1903 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



205 



in tlie baud, you know. But he is still 

 keeping bees — noisily. 



Tbeu there's t'other chap— the lacon- 

 ic, lanky one. Talks litde, but what 

 he says goes. Don't do no prayiu'; 

 "Ain't got time,'' but lives by the Gol- 

 den Rule right up to tne limit. Wal, 

 he started in the bee line long arter 

 t'other chap. Didn't go to keepin' 

 bees — not much — just took 'em, out of 

 another feller's way and set 'em to 

 keepin' him. 



Didn't waste no wind or ink on what 

 he learned by experience, (and never 

 "borrowed") cause that warn't his way. 

 He just kept a layin' out new jobs for 

 the bees and kept them hustliu'. They 

 in turn kept him joggiu' along like he 

 was a-comin' down the home stretch. 

 Oh, he can keep a pace, but like most 

 busy men, has time for play and to 

 drop us a grain of wisdom^ now and 

 again. It's all his, too; no pirating in 

 his copy. You know 'em both. 



Well, there's a powerful good moral 

 in this true tale, and it's this: While 

 the Corpulent Pirate is gettin' some 

 cheap notoriety (and a tin halo from 

 some interested mercenaries) together 

 with a few dirty shekels and a free 

 pass to El Yalle del Inferno — the real 

 thing; not Dr. Pon's kind — the Lanky 

 Silent One is a pilin' up of golden 

 treasure both here and "up yonder." 

 That's half the moral. T'other half 

 is: Live right first and your glory'll 

 come as fast as you can stand it, and 

 then give up keepin' bees and let the 

 bees keep you. 



For them as ain't got room tell 'em 

 to go find it as the Lanky One did. 

 This is a tidy liit of a country, but if 

 'tis not big enough ovei-flow into Cuba, 

 as did Pat and the Lanky One. There'll 

 be room enough; the Corpulent One 

 will never crowd — except on paper — 

 tl'.at kind don't. 



"Them as has gits" — that is to say, 

 them as has the energy to hustle and 

 do with brains as well as brawn and 

 do it on the square, gits all that's 

 worth havin'. Them as can't grasp 

 this is the kind of the Corpulent One 

 with the Tin Halo. 



What bee men need is more bees — 

 to keep them — if you doubt ask Bro. 

 Hutchinson. But there's one powerful 

 bad thing 'bout him; he's nigh a gen- 

 eration too soon. D'ye see the hands 



a stretchin' out a-tryin' to pull him 

 back"? They have eyes, but they never 

 see a durned thing. How do I know? 

 Wal, I'm a lettin' of the bees keep me 

 and I have time to amuse myself by 

 a-lookin' at other folks. 



Harry, if ye feel a tuggin' at your 

 back straps jest grin that smile of 

 yours and feel happy, 'cause you're 

 ahead of the "push." 



Nice little word that, "push;" makes 

 little folks think they's It when they 

 is really the dirt in the bearin's a- 

 cloggin the whole machine. Don c 

 hanker to be one of the "push;" they 

 are all of the "graft' 



Tell the younger boys to "do things;" 

 them as live most lives longest, and 

 happiest too, b'gosh. 



And the deacon ought to know, 

 hadn't he? 



When I'm gone, Harry, you can tell 

 the boys of some of my journeyings. 



Tell the boys to let the bees keep 

 them. Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



Hamilton County Bee=Keepers' Associa= 

 tion. 



We are in receipt of a copy of the 

 Constitution and By-Laws of the 

 Hamilton County (Ohio) Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, of which William J. Gil- 

 liland, Silverton, Ohio, is secretary. 

 The pamphlet contains also a concise 

 chapter on foul brood, together with 

 specific instructions for its cure by the 

 world-renowned McEvoy system, the 

 most universally successful ^ in the 

 treatment of the malady that has 

 yet lieen given to the public. Every 

 bee-keeper, great or small, should, if 

 not in self-interest, for the protection 

 of the industry, become conversant 

 with the symptoms of the disease, so 

 as to readily recognize and stay its 

 i-avages immediately upon its appear- 

 ance. We, therefore, have made space 

 in this number of The Bee-Keeper for 

 a reproduction of the observations of 

 the new assocition. compiled under the 

 direction of the executive committee, 

 and recommended to the fraternity, 

 as follows: 



FOUL BROOD. 



Foul brood is a disease of bees com- 

 mon in all parts of the State of Ohio, 



