THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



vacant by the resignation of Bro. Abbott 

 as a director, upon his election to the 

 General Managership. 



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Enjoy the little pleasures of life as 

 they come along day by day. Don't put 

 them aside as beneath your notice, keep- 

 ing your eye on great pleasures that may 

 come in the future, when you have ac- 

 complished this or that. In each life 

 there may be a few times when joy 

 comes in a great flood, but, as the years 

 come and go, the great bulk of our hap- 

 piness comes in the little every day hap- 

 penings and occurrences. 



I have always been thankful for my 

 ability to greatly enjoy the work in 

 which I was engaged. The days are 

 never long enough, and I am often im- 

 patient of the darkness that keeps me 

 from my work. First came queen rear- 

 ing, and it was more enjoyable than a 

 trip through fairy land. Next was the 

 production of comb honey; and how 

 sweet was the labor of piling it up in 

 great stacks. Then came the Review 

 with its multiplicity of enjoyable features 

 — the combining of types, and pages and 

 pictures brought out and developed my 

 sense of the artistic. Later, photogra- 

 phy came into my life, and I have en- 

 joyed it more than I can express. I re- 

 member, when I bought my new fifty- 

 dollar camera, I set it on the dresser in 

 my bed room, that I might, in the morn- 

 ing, feast my eyes upon its beautifully 

 polished wood and shining brass trim- 

 mings. I know this is almost childish. 

 It ma}' seem ridiculous for a man in his 

 forties, but it is that very feature, of en- 

 joying things in the simple, enthusiastic 

 way of a child, that I practice and advise. 



Now I have a new press, and I look 

 upon its shinning wheels and levers with 

 a feeling bordering on affection. I am 

 studying the harmony of colors with the 

 same enthusiasm as I have studied other 

 things. I am reading books on the sub- 

 ject, and upon presswork, etc. and trj-ing 

 to get down to bottom facts. 



Once more, friends, get all of the com- 

 fort out of the little, simple pleasures that 

 come to you day by day. In the first 

 place, fall in love with your business. If 

 that isn't possible, then go into some 

 business where it is possible. No man 

 ever made any great success of a business 

 that he did not like. 



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Those Canards concerning the man- 

 ufacture of hone}', still continue to cir- 

 culate in the newspapers, much to the 

 detriment of bee-keepers. A subscriber 

 has sent me a copy of the Philadelphia 

 Record containing the usual story. It 

 appears under the guise of a story told 

 by a commission man to a reporter of the 

 paper. Of course, it is possible that some 

 commission man did say something about 

 manufactured honey. Some reporters 

 are very bright. They can make a "story" 

 out of very scanty material. Thej^ are 

 like some housewives — can get up a good 

 meal out of almost nothing. Sorhe bee- 

 keepers have been writing the Record, 

 and at least one communication has been 

 published, as a copy of the Recod con- 

 taining it has been sent to me. 



This matter of these stories is really 

 more serious than some of us have 

 thought. The}- must be fought as per- 

 sistently as they have been published, 

 and the most effective weapon is letters 

 from bee-keepers. Suppose i,ooo letters 

 from bee-keepers should pour into the 

 Record office. That paper would never 

 again publish such foolish, harmful stories 

 about honey, and would probably have 

 something to say editorially on the sub- 

 ject. Bee-keepers can, if they will, 

 crush out these stories. Have you writ- 

 ten to any paper and contradicted any 

 of these harmful statements ? 



By the way, Mr. F. B. Simpson sug- 

 gests that we make a mistake in not tak- 

 ing the public into our confidence in this 

 matter. We simply say that the manu- 

 facture of artificial comb honey is impos- 

 sible, but that is as far as we go. 

 A great many people feel sure they 



