Friends. "If a man has a thousand friends he has not one too many."-Review. This also is true: If a publisher of a beepaper has 10,000 friends, or subscribers, he has not one too many. There is no limit to the number of friends every man or woman would like to count as their own. The **Good Book" says that he that would have friends must make himself friendly. Pretty good recipe for friend-making. Thomas G. Newman and Wife leave Chicago this week for a trip to the East, visiting relatives and old-time friends. They expect to return about Jan. 1. trust they may have a pleasant time and safe journey. Mr. Newman certainly needs the rest and recreation afforded by such a trip, after having put in some months of hard work in several of the life insurance and fraternal orders to which he belongs. And the change will do Mrs. Newman much good, as her health is not the ruggedest. Belated Convention Report.As we expected, some of our subscribers are becoming justly dissatisfied with the snail-rate at which we have been compelled to publish the report of the proceedings of the St. Joseph convention, held Oct. 10, 11 and 12. Here is a fair sample of what is in the minds of some of our readers, which we received Dec. 4: EDITOR YORK:-What is the matter with that report of the St. Joseph convention? Here it is Dec. 3, and the convention that commenced in October hasn't got through its first day. At that rate, when will we get the last of it? Those who were there perhaps do not care, but most of us were absent, and depend upon the reports that have always come so promptly heretofore. Of course we do not want to blame you if you are not to blame, but we would like to know, you know. If you are getting so old that you cannot move around so lively as you used to, just say so and we will make allowance. If that shorthanded reporter has been on a spree and lost his notes, say But really, we cannot see why there should be such slow work when the reporter So. can get his matter to you from any part of the States in so short a time. What is the trouble. anyhow? SUBSCRIBER. As we have several times stated in these columns, we have been ready all the time to crowd through the report of the North American, but it seems that Secretary Benton had taken it upon himself to hold back the report as long as possible. We wrote him twice, and telegraphed once, to hurry up the report, but receiving no reply at all from him, giving a reason for the delay, we concluded that there was no good reason for it. A goodly part of the report was in Secretary Benton's hands, from the stenog. rapher, Mr. Lighton, on Oct. 25, and the balance of it reached Mr. Benton, at Washington, Nov. 7. From this it will be seen that there has been ample time to have had the report nearly completed in the Bee Journal by this time, whereas less than half of the proceedings are now published! Had the convention voted to use Mr. Hutchinson's report, instead of the LightonBenton report, as we hoped they would be wise enough to do, the needless delay would not have occurred-and yet it is not the fault of the stenographer, Mr. Lighton. We employed Mr. Hutchinson to take the report of the proceedings for the American Bee Journal, and offered to give the association the use of our report for the usual pamphlet. Since the convention we have paid Mr. Hutchinson for a report that we supposed we would not need, as, according to the vote of the convention, we were to publish the Lighton-Benton report in the Bee Journal. We were quite satisfied not to use Mr. Hutchinson's report, when it was so voted, presuming, of course, that we would have no difficulty in getting the other report as fast as needed. The consequence is, that through the delay it is now quite possible that no pamphlet report at all will be published. We might say that although we have a goodly slice of the report in this issue, at this time (Dec. 6) it is every bit we have in the office, and the trouble is, we don't know whether we will get any more of the report in time for next week's number. It is this uncertainty that is so aggravatingespecially as there is no necessity for it. LATER. We have received some more "copy" on the report, but we should have had it all in our hands long ago, so we could have published it as fast as we desired right after the meeting. 66 Overeating seems to have been the cause of Editor Ernest Root's recent illness So he says in last Gleanings. His "appe tite," whetted up to a "keen edge," and then treated to some big dinners, made mischief" with his internal anatomy. He hopes it will be a warning to others " But most people nowadays are not troubled with " big dinners"-if they only succeed in getting a fair, square meal they are happy. This writer never overeats-not because he never has a chance, but because he believes in the truth of the saying that "enough is as good as a feast." So when he has eaten "enough"-well, be stops right there. This plan is commended to Editor Root. Accident and Death.—Mrs. Atchley has sent us the following sad news, dated Dec. 4: BRO. YORK:-I am informed that Louis V. Esneault, proprietor of the Donaldson ville, La., Bee-Keepers' Supply Factory, has lost his right arm and left leg by a cir cular saw. This was a very sad misfortune for our young brother. Also, the infant son of P. F. Gassaway, of Floyd, Tex., died a few days ago. Mr G. was an old neighbor of mine, a subscriber of the American Bee Journal, and a large bee-keeper. Yours truly, MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. See A B C offer on page 739. "I would not do without the American Bee Journal. I can say it is the light of the way' through bee-keeping."-B. P. Shirk, of California, Nov. 28, 1894. The A. I. Root Company we announced on page 678, and promised an explanation of the change soon. In Glean ings for Dec. 1 we find the following by A. I. Root himself, telling the "why" and the "wherefore:" THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY. The friends will notice by our price-list and stationery that the above title to our business takes the place of simply "A.I Root." Perhaps I may say that no new method of management will be introduced. Yet they are "we (e) "-little-editors. there may be nothing very "small" about them. How to Make Honey-Candy.-Mr. W. S. Pierson, of Eureka, Mich., asks for a recipe for making honey-candy. Here is one used by Thos. Dobson, of Nebraska: Take one cupful of honey and the same of best white sugar; mix together and boil in a new tin, which has been well greased with fresh butter. If the candy is to be white, pull it while warm. When cool enough cut into small pieces and wrap in buttered paper, as exposure to the air makes it soft. A High Compliment is the following, for which we "make our best bow:" The American Bee Journal is excellent. I get little time to read even bee-papers, but I must read the American Bee Journal. I congratulate you on getting up such a good paper. It improves rapidly. A. J. COOK. Claremont, Calif., Nov. 19, 1894. Editor Quigley, of the Progressive Bee-Keeper, calls upon the six other editors who were present at the St. Joseph conven- . tion, to "decide" whether or not he looks like an excitable, drinking man. It seems a Texas correspondent of the Progressive intimated that Bro. Q. was about that sort of a critter. No, if this writer may judge from his appearance and conduct at St. Joseph, Editor Quigley is a model young man in every respect-one who is not easily excited, and who would not be guilty of indulging in intoxicants at all. We hope he has too much horse-sense to do the latter shameful trick. Mr. Chas. Dadant has a well-deserved, enviable reputation as a bee-keeper, on both sides of the Atlantic. In a "Chat on European Matters" in Gleanings for Dec. 1, Mr. Charles Norman, in speaking of French bee papers and books, says this: Among the books are translations of Mr. Cowan's Guide," and Mr, Dadant's "Revised Langstroth." Mr. Charles Dadant is a contributor to the Revue, and his articles are well written-indeed, the emanations of a mind which combines fine judgment with great experience. He is held in high esteem by the editor of the Revue, as well as the other contributors. When mentioning his name they do not spare words like "master," "celebrated," and the like, and |