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MR. SIMPSON , .A \' i =-i i t to the I I'oriey Cou YorkriUe Th'.! little honey ln<- i.-, of ?nurse, a j very common institution io York county. Then- is scarcely a neighbor hood in which there ar?; not a half j doz . :i ur more colonies, and there are i just !uts of people who know more or less .ibmit how to manage them with su ? e.*.*; hut most readers of the Kn- ? . iuir<.r will no doubt bc surprised to j know that York County has one of the largest apiaries to be found in thc Piedmont section. Such is thc fact, ! however. This apiary is located at j CatawbaJuncti.it). I Mr. II. C. Simpson, a well informed, | well read gentleman, is thc proprietor. Mr. Simpson's house fronts the Caro lina and Georgia Kxtcnsion railroad, and his beehives, which sit on the southside of u hill to the rear, look from the railroad like a big cemetery. I tn fact, most passengers on thc trains : take the apiary for a cemetery, and j they do ?ot know any better unless j some of the trainmen, or others who ? know, inform them to the contrary. [ Having heard from different people, j al different times, of the extent of Mr. Simpson's establishment, and also of his thorough knowledge of thc bec and its habits, I went down to Cataw ba .I unction last Saturday for thc pur pose. of getting material for a story that will probably l rove interesting to a great many people. I had the good luck to find Mr. Simpson at home, and when I told him my business, he as- j ?*ure? me that it would give him pleas ure to show me everything that was to be seen and to answer such ques tions asl might sec tit to ask, pro vided he kuow how. This last pro viso, however, was unnecessary. Be fore I left, I was convinced that he surely knowsabout all that is not torn out of thc book, and that my principal disadvantage was in not understand ing the suhject sufficiently to admit of its full development through proper questions. Taking his smoker-a little bellows like arrangement, through which smoke is projected with facility-Mr. Simpson told mc to follow close be hind him among the hives. He had no gloves, veil or other protection, and thc proposition was one that I did not relish particularly; but 1 remem bered to have heard Mr. \V. J. Waters remark once that Mr. Simpson knew the age of every bee on the hill and could call it by name. I was inclined to repose the fullest confidence in Mr. Simpson. I am now almost inclined to believe Mr. Waters' statement, but I do not like to say so in print. Opening up several hives, Mr. Simp son showed thc honey that was in process of manufacture. Ile explain ed that the bees have not doue very well this year, so far as surplus is con cerned. Only a few combs have been partially filled and only a very small per cent of the honey cells have boen capped over. This, Mr. Simpson says, is on account of the unfavorable sea son. After showing thc surplus hon ey department of one of tho hives, he went into the brood department, moved and took out several frames covered with worker bees and drones, and finally located the queen. "I found hera little too late," he. remarked. "If I had surprised her sooner, she would have laid several eggs on my hand after I picked her up. It is her business, you know, to lay the eggs; she keeps at it continually, and that was what she was doing when we found her." Then holding up the comb to tho light, where I could see to the bottom of the cells, Mr. Simp son showed mc newly deposited eggs,. little worms representing a develop ment of a day or two, and other young bees in different stages up to eating their way out of thc cells in which they had come to maturity. "Although all thc eggs in a hive are laid by the same queen." Mr. Simpson explained, "they may bc de veloped cither into workers, drones or queens. The drone matures io 24 days, the worker in 21 days and thc queen in only 16 days. Thc bees can make a queen themselves whenever they want one. Suppose thc present , 'lueen should die, for instance. The bees would immediately go to work and build a cone-shaped cap over one of these cells in which you sec an egg. Then, hy feeding her a different kind of food-'royal jelly,' the bee men call it-they will bring her to maturity within 16 days. As to whether they really give her a differ ent kind of food I do not know. I am inclined to think that they merely give her the same kind that they feed to others, only more of it." While on the same subject, Mr. Simpson Haid that thc wordcr bees live from about three to six weeks in summer time, and from three to six mouths in the winter time. The aver age life of a queen is from two to three years, although sometimes they -live fivo or six years. "In keeping the purity of your stock," he said, "of course, everything depends opon your queen. - I won't have anything but ?VND HIS BEES Making Mills in V'ork my. /.- ii<]a?I I r. ! the Italian bee :.' 1 ? >??. help it but I I lind it very difficult t" keep them ah I solutely pure. I bought my first j queen ?ti Augu.-t, I .SSO, from Mr. i Iirown, of Augusta, and paid hin $2.50 for ber. After that, about foui I years a?o, I imported a queen bec j direct from Italy. She coat $0. and was ll days coming over. She li vet until about a year ago. and by mean; of her. I have been enabled to main tain my colonies at a high standard.' Here Mr. Simpson called my alten tion to a do/en or more bees that wen posted on the platform at the entra?e* of a hive, buzzing their wings with ? humming noise. "These." bc ex plained, ''are ca ?.'aged in ventilatini the hive. Puring weather like this there is a great deal of heat inside If you should stop up the entrance to 10 minutes, the whole interior woul< collapse a sticky mas? and kill th entire colony. With their wings thes bees are creating an outgoing curren that serves to keepdown the tempera ture. They work for about 1."? min utes that way. when they, are relieve by as many fresh bees from thc in side. This is kept up all during th hottest part ol' the day." I expresse surprise at this remarkable piece c sagacity, and Mr. Simpson went (tn t relate another peculiarity of the 01 ganization that was no less interest ing. "In seasons like this." he sait "when not much honey is being uiad< there is a disposition on the part < the bees of one colony to KO out an rob thc stores of another. I can sho you at each hive guards that are e, pocially placed for protection again: robbers, and whenever a bec of anothi colony attempts to enter where he hi no right, I can show you a fight." About that time au angry bee cou menccd buzzing at my car. It w: the first time that 1 had been moleste in the least, and I began to fear th maybe her business was to drr away unwelcome newspaper men. M Simpson sent a pull' or two of smol at her; but she paid uo attention that. [ was tempted to ask him tell her to please go away; but, i stead, he concluded, of his own a cord, that the only thing to be do for her was to knock her down, whl he did. After that I felt more coi fortable; but at the same time it c curred to mo that I oould just as w< get suoh further information as wanted up nearer the house. Mr. Simpson ezplained that the are three honey-making seasons d', ing thc year. Tho first is from abo the middle of April up to tho 20th May. During this season bees depo upon fruit and flower blossoms, si maple and poplar buds. They doi usually begin to make any surpl until May, and then the quality is 1 of the best. From thc 20th of M until about the middle of July, thi follows an idle season, during whi not much surplus honey is mad< practically none. The first good hot of tho year is made during the mot following thc middle of July. Ii made almost entirely from cott blooms, and is usually so transpan that objects may be discerned th roi a quart of it. The flavor is also lighiful. But there arc some pc liaritics about this cotton honey, cording to Mr. Simpson's experien The little brow bee cannot make h cy from cotton at all. She is strong enough to get into thc bloc right. Only thc Italian bee is cq to thc task, and except under cert conditions, the cotton bloom hone, out of her reach also. When seas arc good and the cotton plants vigorous, there is no honey to bo fc When, however, the cotton is bi ward and droopy, thc Italians hal picnic. Thc next and most relis honey-making season of the yea during thc month of October. 1 honey of that season is made pri pally of the aster or iron weed. 1 of a splendid quality. I asked Mr. Simpson as to the a age yield of honey to the colony, he answered the question in a 1 satisfactory manner. "One year 1 au average of only 4 pounds. 1 year thc average was pounds, other year I got 60 pounds; son the colonies yielding over ??0 poi each. I would say, however, that general average, taking one year 1 another, is about 30 pounds to colony.' Ho went on to say that year he sold only $100 worth of ho Year before last he sold 2.000 poi for $224. and another year he from his different colonies a tot 3,000 pounds. From the bes; i mation at hand, l am inclined t< opinion that this last yield is se equaled by any other single h producer in this State. On this same linc. Mr. Sin also related another interesting dent. During one very fine hi making season, he left a hivo o scales and noted a production pounds in 26 days. One day thc j made ll pounds, and during the. evaporated a pound and a half of water or other undesirable material out of it. Hut 1 .-hall not undertake to repeat in thi.s article all that Mr. Simpson told nie about bees. I was not with him more thar? two hours, hut to re peat it all would require more than a [iago of the paper. I'll give one more interesting point, however, which but few people have probably thought about. Though Mr. Simpson has -SO colonies in all, he only has 50 at his home. The others are at another point several miles distaut. When I asked him why this was, he explained that the ordinary range of a bee is about from a mile to a mile and a half, and that 50 strong colonies are about as many as can live and prosper in this country within the radius indi cated. If? certain other sections of the country, say parts of California for instance, as many as 200 or MOO colonies could prosper in this radius. - - ? ^ - The Deed of a Itero. Amongst the heroes who were at the reunion was Mr. John M. Nicholls, of Spartanburg. Ile is thc soldier boy who, at the age of l?> years, was tight ing in a rifle pit atSpottsylvania. The Vaukccs had charged up to thc Con federate lines, driving in thc skirmish linc, but hud been repulsed and had retreated to their own entrenchments on thc opposite side of a ravine. The (iring was very active and thc sharp shooters so alert that a hat lifted above the Confederate breastworks would be quickly riddled, But out side John Nicholls heard a wounded man whom the Yankees had left be hind in their retreat, begging for wa ter, and he made up his mind to ren der help. His comrades tried to dis suade him, arguing that the act would bc suicidal, but Nicholls leaped over the breastworks and crawled down a corn row within reach of the wounded enemy, who proved to bc an officer, a distance of tweuty-fivc or thirty yards. He then tied his canteen on a broken pine limb, aud handing it to the Fed eral told him to drink what he wanted and pour some in his own canteen. The grateful soldier thanked him and said, "God will bless you for this," and commenced to tie his watch on the stick, urging Nicholls to accept it. This Nicholls declined, and crawling back along thc corn row he made an other jump back into tho rifle pit, fol lowed by a shower of bullets. The incident is the subject of a stirring poem by J. J. Rooney. Mr. Nicholls is now a farmer and a man of family. His home is in Spar tanburg. He did not marry until about eight years ago. He is a modest man and as tender as he is brave. Up to the time of his marriage if any sick man was to be nursed, or dead to re ceive the last rites, John Nicholls was sure to bc there. He keeps up the practice of kindness still whenever circumstances allow, and is more than seconded in all friendly services by his good wife. Mr. Nicholls now regrets that he did not take the watch, as thc Federal offi cer was evidently fast bleeding to death, and thc watch, which he said his mother had given him, wouldhavo been returned to her. She may have never learned the fate of her son. When asked what made him take such a risk to carry water to the dying sol dier, he said some words that his mother had taught him kept sounding in his heart: "I was thirsty and ye gave me drink."--Spartanhurg Herald. A Prominen? Doctor Speaks. He is not talking about medical ethics, quite thc contrary. The sci entist is eager to grasp truth in what ever field it may bo found, and the faot that Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy is so meritorious calls forth from him a testimonial : "Chipley, Ga., August 4, 1894. Dr. C. O. Tyner, Atlanta, Ga.: I think it is due you that I should say that Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy has done more for me than all other pre parations that I have tried. I think it is a valuable remedy for chronic dyspepsia and indigestion. It has cured me. I hope you may be able to cure all dyspeptics. They are legion. DR. Q. T. RUSSELL. For sale by Wilhitc & Wilhitc. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. _^ ^ ^ - Littlo Girl (to visitor)-"My papa's a good man. He'll go to heav en, won't he?" Visitor-"Oh, yes, indeed ; and you are going to heaven too ?" Little Girl-"Oh, no; I'm go ing with mamma." No man can work well with a torpid liver or constipated bowels. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will quickly remove this condition and make work a pleasure. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - Some Egyptian boats made of ce dar, probably in usc 4,500 years ago, have been found buried near the banks of the Nile, and furnish an interest ing proof of tho power of that wood to withstand thc ravages of time. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely digests food within the stomach and intestines and renders all classes of food capable of being assimilated and converted into strength giving and tissue building substances. Evans Pharmacy. - Two ladies in Paris, France, have succeeded in taming dozens of butter flies. They eat from their hands, alight on them, and show no fear whatever. ? - - ? '; ....... ? Color ami Characteristics vf Thc Ku*. lilue eyes are .-aid to be the weakest. Upturned eyes are typical of devo tion. Wide open eyes are indicative of rashuess. Side-glancing eyes are always to be distrusted. Brown eyes are said by oeculists to bc the strongest. Small eyes are commonly supposed to indicate cunning. The dowucast eye ha* in all ages been typical of modesty. The proper distance between the eyes is the width of one eye. People of melancholic temperament rarely have clear blue eyes. Eyes with long, sharp comers indi cate great discernment and penetra tion. The white of the eye showing be neath thc iris is indicative of nobility of character. Gray eyes turning green iu auger or excitement are indicative of a cloleric temperament. When the upper lid covers half or more of thc pupil the indication is of cool deliberation. An eye thc upper lid of which pass es horizontally across the pupil indi cates mental ability. Unsteady eyes, rapidly jerking from side to side, are frequently inticative of an unsettled mind. It is said that the prevailing colors of eyes among patienrs of lunatic asy lums arc brown and black. Kyes of any color with weak brows aud long, concave lashes, are indica tive of a weak constitution. Eyes that are wide apart are said to physiognomists to indicate great intel ligence and a tenacious memory. Eyes of which the whole of the iris is visible belong to erratic persons, often with a tendency toward insanity. Wide open, staring ^eyes in weak countenances indicate jealousy, bigo try, intolerance and pertinacity with out firmness. Eyes placed close together in the head are said to indicate pettiness of disposition, jealousy and a turn for fault-finding. When the under arch of the upper eyelid is a perfect semicircle it is in dicative of goodness, but also timidity, sometimes approaching cowardice. AH men of genius are said to have eyes clear, slow moving and bright. This is tue eye which indicates mental ability of some kiud, it does not mat ter what. Blue eyes are generally considered effeminate, but this is a mistake, for blue eyes are found not only among Caucasian nations, and the white races rule the world.-Peartons Weekly. - Ex-Judge John II. Reagan, the only surviving member of the Confed erate cabinet, said the other day at the laying of the eorner stone ot' the monument to be erected to the Con federate dead at Sau Antonio, Texas, by the Daughters of the Confederacy: "The war is over and facts attending that great struggle and incidents transpiring since have demonstrated that it is better for the Southern peo ple to be in the Union than out of it. No other people could have gone through with what we did and so quiokly recover. We are united in a Union sealed by the best blood of our land, under one flag, and with the glory already won and that tobe added stand in our proper position as the foremost nation in the world."_ ? Hiv* tr a Bj, trB l-?i S ft "Qc m |?|1 g M3 ij-fk z sm IS?2.0 ii IPI* oo \\ ~ SS* ? lg liff IS lill 1-1 ?I** * Pill ? > X O >2 NB CD c 38 O For Repairing Tires Use -the best. In use for 3 years and stands the Test, Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., Cambridgeport, Mais. 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A sound belief in the public mind that the safest and happiest social con dition is that where the greatest num ber of persons nre reasonably well-off in this world's goods, and content with their moderate competency, is impera tive if the people of the United States are to fittingly fulfill their destiny. A popular government under which all men may strive hopefully for financial independence, where commercial and industrial enterprises are numerous and open to all, where business interests are fostered and protected, not for the aggrandizement of the few, but for the benefit of the roany, should be logically inevitable in this country if the princi ples of its founders ate faithfully maintained. In the ominous growth of the trust evil, a system enriching a limited num ber of monopolies at thc cost of the business mid industrial health of the country at large, there is disquieting proof of a tendency to repudiate those Eriuciplcs under the stimulus of that unger tor vast wealth which tends to create the sure contrast of vast poverty. American teachers may not bc more wisely employed than in combating this tendency. American young men may not be more truly strengthened than by the fostering of higher ideals than those limited solely to the acquir ing of riches.-St. Loma liepnblic. - Some of the stars move with a velocity of fifty miles a second. Thc woman who mislays her hat and looks for it in her purse, among other im possible places, is very like the physician who looks in'all sort of impossible places for the cause of a disease. The heart be gins to act irregularly and straightway there's an exam ination of the heart to find what is interfering with it. 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