THE AMERICHJH BEE JOURNJl^I,. 



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To Mtay at Home in IteMl. 



ItiM'K :>"ol a i^uisanoe !— Last week 

 we gave in brief the decisioD of the Supreme 

 Court of Arkansas iu the celebrated bee- 

 lawsuit of the City of Arkadelphia vs. Z. A. 

 Clark. We expected to be able to give the 

 decision of the Juds« in full, this week, but 

 in this we are disappointed. We have made 

 several applications for a copy of it, but so 

 far have not succeeded in procuring it. We 

 will give it to our readers as soon as it comes 

 to hand. 



At present it is enough to know that the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union has succeeded 

 in making itself felt, and has obtained the 

 first decision on the question of whether 

 bee-keeping can be lawfully construed as a 

 nuisance or not. 



The liis'li*'!^! Court in that State, on an 

 appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court 

 in favor of the bees, has again decided 



This Rooster Crmvcth for the Bees, because 

 the Bees cannot Crow for Themselves. 



that tlie pairiiiiiit of bee-keepiiigf 

 ix legiliiiiale and honorable — 

 thai b«-vs> art- not a niiisanc-e I 



We now warn all the " ignorant '" and 

 "prejudiced " to keep their hands off— and 

 inform them that bee-keepers have ris:ht!« 

 guaranteed by the Constitution of the 

 United States, that all are bound to 

 respeft. 



The Iteclsion ot that J^uprenie 

 Court is a document that will become of 

 great use as a precedent. It will be a 

 guide for the rulings of Judges— for the in- 

 formation of Juries— and for the regulation 

 of those who may dare to interfere with a 

 respectable pursuit by law or otherwise I 



The National Bee-Keepers" Union, in this 

 one instance alone, has been of great 

 benefit to bee-culture, even though it has 

 received but very poor encouragement and 

 support from bee-keepers in general ! 



Its legitimate work, however, is but just 

 begun, but if it is to continue in the good 

 work, it must be supported both by the 

 financial as well as moral influence of all the 

 apiarists of America. 



The General Manager has labored in- 

 cessantly, without the hope of reward, ex- 

 cept such as comes from a consciousness of 

 having done his full duty. Keader, have 

 you discharged your full duty in this matter? 



stay, stiiy ill home, my heart, and rest ; 

 Homo-kecpiiiK liearts are happiest. 

 For those that Aviimler they know not where 

 Are full ot trouble ainl full of care ; 

 To sliiy at home is best. 



Weary and houiesiek and distressed. 

 They wander East, they wander West, 

 And are bafHed and lieaten and blown about 

 liy the winds of the wilderness of doubt, 

 To stay at home is best. 



Then stay at home, my heart, and rest ; 

 The bird is safest in its nest ; 

 O'er all that Uiitter tlieir wings and fly, 

 A hawk is hoveriiif;- in the sky ; 



To st a.\- at home is best. 



—Longfellow. 



Some liCgondti and Siiper§tilion$ 

 About Bees. 



As originally ininted by Lippincott 

 & Co., Philadelphia, some 23 years 

 ago, the Bee- Keepers^ Magazine gives 

 some curious " Legends and Supersti- 

 tious Beliefs and Ominous Signs" con- 

 nected with !)ees, as follows : 



I. "A certaiiie simple woman hav- 

 ing some stals of bees which yielded 

 not unto her hir desired profit, but 

 consume and clie of the muiTaine ; 

 made her mone to another woman 

 more simple than hir self ; who gave 

 counsel her to get a consecrated host 

 or round Godaniightj' and put it 

 among them. Accnrding to whose ad- 

 vice she went to the priest to receive 

 the host ; which, when she had done, 

 she kept it in her mouth, and being 

 come home againe she took it out and 

 put it into one of the hives. Where- 

 upon the murraine ceased, and the 

 honey abounded. The woman tliere- 

 fore lifting up the hive in the due time 

 to take out the honie, sawe there (mo.st 

 strange to be scene) a chapel built b3' 

 the bees with an altar in it, with the 

 wals adorned with marvelous skill of 

 architecture with stiple with bels. And 

 the host being laid upon the altar, the 

 bees making a sweet noise flew round 

 about it." 



II. " A certain peasant of Auvergne, 

 a province in France, perceiving that 

 his bees were likely to die, to prevent 

 this misfortuue. was aflvised, after he 

 had received tlie communion, to re- 

 serve the Host and blow it into one of 

 the hives. As he tried to. do it, tlie 

 Host fell to the ground. Behold now 

 a wonder ! On a sudden all the bees 

 came forth out of the hives, and rang- 

 ing themselves in good order, lifted 

 tlie Host from the ground, and carry- 

 ing it upon their wings, placed it 

 among the combs. After this, the 

 man went out aliout his business, and 

 at his return found out that the advice 

 had succeeded ill, for all his bees were 

 dead." 



From Butler's "Lives of the Saints" 

 we have tlie following : 



in. "The birtli of St. Ambrose hap- 

 pened about the year 340 B. C, and 

 whilst the child slept in one of the 

 courts of his father's palace, a swarm 

 of bees Hew about his craiile, and 

 some of them even crept in and out of 

 his mouth, which was open, and at 

 last mounted into the air so liigli that 

 they quite vanished out of sight. This," 

 concludes the Reverend Alban, "was 

 esteemed a presage of greatness and 

 eloquence." 



In East Norfolk, England, if bees 

 swarm on rotten wood it is considered 

 portentous of a death in the family. 



IV. In Western Penn.sylvania it is 

 believed that bees will invariably sting 

 red-headed per.sons as soon as they' 

 •approach the hives. 



V. A North German custom and 

 superstition is, that if the master of the 

 house dies, a person must go to the 

 bee-hive, knock and repeat these 

 words : " The master is dead, the 

 master is dead," else the bees will lly 

 away. This superstitinu also prevails 

 in England, Litliiianini, and in France. 



VI. On swarming is found the fol- 

 lowing observation in Tiisser Redivius 

 1734, page 0:i : "Tlie tinkling after 

 them with a swarming-paii, frying-pan 

 and kettle, is of good use to let the 

 neighbors know yon have a swarm in 

 tlie air, which you claim wherever it 

 alights : but I believe that it is of very 

 little purpose to the rt^claiming of the 

 bees, which are thought to delight 

 in no noise but their own." 



To cure stings : 



VII. " Mnreover, as many as have 

 about the bill of a woodspeck (wood- 

 liecker) when 11103- come to take honey 

 out of the hive, shall not be stung by 

 bees." 



VIII. Longfelliiw, in his song of Hia- 

 awatha, in describing the advent of 

 tlie Euroiieaii to the New World, 

 makes his Indian Warrior saj' of the 

 Bees and the White Clover : 



Wlieresoe'er they move, before them, 

 Swarms the stinging fly. the Alimo, 

 Swarms the Bee, the honey-maker. 



Wlieresoe'er they tread, beneath them 

 Springs a flower unknown among us. 

 Springs the White Man's Foot in Blossom. 



■-"rank I.eslie'sPopiilar.Monllily 



for July has a picturesque and well-illus- 

 trated article, entitled, "Into Oklahoma 

 with the Boomers," giving niiich interesting 

 information about the settlement of the 

 Promised Land, as well as of the adjoining 

 Cherokee Strip. "The Samoa Cyclone" 

 vividly depicts the great naval calamity of 

 last March, which has been compared to the 

 historic destruction of the Spanish Armada. 

 The biographical and natural history 

 papers, sketches of travel, short stories, 

 poems, etc., are numerous and excellent. 



