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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



October 20. 



a share of the cash premlutns offered. But we should regret 

 to learn that he had eeast making bis annual exhibits at the 

 fairs, for there are very few bee-keepers in this country that 

 can equal him in putting up a honey-show. Instead of any 

 good exhibitor dropping out of the list, there should be more 

 added to it, for it is an effective means of calling the public's 

 attention to honey and its great food value. 



Mr. W. K. Morrison, in Gleanings, says of Porto Riso : 

 " It is a very fine bee-country. It is the only part of the 

 Spanish colonies worth owning." While referring to the same 

 country a current newspaper Item reads : " A peculiarity of 

 the island is that neither snakes nor flowers are found, as in 

 other tropical countries. — American Bee- Keeper. 



Hon. Eugene Secor, the General Manager of the United 

 States Bee- Keepers' Union, is interested in fruitgrowing as 

 well as bee-keeping. At his late Winnebago County (Iowa) 

 Fair, the local newspaper reported that "Mr. Secor showed 

 36 varieties grown on his place inside the city limits. Many 

 of these were Russians that would give the reporter the lock- 

 jaw to pronounce. These new candidates for public favor are 

 only on trial and will not be recommended by Mr. Secor for 

 general planting until they prove to be more valuable than 

 those kinds already known and accepted." 



Ye Editor and Wife had the pleasure of spending nearly 

 a whole day— Oct. 6— with Mr. and Mrs. F. Grabbe, at their 

 place in Libertyville, Lake Co., III. Mr. G., while still keep- 

 ing some 30 colonies of bees, and securing about 1,000 

 pounds of honey the past season, has been getting into the 

 spring and mineral water business the past year or more. He 

 owns a spring that flows at a rate of five gallons a minute, of 

 the purest, clearest water imaginable. It is intended to be 

 used as a table water, for general drinking purposes. A care- 

 ful chemical analysis of this water reveals unmistakable 

 medicinal propertle?. 



Mr. Grabbe also. has connection with another spring about 

 one mile from his own home spring, that is equal if not supe- 

 rior to the famous springs at West Baden, Ind. Years ago 

 the Indians knew of this latter spring, whose life-giving 

 water Mr. Grabbe ships all over the country, and they once 



used the surrounding land as a camping-ground. The water 

 tastes strongly of sulphur, and in many cases has proven an 

 absolute cure for consumption, kidney diseases, etc. 



Mr. G. will be pleased to mail a circular describing the 

 curative qualities of these waters to all who make application 

 therefor. 



Mr. Grabbe, some 25 years ago, owned a half interest in 

 the American Bee Journal, with W. F. Clarke, of Canada. 

 They soon sold their interests to Thomas G. Newman, from 

 whom we purchast It in 1892. 



Mr. N. Stainingeb, of Cedar Co., Iowa, wrote us as fol- 

 lows, Oct. 8 : 



Dear Friend York : — It is with very much grief that I 

 have to tell you of the death of my oldest son, Harry. He 

 joined the army June 2 I. died at Jacksonville, Oct. 5, and was 

 sent home to us on the Sth. He was sick only about 12 days 

 with typhoid fever, and as the telegraph wires were all down, 

 we did not know it till they were on the way home with his 

 body. Yours in sorrow, 



N. Stainingeb. 



This is sad, indeed; and our sincerest sympathy is ex- 

 tended to our friend and family In their deep sorrow, and in 

 this expression we feel that all our readers will unite. 



Klondike Bonanza Schemes, we note, are creeping into 

 the advertising pages of some of the bee-papers — at least one 

 of them. We have been offered several of them, but felt that 

 all were too "scheray" for us to touch, or admit into our ad- 

 vertising columns. People that expect to get rich in a hurry 

 are just the dupes that such glittering schemes generally 

 catch. Understand, we do not say they are frauds, but we do 

 say that any one with even a little sense will think four times 

 before investing. See here. Do you suppose that the rich 

 capitalists of this country are going to be so generous as to 

 offer a good thing to the rest of the people, or to let it get 

 away from (ftem ? Not much. They are continually looking 

 for "gold mine" investments that assure certain returns, and 

 they are not going to let bee-keepers and others get a good 

 thing away from them. The very fact that such " bonanzas " 

 are advertised, look to us that they are worthless as invest- 

 ments, else those with large idle capital would snap them up 

 too quickly. 



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We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce any honey for their home demand this 

 year, ju.^it order some of the above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, can get 

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the finest of their kinds produced in this country. 



