AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



389 





Our Club Kates are: ^1.90 for two 



copies (to the same or different post-offices) ; and 

 for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. 



XHOIflAS «. l^EWIflAW, 



EDITOK. 



yol IIVIIL Sent. 24, 1891, No, 13. 



Editorial Buzzijigs. 



All Golden iu tbe autumn suu, 

 Tbe waving- corn-fields shine ; 



Purple and full of ruddy juice 

 The grapes hang- on the vine. 



A blessing- hovers in the air. 

 As Earth, from toil released, 



Holds, with a hush upon her face. 

 Her sweet Communion feast. 



— LlPPINCOTTS. 



Oeorg^e K. Hilton, of Fremont, 

 Mich., is down again with la grippe. 

 His wife writes us that "for the past 

 week he has had the most severe attack 

 of la grippe he has yet experienced." 

 His many friends will be sorry to hear 

 of this. We offer our sympathy, and 

 hope for a full and speedy recovery. 



Xurkey was the- first foreign nation 

 to hoist a flag over the grounds of the 

 World's Columbian Exhibition, in this 

 city. The ceremonies were conducted on 

 Saturday last, in the Turkish language, 

 and according to the peculiar rites of the 

 Mohammedan religion. 



IHr. R. F. Holtermann was to 



attend the Canadian exhibitions at 

 Toronto, Ottawa and London, and would 

 have reported them for the Bee Journal. 

 After sending us a report of the Toronto 

 Industrial Exhibition (which will appear 

 in our next issue), he was called from 

 that place by telegraph to the bedside of- 

 his father, in Montreal, whose right side 

 had been paralyzed, and who will in all 

 probability be permanently crippled. 

 Our sympathy is extended to brother 

 Holtermann in his trouble. 



Xlie Nortliijvestern Convention 

 will be held in Chicago on Nov. 19. Let 

 every bee-keeper in the Northwest make 

 arrangements to visit the metropolis on 

 that date, and attend the bee-keepers' 

 love-feast. It will be held at the Com- 

 mercial Hotel. See ofiBcial notice on 

 page 408. 



Tlie Canton bee-lawsuit is one of 

 the things of the past. The Union is 

 triumphant, and brother Cole's bees are 

 free to visit the flowers and gather the 

 honey in and around Canton, Ills. We 

 had hoped to have the opportunity to 

 carry this case to the Supreme Court, 

 but was not allowed to do so. It was 

 clean-cut maliciousness, and would have 

 been a grand chance to have the decision 

 of the Supreme Court of Illinois on the 

 simple question, "Is bee-keeping a nui- 

 sance ?" Mr. Cole writes as follows to 

 the Manager of the Union, about the 

 settlement of the case : 



I have to acknowledge, with thanks, 

 your favor with check for $30, to pay 

 one-half of the attorney's fees for 

 defenaing me in the several suits against 

 me for keeping bees. 



The assistance and backing of the 

 Union has saved me the humiliation of 

 paying the fine and cost of first suit, and 

 moving my bees at a time when it was 

 very difficult to move them ; for I would 

 not have had the courage to have 

 attempted to carry the case to a higher 

 court alone. Thanking you and my 

 fellow members of the Union for the 

 assistance I have received. 



T remain yours truly, 



G. W. Cole, 



