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THE BEE KEEPERS- REVIEW. 



telegraph or cable service; nor can they 

 appreciate the necessity of paying fabu- 

 lous sums to able writers when they can 

 procure average articles for a fraction of 

 the cost. They cannot understand the 

 polic}- of rejecting worn-out type, simply 

 because it is old, as long as it can be read. 

 The}' argue that it is foolish to pay large 

 salaries to expert proof readers, because 

 little mistakes in a daily paper are of no 

 consequence and are usually overlooked 

 and forgotten. They urge that they can- 

 not aiTord to discard old presses, which 

 have cost a great deal of money, and put 

 in up-to-date ones, because their compet- 

 itors have done so. They cannot see why 

 an "evening edition" should not he made 

 up from other papers, instead of paying 

 large sums for original matter. Nor are 

 they al)le to understand why it is that 

 their circvdation is diminishing and their 

 advertising falling oiT. 



But their up-to-date competitors know 

 the reason why. They know that this is 

 a progressive age, when everybody wants 

 to patronize the most modern things. 

 They know that, if their subscribers buy 

 a paper, they want to be sure that they 

 are getting one which is pul)lished by 

 the most enterprising, progressive pub- 

 lishers; that, if they wish to advertise, 

 they are looking for the most popular 

 newspaper, the one that reaches the 

 large.st numbers of readers. A reputa- 

 tion of being out-of-date — behind the 

 times, no matter what your business or 

 profession. — will soon make itself felt in 

 loss of patronage, and your patrons will 

 leave vou to do lousiness viMth those wdio 

 progress with the times. We know men 

 who have kept country stores for years, 

 who have never been able to make more 

 than a bare livitig, .simply because they 

 have got into ruts and are too conserva- 

 tive or too indolent to try to adopt im- 

 proved metliods. The}' are always be- 

 hind the times in stvles, and are con- 

 stantlv running out of things that their 

 customers are likely to call for. Tiieir 

 goods are scattered about in a haphazard 

 fashion, without any attempt to make an 

 attractive display They do not keep 

 their books in a systematic way; their 

 accounts are all in disorder; they trust 

 evervV)ody, and are very loose in their 

 collections, never take an inventory of 

 their stock, and never know just how they 

 stand. When a bright, vigorous, up-to- 

 date voung man, who knows how to con- 

 duct a business according to twentieth- 

 century ideas, enters into competition 

 with "old fogy" store-keepers of this 

 type, the result is a foregone conclusion. 

 Before they realize it their customers, 



one by one, have dropped away, and 

 their trade is almost entirely in the 

 hands of the new comer. There are 

 teachers, who have taught successfully 

 for many years, who have been hopeless- 

 ly sidetracked, simply because they 

 clung to old methods and decried every 

 new educational idea brought forward as 

 superficial and subversive of the true in- 

 terests of education. 



Lawyers lose their clients because they 

 do not keep up with the march of prog- 

 ress. They do not buy the latest law 

 books or law publications; they cling to 

 old methods, old books, old precedents, 

 and to the archaic style of oratory once 

 so popular with juries but now utterly 

 out of date. Their offices are dingy, and 

 they themselves are indifferent as to their 

 personal appearance, yet they wonder 

 whv their clients forsake them and put 

 their business in the hamls of compara- 

 tively inexperienced young men. 



A physician is sidetracked because he 

 stopped growing soon after he left col- 

 lege or medical school. He saw the im- 

 portance of keeping up appearances then , 

 and of keeping posted in regard to the 

 latest discoveries and improvements in 

 medical science; but, as his practice grew, 

 he got into a rut, did not take pains to 

 read the V^est medical publications, or to 

 analyze or test new methods of treat- 

 ment. Depending upon his skill, old 

 books, appliances, and remedies, and 

 .self-satisfied, he moved on in the old 

 groove, nor does he realize that the young 

 practitioner who has settled in his 

 neighl)orhood has just come from actual 

 practice in the best equipped hospitals, 

 that he has the newest surgical instru- 

 ments and anpliances, the latest scientif- 

 ic and medical books, and a new office 

 fitted up in the latest and most approved 

 style, — until a large part of his practice 

 has sli]5peil out of his hands. When the 

 "goiie-by" pliy.sician wakes up to the 

 real state of things, he attributes it to 

 anything l)ut the true cause, — his own 

 non-progressiveness. 



The old-fashioned farmer does not be- 

 lieve in "new-fangled" ideas and modern 

 fanning implenients, or in studying the 

 chemistry of the soil. He thinks that 

 because his father raised corn and pota- 

 toes on the same piece of ground for 

 twenty years, thus wearing it out, that 

 he should keep on doing the same. He 

 does not believe in Nature's law of rota- 

 tion of crops, and he trudges along in the 

 beaten track of his ancestors, barely get- 

 ting a living, while his enterprising 

 neighbor, who owns an adjoining farm of 

 similar quality, by mixing brains with 



