THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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there is a series of clippings from busi- 

 ness letters. 



The portrait of Mr. Atchley is accom- 

 panied by a biography written by a clergy- 

 man relative, and also a short sketch by 

 a lady friend. Mr. A. is evidently a person 

 of considerable individiiality. His biog- 

 rapher lumps off in batches the names 

 of the countries in which he has resided. 

 Exceedingly fond of and skillful with 

 the rifle, as people of roving turn usually 

 are. Doubly drawn to bee-keeping by 

 the pleasure of capturing wild ones. Five 

 years a school teacher in his early days. 

 Thought himself old enough to be mar- 

 ried at 19. Long subject to sudden 

 attacks of illness, insonmch that his in- 

 timate friend got the name of his "travel- 

 ing drug store." Much better now — 

 both of his attacks and his rolling-stone 

 proclivities, and putting in from ten to 

 sixteen hours a day of office work. Best 

 of all a gentle, tender hearted man, and a 

 Christian— not a Christain drone, but a 

 Christain worker. ( Strange that in 

 Christain hives there should be twenty 

 drones to one worker, when in nature's 

 hives it's the other way. ) 



One of the characteristic features of the 

 Queen is the "School" in which those 

 who choose ask questions, and Mrs. .\t- 

 chley answers — thus rather reversing the 

 usage of the ordinary school. 



Willie Atchley ventures to set the fer- 

 tile workers term of life at two months. 

 ( 259, March. ) Presumably there is little 

 or no positive evidence on this point, and 

 therefore the best judgement of intelli- 

 gent manipulators is of value. 



As an example of a good strong diver- 

 gent view of things esteemed settled, G. 

 F. Davidson says he don't want all his 

 bees to start even in the spring — would 

 get too many swarms in one day. ( 262, 

 March ) 



A very non-professional newspaper 

 account of bee-hunting in Australia is 

 quoted to make inn of (235, Feb. ) but, 

 would you believe it ? it sets me to won- 

 dering whether a new method is not re- 

 ferred to. Is it possible to encumber a 



bee with a lock of cotton, not big enough 

 to prevent flight entirely, and yet big 

 enough to compel stops to rest every few 

 rods? The object of this would be to en- 

 able the hunter to keep up, and follow 

 one single bee right on continuously to 

 his home. 



The General Round-up. 



I'm so fond of theorizing in fresh terri- 

 tory' that I think I must try on the some- 

 what striking experience of Ernest Root 

 given in Gleanings, 378. Cane sugar, ma- 

 ple sugar and candy directly bring on 

 something comparable to a sneezing ca- 

 tarrh. Honey does not do this, unless an 

 excessive amount is taken; but in that 

 case the result is the same. I have often 

 noticed something similar with myself, 

 only usually without the sneezing — nose 

 suddenly beginning to run when I was 

 quite unaware of its being in a weeping 

 mood. I i/ttn/: this sometimes occurs 

 with me when no sweet of any kind is in- 

 volved; the onh- essential being to eat 

 something good with unusual gusto. In 

 such a case the energetic movements of 

 muscles and cheeks continue quite a spell. 

 Vigorous activit}- is catching between one 

 organ and a related or adjoining one. 

 When we eat something good the sali- 

 vary- glands spring into activity. The 

 glands of the stomach follow suit — and 

 telegraph back again to keep up the 

 salivary business. Some of the organs 

 involved put into their movements an 

 amount of "bounce" and "play ball" not 

 absolutely necessar}-. A wave of healthy 

 life and activity is thus generated which 

 soon rolls on to the next organs, which 

 happen to be the nasal passages. Now 

 the nasal passages of invalids are often 

 in a torpid condition — yet not bad enough 

 to give pain, or attract an}' attention. 

 Their first response to a wave of health 

 and life is to r/ear theinselves — the results 

 being as given above. Now why should 

 maple sugar do this, and honey not ? For 

 two reasons. First, he likes maple sugar 

 better; therefore there is more of the 

 superfluous action of nerve and muscle 



