Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-09-02

about one mile from The CITY.
Early this spring. while 'he was in the
city with her family. her house took fire
and her 200 hives of bees were destroyed.
Wiling TO a friend, she said: al came
home at dark 10 hnd my louise wreck
and the 200 stocks of bees ruined. Is 1t
not hard sometimes to believe that all
things work together for our good" l
have worked so hard and SIN SO tired that
can form no plans for the future" 1t
was an hour of u;al which would have
discouraged many brave man. Alter
wears of Toll and labor. with large indebt'
edness to her late partner, large iHiniN'
an invalid husband, thus TO find hSrsell
almost where she begun, was SouEtrying,
but. with the iudomitable will which she
possesses, she marshaled her energies for
4 new battle of life, and amid all her mis-
fortunes there was not = shadow on her
face. Moneyed men came forward and
rendered her means, but she refused 1t,
choosing to paddle her own canoe. With
$500 she purchased four Italian queens
and with a few stocks OF oeeS which she
secured elsewhere, she started again.
| Soon after a farmer from a distance OF.
fered her filly colonies of common black
bees. to be paid for when she pleased and
at what price she pleased. Mr.. james
Smith, a well known horiculturist, who
resides a mile south OF the city, and two
miles from her residence, offered her the
use OF hi. fruit farm. on which to set up
her new colonies, and she accepted the
kind offer aud removed her bees there.
! and Immediately set abon, removing them
to movable comb hives and ltalianizing
them.
This colony will Ibis season increase
from so to lO2, and vii produce over
900 pounds OF honey. SO that before
the year is gone she will nave recovered
very much from her loss. AT her home
she has twenty colonies of royal blood.
from which she supplies her trade. To-
geiher with importations by each ocean
steamer. She will soon be able to iill all
orders agaiu. In reply To- question the
other day as To- what hives she used, she
replied, 1.-The cheapest l can get hey
do not co., over Sl.j0 each; but | want
one side so il can be removed, = movable
cap. aud the inside flied with movable
frames. The worst enemies have are
patent hive agents. They cannot buy ne
nor will buy their hives. ! own the
RIGHT for several States for hives. and
have hundred patent hives piled up on
my lot. but 10 not use them nor sell
them"
Well said l., chow about moths aud
wolmsr
IL don't have any abolt my hive, as
vii. show YOU, said she. and removed
the side ol u hive. and laid outside frame
after frame of comb filled with honey and
covered with bees. standing the frames
around outside, inspecting them carefully.
This she does nearly every day. to lind
the queen and any bug or worm that may
get in. These frames she has filed with
the comb which she saved from the ruins
of the fire. aud the bees are filling it NICE
~.
What a lesson does this resolute woman
teach the women of this country She
might. as might thousand others. have
/ been useless woman, despite her educa'
ton aud mental aitainments, and yet she
might have been obliged to sit down and
be helped, but for the advantages which
her early education gave her, and which
gave her the :irst money she ever earned.
Realizing his, she has given her eleven
children the best opportunity possible 10
acquire an education. One OF them her
eldest daughter is now filling pulpit rs
preacher. at Webster. Massachusetts, AT 4
salary of 5000 a years noble woman.
IS talented aud eloquent rs she is quiet
and unasSumiug.
Mrs. Upper in person is Of small stat
ure, dark eyes, thin features, well de-
veloped brain, somewhat bent with toll
and the weight of years, nervous. san.
guine temperament, speaks rapidly and
uses no superfuous words, modest and
unasSuming in manner aud what would
be called in plain terms homelY. To
casual observer, she is the last person you
would select as Mrs. Topper. She is an
active member OF the baptist Church, and
her special pride in chlreh work is the
infant class in the Sabbath school, to
which she deyotes much OF her over.
/ burdened mind. and she has the Satislac-
ton of knowing the children love her.
As business perEon she is one of the
most active and resolute Of the cts. She
fits into the business of the Capital City
and fills her place just as nicely and hit
/ tingly as anybody. Business men accept
il courteously, and admire her modest
demeanor and perseverance, She attends
personally TO all shipments of bees. honey
extractors, hives, etc. to all correspond
ence and her bees. There was not day
during the last sc:ere winter. and the
cold wet spring. THAI she was not IN the
city attending to business.
AGRIcULrURAL ORATORS. Some would
be or has.been Governor, member OF