Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1913-07-24
ELI" PER K1.NS Dl>COURNtS o.
TIE MERITS OF TIE
+. r.. HONHY BEE.

hxed his place IN history, and the frog
aud located him in society, and last
but not least, the "muskeeter and
read him out Of the party for maIEeas
ance in Office. it now becomes ms
duty to the scientific world, to follow
up this work with lecture on the
BEE.
| cultivated the bee once, or rather
they cultivated me, when 7943 OF
them undertook to ride me bug hunt
ing one hot August day in the sweet.
sweet long ago. II you are not ac-
quainted with the bee e,all you have to do
is to step on his coat tail, when he is
pursuing the uneven tenor OF his way.
among flowers, laying up condensed
sweetness to sustain life in the bad old
winter time. He wouldn't stop to talk
to his best friend when on duty (some
Of us would do we'll to initiate his
pious example along this line J He
is the most industrious animal that
Ays, walks or swims. He works for
nothing and boards himself, asks no
Eavors and grants none, and is strick-
Iy out for business, always every :
where. and takes no foolishness from
anybody.
He works all summer in order to
live in the winter His consuming
thought is to have supplies laid up for
the cold weather. He will 90 5 miles
on a bee line for a buckwheat patch
or some kind Of favor to make the
honey better. The question now un-
solved tor 5000 years is: how did he
know it was there. His eyes are nc
larger than pin heads and | don
know whether he has any nose or mo-.
and am not familiar enough with him
to pull it to find out--you do that
His most compelling characteristic is
his latter end, and dexterity, ingenuity
and PUSH he exercises in using it
on short notice. The first one tha'
ever stung me. | sot up and tuck
notis" half a dozen times before i
quit hurting.
Honey is the condensed essence Of
concentrated sweetness-the cleanesl
and heathest of foods. 1t is taken
from natu, es own laboratory, unaduI
lerated and without any manipulation
from mankind is ready for use. Yo,
|
can get some of it to use by smoking
h,n out and stealing it-you ought t,
be gentleman enough to leave him {
supply of his own work to winter on
My father used to have a hundred
stands and when we would get every
body ready to 10 TO church on Sunda,
| | ; swarms would come out in rapl
succession and that would put sto
to The whole program. The bee i
a heather, and has NJ religious scru
PIES. You cant class the bee u
society. He won't mix. The devil i
i, him end his feelings are top cas-
hurt to bir a Iavo e anywhere
Each colony is presided over BY
great big bee called the green. The
she has a lot af big old dro1es t
form her cabinet, too proud to steal an
TOO lazy to work, so she keeps then
Tor her advisers. The LATEST man il
town can always give advice, he take
time to study up on important ques
tions. and that's all there is to him
The drones are said to have los
their stings and this takes all the q
up and 60 out of them. So. havin
lost their capacity to do devilment.t the
are promoted to gentlemen. Not S
with men-if they cant hurt anybod,
they are kicked out.
When Jerusha and | FIRST sot up
to housekeeping, all full Of hope an,
enthusiasm, and planning out our Eu
ure, | drew the line at bees. like,
The honey, but | despised the auiho
Of it. You can imagine how felt
few days ller when her father ser
US over 3 bee stands. wanted i
send them back, but Jerusha said P
would be mad and that lewly Marie
people ought to take everything give
them whether they needed it or no
T.ey ,.e all tied up with quilts an