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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



NEW MANAGER IN OUR NEW YORK OFFICE. 



Mr. L. W. Boyden, who has been manager of our New York 

 office for the past three years, and previous to that in charge of 

 0'ir Chicago office for some time, has come to Medina to take up 

 v/ork in the home office. The new manager in charge at New 

 York, beginning Sept. 1, is Walter E. Thorndyke, a nephew of 

 our treasurer and business manager. Mr. Thorndyke was in the 

 employ of the company for seven years, most of the time in the 

 office, first as stenographer, then as assistant book-keeper. For 

 two years past he has been with the Ameriv.an Steel and Wire 

 Co. in their Cleveland office. He returns to the service of the 

 cmpany with increased responsibilities. We commend him to 

 the patrons of our New Yoik office, with confidence that his pre- 

 vious training fits him for efficient service. 



yUEENS. 



We have a brge number of queens, untested, tested, and 

 higher giades, ready for immediate mailing, safe arrival guaran- 

 teed to any point in the United States, at our regular prices. 

 For untested, $1.00 each; 6 for $5.00; tested queens, $2.00 each; 

 6 for $10.00; secect tested queens, $.^.00 each; 6 for $15.00. 



The above refers to our home-bred lulian stock, red clover, 

 leather-colored strain. Commenting on the queens he had 

 received ol us, M'. E. R. Longenecker, of Lytle, Texas, 10 whom 

 we have sent fifty queens this season, writes: "The'e is no 

 question about your queens being superior, and their progeny 

 excelling as honey-gatherers on any flora that I have seen them 

 work. I first bought six queens of you in 1903, and have ordered 

 a number of times sime, and have no kick coming." We are 

 sending queens by first mail; and as the season is nearly at a 

 close, orders ought to come in at once to be sure of getting this 

 Mock, for we saall be unable to ship after cold weather has 

 fairly set in. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



THE WRIGHT BROTHERS .\ND THEIR AERIAL FLIGHT UP TO 

 BATE. 



1 suppose you all know that our two friends, the Wright 

 Brothers, are not only "up in the air," but they are, perhaps, 

 standing out mote prominently before the whole wide world than 

 and other two persons now living. Not only are the accounts of 

 their successes found in almost every magazine and daily paper, 

 but almost every periodical of any sort is giving them recognition. 

 As we go to press, Orville has made his third long flight, each 

 one of about an hour or a little more. He has been able to man- 

 age it perfectly, making figure 8's as well as circles, and making 

 turns with the wind blowing at the rate of ten to fifteen miles an 

 hour. It is true that it staggered the machine somewhat when 

 he turned about from going with the wind, and proceeded direct- 

 ly agiinst it; but after he hdd become accustomed to handling 

 the craft he made each turn more eas'ly than the one before it. 

 Fifty-seven times the machine came around to the starting-point 

 during a period of 70 minutes and 24 seconds. After this he took 

 Lieut. Lahm, the army's aeronautic expert, along with him for a 

 flight of 6 minutes and 26 seconds. This was the first time he 

 had been accompanied by a passenger in the present series of 

 tests, and the result was the breaking of all previous records for 

 that Sjrt of flight. The first time that he succeeded in making 

 a flight of almost an hour., when his friends came around to 

 congratulate him on his wonderful achievement, the papers tell 

 us that he actually shed tears — yes, tears of joy to think the mo- 

 ment had come, after all the long years of hard work on the part 

 of himself and his brother, when they had actually demonstrated 

 to the world that men can fly as birds do, and make use of the 

 air above for a general thoroughfare for trade and travel, as well 

 as the waters and the solid ground underneath the skies. I espe- 

 cially admire these two young men because they have worked so 

 sinwiy and carefully. Wnen a young bird essays to make its 

 fi St flight from the nest, it has to learn how to use the wonderful 

 wines that God has given it, little by little. Well, these two 

 men not only figured out how to build the machine by cutting 

 and trying, bin at the same time they were obliged to learn how 

 to use it, just as the bird has to learn by actual practice how to 

 use its wings. We may congratulate them on having had the 

 good sense and steadiness of mind to work so carefully that no 

 accident worth mentioning has ever happened to either of them; 

 and above all and over all I wish to emphasize the fact that 

 fro n beginning to ^d they hive steadily re'used to use their ma- 

 chine on Siind .y. or even work with it 'hat dav. They have 

 also set an example bfn e the youih of our land and oihers by 

 abstaining from the use of intoxicants in every form. When I 



was taking breakfast with them one morning 1 ventured to ask 

 why it was that neither of ttie brothers accepted coffee. I think 

 it was Wilbur who replied with his peculiar pleasant smile : 



" Mr. Root, we expect to make some flights this morning, and 

 we have learned by experience that our heads are clearer and 

 our nerves steadier if we abstain from coffee at breakfast." 



Is it really true that the time is coming (or hai come) when 

 the world will accord and pay a premium to those who live pure 

 and temperate lives as do the Wright Brothers .' 



Many are just now asking the question why these brothers do 

 not take a straight flight, say from one city to another, and let 

 the whole wide world see what they are doing, I presume it 

 will be better just yet tor them to keep the machine reasonably 

 near the workshop where their tools and appliances are kept. 

 Another thing, they are just now negotiating the sale of one of 

 their machines to France, and another to the government of the 

 United States. When these preliminary tests are completed we 

 may expect to see these machines, or similar ones, flying over 

 the whole wide world, perhaps including even the north and 

 south pole that have been so much talked about. 



STILL LATER IN REGARD TO THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. 

 From the Woman^s National Daily we clip the following; 

 CAN EQUAL BROTHER'S RECORD.! 



Le Mans, Sept. 13. — Wilbur G. Wright says that defects in 

 his motor are all that have kept him from equaling the flights 

 made by his brother Orville at Ft. Myer, in America. "My 

 motor has not worked smoothly yet, but I expect to get it in 

 shape soon. Just as soon as I find that it is all right 1 expect to 

 make a flight that will be as startling as that of my brother. 

 1 here is no reason why I should not, as our machines are prac- 

 tically the same." 



From the same paper we learn that Orville Wright, when 

 asked why he did not stay up still longer during the last and 

 longest flight, replied as follows: 



"Well, the fact is I came down solely because I was tired and 

 hungry. I could have continued the flight another hour just as 

 easily. I knew by the figures chalked on the shed-roof by my 

 mechanic tnat I had bettered my previous record, and I thought 

 that was enough for one day." 



It seems that the city of Dayton, where the Wright Brothers 

 have lived and experimented all their lives, has just been wak- 

 ing up to the importance of giving the brothers a reception or 

 ovation on their return home. The Dayton Herald says in re- 

 gard to the matter : 



"Dayton may crumble in dust, but the name of Wright Brothers 

 will endure as long as earth endures. 



"Henceforth the nameslof Orville and Wilbur Wright will be 

 enrolled beside those of Watt, Fulton, Morse, Bell, Edison, and 

 Marconi in history's tablet of fame." 



We make a further clipping as follows: 



"No one read ihe reports of the three flights of the Dayton aero- 

 planist with greater avidity, or discussed the accomplishment 

 with more zeal, hope, and inspiration than did the venerable 

 father of Orville and Wilbur Wright — Bishop Milton Wright. 



"The venerable churchman fairly radiated with joy, feeling 

 that the toil, planning, hope, ambition of years had became a 

 scientific reality — an accomplishment that would contribute im- 

 measurably to the material wellbeing of society. The venerable 

 gentleman, bowed with the weight of years, looked younger, 

 felt younger. His sons effected a revolution in science." 



"great navies TO MAINTAIN PEACE." 

 We clip the following from the National Stockman and Farmer: 

 The Emperor of Japan wants a great navy to maintain peace. 

 The Russian Czar wants a great navy to maintain peace. The 

 German Emperor wants a great navy to maintain peace. The 

 rulers of France want a great navy to maintain peace. The king 

 of Italy wants a great navy to maintain peace, and the king of 

 England wants a great navy to maintain peace. And so multi- 

 tudes of men and women are compelled to hard toil and suffering 

 to maintain these great navies to maintain peace. Norway and 

 Sweden and Denmark and Belgium and all the nations of South 

 America get along very comfortably without great navies to 

 maintain peace. 



In view of the above I do not know but 1 shall have to swing 

 back to where I stood first — see p. 1017, Aug. 15. If all the 

 nations of the earth are obliged to maintain great navies to 

 preserve peace, why can't we, especially those of us who call 

 ourselves Christians, "cut it all out" (as the boys say) and sub- 

 stitute in its place "In God we tiust"? Then we can consist 

 ently breathe the little prayer that ends with "Thy kingdom 

 come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." 



" god's kingdom COMING." 

 On the 4th of July four of our saloons closed their doors, and on 



Ihe 15th of August the otherone will close and then our town will 



be a dry one. I would like to see them all dry. 



Bevier, Mo. \'. B. GuFrFV. 



