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HUNTING WILD BEES
THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN THIS
FASCINATING WORK
VnrlouH Devices For Trncklnpr tlie
Inncct to Its Hive Tales of Birds
That Shoiv the Way to the Store of
Honey Insect Bee Hunters
Though the bee has been much prais
ed for its industry there are some who
have ventured to hint that it is a little
foolish to store up sweets Avhich it
may never enjoy Southey for exam
ple rallies it gently for its miserly
habits
Thou art a miser thou busy busy bee
Late and early at employ
Still on thy golden stores Intent
Thy summer in heaping and hoarding is
spent
What thy winter will never enjoy
Wise lesson this for me thou busy busy
bee
Not the usual lesson by the way
which we are supposed to learn from
the busy bee And truly though so
highly praised for its wisdom also the
hive bee does seem a little foolish in
storing up so much more honey than it
can possibly require for many of our
wild bees though they are supposed to
be on a lower level of development and
intelligence are wiser They store hon
ey also but they provide only enough
for their own needs And certainly the
overflowing store of the hive brings
an additional element of danger into
the already handicapped life of the bee
for the golden store attracts the plun
derer and the bee is hunted for its
honey
Bee hunting is a fascinating pursuit
and Is finely described as it takes
place or used to take place in the
openings of the American forests by
Fenimore Cooper in Oak Openings
On a grassy glade of some fifty acres
amid the forests of dwarf oak stands
the bee hunter The implements of his
craft are simple A small covered tin
cup a plate a tumbler and a wooden
box comprise them The wooden plate
is first placed on a leveled tree stump
and a piece of honeycomb from the box
set on it Then some honey from the
tin cup is poured into the comb
All around bees are buzzing in thou
sands among the flowers and Buzzing
Ben as the bee hunter is nicknamed
proceeds to capture one Finding one
to his mind on a head of white clover
he conveys it with the aid of the glass
tumbler to the honey Secure under
the glass with the hunters cap over it
to make it dark the bee begins to fill
itself with honey So eagerly is it en
gaged that the hunter ventures to re
move cap and glass und goes in search
of another bee which is soon as eager
ly engaged in filling itself as the other
And now comes the crucial part the
real exercise of the bee hunters craft
The first bee has imbibed its fill and
is ready to return to the hive It rises
circles about to get its bearings and
then goes off on a bee line for the hive
The bee hunter follows it with his eye
as far as lie is able If two or three bees
follow in the same line the hive may
be found by this method alone which
Is known as lining
Sometimes however a finer part of
the art of bee hunting is required the
bee hunter must angle for the hive
Having taken the line of one or two
bees from the one spot he removes to
another a few hundred yards off As
before he captures a bee lets it fill
itself with honey and marks the line
it takes to its hive If it is from the
same hive as the one released from
the first spot the point of intersection
of these two bee lines will mark the
position of the hidden honey
In Australia the implements of the
bee hunter are even more simple A
little gum a bit of cotton and a bottle
of water are what the aboriginal black
of that country provides himself with
when he goes out to seek for honey
Finding a bee on a flowering bush he
fills his mouth with water and takes
a bit of gummed cotton in his hand
Approaching the bee he squirts water
at it from his mouth and while the
bee is trying to shake it off he sticks
the bit of cotton wool to its back The
bee thus rendered conspicuous makes
off for its nest and the hunter mount
ing his horse follows keeping the bee
in sight For several miles the bee
flies on till it reaches a large gum
tree The nest is in the tree and when
the bees are smoked out some thirty
pounds of honey are found
A little bird somewhat larger than a
sparrow appears fluttering and twit
tering around The native bee hunter
understands it as an invitation to come
and get more honey so he rushes off
after the bird After flying several
miles the avian guide begins to hover
over a tree and bees are seen to issue
from a hole in the trunk The honey
Is secured and a portion set apart for
the bird which has been sitting pa
tiently by in the meantime The na
tive hunter is quite convinced that if
he did not give his feathered guide a
portion of the spoil it would never lend
him to honey again
Such tales of birds showing the way
to honey are received with a certain
amount of reserve and skepticism by
ornithologists yet they are told with
such a wealth of circumstantial detail
as to be almost convincing Captain
Gordon Cumming for example In his
book The Lion Hunter In South Af
rica gives an Interesting account of
the honey guide in that country He
describes it as a bird about the size of
a chaffinch of a light gray color and
says that It invariably leads a person
following it to a wild bees nest
In Ceylon according to the account
given by Sir S W Baker the natives
track the bees to their hives without
any implements whatever depending
on their keen eyesight alone The
flight of a bee en route for the nest Is
very different from that of the one
still engaged In flitting from flower to
flower The bee hunter selects one of
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the former and follows It with his eye
as far as he is able He then keeps his
eye on the line taken by the bee and
quickly sees others passing in the same
direction So keeping his eye on the
line and gradually following it on foot
he presently reaches the honey in the
tree
Such are some of the devices of the
bee hunter in following a bee to the
hive If one was small enough a sim
pler and more luxurious way would be
to ride on the bees back and this is
actually the method adopted by an
insect bee hunter The mother oil bee
tle lays her eggs in the ground but
her young require to be nourished on
the products of the hive She makes
no provision however for getting them
there but like most other insects
leaves them to feud for themselves
The young beetles thus perforce become
bee hunters They climb up into some
flower and lie there waiting for the
bee When one comes along intent on
sipping nectar the young oil beetle
jumps on to it and clings to its hairy
coat by means of its own hooked legs
Thus it is carried to the hive London
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AMBITION
It May Be Cultivated hut It Requires
Care and Education
Many people seem to think that am
bition is a quality born with us that
it is not susceptible to improvement
that it is something thrust upon us
which will take care of itself But it is
a passion that responds very quickly
to cultivation and it requires constant
care and education just as the faculty
for music or art does or it will atrophy
If we do not try to realize our ambi
tion it will not keep sharp and defined
Our faculties become dull and soon lose
their power if they are not exercised
How can we expect our ambition to re
main fresh and vigorous through years
of inactivity indolence or indifference
If we keep letting opportunities slip by
us without making any attempt to
grasp them our inclination will grow
duller and weaker
What I most need as Emerson
says is somebody to make me do
what I can To do what I can that
is my problem not what a Napoleon or
a Lincoln could do but what I can do
It makes all the difference in the
world to me whether I bring out the
best thing In me or the worst whether
I utilize 10 15 25 or 90 per cent of my
ability
Everywhere we see people who have
reached middle life or later without be
ing aroused They have developed only
a small percentage of their success pos
sibilities They are still in a dreamy
state The best thing in them lies so
deep that it has never been awakened
When we meet these people we feel
conscious that they have a great deal
of latent power that has never been ex
ercised Great possibilities of useful
ness and of achievement are all uncon
sciously going to waste within them
If you interview the great army of
failures you will find multitudes have
failed because they never got into a
stimulating encouraging environment
because their ambition was never
aroused or because they were not
strong enough to rally under depress
ing discouraging or vicious surround
ings Most of the people we find In
prisons and poorhouses are pitiable
examples of the influence of an en
vironment which appealed to the
worst instead of to the best in them
Success
Marvels to the Natives
Dr Gregory in exploring the lofty
ranges of Mount Kenya in Africa -was
accompanied by native followers from
the coast to -whom the frost and snow
met with at great altitudes were inex
plicable wonders that could be at
tributed only to magical agencies
They came to tell me wrote the
traveler that the water they had
left In their cooking pots was all be
witched They said It was white and
would not shake The adventurous
Fundi had even hit it with a stick
which would not go in They begged
me to look at it and I told them to
bring it to me They declined how
ever to touch it and implored me to
go to it The water of course had
frozen solid I handled the ice and
told the men they were silly to he
afraid of it for this change always
came over water on the tops of high
mountains I put one of the pots on
the fire and predicted it would soon
turn again into water The men sat
around and anxiously watched it
When it had melted they joyfully told
me that the demon was expelled and
I told them they could now use the
water but as soon as my back was
turned they poured it away and re
filled their pots from an adjoining
brook
Epitaph and Biography
After all what is biography but ex
tended epitaph Between the two the
obituary may be regarded as a sort of
connecting link But take the epitaph
pure and simple as the seed of biogra
phy Here are the dates of birth and
death If there is no more surely it is
sometimes because there is little more
to say If there is a list of the distinc
tions to which the dead attained here
forsooth is the framework for the bi
ographers narrative Append your
text The memory of the just is bless
ed or whatever sentiment your fancy
may prefer and you have given the
biographer the starting point for his
eulogy which nowadays he will pos
sibly call an appreciation
These seeds of biographic narrative
and eulogy are sown I admit more
sparingly in our later day than of old
The fashion of reserve has grown So
too has that leveling force which
molds men into one familiar pattern
If there Is less diversity and Indivdual
Ity In epitaphs so there is In men and
In biographies Atlantic
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PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
Dante Durante Alighieri was born at
Florence in the year of 12G5 and died in
1321 llis early environments the quar
rels and activities of the Florentines
marked his whole life arid made him
strenuous of action and bold of word
He was master of all the sciences of
his age but every science then was as
incomplete and as full of errors as the
sciences are today Dante became lead-
er of all the parties Through trechery I
he was banished from Florence In his
banishment he found his pen more
potent than his sword He may be truly
Italy a nation n not in force of arms at
least in force of letters The beautiful
liquid musical Italian tongue sprung
Minerva like from the brain of Dante
He is likewise the father of modern
poetry He stands with Virgil and
Homer of old and he leads Chaucer
Milton and Shakespeare of the new
Whatever he touched he beautified and
immortalized He has loft us much
He wrote on science politics romance
poetry grammar and rhetoric His
letters are masterpieces He is known
to us of America mostly through his
Divine Comedy or Hell Purgntory and
Heaven We cannot describe this work
you must read it it gives the philosophy
and theory of his age It describes
what the people believed lived and
hoped for It gives us in short what
the preachers preached In it he spares
neither statesman nor churchman He
He placed every scoundrel that he knew
of in hell the reformer in purgatory and
only the very good in heaven His pic
tures of these three states are master
pieces vivid complete smelling of brim
stone or more fragrant than the roses of
Sharon
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DENTIST
RED WILLOW
Some say this is like Indianola
Nebraska can stand a little mud
Miss Laura Miller has gone to
Haigler where she will work in a
store
Miss Bessie Hess will not goto
Haigler with her folks She likes
old Red Willow
Mrs Smith spent the day Sat
urday last with Mrs John Long
necker who is still quite ill
called the Father of the Italian tongue ne DOJS louncl great sport m
He lived in an age when new languages hunting rabbits on horse back
were being born He wished to make while the snow was on the ground
Fred Clark is home again he
has been in Iowa for several years
working for his uncle part of the
time
Miss Hazel Hatcher will close
her school next Friday The
scholars like their teacher very
much
Several from around here were
invited to attend the silver anni
versary of Mr and Mrs Fred
Randel last Friday
The many friends of Miss Em
ma Howard will be sorry to hear
that she is compelled to return
home to recuperate
Several of the men take this
opportunity to see who can get
the most ducks some are success
ful and others are not
Mr and Mrs Hoagland were
visiting at John Longneckers on
last Friday It seems good to
see them over this way once more
Miss Claudie Hatcher is expect
ed home in a few days she likes
her school and the country where
every thing is nice and green in
March
Mrs Black Loomis will have
her sale next Tuesday and on
Saturday the family will move
to Michigan where they will
make their home
While Owens Longnecker and
Walton Randel were hunting
ducks the sun shone so bright on
the snow that their faces werp
very much sun burned
Mrs Phebe Taylor and son
Horace ate dinner at John Long
neckers last Thursday in honor
of Mrs Longneckers birthday
while Mr and Mrs Smith simi
larly honored Mr Longnecker
the week before
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