Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-09-20
BUsR BEES INA HOTEL.



Southwest Georgia Town.
"Dld you ever see bees making hon,
In a hotelP" Tho question was asked
q travelling man who had Just return,
from a six weeks trip through the sout'
ern portion Of tho state.
"l wouldn't have believed, he cOutl
ued, "that people and bees could i've
gether, but / have seen it with my ov
oyes, and l am convinced that they O.
The other week az / was making myf
turn trip 10 Savannah. | stopped over
Oglethorpo, and / spent tho night ia 81
Industrious little town az tho Drummei
home, the only hotel there. Il is ke.
By Judge Willis, the largest mercho
and one OF the wealthiegt men In Soui
west Georgia. was sitting out on {,
front porch Just after supper, smoking
cigar, and 1 kept hearing a rumblii
noise. as II water were pouring OF sou
place. The sound came and went at
tervals, and sometimes / could hear
distinct enough 70 almost tell, I though
what ii was. From the artesian We
situated In the center Of the town, ruI
"a small stream. IL runs down h
over rocks and pebbles, making 0 rur
bling noise ike that OF q brook, ar
forms o branch further down tho b..
and the rippliug OF the little stream
heard at tho business houses,
got up and walked down 20 the sout
end OF the porch, imagining that I cou'
smell the sweet fragrance OF tha viOle
and hOnovsuckle8 on the branch, when
bug, as / supposed, whlZZed by nv hea
l threw my hand up to my head whC
something lighted on it. WASN'T frigh
RnnA hfrH .t.I#Hfah HN hH#H. HFuAp
desperate brush nt the insect with n
left hand and struck It. II did not ff
dead to the floor as I expected Il
sting was in my hand and the poor thiI
could not get loose. Tho sensation ",
unnerving, and with an energetic use
my cap / got rid OF &c. IL was q bee.
leaned up against @ column % get brea
alter the experience and Jared the pu
considerably. Istooped own 20 pick
my cap, and when l Strengthened UP
ran my head into o boo nest. The
We're moro bees than / over felt beiOi
They pitched on my fac8 and head, a.
as fast a3 ono would sting no gave pla
60 the next one, who gQyo mo q Wla.
/ ran into the room, and IL some 81
they got the bees OFF of mo.
1.-Two days aftarw8rd, few hours D.
AbAt N.t" BN.EH.- -N lNasNH r. .|AH.| HraA.
would take o last look at tho .Itad spo
l found tho column against which
leaned, and the .irst thing that attract.
my attention was the rumbling mo-.
that hcoud two nights before. Loo6u
at the TOP of the post saw O bunch
bees that would have filed my ha
They were making honey. had made
discovery, I made known what l b.
seen TO the proprietor Of tho house.
investigated it and found that the C,
umn, which IS about ten feet high a.
eight inches in diameter was full
honey up TO within two feet of the 90
After calculating awhile, wo found th
the column contained over 200 pounds
honey. 1t was a find OF between $50 an
500. Nobody lad ever seen the be,
before, and, notwithstanding the run
bling noise had attracted the attention
numbers OF people, they attributed Il
sound to the branch Just us did. tt
two families live peaceably togeth
now, am told, and no hostility will
manifested until the post gets full
honey, then the whites will begin pilla
ing and robbing.