Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-12
LOCAL MATTERS.
IL. Ii PEHIaLEO. Editor.
Grand Rapids, Thursday, July I.
CITY AND COUNTY.
How to Handle Bees.-An ex,

How to Handle Be6S.-An eX-
change has an article with the above
caption which we did not read-did
not not want to read--won't read We
know more about handling bees than
any newspaper can tell Us, and orr
knowledge comes from an experience
dating back to our vealy days, when
A boy we thought it awful funny
To stun" the hives and steal the honey.
Our first experience was rich--for the
bees. 1t made a lasting Impression
upon US, in fact, several lasting i'm
pressions ; they lasted about ten days,
and then we transferred the impressions
to our memory, and when we revert to
those ''bully" days we feel stung to
the quick, and repeat, GLOW doth the
little busy bee" We put this as an
interrogatory. GLOW doth the busy
little bec?" We confess we doE t
know We only hnow that he ''doth. !"
It was an "bumble bees" nest
where we first learned that the bee
"doth." We had seen the big
buz-z-z-y fellows, experimenting the
rosc-bushcs, aud we just foolishly sup
posed that any thing that loved flowers
must be ,carm- hearted, and we found
we were correct in our conjecture be-
sides 'thc boys" told US that white
faced bees were as harmless as Mary S
little lamb, and we found that to be
50 too-'till Mary litt!e lamb be
comes buck with capital z 5 on eth
er side his catering ram. We advise
all boys not to look too closely for
whte-faced bees; 90
But-a squad Of us boys one day
,'crosscd the Danube ard ,len : we
re-crosscd. l think, IF my mcmqry
serves me- that foEsy- acve4 million
whitc-faccd bees were giving US, and
me in particular, an ovation. | only
stuck a sharp stick into little hole
under a clump of daises. by I left the
stick We heard a voice like to 4
rushing of mighty wind, and thea
we thought we were being wolloped
over the shoulders aud where our
mother did the patchin en- oar breech
Is, with Canada thiStles stepped i'll
lightning. we never marched at the
head OF 50 imposing procession nor
marched so rapidly before. When. We
got home we remember how our moth
cr didn't want our photograph taken.
and how she laid US across her knee
and corrected proof. She took two
quart basin of bee periods out of
where we used to have letter in the
post-office every day, and then we
went to bed in poultce, with pair
Of pork spectacles over our eyes, and
we didn't repeat, Nov lay me down
TO Sleep worth cent, nor, Chow
doth the little busy bee improve each
shining hour" but we thought of that
passage which says:-(We don't re-
member the words exactly, but we get
the idea. And that man latter end
shall be worse than the 'tother end, or
something like that, and we believed
it, but We couldn't distinguish between
lends" And then we wondered if
the little girl that we used to give figs
and peppermint drops, would. Ego back
on us cause. we looked. SO, and o !!
what long night the FIRST night was,
and--but then we were going to tell
you how to handle bees. If you, have
any bees to. candle, just get another
Teller to handle 'em feg yeu; That
5he safest way.
Further from the Storm. The
effects Of the terrible wind storm of
4ast Thursday become more fearful as
the reports are received. adams
County seems to have suffered severe
y. Mr.. Chester, who drives the
Friendship stage, reports great devas-
tation along the road whittier his. line
extends. UPWARDS of thirty buildings