 

 age of 74 years. He was a bee-keeper over half his life. Mr. 

 Hutchinson says : 



" I remember with pleasure the visits that I made him 

 when scarcely out of my 'teens,' to 'talk bees.' It was during 

 these visits that I made the acquaintance of the girl who has 

 since been my good wife." 



Y'es, of course Mr. Hutchinson made those visits to "talk 

 bees" to the father, and finally talkt "honey" to the daugh- 

 ter. Great scheme that. Favorably impress the parents, and 

 half the battle is won — sometimes. 



