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EDITOR. 



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Dec, 24, 1891, 



No, 26, 



Editorial Buzziiigs. 



Ring:, O Ring! ye Christmas bells, 

 Send the giad news pealing ! 



On the ttreeze your music SAvells ; 



Unto all of peace it tells, 

 Peace and kindly feeling-. 



" Peace on earth, to men good will," 



Ring in fones of gladness. 

 Naught but joy each heax-t should fill. 



King till earth with joy shall thrill. 



Ring, and banish sadness. 



—Selected. 



i68o Pages were given in the Bee 

 Journal for 1891. In the first six 

 months there were 848, and in the lat- 

 ter half year there were 832, making 

 1680 In all. Can you desire any better 

 "interest" on the investment of one 

 dollar? 



Please to remember that the Michi- 

 gan State Convention meets on Dec. 31. 

 A good programme is made out, and an 

 interesting time is expected. It meets 

 at Grand Rapids, as announced in an- 

 other column. 



Xlie :NortIii;vesterii Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society was absorbed by the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, by vote 

 of the Convention held at Sprinfield last 

 week. The annual business meeting is 

 to be held in December, at Springfield, 

 and a meeting for discussion and fra- 

 ternal intercourse will be held at 

 Chicago in the Spring or Summer. Hon. 

 J. M. Hambaugh was elected President; 

 James A. Stone, of Bradfordton, Secre- 

 tary, and A. N. Draper, of Upper Alton, 

 Treasurer. The meeting was very in- 

 teresting, enthusiastic' and harmonious. 



L,a Orippe now holds sway nearly 

 all over the continent. Thousands in 

 every large city are disabled by it. In 

 one large Western city it is reported 

 that 30,000 are down with it. In 

 Chicago, a canvasser, who just called, 

 told us that he thought 25 per cent, of 

 the business men were absent from 

 their desks on account of the malady. 



The suggestion is made that the great 

 and indescribably filthy gatherings of 

 pilgrims at Russian shrines and monas- 

 teries breed this mysterious disease. 

 There seems to be little doubt that it, 

 like the other epidemics which occa- 

 sionally strike out from amid the squalor 

 of the East to ravage more cleanly 

 regions, is the oilspring of horrible 

 degradation and unspeakable foulness 

 where throngs of human beings herd 

 together like animals. 



Xaplitlialene, says Dr. Miller in 

 Qleanings, is so strongly urged by the 

 British Bee Journal as a sure preven- 

 tive (not a cure) of foul-brood that I won- 

 der we have no report of any one trying 

 it in this country. In an apiary where 

 the disease prevails, put some naphtha- 

 lene in asoundcolony,'and see whether it 

 remains healthy. If it proves effectual 

 it will be -a great help in eradicating the 

 disease. It has at least the^ merit of 

 great cheapness and simplicity of appli- 

 cation. 



