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selves. When I protested against what 

 I considered the unfair manner in 

 which one such editor conducted his 

 discussions, I was told that if "I didn't 



like the way in which was 



conducted, the obvious way was to 

 start a journal of my own fashioned ac- 

 cording to my ideas of journalism." 

 This was the "last straw" that decided 

 me to publish a journal of my own that 

 should be an "open court" in which all 

 should be heard and treated fairly and 

 impartially. Let me say, parenthetical- 

 ly, that in those days I had some most 

 decided views in regard to the manage- 

 ment of a journal; and, while a dozen 

 years of editorship have 

 not materially changed 

 those views, they have 

 given me a broad char- 

 ity, not only for editors, 

 but for everybody. I 

 may add that however 

 some of the journals 

 may have been lacking 

 in fairness in the earlier 

 days of my bee-keep- 

 ing, there is now but 

 little cause for com- 

 plaint in this respect. 



Having finally deci- 

 ded, for the foregoing 

 reasons, to start a jour- 

 nal of my own, I im- 

 mediately commenced laying the foun- 

 dation, although this was some two or 

 three years before the Review was started. 

 I began booking the names of bee-keep- 

 ers secured from my own correspondence, 

 from the pages of the journals, and from 

 all available sources. When I got out 

 the first issue of the Review it went to 

 6,000 bee-keepers, the names of which I 

 had gathered up and arranged alphabet- 

 ically, and according toStates, that there 

 might be no duplicates. I had long 

 been engaged in a friendly correspon- 

 dence with the men whom I expected to 

 furnish me with correspondence. The 

 engraving on the front cover page of the 

 Review was drawn b}- myself some two 



The Reviews Compositor. 



years before the Review was started. I 

 remember, after it was finished, I set it 

 up in a little cupboard with a glass door, 

 sat down in a rocking chair, with a baby 

 in mv lap, and rocked, and sang, and 

 admired. 



But the final starting of the Review was 

 really a rash undertaking; one that I 

 would not advise any one to attempt, as 

 It was actually started without capital — 

 except my knowledge of bee-keeping 

 and the good will of bee-keepers. Not 

 only this, but I went in debt, near- 

 ly $1,600 for a home; expecting to 

 pay for it out of the profits of pub- 

 lishing a bee journal ! Surely, "Fools 

 rush in where angels 

 fear to tread. ' ' 



Had I foreseen the 

 obstacles to be s u r - 

 mounted, and the diffi- 

 culties to be overcome, 

 I doubt if I should ever 

 have had courage to 

 have started the Re- 

 view; but an intense 

 love for the Review, 

 almost as a parent loves 

 his child, and the pos- 

 session of a genuine 

 bull-dog determination 

 to never give up regard- 

 less of discouragements, 

 have carried me 

 through; but the eating of plain food, 

 and the wearing of old clothes, yes, of 

 />. 7 /r//i?cf clothes, are only "circumstances" 

 compared to some of the unpleasant 

 things that have been endured that the 

 Review might live. The question of 

 whelher I could afford this or that for 

 the Review has always been answered by 

 simply taking out my pocket book and 

 laying it on the altar. 



.advertising previous to the publication 

 of the Review brought in money enough 

 to get out the first issue. After this there 

 was, for a time, a race between receipts 

 and expenditures. The latter came out 

 ahead; and then a radical change was 

 made. Tj'pe and materials for printing 



