. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. GEORGE W. YORK, i DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY j Weekly, $ a Year. Editor. f TO BEE-CULTURE. | Sample Free. VOL XXX. CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 22, 1892. NO. A Merry Christmas to All the readers of the American Bee Journal is our sincerest wish at this time. Before another number reaches you, that hap- piest day of the year will have come and gone. Again we wish you— A MERRY CHRISTMAS. Change of Ohio Meeting.— Secretary Miss Dema Bennett, of Bed- ford, Onio, writes us as follows : The date of the Ohio convention has been changed so as not to conflict with
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. GEORGE W. YORK, i DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY j Weekly, $ a Year. Editor. f TO BEE-CULTURE. | Sample Free. VOL XXX. CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 22, 1892. NO. A Merry Christmas to All the readers of the American Bee Journal is our sincerest wish at this time. Before another number reaches you, that hap- piest day of the year will have come and gone. Again we wish you— A MERRY CHRISTMAS. Change of Ohio Meeting.— Secretary Miss Dema Bennett, of Bed- ford, Onio, writes us as follows : The date of the Ohio convention has been changed so as not to conflict with the North American, to Jan. 2 and 3. I hope that some of the Western bee- keepers will buy their tickets to Colum- bus, and from there to Pittsburgh, if they wish to go as A. I. Root suggested in Gleanings, and on their return from Washington stop off at Columbus, 0., and run down to our meeting at Wash- ington C. H., which is only 39 miles below Columbus. It is only 39 miles further from Chicago via Columbus, O., to Pittsburgh than it is by the Fort Wayne route, both of which are the Pennsylvania railway lines, although the former is operated by the P. C. C. & St. L. Railway Company. Dema Bennett, Sec. A $1,000 Poem.—The following poem brought its author $1,000, being the sum offered by a syndicate of West- ern editors for the best appeal poem to subscribers to pay up their subscriptions. The prize was won by the editor of the Rocky Mountain Celt, and this is the " valuable" poem: Lives of poor men oft remind us Honest men won't stand a chance ; The more we work, there grows behind us Bigger patches on our pants. On our pants, once new and glossy, Now are stripes of different hue, All because subscribers linger. And won't pay us what Is due. Then let us all be up and doing, Send your mite, however small, Or when the snow of winter strikes us, We shall have no pants at all. Although the above may not truthfully represent the condition of our " pants,&q
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