THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOUAS a. ITEWUAIT, Editor. 



MHin. Not. 16, m No. 46. 



Antanm.— The following 1b from Harper'i 

 Bazar : 



The butterfly's departed, 



Likewise the belted bee. 

 The small boy In the orchard 



Is up the apple tree. 



The leaves are crisp and russet. 

 The sumac's blazing: red. 



The butternut descending 

 Is cracked upon your head. 



The trees wear lovely colors 



In beautiful excess ; 

 All nature seems to rustle 



Just like a new silk dress. 



li. BIgbbarger has renioved from Ade- 

 line to Leaf River, Ills. 



Dr. G. I<elbrock Sc Sons, of Western 

 Illinois, made a fine exhibit of honey, bees, 

 and apiarian supplies at the St. Louis Fair. 



Idra. nabala B. Cbaddock, of Ver- 

 mont, Ills., is going to Florida to spend the 

 holidays, and wants some others to go with 

 her and " tent " out. 



A Fire recently destroyed the residence 

 of Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, at Rogersvllle, 

 Hich. He bad moved his goods out of the 

 house, and his brother was moving his 

 household goods into it at the time it caught 

 Are. It was fully Insured. The brothers 

 were building an out-door cellar in which to 

 winter their bees. Heretofore they have 

 been wintered In the cellar under the house. 



Hon. I.. IVallbrldge.— When referring 

 to this learned and Influential gentleman, 

 on page 604, wo had no Idea that our next 

 mention of our Illustrious friend would be 

 to chronicle his death, which occurred about 

 the time of the writing of our paragraph 

 concerning him. He died of Brlght's dis- 

 ease, after an Illness of one week. From 

 the Canadian Bee Journal we excerpt this 

 biographical sketch of blm : 



Lewis Wallbrldge was born In Belleville, 

 Ont., Nov. 27, 1816. He was a grandson of 

 Elijah Wallbrldge, a United Empire Loy- 

 alist, who settled in Canada shortly after the 

 American war of Independence. His father 

 was a lumber merchant of Belleville. The 

 family emigrated from Dorsetshire, Eng- 

 land, on account of having taken part in 

 the Buke on Monmouth's rebellion against 

 King James. 



Mr. Wallbrlddre received his education 

 under the late Dr. Benjamin Workman in 

 Montreal, and at Upper Canada College. 

 Toronto. He studied law in Mr. Robert 

 Baldwin's oOBce, Toronto, was called to the 

 bar In 1839, and created a Queen's Counsel 

 in 1856. In 1858 he was elected to the Par- 

 liament of Canada, subsequently becoming 

 Solicitor General, and a member of the Mac- 

 donald Dorlon Government 



In 1863, whilst holding the office of Solici- 

 tor-General, he was elected Speaker of the 

 House, which position he occupied for a 

 little more than four years, and presided 

 over the debate on Confederation at Quebec. 

 After retiring from political life he prac- 

 ticed law in Belleville, and on the death. In 

 1882, of Hon. E. B. Wood. Chief Justice of 

 Manitoba, was appointed to succeed him. 

 He heard and gave judgment on the first of 

 the recent Injunction cases against the Red 

 River Valley railway. 



In the apicultural world he was a promi- 

 nent figure. At the organization of the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association he was 

 chosen Its first vice-president, succeeding 

 to the presldenoy the next year, and though 

 for some time past he nas been a "silent" 

 member, he had always the Interest of the 

 association at heart. 



As a bee-keeper he was practical, ardent 

 and enthusiastic, keeping his apiary of 100 

 colonies supplied with all the newest Inven- 

 tions of genuine worth. He secured large 

 yields of honey, though he followed the pur- 

 suit merely for pleasure. His was a kind 

 and genial disposition, and he had a host of 

 warm friends who, with us, will mourn his 

 loss. 



One of the Books, which is given away 

 with club-subscrlptlons to the Bee Journal, 

 and New York World, as mentioned on 

 page 732, is an illustrated volume of 320 

 pages, and Is entitled "The History of Eng- 

 land in Chronological Form.by F. T. Jones." 

 On page 19 the author mentions the first 

 voyage made from the Mediterranean Sea. 

 It was about the year 323, before the Chris- 

 tian era, and was made by Pytheas, a Greek 

 astronomer and mathematician. He spent 

 some time with the inhabitants In the South- 

 East, near Gaul (France), and says that they 

 grew plenty of wheat, which was gathered 

 In sheaves into large barns where the 

 threshing was done ; and avers that they 

 were acquainted with bee-keeping, and 

 made mead or methegUn from honey and 

 wheat. The book gives a concise history of 

 England from the earliest times until the 

 present year, the last data being July 19, 

 1887. 



The micblgan horticulturists and bee- 

 keepers meet in joint convention at East 

 Saginaw, on Dec. 5 to 10, 1887. At the joint 

 session on Deo. 7, these are the subjects to 

 be discussed : 



" Do bees Injure maturing fruits ?" "What 

 trees are valuable for honey and also useful 

 for decorative purposes about a home- 

 stead 7" " How great are the benefits of 

 honey-bees in promoting the setting of 

 fruits ?" " How does bee-keeping supple- 

 ment horticulture commercially ?" 



This Is a grand arrangement ; to have a 

 mutual discussion of these topics will do 

 more to enlighten the " rank and file " than 

 anything else can. The grandest proposi- 

 tion ever made to the world was In these 

 words— "Come, let us reason together." 

 Good-natured discussion Is always salutary 

 and harmonizing In its Influence. For par- 

 ticulars concerning railroad fares and hotel 

 rates, send to ,H. D. Cutting, Secretary, 

 Clinton, Mich. 



Honey from the Thorn Tree.— The 

 Indianapolis Journal gives the following 

 particulars concerning honey from the 

 before-named tree, and suggests another 

 use for it : 



Stenooarplne, the new anassthetic derived 

 from the American honey locust, commonly 

 known as the thorn tree, which has hereto- 

 fore been considered a great pest, is likely 

 to become a great blessing In a commercial 

 way, and will probably take the place of the 

 expensive cocaine. While Its ancesthetio 

 or narcotic properties are a new discovery 

 to the medical world, there are dozens of 

 the "old seminary boys" about Indiana- 

 polis who have had amazing experiences 

 getting drunk by eating the honey from the 

 margins of the pods. " I well remember, 45 

 years ago." said Dr. W. B. Fletcher to a 

 Journal reporter, "when a beautiful forest 

 covered the now thickly populated triangle 

 bounded by Virginia avenue. East and 

 Stevens streets, then known as ' Stevens' 

 woods.' There, on a sunny slope, about the 

 first of March, the melting snow exposed 

 quantities of great rich pods, which, from 

 winter's frost, had undergone a sort of 

 maceration that had developed the narcotic 

 principle in the honey margin of the pod. 

 A half-dozen of us boys, from 6 to 15 years 

 of age, devoured our fill, with the result of 

 all becoming drunk. Some laughed and 

 staggered ; all talked nonsense. 1 remem- 

 ber but two Incidents of this first drunk. 

 One was the entire loss of the sense of 

 taste. The other was getting spanked for 

 the spree— and the spanking didn't hurt." 



Mr. K. Armstrong, of Jerseyvllle. Els., 

 expects to be at the Convention this week 

 with his new reversible hive and section- 

 case, as well as the machine for making 

 (with one motion of a lever) the T tins, and 

 other articles, the inspection of which will 

 be interesting to bee-keepers. 



Mr. J. ra. Valentine wrote the article 

 published on page 697,entitled, "The Season 

 of 1887," but In our absence "on the sick- 

 list," things got " a little mixed," and It was 

 credited to another person. This arrange- 

 ment neither satisfied the real nor the 

 reputed author, and so we make the cor- 

 rection. 



Another party, not satisfied with the arti- 

 cle. Is the firm of D. G. Tutt & Co.. who were 

 mentioned by Mr. Valentine as the honey- 

 merchants he visited. They want us to 

 publish the following : 



The gentleman who wrote this article did 

 not call on us. We have never had any 

 cans or jar honey In our house: nor do we 

 quote it at figures named. He has evidently 

 called on some of our neighbors, who quote 

 in other papers. We write this In explana- 

 tion, and justice to ourselves. 



We publish the above, not to decide the 

 controversy, but to give both parties a hear- 

 ing. They must settle the dispute them- 

 selves. 



Messrs. Geo. Nelghbonr dc Sons, of 



London, England, on Oct. 24, 1887, wrote us 

 this Item : 



Our much respected countryman and fel- 

 low bee-keeper, Mr. Cowan, has returned, 

 and given us at our Quarterly Conversa- 

 zione, on last Wednesday, a very Interesting 

 account of his sojourn amongst American 

 and Canadian apiarists. He spoke very 

 highly of the great kindness he had experi- 

 enced during hia journey, for which. In 

 common with him, the members of the 

 British Bee-Keepers' Association feel very 

 grateful. 



The ninstratlons of the lllu«(rat«d Lon- 

 don 2Ve«!« (American edition) for Nov. 5, 

 present as usual instruction as well as en- 

 tertainment, and cover the customary 

 broad range of this long established and 

 widely known publication. Reading matter 

 in abundance is also provided, while now It 

 is becoming quite generally known that 

 newsdealers everywhere sell the paper for 

 10 cents. Subscriptions can be sent direct 

 to the New York offloe,whlch is in the Potter 

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