The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-18

NevspFa declared the ~t3do1.
Mrs. Feauinax. ordinarily the most e1niable
Of women. yyssroused on this subject to an
ohsainacy which could only be characterized
as vtnaietiye. And Mr.. Ezra Mingden was
ten times as lad as BIS neighbor.
''Thzt woman is q dragozess, Hal, he said
70 hisnspheg. GShe keepsthese bees simply
to annoy ma. / hate bees Bees hate me-
| Every time walk there get stung."
'Bnt, uncle, Jon shouldn't brand1sh your
cane about So reasoned Harry. Its sure
to garage lem"
al don't hraasiish It On the wonan's side of
the fence. liner abomiR2sle buzzfng insects
persist In tteerazsing in my garden, am not
bound to prossct myselff" sputtAred Alr.
Mi1gdeI-
'SCSan't yea walk somewhere e6eP
uCan't She put her bees enmsw mere ehseP
ssBut. uncle, ell this seems such a trivial
affair"
Trivial, indeed If you'd been stung on
your nose and your ear and yorr eyeiids and
everywhere else, would you call 1t trlvlall
never eat honey, AID I've always considered
! besz to be azl ebsurdIy rverrsted sscsicn of
| entomology. What basiEess hsve her bees to
! be devcuI1ng ali my fiowers9 How would she
! like It herselfgn
! Harry Nlngden smiled TO see the degree of
| FURY to which tho old Gentleman was gradu-
| ally working himself -. he was already in
/ Jack TreveIyn's ccn6,b.nce, and thus, to a
certain extent, enjoyed the unusual epportu-
/ mtg Of seeing both sides of the question
! Look here, STRIP sail he; 'Edid you ever
/ hear OF the doctrine Of simiia Simiibus Gu
rantrT'
! "I5a 2" said Mr. 1Iingden-
"Why don't you set up a colony Of bee
! hives YOURSELF II her bees rife your flowers
/ let yours go foraging into her garden. Let
her see, as you suggest. how she would like it
herself Put row OF hives as close to your
side of the fence as you can get it. If they
/ fight, let 'em fight. Bees are an uncomn1ouly
warlike race, I'm told. If they agree, what's
! to prevent 'em bringing half the honey into
/ your hivesfn
! By Jover' said Mr.. Mingden, starting to
! his feet, 81 never thought OF that. I'll do It'll
! I wonder where the deuce they sell best
| There isn't moment to be lost"
AZ think know Of a place where could
buy half dozen hives" said Harry.
/ "The gentleman wants to buy some bees"
/ said Fleda. Dear mamma, do sell yoursi
/ we can easily get all ths honey we WANT
| But Pve kept bees all my life, said Mrs
/ Fenwick, piteously.
! Eyes, but they're 5uch care, mamma,
/ now that you are no longer young, and you
/ are hardly able to look after them in swarm
! ing time, andn- she dared not allude to the
/ trouble they were making in neighborly re-
/ lstIous, but glided swiftly on to the next
/ vantage point}-''r5 wild be just exactly the
/ money I want to finish the sum for my we'd
/ ding dress"
/ Mrs. Fenwick's face softened; she kissed
! Flsda's earmine cheek, with deep sigh.
/ 'SFor your sake, then, darling" said she.
/ 'sBut l wouldn't for the world have Mr..
/ ALingden think that would concede single
! inch to-
81 don't know that it is any of Mr.. Ming
denis business said Fleds, quietly.
! The next day Mr. Mingden trotted down
! to look al his new possessions
! ''Too bad that Harry had to go back TO
/ town before he had a chance to see how the
! bee hives looked in their place" soliloquized
! be. "a capital idea, that Of his. 'Sinilia
similibus curantur,' ha, ha, ha! Well, 1 guess
! it'll be pretty much that! I wonder what
the old lady viii say when she sees the oppo-
! sition apiary! Won't she be furiousI Ha,
| ha, hap
! he adjusted his spectacles as he fastened
7
/ had heretofore been the battle ground. There
/ was the row of square, white hives on his
/ side Of the fence-but lol nnd beholdI the
bench that had extended On the other side
was vacant and deserted
"Why!" he exclaimed, coming TO an abrupt
! standstiu What has shs done with her
| beesg'
"sold 'em all to you, sir" said Jacob, the
! gardener. "And a fne lot they bel And not
an unreasonable price neither. Mr. Harry
/ looked ar.er that Eisself."
Il hope you'll be very kind to them, siri"
uttered soft, pleading little voice, and Ellie
/ ia Fenwick's golden head appeared just above
the pickets of the fence. "And never knew
until Just now that it was you who bought
them"
"Humphl" said Mr.. Mingden.
"But, I hope, after this" kindly added Fqe-
da, that We shall never have any moro trou-
ble-as neigbbors, I mean. 1t has made me
/ very unhappy, and"-
The blue eyes, the faltering voice, melted
| the old gentleman at last.
''Then don't LOT it make you unhappy any
longer, my dear, " said he, reaching over the
pickets to shake hands with the pretty special
/ paader "Ia1g tie beeSl After al, what
difference does it make which side OF the
fence they're on2 So you're the little school
teacher, are youl Tn blessed if ! don't wish
I was young enough 10 so to school to you
myselfI'
Flsda ran back to the house in secret Glee.
- DO believe" she thought, 1.-THE Montague
and Capulet feui is healed at last! And DO
believe Oznittlng her blonde brows that Jack
/ told Young Ming6en all about she bees and
that that is the solution Of this mystery
But thst evening there came a present OF
white grapes from the MiESden greenhouses
to Mrs. Fenwicl, with the cd gentlemal's
card.
'He must have been very much pleased to
Get the bees" thought the old lady. IF l
had only known he hzod bees, should have
thoughr very differently Gf him. All this
shows how slow we should be to believe serv-
ants gossip and ueic4 boThood tattlel Ii l
had known he was tho purchaser l should
have declined TO negotiate; but perhaps every
thing has happened for the best!"
Jack Trevel~n thought 50 when he stood up
in the village church a fortnighV from that
time. beside far vision in glttering white
six ana a ven rha1 va, like crystalized frost
work. Aud the Strangest part Of all was
that OH llr Gsngden was there 70 give the
bride away!
II taze all the credit to myself" mischiev-
ously whispered Harry MiIgden, the "best
/ man" ''But Ira AFRAID is IS easier 70 set ma
chinerv IL motion than TO stop 1t afterwards
And its just possible that ! may have an
aunt -ia-lav YET
Stranger things have happened said the
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