Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02
Gathered On The Battlefield

illustrating IN would be easy. with
Intelligence out appealing to any
OF the Bee. prehistoric event, to
bring together n large
number Of facts that would show that
the faculty OF adaptation and ntelli-
gent progress Is not reserved exclusive
~ for the human race Transported
to Australia or California, our black bee
completely alters her habits. After
one or two years. finding that summer
Is perpetual and flowers forever abuud-
ant. she will live from day TO day,
content to gather the honey and pollen
Indispensable for the days eonsump-
ton; and, her recent and thoughtful
observation triumphing over hereditary
experience, she VIII cease to make pro-
vision for her winter. Buchner men-
tons an analogous fact. which also
proves the bees adaptation to ciroum-
stances, not slow, secular, unconscious
and fatal but immediate and intellt-
gent In Barbados, the bees whose hives
are In the midst OF the refineries. where
they find sugar in plenty during the
whole year, will entirely abandon their
visits to the flowers. Let us lastly
recall the amusing contradiction which
the bees gave to two learned English
entomologists. Kirby aud Spence
SHOW us" said these, "a single case
In which, under stress of circumstan-
IS, the DetS nONe NHu llle lutb VI SAlo-
shutting clay or mortar for wax ana
propolis and we will admit their reason
ing faculties" Hardly had they eN-
pressed this somewhat arbitrary wish.
when another naturalist, Andrew
knight having coated the bark OF
certain trees with q sort of cement
made of wax and ,urpentine, observed
that his bees entirely ceased to gather
propolis aud used only this new and
unknown substance which they found
prepared for them In abundance in the
nelghborhood OF their home. More
over. In the practise of agriculture,
when pollen is scarce, the hee-keepef
has but 10 place at their disposal
few pinches of -four for them to un-
derstnnd at once that this can serve
the same purpose and be turned to the
same use as the dust of the anthers,
although its taste, smell and color are
absolutely different Maurice Maeter-
linck, in Harper's Magazine.
Speaking of It is a singular fact, af-
THE Reasoning fordlng occasion for In
OF Women. teresting speculation
that In the extraordin-
AIRY intellectual development of woman
which has taken place In the past CEN
fury casuistry seems 10 have been and
still to be ignored by tacit assent. We
use the term. not in its corrupted or
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