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thought finally made them substitute the locomotive. The steamship began to 

 cross the sea, the spinning-jenny sprung up, the reaping machine came, the sew- 

 ing-machine came. Long before this the printing-press had come. The telegraph 

 came. But these were feeble modifications of the useful compared with the unfold- 

 ing of liberty. Liberty is that form of utility which distributes happiness to the 

 millions. Happiness was once supposed to be for the king and the royal family. 

 They discovered that happiness and property were to be for the millions. Then 

 came general education— education handed over to the millions; and out of this 

 Baconian philosophy there rolled the great volume of progress on in the Seven- 

 teenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. 



I congratulate you all upon having reached an age in which the beautiful re- 

 mains as only an ornament of life, and not the whole of life. That, as the vine can 

 ornament the cottage, but cannot keep it up, cannot be a wall or rafter to it, so 

 beauty may ornament life, but can never be the great columns or foundations upon 

 which life rests. 



Mrs. Harrison's Bee Notes. 



[In Prairie Parmer.] 



Horticulturists and apiarists belong to the same family, but appa- 

 rently remained in ignorance of the relationship until recently. Cali- 

 fornia horticulturists persecuted bee-keepers and drove them to the 

 distant canons and hills, alleging that bees were a nuisance and de- 

 stroyed their fruit, especially their raisins. But several bee-keepers 

 interested in fruit culture to a limited extent attended the California 

 State Fruit Growers' Association at its late session at Los Angeles, 

 and at its close something caused them to prick up their ears and 

 listen with close attention. It was the subject of "Fertilization," and 

 an extract from the paper was reported by one of their number as fol- 

 lows, in a late number of " The American Bee Journal " : 



A gentleman stated that he had a friend in this State who started into fruit- 

 growing several years ago, locating 35 miles from any fruit-growing section, or 

 where any bees were located. The first year that his trees blossomed, and in ex- 

 pectancy at least some returns from his orchard, what should be the result but 

 complete failure. He was advised to procure some bees to aid in the fertilization 

 of the blossoms, and since then his orchard has been productive. 



The accusation against bees that they puncture sound fruit has 

 been made for years, and the verdict is reached that they are innocent 

 of the charge. It is not disputed that when the skin of fruit is broken, 

 bees will appropriate all the juice. I have noticed this in our vine- 

 yard ; when the grapes were ripening daring a very warm spell, and there 

 was a shower, grapes cracked near the stem. Those grapes would be 

 covered with bees, but as soon as they had removed the juice from the 

 cracked grapes, there would be no more bees in the vineyard. None 



