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A fcluv ;uark lice meant that tbe ub enter to this copy of The News it be hind oa subscription, l'lcase make a pay meat as soou as con venient. 1 ; i POX. .TXrJJ MOUN1 AIRY, NORTE CAROLINA, THURSDAY. APRIL 10, 1913. NO. 33 c5r Li THE GOLDEN QUEEN Bf Frank When Fred Lenox arrived at his apiary in the Northern woods, he fuond the be.es storing honey fast. It was the middle of June, ami acre of wild ravperries were covered with bloom. The open k!oh-, on which stood the eighty white-painted hives, roared with wings. Cloud of bets, laden with honey and mad for more, hurried into the hives. They came by thousands, too fast to count. "With exultation Fred saw that the prospect was gocd for a thousand-dollar crop if he could Only keep down swanning. "NVitili his brother, he had es tablished thus bee-yard in, the Ontario wood three years before. It was ninety miles from home, and not far south of the Algon quin Xatioal nPark. '"very fort night duriivr the summer the boys took turns visiting the yard. At the season for extracting- the hm ey, they camped there together for a week or more. During the three years since they had estab lished the apiary it had showed an average yearly profit of $G00. It was a wild, rjugh country, twelve milts fnm th.1 railroad audi almost unsettled. Jame overflowed from the strictly pre served National Park, and .was plentiful. .Heaver damned the streams; the boys saw deer al most daily, and traces of moose were abundant. Hut an, apiarist in he busy -'ason has no time for sport, and Fred seldom had a ehance to hunt. On, this occasion hia work was to chek! swurMi'ri'jr. He u(,!cv W ed th: "extracting shajity," got out hi.s tools, light) d his smoker, and set to work. The hive that lie always examin ed first was one that contained ( priau bees. Th are particu larly valued. Cyprians are of a beautiful golden-yellow, and are remarkably energetic . workers but; th;y are so savage in tem per that few bee-keepers care to have them. They have such ex cellent qualities, however, that the boys hail planned to breed a strain ( f their blood into tbe apiary, and had paid eight dol lars for au imported Cyprian queen. Fred pried off the upper story of the CypriaiV hive, at;d found the lox almost full of honey. He drove the surging bees down witih i blast of smoke, and from the lower story took out two or three frames of comb covered with a yellow layer of excited bees. They swarmed up against Jin veil; they stung his bare hands; but in spite of their protest,' he saw what he had feared he would find a cluster of jtcanut-shapod queen-cells, each with a young embryo queen coiled at the bot tom. The iippeaarnee of tlie colls tvhawtd that the colony was on the point of swarming. Fred proceedtd to cut out the cells. Usually, cutting out the cells delays swarming, ami some tinuis prevents it altogether. At times, however, it seems to have no effect, and the, swarm issues just as if the queen-cells had not been d si roved. It may happen' that a cell is so hidden, that tlie bee-keepvr fails to see it, and the result, of leaving a single cell in 1h same as if all the cells had been left. After cutting out the cells, Fml went to the other hives. In almost all be found symptoms of tho swarming fever, and he work ed all the morning, destroying queen-cells and giving empty combs for storage room. After a late and hasty lnneh eon, he .started to work again, when, with a loud roar, a volley of Iwes issued frm ine of the liives. Ft.r several minutes the cloud of insects swirled wildly in the air; then it concentrated round the nearest tree, and final ly formed a brown cluster on one of the lower hi anehes. A boost before this swarm bad settled, am-ther, w it h a roar, emerged fnm a seeund hive, ed dud about and also began tojtumn, are u.so,tily timid in the cluster. And then a third colony j spring, aiul toe ikw antlers of Lillxe Pollock s.,vat'med. When bees are in the mood for it, the flying of a single swarm w ill sometimes set up a riot of Mwaruiing throughout ait apiary, evi;:i! iai colonies that otherwise would jhot have swarmed so soon. This tihird -swarm was followed by a fourth, thenr by a fitth; the hist two joim'd, and clustered to gt t.hcr in one enormous, bunch. Another swarm came out. Hees darkened the air, and theound was lake that of a tornado. With eiuvpty hive Fred hived s.mie of the swarms that he could rchUh easily, iuikI dashed water on hives that looked threat ening. He w;us surprised to see very few heed flying at fhe entraiu-e of th, Cyprians hive. It flashed upr his mind that th colony h id! vwanned. and, moreover, that they hatl swarmed so long apo that the excitement hatl subsid ed. Eagerly lot searched tho trees, in the h(."je of finding the swarm still clii.sterd. and cf be ing able to hive it. When at list he did find it, tli" Iwes Mert not elu'tered quietly, but were iir. a stite of exeitiiiunt. Fred wtm d -red whether the swarm had not vet fully jtottled. or whotlxr at had! been clustereil a long time, a i"H was n w prepaiii' to leave. He hastily statted to hive it, but b'-fore h; bad time to do so. the eles'tr suddenly traiwfornied it self into a swifli,i:f cloud of bees. For a few momejits the swarm eircltd about ; theu"off 'it sf irted. Fret! tore off hw veil and rush ed in pursuit; , the eight-djoJ"-arj (;!4;'HTi wits with that Nwarm. The ruKi-vways did not travel fist, and Frtd could s-, e the swarni gyrating and drifting like a cloud of smoke. Hut it moved too fast for him to keep piwc vitit it ovr that, rough ground. 1I held it iii sight for nearly quarter ('f a mill', and then it faded like mist on the sk . l'robably the bees had already iskvcted some holliW tree for the:X iiew home. Fretl determined to search the vmhLs. thoroughly the next day, anil to find the swarm if it wius within two miles. He went back to the apiary and sK tit the rest of the day in restoring -order there. That nighl he sh-t in the extract ing-hoiiM', m early the next morning he wils out on the trail of his Cyp rians. His outfit consisted of a pair of climbiiigdrons-, a sack, a veil, a smoker, and a small field-glass. He also carrivd a compass, and with this instrument he carefully sighted the "bee-line" tlua tbe swarm had taken. Along1 this line he advanced slowly, examining with his glass the toiw of all the tree, juid ca eciaJJy thf ttops of those that looked as if they were hollow. Hut for all his vigilance, he saw no sign of the gobl'itCy priaais. 4 lie was more than a mile from the apiary, stumbling along with his eyci on the tree-ttqus, when he was .stopjnl by a sound like a siiviwge, g-uttural grunt, apjarent ly close by. It wemed to Jiave conic fromi a Kui.se elir.mp of wil- lows and alders that 1 ranged a wnall . streiMin. As he gazed, Jie thought he sjiw in the thicket the form of a tall, dark animal apparently a deer. His con rue lay thronght the wil Iws, aiul he ailvawel, eager tt) g-t a. hndc at the aniunal. He parted the branches, ttHk a step or two. and had a clear glinime of a bull iikkm' standing in the sludlow water, ami glaring hI him with lowered head. The next moment tbe animal charged. At the same moment Fml jump! back, found himself beside a low -branched cedar, and sc ratm hied up it. He drew his legs out of reach jllht us the uiooM cra.".hl inio tlu tree with a force that jarred it to the nmt s. When j'red recovered bis brnitl he was amned at. this unprovok ed aftav-k. Hull moose, !lhougli sometimes dangerous in the au- this one had not eveik outgrown the "wlvet." Tlie animal was hardly in, fight ing trim, but he was clearly in a murderous tmnie.r. lie stamK-d, toiT up the eartli and bushes al)oiut the cethir, grittt d his teeth, and etx'ked his eye up at the unlucky apiarist with a balefij glare. Tlun, all at (lice, Frd sikw what was the m itter. The lower jmrt of the ' bulla right shoulder w::h mari-gled and torn witJi wounds that were evi dently not more than a day or two old. They might have been made by the claws of a bear or piuithcr, t.r by a lcxul of buckshot Obvioirdy, they were enouph to account for a gotnl deal of bad temper. The .bull's hostility did not last loitg. Fn d had turned tt hok up at the branches 'above; when he again ltKleed do.wni, Uie space lKititth him was empty. The morse hatl slipjxil silently away ii:to the woods. Whether h had gene far, or was men ly hidin-g in a near-by thvktt, Fretl could not teJl. He hesitated to ceme down, anl for .;.! e moments lee sat in the tree t(", looking about duiluously. Tliou, simething caught his' eye, and g-ane him a joyful surprise. About twenty yartlw away tiiere was a rrcat brtwuish lump elusternl at the tip of of a low maple sapling, which bent slight ly under its weight. Fred took out h& gliHs. The lrmp Wis a swarm t;f b.-cs. ans.1 the ins-ets shewed a bright golden yellow where the sunlight -triiek them. They looked, like his Cyprianrs. but he cud! hardly bdieve that they were the n"ctiniii.'g swarm. It. is rare for such a swarm .to rem clot red in the ojx'ii over uigjit at sui'h a distance from its home. However, bees do net fol low fixed rides, and Fred had s.Mii too mijeh 'unexpected be havior on th?ir part to be gmUly urpriL ' . .. - - -li The Ikms. however, were iiot lik-ly ti stay clustered much longer, arrl be was eagr to se cure thtm. Aft 'v waltiii?? several Tuinutfx, durifig which he neither -SJI.W m:r Iieanl anytliiiifr of his en my. h slid to the ground and h:ti-i:d to the maple Mplhug. Tlie bees were indeed his gol den Cy priujis ; tln-y nwule a faint mu-ieal murmur as they clung to gether. The tree on which they h ut cindered was several yards on one s'uK' of the IxH' liik', and Fnd would probafldy not have seen them if it had not Iteeu for his clcvatetl position. He luxl the moose to thank for tluit. They were out of reach, but it was easy to bend the sapling. Fred held the mouth of the sack under the swarm, then shook tlx tree, sharply. There was a sud tl.wi roar as a heavy weight drop ped into the sack. He had secur ed the whole swarm all except a fiw hundred bees, snic of which ihished against his face and tried to st'utg him. With igreat elation, Fred gath-ci-d up the rest of his outfit and turned back toward the apiary. Tlie .sack over his shoulder hum med and stirred with tile effortjs of the an;ry insects to get out. , He lutd gone hardly ten yards when soiuet-hiiug moved in the un derbrush. He Ktopped sttartletl. The next distant a fearful bellow fil.lctl the woods, and the wound cd bull burst through a erurtaiu tf low evergrtH'ius. Fretl turned, and still clinging to the sack, ran as fust as he could. Ftwtiuui-tely. tlie bull was lame from its Mounds a ci re u in stance that somewhat affected its tfjeid. As it was, Fitd was al most run. down; he saved himself only by leaping to oiu- side and changing his direction. All the time he kept on the lookout for a'trev that he could climb, and lie held fast to the ssu k ; he was ttetf rmini-d not to dnq it except us a last resort, for the mouth was not tied, and if he should let go of it, the bees would at iVnce tftca.'. Tlie hoofs of the hull clattered 1m hind him. Fred dodged wild ly again, swerved behind a tree, and caught sAht of a dead hcin locla triuik that was spiked with short branches, and leaned at d tided angle. It was almost as easy to climb as a ladder, and Fred scrambled Up it with his swarm t safety. Tlie bull's fury wius uneontroll- (Continued to Pa&e Five) WOMEN DEFY THE JUDGE. Standing en Seats Suffragettes ShrJtktd .ind Shctrted Anuths mas at tht Cc uit. Louden Aril 3. Mro. Fm rnoline 1'an.khurst, the lender of tho miilitajit suffragoWes, was to day ftund guilty and stuitenced to ' ree years' jMMial mrvitinle at the Old Itailey wssionu on the charge of inciting ptTscrts to entii mit tlaiinge. The trial required two days. The jury added to its verdict of guilty a sfnmg reetwiumentla titui for mercy, and when the judge ronounc(d the heavy sen tence of three years the end of women fci the court room roe in angry protest. As Mrs. Pankhmst stcol up in the prisoner's i tie Insure heir sym pathizers cheeresl wildly and then filed but of court sirring "March on. March on" to the tune of the "MarceillaLse." 4 Mis. l'ankhurst's elosiji ad dress to the jury lasted 50 miai utcs. She informed the court that 'she did i:d wish to coll ny witnesses. In' her (vldrcss she liequently w at id e ml so far from the matter before the court that the ju!ge consured. her. Mrs. l'au'klmirst denial any ma licious iricitnuent. "Neither I uir the other miiltant snffra getfes ar wicked or malicious," she slid. "Women are lift trietl by their peers, ard these- trials are an ex ample cf what women are suffer big iij order t obta'u their rights, l'tir -anally, I have had to surrci.xkr a larg part of my bietiiie iii or-der to. be free to participsite in the .sn-iffra.ge move ment." Fiercely Atticks BJim-Made Laws Speaking- with much feeling, Mrs. Pankhuist' fiercely criticise.! ?at -':ade hnvs. atrtdrw i& ttrtbs tlivorce law alotie was fiirffititfnt U jistify a reviJutioii 1" the women. In impa-ssiuiird tones she de clared: "Whatever may be the sen tence I will not submit. From the very moment I leave the court I will refuse to eat. I will civile out of prison dead or ailve at the earliest jwissible iiunuent." Justice Lush, in summing up, tobl the jury that Mrs. Pank h urst's SfjH'eches were aai admis skui tluit she had iflicited to the perpetration of ilbirsd acts. Mrs. Pauk hurst almost broke down when the jury prtuoiieed its verdict. Leading over the front of the prisoner's enclosure, she said: "If it is imiMssiile to find a different verdict, 1 wiuit to say to you and to the jury that it Is ytmr duty as private cntizeais to dn what you can to put an end to this state of affairs." Slic then ropcatcd her determi nation to (ind her sitnteiiee uis soon as possible, wying. "I tbui't want to eomnnit sui cide. Life is very dear to all of us. Hut I want to see the wt nien of th'iw country enfraiwhisetl. 1 want to live luitil that lias b-en dtaie. 1 will take the des perate remedy other womepi have takeai and I will keep it up as loi! as I have an ounce of strength. "I deliberately broke the law, not hysterically and not eiiaotion ally, but for a set and serious purpose. I honestly believe this is the cvnJy way. "This movement will go on w hether I live or die. Tliese wo nun will go on until winei have obtained the coflinnon rights of citizenship throughout the eiviliz cd world." Suffragett3 Went Wild. .Justice Lush said: "I must pjisti a severe soutejiiee on ytai. If you would realize the wrong -tui are doiitg aiwl use, our ud'luonce in the right direc tion, I would le the first to use :ny itest endeavors to secure a miligatioii f ytqr senteju-e. I ckKii.it aiul will not regard your crime as t rival. It is a most er- i ioiis one." Immediately the sentence of uirei' j, ears leu irom the judges bps tin women in the court room bioke twit in a chorus of "Shame I" aid "Outrage!" With Mi a. Pankhurst's defiance to the judge, "111 f ght! fight! fight:" still ringij.tf in their cars the .suf fragettes went wild. Standing on, the seats they shrinked and shmtel anathema at the court. For three jniimtes thev hehl fidl sway in the court room. The police were powerlea The judge's wumifftg that he vt;ii'd commit the entire partty ol women to prison for couttmpt fell on deaf ears. The women laugh ed at the judge's threat ami iney imaiiy leit tlie court sing ing the suffragette "battle Rong.' isnen a scene never oetore was witiusd at the (Jul Hailey. Outside the court rotnu the militant women tlefied the police. "Arrest ml Take us to jail! What do we care?" they shout ed. Hie street crowd greeted the suffragettes with a mingled chorus of groans, hUse-s and hoes. There is 7io possibility of Mrs. Pamkhurst serviiwr her sentence of three years. The suffragette leader will uutloubbsUy lie re leased under Horn .Secretary Me Keraia's nerw bill. Stokes Votes Bonds. Wins to nsSa Jein J ou r n al . Ijet's hear no more alniut the bakwanhiess of Stokes. The p'Wple ef that county did them selves proirt.1 Tuesday, when they voted an, aggregate of $10.-,000 in bt)nlH for the improvement of the public roads cf the county., The bonds were voted in, Mead ows, Paiabury and iSsuratown towuships. This will mean much for Stokes Ft r many years there have been a few untiriig men at work for the improvement of the highways of tlu county, but not before has the sentiment become sufficient even to justify holding an ihx tion. That the btm!s were car ried lny substantiid majorities in the' three townships shows that the jts,jile of ohl Stokt-s are., be ginnirig to 'wake upT Aisl when they do get thoroughly awake watch out ! We extend eonffratulatioiiK th the Daidmry Keporter, w hkh has log been an able and energetic champion tf gixul roads for Stokes county. Radium to Cure Cancer. Philadelphia, April 3. Physic ians f this city will watch with interest the result of an ounce of radiutm into the liver of MaLeorrn Watson, as a cure for cancer. Tlie operation was perfonutvl yestertlay in the Methodist Fpis ivpal ht-pital by Dr. (J. L Sh wartz. The nuliium was brought tt Philadelphia by Dr. Otto Hiirl, an Austrian chemist, now living in Pittsburgh. The tlose put into Watson's liver was worth just $2,o(H). It is believed that the radium rays will act on the earner as they do on a number of disease anl griulnj'.lly kill it. Several prom ineiiit mtHlical men witness! the tUHTiition. The onlly am-sthetie usel was a local application of cocaine. CONFIRMED PROOF. Residents cf Mt. Airy Cannot Dcut What Has Been Twice Proved. In gTatitude for relief from aches and paiiH of bad backs from distressing k'ubiey ills thousands have pubilcly m,.om mendtHl Doa iii's Kitlney 1'ilLs. llt- itlents of Mt. Airy wImi so tetif.i ed years ago, now say the results were permanent. ThU testimony iloiJdy proves the worth of Doan's Kidney Pills to Mt. Airy kitlney sufferers. Mrs. T. Snow, Factory St., Mt. Airy, N. C, says: "fhe iaifn in my back was often so severe thstt I could not do my house work. I also had dizzy sjm11h and, the kidney secretions annoyed me ; Some of niv friends spoke highly i of Doan's Kidney Pills and I got a lox. TJie results of their use were satisiacNiry. it was not three weeks before the trouble left me. I am ghid to confirm the end or- mejit I gave Doan's Kidney Pills a few years ago." For sale by all dealers. Price f0 cents. Fter - Milburn Co., Huff do, New York, sole agenU for the Cuited Statea. Keinember the name- Doan's and take no other. MONTENEGRO TAKES GREAT TARABOSCH. Powerful Turkish Fort Captured by Use cf Bomb Throwers. (Vttinjc, April 2. C:'J0 p. m. (Jreat TaraJiomdi fort, which for months has held the Allies off Scutari, is now practically i the hiuetls of the Montenegrins, tlnuiks to the sacrifice of 200 bomb-throwers, every ne of wIloiu lost his lift? in a last des perate effort to clear the way to the town, for the possession of which Montent-gto w reiuly to give up everything. The lamb-throwers were all picked men, chosen from several battalions. Clambering up 'the mun til inside luidcr a ..jpurderou fire from the Turkish guns, they cut the wire entuiiglement.si and, getting to -close quarters, threw iKml among the Turks, thus opuniug the way fur the storming jxirty. Not one of the botiib throwors returned but they had accomplished their tdject aaid the MoTitencgrui infantry following close upon them charged the trenches. The Turks covered their ground ajul a desperate, bloody, hand-to-hand fight ensutd. htstiig an hour iuul ending in victory for the Montent grii.s, who lest 3,0X) men killed t.zd woundexl. Tier after tier of entrench ments luil to be taken but the troops of the Southern Division n.'idcr (Seneral Martiuovitch, ttt whom the ta' had. beeji assign ed, overcame all obstjudes. Tlie tactics followed particu larly hi rt-jard to the use of bomb-throwers, were s'mi'ar to thos- ad ptnl in the e apt we of Adriaui pU. Hut, in the advance on Adriawple, thf soldier who cut aul tlivuled the wire entait-gh-uii-ints, surrmir.ding the furts were clad hi cuirasses iukI pro vi bsl with shields. At Taraboseh the rough inoinitainvjde mr.le it necessary with all impediments. Sacrifice cf MontcncgTC. LoimIoii April 2. .Just as Mon tenegro has scored her fi;-st real sneeis by getting a foot he Id at Tarabosch. the key to S-ut:iri, the warships of the Powers are gatherirg afoiig the coast to compel her to give up the most prtx'ious fruits of five months' fighting. After a aeries of desperate en gagements the Montenegrins, as sist is 1 by the Servians, are prac tically in ctmmand of Tarabcsch. Simultaiict thly with the arrival tvf thU news came the further in fonnation tluit Austrian warships are am-ho ml off Antivari, aixl that Hritish. and Italian wai-shi arc on their way to join thean for the purptwc of making a demon stration whkdi is approved by all the Powers, not excepting Kus sia. Shouhl the demonstration jirove ine.ffts tive it is understood that the Montenegrin ports of Anti vari and Didcigno will be oecujv h-d. Whtsi the Mont-iiegrku troiille is out of the way it is likely that the Powers will have to deal with Servia. She has informed tlie Hritish Minister tliat it was imiossi!,le to withdraw her troops froiii Serutari, as Sema wjls lMiml to Montenegrin until peace has been sigin-tl and that ain- tlraw iug back at the present time would In- the death k lit II of the Halkan Alliance. .Servia, too, is reported to be prcixiring' for the permanent occupation Durazzo. This action would direct lv against the ilecision of be of the Powers. Elsewhere matters are moving smtwithly. An agreement has practically heeiw reached with re- gartl to the boumlary In-tween Turkey and Hulgaria, although Hulg;ui:i is guarding against any slip in the eace negotiatitnw and is tiitmug virtually the whole of her Adriiuiwple Army to Tetha talja. The capturetl town will be left in possession of genLirmes. A partial agrtkmtsit also is re ported as haii?g been arrangod betwcisi Hulgaria and liumania, the latter getting Silistria. Mother Qray't Sweet Powder for Children. Kelive FevcrlHhnpfs, Ilad Stoiu arh, TeethinK )isort!erit, move nntj rcRulato the lioel and ar a pleas ant r-niety for Worms. I'scd by Mothers for 22 )tar. Th"y nver fail At nil diUKglsu. 2..C. K,iin ll Fiv. AiMri.s, Alien S. Olm tsJ. URoy, N. Y.