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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
Nov 
Before so doing, and while thanking our 
friends for the aid they have given us, we 
would remark that the mere fact of differences 
in opinion in regard to a business transaction 
is by no means sufficient ground for publicly 
showing up either of the parties. Still, we arc 
always glad to have such transactions submit- 
ted to us, as it gives us an opportunity of 
judging better of the business habits of those 
advertising largely. Where an advertiser re- 
ceives money and then refuses to respond in 
any shape or manner, and also refuses to grant 
us any explanation, we have very good grounds 
for suspecting fraud. 
In our April No. we gave a letter from Mr. 
-I. P. Parker, but omitted the name of the firm 
to whom he sent the $30.00. This firm was 
Gray & Winder of Cincinnati. We have been 
waiting since April to give them a chance, but 
as their letters, or rather Mr. Winder’s letters 
only propose to pay it sometime, if friend P. 
will be “quiet and gentlemanly about it,” we 
presume it is $30.00 lost. Mr. Winder in a let- 
ter to us recently, said if the transaction were 
published he would never pay it at all , and as 
he probably would not any how, what is to be 
gained by keeping quiet ? True, lie might go 
on and get other peoples’ hard earned $30.00, 
and then tell them the same, but this is the 
part we most decidedly object to. The letters 
we receive from these delinquents have got to 
be an old story, and we have become so har- 
dened that we don’t mind it a bit when told 
we are “meddling,” and that our assistance 
and advice has not been asked etc., etc. We 
are sometimes gravely informed that great 
numbers of similar complaints are made of «s 
but that they, out of a kind regard let it drop, 
etc. Now tins is a mistaken kindness certain- 
ly, for if any one has been guilty of such a 
piece of folly as making complaints of us, in- 
stead of to us, the only way we know of is to 
tell us about it. Put it in print certainly if 
thought advisable. We haven’t the least objec- 
tion "to having any part of our business fully 
ventilated at anytime. 
D. L. Adair has been complained of for a 
long time. The B. K. M. thinks proper to give 
one of the complaints, omitting name ’tis true, 
but his contradictory mention in his adver- 
tisements of the long looked for Dec. No. is so 
familiar to most readers of the Journals, that 
few will fall to know who is meant. If the 
complaii ts were only for money sent for An- 
nals, we might think that lie would sometime 
send it, but when he advertises to receive 
money for Gleanings and keeps that too , with- 
out giving us the slightest notice, we have no 
choice really but to speak out. 
Before crediting appearances, we have writ- 
ten him repeatedly, and even appealed to him 
in print to come forward and assure us that he 
meant sometime to settle all things honorably, 
but to all, lie preserves a grand indifference, and 
Were it not that drafts, registered letters, etc., 
are readily taken care of when addressed to 
him we might think yet with It. K. M. that 
there is some mistake. Titles and education 
are a fine thing, but their possessor is no more 
excusable for appropiating other peoples mon- 
ey, than any one else. 
“BEK STINGS CURED, WITHOUT COST. NO MORE 
RAIN OR SWELLING. Tills IS A NEW DISCOV- 
ERY,” has been for some time past advertised by 
the “Busy Bee” mar , but it did cost us 10c. 
We know we “got bit” $2.00 worth on the Am- 
brosial Honey, sometime ago, but we thought 
perhaps he had become a better man now. 
“Nary better.” The “Ambrosial” is advertised 
with the same old, oily string of falsehoods 
(see page 85, Vol. 1) and the “Great Discovery” 
is as follows : 
THE BUST BEF. SUPPLEMENT. 
Bee stings— A re dreaded by nearly every one, on 
account of the pain and swelling which follow, from 
the poison injected. 
How cubed- I n severe cases, the person should 
drink freely of whiskey or some strong* alcoholic 
drink, till he feels its effects; this will prevent all 
danger and further swelling. 
A new discovery— I mmediately after receiving a 
sting, take some leaves of peppermint, or catmint, (or 
their allies,) crush them with tne teeth and add some 
saliva ; then rub the wounded part briskly for about 
live minutes; this will remove the pain and prevent 
inflammation, as by this process the poison is all re- 
moved. 
The above is the whole contents of this great 
Supplement to be given away, (for ten cents) ex- 
cept a few advertisements ; among them is one 
of “Cheap and Artistic Printing.” All we 
have to say is that if the supplement is a sample, 
we would respectfully prefer “t’other kind.” 
We arc amazed that this II. Herman Flick 
should find people enough in this age of Jour- 
nals, to support him with his Ambrosial and 
Bee sting cure. We certainly shall “stand by 
him.” 
About the Cure. Will all those who persist 
in believing in the efficacy of these cures, (we 
mean to include the Germau Bee Sting Cure 
and all the stuff “put in bottles” for that pur- 
pose) please test them by the method proposed 
by Quinby, viz., try one sting with the “medi- 
cine” and one with nothing? Don’t make up 
your mind from a single experiment, but try 
half a dozen times, first with, and then with- 
out, and our word for it, (unless you har e some 
bottles to sell) you will conclude if there is any 
difference, the sting you rub and “fuss” with 
most, will be the worst. When you can learn 
’tis best to pay no attention to stings, but to 
go on with your work, you will have little 
trouble. 
We agree with A. B. J. in saying that not 
one letter in tenthousand is lost by mail if prop- 
erly directed, if we except perhaps some of the 
Southern states where postal facilities have 
not as yet reached the perfection they have 
here. Now for a person to claim that letters 
must have been lost in the mails, as an excuse, 
and also to make this plea to a dozen different 
correspondents at about the same time, is sheer 
nonsense. We have yet to hear of a postal 
card being lost in the mails. 
P. S. — About that Whiskey antidote. Since 
the “Crusaders” closed the saloons of Medina, 
we fear there would be a serious rush to the 
bee hives for the sole purpose of being stung 
were such treatment reccommeuded here. 
We to-day, Oct. 22nd, get a new circular 
from Mitchell in his usual “Spread Eagle’ 
style, offering (rights!) the best hive extant at 
a cost not exceeding 25 to 50c, and other things 
in proportion. It appears that he is located 
this time near by — Defiance, O — but the circular 
comes all the way from P. M. Peterbaugh, San 
Gabriel, Cal. Can h a find more victims? 
