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The Queen P.ec is the mother of
t he colony, therefore the center,
IM> Hp'-atk, around which the entire
«rtjJony revolve«. 8he j K tLie real
true female hoe. Her duty or
function is «ol .-ly to lay and 1
and nothing eine, «he doe« not
«veil fee J herself hr.t is fondled, 1
carefwed and fed hy the worker
he»-s. 81ie is a'wayr, attended by!
fight to twelve Indie? in Waiting,'jquad
while perform»n«r hf 'du'i-M who
gather around h *r in a eirde all
faeiri<g her as if in gi'ent adoration.
When '»ne stops to consider a
normal Colony consist« of from i
forty thousand po seventy-five or !
f'ighty thousand 'bees, and that the!
average life of the. worker bee in'at
fight week#, nml that only on-'
Queen will he tolerate»] in tt hiv
at one time, one might 'he able
to form Sfjme vague idea of what
H task the t^ueen has, not only t <
keep the population up hut to in
crease it, for that is what a good
Queen is constantly doing. I
Two or more (Queens cannot ex
1st in the same colony. If by any
chance two Queens get into the
dame hive, they immediately giv<
buttle to each other and never
relinguish Ihe liirht until one or
the other is killed.
Jt. is ii rare thing though that
two Queens get, together, because
when a hostile queen for any rea
son enters a hive other than h f, r
own the worker bees usually
"ball" her and kill her thereby
protecting their own mother and
queen.
The queen bee lias a sling, but
never use* it except in battle with
li rival queen. 1'robahly more
COU I, I be written about, the queen
because more study and attention
is given her than any other4/ee*,
and she really is almost interesting
and absorbing subject,.
The worker bees are as their
name implies, the workers. Their
duties are a'most too numerous to
mention. They are ]a the strict
a
THE GOLDEN RULE AND THE
UNEMPLOYED.
"I'll give up thy place to son e
poor man with a large family to
support. T have been able to set
H little money aside for a rainv
day and I atn willing to use it
while some one deeding a job
works in mv place for a month.''
This statement was made by a
woman of 60 years at a meeting
of the employees of the A. Nasli
Company, a wholesale tailoring
crtneern of Cincinnati, Ohio, t*>
consider ways and means to <is
ai«t employee*,of other tailoring
establishments who were out o(
work and in want. The idea
eaiwrht on and 500 employee» vol
unteered to gurrender their jobs
for the mouth of January or Febr
uary to the unemployed of other
clothing factories. This is a most
encouraging sign. This is the
teaching« of Ohrist being carried
Into the modern struggle for a
livelihood and being applied in a
practical way that rejoices the
heart of every follower of Christ.
Sneh A «pirit manifested on th
part of both employee and em
ployer will 'bring co-operation of
effort for the good, of all that,
will turu the wheel« of industry,
reduce ttie cost of living, destroy
unrest and discontent And restore
confidence and prosperity. What
ia -needed in office and factory, on
farm* and in everv branch of bm
inesH in the religion of «Tenus
Christ applied to the problems of
todny. This can only be aecom
plished through the personal |
adoption of Chmt and His atan-!
dards of b usines« and life by bothj
employer a nd , emplvee. "Do
men gather grapes of thorna or
figs of thistlesf' Neither do men
net out the Oolden Rnla in their
btwdness unless actuated 'by the
Author of the Golden Rule.
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be.e. culture.
germe of the word undeveloped
females, and therefore cannot r-
produce. First th<-v take can- of
the <fU'*en ;th^ are divided up into
ninny many h<juh» I k ; they care for
1 1lie i-i'tin the queen lay«, one w|uud
fveân and nurses the larva, which
1 is the* young hce in Ihe worm
state; one squad prepares tli
eel]# for thf queen to lay in, one
is a sanitary corps, eontin
uailv cleaning house and carrying
out dead bees awl all other un
MHuitarv matter; one squad goes
to the field gathering neetor Whita
another «atliers pollen and still
rwiol h'T bring« in water for the
yoimg hce* ; one lot stands guard
the entrance of the hive all the
fitne, to r»roteet it from enemies
and roMwrs, while others keep up
a constant fanning with their
win its thereby keeping up a con
stant current of air in one side
arul out the other, thereby venti
biting, and keeping cool in sum
me r the entire colony.
'p( H , rolM . ; s f| 1( , male bee. II
lives a life of ease, in that he has
but one function to perform an.I
docs absolutely no work whatever
lie mates with the queen bee and
fertilizes her which is but once in
the life time of the queen. After
that all the remaining drones are
purely drones in every sense of
the word and are tolerated in the
hive until the honey How begins
to fall when they are all driver,
out of the hive by the worker
bees, either to starve or fre< ze to
death, as they are absolutely de
pendent upon the worker been for
a living.
Volumes could be and hnv
been written on the subjects that
have been only briefly discussed
here, but what has been written
gives one an idea of some cd' the
fundamentals of bee kcepinitr, and
in a way shows h »w thorough!,*
absorbing the whole question of
l>ee keeping really is.
O. NORMAND SENTENCED
FOR VOTE BUYING.
!" am !' an J? th ' 8 case .^ As
hanging fire ever since
The Avoyelles Enterprise says:
"Too much praise cannot be
stowed on the present adminis
tration for securing the convic
tion of perhaps the only case in
Louisiana, charged under the
'i • ' î'raclice Act.
primary election,
1! 20, (Jillen Nor
it red handed ill
g a voter at the
A T r. (i. E. Morrow
> avd immediately
affidavit against Nor
been
until
He -t
•In
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made
sornotimo lWo " fl0 pl( , aflcd frljiItV(
and last. Monday w$.s sentenced
by his Honor, »S. Allen Rordelon.
lie wa« sentenced to pay a fine of
Fifty Hollar* and costs and thirty
• lavs in jail, but the jail sentence
will be suspended for the time be
ing.
We commend those courag
cous officials for the stand they
have taker! to prevent that crime
in the future. Too mnch vote
buying in the past in Avoyelles
and in Louisiana has been going
on until it had reached the limit
to he a eurjje j n our great com
monwealth. Often the meritori
ous candidate was prevented of
election because his opponent hail
a strong purge and could buy his
way into office, and that custom
obtained not only in Avoyelles,
but. elsewhere in Louisiana a« we
'•ere informed editorially in th
daily pre»« of New Orleans. We
are srlad that Avoyelles has taken
the initiative and has convicted
and sentenced the first ease in
Louisiana, and we hope that our
officials will keep on the alert
from now on and prevent the re
".nrrence of this crime."
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UGHT ON ANCIENT HISTORY
Some Interesting Data Bearing on the
Strange People Known to Fame
aa the "Aef«. w
Evidently ho me one who had eaten
a great deal of army corned beef In
Europe wrote thin amusing skit in the
"Watch an the Rhine," remarks the
Youth s Osa pan I on. The piece Is
headed. "Documents Published tn the
Tear 24T3 A. D., b j an American Hia
terlsa'' : •
I have )u*t been Jonrneyln* along
the KMne gathering data on the an
ci oat tribe of neo known ns the Aefs.
The origin of thla strange people is
eae of the great mysterlea of history,
Likewise their sudden extinction baa
been jvat aa baffling.
The Aefs appeared In western Eu
rope very suddenly about the time of
the beginning of the Teutonic dark
agéa—thé làtte# piH of the second
decade ef the Twentieth century. For
a short period they flooded In great
numbers tbe eptlre territory of Oaul
jfcowi Uic X , jrf w,p ÇS tj> U>e Itlilne. Then
tliey suddenly vanished.
It was recently thought that a clue
had been found to the kind of food
eaten by these nomads. In an old
cellar lu Andernach there were found
what at first looked like peculiarly
shafted bricks, but what later proved
to tie cans of a strange sort of nn-at.
tVrtnln Investigator* soon decided tlint
this could be nothing other than élé
phant meat, and students were about
to make trips to Africa In search of
further evidence, when the result of
som<> chemical tests wa published.
This showed that the meat was at
least 1007 years old, If not very much
older; and as the Aefs were In Gaul
about 560 years ago, It Is folly to be- j
lleve that this store of food belonged ]
to them. It Is much more probable
that It was Içft there at the time Han
nibal and his soldiers and elephant
supply trains made their long expedi
tion against Rome.
It Is probably s good thing for Amer
ica that the mysterious disappearance
of the Aefs csme about, for there Is
plenty of evidence that this barbaric
race was planning to migrate to North
America and pslablls'h Itself on that
continent permanently.
HISTORIC TREE NEARING END
Elm at Washington, Closely As&sciated
With Samuel F. B. Morge, Will
Soon Be Gone.
Another landmark In Washington Is
near destruction. The old "Morse
Elm." under whose shade Samuel F.
B. Morse used to spend his leisure
hours while working on Iiis invention
of the telegraph, will soon be removed.
The tree was planted In 1820. In
the early forties the future inventor of
the telegraph used to foregather with
his cronies and newspaper men and
crack jokes about the "Impossible"
and "crazy" Invention of the magnetic
telegraph on which he was working.
The tree was In front of the old Wll
lard hotel.
Since those days the old hotel has
been replaced by a modern eleven
■tory hostelry. Morse, whose Inven
tion eame true In 1844, died In 1872.
But the tree remained.
Rut It Is now In Its death hour In
spite of many operations of "tree sur
gery" and all known applications of
"tree medicine" practiced by Washing
ton's superintendent of city parka.
Houaee of Mud.
Women In California are building
houses with their own fair hands.
What Is more, they are mak og the
bricks.
The bricks, however, are of the kind
spoken of In the Bible as made by the
people of Israel in Egypt—I. e., of
clayey earth mixed with straw for m
binder. The straw Is Indispensable,
and it will be remembered how the
Israelites "kicked" because It vu
not provided.
Such bricks- are merely sun baked.
Missionary priests In California in the
early days used them for building
churches and other structures which,
covered with stucco, were very hand
some. These 'dobe buildings were also
•ubstantlal, weatherproof and endur
ing, as is testified by many that still
stand, unimpaired by the wear of cen
turies.
With labor so high and materials
likewise, the Idea of a mud dwelling,
which one can put up for oneself, even
the children helping, has Its attra^
tlons
The Drees Problem in the Orient
The Yokohama Reform association
recently sent s communication to the
mayor requesting his co-operation In
endeavoring to prevent coolies and
workmen appearing la public places
with insufficient clothing to conform
with western Ideas of propriety. The
association's spokesman stated that
the reasei* for tb«. request is the pres
ence of a large number of foreigners
la the cltjr .caad the sight of the scant
ily clothed persons on the streets and
In Iba trarucars .wiU tend to give them
aa aafavorable opinion of the Citys—
From the Japan Advertiser. . "
K neefcfog a Tradition.
Turkey Is a tradition. BecnaSe the
Pilgrim parents were rotten shots and
eouldn't kill a quail on a bei turkey
was all they could And for fteat on
that memorable day. They had been
on a diet of dams so long that mayhap
tv«n turkey tasted like food to them.
Bat that Is no excuse for wishing the
blamed thing onto posterity and mak
ing >t a sacred duty to gnaw a bundle
«f concentrated flddieatrlags an the
ef wry
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HAVE KEEN EYE FOR DANGER
Hunter Aaserta That It Is Practically
Impossible to Surprise the
Mountain Sheep.
"The mountain sheep ia one of the
moat difficult of all our American
game to approach In the open," says
Charles L. Smith In an article on the
"Rocky Mountain Sheep" In Boys'
Life. "It has eyes like a telescope for
keenness and can discover and make
out a man farther away than any other
animal Of which I have any knowl
edge, and where any considerable herd
have been feeding one will see usually
one or more standing on some prom
inent (Klint where tliey can get a view
of Ihe surrounding country. I know
of no more inspiring sight than one of
those old rams with his massive horns
outlined against thevsky, standing as
motionless as a statue. And it is a I
wonder to the hunter how they get '
a cross the rock slopes with such ease I
and grace. There has been muc.. writ- j
ten of flie mountain sheep, of its won
derful feats of springing from ledges
and lighting upon Its head and horns,
which I k without foundation in fact.
While It Is true they ran stand an Im
mense shock in battle, yet if one of
those sheep weighing 300 pounds
should drop from a ledge of any con
siderable height and land 011 his head
his neck would be broken. I spent
several years in the sheep country in
ttie Canadian Rockies anil was near
the sheep or among them during all
seasons of the year and they seem to
be less sensitive to the rigors of win
ter and the ever-changing elements of
the high altitudes than any other ani
mal except possibly the mountain gout,
and of these animals I think tliey havet
the advai tage, because I have a num
ber of times found mountain goats
yarded in the deep snow in places
where food was scarce, but I have
never yet found mountain sheep in
this condition."
BOARDING HOME FOR BABIES
Institution In England Had Ita Incep
tion in the Shortage of Houses
and Housemaida.
A small private hotel foi babies Is
the latest Idea of domestic life. The
baby gets a change and the mother
gets a rest.
The baby's hotel or boarding house
Is the product of the shortage of
houses and nursemaids. Parents have
been forced into hotels and furnished
apartments, and as many hotels have
not the conveniences of the nursery,
the baby's hotel, where he or she may
be received as a paying guest, Is mak
ing its appearance. There is, of
course, accommodation for the baby
carriage. *
Two certified nurses conceived the
Idea. They have established a nursery
in Hampstead, London. The walls are
decorated with ducks and chickens,
and each little guest has a white cot
with curtains. A medical man and a
dentist are In attendance. The tariff
is about $13 a week. The Uttlé guests
may stay a week, a year, or merely for
the week end, while their parents go
bouse hunting or holidsy making.
•A young war widow, who has re
sumed her former post as secretary,
brought, her baby to the nursery, and
Saturday afternoon and Sunday they
spend happy hours .together, while an
other woman left her little one In our
charge while she rejoiped her husband
In the tropics."— Continental Newa
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all the Ford economies in operation and main
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torily as long as it lasts. Demountable rims
with 3/4-inch tires all around. For the doctor
and travelling salesman it is the ideal car.
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Phone 386
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