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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
The Queen Bee.

The truth il that throughout all the
wonder workings of the beehive the
queen is little more than an instru-
mpnt kind of an automaton, merely
doing what the workers compel her
to do. They are the real queens in
the hive. and the mother bee is
the real subject. The workers have
made her for their own wise purpose.
Just as they make the comb and the
honey to store in it. The egg she is
hatched from is in no way different
from any worker egg. If you take
the ordinary cell it will hatch out a
common fer1le worker bee, and an
egg transferred ron worker comb to
Il queen cell becomes Il full grown
queen. Thousands and thousands of
worker eggs are laid in hive during
the season. and each of those could be
made into il queen if the workers
chose. But the worker egg is laid in
a small cell. and the larva is bred on
bare minimum of food at the least
space to the hive. while when Il new
queen is wanted Il cell as big as your
finger tip is built. and the larva is
stuffed like Il prize pig through all its
five days of embryo life until. with
unlimited food and time and room to
grow in il comes ont at last Il perfect
mother bee.-Nan Norden's Magazine
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
MEN OF ACTION.
eerved as an Illustration For the Pro-
fessor's Lecture.


fessor's Lecture.
"How did you like Professor New
man?" one of the summer residents of
Willowby asked Mr.. Hiram Gale. IL
saw his name on the list of lecturers
in your last winters course"
Mr.. Gale stroked his chin reflective
ly
"Well, some thought he was kind o.
stiff in his speech at first, but | tell We
what happened:
He got kind O worked up telling us
what men of action meant what the
Cover ment o these United States was
doing in Alasky. the Philippines, an
so on. an he stepped Il mite too nigh
the aidge O the platform an lost his
balance. But us he begun to fall Sam
Hobart an Pick Willis. that were in
the front seat, stood up an kctched
him. one by each arm an brought him
up standln'. He buged out at the
knees for Il minute, but nothin' to
speak of.
An, says Pick to him. The last
word YOU spoke was "omnvorous"
ull ulfDDP DtlNIt YOU lllOulll dSdlN
you'll give us some kind of a hint
what it means
The professor looked from Pick to
sam an back to Pick again. kind O.
dazcd. an then he begun to laugh.
"'YOu let me mount he says an
I'll see to it that the rest q my talk
is such you won't need a dictionary
An he KEEP his promise
Yes. sir, he gave US a fine talk
after That. an he's comm again. We
had him TO breakfast next mornin',
and my wife said She wouldn't want
to hear anybody talk more sensible or
act more common an friendly than he
did. But there was Il piece i'm the Sell
tinel next week referrin to Pick an
Sam as 'WilloWby's men of action
an | reckon the name II stick to en-
long as they live."-Youth's Compan-
ion
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
ManqIed in Auto.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan 10. Frank and
Harold George, brothers, and their
friend w. B. Garner, three of the
most prominent young men in Georgia,
were instantly killed this afternoon
when the touring car in which they
were speeding out on the Peachtree
road, was torn to pieces by trolley
car.
w. N. George, the father of the
George boys, and E. S. Gable, who
were also in the auto, were seriously in
iured and may not recover. Henry
Johnson, the motorman on the trolley
car, was badly injured. The two George
boys and Garner were frightfully man
gled, parts of their bodies being scat
tered for fifty feet
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
Broker is Knocked Down and In
iured by Autom obile.

While crossing Third avenue at Fifty
first street recently Edward S. Kelly,
aged twenty-six, broker, living at
No. 10S East Eighty-sixth street, was
struck and knocked down by an auto
owned and operated by Louis Bratey,
No. 1872 East Thirty-sixth street.
DR.. Hanson of Flower Hospital,
patched up Kely's lacerated face. Pa
trolman Cuson took Bratey to the East
Fifty-frst street station and, as Kelly
refused to make complaint, charged
Bratey with reckless driving. He was
bailed out Immediately after and will be
arraigned in the Yorkville Court this
morning Kelly was able to go home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21

The showing made by the National
Highways Association of the casualties
due to the recklessness of chauffeurs
cannot fail to call attention to a preva-
lent evil and suggest remedial measures.
The exhibit relates more particularly to
the cities in the interior of the state.
That even worse condit tons have pre-
vailed in New York city and the imme-
date vicinity every one knows. 1t is
also somewhat reassuring that an appre-
ciable check has resulted from the more
stringent legislation that was the re-
suit of agitation which commanded at
ton at Albany. But it is clear that the
speed-crazed chauffeur has not yet been
reduced to proper subsection and been
taught adequate regard for the rights
and safety of others. He has himself
too blame if the people insist upon more
stringent measures. He must be i'm
pressed with the fact that human life is
to sacred to be sacrificed through in
diligence in 'joy rides" or insoent dis
regard of the reasonable rules of the
road. If he refuses to learn that lesson
he must be punished accordingly. All
fair-minded automobilists, who are will
ling to concede the same privileges they
seek for themselves, agree as to this.
The reckless chauffeur must be ruled
off the road. Troy Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21

Don't you ever put the baby to
bed" an aStonishcd visitor ut last eX-
claimed after the better part of the
evening had worn away and the child
Of six months was still sitting up, goo
ing cheerfully. The young mother
laughed. "Oh. yes" she explained
with serene wisdom. we put baby
to bed Mt - D. m. and he sleeps until
J. IN. Then he has his bath and goes
cut in the gocart and sleeps most of
the afternoon. Haven't you known
many mothers who simply sacrifice all
their time 10 the babies while they are
littlet 1 made UP my mind before
baby came that he would have to con-
form to our ways. not we conform to
his He has just as much sleep as ba-
bipS who 20 to bed at i and sleep until
t. ami he doesn't interfere with our
evenings. WE can take him with us
when we go out or we can 20 feeling
that he vii hc perfectly happy while
we are away. because he wont cry for
mother until midnight. We're regular
night hawks, and 50 is baby"
The visitor was spcechless.
Don't y,u think it's a good sys
tenn the mother continued 1--WE
think it is splendid
Il think" the visitor answered in
noncommittal tone. that it would take
a New York mother to invent the sys
tcm."-New York Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
Record Offer for a Racehorse.

New York, Dec. Is. The enormous
inquire of $3.50, 600 has been refused for
Bayardo, the champion English three
year-old, and as far as turf his history
goes this is the record offer for a race
horse. Bayardo headed the list of win
ming horses on the English turf with a
total of $133, 995, and as a two-year-old
he made nearly $67, 600, which brings
his total figure to date to over 5000, 900.
This, added to the price refused for him
now, leaves him the most valuable horse
ever foaled.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21

In this connection it is interesting to
note the number of team and street
car accidents in Boston for the same
period, as compiled from the police rec
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
LOST

Certificate No 143 for shares of the
capital stock of the Brandon Italian Mar
BILE Co., standing in the name of
Charles NJ. Wilds. If found, please re
turn to Office of that company, Middle
bury, VT
ELIZABETH p. WILDS,
SOPHIE +. WILDs,
2t5 PERCIVAL WILDS.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
FRIDAY, JANUARY FL, 1910.
ACCIDENTS PAST YEAR.
Report Gives S4 Persons Killed
and 989 Injured

The reports of the Massachusetts
have been many automobile accidents
in the State during the past year Ac
cording to the reports received in the
office of the commission there have been
1870 collisions, ffty-four people have
been killed and 9S9 injured. Of the
fify-four killed, nineteen We're occupants
of automobiles, thirty-two were pedes-
trians and three were bicycle riders.
OF the people injured, 339 were oc-
cupants of machines and the balance
were pedestrians, occupants of carriag-
es and street car passengers. Of the
collisions, S26 occurred in the day time
and 3O4 after dark; S16 occurred on city
or town streets and 3l4 in open country.
The commission is required to revoke
the license Of any operator who is con-
victed in court of operating recklessly
or in such a manner as to endanger the
safety of the public, or while under the
influence of liquor. If an operator is
convicted in the lower court and ap-
peals, the commission is required to sus-
pend his license until he is acquitted or
unless otherwise ordered after an in
vestigation or hearing.
1t has been the custom of the commits
sion to write cautionary letters to ope-
ratOrs who were several times convict
cd of ,7oi,,o,, Offopcac aUoiOct tho auto
laws 1t has also been the practice to
suspend the license of any operator who
has been convicted three times Of viola
ton Of the speed laws. A law which
went into effect Jan. /, requires
such action The following are the
causes Of suspension and revocation of
licenses during 1909 and the number of
cases under each:
Reckless operation 81
Operating while under the influence
of liquor %
Accidents resulting in death A
Improper operation 10
Refusing to stop after accident
Convicted three times Of over
speeding II
Operating without the owners
consent 13
Sundry offenses 10
Total 200
In this connection it is interesting to
note the number of team and street
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-21
The Rulinn Paesinn.

y certain arithmetician is so devoted
to figures that when he has no prob
lem before him he casts NJ his eyes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-23

our mothers prepared hasty corn
bread for their hungry boys.
Indians in Camp.
In the early 4O's there was a camp
of 500 Pottawattamie Indians over
by Clancy lake. One day, I think
Sunday. l went with father and
Uncle John McGreer to see the In
dams. The name of their chief was
"Shabbona." You young people may
not all know how the pipe of peace"
was presented and used. The Indian
would take the big ugly, dirty look
ing pipe stem out of his mouth and
pass it TO his guest, who would take
a pull and puff and pass it back.
Father and Uncle McGreer had taken
their peace token but Shabbona
grunted his displeasure when | re-
fused the pipe of peace. l had been
observant of something else going
on. A squaw had singed the hair
off a skunk, had boiled it, stirring
in flour and made dumplings and
some Indians were greedily eating
the connection. Minus the major
part only of the hair. they certainly
had all the benefit of whatever was
life sustaining virtue in that pole
cat The squaw had not removed
the entrails. nor cleaned it. l was
feeling just squeamish enough that
if l had taken that peace pipe into
my mouth l would have wanted to
wash my mouth and inside with a
mill dam full of water. The cat"
had hardly been boiled long enough
I'll,
able taste stomach of those Indians
Waugh.
But my friends, such stories as the
last one are choking. To continue
might present some event of interest
but l have been nearly long enough
for your patience. l was married to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-23

Miss Ruth Thornton Jan. 25. 1861.
She died April p. 1890. We had
ter children Three OF them are
now living. At present ] reside with
my daughter. Mrs. James McIntire,
or Endalusia.
Ny brother. Frank. was in Com
rany E. 18TH Iowa infantry In the
civil war. ne died in Eliza township
iu 1902. ] served in Company 1, 2Sth
Illinois consolidated infantry. My
brother Charles NJ, was in the same
company He died at Andalusia I'm
1907. Others in that company from
the west end Of the county were:
Joel L. Ohaver, Lorenzo VI. Sewer,
Thomas Brown. Wellington Bailey.
William G. Bailey. Jacob J.. Bill. De-
wit Dover Isaac Foster. Samuel Hen
del. David Hendel, Chris Johnson,
William LeQuatt, Howard McMicken.
James McMillen. Manassah Reeves,
Andrew J. Reeves. David L. Ripley,
William b. Smith, James Sedan. Will
s. u Tayne. Andrew Vance. Oscar F.
Weis. Peter Hesser. James ID. Rey-
nolds. Enoch Warman. From Eliza.
in Mercer county: Samuel Beardsley.
Bradford Whaley. Perry Wbaley. The
late John A. Steckman Of Andalusia
was a member of the company. Be-
fore the war our captain, Thomas s.
Dougherty, taught school at Illinois
City. w. n. JOHNSO.,.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-23
"reminiscences of the Lower End of the County

was going back TO Indiana. I was s
years old, and alone on the prairie
with the drove of sheep. But l con-
trived to halt and get them to grazing
until the folks came up. and father
sent Henry Mardock, who was with
us. after the man. Henry, on horse
back. soon overlook the man and
brought him back.
The first winter, 1St0-41, We lived
with grandma McGreer. She had two
houses. That winter there was very
deep snow. Uncle John Boruff and
father would put me into a four-bushel
grain sack and drag me over the snow
about the cabins and stable, so as TO
make PATHS; and I enjoyed the fun.
My assigned task was to care for the
sheep. Part of the winter time l had
no shoes. and would chase the sheep
10 their feet and where they had laid
/ would warm my feet at the warm
spot in the snow or on the ground.
Then | would take a race and chase
up another bunch of sheep. If this was
a trifie unrestful to he sheep, it serv-
ed TO keep me busy and TO keep my
bare feet warm. Sometimes the wolves
would attack the sheep. II was then
that Little Nick" that was mel
would skip for the cabin. When on
our way to Illinois mother once cried
bitterly because we had to leave a
sick wether where the wolves would
surely get it.
Made Lucky Trade.
Mother had brought from Indiana
two webs of wooden jeans. She trad
ed a suit pattern to Major DeGraff,
who brought me a pair of green raw
hide shoes from Chicago to pay for the
suit. When the shoes got wet they
would harden, like sheet iron. and
would grease and pound them; but
that annoyance was better than going
barefoOted. Herman DeGraff and his
sister, who live west of the Buffalo
Prairie store. are son and daughter of
Sle major stiMf
There was abundance of deer. |
remember that one day father shot
five. He got all of them On the east
of us lived John McGreer; John Boruff
on the south 21h miles; Daniel Stroup
adjoined farms on the east in Mercer
county: Dennis Pullen on the west in
Rock Island county. On south two
miles lived "Felty" Boruff and his
father, Valentine Boruff. On Eliza
creek lived Martin Bear; on west,
John Schance, very hairy man; his
face and entire person being thickly
covered with hair. Further due west
was Miles Drury, who owned a sec
ton; and south of Drury was John
CLANCY, who at one time owned $500
acres. On northwest of Clancy was
Isaiah Drury, father of all the Drury's,
and his son, Silas, who owned wooden
carding and fulling mill. a grist mill
and a saw mill. Once father sent me
to Drurys mill with a grist of wheat
astride one of the horses, The mill
was closed and business seemed to be
suspended. l did not go to the house,
but came home; and father came near
spanking me. However. he hustled me
back to the mill; and then | hunted
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-23

e. y. Johnson, at a meeting of the
Andalusia Memorial association held
recently, read the following remin-
iscenses:
l am a resident of Andalusia, but
my recolIections of early days are
more confined 10 the lower end of the
county. Every one of these recitals of
events of early days is likely to con
.ain some element of information that
will become valuable toward the max
ing of local history. I have been deep
ly interested in the reminiscent es con
tributed, and as I am informed that
The association viii entertain the story
CT early times from anywhere in the
west or lower end of the county, I re
specially present my recollectiOns of
happenings in the '40s in Drury town
ship. this county, and in Eliza town
ship, Mercer county.
l was born in Union county, Indiana,
Jan. IA, 1884 My father, NJ H. John
son, came to Illinois with his family
in 1910, and settled in now Drury
township. this county. part of the tract
being in Eliza township, Mercer cOun-
ty. Ny brother. John Johnson, resides
on part of the old homestead, Oh the
county line" road. some six miles
west of the Buffalo Prairie store.
In Dutch" wagon.
We would now regard big Penn
svlvania Dutch wagon a veritable
curiosity. One great wheel would be
nearly as heavy as all four wheels of
the modern wagon The top box of
4 modern farm wagon would be a toy
compared with the long, tall paneled
sides of the ark of bed or box of one
Of those old wagons. Into wagon of
that sort father loaded mother and
her kid" CmyselO, and our few be
lodgings. The wagon was drawn by
two sturdy mares. Father drove on
foot between &C and 20 head of sheep.
The long journey over prairies, low
lands, across streams, was no reCrea-
ton jaunt, or picnic On night a wind
storm tore loose the pins of our tent,
and the heavy rain which came with
it completely soaked our clothing and
bedding. The next morning father
had us partly thawed and dried at Il
tavern. One morning father sent a
man with us ahead with the sheep, and
I was sent with the man. When we
rea ched a place where another road
came into the one we travelled, the
man took that road back, saying he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-23

up Silas. who soon ground the grist.
1t turned out that the mill had been
closed because OF the arrival of Mr..
and Mrs. Silas' first baby.
[ think it was in the SOS when a
German man was killed at the Musca-
tine ferry. operated by John Phillips,
and which created as much local eX-
element as news from the seat of
war in the COS But for a while dur
ing the 4O's Reynolds Drury ran a
skin ferry at Drury's landing. And
one /. B. Essex plated a town site on
the bluff above the landing, and named
the place Quebec" l don't think Es-
sex ever sold a lot. Anyhow We heard
nothing more of Quebec"
The First school.
Our school teachers were paid by
subscription. Uncle McGreer took a
log out of one side of one of his cabins
and placed a wide board opposite the
opening: the board served for a desk.
Glass was tackled over the opening; if
we broke a glass we tackled on oiled
paper. For a time the cabin had been
used for a sheep house. and on being
converted into "a school house, that
cabin received the sobriquet, the
Sheep Pen seminary" and the school
kept there was known as "the Sheep
Pen Seminary school" A Mr. Dud-
ley taught there a while He was an
Englishman. He was cross-eyed and
defective in vision. The poker used at
the fireplace was a stout wood stick.
The girls would Contrive to place it
by the fireplace with the smutty end
up. Mr.. Dudley would stir the fire,
and rub his hands over his face and
hair. and he would soon be a sight
to behold. Then some one of the girls
would tell him his face was smutty.
and he would wash Once our teacher
wanted to go to Muscatine. We had
a donkey, and father told him to ride
it. At meeting a team about a mile
away, the donkey wheeled around, and
with ears fattened back, and braying,
rushed back to the stable. The teach
er preferred to walk That intractable
donkey would occasionally get some
body into an awkward situation One
Sunday | suppose | would have been
greatly ashamed if | had not been too
well tickled to consider the gravity of
the situation. A Mr.. Pomeroy, who
think lived in the locality of now Pom
eroy church. was holding a meeting in
Moses Reeds blacksmith shop. | had
rode the donkey over that way, and
the beast, seeing the people and the
open door, turned down it's ears, and
braying its best. rushed into the door
way just as Mr.. POmeroy had said
that he would preach from the text,
Listen to the voice that We now hear"
did not say l could not stop the don
key did not try.
few years later a school house
was built at the southwest corner of
Dave Pullens place. Foster Water
man taught there. He was, afterward,
a lawyer at Aledo.
a Notable Celebration.
Once. during the 40's. there was a
big Fourth of July celebration at the
Upper Yellow Banks" or New Bos-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-23

and ma'ams and granddads and
grandma ans, when they were young
they were no better than they are
now. We may proudly present the
record of pioneer days. the hardships,
the endurance involved in building
up a new country; the social life of
the young men and women of that
time-and this all as an examplar> in
making good citizenship. But We
need not undertake TO lead our young
people to believe that we were per-
lection; they know better. Howev-
er, l won't tell of naughty things by
anybody, when | was not equally con-
cerned as party to the mischief. It
was Dan Stroup and myself who
were responsible for the smoking out
episode at the school house as re-
lated. And l was directly RESPONSE
BILE. though not intentionally, for a
bunch of dancers having their cloth
ing spattered with buttermilk. Jake
Alberson and Polly Knapp had got
married. the Unfair was at John
Fishers. There was pie and cake,
and other goody goodies in the cabin
loft. and some of us boys concluded
it would be a great joke to capture
it before the time came for the or
der of its distribution. In the for
aging party was Andrew and Elmer
Pratt. Andrew Wood, Will Mallett.
Lewis McGreer. Dave Pullen. Dan
Rentch, Dan and Jake Stroup, Jesse
Love and myself. The loft was reach
ed from the inside of the cabin by
a ladder. Jesse Love was stationed
as guard at the bottom of the ladder
and outside the boys boosted me on
their shoulders to a hole in the gable.
Mrs. Fisher was suspicious. She
would have assembled the ladder. but
Love held her back until she heard
a noise upstairs, and then her ire
rose. She clawed right over Love.
but the spitfire fuss Mrs. Fisher
raised with Jesse Love as we'll as the
open floor of the loft had appraised
me of the coming danger and I made
for the hole in the gable and jump
ed. / had not hesitated in the order
of my getaway and in my haste
upset a churn full of buttermilk, and
the buttermilk was showered all over
the cabin floor. and on the dancers
Drury's mills were on Copperas
!
time in the 4O's. the dam was wash
ed away, and as there was no other
Touring mill for many miles. very
soon everybody was scarce of flour.
One morning early, father set me
astride of a horse with a sack of
shelled corn. Little Will Stroup was
mounted the same way with corn to
be ground into meal for his people,
We we're to go east to Phillips on
Copperas creek. | could not now To-
cate the place, but ii was we'll east
in now Buffalo Prairie township.
Mr.. Phillips ground corn, no wheat
On the way there my sack of corn
fell off and we boys lifted and push
ed and tugged and strained and
painted a long time. Willie lifted
and away up there on the back of
the good quiet old mare / pulled
and we both saw stars, but we got
the sack where 5wc wanted it. We
found the mill. and when our meal
was ready we started homeward. We
got home about 10 O'Clock. found the
folks sitting uD waiting for lis aud