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PROPESRIOISAL CARDS.
11. KI. JOKES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SLBBRTON, GA.
Special attention to the collection of claims. £ljr
SHANNON & WORLEY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ELBERTOK, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
the Northern Circuit and Franklin county
gSSySpecial attention given to collections.
J. S. BARNETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
JOHN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA. 0
'AT7 ILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
VV and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly
£ —-
L. J. GARTRELL,
ATTORNEY AT L AW,
ATLANTA, OA,
"PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES CIR-
J cuit and District C’o.irt3 at Atlanta, and
Supreme and Superior Courts of the State.
ELIiERTOK BUSINESS CARDS.
tTjTTbowman^oo^
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
EI.BERTON CA.
WILL attend to the business of effecting
sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applications should be made to T. J.
BU W MAN. Sepls-t(
UNT CARRIAGES BUGGIES.
J. F. A.TJ3LD
Carriage Wandfact’r
ELBERTOK, GEORGIA.
WITH GOOD WORKMEN!
LOWEST PRICES!
CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
He hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
Goed Baggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING.
Work done in this line in t very best style.
Tito Bojaf Harness
TERMS CASH.
Vy22-I v
~ J. 91. BARFIELD,
THE REAL LIVE
Fashionable Tailor,
Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
DfetTCall and See Him.
THE ELBERTON
DRUG STORE
H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
Has always on band a full line of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
Makes a specialty of
STATIONERY and
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WRITING PAPER k ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup
ply ot LEGAL CAP.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on band.
F. A. F. KOBLETT,
PEAeim MASON,
ELBERTON, GA.
Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert and Hart counties. [je!6-6m
W. C. PRESLEY, ~
HAHN 111 MAKER.
ELBERTON, GA.
Will make first class harness to order, war
ranted, and at prices to suit the times.
Will be glad to show specimens of his work
to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is
wished.
Repairing Hone Promptly.
F. W. JACOBS,
HOUSE & SIGN PAINTER
Glazier and Grainer,
ELBERTON, GA.
Orders S Icitod. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
PEASE’S ~
PALACE DINING ROOMS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
The Champion Dining Saloon of the South
IB INVITED TO CALL.
THE GAZETTE.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
jSTew Series.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Mad ? lam ; if I can’t bite a ten-pen
ny nail in two it’s because the nail is too
hard, not because my teeth in not sharp
enough.
While other women have been buying
cream lace hats, and making posy beds
and traveling suits for the Philadelphia
show, I have been in the agonies of
house[cleaning. lam getting bald from
wearing a turban so much, and what
bair is left is the color of soft soap; my
Lands are like dropsical mud-turtles;
I have stretched up after cob-webs till
there’s a corn on the end of every toe ;
my shoulders are lame, my knees are
stiff; it takes me ten minutes to sit
down, and ten more to get up again, and
I’ve borne it all like a martyr, and bad a
pie for dinner every day, all because
Augustus said he would help me with
the chambers and hall; and this glori
ous dune morning, with the lower floor
as sweet as a bandbox, I was ready, the
whitewash pail stood on front steps
with the brush across it and a negro be
hind it, when in l olted the lord of the
manor and ordered up his white vest
and buff shoes, he had got to go to the
pigeon shoot, he and Sam. The ab
ruptness, the perfidy, the bad grammar,
all made me speechless, and be took ad
vantage of the state of affairs and bustled
off.
Pigeon shoot, indeed! If it was a
horse-race or an auction or a dog fight
or anything reasonable, it would be
fractionally endurable; but to see tall
men and short men, and fat men and
lean men, men with brains and men
without, leave their farms, and shops,
and stores, and wives, and troep off to
see another rabble of men, qualified with
the same adjectives, torture and mangle
and kill a lot of poor innocent terrified
little birds ! If any of the shooters miss
h bird and hit a man*, I hope it may be
one who tells lies to'his wife (doubtless
it would). One thousand dollars in
prizes, twenty-five cents to see and
twenty five dollars to get to shoot; and
this when the times are so hard that a
farmer's wife “dasn’t” buy anything bet
ter than an eight cent calico and the
boys have got to go barefooted before
the frost is out of the ground.
Old Deacon Saintly, he went, and on
ly last Sunday I heard him thank the
Lord that He who ‘‘noted even the spar
row’s fall,” would not forget him ; the
next time he incorporates that into bis
prayer, I would like to rap bis bald old
pate with a broom stick, and remind him
that this day’s record must be met some
time As for Augustus Slack, no spar
row or pigeon either will be booked
against him; he can’t bit the side of a
bain unless somebody holds the gun
for him. I want the law amended.—
Pigeon shoots are just as barbarous as
bull-fights.
Anyway, won’t somebody tell me why
men must have so much more amuse
ment than women ; clubs and matches,
and races and conventions, etc., and if
the old woman goes a quilting once a
season the house atmosphere is blue for
a month.
No, I shall not get a divorce Mr. S.
may go pigeon hunting, but he won't go
wife hunting right away ; he’ll probably
come home after milking is done, and
call me “dear Emmy,’’ but don’t you be
uneasy on my account.
Np, I didn’t clean the chamber; I
went calling, and told the neighbors just
what I thought of it; then came home
and sat on the back stoop and read the
Free Press, every word of Bronson
Howard’s Centennial letter, and went
through all the lime and gypsum and
coal and marble, felt indignant that the
Britishers should so nearly eclipse us in
minerals, wondered at the display of the
Argentine Republicans, and came spat
on this to wind up with: “We shall
gradually work upwards from the miner
al kingdom, and if tha ladies will have
patience, we shall get up to something
soon that will interest them by
and by.” There, Mr. Howard, don’t you
believe that the female mind isn’t inter
ested in minerals—lots of us are hard
headed and practical.
Next, this intelligence spreads itself
before me! The Congregationaiists of
the State of Michigan resolved: “That
when a church of this association sends
a body os a delegate to this body, it is
the duty of this ass. (abbreviation) to
receive such delegate.”
“The name of a lady delegate was pre
sented, but declined because it was
thought to be contrary to the constitu
tion.”
Now, what was the matter ? She was
a “body" and a -‘delegate’’ as specifi
ed in the resolution, and why didn't
they find if it was “contrary to the con
stitution ?"
But it is getting too dark to see to
write, and there comes Augustus with a
big bundle of something that looks like
dry goods.—[Free Press.
Moved On.— A man’s horse balking
and refusing to move, he adopted the
ingenious device employed once by a
canal captain —he built a small fire
under the animal. As soon as the horse
felt the heat, he moved at once. He
advanced sufficiently to bring the car
riage over the flame, and there he
paused, to the edification of a crowd of
observing citizens, and to the great sat
| isfaction of himself. The firo 'fa's
quenched without the aid of the depart
ment.
The individual who was accidentally
injured by the discharge of his duty is
1 still very low T .
ELBERTON, GEORGIA, JUXE 21, 1876.
GEN. COLQUITT AS A GRANGES.
In response to a query by a writer in
the Augusta Constitutionalist, Gen. Col
quitt makes the following reply :
Yes, I am a Granger, an earnest Jone,
approving heartily and without stint thp
great and pure purpose of the Order.
Certainly as I understand that purpose
it is not to ignore “all other callings,
professions and business of life save this
one,” nor is it makiDg an effort. to “blot
out all the business of middle men in the
country that it cannot compass or con
trol,” nor to establish that sort of direct
trade with “foreign nations” which would
prove a “detriment to its former friends
and country.” But the sort of Granger
I am seeks the real good and prosperity
of our entire people and country by re
forming and advancing that interest
upon which rests every other. Depres
sion rules the hour, every business and
profession droops first of all things be
cause our husbandry is unprosperous.
That languishes because of the unthrifty
methods of cultivation, and habits of
management and economy; because it
is made to bear burdens it should not
bear in justice to it, and cannot bear.
Some of these burdens consist in great
and useless circuity in buying and Bell
ing—an enormous usury from credit in
stead of cash purchases, and a superflu
ous number of agencies which business
custom rather than legitimate demand
has fastened upon our trade. We can
no more handle crops without agents
than we can raise them without hands,
and I am no witness that the enemies of
the Order can call to establish the ab
surdity that seme would charge us with
in the alleged attempt to do this. But
then wo know to our cost and the cost
of every other cognate interest, that a
farmer’s labor cannot bear the tariff
w’hich unnecessary agencies and a round
about road to market exact. To cheapen
the way to the ship, and receive our re
turns as all sane men wish to have theirs,
with a fair commission, as a fair trade
shall demand, are among the leading ob
jects of the Order. As to our efforts in
the line of direct trade, we think they
are so obvious and strikingly just and
patriotic as to challenge the respect of
the entire community. We can never be
made to believe that our people are
benefited by deflecting the course of
trade from a direct line to Europe, and
at the cost of thousands of miles of
transportation, and annual millions of
extra expense. Our own sea ports are
made bare of shipping, that a strange
self denial and forgetfulness allow to sail
with enriching cargoes into other bar
hors. The people in the South, who
live by agriculture, have made but feeble
efforts heretofore to defend themselves i
against useless and unjust hindrances
simply because we never could devise an
effective organization whose agency could
relieve us. We believe at last that in
the Grange we find this organized pow
er. Every other profession or pursuit
has its guild, why should we not have
ours ? Our calling as tillers of the soil
has too much glorious purpose in it, and
is kept too amicable by our close sym
pathy with mother earth for its members
to be brought in hostile array against
any class of good and sociable people.
We are not in this attitude and it is only
misconception of our object or unkind
misrepresentation of it, whioli.could in
duce the belief that we are. Our rubric
holds us to industry, economy, cash
trade, and as few intermediaries as pos
sible. Direct trade is a logical sequence
from such premises as these, and when
we add that the Order enjoins fraternity,
“peace on earth and good will to men,”
can the most captious see any thing here
to blame ? With high regard, lam
Yours, truly,
A. H. Colquitt
A MAGNIFICENT JEWEL.
Washington Republican: A pleasant
episode occurred at the sanctuary of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Free and Accepted Masons on Wednes
day night. This was the presentation
of a magnificent jewel to Gen. Albert
Pike, the sovereign commander. The
presentation was made by Gen. Robert
Toombs, of Georgia, in an eloquent and
touching address, to which Gen. Pike
feelingly responded. The jewel is com
posed of a gold double-headed eagle,
studded with two hundred and sixty di
amonds. In the center of the eagle’s
heart is a large amethyst in the form of
a triangle, in which is inserted the fig
ures “33,” in gold. Over the head of
the eagle is a crown composed entirely
of rubies and diamonds. In its talons
the eagle holds a flaming sword of gold
from which is suspended a scroll bear
ing the inscription, “Deus meum que
jus ” The cost of the jewel was S9OO,
and in design and workmanship is beau
tiful and artistic. The presentation was
made in the presence of over fifty mem
bers of the Scottish Rite from all parts
of the United States. A grand banquet
followed, during which the greatest jol
lity and good humor prevailed, and a
most enjoyable and pleasant evening en
sued.
Potatoes.— Editor Sourtbern Cultiva
tor: As this is the potato patch month,
it may not be amiss to call the attention
of your readers to this, that the early
planted and made potatoes do not keep
well for seed or winter use. Slips put
out in June late or even July, make best
seed and easiest kept. Try it, and you’ll
find plenty of potatoes (if properly cared
for) to bed next spring.—“Sox,” La-
Grange, Ga., May ’76.
SUIT FOR TWO MILLION DOLLARS
BROUGHT AGAINST JACOB
ThOMPSON.
A few days since, Hon. L. Q. C. La
mar, of Mississippi, and Hon. Casey
Young, of Tennessee, called upon Sec
retary Chandler and presented the fol
lowing letter:
The Ebbitt House,
Washington, D. C., June 1, 1876.
Hon. Z. Chandler, Secretary of the In
terior:
Sir—Some person has sent to my ad
dress at Memphis, Tennessee, the Eve
ning Star, published at Washington, 22d
May, 1876, with the following paragraph
marked:
“Secretary Chandler denies the pub
lished statement that he intends, if the
Senate shall decide that it has no juris
diction, to recommend to the House the
impeachment of one Thompson, who
was Secretary of the Interior before the
war, for abstracting more than $700,000
of the public moneys. He admits hav
ing made the remark, but only as a joke.
He says, however, that there is no doubt
as to Thompson’s guilt, and that he is
wealthy enough to replace the amouht
to the Government and should be made
to do it.”
I have neither the right nor inclina
tion to act upon the assumption that
the statement in this paragraph is au
thorized by you or justified by anything
you have said. Permit me, therefore
to call your special attention to the arti
cle, and respectfully to enquire of you
if it does represent yon truly. Please
give me as prompt a reply as your con
venience will permit.
Your obedient servant,
J. Thompson.
The only reply to the above letter
was service of process upon Mr. Thornp
son, on the 9th, of a civil suit to recover
one million dollars, principal and inter
terest of the bonds stolen, and the
amount received by the defendant, from
the Confederate States of America, and
which is alleged reverted to and be
came the property of the United States
—one million of dollars with intorest.
Mr. Thompson says this suit is to make
him pecuniarily responsible for the dis
honest acts of a clerk. Soon after the
bonds were abstracted, a Congressional
committee was appointed, of which Ros
coe Conkling was a member. The com
mitt<V ?xc nerated Mr. Thompson of all
blame. The report myttr “Ttm cpramft
tee deem it but just to add that they dis
cover nothing to involve the late Secreta
ry, Hon. Jacob Thompson, in the slight
est degree in the fraud. The Secretary
should, perhaps, have exercised a more
watchful guardianship over the stock,
and the movement of his subordinates.”
None of the committee agree politically
with Mr. Thompson.
Mr. Chandler claims that the Confed
erate archives in possession of the gov
ernment show that Thompson held some
unexplained balances of the Confederacy,
which shouldbe’paid to the United States.
Mr. Thompson has a receipt given him
by the Confederate Government. This
Buit may put Mr. Thomppon to some ex
pense and trouble, but nothing else is
apprehended.
In the suit the sth count charges that
the defendant, on the 20th day of Au
gust, 1866, received the sum $1,000,000,
being the amount received from the so
called Confederate States of America,
and which said sum reverted to and
became the property of the plaintiff,
which he retained and did not pay over
to plaintiff. The suit is for two million
—one with interest from 1857, the other
from 1866.
For The Gazette.
Dear McCarty: Tbeagricnlturhlcom
munity, as well as those persons seeking
a living by other modes, will be grate
ful to you and your Hart county depart
ment if you will in each issue of your
paper, give your readers a definite re
sume of the crop prospects within tbe
limits of your respective counties. Such
information will be valuable to the pub
lic at large, but especially so to such as
myself, who still cling to the places of
our birth the dearest spot to us on earth.
Local events transpiring among your
people are matters of great interest to
us, we do not desire to forget or be for
gotten by the companions and friends of
those early days. Crop statistics are
exceedingly valuable to the general pnb
lie and the county papers, by a little
judicious care, can make themselves
most valuable in this way.
The farming public are now rejoicing
in tbe harvesting of the finest and larg
est oat crop ever produced. In my
opinion the oat crop is destined to be a
gold mine to the farmers. I hav%been
so impressed with its importance that I
have made many and close enquiries re
garding the best mode and time of plant
ing this crop. Every large produoer I have
conversed with agree with perfect una
nimity that the real, genuine rust-proof
Bpecies is the only certain and sure crop.
When sown in September or October, it
is as sure a crop as black berries ; in fact
it has not been know to fail—September
being preferable to October. Many
South Carolina friends sow the seed
even in August in their cotton fields,
running a barrow in the middle of the
row, and this seems a favorite mode
through September. In the vicinity of
Ninety-Six, Greenwood and Liberty Hill,
the usual yield is from thirty to fifty
bushels per acre on fair uplands. These
oat producers claim that oats can be
produced at a cost of not exceeding fif
teen cents per bushel, and that it can bo
made to take the place of corn to a very
Vol. V.-No. 8.
great extent. Oa ( s sown as above will
make a fair crop even on our poor worn*
out fields, where the yield in corn in or
dinary seasons does not pay for the cul
tivation. Our farming friends have
shown in the past that they cannot be
deterred from planting large crops of
cotton, I am aiming to suggest to them
that bountiful crops of oats can be made
to take the place of eorn to a great ex
tentent for feeding purposes, and that
this crop interferes but slightly with the
production of cotton. Therefore allow
me to enjoin upon the farmers just to
try this experiment of sowing a large
crop of oats next September and Octo
ber. Don’t fail to do so, and you will
findjthat you have laid the corner stone of
future prosperity. I am strong in the
opinion that this crop is not properly
appreciated. I get my impressions en
tirely from strong minded, clear headed
farmers, whose experiments in this busi
ness, if published would go further to
awaken the farmers to their interest,
than anything I can write, but they are
loth to wiite or publish as a rule, and
hence others must make the effort.
Every intelligent farmer knows that the
barren hills of South Carolina and Geor
gia do not pay when planted in corn
without fertilizers, and hence they are
planted in cotton. My proposition is,
that these lands sown in oats in Septem
ber and October will pay and pay hand
somely.
Very truly yours,
Emanuel.
THE OEDEE OF THE SUN.
Saturday evening there was organ
ized in this city, at a basement office
on State street, a branch of an organi
zation, Anti Roman Catholic in its char
acter, that from present indications, is
likely to send its ramifications all over
the county. The new Phoenix is
known as the society of the order of
the Sun, and sprung up, out in Nevada,
into fully equipped organization within
a few months. Its first inception dates
back perhaps half a year; but for some
time it existed in secret, and hardly
more than a handful of people were
initiated into its mysteries. The origina
tors seem to have been fathered by a few
prominent and very wealthy Protestants,
who had become disgusted with the in
adequate means at their disposal for
combating the rapid progress of Roman
ism. Their scheme was to frame a con
stitution that would win over all shades
of Protestants and thus form a solid
battle array against their enemy. After
mature deliberation it was determined
that the organizatieu should he semi
military in its character, which it was
believed would give tbe undertaking a
fascination not found about the ordinary
secret society. The plan at once sprang
into great favor in the silver State, and
a numerous membership was soon en
rolled. One of the strongest obligations
by which a member is bound in the
ritual is to oppose every Roman Cath
olic candidate for office.
The state where it originated having
been thoroughly cafrvassfcd, a state com
mander set out on his travels to establish
the society elsewhere. Tho greatest
success was found among the Protestants
of the Pacific coast, and flourishing
branches started up as if by magic all over
California. Great success continues to
await the state commander in every
stopping place on his journey eastward.
In Illinois, Mr. N. C. Nelson, a leading
Odd Fellow, was enrolled as state com
ffiander, and it is this gentleman who is
now working the scheme in these parts co
briskly. He visited Chicago last week,
and began laborß immediately. At his
some twenty citizens con
gregated last Thursday evening, and
formally proceeded to inaugurate a,
“Chicago Grand Body.” This confra
ternity, as yet so imperfectly understood
in all its designs, is made up of com
missioned officers Buch as state general *,
majors, colonels, paymasters, sergeants,
etc. Privates and non commissioned offi
cers belong to “subordinate” bodies. The
members of the more dignified body are
all of go ahead, aggressive characters,
and it is known that they are strenuous
ly engaged in pushing the organization
vigorously. They hope, as their first
active movement, to absorb the mem
bers of the American Protestant asso
ciation of this city, now on the point of
disbanding.
To further this last purpose it was
that the basement gathering of Satur
day night took place. A membership
of thirty was secured during the even
ing in a few minutes, and nearly as
many more conditionally handed in
their names expecting to formally unite
in a few days. By the end of six weeks,
it is believed by the conductors ef this
novel association that as many as a
dozen branch subordinate bodies will
have been recognized in regular stand
ing in this city, embraceing a total broth
erhood of not less than 1,000.
[lnter Ocean.
A gentleman in this city has a pair of
pantaloons which were worn by one of
his ancestors a hundred years ago. They
are made of homespun cloth, except the
seat which is of thick leather. It is in
ferred by this that the original owner
was a book agent.—[Norwich Bulletin.
Unsatisfactory. —Anxious Lover:
“Does your sister Annie ever say any
thing about me, sissy f” Sissy : “l’es ;
she said if you had rockers on your j
shoes, they'd make such a nice cradle for
my doll.” '
THE TWO-THIBDS RULE.
The old democratic rule of requiring
in convention a two thirds vote to make
Domination of candidates for president
and vice-president was not without its
uses. Doubtless it sometimes saved the
party from defeat. Particularly the rule
had the effect to prevent the nomination
of a man who, though prominent in his
party and strong enough to carry the
majority, yet was stubbornly opposed by
a powerful minority, whose lukewarm
ness in case of his nomination would
have proved fatal to his success before
the people. The democratic party sev
eral times succeeded by throwing over
board their ablest leaders and nominat
ing compromise men!
But political affairs have undergone a
great change in this country since tho
war. What was wise policy in party
contests twenty years ago might be the
height of folly in this day and tim®.
Previous to the war political parties
stood upon their principles and fought
upon their platforms, and the man who
was in the way of success simply had to
get out of it Then they were thoroughly
and compactly organized and the masses
were accustomed to vote the ticket and
for any unobjectional individual for
president, no matter how obscure he
might be. It only required that there
should be no active faction opposed to
the nominee. But now we are living
under new skies. r are no times
for a compromise nominee in the demo
cratic party—for the tertium quid or a
figure-head of a candidate, so negative
in character as to be obnoxious to not
even to the ring-thief or the bribe-taker.
On the contrary, the party needs a man
who is not only a platform to himself
but who is also positive and aggressive
in his line of public policy, and whose
name would be the symbol of the ideas
for which the democratic party now con
tends. Such a man in nomination would
of himself be a tower of strength with
the people, and if any such there be, his
nomination at St. Louis should not be
put in jeopardy by the adoption of the
tfnto thirds nil®, which would but bar tho
strong men of the party and let dovm
the gap for pigmies.
The action of tbe Ohio democratic
State convention in adopting an inflation
platform and proposing old Mr. Allen
for president sufficiently indicates that
the folly of a certain faction of the party
may give great trouble at St. Louis, and
if strong enough they may virtually
wind up the canvass in the convention
by presenting a ticket and a platform
which would be nothing short of an
absurdity. But such a result is scarcely
possible. The sympathizers with the
Ohio movement, however, though too
weak to rule the contention may be
enough to embarrass the majority and
prevent the right nomination, if they be
permitted To fight under the two thirds
rule. So in the best interests of the
party, and to prevent a great and needed
movement from dwindling into a farce,
the nominating convention will but do
its duty to the country by adopting the
majority rule for all its proceedings.
This would have been proper even if
Ohio had not spoken.—Danville Register.
HIVING SWARMsIn HIGH TREES,
One of the most difficult things in the
experience of all young bee keepers is
runaway swarms, and swarms which seek
the highest bough in any of the large
apple or pear trees in the neighboring
garden. In the case’of runaway swarms,
follow them if you can ; but in reference
to the swarms in a high bough, this is
not so difficult a task as may appear at
first sight.
I watched with much interest a cot
lager’s wife recently hiving a swarm up
on an apple bough. I tendered *o
advice, but simply watched all herjopera
tions, which were simple enough. She
procured a common potato or half-meas
ure hamper, and fastened it to the top
of along pike; then holdingitbeneath the
swarm, shook the bough as vigorously
as poasible under the circumstances, and
brought her swarm down safely. They
afterward quietly entered the hive.
This was a rough way of hiving. I hope
none of your readers will follow her
example. I have used for some time
for this puipose a bag made of stiff
black leno, stitched. Around tho
mouth I attach a little very thick wire,
to prevent it closing when being used.
The bag is then fastened or nailed near
the top of a long pole made of deal wood,
about nine feet in length and two inches
in thickness, or like a clothes prop; but
at the summit, about six inches above the
bag, I nail a bit of wood to prevent the
pole from splitting, as well as to act as
a hammer to beat or shake the bough
en which the Bwarm is settling. To the
wire ring, if desired—although it will
act far better without—a string may be
tied, and held in the had of the opera
tor, and "when the bees are shaken into
the bag, by pulling the cord they aw
prevented from escaping.
1 make use of it thus: Having got it
in readiness, when the bee* are observed
to begin clustering, of course th® first
thing to be attended to is the hiv®, and
table on which they are to be 'placed for
a few minutes after hiving, before they
are finally removed to their permanent
stand Then suddenly shake the bough
with the end of the pole. Tbe bees
will drop into the bag. Very few will
be left on the branch after a vigorous
shake. Slowly bringing them down to
tbe table, hold the bag for a few min
utes beside the hive, which should be
slightly raised on the side nearest the
bees, to allow of free ingress. The bees,
seeing a homo in readiness, will not be
long in taking possession of the new
tenement. Ycu need not fear securing
the queen at the first shake ; and if
any of the bees are at all disposed to
take refuge again on the bough, lay
across it a smoking or smouldering rag,
which will quickly drive away every bee
to the hive below. The table should
be placed beneath the tree, if possible.
It will not take long to hive themt
persuading them to settle in the new
home, and removing them to the stancj,
in fifteen minutes. In half an hoar
afterward they have’eommeueed working
as if nothing had happened.