Mav 25, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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according- to witness. Tliere had been experiments made, 

 he said, with a mixture of paraffiiie and beeswax, but tlie 

 former had proved too susceptible to heat, and would not 

 answer tlie purpose at all. 



Mr. York was followed by Mrs. N. L. Stow, of Evans- 

 ton, who is vice-president of the Chicag-o Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation. Mrs. Stow has kept 80 colonies of bees, and her 

 knowledg-e of the industry has gained for her the position 

 she holds. Her testimony corroborated that of Mr. York, 

 as also did that of Herman F. Moore, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the association, who took the stand after Mrs. Stow 

 had finisht. 



It is the intention of the Senate committee to print all 

 the testimony the.v may gather as to the adulteration of all 

 kinds of food, and present it to Congress at its next session, 

 and then doubtless an attempt will be made to enact a na- 

 tional anti-adulteration law. We endeavored to impress up'>n 

 the committee the urgent need of statutory law ag-ainst all 

 forms of adulteration, including honey, of course. We 

 hope that our testimony will do good. We were glad of 

 the opportunity to give the committee all the information 

 we possibly could. 



Mr. Moore and the writer gathered up about a dozen 

 samples of honey — both adulterated and pure — which we 

 placed before the committee. Prof. Wiley suggested that 

 we forward them to his laboratorj- in Washington, where 

 he would analyze them and then report. 



The Reformed Spelling.— Mr. Stenog, in Gleanings, 

 has this comment on our spelling'-reform eflfort : 



Mr. York spells " burr-comb " with one r, but spells 

 fuzz with two z's, instead of fiiz. Why not go the whole 

 length and spell it eel, wil, t>f for Oce, etc.? The new spell- 

 ing is certainly misleading when past is used for passed. A 

 la%v that was />(7i/ last March has ceast to be a law at that 

 time. 



Does Stenog object to going by the dictionary' ? " Bur " 

 is given as correct spelling in the Standard, but " fuz " can- 

 not be found there. There is no objection whatever, "in 

 this locality," to spelling eel, wil, and be for bee, unless it 

 be that some people are so conservative that they prefer to 

 hold on to the old no matter how bad it is. Some printer's 

 ink is wasted in printing cell, will, and bee. As to passed 

 and past, there's no need of spelling a word wrongly just 

 because it has two different meanings. Perhaps Stenog 

 would like bat spelt with two t's when it has wings, so we 

 will know he is not talking about a ball bat. Most people 

 who have learned how to read, know the sense intended 

 simply from the particular waj' in which a word is used 

 that has different meanings, tho spelt the same. Of course, 

 Stenog, who writes shorthand, always writes " past " for 

 " passed " when taking dictations. Pretty good joke on 

 him, when he criticises a spelling that he u.ses himself, and 

 must necessarily endorse. 



It's a fine thing for Gleanings that Stenog isn't several 

 hundred years old, for if he were he would still want to keep 

 on spelling as they did in the 16th century, a sample of 

 which we reproduce here, showing how the first ten verses 

 ■of the eighth chapter of St. Matthew were once printed : 



When lesus was come dowue from I'ne mountaync, moch people fol- 

 •owcd him. Aud lo, Iher cam a lepre and worsheped him saynge : Mas- 

 ter, if thou wylt thou canst make me cleue. He putt forthe iais houd and 

 touched him. saynge : I wyll, be clene, and immediatly his leprosie was 

 clensed. And lesus said vnto him: Se tliou tell no man, but g-o and 

 shewe thy silf to the preste, aud offer tlie fjyfte that Moses coramannded 

 to be olfred, in witnes to them. When lesus was entred into Capernaum 

 there cam vnto him a cena.vne Centurion, besechynir hyni and sayntre: 

 blaster, my servaunt lyeth sicke att home of the palsye, and is g-revously 

 payned. And lesus sayd vnto him: I wyll come and cure him. The 

 Centurion answered aud saide: Syr I am not worthy that thou shuklest 

 com vuder the rofe of my housse, but speake the worde only and my ser- 

 vaunt shalbe healed. For y also m3'selfe am a man vnder power, and 

 have sowdeers vnder me. and .v saye to one, f^o, and he jfoeth, and to 

 auothre, coine, and he cometh; aud to my servaunt, do this, and he doeth 

 it. When lesus lierde these sayu^s, he marveyeled and said to them that 

 folowed him, Verely y say vnto you, I have not founde so grreatfayth: 

 no, not in Israeli. 



Mk. R. F. HolTKRM.^nn, of Ontario, Canada, editor of 

 the Canadian Bee Journal, writing us May 11, said : 



'■ The prospects here for honey are excellent, and I do 

 not know that the bees were ever in better condition, or 

 had more favorable weather since the growing season came 

 on." 



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Dr. C. C. Miller, of McHenry Co., III., spent Monday 

 night. May IS, with us, when on his way to attend the an- 

 nual cotivention of the Illinois Sunday School Association, 

 at Decatur. The Doctor was feeling well physically, and is 

 as good-natured and young-hearted as ever. He lost about 

 half of his bees in wintering, owing to honey-dew stores, 

 principally, he thinks. He put 280 colonies into the cellar 

 last fall, so his loss amounts to quite a good-sized apiary. 



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Mr. Fr.\nk Zillmbr, one of our subscribers and a bee- 

 keeper of Crawford Co., Wis., was recently married to Miss 

 Emily Birchard, of Grant County. The local paper, after 

 announcing the event, remarkt as follows : 



"The bride is well known to ourreaders, and has a host 

 of friends wlio join with us in wishing her and her husband 

 (who is a very successful apiarist) bon voyage thru the 

 journey of life. Mr. and Mrs. Zillmer will remove at once 

 to their new home, where everything is in readiness for 

 housekeeping." 



We wish to add our congratulations and best wishes to 

 the happy couple. We trust that their troubles in life may 

 be ONi.Y LITTLE ONES, that afterward may prove to be bless- 

 ings. 



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Mr. J. H. Martin — equallj' well known by his other 

 name — Rambler — says this in Gleanings : 



" We think we are doing the appropriate thing in 

 Southern California when we have a bee-keeper by the 

 name of Honey : but in the northwest portion of Oregoti 

 there is a town named Apiary : also a man bearing the 

 same name." 



We wondered when we read the above paragraph 

 whether in that Honey family there were any marriageable 

 daughters. If so, we haven't the least doubt that Rambler 

 knows all about them. He's a great investigator, and 

 would be particularly so when it came to a young lady who 

 is sweet both in name and nature. But to exchange so 

 mellifluous a name as "Honey" for that of Martin or 

 Rambler — I doubt if she could be persuaded. You'd better 

 ramble on, Mr. Rambler. 



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Mr. R. C. Aikin, of Larimer Co., Colo., writing the 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper, April 27, 1899, had this to say for 

 him.self : 



" As you already are aware, I am a very busy man, and 

 to add to my many duties, I have just past thru a political 

 campaign in which I was not only a worker, but was on the 

 ticket, and am now ' in for it ' to serve our little city as a 

 councilman for the next two years. May the Lord help us 

 to rout every whisky-selling scheme that dares to ply in our 

 midst. We won the election with a full ticket and a round 

 majority." 



We wish to extend to Mr. Aikin the heartiest kind of 

 congratulations upon his political success. We hope he and 

 his fellow councilraen will have the courage to enforce the 

 laws they have, and make better ones if they need them. 

 We think the quickest way to educate a community up to 

 the level of good laws, and a desire to see them enforced, is 

 just to enforce them for awhile and thus demonstrate to the 

 people the pleasure to be derived from living in a respect- 

 able town or city. It is now 15 years since we lived in a 

 place where the laws were enforced. Here in Chicago it is 

 almost true to say that only the laws that suit the poli- 

 ticians are enforced. No attempt whatever is made to close 

 on Sunday the front entrances to hell (saloons), tho there is 

 a State law that would close them if enfotced. And it 

 makes no difference which party is in power here, as else- 

 where — both want the saloon vote, and so cater to it. 



