Oct. 2, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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in Colorado you find one of the most 

 enlightened classes in the world. Take 

 our odiicational matters, we are second 

 to none in the United States, and each 

 and every individual who lives within 

 the confines of the State feels proud of 

 the education that a younjj man or 

 younjf woman can get in the State of 

 Colorado. 



We hope, ladies and gentlemen, that 

 when you view our State and look at 

 its wonderful resources and return to 

 your ICastern, Western, Southern, and 

 Northern homes, you will think your 

 trip has not been for nauj,'^ht, but you 

 can go to the people there and tell 

 them that there are still homes here 

 for hundreds ; thej- can come here and 

 make a good, comfortable living. They 

 can do what a great many can not do 

 in the East. And we as beekeepers, 

 as citizens, all bid you welcome to our 

 State. (Applause.) 



Mr. Harris — I have the pleasure of 

 now introducing to you Dr. Mason, 

 who will reply to the Governor's ad- 

 dress of welcome. 



Dr. Mason's Response. 



.Ur. rrcsuhnt and Brother Bee-Keepers : 



It is a very nice thing to listen to 

 such nice speeches as we have been 

 having, but to call upon a man like 

 me, who is not accustomed to speaking 

 in this way at all, is very embarrassing. 

 You see, I am so easily embarrassed, 

 anyway ! But I can say to you that 

 we certainly appreciate the addresses 

 of welcome that we have heard, and it 

 is with pleasure that in the name of 

 the members of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association to-night, and espe- 

 cially of those from outside of Colorado 

 — for we have them here from Texas, 

 Washington, D. C, New York, Ohio, 

 Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, Kansas, and other States — I 

 heartily thank the Governor for his 

 address of welcome. 



Some of us have not yet fully appre- 

 ciated the beauty and the grandeur of 

 your scenery, but we have met with a 

 warmj open hand and a warm heart, 

 and we can most cordially return these 

 hand-shakes and these heart-welcomes. 

 It has often been said, you know, that 

 those of us who live in the East are 

 tenderfoots : but let me assure you to- 

 night that all who live in the East are 

 not tenderfoots, and that all of the 

 tenderfoots do not live in the East. I 

 think you can appreciate that fact. 

 But we realize that a great many of 

 your people here who are not tender- 

 foots did come from the East, and 

 some of us who have come in more re- 

 cently, within a few hours perhaps, 

 may find to our pleasure that we have 

 been welcomed by more than the one 



class of society, both of them grand 

 and noble in their place. 



A few years since, the Hon. Eugene 

 Secor responded to an address of wel- 

 come in words so noble and grand that 

 I can not in anj' way do better than to 

 read to you what he said on that occa- 

 sion, and, with a few word changes in 

 it, it is applicable to this time and 

 place. I Here followed the poem. | 



Mr. Harris I have just been in- 

 formed that of the interests of this 

 State the agricultural shows the largest 

 increase, -the manufacturing comes 

 next, and the mining last. I now have 

 the pleasure of introducing to you Dr. 

 Miller, who will reply to Pres. Malone 

 of the Chamber of Commerce. 



Dr. Miller's Address. 



It wasn't necessary for Pres. Malone 

 or anybody else to get up here and tell 

 us we were welcome ; we knew it 

 almost before we ever got here ; we 

 knew what the people of the State of 

 Colorado were doing from the press; 

 we knew enough to know we were 

 thoroughly welcome ; that was the 

 notion I had when I started from home, 

 and I have had no occasion to change 

 it — I don't expect to. 



I am glad to be here, but, I tell you 

 one thing, I have gotten over some of 

 the notions I had. My wife was afraid 

 to have me come here, and yet I find it 

 isn't anything like as dangerous as I 

 expected. I find that the president of 

 the Chamber of Commerce looks like a 

 white man. Of course, I know from 

 all that is being brought in about the 

 22 years and different things, and by 

 his straight hair, that he is an Indian, 

 but I expected to find him with a 

 blanket on instead of like a white man : 

 and I don't believe I would be afraid to 

 sleep in the same room with him at 

 night, and to have a Waterbury watch 1 

 I think I might be safe. But, I tell 

 you. some things I have been disap- 

 pointed in, in another way — the tre- 

 mendous distances here make it a dan- 

 gerous place for anybody as short as I 

 am. It has fooled people before my 

 time. I don't know whether any of 

 you know it, because it has not gotten 

 out, perhaps, that there was a man 

 here once who came over from Eng- 

 land. He had gone with some of his 

 friends to see the different places of 

 interest, and there is a little hill called 

 Pike's Peak that showed up big, aud 

 he thought he could go there imme- 

 diately ; but he found it a great deal 

 further than he expected, and he found 

 everything else the same way. So he 

 was going along, and his friends were 

 going with him, and they came to a 

 little bit of a stream ; he began to take 

 off his clothes, and they said, "What 

 are you doing ?" He said, " I am going 



to swim acroaa." But, they said, 

 "That i.H only a little way." "You 

 don't fool nic," he said : " by the time 

 you start you will tind it's a mile 

 across!" (Laughter.) 



When we got out to Omaha there 

 was too much room there, our baggage 

 lost us ! Then, after we got here I saw 

 a place where I thought there was more 

 room to stay, and some of our friends 

 were there, and I went there a nice 

 place. And then Pres. Malone said 

 something about my coming down 

 from the gallery, and I started to come ; 

 I knew I could get here in just a little 

 while, and I started out there, and I 

 ran with all my might, and I ran that 

 way, and the other way, and when I 

 got down here the soles of my shoes 

 were all worn out ; I was a tenderfoot 

 for certain, and if I ever get home I 

 believe I will stay in some little place. 



But I want to tell you I am glad you 

 welcomed us here, very glad, and I am 

 glad to shake hands with a civilized 

 Indian. (Applause.) 



Pres. Malone — Dr. Miller says I am 

 a civilized Indian. Eet me tell you 

 when I first came here to the State of 

 Colorado I worked with a crew that 

 moved all the dirt from Long's Peak, 

 and filled that hole and made it Pike's 

 Peak ! (Laughter.) 



Dr. Miller — You are bigger than I 

 suspected. 



Mr. Harris — I present to you Pres. 

 Hutchinson, of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, who will reply to Col- 

 orado's address of Welcome. 



Pres. Hutchinson's Address. 



La<Vt's am} (i< nih inan : 



I am not a speech-maker, and I can 

 not reply to this address of welcome, 

 and I shall not attempt to. I can say 

 that we people from the outside know 

 we are thoroughly welcome. We can't 

 object to that. 



I wish to say that Mr. Ernest Root 

 will show us, with his stereopticon, 

 views taken from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, and I know if he shows those 

 and tells us all he has to say about 

 them he will have to commence pretty 

 soon, and I shall just simply say I 

 know we are welcome, and sit down. 



The remainder of the evening was 

 taken by Mr. E. R. Root, of Ohio, who 

 delivered his interesting lecture (illus- 

 trated by means of the stereopticon) on 

 " Bee-Keeping from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific as Seen Through the Cam- 

 era and Stereopticon." This lecture 

 was very much enjoyed by those who 

 had the pleasure of listening to it, and 

 seeing views projected upon the screen. 



At 10 o'clock the convention ad- 

 journed to meet the nest day, Thurs- 

 da}% Sept. 4, at 9 o'clock a.m. 

 (Contiaued next week.) 



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% The Afterthought. 



The '^Old Reliable" seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. 

 By E. E. HASTY, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, O. 



GOOD QUALITY OF HONEY FOR WINTER STORES. 



Notice that Doolittle also says that good quality of the 

 honey counts more than any other one thing in wintering a 

 colony of bees. If he had said more than all other things 

 combined, I don't think I should have pitched in. Page 550. 



BEES DARKER WHEN HUNGRY. 



Dr. Miller might have added to his excellent answer on 

 page 555 this further suggestion : When bees are in real 

 and literal fact " slowly but surely getting smaller and 

 blacker every day," it is because nectar in the flowers is 

 getting scarce. The bees are shutting up — not the shop, 

 but themselves. The sections of which a bee's body is com- 

 posed are yellow on the inner edge (if anywhere) and dark- 

 colored on the outer edge. Lots of beginners have never 

 heard or thought of this. Most bees look pretty dark when 

 hungry and totally empty — and small also, the sections 

 being slid in to the utmost. And pretty decided hybrids 

 may rejoice their owner's appetite for yellow when dis- 

 tended as far as possible. The amount of honey the home 

 bees habitually carry declines, and I presume the other 



