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THOMAS <S. I\e^V9IA:V, 



EDITOR. 



VoiniY. lay 2,1888. No. 18. 



Listen to the honey-bee 

 As it dances merrily 



To the little fairies' drum — 



Humming-, humming, humming, hum. 

 Never idle, never still, 



Humming, humming, hum. 



In Anstverto our question, "Has any 

 one yet received any of tlie Chapman 

 Honey-Plant seed ?" Mr. Ea. T. Smitli, of 

 Pike Co., Mo., says : " I got a nice package 

 weeks ago. I wrote to our Congressman." 

 .Several others have received some of it. 



I..eltci-s are often lost which contain 

 money— stolen in transit. We liave lost 

 several lately, and tliis item from the Chi- 

 cago Times explains it : 



Letter Carrier C. F. Burgwardt. of t he 

 West Madison Street Station, was bound 

 over to the grand jury in $1,200 bonds for 

 rifling letters. 



When a Money Order, which Is absolutely 

 safe, can be obtained for 5 cents, there is no 

 excuse for carelessly putting money into 

 ordinary letters. If a Money Order is 

 stolen it can be duplicated. If a Money 

 Order cannot be conveniently obtained, 

 register every letter which contains money. 

 As every clerk, carrier and route agent must 

 account and receipt for every registered 

 letter passing through their hands in transit, 

 it is about impossible for a dishonest person 

 to tamper with one, without discovery. 



XIi«' Best AdTortising^ lUediiini. 



—The Bee-Keepers' Review for April states 

 that while its advertisement has appeared in 

 all the principal bee-papers, that of all those 

 who have answered it, ihree-fourtbs say that 

 they saw it in the American Bee Journal I 

 Straws show which way the wind blows. As 

 a means of placing anything of value before 

 bee-keepers, the American Bee Journal 

 stands at the head. The BEST is the cheapest. 



Xlie Appeal to the Supreme Court on 

 the one-piece section patent was decided on 

 Monday, April 23, 188S, by confirming the 

 decision of the lower court. As we under- 

 stand it, this nulliHes the patent. It is 

 strange that the Government should so often 

 issue patents and then not. sustain them. 

 We have been appealed to for advice quite 

 often about getting patents on some imple- 

 ment or contrivance, and have invariably 

 recommended parties not to go to that ex- 

 pense and trouble, for we did not think that 

 it would pay them to do so. 



In this case, the costs have amounted to 

 thousand of dollars, and to obtain the de- 

 cison on the appeal it has taken nearly four 

 years ! 



This reminds us of a story as given in 

 Texas Sif tings. It is thus : 



A client meets his lawyer on the street 

 and asks him how his case is coming on. 



"Thanks to my skill," replied the lawyer, 

 "I have obtained a judgment in your favor 

 in the United States Supreme Court." 



"After four years." 



"But, my dear fellow, better late than 

 never." 



" How much do I get ?" asked the client 

 anxiously. 



" The court decrees that you shall receive 

 $2,000. The costs and my fee will only 

 amount to .153,500, so all you will have to pay 

 meisSl,.500." 



"Merciful Heavens! and I must lose all 

 my money besides !" 



"Of course you lose all your money, but 

 console yourself. You have gained your 

 case. Tou can't expect to gain everything." 



Such suits are fat things for the lawyers, 

 and they are the only ones generally bene- 

 fitted. To 30m o suit is a very empty 

 thing, when that is all there is to it, after 

 all the expense and worry. Our advice is 

 again repeated— do not think of patenting 

 any bee-implement ; it will not pay ! 



The " section patent " contest is of no par- 

 ticular interest now to either party, for the 

 price of sections have been so much re- 

 duced that there is but little profit in their 

 manufacture. 



Oust the Chemist.— E. E. Ewing, 

 Rising Sun, Md., writes thus concerning the 

 scandalous schemes of Prof. Wiley, the 

 National Chemist. Some time ago the 

 Manager of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union, wrote to President Cleveland con- 

 cerning the intrigues of the wily professor, 

 and asked him to cause an investgiation. 

 He is a National disgrace. Here is Mr. 

 Ewing's remarks : 



I think bee-keepers owe it to themselves, 

 to the Government of the United States, and 

 to the public, to get un a petition setting 

 forth the scandalous lies of Wiley, that 

 chemical fraud, together with his answers 

 in regard to the lard of hogs that have died 

 of disease, etc., praying the authorities at 

 Washington to nave him dismissed from 

 Government employ, and send the petitions 

 all over the country for signatures. Such a 

 scamp is a disgrace to the Nation ! What 

 will be thought of American lard by Eu- 

 ropeans who read such answers coming 

 from a chemist in the employ of the Govern- 

 ment. His honey lies and his lard chemistry 

 look as though the author was in the employ 

 of the adulterators- as well as that of the 

 Government. 



Educate tlie Oppo.sition.— Mr. G. 



A. Adams, of Perrysburg, 0., on March 3, 

 1888, wrote his views of defending the pur- 

 suit as follows : 



In sending my remittance for the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, I do not wish to be con- 

 sidered as approving of the method of de- 

 fense by law. A better method, in my 

 opinion, would be to e^illghten the public 

 instead of fighting it. 



Would it not have been better for Mr. 

 Clark, of Arkadelphia, to have yielded to 

 the wishes of his fellow citizens, and re- 

 moved his bees at once ; and then quietly 

 ditfused a very little bee-knowledge among 

 his neighbors? A little patience, and a 

 little expenditure of money forMr.McLaiu's 

 report, and the many other testimonies 

 which have been published, if judiciously 

 placed, would do wore to restore peace be- 

 tween Mr. Clark and his neighbors than a 

 triumph at law. 



In a town near me, a bee-keeper and a 

 grape-grower came very near liaving a con- 

 flict last year. The grape-grower finding 

 the bees troublesome when he came to 

 gather his grapes, mashed some pears, and 

 sprinkled a little sugar on them, ana the 

 bees left the grapes for the sugared pears, 

 and he had no more trouble. 



He told his neighbor of his success in 

 getting rid of the bees, and the owner of 

 the bees said he did not want his neighbor to 

 feed his bees for nothing, and so gave the 

 grape-grower a few sections of honey. Both 

 men were pleased, and are good friends to- 

 day. I venture to say that no lawing wOl 

 ever take place betvfeen them. The sugar 

 experiment convinced the grape-man that 

 he had a better way of ridding himself of a 

 nuisance than going to law, feeing law- 

 yers, and cultivating the fighting qualities 

 of himself and his neighbor. 



Let me suggest the publication of a 

 pamphlet by the editor of the American 

 Bee Jouknal, which will give the facts 

 about bees biting grapes, etc., and then let 

 them be scattered wherever needed. 



Yes ; that is a good plan in ordinary 

 cases. We should always be peaceable, and 

 when our rights are not being trampled 

 upon, submit to the views of our neighbors, 

 but in Mr. Clark's case, only a very few 

 opposed his keeping an apiary there, and 

 they only spitefully and maliciously. Mr. 

 Clark was opposed to the saloon element, 

 and that element took this way of per- 

 secuting him. This is as we understand it. 

 If we are to submit to such— then we may 

 expect a " reign of terror " indeed. But 

 backed up by the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union, Mr. Clark will be sure to score a 

 victory next July before the Supreme Court. 



At tlie Nebraska Convention the 

 Rev. E. T. Abbott delivered an interesting 

 address on " The Honey-Bee," only a synop- 

 sis of which came to us. We wrote to him 

 for a fuller report of it, and the result was its 

 publication on page 233. By an oversight it 

 was not there credited to the Nebraska Con- 

 vention. This explanation answers an in- 

 quiry concerning it, and at the same time 

 gives the proper credit. 



TSe:w Catalogues for 1888 are on our 

 desk, from the following persons: 



A. M. Gander, Adrian, Mich.— 20 pages- 

 Apiarian Supplies. 



W. G. Russell, Millbrook, Ont.— 16 pages 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



