The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-30
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KNEW OElE TWO things Wcll-hOury ant
AsreI!ty. He got and sold more hone,
from given number OF swN"ms of bees
Ahai, any other man in his native State
no many reports Of county and State
fairs still prove. aEd his money was thf
gWeGt st all c!cHTGat that over reached
tho markets ~ Bostnn and Now York
he knew what tO plant and when tC
plant It in order TO have Il great de;sI
besides chancG bloul0 for his bees TO do.
pen upon, so besides getting more
bDsey than anyone else he never lost q
Bw.srio Of bcca by Is Gtliko against poOl
hzDvsing ground and u consequent mi
GraMon in search CT better.
AS 10: heredity, VIII. human nature
WIS almost al lie found worth studying
utter he lett school. An early copy III
Ass writing book at schoCl had In
fCy1pe1 hin, chat The nohlcat study OF
mankind is mun,' and his father had
informed him, as The result OF personal
OK @rjence, that whoever had lunde I'D
That lins had y very level head, SO
Jnsk had successfully and successfully
SHED up every man il The village before
Ao himself was old enough to follow O
ps0v, As he gained years ard knowl-
edge, he was Taught by reason and in
Btanet that woman. being OF the same
Dpctjas as man, was also a noble study.
&c !o1n informed himself, with some
,1urpy Sc and not 1t little Indignation,
that woman WIZ; Tho harder study of
D,G two; at least. he made more mis-
takes than had been his lot while con-
dot
hlt na i've village. III, same rules did
not seem TO work; the girls who ought
10 be incest. according to masculine
standards, did not aEount to anything;
at aiy rate, they Woro not particularly
Gresting, yet othors, whose faces and
ss,:s tIes wouldn't have promised any
thin in " man, proved delightful COM
g1ny. In his desire to study more
carefully he ,aado his acquaintance as
SlOS9 as possible, and some girls were
40 nistaken as TO his Intentions that,
when disappointed. they hal their
Saihers or big brothers call Jack to ac-
sGun in q way thst caused his bones
tVache for somo weeks. His attempts
h explain were laughed to sCorn or
'svcrn at, SO when hie third difficulty Of
the kind was mnnifcs;tly impending, tho
well-u Gaming but laundering youth
BhO0k the dust Of his native town from
his feet, and madc haste to bury him
BcH end his sorrows in Boston.
But change OF base did rot change his
business and montai bent. Although he
took the first business chauco that
altered, he often made q great dctour on
his way between Office and boarding
house to take in Inc streets Of commits
D'OD merchants who dealt in honey. and
DO fingered critically and lovingly over
the samples exposed to wow He
utnaied people, TOO. though efar off. He
old not know the family history OF any
ono whom he met IN business or on the
BtTests, SO he had to content himself
wi h studying physiosnory. There
must have been method in his madness,
Tor his employers found him quito use
ful in sizing up new customers. and
ne had promising fut9ro before him,
when q chance newspaper paragraph
s;ans d him to leave ct short notice and
hurry 10 the South. IL was not cues
zion Of herodity that caused this moyo.
Is Was the report of q now wrinkle in
Tho honey business. Up In the New
Hamshre hills, whore Jack was
bon and brought ur, the sum
nlcrs arc short and tho winters
lany, SO tho bees hove Il short wording
sssason and must have a large part OF |
aheir harvest lett ior their own sus-
tahance during tho winter. Here came
q story, however, Of fellow who put |
up - lot OF hives on Il big scow, took |
Thorn away down the Mississippi below |
heH Orleans. about the end OF Fcbru-
nry, where everything came early into |!
Bloom, and had himself loved about a |
hundred miles each wco.l, thus follow
Ing the blooming season and giving tho |
Mrs The best chance that nature could |
pEUVide for creatures whose instincts t |
Was TO work so long as there was any
thing to work upon. Tho nIan sounded |
sensible: ii any Onn could make money
IN that way he, Jack Brewster, with his
MnCHualed knowledge CT boNs and their
ways, could make more. Three weeks
MFR the idea struIi him JACK had
BtCw we'll loa0od VITA hoH-hivcs and
vas moored TO the ,tevac Of the lower
mississippi, within easy scent of
great orange grove, ard wondering why
he had never had The sense to think out
aac new SIS en- for himself.
TIE bees attended strictly to bust
nc 8, 70 did Jack, So long as thcro was
anything lor him 10 DO, yet he found
west OF his timo al his disposal and
nothing TO DO wiih IT, At first, as he
Bi.jl knew everything. he determined to
80 missionary wool; and teach the na-
tiyes everything they ucoicd to know.
yhey weren't u bit liEo New Hampshire
pcople and didn't DO anything in tho
way he had been taught to do it, which,
al course was tho only proper way. \
R1w cndeavor1 in this direction taught
MIN great deal. al much cost Of pa
H.nce TO the good-uaturcd natives; he
speedily learned. too, that Now Hamp-
shire dash aud nervousness were en-
lrs]y out oil place IS he expected to
kstp his healih aud temper. so no
AoUpped back INTO hts ole habit OF study
anw human nature. Not many people
sise directly on the banks of the Missis-
nlppl, and the few who arc ttcrc know
I'll about their ncishbora like the in
ssxh tants of small nciGh horhoods else