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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



1 -^ that there is more in this vesti- 

 bule tliau we imajiiiie. Suppose we 

 left tlie doors of our liouses standinj^ 

 open all winter, as we leave the eii- 

 tranee to the hive, we would find it 

 rather hard to keep warm. We not 

 onljf keep the doors closed, hut we 

 have a storm door over the outside 

 door that no eold may j,'et in when the 

 door is opened. Willi a hive of bees 

 completely surrounded, on all sides, 

 with several inches of dry sawdust, 

 aun a vestibule over the entrance, 

 eacn colony is protected almost the 

 same as thoujih in a little cellar by 

 itself. My preference would be to put 

 all of the colonies into a cellar, but 

 tiie stubl>orn fact remains tliat Mr. 

 bartlett has had perfect success, for 

 several years, beginning with one col- 

 ony, ei^ht .years ago, I believe, when 

 he Avas fourteen years old, and gradu- 

 ally increasing, luitil he now has 150. 

 He began this season with 100 colon- 

 ies, and lias secured not far from 200 

 lbs., mostly extracted honey, per col- 

 ony. But that is another story— I may 

 tell it some other time. 



EXTRACTED 



THE GRAND CANYON. 



One of the Greatest Wonders of the World. 



Our frontispiece this month shoAvs a 

 view in the Grand Canyon, but I have 

 traveled enough, and taken enough 

 l)hotographs of <li^^tallt views to 

 know that scarcely the faintest con- 

 ceptions of such scenes can be placed 

 upon paper. They are merely hints. 

 I think more can be done in the Avay 

 of description, than by pictu'res in giv- 

 ing an idea of these distant and won- 

 derful views. Last month I gave a 

 short description of the (J rand Canyon, 

 copying from the book called "The 

 Titan of Chasms," and I will now give 



another short extract. The writer, in 

 speaking of many wonders in New 

 Mexico and Arizona, says: 



"At the head of the list stands the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado; Avhetli- 

 er it is the 'greatest wonder of tlu; 

 Avorld' depends a little on our delini- 

 tion of wonder.' I'ossibly it is no more 

 wonderful than the fact that so tiny 

 a fraction of tlie people who confess 

 themselves the smartest in the world 

 haA^e eA'er seen it. As a people Ave dod- 

 der abroad to see scenery incompara- 

 bly inferior. 



But beyond peradventure it is the 

 greatest chasm in the Avorld, and the 

 most superb. Enough globe-trotters 

 haA'e seen it to esta])lish that facr. 

 Many have come cynically prepared to 

 be disappointed; to find it overdraAvn 

 and really not so stupendous as some- 

 thing else. It is, after all. a hard test 

 that so be-bragged a Avonder must en- 

 dure under the critical scrutiny of 

 those that have seen the earth and the 

 fulness thereof. But I never kncAv the 

 most self-satistied veteran traveler to 

 be disappointed in the (Jrand Canyon, 

 or to patronize it. On tlie contrary, 

 this is the very class of men Avho can 

 best comprehend it, and I have seen 

 them fairly break doAvn in its aAvful 

 presence. 



I do not know the Himalayas 

 excei)t l)y photograph and the tes- 

 timony of men avIio have explored 

 and climbed them and Avho found 

 the Grand Canyon an altsolute- 

 ly neAV experience. But I know 

 the American continents pretty well, 

 and have tramped their mountains, 

 including the Andes— the next highest 

 mountains in the Avorld, after half a 

 dozen of the Himalayas— and of all 

 the famous quebradas of the Andes 

 there is not one that would count tive 

 per cent on the Grand Canyon of th** 

 Colorado. For all their 25.00(!-foot 

 p(>aks, their blue-Avhite glaciers, im- 

 minent aboA'e the bald plateau, and 



