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THE SUNNY SOUTH
NOVEMBER 5, 1904
T'T'U ‘ won tbe territory of Texas in order to extend our
0/56 w O II Xw I OV/V J. XI slave market. We were guilty of election frauds
Published Weekly by . in Kansas that have only been surpassed in some
i northern states during recent years. There was
Sunny South Publifhins Co somethin ? nast y about ° ur p art in the Missouri
~ JO compromise. And when he reaches the account of
Buslnefs Office how Brooks, of South Carolina, beat Sumner in the
THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING i hall of congress, the author goes into a series of
* moral rnnvnlsirmQ whirh leacl<; tVii
Tramps Die WitH
Boots On ^
HERB is the tramp or yes
teryear ?
It is nearins the time
when an Interesting possi
bility; of the census bureau
might be tried out.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA
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Along the Highway
By FRANK L. STANTON
A
moral convulsions which leads the reader to hope
he will not survive to tell the rest of his harrowing !
tale,
But he goes on in a sobbing, hysterical style to
piece it together with bits of intimate private scan
dals. as we have sometimes heard a certain class of
i preachers illustrate their gospel message with ques- !
One Year, 50c tionable stories and disgusting ^velations of vice, j the °pike’’ an /rc°dea(I since^the season
wTHAN A> PCNNY A W^r^rK suitable only to season barroom conversation. Oc- joDened? how many were reformed by
r M ,m|i .tth. ■..rnfflrn i .1 a. ....... .. -- casionallv he almost implores the reader to close thc demands of the western harvesters
CBtand at tfcapMtefflee A tlai>ta,Ga.,aa s ecMd>claM mull mutter J ' , , , , ; and thrashers? How many are Peking
.March 13, HKU - his eyes and stop his ears while he records the bias- : out theIr old metropolitan haunts, to lie
^ ! phemous language used bv voung southern gentle- in a state of ' semi-hibernation till
r*e Sunny Teath ts the oldest weekly paper ef Literature. men when thcy wefe qualifying yankee abolition- s ^lng
LOVE’S SORROW, LOVE’S REST.
I
What | j have been singing to you so long—
has happened te the tramp i Heart of me!—making each thought
crop whit* was gathered ! a song,
in the great cities with Surely, tonight, as my eyes rain tears
the approach of warm Over the beautiful, sweet, dead years,
weather and scattered to [you will say to me, out;of a storm-
the four winds, only to j dark heaven:
return with the migration ; “Having loved much, thou art mucli
the birds? j e forg^en!”
II
Romance, Fat* and Fiction In tha South & It U now re
ft o rod to tha original mhapa and will bo published as folk
marly every week & Founded In IS74 It grew until IS99.
when, as a monthly. Its form was changed as an ejcperl.
ment £? It now returns to Its original fgrmatlon as a
weekly with renewed vigor and tha Intention of eclipse
tag Its most promising period In the past.
• ^ , , ' - , , - - - , ,, . In the observation of the police and , r .
ists. Doubtless they did show an unhallowed ge- of the coroners’ offices throughout the j 1 suaa near J0U ° a>
nius at the business. But their provocation was ^ fe f ^ cu “ a “ ns ri f f |is sw™orgivene ES for Life’s To-
great. j industry threaten to the toiler. It is ( day!
And finally, for the sake of argument, suppose all more dangerous to seek the byways of
: that ic rharp’pd afrainst the south in this book was i ihe idler than to harness up to the ma- ... ,
1 11131 ,s Cllar 6 ta a » alnst lne = OULa ln uab oooh. ycbinery of toil Fifty per cent of these I have been Singing of you SO long
| really true, what purpose of righteousness or jus- | roadsters die accidental deaths of one | Where the red-wrath thorns ’roWd the
ft i tice is served by making literary material of it at! kind or. another; 20 per cent die of , roses throng.
j t u:„ I,,.. J av 0 & r - w „ nf . vpr tn Vrnvp the ehnnre to ! esposu re and privaUon; 10 *>er cent are ! Surely, tonight, to the singer dumb. ,
this late day . Are we never to have the chance to ! found dead in barrel houses, another 10 i with the kiss of Life on your lins
joutgrow sectional hatred Of this kind taht IS found- -per cent die in alms houses, while an- I you'll come!
| ed upon the worst elements, rather than the best °* ker 10 P er cent ,A re unaccounted ^ n jj, y 0ur hand in my own, and your
: in character on both sides? Must every child born In accidenta i deaths the railroad
in the north fifty years after the civil war be fed freight train is the cause of first mae-
' nitude. More tramps die under the
I have been singing to you so long
In the grief God gives with the joy of
song.
Surely, tonight, in that griefs em
brace,
jl shall feel your tresses over my face!
In God's Far-
Sinclair’s “Manassas ”
Savage, Petty Blow at
the South
EVER'AL years ago Mr. Upton Sin-
Kb clair, a perfect stranger to every-
■ body, leaped into the literary arena
and made such a demonstration
over a book he had just written as
a certain female domestic fowl is
wont to make over the laying of her
first egg. He appeared in cackling
headlines in nearly every good na-
tured magazine in this country, tell
ing exactly how the thing was con
ceived, how it nearly miscarried on
account of stupid publishers who
could not see how great it was, and
how at last it was born with a migh
ty blowing of (his!) trumpets. From all of which
we might have inferred that “King Midas” was the
first novel written over here since Hawthorne died.
Incidentally, he let it be known that he was a so
cialist, and that he had a sort of patent method of
teaching Greek so hastily that any one might read
Homer three weeks before he learned the alphabet.
There was such a curious hiatus between his nu
merous accomplishments that people began to won
der if he were not afflicted with a form of enthu
siastic paresis peculiar to some temperaments. Cer
tainly he showed the usual patriotic symptoms of
becoming the father and mother of his country,
which are so often attendant upon this disease.
Thus, it happened, when a little later he began
to agonize with us to produce the “great American
novel,” we smiled indulgently. Most of the writers
over here know by this time what an impossible
undertaking that would be, and they went on God-
fearingly with their humble dramas as if Mr. Sin
clair had not spoken. Then he assumed a tragic
air and withdrew from the scene with the dark in
timation that he was himself about to wring “the
great American novel” from his life’s blood.
From time to time he has sent out bulletins of
his literary travailingS, but no accurate impres
sion could be had of what the thing would be like.
Naturally we supposed the scenes would be laid
in the present if not the future, and that the inter
est would depend upon a dramatic solution of all
our problems, social, educational, industrial and po
litical, for no one who had read how he could teach
Greek doubted that Sinclair could solve any problem
however much inspiration should be required for
the effort. And all this explains why “Manassas,”
tlie title of his new novel, was so disconcerting to
the waiting public. Manassas! That named a red
arc in the battle rim of the past. It was the bloody
footprint left nearly fifty years ago by a nation
warring and welding itself'together in a furious
mood. There are memories back of it too glorious
to be forgotten, and too sacred to be hawked about
h a cheap drama. It is like one of those old vvar
wounds which soldiers carry to their graves, which
ache through the long after years of peace and
Bometimes break out to bleed afresh. And this
brings up to Mr. Sinclair’s purpose in this novel;
it is apparently to open up every old war wound in
the south with a yrverted and malicious recital of
“facts” about her during those desperate years, got
tvidently from the records kept by Boston aboli
tionists. And the book is so cannily constructed as
to actually appeal to the unsuspicious southern
reader. It begins with a sort of snake in the grass
description of our ante bellum grandeur, and ends
with the battle of Mannassas, where the confed-
erates are represented as showing off in the drunk-
•n rape of victory.
But between the initial and concluding chapters
tile author has incorporated every fact and every
gander relating to this destructive period of south
ern civilization that can be so interpreted as to re
flect upon the virtue and honor of her manhood.
Not even the descriptions given by Mrs. Boynich
of the decadence and debauchery of certain disso
lute classes in Russia equals Sinclair’s representa
tion of the depravity in southern society. And to
make it more rhetorically affecting. Fred Douglas
recites much of it before the eternal ‘Boston audi-
upon these rancid fictions until it is forced to be
lieve that the people of the south have been little
less than demons? And is this spirit in keeping
with the boasted “ethics” of New England? The
south is like the woman in the scriptures who suf
fered njiny things of many physicians; but not
other source has she suffered so much as
“ethics” of the north. We all know what
oodness begot them. It is a pharisaical
ich consists in remembering other men’s
faults and failures. It is virtue with the carion
beak. It is honor crowning itself at the expense of
s’ reputations.
ere was some excuse for it during the civil
t it is impossible to attribute any other than
|ble motive to one who shows the disposition
any half a century’s time for reflection. We
nally nagged by these people, who can ex-
nd proclaim more ethics than the angels in
can' practice, about our “prejudices,” but
_ exceeds the meanness and the provincial
narrowness with which they harp upon the temper
amental differences between the north and the
south. And this book is a perfect illustration of the
fact. And it is true we have some old and some
regnant sins among us, but we never were, or can
be capable of this peculiar kind of reptilian godli
ness. It has the abolition brand, and if Mr. Sin
clair does not know it, the time is at hand when it
will be “hard stock” in literature, as well as in life
MRS. LUNDY H. HARRIS.
“Manassas,” by Upton Sinclair, New York.—The
Macmillan Co.
A Misconception of the
National Autumn
RECENT issue of Collier’s Weekly
calls attention to a popular Ameri-
carf misconception regarding the
autumnal season, the remarkable
thing being that we continue to
cherish it in spite of annual demon
stration of it’s error. The editorial
wheels or in' the shock of collision, or
from a train Jumping the rails at a
switch Uian from any other one cause.
There is seldom a collision Involving; a
thiough freight in a general smash-up
that does not number a tramp vicUm.
He is universal as a corpse. It is rare
that he is reported among the injured.
“The reason for this is that he near
ly always has to take the dangerous
position on a train.” explained an old
railroad man. •Nearly every tramp that
goes out of Chicago or comes into ^it
rides on the bumpers of a freight train
or on the trucks of the passenger. In
either position a wreck of any magni
tude means death to him.
“It is not necessary always to have
the wreck, either. Sometimes there is
ice on the bumpers, and there are times
when the tramp on the truck goes to
sleep, as we have had reason to suspect.
A fall in either case means death almost
without a question'. In times past train
men who had been worried by these in
sistent deadheads would throw them off
train with little compunction. It is a
dangerous business, however, for cases
have been taken to the higher courts and
decisions rendered that a train must be
stopped and the tramp put off with all
the consideration that would be due a
passenger.”
ROADS EXPECT HIS DEATH.
As indicating just how common is the
tramp funeral in connection with rail
roading the railroads all over the country
in their rules and regulations deal with
him as a possible corpse on their hands.
One of the great roads out of Chicago
has this to say of the genus as It infests
rolling stock and the company’s right of
way:
"If any tramps are killed or injured
in stealing rides on trains or in walking
on the tracks turn them over to the town
authorities. We pay nearly 82,000,000 a
year as taxes, and are Just as much en
titled to have protection as are individ
uals, and to have persons who are tres-
i passers and who are injured through
; their own negligence taken care of by
the town or county. But If the authori
ties will not take care of them don’t let
them He in the streets—take care of them
until some proper arrangement for their
care can be made.”
Even where a tramp is killed on the
road between stations this company in
structs its men to pick up the body, re
gardless of the superstitions about the
writer holds that our poetical and j cororier > and take the body t0 the nearest
, station, only if possible not to take it out
prose writers have been influenced 1
head on my breast,
You shall whisper: “Love’s sorrow
at lasUis Love’s rest!”
Man in a dreary wilderness, with
withered hands that strove to grasp
a Phantom, and 'a voice, faint-dying
in the silence: “The Dream! The
Dream- The Dream!”
"ON THE WAY.”
1
Take your courage on the way
From the bottOkb of Today:
Winter comeX—but dreams of May!
Learn the lesion of the years—
Human hopes and human fears:
Heaven shiijs brighter through our
tears!
THE STORY OF THE DREAM.
A Child saw a Dream in the Valleys
of the Violets, and followed its sweet,
elusive beauty over green fields and
meadows, and by tbe banks of swift,
sea-singing streams, till, far from
home, and lost in the tangled wilder
ness, the child stretched forth Its un
availing hands, and cried: “The
Dream! The Dream!” r And then
Darkness came, and Sleep—a Sleep
that still was brightened by, tha
Dream. But when the Morning dawn
ed, the Child was not: Only an old
A WELCOME TO WINTER.
Welcomftthe Winter, with his bitter
storm an* sleet, and trees, stripped
of their verdure, standing like skele
tons along the ghostly way! The
Spring had his violets, and scented
Summer -showered blossoms in the
vales, afl all the merry birds of them
sent nSssages of song to heaven.
But forlill his storm and snow, a ros
burns tjtoom j n t Q the cheeks of Win-
,nd homes seem happier; the
laze brightly on a million
tones, and song and story
■evel in the long and dreamful
And are not the girls coming
dance; and is not the violin's
sweeter for the storm? Wet-
to Winter! We are the merri
est friends on earth with him!
LOVE’S LILIES.
Though thorns climb wrathful from
the sod
In many a garden plot. Love’s Lilies
are the thoughts of God:
Take heed ye wrong them not!
Many are the authors who strive to
get into the so-called “Literary
Swim,” and, once well in it, they
deafen the critics of the country howl
ing for life-preservers!
Bee Culture, Most Fascinating
* of tHe Smaller Industries ^
IN FOUR PARTS—PART IV.
By HELEN HARCOURT.
(Boston has always been a meddlesome old ^American latitudes.
' .0.1 A - — A L«r foloo rtf L'niLni-Lnllir CnOlL'1
maid, whose virtue is best entertained by tales of
southern men’s vices!) John Brown is canonized.
A runaway slave furnishes most of the dramatic
details: and the record of his torments is told with
in their interpretation of autumn by
English ideas to the extent that
they are frequently guilty of libel
against what is admittedly one of
the loveliest of the American sea
sons. He says that the consensus
of American poetical opinion regarding the fall may
be found in Bryant’s following familiar lines:
“The melancholy days have come, the saddest of
the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows
brown and sere.”
As a matter of fact the American autumn, and
especially that season in the south, is one of- the
most alluring and delightful. This quality has
stood the south in good stead in her campaign for
immigration, attracting substantial citizens from
the more inhospitable sections of the country,
where winter makes an early advent. In many por
tions of the southern states it is possible to com
fortably engage in outdoor work continually up to
Christmas, while a familiar sight in Atlanta is con
struction of various sorts proceeding in what is,
according to the calendar, the dead of winter.
The southern foliage just begins to be tinged
with yellow in the first weeks of October. Much of
it remains green until the severe frosts of Decem
ber and it is possible, even after nominal winter has
set in, to go out in the fields and see signs of plenty
of green life. Climatically, the southern autumn is
all that could be desired. It is a sort of second
sprjng, without the languorous, debilitating influ
ences of that season. It is full of the snap of ambi
tion and energy, without the disagreeable frost
bites which spell autumn, in the more northerly
Esthetically speaking, there is little in the south
ern autumn to put a check on good spirits. To be
sure, vegetation goes into winter quarters here,
temporarily, as it does elsewhere; but its disappear-
that peculiar relish some people show when de- a nce is so gradual and unpremeditated that lts re-
famin<r a private individual or even a section, fcm- turn in the spring often seems onlj a mild recrudes-
clair declares we engaged in the Mexican war and j cence.
Scientist Would Cure Childish Depravity by Hypnotism
OTHERS .b.,
state convention of Moth- j quite so much as the paper of Dr. J j .. Jn practica i .hypnotics,” Dr. Quaeken-
ers - Club held ln Sandy D. Quackenbos. of New York, on. the bQs told his heaTers “the best thing one
Hill, N. Y.. recently to ge: power of mothers to train their children ha K to give is himself, but he must be
new ideas on the rearing i n right thought and action through byp- as his inspiration. The regenerating
of children got .them. ; no tic influence* There were about 800 force is measured exclusively by the quai-
There were almost as persons ln the audience, the majority of Jty of soul in him who suggests,
manj* theories as delegates, jthem mothers, and they were variously i Suggestion of this h gh ordei
and fathers and others ' m0V ed by wonder, amusement and mysti-
tolerated by courtesy or 1 fixation during the reading of the taper
invited to instruct the
order is ca-
| pable not only of transforming char-
1 acter. but of opening men’s hearts to the
! divine illapse. On the contrary, to de-
The doctrine was new to almost all and fleet by suggestion from the perpendicular
- mothers presented opinions the ex position of it bewildering to those ;of right a pneuma governing its body
'° va rlod and so novel that w i, 0 w - cre hearing it for the first time, along ethico-spiritual lines is practically
notebooks bulged large But the lecture produced a great im- j impossible to a Jiuman agent Hence,
pith their contents at the end of the ; pression and gave the mothers some- '
thing to think about, report to their 1 CONTINUED ON LAST FAGE.
of the county.
Second to the accidental deaths on
the rail are the accidents due to the burn
ing of barns and outhouses in which
tramps who smoke take shelter. In the
course of a year scores of these peripa
tetic ones go to sleep ln the hay of a
bam loft and their ashes are sorted out
in the morning. Nothing will alarm a
farmer more than to discover that tramps
have been sleeping 'in a distant barn or
crib. He is not afraid of possible thefts:
his fear is of the tramp’s matches and
the tramp’s pipe. In many sections of
the country, too. in the dry seasons, the
campfire by the roadway menaces the
whole drought-stricken territory.
Exposure kills more tramps than or
dinarily is suspected. -Many of these
rnen are addicted to excessive use of
whisky or of alcohol in some other form,
and for years the medical fraternity has
recognized that the man who drinks to
excess has few chances against pneu
monia when it has attacked him. The
late Dr. N. S. Davis, nestor of physicians
in Chicago, used to say that when a
drunkard got pneumonia his kinsmen
might as well order the coffin. The same
observation holds doubly true of the
tramp who has it, for the reason that he
has small opportunity to protect himself
from the weather while he is ill.
THIEVING TRAMPS SHOT.
Not a few of these wayfarers are killed
in their prowling* through the country.
They are tempted to make levies upon
hen roots and even pig pens, and the
farmer in many sections occasionally
reaches for his double-barreled gun and
injures the fellow to the extent of bring
ing about gangrene and death by that
means. The tramp’s bad blood and lack
of cleanliness generally predispose him
to this poison of the gunshot. Not infre
quently, of course, the heavy shot in the
gun leaves the corpse where it fell.
Again, where the man is injured and
trailed down, he may become a candi
date for death in prison, as many courts
throughout the country have an Idea that
state's prison for' a criminally disposed
tramp is much the cheapest disposition of
the man for life.
The barrel house victim from the tramp
family is one of the most pitiful of spec
tacles connected with the tramp death
roll. The lowest rung In the ladder of
life is reached by this miserable speci-
ment of manhood, whe finds death ip the
low, dark, reeking back rooms of tbe
barrel house "joint.” There, when death
has come In unexpectedly to-the keeper
of the place, the victim most frequently
has fallen out of his chair, to be found
in the morn;ng crumpled, stiff and stark
on the floor—the death that one would
•spare a dog, if he could.
Within a few years a new menace has
come to the tramp In the roadway. It
is the automobile built for speeding. In
the last year a number of tramps have-'"
died under the wheels of these fl:ers over
the country roads. Probably they will
never approach the menace that the rail
road train is, but they are worth the
consideration of the “profession.”
As nobody has ever been credited with
seeing the proverbial "dead mule,” so
nobody is suspected of ever having seen
a reformed tramp. But there are stories
from the wheat country and from the
cow country of these fellows “shang
haied” from through freight trains at
water stations and harnessed to the
reaper or to the “chaps” and the saddle,
finally to come to the spirit of labor, to
adopt its philosophy, and at last to die
respected citixens of a community.
But these examples are few.
tramp, always a tramp."
i
Written for She Sunny South
HERE are few, if any, coun
try or village homes where
bee-keeping may not be
carried on profitably, even
If only to supply the fam
ily with honey. There are
thousands of acres suited
• to bee-culture in the
United States, forest,
prairie, swamp and moun
tain. Lowlands that have
not yet been put under
cultivation, either because
the soil was not attractive,
or because of too remote transportation
facilities. Even In the large cities, where
the gardens are hardly large enough to
permit their owner to turn around In
them, bees may be kept. Nor need this
assertion cause surprise when one con
siders that In such populous places, fowef
lovers are compelled to mass their treas
ures. Bees often find better pasturage
In the cities than In some country loca
tions. because ln the former the flowers
cost time and expense, and human n autre
is prone to value that most which is dif
ficult of attainment. For this reason the
yards and gardens of cities are well
filled with the sweetest scented flowers,
and so the bees find the nectar they
seek concentrated in small spots, while
in the country they have to seek far and
wide for the same amount of sweetness
Therefore even the denizens of cities
need not go without their one or two
hives of bees, unless they choose. 'Wash
ington, our capital city, is a shining ex
ample of this truth. The city bees,
and there are many of them, fare better
during the spring and summer months
than their country cousins near by. The
city bees find plenty of pasture among
the numerous gardens and parks and
shade trees. One reason for this is that
the common American linden has been
planted extensively in the parks and
streets of Washington, and these trees
are especially rich irt their store of nectar-
filled blossome. Then, too, In many of
the vacant lots, and odd corners of the
gardens, the Bokhara, a sweet clover,
has established itself, and this yields an
abundant flow of neetar. All this the
city bees know, and act accordingly. So
much for Washington.
A CITY HIVE.
BuT these are not the only prosperous
city bees. On the roof of a business
block in Cincinnati is an apiary of thirty
or forty colonies, and their enterprising
owner takes from forty to fifty pounds
of honey from each colony every year,
leaving enough to sustain the bees
through the long winter. On the roof
of more than one business block In the
very heart of New York city, there are
many hives of bees that are prospering
and storing away honey for their own
ers. So you see that no one who wants
to try bee-keeping, either for pleasure
or profit, need be deterred because 6e
IL-es in a city or village. Surrounding
regions that are so rough, swampy, or
rocky as to be of no value for crops, will
often yield a good income to the bee
keeper. The most apparently worthless
shrubs and weeds wfll furnish good pas
turage for bees. This is one great point
In- favor of bee-culture—the ability of the
bees to range over wide areas, and to
utilize waste products, in a radius of
three or four miles of their home. There
are very few localities in this country
where som> bees may not be profitably
kept.
There are many who would have at
least a few hives for home use. If they
couid rid themselves of the fear of that
-hot little fut” that the Irishman tolc.
his friend about, as belonging to a
ty tittle Insect he caught one day. But
in truth there is less to fear than is
generally supposed. Any one who -is not
nervous, and has some patience and
courage, can easily learn to control ana
handle bees. They are not. as a rule,
half so black as they are painted. Us
ually the beekeeper can so manage his
charges as to escape any stings at all.
but even where care is not taken to
avoid all stings, the system In most
cases becomes acclimated, as it were, to
the poison, so it becomes innocuous _
Some keepers, in beginning the business,
have the nerve to deliberately court
tbree or four stings a day until rhey
cease to feel the pain of the wound.
Again, there are a few persons who
are so susceptible to the sting of a
bee. that a single sting will have se
rious consequences. 'But such unfortun
ates are very rare. Sometimes, when
great many stings are received at
once, the results may 1 be fatal. The
Once a ! writer had a great uncle who, because
i of an overturned hive, was attacked'
by hundreds of its angered inmates.
Blood poisoning set ln, and after a pain
ful 1%h;sk of over a year, the grave
afforded the sufferer relief. In those
progressive days, the result might have
been otherwise.
Bee-keeping is an outdoor ocupation
that can be followed by persons lead
ing sedentary lives, to the benefit ot
their health. There is money in it,
too, not millions, but a very fair in
come, if the work is rightly undertaken.
There is less than no use in attempting
bee-keeping unless .intellibenee, persever
ance and care go hand in band. This is
not one of the very rare instances whers
something may be had for nothing.
In large apiaries the prime object is
the money that may be made out of th^
labor of its winged people. To obtain
the utmost profit that is possible, hard
work, and this at stated times, times
stated by the begs, not by the keeper—
is imperative. In no pursuit is the right
time Inr doing things more important
than here. The beekeeper is ofteh the
slave of bis charges, not their master.
If he wants them to do their best for
him, he must do the same for them, and
just when they are ready- Bee-keeping
may seem like play to those who -have
rever tried it on a large scale. But no
sensible person can expect to embark
ln any calling as an income making
business without giving It full and care
ful attention. Bee-culture, like all other
branrnes of agriculture, is largely de
pendent on its location. Profit or no
profit are also in a measure dependent
on favorable or unfavorable weather.
■No matter how careful and skillful tile ;
management may be, the weather Is a
factor that t-he beekeeper cannot con- ;
trnl. Knowledge, skill, industry, prompt- j
ness, watchfulness, all these have much,
very much, to do with the income that
may be derived from an apiary. The
kira^and nearness of the markets -has
arso a good deal to say about the greutc
or lesser returns.
With a fairly good location for bee- j
pasturage, good winters and ordinary i
seasons, each colony should yield 20
pounds of comb honey, or 30 to 35
pounds of extracted honey. With an
extra good location for honey producing
plants, a still larger yield may be ex
pected. Extracted honey of good qual
ity. sells at wholesale for about 6 or
7 cents a pound, and comb 'honey at 12
to 13 cents. Each hive should give a
gross return of S2.50 to *3. About one-
third of this amount will probably have
to be deducted to cover expenses, out
side of the labor account. These ex
penses include the purchase of comb
foundations, sections. t,,e repairs and re
placing of 'hives, and implements, and
interest on the^ capital Invested.
It sometimes happens that there are
weak colonies In the apiary, in such
case the best plan Is to merge two into
one, taking away one of the queens. Or
dinarily such a drastic proceeding would
lead to a free fight between the two
colonies thus brought together. For bees
know their own citizens, not by sight,
but by sense of smell. To overcome this
acute sense ,of theirs, ln the interests of
peace, the best plan is to play a joke
on the bees. All the beekeeper has to do
Is to fill an atomizer with camphor wa
ter, or almost any other harmless strong-
smelling liquid, and send the spray flying
over .both colonies. Then they may be
placed In one hive without the least dan
ger of a civil war, because they all
smell alike, and the worst belligerent
cannot tell " ’tother from which.” Thus
"they live happily together ever after.”
LOCALITY MUST BE WATCHED
If the beekeeper resides in a specially
favorable locality, where large linden
forests are near, where there are clover
fields of buckwheat, where mangoes,
palmetto, till, sourwood, the tulip tree,
are plentiful, the net profits, as above in
dicated, may be trebled. But of course
there may be drawbacks even in such
favored localities. Droughts, freezes,
floods, fires are no respecters of bees or
bee pastures, any more than of persons.
Therefore, though in some years the
profits are so large as to look like the
actual attainment of wealth for anyone
who can secure one or two hundred colo
nies of bees, the beginner in boe culture
will do well to advance cautiously, buy
ing experience as he treads the pathway
to success.
When a poor season comeg, as it may
at any time, the beekeeper needs to un
derstand his charges, to take energetic
action, and to. make some sacrifices to
tide over the evil time without actual
disaster. It a does not do to get so dis
heartened as to neglect the hives, and
thus cause a loss of bees and of business
that courage might have avoided. But,
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.
Busy World
The threatened embroglio between
England and Russia bids fair to be set
tled amicably. Both powers have agreed
to submit the matter to an impartial
arbitrament. In the meantime, the-.Roa-
sian Baltic fleet will remain at Vigu,
Spain, so that various officers and piu- t
ot its armament may have the oppor
tunity to testify before the arbitration
board. England, for a time, was vast
ly excited by the report that the Baltic
fleet had ignored all provisions of this
understanding, by starting afresh on Us
journey, that it was being pursued by
the British Gibraltar fleet and that the
fortifications at Gibraltar were bein^
prepared to dispute the passage of tuc
Russians. For a time, these wild re
ports Intensely agitated th e nation. Fi
nally the state department entirely
denied them, thus putting a quietus on
what threatened to become a national
panic.
Sporadic actions are reported from
Manchuria, although no well-defined bat-
lias taken place. Apparently, each
side is zealously watching the other,
prepared to institue or resist aggression
tlie moment it becomes manliest. By
lar, the greatest activity of the week
lias been at Port Arthur. The Japs
have been persistently hammeriog at the
defenses. They are reported to have
carried fort after fort, and to have al
ready begun undermining operations.
Deep gloom pervades Russia on account
of the report that it is the plan of the
Japanese commander to reduce the
fortress on the birthday of the mikado,
which, by an odd coincidence, occurs on
the anniversary of the present czai's
accession. The Russian war office »
attempting to bolster up the confidence
of the people by calling attention U
the superb manner in which General
Stoessel has resisted the encroachments
of the enemy, but in view of the re
cent radical advances made by General
Xogi, this is found to be a decidedly
difficult undertaking. As a matter of
fact, the Russians appear to have steeled
themselves to hear the most depressing
news, which is expected hourly.
OGORO TAJiAHI-
.{A, the Japanese
ninister to the Uni-
.ed States, is criti-
-ally ill in New
York, tbe result of
an operation for ap
pendicitis. The news
came as a surprise
to officials as the
ninister was appar
ently In the best of
health when he ar
rived here recently
Kogoro Toitahtra from Washington.
Mr. Takihira is one of the most able
diplomats of Japan. Besides having held
the positions of-secretary and vice min
ister of foreign affairs at Tokio, he has
served as minister at Vienna, Rome and
The Hague. He was appointed to his
present position in 1900.
ENERAL ANDRE,
he French minister
>f war, may resign
is a result of the
mtelitillatlons in
the chamber of dep
uties, as the action
of that body in sus
taining Ms adminis
tration by only four
votes and then only
n the roundabout
way of voting . the
confidence of the
deputies in the cab-
Generat Jlndrr tnet as a whole,
renders his position extremely precari
ous. The opposition to Andre has been
gathering for some time, and recently
the newspapers, including some owing
allegiance to his own party, have been
printing severe gtrictures on his alleged
methods of espionage on army officers.
He is accused of fostering socialism and
religious persecution ln the army.
1EUTENANT GEN
ERAL OSCAR KA-
SIMOROVITCH DE
CP.IPFNB E R(i,
who a few weeks
ago was chosen to
command the sec
ond Russian army
in Manchuria, js a
Finn of noble de
scent. Practically he
has been summoned
from exile to take
this important posi
tion. He bad been
governor of the Finnish province of VI-
fcourg until two years ago. when he'
refused to carry out an order against
the Finns Issued by the late governor
general, Bobrikoff. The result was that
he was removed from office and prohib
ited to enter Russia. A few months
ago. howevex, he was permitted to re
turn. and now is honored with this cov
eted command. General Gripenburg Is
over 67 years old and is 6 feet I inch
tall. He has the reputation of being
a keen soldier and a daring leader.
Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresbord,
commander of the channel squadron,
whose ships, it is said, are prepared to
bar the way ft the Russian Baltic fleet
past GibralOar, is one of Britain's fa
mous naval commanders. He com
manded the Condor at the oom-
tardment ofz Alexandria in 1882,
ln which he displayed remark
able courage; later served on Lord
Wellesley’s staff in the Nile ex
pedition, and led the naval brigade in
battles ln Egypt, being mentioned in the
dispatches for gallantry and receiving
votes of thanks In parliament and the
house of lords. Three times he has been
a member of parliament, representing
the city of Waterloo, the east division
of Marylebone and York. He resigned
as lord commissioner of the admiralty
in 1889 on a question of Increasing the
ships of the fleet. For bravery he often
has been commended; has been awarded
three medals for life-saving, and for spe
cial aid to a French vessel received the
thanks of the French government. Lord
Charles comes from the old fighting fam
ily of Beresfords. His fathSr was tie
fourth marquis of Waterford and he
was born February 10. 1846. He has
traveled extensively, has been in Chica
go several times, and has made addreses
in various parts of the country. In 1890
his famous book, “The Breaking Up of
China,” was published. Lord Charles is
a companion of the Bath and knight
commander <^f the Victorian order. He
was made a vice admiral in 1897.
RIVER DYKE OF ASPHALT.
(From The Indianapolis News.)
Of course. Indianapolis does not boast
of being the most extravagant city in the
world, but it cannot fail to feel a little
"chesty” over the fact that it is building-
river dikes of asphalt. Along White
river, north of the River avenue bridge,
the city street department has piled as
phalt high, and it will serve as a pro
tector to the levee when floods again
visit this vicinity. The blocks of asphalt
came from Ohio street, when the In
dianapolis Traction and Terminal Com
pany tore up that street to put in it*
tracks.