Sept. 12. 1901 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



589 



living can be made at it in a good locality if 

 one understands the business." 



While he may be entirely right in this, 

 there are those who would not be in accord 

 with his ideas when he says. "If I had my 

 life to live over I would not be a bee-keeper; 

 for 1 believe the work I have done to make 

 what might be called a success in our pursuit 

 would, in some others, have resulted in better 

 success financially, and also in other ways." 

 It is just possible that, if Mr. Davenport 

 could live his present life through, and then 

 live another life without bees, in some busi- 

 ness at which he could make more money, he 

 might give his judgment as follows: ''I 

 must say that, after having lived the two 

 lives so that I am now able to judge between 

 them, I prefer the bee-keeper's life, which, 

 although giving less opportunity for amassing 

 wealth, gives one the opportunity for a 

 greater amount of happiness. 



Taking the expressions of some of the vet- 

 erans who have been in the business many 

 years, we might suppose one of them near 

 the close of life to e.xpress himself as follows: 



"Judged from the standpoint of those who 

 measure success in life only by the amount of 

 wealth accumulated, my life has not been a 

 great success. Folks compare me with my 

 brother John, and have a feeling for me akin 

 to pity. John and I started life with etiual 

 chances ; and. if I may be allowed to judge, 

 John had no more business ability than I. 

 He went into merchandizing, and devoted all 

 his energies to making money. He said he 

 did not care for money, only as it would allow 

 him to have something he could enjoy ; and 

 when he got enough he would give up the 

 drudgery and enjoy lite. But somehow he 

 kept on piling up more and more, turning his 

 business talents in this direction and that: 

 and although to day he could buy and sell me 

 many times over. I don't believe he enjoys 

 life any better than I. I have all I can eat. 

 and that's all he has in the way of food. He 

 may buy dainties that I can not afford, but 

 his dyspeptic stomach will punish him for 

 eating them: and, having spent so much of 

 my time outdoors all these years, I have a 

 hearty appetite that makes me relish plain and 

 wholesome food more than he relishes dain- 

 ties. The great difference, however, between 

 John's life and mine is that, in the past years, 

 his has been one of continual drudgery, and 



QUEENS 



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 Colored. 



We have one of Root's best breeders from his 

 f (X), long--tong-ued, Red Clover Queen, and a 

 Golden Breeder which we are told is worth $ItX), 

 if there is a queen in the U. S. worth that sum. 



J. L,. Gandy, of Humboldt, Nebr., tells us that 

 the colony having- one of our queens, stored over 

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