The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-29
DEMANDING
OF MR.. OOELL
REAL FEATURE
PLAYS WITH LIVE BEES AS
THOUGH THEY ARE MARBLES
AND EVEN GETS SPECTATORS
uNAFRAID OF THEM.

FRANK q. OdeIi, VINO KNOWS w iiIld1tl
]. Bryan well and votes in the same
precinct with him in Lincoln, Ne
braska, and who arrived here yester-
day morning with a case-hive com
tanning several thousand animated
honey-bees, yesterday afternoon gave
one of the best and most instructive
demonstrations before the grand stand
at the Inter State Fair grounds which
the people of West Florida ever wit
messed.
Mr.. Odell likes his bees and his bees
like him, generally.
They have travelled 10000 miles
with him during the last three months
and have been used in a great many
demonstrations during that time.
They are kept almost as busy as
their owner, who is not only one OF
the greatest authorities in the country
on bee-culture and intensive farming,
but also a lawyer of recognized aoil-
ty. writer for the Saturday Even
ing Post and other publications, lee
turer of note and one of the leading
stock and corn judges In the country.
While he came here to show MS
bees, primarily, he Is also acting as q
Judge in the equine events and Will
probably be enlisted to help judge the
exhibits of corn.
Several hundred people were gather
ed about the closed cage in which he
handles the bees yesterday and besides
showing them that he is not AFRAID OF
the insects himself, gave practlcaI
demonstration of the fact that his sue
cess with them is purely psychologist
al In nature by having the bees WIN
the confidence of his audience.
A carpenter failed to make the door
of the cage tight and there was
space of about a half-inch over the
top of it yesterday. After time more
than a score of bees made their way
out there. Some Of the crowd called
his attention to 1t.
That's all right he said. picking
handful from a comb of honey and
putting them down his neck, they
won't hurt you If you don't bother
them. They'll come back home after
awhile"
And for twenty minutes after, that
the bees buzzed around in the audi
ence and showed their affection for the
Florida folks. They hummed around
the ears of those there, they brushed
their coat sleeves in flying about and
a few Of them even lighted upon two
or three boys near the cage. The
boys paid no attention to them and,
after a time, they flew off to look for
the entrance to the cage.
During the exhibition he kept the
crowd laughing by O. rapid fire OF in
teresting talk, most of which gave the
audience some good hard facts, honey
combed In humorous references to past
experiences.
Only once did he give the verbal
battery a rest and that was while he
stopped to let a well armed bee ex-
piore the department of the interior"
as he calls 1t.
After a while he let the bee out and
began to tell the audience he was sor-
ry he hadn't any safety -razors to sell.
Mr.. Odell generally gives a lecture
while making his demonstration, but
both he and the bees were rather tired
yesterday afternoon, the train on
been wrecked on the main line, caus-
ing them to take another around by
Selma, Alabama.
He carries the bees in case made
much like a drummers sample case
and provided with air-slots in the bot
tom.
While he sometimes gets stung dur
ing the demonstrations, he says that
very rarely occurs when the bees are
in a good humor and he anticipates
no trouble here because of the climate.
When Il Is cold and damp or raining
the bees seem most likely to develop
q sudden distemper, he says.