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After reading it over, Mr. Beeman 

 asked his former employer if he would 

 please make it a little stronger. Why, 

 of course, he said he would if only he 

 knew how Mr. Beeman whould like to 

 have it. Whereupon the Beeman said, 

 "Put it this way:" 



"Mr. Beeman 'is industrious, hard- 

 working, faithful, and often sober." 

 He thought "often sober" was better 

 than plain sober. Of course, he was 

 an exception and probably came from 

 the Emerald Isle. ■ 



But I must not continue longer. I 

 wish only to say that I am proud to 

 be one of such a royal, temperate 

 company as are the bee-keepers of 

 this and other lands. But we must 

 not fold our hands and sit idly by, 

 while our fellow men are pushing the 

 battle against the open saloon. We 

 must do our part to raise the Nation's 

 manhood. We must let our light 

 shine, we must use our influence — 

 yes, and our ballots — whenever an 

 opportunity is presented to strike the 

 Demon Drink a killing blow. 



"How long, how long this degradation. 

 To blight the manhood of the nation? 

 How long fair woman's name dishonor. 

 Heaping shame and grief upon her, 

 Whose gentle voice so long hath plead. 

 Whose feet so long have sunward 



led— 

 Little voices vainly crying, 

 Joy of childhood crushed and dying?" 



"Defend the home! Protect the 



school! 

 Blow, blow a ringing bugle note! 

 For Manhood strike! For Manhood 



vote! 

 Till Manhood rule from sea to sea, 

 Magnificent in victory; 

 Till mountain-peak and prairie sing; 

 Till our broad land, redeemed, shall 



ring: 

 Manhood is king!" 



The President called upon Mr. A. I. 

 Root to say a few words. 



Mr. A. I. Root — There is nothing 

 more need be said to-night except you 

 know in what hearty accord I am 

 with all that has been said here by 

 Mr. York. Some time ago I was 

 down to a Lancaster Conference, and 

 they were holding a temperance day, 

 and there were three governors there. 

 They called upon me, it was pretty 



late, and they said-I had to say some- 

 thing. I think I said this, "Gentle- 

 men, I am not only glad to be with 

 you, but God knows I am glad to be 

 one of you. God bless you." 



The toasts being ended Dr. Phillips 

 and Mr. E. R. Root gave their stere- 

 opticon and moving picture exhibi- 

 tions, illustrative of the addresses 

 which they had given on Tuesday 

 evening, which were received with 

 applause. 



The Convention adjourned to meet 

 Thursday, October 15th, at 8:30 a. m. 



THIRD DAY. 

 Morning Session. 



Thursday, October 15th. 



At 8:30 a. m. the President called 

 the Convention to order and said: We 

 have with us Mr. Paul Mecewitz, of 

 Finland, and we will be very glad to 

 ihear from hint for a few moonents. 



Mr. Mecewitz — Mr. President, Ladies 

 and Gentlemen: I think everybody 

 who is interested in bee-keeping in 

 foreign countries would like to hear 

 something about hee-keeping in Fin- 

 land. I think that is the reason why 

 Mr. Holterman, my first and skillful 

 teacher - in the art of bee-keeping, 

 made the suggestion that I should 

 tell you something about bee-keeping 

 in Finland, 



You had yesterday a discussion 

 about using eight frame or larger 

 hives. I think somebody may ask 

 me: Do you use eig^ht or ten or 

 twelve frames in Finland? We Ij^ve 

 three different systems of hee-keeping 

 in Finland. The oldest and most gen- 

 eral is a system where the old-fash- 

 ioned straw skip is used. It is used 

 by many of the farmers. They do not 

 read any hee-papers; they just use 

 the methods that our fathers and 

 grandfathers used. They select a 

 number of hives in the fall and dead- 

 en the bees by fumigating with sul- 

 phur or s'nritithing else, and then cut 

 out the combs and press the honey 

 out of them, or melt the comfbs and 

 separate the honey from the wax. 

 Then the other metihod is the German 

 method; that has been imported 

 through the German papers. Som? 

 of our bee-keepers went to Germaay 

 and studied the German methods 

 advocated by some of the German 

 experts. The youngest generation in 



