I HOW TO HOST THE BUSY BEE. Second Greatest Km par la the World Knows All Thalr Sign Language *04 Can Tall Thalr Geed Points hr Looking nl Thom—A Profitable Invest ment II Properly Cared far. St. IjOtiU Rt public. "Stand perfectly still. Walk slowly ami without waving yonr hands. If one of tbcin conies at you don’t duck your bead or jump to one tide.’’ These arc the instruction* that greet visitors who enter the side door of the Horticulture Annex at the World's Fair. The speaker is a little tnan, with wnowwliite beard sad blue ryes that twinkle. One is apt to think that the little man is malt ing fuu of them, because he has an amused look, but he is not, and if you are wise you will fol low his instructions to the letter. The man is Francis Dameen bakei, the second greatest bee keeper in the world. Mr. Han zen baker has made a thorough study of bee*. He know* all their sign languages and their habits. He can tell all about a bee's good points by looking at it. He can tell yon whetbei they are good honey gatherers, whether they are fighters or whether they arc robbers. It is bard to aland perfectly still and not fight hack when a whole army of bees Hy at yon. and you think they are going to sting you to death. The stand ing still bpslhess is rather nerve racking. "Bees are not cross without s cause—that is, Itslisn bees," said Mr. Danrenbaker. "The fearsome motions of people irritate the bees. Bee* are sticklers on deportment. Those who move quietly and wait a bit now und then can do hs they please with them. While they arc hustlers themselves, they resent quick movements in people. "I have worked a week with Italian bees without receiving a sting, by polccting the face and bands. Stings hurt some, and it does not pay to be hurt, merely to boast ol being brave. So. in handling bees, it is safer to wear protection against accident. can’t fool bees. "You can’t fool bees. They have more sense than we have. They are finer architect* than man. With all bis cunniugness, mau has not been able to pro duce a substitute for the bee’s building material—beeswax. "A machine has been invented whereby foundation comb can be produced, but it must be made out of pure beeswax, and it must be made thin. If it is not very thin the bees will tear it down, aud if there is in it any thing but pure beeswax the bees will also tear ont the foundation comb. Some people thought they would fool the bees by us ing pariffin in the foundation, bot the bees would not be hum bugged; they threw it out in a hurry. Thit I alb flhmit mnniifartnrpr) honey is bosh. You can adulter ate strained honey with glucose, but you cannot matinfactur honeycomb. The comb would .be so heavy that people would not buy it. The machine has not been invented that will make honeycomb thin enough, and at the tame time strung enough to hold the honey. The oees have a copyright on honey comb, and tntsy won’t give it up. All comb honey is pure. "We nee the manufactured foundation, which is made of pure beeswax, so that tbe comb will be even and the cells small; what beekerpers call worker’s size. The bees grow wise and make the drone sise cells, be cause it is leas work, but it does not make as good au appear ance as the smalt site cells, so, for commercial reasons, the manufactured foundation i ■ ed in the sectlous. The take hold of the edges and build out tbe comb.” "How long have you been a beekeeper?” I asked the sage. Hit eyes twinkled. This mao who understands bees, as most folks think they understand children, is a worker, as are bia bees, for all the while he was telling tbe bee story he was working with them. He is slow and decided in his movements, deliberate in hia speech. When he talks you are convinced he knows his subject, and that he baa something of Interest to asy. • "The first experience ! ever had with beee was when f was a little fellow, rodling at the heels of my grandfather, f can re member perfectly well the first time I went into the garden with him to kelp him with a •warm of bees. He bad 900 stand*. I have worked with them ever since. Italian sees tuis oust. "The Italian bees arc the best. They combine more good points with (ewer faults than all other races. We are no longer depen dent on importation oi these bees, for Americans in bee cul tnre are like Americana in any thing else; they are not satisfied with the good. They want something better. And they have better beet than Italy ever dreamed of producing. "That one, there," aaid Mr. Datizenbaker. pointing to a large bee in a i^lass covered hive, "it* "Sunshine and abode both are good for bees, the ann first in the morning, late at evening in the spring and fall; in the wiuter all day. They require about 109 degrees in brood-rear iug and honey-curing. When they are in h temperature of 110 degrees it becomes n burning burden, and expels the bees from the supers. Then it is time for shade. If the heat is intense the combs will stretch and fall to ruin* from deep frames. •4 r* • - .4. 4 4 4 * (Ull IICVB IIIHk SIICU iUCir ' leaves in the winter are the best natural protection. If these arc uul available, boards of suitable length, or a yard of] thick cotton painted pure white, and laid on the cover and held itf place by loose boards make an excellent shade and b'lpa to maintain a uniform temperature by keep iug oft the chilling dew and rain. "Bees are not cross without a cause. If any hive is being robbed or honey left out for them to get at, it may make them crosj. Tcariug off the covert and smoking them afterward exasperates them. It U too much like a bad master who gives a word aud a blow, aud gives the blow first. "Always give the smoke first, and the bees will get in at the fi'st smell of it. Snakes, toads and ants will make them cross. Tbc old bees do the stiuging cool days or cool mornings or evenings, or a day after a rain, when there is uo houcy to gath er. These old fellows are at home and do not mean to be disturbed. On warm days, be tween 9 iu the morning and 4 in the evening, the old ones are ont or too full of honey to fight, aud the bees can be bandied as you please. Very young bees do not sting. If hives stand loo close together in warm, dry weather with no honey to gath er, they will trespass upon each other just enough to be cross and ugly. ARK EASILY HANDLED. "Bees are very easily handled if properly smoked. Blow some smoke into the entrance of tbc hive to start the bees in the hive. Give them a few whiffs in the entrance, no more than they can take and stay in. Then smoke the next hive a little to maice rnriu mind their own business. In ca*e of a cross colony, give to them as raucb more as tbi y can bear, and give the hive a jar. then wait two minutes and smoke and jar again. In five minutea after the first smell ot smoke they will be too much gorged with honev to kick if you tear the roof off and all the partitions out of their home. The aim of smoking is to get them to eat ing and too full of honey to fight. When bees get roused outside the hive they dodge the smoke and keep on fighting. "If one should be stun* by accident, bring the hand back atd wipe off the bee and stiug together before the poison can enter the fleah. I*eaye the hive at once and suiok'e or wash off the odor of the sting, and the bees will not notice it, but if the odor is left, more and more will Ming. A little smoke just aa they are threatening will subdue them at once* “While bees work for nothing and pay their board, they are times when it pays to feed them.; The yonngest and belt queens are likely to crowd their comb with eggs and force storing honey in snpers, leaving the brood nests lean for winter or they may breed up in the spring to starve old and young together before the flowers bioorn "Other colonies may store less in supers, and gorge the brood neat with honey, cratnplog the queen for cells to raise the young bees for winter, so tbst the old bees die in the spring, with tht hive full of hooey be lor* young bees are raised to take their place. Such colonies can be saved by exchanging bees and brood from oae cate to aaother, according to the honey 5/hen frames of sealed honey are not to ba had bees may be fed with the best granulated sugar.” The live bee exhibit is oue of the most interesting in the Horticulture exhibit Mr. Dsxen* bsker never tires of talkiug about bis pet hobby, the bees. And if visitors follow this in teresting exhibit without feeling the weight of tbe bee’s sting. Q. A R. REUNIONS. Xm'IUk* *.# (■■araln After a frp. tratUa of Over Writ (nr,. Evriy ■ .icnn>;iiocnt of til# rim ml Ar my >>.' Ilia Itat-uld'c. aaja ll« Bjatoa □ erald. bns It* unexpected mod Inga of eowirat-wi who hare not avail »ncli other flU'-a Uta civil war. Ono of Ulo axial itilLiiiK of tliu«c occurred la a Sctiool straw tTotiumr.t tn Boston it tha ro cem i uri inpuictit. Colonel (X O. Jan ul oon of CrccnvUle. Mich., wbo wai grit Uaetciuiut of Company U. fourth Nrw IIjrillalilro volunteers. wnf fating ).!■ dluucr when auolitvr veteran. aittiug oppaaltr. aoid, "Wall. comrade wbat raglmont wvra you Inf Culuucl JcuuUcoi answered end then nalcMl n.v atrr.usar wiu> lilt tint llao tob.mt was. Tlx man rrpllad. “A fal low of tiie ueihe of JcnnUon.” "WeU, I am La." responded the colonel. A ad tha two mto tlien shook kaodi for tha Brat Clue la forty-two years. TUe oth er l>arty to tills pleasant encounter was K. A. Putnam of Ilyaimls. A ctoup of veterans wearing the red diamond badge uuUlued by g-okl curd ou4hoir bate weru abrading an Trcmoat atrcel w Iwii an old tell„ -r wearing tire Min* bridge "butted la” and said. "Hel lo. Orrtmoar to one of t)>e dlatlnguif b ad si-pi-lsunoTu of war. Deputy butH.-r’.nit-ov'ent of I'ellco Or rlntoo U. Qnnacoui for (bat was tlw man tbo old soldier (poke to—turned a run ad and ad Id. "llcBo; who ays you? Too don't know ora." “Ob. yea, I do." said tiro old one. “Too are Orris ton Hannconi. Ton used to be the drummer boy of Company If. Borooleenth Ualne. Find division, Third rnriM. I waa your lieutenant, and I Itars not seen you aim* our regi mes I was inuatsrrd out at Arlington. Washington, ou Juno 4. UMo. after Uw war woe all over. TList's thirty-nine years ago." “Oh. yea; yon are tight" aakl Deputy Haasroiu. "I know you now. Ton are Lieutenant Kohert H. HaUies." Then they shook leu sis aod bad a talk, awappad eaoteena aod a-eut to po lk* hcudquurtrrs. where Deputy nans cuau U-unn to entvrulu bis former olll eer. wlto now belongs to H oeklyu post Nft 3CK, fl. A. n., of Cleveland, U. DAVIS IN BUSINESS. •ample of fbe Vies PmU.atkl InalsMV aaperite. Walter Crowder of West Virginia tolls n uumber of good tLories about the bnalncae an parity of ex-Senator Henry o. Darla, tba Democratic Hot presidential candidate, says the Kansas City Journal. Here U one: “About thirty years ego be wnntad to buy sane curl lauds without lotting tbo owner know bo trained Ihoru. Tbo owner wauled to sell without letting Davis know be tvumed to. (t look the two a locg time to pot togotlier, ao ex cessively cnimotw were they. Finally. bowoTer. they met and came abruptly to the scratch. “•now much/ sshed Davis "‘A root million and not n rent lets,* ibo other r*|>lnrla Mid: “ ‘Why did yon ink mo $1.0001100 for that LtuilT Tbe nollcr replied: " 'Hecansr 1 thought yoo’d be fool enough to glee It. Why did you offer me $130000 / '“Became I thsuglit you'd bo fool enough to lake H.’ Tltey hugbnd. wink ed. nhook huodn and Imte boon rlone friends ever since " CANES FOR WOMEN. •d»»«w Wslklnn lllekn tbe m« *» ItWfiH. toclety bat takus ta the jeweled ran*. Inst why no one nouns to kn-jw, but Miking stick* srltb Jowoe tie now the fiul in Newport, nay* tbe New York Brnolng World. It may bo that tbo rooty Lsltnd mo tom of ereiy ono coming homo with • ease la raspoiarible far It, hot tbe Coney Island cut* would scarcely shlno alongside tbe Newport article, which hi a wny closely rtsemblce the walk lug stick so often sees In the btode of tbe British officer at Alder shot Ybe enno proper Is a littlo bamboo nffiiir not moT* tbao two (oat In length end In tipped srltb n stiver or fold for rule. It Is carried by tbe women, and H l» the be mile that rants tbe money. Bom* of dm sticks are sledded with diamonds mull they are no henry wtrh stone* nml in* *<-ubi** that Umy nrn almost wnighty mnmgii for g weapon. Others have various peum In theta, aed the sort sty lmW> In Kosrpert dis playing Uietr etino* Is ono of tbe sight*, it fa s fed that wilt Hut until tbe rtdoe ■tonee and rut glass nr* used ns iqb. ttltutec. ADMISTlATOrS NOTICE. i FUTURE or INDIAN TERRITORY S«a* Facto About am Emmirs ia Um Savtbweat DtolatJ far Sfatabood. W. UUt Glow IlHMRM. The Indian Territory figures in tnc popular mind ait a locality peopled by the Indiana solely. Tbi* i« a mistake. A larger asm. oer of Indians are in it, however, than are located in any other community. These belong to the five civilized tribes. At the present time there are enrolled 35,255 Cherokee*. 23.573 Choc taws, 15,350 Creeka. 9,713 Chic asaws. and 2.753 Seminolrs, or 80,653 in the aggregate. Then there are in thu northeast cor ner of the Territory, close to the Missouri line, aboot 1,506 In dians, remnants of the Shawnees, Peonas, Quapaws, aui other tribes, living on reservations. These 88.000 Indiana com prised only a small portion of what the general public understand* by Indian*. Among tlie 86.651 members of the five civilised tribes, there are a little lets than 25,000 full bloods. The t*it comprise mixed blood* (41,629) of various degrees of dilutmi) up to 99 per cent, white, most of wuviu tuuiu not LX! auunguuued from pttre whites; intermarried whites 1,389), nnd freedom (18,* 790) who are the slaves ol the days preceding 1865 or tbeir descendants. AH of these are classed as Indians for the pur pose of participation iu the dis tribntion of tribal property. As the five tribes have been gov erning themselves for many de cades, it can be easily under stood that the term civilised, as applied to them, is something more thau a mere figure of speech 1 hey have towns, schools, banks racrcantile establishments, man ufactories, newspapers, church es, and all the rest of the accom paniment* of enlightened com munities. The white inhabitants of the Indian Territory ontnumber the Indians, actual and constructive, at least five to one. There are in the neighborhood of 550,000 or 600,000 people in the Indian Territory in 1904, all except 88, 000 of whom are whites who have immigrated from the rest of the country or from Europe, or the descendants of immi grants. They ore as progressive people as are found in any other pan ol the L'uited Stales. Lin der the bill which recently pass ed the House and which will go through the Senate in the ap proaching teasion. the Indian Territory will be joined to Okla homa, and they will be admitted as a State under the name of Oklahoma. The Indian Terri tory has a great future. Nr. L L. Nun to Marry . The Charlotte Chronicle of the 7th says: "Mr. R. L. Mason will leave to morrow morning tor Knoxville, Tenn., where on the 10th instant, he will be married to Miss Mamie Hadgctt, uf that city. They will return here alter a short bridal trip and will be at home at Dr. R. E. Mason’s, a brother of Mr. Mason, at 505 North Church street. Mr. Mason is a prosperous young cotton merchaut of the city and is well liked, llis bride to-be is a member of s prominent family of Knoxville.” Mr. Mason was in business in Gastonia a year or so ago With his brother, Mr. C. E. Mason, and the mauy friends made dnring his stay here, will rejoice with him in his happy fortune. Mr, R. L. Durham, formerly ol Gastonia, will build a hand some residence in Elizabeth Heights, Charlotte. CflALLEHOt MOM ADAM! HWCO. Ottmr to Refend Mommy If Or. iW «*4‘* Specific WW Net Cne AH] Ceee mf Cmm et Ip sties er Py»Mp •te. _ Adams Drag Co. are seeking Ibc worst cue of dyspepsia or constipation in Gastonia or vi daily to trst Dr. Howard’s new specific for tlie cure of those diseases. So confident are they that this remarkable medicine will effect a lasting cure in a short time that they offer to refund the money should it not be sue* ceaifnl. In order to secure the quick* •at possible introduction Adams Drug Co. will sell a regular' fifty cent package of this medicine at hall price. 23 cents. This specific of Dr. Howard’s will cure sick headache, dizsy fillings, constipation, dyspepsia, and all fonus of malaria and liver trouble, n does not simply give re lief for H lime; it make* permanent und complete cures. It will regnlace the Inwcls. tone up the whole intestinal tract, give yna an appetite, make food taste good asd digest well, and increase vigor. Joy amt happiness will taka ike Glace ul that die t care whether I ve or die” feeling. 1__^ __g a J__ a_ Co's HulltBi* nod secure a bottle of l»r. Howard's spastte at half price, with lheir persoaal guarantee to rv fand your scone y if It does not help you. Them in no need of suffering with cooetipatron, dyepepaia or liver dis ease when yo* eaa get sixty dost* “fa ►neelifrc sasdiciae for l heir care like IK. Howard'* spadAc forth* awall stun of M crats. —Odkli. Ml. SMITH’S PCAff. A High Tribal* PriA I* Ba by Oar Stanley Corra spend***. '^wrrwvutuienee «f use OmsIU (Too leu tor leal tow.1 Stanley, Oct. 4th.—Never was our community more shocked than to-day when the new* eras spread over tows that' Davie Smith was dead. “At eleven o’clock he was seen carrying the mail pouch to the depot and a few minutes later breathed bis laat. During Sunday and yesterday be seemed remarkably cheerful and bright but for sometime past be frequently sooke of hav ing ate but little and of having almost entirely lost the tooe of his stomach. Dr. Torn Quickie was present when the eleven-thirty mail passed and saw that he was pale and a tremor was prevadiog his frame sod against bis wishes be was placed in a buggy end started to his room but before they bad gone more than a tew steps he sank in - Dr. Quickie’s ! arms and expired. motc man hve years ago Mr. D. 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