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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



:Nov. 21, 



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Georg-o W, Yoric, - - Editor. 



PUULISBED WEEKLY BY 



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VoLinV. CHICAGO, ILL., NOV. 21, 1895. No, 47. 



Editorial Budgets 



I am Indebted to Editor Leahy, of the Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper, for some very kind things said in the November 

 number of his paper. I wish to thank him for the same. 



Mr. John Huckle, of England, passed away Oct. 

 31. He was the Secretary of the British Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, and for many years was connected with the business 

 department of the British Bee Journal. 



Quite a Full Report of the proceedings of the 

 Totronto convention is appearing in the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal. Editor Holtermann engaged a shorthand reporter to 

 " take down " the report for his paper. 



Mrs. S. E. Sherman, of Salado, Tex.— one of the 

 best known Southern bee-keepers — has sent me a nice photo- 

 graph of her cozy little home, where she has lived for 20 

 years, and has kept bees for 15 years of the time. Mrs. 

 Sherman expects soon to make her home with her son, who is 

 a physician at Dallas, Tex. 



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Please Mention the American Bee Journal when- 

 ever you write to any one who advertises in this paper. If it 

 is in response to a notice of any kind, please don't forget to 

 sayyou"sawit in the American Bee Journal. This may 

 seem a very small thing for me to speak about, and yet it 

 means a good deal, both to the advertisers, and to the pub- 

 lishers of the Bee Journal. It will aid the former in deciding 

 where it pays them to place their advertisements, and it will 

 help the publishers to secure renewal orders for advertising. 



I might say right here, that if it were not for the adver- 

 tising patronage the American Bee Journal receives, it 

 couldn't possibly be furnished to subscribers for anywhere 

 near as low a price as $1.00 a year. So you see its readers 

 all receive much benefit on account of the advertising. 



Will you not kindly remember, then, when responding to 

 advertisements, to mention that you "saw it in the American 

 Bee Journal ?" 



Some Convention Discussions, Editor Holter- 

 mann thinks, would be greatly improved in tone if all that is 

 said by everybody taking part in the discussion were pub- 

 lished. He thinks that some who are in the habit of permitting 

 their ill-temper to get the best of them during discussions 

 would be a trifle more careful, did they know that ev&ry word 

 they uttered would be printed. I, too, believe it would have 



the desired effect, but just think how useless it would be to 

 print such things I Of course, there ought not to be " such 

 things " occurring in any discussion, but all who attend con- 

 ventions are not angels. They (the angels) probably stay at 

 home, or at least some of them do. 



Yes, so far as I'm concerned, I am quite willing that all 

 I ever said at any convention shall be printed. 



But in order to make some discussions plain, you'd have 

 to show a few snap-shot illustrations in connection with the 

 words uttered. I doubt whether that would pay — unless you 

 could compel the most belligerent disputant to pay a good, big 

 price for taking his picture ! 



I think a much better way would be for the President, or 

 chairman, to stop all useless and discourteous discussion be- 

 fore it begins. 



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Irresponsible Advertisers. — There are many 

 such in the world. But there would be fewer of them if every 

 periodical would refuse to publish the advertisements of those 

 whose object is to deceive and swindle. Now, the Bee Jour- 

 nal doesn't wish to give any unreliable firm a chance to take 

 advantage of bee-keepers. In fact, if I know it, there is not 

 enough money in the world for such to buy space in the adver- 

 tising columns of the Bee Journal. But I don't know every- 

 thing, and so sometimes I may be deceived by the representa- 

 tions of some would-be advertisers. If I am, and any bee- 

 keepers have good cause, and will report any really crooked 

 dealings by any of those advertising in the Bee Journal at any 

 time, I will consider it a great favor. 



Of course, I know, and you know, that it is utterly impos- 

 sible for any one doing business, to give entire satisfaction to 

 everybody. The best of us have been misjudged, and then 

 there are customers that would "kick " if they got the whole 

 earth, with a good slice of Heaven " to boot." 



But what I want to know is, whether any Bee Journal 

 advertiser does not do as he agrees, after considering the at- 

 tending circumstances. I'm "dead set " against frauds, and 

 am ready to do my share in giving them a good, big free ad- 

 vertisement when I once knov] that they deserve it. 



Some Personal Recollections of the Rev. L. 



L. Langstroth were written by Mr. A. I. Root, and published 

 in Gleanings for Oct. 15. As all readers of the American Bee 

 Journal will be interested in reading them, I take much pleas- 

 ure in reproducing them here: 



In the Introduction to our "ABC" book you will find 

 some mention of the incidents of my first acquaintance with 

 the honey-bee. During the whole of my busy life, perhaps no 

 other hobby has been pursued with the zeal and keen enjoy- 

 ment that my acquaintance with the honey-bees has. It 

 seemed for a time as it a new world were opening before me. 

 After I had questioned again and again everybody who kept 

 bees, or knew anything about them in our neighborhood, I be- 

 gan impatiently ransacking books and periodicals. The more 

 I found, the more I thirsted for deeper knowledge. I took a 

 trip to Cleveland, principally to overhaul the book-stores for 

 works on bees ; but I did not dare to tell even the members of 

 my own family that I was taking such a trip by stage-coach 

 (for it was away back in the days of stage-coaches, before our 

 railway was built), just to satisfy my thirst and curiosity in 

 this direction. I remember well how the book-keeper pulled 

 down his volumes one after another, rapped the dust off, and 

 began extolling their special merits. It did not take me many 

 minutes to decide that Langstroth's book was the book. I was 

 obliged to stay over night at the hotel, for the stage made 

 only one trip daily. I read and read, away into the night ; 

 and it was during that night I commenced my acquaintance 

 with the Rev. L. L. Langstroth. He told me just what I 

 wanted to know. My craze was not (certainly not at that 

 time) to make money, but rather to know more about God's 

 wonderful gifts — these strange and curiously wonderful gifts 

 which he has provided for the children of men. I did not look 

 at it then just as I do now ; that is, I am sorry that, in those 

 earlier days, I did not recognize the Almighty as a loving 

 father. But Langstroth's book helped me a great deal, right 



