1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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and moved to Chicag'O, in 1872. Here he 

 started an illustrated journal; but the pan- 

 ic of 1873 ruined him, bringing on a loss of 

 $20,000. 



About this time he was introduced to Rev. 

 W. F. Clark, with the result that he came 

 into possession of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, paying for it S2000. As Dr. Miller has 

 well said, " For a man not afflicted with 

 the bee-fever, in cold blood to pay more 

 than S2000 for the simple good will of a pa- 

 per, with no printing-otTice, or supplies of 

 any kind, shows an unbounded confidence 

 in the future of bee-journalism. Few men, 

 under the same circumstances, would have 

 achieved his success." But with indomita- 

 ble will and hard labor he brought the sub- 

 scription-list up from 800 to over 5000, and 

 the paper was a financial success. The 

 alYairs of the paper were considerably in- 

 volved and mixed up when Mr. Newman 

 took hold; but A. I. Root well remembers 

 the prompt and energetic business way in 

 which the new owner settled up all out- 

 standing accounts. He employed as editors 

 Rev. W. F. Clark, Mrs. E. S. Tupper, and 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. His paper prospered to 

 such an extent that in 1879 he went to Eu- 

 rope, at his own expense, to attend the var- 

 ious apicultural conventions in England, 

 France, Austria, and Germany. 



Mr. G. W. York, the present editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, knew Mr. Newman 

 better, perhaps, than any one else, and in 

 his issue for March 19 he pays this glow- 

 ing tribute to the memory of our departed 

 friend: 



Probably the Imajority of our readers will best re- 

 member Thomas G. Newman as editor of the A merican 

 Bee Journal. He was our honored predecessor, relin- 

 quishing all connection with this journal June 1, 1892. 

 With the exception of about one year of the eight pre- 

 ceding that date, Mr. Newman was our employer, and 

 he was a good one too. As we look back now upon 

 those years, when we were getting hold of the ins and 

 outs of both the bee-supply and publishing business, 

 we wonder that he could have been so uniformly pa- 

 tient and courteous, when we must have been exceed- 

 ingly trying manv times. But he was ever the same, 

 though often suffering with ailments, and burdened 

 with busines.ss perplexities and cares. 



Mr. Newman published the American Bee Journal 

 for about twenty years, taking it at a time when the 

 l>ee business wa.s' practically " in the beginning." We 

 belie%'e the paper then had less than 800 subscribers. 

 When he left it, it had ")000. He was a tireless toiler, 

 and took great pride and interest in his work. He 

 was fearless for the right, and did all he knew to do in 

 order to make the American Bee Journal oi the most 

 value to its sub.scribers. It was no easy task for us to 

 follow in his foot,steps, as we were then wholly un- 

 known to the bee-keeping world. But under his direc- 

 tion and training for years, we were daring enough to 

 make the attempt, even though it was a risky thing 

 for us to do. 



Mr. Newman's host of bee-keeping friends will look 

 upon his picture and read 'these few memorial lines 

 with sadness, They knew him well. He helped 

 Ihem fight their bnttles and win their victories. He 

 may have made a few enemies — but who that stands 

 for'any thing worth standing for has not? But Mr. 

 Nemnian never held a grudge against a mortal man, 

 He was ever kind and forgiving, and ever strove to 

 live by the Golden Rule. In liusiness he was an hon- 

 est man ; true to all ; and leaves a rich moral heritage 

 to all who knew him. 



Our readers, we know, will unite with us in extend- 

 ing to Mrs. Newman and family sincerest sympathy 

 in this their time of bereavement. 



While Mr. Newman did splendid work on 

 the American Bee Journal, he performed 



extraordinary and valuable services for the 

 bee-keeping industry while serving as Gen- 

 eral Manager of the National Bee-keepers' 

 Union, of which he was the founder. The 

 valuable precedents in law which were es- 

 tablished under his generalship have been 

 of incalculable benefit to the bee-keepers of 

 the United States; and although the labors 

 of the office were excessive at times, he 

 worked without compensation, and it was 

 only during the last two years or so of his 

 incumbency in office that he accepted any 

 salary. 



During the last few years of Mr. New- 

 man's life he struggled with almost total 

 blindness at times, and all the time with 

 poor health. He was by nature and habit 

 an indefatigable worker, and when his 

 affliction of eyesight came on it would seem 

 that most men would give up. Not he. 

 With the help of a reader and a stenograph- 

 er he struggled on, " burning the candle at 

 both ends" until the tired body and mind 

 that had been crying out enough ceased to 

 pull in the harness any longer. 



THE LITTLE SWEET SINGER OF THE CHICA- 

 GO CONVENTION FULLY RECOVERED. 



Our readers will remember Miss Ethel 

 Acklin, whose picture we gave in Glean- 

 ings some two j'ears ago. She was the 

 one who played and sang so delightfully at 

 the Chicago convention, and again at the 

 Buffalo meeting of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association. Last fall she underwent 

 a severe operation, and her life was de- 

 spaired of. At the recommendation of her 

 physicians her parents finally took her to 

 California, where, it was thought, a tempo- 

 rary change would tide her over the worst, 

 and it did. We are glad to inform our 

 readers that the danger is now past. Mr. 

 Acklin has been at home in St. Paul for 

 some time. Mrs. Acklin and Ethel will 

 now join him very soon. 



The impression seems to have gone out 

 that the Acklins had gone to California to 

 remain permanently. This is a mistake. 

 Mr. Acklin has a flourishing business in 

 St. Paul, where he is prepared to meet his 

 friends and patrons as before. 



THE DEATH OF ONE OF OUR CALIFORNIA 

 CORRESPONDENTS. 



Mr. E. H. Schaefkle, one of our old 

 correspondents in California, died at his 

 home in Murphys, Calaveras Co., March 7. 

 Just prior to getting notice of his death I 

 received a letter from him, stating that, al- 

 though he was verj' weak, he was able to 

 keep up his correspondence. He told how 

 a friend admitted to him — a man who is 

 supposed to know — that hone3^ was adulter- 

 ated in San Francisco in spite of the pure- 

 food law. He explained that the law was 

 good enough, but that those whose business 

 it was to enforce it were somehow under 

 the control of the mixers, and the nefarious 

 business went on without let or hindrance. 



