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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Apr. 4, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 56 Plttti Avenue, - ClIICACiO, II^K. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Entered at the Post-Offlce at CbicaKO as Second-ClasB Mall-Matter.] 



EDITOR. 



Assisted by the following Department Editors : 

 Dr. C. C. Miller - - - "Questions and Answers." 

 Mrs. Jennie Atohlet - - - "The Sunny SonTHLAND." 

 "Gleaner" . . ., . " Among the Bee-Papers." 

 "Bee-Master" ----- "Canadian Beedom." 

 Dr. F. L. Peiro -.---" Doctor's Hints." 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott - - " Notes and Comments." 



Vol. inv. CHICAGO, ILL, APR. 4, 1895. No, 14. 



Editorial Budgets 



California Bee-Keepers, as well as all others, 



will be interested iu reading the report of the last California 



State convention, published this week. Pres. Cook's address 



is specially good. 



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Mr. Alfred H. Xe-wman, formerly of the firm of 

 Thomas G. Newuiati & Son, who published the American Bee 

 Journal, spent au hour in this office on Tuesday of last week. 

 Mr. Newman is now the manager of the Cedar Rapids Candy 

 Company, of Iowa — a successful as well as sweet concern. 



Dr. Adolphus de Planta, an eminent European 



scientist, died recently in Switzerland, at the age of 75 years. 



The British Bee Journal, in speaking of him, says : "There 



is hardly another man who has given so much time to scientific 



investigations for the benefit of bee-keepers as Dr. de Planta." 



His death is a great loss to the bee-keeping world. Shortly, 



the American Bee Journal e.xpects to give a portrait and 



sketch of this famous bee-investigator, with something about 



his work. 



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Mr. M. M. Baldridge, of St. Charles, 111., gave the 

 Bee Journal office a pleasant call last week. He is preparing 

 a complete and accurate history of the Importation of Italian 

 bees into the United Slates, which will appear in a series of 

 four article in these columns soon. They will be interesting, 

 I can assure you. 



Mr. M. has issued two "Special Bulletins" on "White 

 Melllot Clover," which every bee-keeper and farmer should 

 read. He will mail the two for four cents In stamps. 



That Cliicasro Convention. Regarding the 



forming of another Northwestern, Dr. Miller has this to say: 



As you want opinions about having a convention at Chi- 

 cago, Mr. Editor, I'll give mine. Generally a good convention 

 can be held at Chicago, and yet I doubt If two could be suc- 

 cessfully held there each year, no matter what might be the 

 name. Better have one good one than two not quite so good. 



As to name. It hardly seems to me that ought to cut any 

 figure. If it goes under the name of " Illinois State," I think 



that would be a help to the State society, and the same per- 

 sons meeting there would have the same convention as if It 

 were called "Northwestern." Would a Wisconsin man object 

 to coming to It with a different name ? After you get expres- 

 sions from others, If It's found that there Is any feeling about 

 the name, and If bee-keepers from other States would come to 

 a Northwestern convention that would not come to a State 

 convention, then by all means let the Northwestern be revived. 



In any case, the one important thing to look out for is to 

 have the meeting at a time when low railroad rates will be 

 «urc beyond the shadow of a doubt. Perhaps the time of the 

 Fat Stock Show will be the best time. 



I'm glad you called for expressions, and hope the brethren 

 will not be "backward about coming forward." 



C. C. MlLLEK. 



What about the "sister-en" "coming forward?" But 

 probably Dr. M. agrees with the minister who thought it quite 

 proper that " the bretheren " should embrace the sisters ! 



Prompt Rene'wing' of subscriptions to any journal 

 is a habit worth cultivating — a good thing for the subscribers 

 and also for the periodical. Here's what Mr. Edward W. Bok 

 — the able editor of the popular Ladies' Home Journal — has to 

 to say about this matter : 



"A magazine's success is aided or retarded just in propor- 

 tion to the promptness employed by its readers in renewing 

 their subscriptions. Delayed renewals cripple the best efforts 

 of any magazine." 



The same thing applies to the American Bee Journal. 



Just memorize Mr. Bok's truthful sentences, and then vow 



that your lack of promptness in renewing will never hinder 



the success of any newspaper or magazine you have subscribed 



for. 



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mr. J. A. Golden. 



The biographical sketch of Mr. J. A. Golden (portrait on 

 first page) which follows, is taken from Wilson's Photographic 

 Magazine, of New York, for 1894 ; 



An interesting example of a class of photographers fast 

 disappearing is shown In a few notes concerning a veteran 

 portrait worker — Mr. J. A. Golden, of Relnersvllle, Ohio, 

 which have come Into our hands. In IfciGo, Mr. Golden, then 

 engaged In the business of harness-making, first experienced 

 the delights of photography, by sitting for an ambrotype por- 

 trait, patronizing an itinerant photographer for that purpose. 

 The ambrotypist (evidently less jealously secretive than many 

 of his craft) Invited his sitter Into the dark room to witness 

 the development of the picture. The wonderful and fascinat- 

 ing operation so Impressed Mr. Golden (whose leisure hours 

 had for years been spent iu picture-making by various means 

 and ways), that he decided at once to adopt photography as a 

 business. 



A course of instructions from the ambrotypist was ar- 

 ranged, and on the following day he entered upon his brief 

 apprenticeship. The second day's training found the aspiring 

 pupil so far advanced that his work outshone that of his in- 

 structor, and at the end of the third days' work he bought 

 the ambrotypist's studio-on-wheels outfit and business good- 

 will, thereby commencing his photographic career In earnest. 

 After a year's experience Mr. Golden sold his business and be- 

 gan to travel as an operator. In which work he was more than 

 ordinarily successful. 



At this early period books and journals on photographic 

 practice were rare indeed, and possessed a value which it is 

 difficult to appreciate In these days of cheap journals. Mr. 

 Golden was an early subscriber to our old Philadelphia Pho- 

 tographic Journal and Mosaics, after their appearance in 

 1864, and by this means was able to push himself ahead in 

 his work of art. 



In 18b5 disaster followed him in a photographic partner- 

 ship entered into for the promotion of the business, thus re- 

 alizing by a sad experience the fallibility of our fellowmen in 

 the business matters of life. Having a spirit not to be 

 downed, Mr. (Jolden took to the road for some years. In 

 1870 he settled in the beautiful village of Relnersvllle, Ohio, 

 and combined photographing and the sale of harness and sad- 

 dles as a business till 1887, when the harness business was 

 dropped and he took up bee-keeping with photography, which 

 he is following to-day as actively as when he first entered it. 



