The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-01-01
BUSY BEES IN a AorEL-


lFmer's lively Experisnce in q South
wett GeorEiA Town.
I'D 50u ever Sc busy bees making
money N \ hotelf The question was
put oy q travelling man who had lust
returned from six weeks trim
through the southern portion of the
ssrte. s'''
II wouldnt have believed he con-
unued, .that people and bees coulel
1--we together, but have seen il with
my own eyes, and am convinced that
tney can Last week, as / was max
ing my return trip 70 Savannah,
stopped over at ethorpe, and spent
the night In that industrious little town
at the Drummers' Home. the onIy no.
tel there Il is kept by Judge Willis.
the largest merchant and one of the
wealthiest men IN southwest Georgia
WAS sitting out on the front porch
Jus. s1ter supper, smoking cigar,
ana 1 Kept hearing rumbling noise,
as II water were pouring off some
place The sound came and went at
intervals, and sometimes ! could hear
u distinct enough 70 almost tell u
thought, what It was. From the ar-
tesian well, situated. in the center of
the town, runs small stream. It runs
down a hill Syer rocks and pebbles,
making rumbling noise like that of
q brook, and forms branch further
down the hill; and the rippling of the
little stream Il heard at the business
at got up and walked down to the
south end Of the porch, imagining
that could smell the sweet fragrance
OF the yiolets and honeysuckles ON the
branch, when a bug, as / supposed.
whizzed by my head. / threw my
hand up TO my head when something
lighted on it = / wasn't frightened.
but skittish of bugs I, Imade desper-
ate brush at the insect with my left
hand and struck It Todd not fall
dead to the floor as expected. It's
sting was in my hand. and the poor
thing could not get loose. The sensa-
ton was unnerying, and with an en-
ergetic use of my cap l got rid of it. 1t
was a bee. / smelled him and his
scent was abroad. leaned up against
a column to get breath after the expe-
rience' and Jared the post consider
ably I stopped down TO pick up my
cap, and when I stTaightened up I
ran my head into a bee nest There
were more bees there than ever felt
before. They .pitchedf on my face
and head, and as fast as one would
sting he gave place to tho next one.
who gave me whack. ran into the
room, and in some way they got the
bees of OF me. remained over in
Oglethorpe two days-that was longer
than expected to stay, but / wanted
70 stay until my fondness for the
place 'swagged dewn' to its natural
size.
Two days afterward, few hours
before was goingfo leave, I Thought
II gVOuI6 totrea - Il.
spot found the column against
which I leaned. and the first thing
that attracted my attention was the
rumbling noise that heard two nights
before. Looking at the top of the post
! saw a bunch of bees that would
have filed my hat They were going
II sad out OF a crack In the post, Just
as they go in and out of gum. They
were making honey. had made a
discovery. made known what had
seen to the proprietor of the house.
he investigated it and found that the
column, which is about ten feet high
and eight inches in diameter, was full
Of honey up to within two feet of the
top. After calculating awhile, we
found that the column contained over
zoo pounds of honey. twas a find of
between $50 and 800 Nobody had
ever seen the bees before, and, not
withstanding the rumbling noise had
attracted the attention of numbers of
people, they attributed the sound to
the branch just as did. was told
that the bees would be robbed of their
honey the next day, if would remain
over, but | was two days behind, and
bad to pull OUT The two families live
peaceably together now. I am told, and
no hostility win be manifested until
the post gets full of honey, then the
whites will begin pillaging and rob-
bling. "-Sayannah News