Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-30


insects. For this reason bees should be
packed in snuff or fine cut tobacco in the
fall. This nauseates the moth and dis
courages him. Great care should be used
not to let the bees out too early in the
spring. A good writer says that frozen
fruit will still remain on the trees in the
spring, while it contains a certain amount
OF sweet, it is liable to ferment and cause
widespread collie in the hive, followed by
cholera infantum and coma.
Llmeus saws that nothing is more pitiful
than the picture of 15, 900 or 16, 600 colicky
bees suddenly called forth in the dead Of
night, running hither and thither looking
for hot cloths and Jamaea ginger, after
eating too heartily of frozen apple juice.
Bees swarm about 10 A. NJ. or 8 p M. and
enjoy doing SO on Sunday, if possible.
Selecting hot Sabbath and waiting pa
tiently until the farmer has shaved one side
of his face and lathered the other, the bees
decide that they will swarm. The farmers
wife notices it while she is in the garden
getting sprig of caraway to take to meet
ing. She calls Henry and tells him
THE BEES ARE swARMING.
He starts out with new hive. and, look
ing up in the air, he falls over croquet set
and injures himself His wife says:
Henry, you ought to put on that mosquito
bar arrangement made for you the other
day. They are real cross this morning and
they will certainly sting you if you don't Z"
Git out with your pesky nonsense" he
straightway doth reply. II never put naw-
thing on me before and won't do it now"
But, Henry, they are SO ieverish to-day,
and you have got your other clothes on,
SO they won't know you. Do try it this
time"
So he wraps up his head in a green mos
quito net and puts on a pair OF cowhide
mittens. The bees allght on tall elm tree
and he gets a ladder up there against it.
Then he slowly ascends the tree with bee
hive under his arm. Just before he putaon
the mosquito net he took large chew of
tobacco. He now wishes that he had not
People begin to go by on their way to meet
ing and BEE him up in the tree with large
green head on him and hot leather mittens.
They speak to him but he cannot reply, be-
cause his mouth is full of tobacco. it is
very hot, indeed. The sun pours down
through the hot leaves and the breeze is
taking much needed rest He gets up in
the top of the tree and looks like new style
of lizard.
WHY HENRY GETS ANGRY.
Sabbath school boys wearing chip hats
faced with gingham pause on their way to
the house of worship and watch him. He
reaches ont to scoop in a handful of the
brown fuzzy insects, but the leather mitts
smell strangely to them. They do not recog-
nize the proprietor by his paws and his odor.
Three or four bees fall down inside those
mittens and feeling that they must defend
themselves, make hot highway across the
back of his hand. Then Henry yells and
drops the hive on the bible class. Some
bees get under his green vail and his hair,
and finding that they cannot get out, they
sink on him with their little, heated hypo-
dernics and he says things which bring the
blush to the features of his sad wife.
For days afterward they sit opposite each
other at the table and do not say anything.
He looks at her savagely with one eye, the
other being closed by its creditors. 1t is
three days before he will even ask her to
pass the butter, he is SO mad
Bees are very industrious, but fool them
selves by accumulating more than they
need, forgetting that they will soon die and
leave their substance for the use of those
who did not earn it. We should learn a
lesson from the bee and not run the matter
of Industry into the ground. We should
not strive to accumulate so much that il
will prevent our enjoyment during our life
time and only enrich the idlers after death.
Bees should remember that their shrouds
will not hold honey. The bee could learn
much rom man, think, in this way.
BILL NYE