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EDITOR. 



VoLIIIV. Dec. 19, 1888. No. 51, 



mimWl MUMIEGS. 



Peal, Christmas Bells, peal loud and deep ! 



King out a merry Christmas chime 

 Till darkened eyes forbear to weep, 



And hard hearts glow with love divine. 

 In rippling music die away 



With ringing laughter, glad and gay. 

 Till rich and full the dark night swells 



With Christmas lights and Christmas bells. 



No-w is the time to sell tlie honey. The 

 holidays are at hand, and the best prices 

 rule about that time. 



Do iiot send to us for sample copies of 

 of any other papers. Send for such to the 

 publishers of the papers you want. 



Xlie Pleasantest Xhing-^^ in the 



world are pleasant thoughts, and the great 

 art in life is to have as many of them as 

 possible.— Boucc. 



l>o IVot Forj^et to send a dollar for a 

 membership fee to the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Union for 1889. It merits your ap- 

 proval, and needs your assistance. 



Xlie Ontario bee-keepers will meet in 

 convention at Owen Sound on Jan. S and 9, 

 1889, at 3 p.m. For particulars about fares, 

 etc., write to the Secretary, Mr. W. Couse, 

 at Streetsville, Ont. Let there be a general 

 rally, and profitable sessions will be the 

 result. 



C%in Protection.— A correspondent 

 says that his bee-veil does not protect his 

 chin. The " new bee-veil," having ribs of 

 steel, fully protects not only the chin, but 

 the whole head and face. It can be ob- 

 tained at this office for a dollar, postpaid. It 

 is the best protection ever invented. 



Artificial Iliinibn;;'.— S. Whan, of 

 Venango Co., Pa., writes as follows to 

 Olcanings, and which was published In the 

 December number : 



I fear your card in regard to false state- 

 ments in the honey business will not prove 

 effectual in all cases, as I met a man a few 

 days aao who claimed he had talked with a 

 man a few days previously who had eaten 

 manufactured or artificial eggs in Chicago, 

 and they could not be told from the genuine 

 egg, except when attempting to beat the 

 yolk and white together for pastries, as 

 they would not mix. He also stated that 

 the man had eaten artificial comb honey. 

 After talking with him for some time I left 

 him, in some doubt. 



The editor follows this item with tliese 

 remarks : 



We had thought the story about manufac- 

 tured eggs was too big for anybody to be- 

 lieve ; and yet there seems to be some old 

 fogies and reporters who still persist in re- 

 peating it. Before us lies a clipping en- 

 titled, " What Next ?" It was takto from 

 the Pittsburgh Dispatch. This clipping 

 goes on to tell, in very plausible language, 

 now eggs are manufactured, and how the 

 same cannot be detected from the genuine. 

 It is simply a rehash of the same old story. 

 Why do not these chaps get up something 

 new? Manufactured live chickens or arti- 

 ficial strawberries would make good ma- 

 terial for another yarn. This clipping has 

 been copied in other papers, and will con- 

 tinue to be copied, probably, as long as any- 

 body can be made to believe it. If such 

 stories must be repeated, we sincerely hope 

 that these " wily" reporters will take in the 

 whole fruit realm, and go so far that even 

 the old fogies will shake their heads in 

 doubt. 



If there is anything bad or vile— anything 

 marvelous or prodigious— it seems to find a 

 base for proof in Chicago. 



The "impudent" and "Ignorant" re- 

 peaters of falsehoods— the malicious ven- 

 ders of " scientific pleasantries "—the venal 

 and corrupt reporters of slanders about an 

 honest and honorable pursuit, all pretend 

 to find proof of their villainies in Chicago. 

 Why is this ? There is but one excuse, the 

 city is large enough in which to hide, when 

 attempting to trace their calumnies to the 

 supposed source. 



When cornered, one of these " detestable 

 villains " lately averred that the manufac- 

 tory for " paraffine combs filled with glu- 

 cose and capped by machinery made for 

 that purpose " was located at the " honey 

 shop on Madison street, near Oakley street" 

 — meaning the office of the American Bee 

 Journal. He loudly claimed to have 

 there " seen the process and machinery at 

 work." But when pressed to go and show 

 the place, by one who knew that the Bee 

 Journal vi&s fighting such diabolical lies, 

 he was pressed for time, and could not 

 throw away time to prove what he Ttnew 

 existed, and had seen at work. 



Artificial eggs, artificial comb honey, and 

 the like, are only talked about for the pur- 

 pose of deceiving the public and injuring 

 the sale of useful articles of food. The one 

 is as reasonable as the other, and both are 

 impossible — creations of the fertile brains 

 of newspaper reporters who write for the 

 dollars they obtain for "spicy" but lying 

 " articles," " interviews " which never oc- 



curred, and "fancy sketches" of things 

 about which they are entirely ignorant. 



Yes, Brother Root, the truth will never 

 serve such fellows— they live on falsehoods 

 and grow fat on carrion 1 



Mr. J. ^V. Bittcnbcnder, when 

 sending us a dollar for a year's subscription, 

 makes this remark: "With pleasure I 

 send you this dollar for subscription to the 

 American Bee Journal; for it is the 

 best investment a bee-keeper can make." 

 It certainly is the best investment a bee- 

 keeper can make, to subscribe for a good 

 periodical devoted to the pursuit in which 

 he is engaged. He needs to keep abreast 

 of the times, and he cannot afford not to do 

 so. He needs to be fully posted as to the 

 crop of honey, the state of the market, and 

 the price of the product. The only way to 

 successfully do this is to take an interest in 

 a good bee-paper. By the investment of a 

 single dollar in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, he will get 52 dividends— one every 

 week. If he does not make this small in- 

 vestment, he stands in his own light ! 



Reader, do not fail to send a dollar and 

 get those .53 dividends for 1889. 



Xlie Rev. I,, t,. I.,angstrotIi has 



again recovered (at least partially) from his 

 severe indisposition, lasting for some 

 months, which caused a great weakness of 

 body, although it did not induce the dis- 

 tressing despondency of former periods of 

 illness. As usual, he has not been able to 

 use his pen during the intervening months 

 covered by his indisposition. He writes us 

 that he begins "to feel that the worst is 

 now over." We hope it is, and that he may 

 now be able to enjoy the remaining years of 

 a noble life, and when the summons comes 

 to enter eternal life, he may receive a hearty 

 welcome at the portals of Glory, and be- 

 come one of "the living stones" in the 

 Temple of Heaven, where no discordant 

 voice of censure or bitterness will ever be 

 heard, and all experience will be perfect 

 bliss, and all expressions will be perfect 

 praise, and "love divine will ennoble every 

 heart, and hallelujahs exalted employ every 

 tongue." 



Foul Urood (so-called) is said to be 

 cured by the use of dried thyme, in Switzer- 

 land. The Bee-Keepers' Record for De- 

 cember remarks as follows : 



According to a newspaper cutting just 

 sent us, a Swiss bee-keeper cured foul 

 brood with thyme. This common herb was 

 dried, put into an ordinary smoker, set 

 alight, and the smoke injected plentifully 

 into the hive at the entrance. After doing 

 this eight evenings, he found the larvs, 

 which had died from the disease, quite dry, 

 and the new brood in a perfect, healthy con- 

 dition. He continued the fumigation another 

 eight days, which ended in a complete cure 

 of the disease. 



KoacUes.— Gum camphor will speedily 

 clear the house of cockroaches. 



