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oners for half a day at Langworth school recently by a 

 buzzing swarm of bees, which finally broke up the school 

 for the day. 



"The bees had lived in one corner of the roof for 

 weeks, and had been undisturbed until some of the 

 youngsters threw clods and dislodged the hive. The 

 bees attacked their tormentors, who took refuge in the 

 school house. Miss Ida Warford, the teacher, put her 

 head out of the door to see the cause of the commotion 

 and was stung on the nose. Hundreds of bees swarmed 

 into the half opened door and the children sought refuge 

 in the next room while the teacher and the older boys 

 did battle with the bees with wet cloths and whatever 

 weapons they had handy. They, too, were finally forced 

 into the other room, and the entire school was made pris- 

 oner until some of the parents, alarmed at the absence 

 of their children, came to the rescue. They were forced 

 to flee, too, but finally came back armed with sulphur with 

 which they routed the bees." 



What possible difference can there be in the intelligence 

 evidenced by these people and the bees, fighting each 

 other. The bees will behave and bother no one if left 

 alone but in defence of their home and colony, they will 

 fight to the last. In what manner do the actions of man 

 differ from those of the bee? The cells that make the 

 bee have had to fight animals for ages, and they are 

 equipped with a poisoned dagger of a deadly character. 

 Man was originally made not to fight but to escape from 

 enemies through the trees from branch to branch. For 

 that reason, he is a very helpless victim in a fight with 

 other animals, but since his discovery of the club he has 

 been king in the animal world, and has since been pro- 

 gressing very rapidly. While he was fighting only a 

 few years ago with clubs, spears, bows and arrows, etc., 



