The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-03
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BUSY BEES IN A HOTEL.
! Drummcr's Lively Experience In a South
vest Georgia Town.

Drummcr's Lively Experience in a South
vest Georgia Town.
Did YOU ever see busy bees making
honey in hotel2" The question was
put by travelling man who had just
returned from q six weeks trip
through the southern portion of the
state.
II wouldn't have believed, he con-
tinued, "that people and bees could
live together, but have seen it with
my own eyes. and am convinced that
they can. Last week, as ! was max
ing my return trip to Savannah, ]
stopped over at Oglethorpe, and spent
the night in that industrious little town
at the Drummers' Home, the only ho-
tel there. It is kept BY Judge Willis,
the largest merchant and one OF the
wealthiest men in southwest Georgia
was sitting out on the front porch
just after supper, smoking a cigar,
and I kept hearing a rumbling noise,
as if water were pouring off some
place. The sound came and went at
intervals, and sometimes could hear
it distinct enough to almost tell, !
thought, what it was. From the ar
tesian well, situated in the center of
the town, runs small stream. 1t runs
down a hill over rocks and pebbles,
making rumbling noise like that of
a brook, and forms branch further
down the hill, and the rippling of the
little stream is heard at the business
| houses.
81 got up and walked down to the
south end of the porch, imagining
that could smell the sweet fragrance
of the violets and honeysuckles on the
branch, when a bug, as l supposed,
whizzed by my head. 1 threw my
hand up to my head when something
lighted on it. l wasn't frightened,
but skittish of bugs. Imade desper-
ate brush at. the insect with my left
hand and struck it. It did not fall
dead to the floor as I expected. Its
sting was in my hand. and the poor
thing could not get loose. The sensa-
ton was unnerving, and with an en-
ergetic use of my cap / got rid of It. It
was a bee. I sme1led him and his
scent was abroad. leaned up against
column to get breath after the expe-
rience and Jared the post consider
ably. stopped down to pick up nay
cap. and when / Strengthened up ]
ran my head into bee rest There
were more bees there than ever felt
before. They pitched on my face
and head, and as fast as one would
sting he gave place to the next one,
who gave me whack. ran into the
room, and in some way they got the
bees off of me. | remained over In
Oglethorpe two days--that was longe,
than expected to stay, but I wanted
to stay until my fondness for the
place 'swagged down to its natural
Rize
1.-Two days afterward, a few hour'
before was going to leave, though
l would take a last look at the 'fatee
spot ! found the column agains
which I leaned. and the first thing
that attracted my attention was thu
rumbling noise that heard two night
before. Looking at the top of the pos
I saw a bunch of bees that would
have filled my hat. They were going
in and out of crack in the post, jus
as they go in and out of gum. They
were making honey. I had made
discovery. I made known what l hat
seen to the proprietor of the house
He investigated it and found that tn
column, which is about ten feet higl
and eight inches in diameter, was full
OF honey up to within two feet of tn
! top. After calculating awhile, w
found that the column contained owe
! 200 pounds of honey. twas find o
between $50 and 800. Nobody ha'
ever seen the bees before, and, not
withstanding the rumbling noise ha'
attracted the attention of numbers o
people, they attributed the sound t
the branch just as I did. I was toll
that the bees would be robbed of thei
honey the next day, if would remain
over, but ! was two days behind, an
. had to pull out The two families liv
!, peaceably together now, am told, an
no hostility will be manifested unit
: the post gets full of honey, then Ia
whites will begin pillaging and rol
! bling. "-Savannah News