. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 720 AMERICAN BEE ReplytoRey. W. Written for the American Bee Journal BY DK. C. C. MILLER. You say my last letter "does not mend matters at ; I am glad to say that yours does, for in it you do the very thing that I have wanted you to do all the time—that is, you disclaim the sting- trowel theory as a fact, but hold it " merely as a matter of ; I only wish you had said that long ago. You say, speaking of the lack of courtesy, " It is not the omission of in- itials that I chiefly find fault with, bu
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 720 AMERICAN BEE ReplytoRey. W. Written for the American Bee Journal BY DK. C. C. MILLER. You say my last letter "does not mend matters at ; I am glad to say that yours does, for in it you do the very thing that I have wanted you to do all the time—that is, you disclaim the sting- trowel theory as a fact, but hold it " merely as a matter of ; I only wish you had said that long ago. You say, speaking of the lack of courtesy, " It is not the omission of in- itials that I chiefly find fault with, but the entire tout ensemble of the ; If I have understood you, the thing you object to is my saying "Rev. Clarke" instead of " Rev. W. F. ; Is not "the omission of the initials" the "en- tire," complete, and whole tout ensem- ble ? Please say what else there is ob- jectionable if the initials were put in. I have never seen " ; used as a title, so I don't knov/ whether it would be courteous or not. But I don't see what that has to do with the case. Put- ting " ; instead of "; is not a parallel case. I have not put any other title in place of "; Since you have made a comparison, let us do it cor- rectly. The two names are "Rev. W. F. Clarke" and "Dr. C. C. ; Omitting the initials I wrote "Rev. ; To parallel that, you should write "Dr. ; That is exactly what you have done more than once. I did not consider it discourteous. I do not believe you meant it so. You say " it is not grammatically cor- ; Have you proof of that ? You say, " I made it sufficiently plain that I put forth the sting-trowel theory merely as a matter of opinion, yet you thrust it upon me as a dogmatic and positive assertion of ; That being the case, either you have been unfortu- nate in your manner of expressi
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