Kansas Bee-Keeper from Columbus, Kansas • 6

22 THE KANSAS BEE KEEPER: We send out this month a large edition of sample copies, printed on an inferior quality of paper, our regular edition being printed as usual on extra S. S. and C. book paper, of the finest quality. Still they come.

This time it is lie Apiarian, published by W. Merrill, at Mechanic Falls, Maine. Judging from the tone of Vol. 1, No. 1, which we just received, it is destined to become a valuable acquisition to American bee literature.

It is published at 75 cents a year. We wish it success. it my exclusive business, I have made far less money than I did at other business in the same number of years previous. But; with my present views, I prefer it to any other business, because I can live in the country, be out-doors, I have better health, be much of the time with my family, and I do not know of any other business I like so well. There is hard work in it, in spite of all that is said about it being nice for feeble invalids.

The man that takes care of enough bees to make a living, will find he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. After all I have said, there are some who will find bee keeping the most desirable of all pursuits. If you find it has so much fascination for you that you can take delight in lying awake nights studying about it, that you can stoically take the stings, even if they do sometimes wrench from you a groan; that you can come in at night during the busy season wet with sweat from head to foot and so tired that you ache all over, and not feel disheartened, and have, withal, tact and talent enough to conquer difficulties as they arise, then get the best weekly bee paper, and if you can get some monthlies all the better; get a small number of colonies and grow into the business, or, better still, serve an apprenticeship with some practical bee keeper and gain in one year the experience of many. Other questions as to kinds of bees, you will find fully discussed in the papers and books (do not forget to get a good book), and I need not take time them here. My chief aim has been to show some phases of the subject not generally dwelt upon.

American Bee Journal. THE KANSAS BEE KEEPER. Entered at the Posronice at Columbus. Kansas for transmission through the mails as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH BY SCOVELL ANDERSON, Jt COrCTMBTDTS, KANSAS.

Subscription Price, 60 Cents a Year. ADVERTISING RATES One Dollar per Inch, each Insertion. H. SCOVELL; Editor, DR. WM.

R. HOWARD, Associate Editor. 1883. We learn with sorrow that Mr. Paul L.

Viallon. of Bayou G'onda, has lost his little son, the light of the household. Mr. Frank Benton has removed his residence from Beyrout, Syria, to Athens, Greece, anciently the seat of learning and mistress of the world. It is with pleasure that we add to our list -of advertisers the true and tried friend of bee keepers, Chas.

F. Muth, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Don't fail to read his advertisement. His Practical Hints to Bee Keepers, price 10 cents, is replete with practical information on the subjects treated, and should be in the hands of every bee keeper. Mr.

Heddon writes us that owing to the receipt of numerous questions which he cannot well and conveniently answer in any other way, he has decided to issue-a comprehensive circular in which the subjects referred to will be fully treated. It will be ready for mailing about the 15th of March, not sooner, as he is adding some new and valuable articles to his list, and experimenting with and preparing to supply the new half pound surplus arrangement, and other progressive fix-tures. Write him for a copy. The Kansas Prohibitionist, published by the Prohibition Publishing Company of Columbus, Kansas, and edited by M. V.

B. Bennett, is before us. We know the men who are publishing this wide awake temperance paper, and they mean busi-ness. Mr. Bennett is known well throughout Kansas, Iowa and Missouri' as a prominent Democratic politician.

He has twice represented Kan-sasin the National Democratic convention at St. Louis and at Cincinnati. In the Democratic state convention which nominated Gov. Glick, Mr. B.

worked hard for prohibition, and succeeded in aiding to have adopted the minority platform, which was opposed to saloons. He nominated Glick under the promise by the Governor that he would.