May IS 1902. 



AMERIC/VN BEE JOURNAL 



315 



quisltc devotion aiiii tuiideriioHH of his wife's 

 unselfish nutiir'c, tiiid wluMi, after 40 years of 

 perfect companionship, slie was tai<en from- 

 hini, lie surnnieil up liis loss in one pathetic 

 sentence: " It is only now tliiit I realize tlnit 

 1 am blind." She was his reader, his secre- 

 tary, his helper, and neither the cares of her 

 hoiLsehokl nor her children were ever allowed 

 to interfere witli her untiring service to his 

 every need. 



With her help, Iluber be^'an his life work — 

 the study of bees. When we consider what 

 powers of close observation are demanded for 

 this sort of worl(, we cannot at tlrst under- 

 stand iiow a nuin, totally blind, could follow 

 the minutest hal»its of insects, and nuikc dis- 

 coveries which the most patient invest i^'ators 

 • before him had failed in nnikint;. Hut, be- 

 sides his wife, Iluber had a servant, a ])easant 

 uutued Burnens, whom he soon found to be 

 "born with the talent of an observer." With 

 infinite patience, by askinp: a thousand ques- 

 tions, and repeatinpf each observation over 

 and over aj^ain, Iluber trained tliis unedu- 

 cated nuiii into an accurate investigator, upon 

 whom he could rely. Burnens was deeply 

 attached to his master, and willing to take 

 any trouble to please him. 



" It is impossible," Huber says, in his 

 preface to his tjreat book upon the bee, pub- 

 lished in I7n2, "to form a just idea of the 

 patience and skill with which Burnens has 

 carried out the e.\periments I am about to 

 describe. He has counted pain and fatigue 

 nothing. If there be any merit in our dis- 

 coveries, I must share this honor with him ; 

 and I have great satisfaction in rendering him 

 this act of public justice." 



Huber had other interests outside of his 

 bees. Like them, he was ever at work. lie 

 invented a sort of printing machine, by means 

 of which he could write to his absent friends 

 — and no man had more friends, or loved 

 them more loyally. He was passionately fond 

 of music, and could compose as well as ex- 

 ecute. He loved to walk in the open air, and 

 had knotted cords stretched beside the rural 

 paths near his house, so that he could walk 

 without troubling any one to lead him. As 

 we read his life, we find it not a darkened 

 one, but one full of light, and affection, and 

 sweet compensation. It was a long one, too, 

 for he died in 1S33, at 82, full of years and 

 honors, leaving behind him the memory of a 

 noble and victorious tight against a great 

 affliction, under which most men would have 

 given up hope of achieving anything. His 

 work was great ; but the greatest thing about 

 Francois Huber was his character, of which 

 indeed it might be said that it had that 



" Equal temper of heroic hearts 

 Made weak by time and fate, but strong in 



will 

 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." 

 — Pbiscilla Leonard, in Forward. 



Y. 



Mr. F. Greiner, of Ontario Co., N. 

 wrote us on May 3 : 



" Our bees have wintered well, although 

 the spring has not been favorable so far." 



The Attic Apiart of Ret. W. S. Sly, 

 in his beautiful residence, appears on the lirst 

 page of this issue. He writes us as follows 

 about it : 



Four years ago I built a house, located 

 within 2^2 blocks of the Capitol building. 

 Other houses are built on all sides of me. 

 There seemed no way of keejiing bees unless 

 I carried out a long-cherished plan of having 

 an attic apiary when I became my own land- 

 lord. The high attic— full size of upright 

 and rear wing— is floored, lathed and plas- 

 tered. A stationary hive was built in a south 

 gable to begin with. An entrance and alight- 

 ing-board were made of one piece, with side- 

 pieces and wire-screen cover reaching from 

 the hive-entrance through the clapboards. 



Purchasing a strong colony in May of the 

 same year, half of the frames with brood and 

 clinging bees were transferred to the new 

 hive, leaving the queen in the old hive, which 



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