1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



741 



LABIES' G0N¥ERSAZ1QNE. 



REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. 



OVER SOME OF THE OLD BATTI.E-OKOUNDS. 



We are just home fi'om another .Southei'n 

 trip. Atlanta (nearly ruined in our late war) 

 was our first stopping- place. From the Kim- 

 ball House, where we stayed, we could see the 

 State capitol building, a beautiful structure of 

 Georgia gianite and marble from the quarries 

 near Atlanta. We were inside, but did not go 

 to the top. Many nice churches are seen: and 

 no one would think, to see the city now, that, 

 at the close of the war. but four business houses 

 were left standing: but so we were told. 



We next stopped in Chattanooga, visited the 

 National Cemeteiy. noticed Ohio's tribute to 

 the memory of the "Andrews Raiders." which 

 Is a monument with a fac-simile in copper 

 bronze of the old engine "'General" above, and 

 the names of the soldiers, twenty in number, 

 who made the raid in 18ti2. underneath. 



On Chicamauga battlefield is yet to be seen 

 Bloody Pond, a small body of water where men 

 and horses would crawl, wounded and dying, to 

 quench their thirst, even after dead bodies 

 had fallen into it. Three miles further on we 

 find the wonderful Crawfish Spring. Oh such 

 a depth of clear pure water, away down fifteen 

 feet, and nothing to mar its beauty I From the 

 row-boat we could look down and see wonder- 

 ful mosses growing high, but away below us. 

 and out of reach. A little pamphlet says: 

 "This lake is two miles long, and is formed 

 from the largest mountain spring in the world 

 —sixty million gallons of the purest water flow- 

 ing through it every twenty-four hours." We 

 shall not forget Crawfish Springs any sooner 

 than we will the hot springs of Arkansas, or 

 Niagara. 



In sight of this spring is Park Hotel, where 

 we were introduced to General J. B. Wilder (of 

 Wilder's brigade), who told us of many trying 

 scenes during the battles in the surrounding 

 country, and showed us where General Rose- 

 crans had headquarters — a pretty place just 

 back of this spring. After getting bacli to 

 I'hattanooga we took the inclined plane up 

 Cameron Hill and back, and were in the old 

 prison building where Confederate and Federal 

 soldiers were confined, according to which side 

 had possession of the city. We were under ob- 

 ligations to Mr. Piper, Rogers Bros., and their 

 families, for a large amount of information 

 about the country during the war, and our very 

 pleasant time during our stay in Chattanooga." 



A wonderful ride on the cars, fourteen miles 

 up the mountain, brings us to Lookout Inn, a 

 large hotel containing li.V) rooms, 32(X) feet above 

 sea-level — a real pleasure-resort for people 

 from Southern cities; and this pretty place is 

 where the railroad traveling passenger agents 

 of the United States and Canada held their 

 annual meeting for 1891. While the men were 

 holding a business meeting we followed a path 

 from the hotel a short distance, leading to 

 Point Park. Going through to the end we look 

 do'.vn off the projecting rocks, and see another 

 hotel, but no way to get to it. A path back a 

 little way shows a ioi>e tied round a stump, 

 and dangling down over the- locks out of sight. 

 Two of us decided to go down, and hung to the 

 rope and let ourselves go, thinking it would 

 bring us on a level with the hotel on the 

 mountain -side; but we followed the path 

 around and over the rocks, and soon came to 

 another rope and old wooden ladder; but it 

 landed us safe at the bottom. Then it com- 



menced to rain; but we soon got to the hotel 

 we had seen from the rocks above; and from 

 the verandas we could see, in the trees below, 

 chestnuts, redbirds fiying around, and here we 

 get the best view of Moccasin Bend, in the 

 river below, and a good view of the city. But 

 we were glad to get into a narrow-gauge car 

 and ride, although the conductor says he can 

 not take us to the inn, or in sight of it; but the 

 remaining walk up the mountain is a short one, 

 and we enjoy it and are soon safe in our room. 



The next day a party of five went down on to 

 this narrow-gauge track around the mountain, 

 over trestlework. trees, rocks, and shrubbery, 

 away below us. and followed on to the same 

 hotel; but a railroad man was our pilot, so we 

 did not fear a train coming. No wagon-road, 

 no foot-path, no Ijoat, no safe way to get there, 

 only in cars, and— well, it makes me think of 

 the dungeon at Foit Snelling; for isn't it prison- 

 like to be where we can not walk away satVly? 

 Again we ride back, and climb the remainder 

 of the mountain near where General Hooker's 

 army came up, we are told. Not far from the 

 inn is a war-relic museum. The proprietor 

 kindly explained things of interest to us, and it 

 is worth visiting. From the top of the inn 

 there is nothing higher than we are in any 

 direction. It is said we can see into seven dif- 

 ferent States here. One night we watched the 

 sun set from the tower. A beautiful souvenir 

 of wild flowers, gathered from the grounds 

 whereon were fought the battles of Lookout 

 Mountain. INIissionary Ridge, and Chicamauga, 

 was presented us before leaving; and now we 

 bid our Southern friends good -by, and expect 

 next to visit Mammoth Cave. Ky. 



Medina, O. Mrs. Herman Holmes. 



[We would explain that Mrs. Holmes is a sis- 

 ter of A. I. Root, and has on a former occasion 

 given an account of another trip over the L. & 

 N., of which her husband is a general passenger 

 agent.] 



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MISS 'WILSON AND THE RECORD-BOOK, 

 AGAIN. 



THAT HUBBARD SECTIOX-PRESS, FOR WOMEN. 



Now, see here, Mr. Root: I didn't think that 

 of you. We just do lug about our big book, 

 the same as ever. It is one of our biggest com- 

 forts. But the little memoranda on the sections 

 are comforts too. The one has nothing to do 

 with the other. You say. "' Why not have a 

 slate on top of the hive, or hanging on the hive, 

 instead of being obliged to raise the cover, and 

 then make a section unsalable by unsightly 

 figuring?'' But. Mr. Root, we have to raise 

 the cover to see what the bees are doing, and 

 we never care to see the m(>morandum unless 

 we do uncover the super, while the book keeps 

 the record of the colony, that we may want to 

 see when we are miles away. It seems to me 

 it is much more convenient and safe to have 

 the memorandum on the section than on a 

 slate. I should very much object to the figur- 

 ing on the sections, if it had to stay there per- 

 manently. But just take a damp cloth, rub it 

 over a cake of scourine a fe^\■ times, and give 

 your sections a few vigorous rubs, and see how 

 like magic your pencil-marks will disappear. 

 By the way, scourine is a capital thing to take 

 propolis oit your fingers. 



If Mrs. E. M. Crossman will try Manum's 

 swarm-catcher I think she will find it a great 

 help in hiving her swarius. We clip our queens' 

 wings, and only occasionally have to bother 

 with swarms having virgin queens, but at such 

 times we have found the catchej- very handy. 



Our bees have given us no surplus honey 



