1897 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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the effect the name Alfaretta had upon the 

 doctor. Sleep at last came to the tired body; 

 but in the mind it was dreams, dreams, one 

 after another. 



It must have been near midnight when he 

 was sporting with Alfaretta and the mermaids, 

 and then with Matt Hogan, as on the night of 

 the tempest, gliding swiftly down the river. 

 The motion seemed so real that he awoke with 

 a start, and then a struggle. He was securely 

 bound to his cot, and was being borne rapidly 

 along by several dusky persons. In the dark- 

 ness he could not distinguish that any of them 

 were his former traveling companions, and in 

 utter desperation he shouted, "Dr. Hayden! 

 help! help!" The night air fell cool upon his 

 face, but not a reply came to his appeal save 

 the dogged trot of the Indians. Fred was now 

 fully aroused; but finding that neither strug- 

 gles nor shout* made any impression upon his 

 captors he submitted through sheer exhaustion. 

 When one set of carriers tired, another set 

 relieved them, and the trot, trot, continued. 

 It seemed an age to Fred before his cot was 

 halted and set down. His bands were here 

 loosened, and he was motioned to arise. He 

 noted that the Indians around him were not 

 the same that he had seen in the rancheria, and 

 the stopping-place was where many huge 

 boulders reared their ungainly forms; and near 

 one of them was what appeared to be a long 

 low adobe cabin; near it a few Indians were 

 Kindling a fire. Fred had no more than taken 

 in this situation than he was closely held by 

 two of the Indians, his arms pinioned, and a 

 tight bandage placed over his eyes. 



I WOULD call special attention to the article 

 by Mr. Davenport, in this issue, regarding the 

 danger arising from the use of bisulphide of 

 carbon in destroying moths in comb honey. 



In this issue, under "Ridgepole Musings," 

 R. C. Aiken gives some interesting and valuable 

 facts about alfalfa. Much of what he says 

 regarding this famous honey plant will be new 

 to many. 



THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH BEE .JOURNAL IN 

 CALIFORNIA. 



The editor of the British Bee Journal, Thos. 

 Wm. Cowan, whose name I have often men- 

 tioned in these columns, has been making a 

 hurried tour across our great and beautiful 

 country. I knew that he was expecting to 

 make the trip, but was surprised to receive a 

 letter from him so soon, not from " Merrie Eng- 

 land," but from our beautiful State of Califor- 

 nia. Here is the letter, which I have taken the 

 liberty to give our readers: 



Dear Mr. Root:— I am pleased to say that Mrs. 

 Cowan and I arrived here after a very pleasant 

 journey via the Sunset Limited, and were much 

 interested in all we saw by the way. I am very glad 

 we came by that route, lor we found it very cold in 

 New York, and I am afraid we should have found 

 the northern route rather unpleasant at this time 

 of the year. I shall hope in the spring or early sum- 

 mer to travel by that route and stop off to see some 

 of my bee-keeping and other friends. I see Glean- 

 ings of Dec. 1, and observe that you have made a 

 very good copy of the illustrations of my pamphlet 

 on " Foul Brood." I also notice that Mr. A. I. Root 

 has gone to Arizona, and I shall look forward with 

 interest to his account of what he sees I should 

 have liked to stop sume days there to study the 

 cacti, and to have collected specimens, but I hope to 

 do so some other time. Thos. Wm. Cowan. 



Loomis, Cal., Dec. 3L • 



Mr. Cowan is without doubt, the most distin- 

 guished bee-keeper from abroad who has ever 

 visited our country. Indeed, for scholarly and 

 scientiflc attainments I doubt if he has an equal 

 among those who love and study bees. Bee- 

 keepers all over this broad land will be glad to 

 extend him a warm welcome. 



THE LINCOLN convention GROUP. 



I HAD hoped to get the group picture of the 

 Lincoln convention, shown on page 11 of this 

 issue, long before this; but I have been waiting 

 to get the names, in answer to request, corres- 

 ponding to the numbers; but so far they have 

 failed to come to hand. I can give a few of 

 them from memory; but as I find Mr. York, in 

 the Am. Bee Journal, gives a larger list than I 

 can recall, I copy his list entire. 



I. Mrs. J. N. Heater. 

 3. Miss .lennie Razer. 



3. Mrs. V. Collins. 



4. Chancellor MacLean. 

 .5. A. I. Root. 



6. Mrs. A. L. Hallenbeck. 



b. E. B. Gladish. 



9. Ernest R, Root. 

 10. George W. i'ork. 

 13. Dr. A. B. Mason. 



13. Rev. E. T. Abbott. 



14. Mrs. Eugene Secor. 

 1.5. Hon. Eugene Secor. 



16. J. C. Knoll. 



17. A. Lalng. 



18. Dr. C. C. Miller. 

 30. Mrs. Compton. 



31. Mrs. A. L. Amos. 

 2-^. Mrs. R C. Aikln. 

 33. R. C Aikin. 

 31. T. R. Delong. 



38. Prof. L. Bruner. 



39. L. D. Stllson. 



30. H. E. Heath. 



31. Mrs. E. T. Abbott. 



33. S. H. Herrlck. 



34. J. C. Stewart. 



37. J. C. Masters. 



38. E. Kretchmer. 



40. W. C. Frazier. 



41. Rev. Clay C. Cox. 

 43. Mrs. E. V7hitcomb. 

 .53. Charles White. 



54. M. A. Enslow. 



■57. L. M. Brown. 



At the close of one of the sessions we assem- 

 bled on the steps of one of the college buildings 

 (the Library Hall, I believe), and one of the 

 members of the Lincoln meeting, a Mr. Lovell, 

 professional photographer of Omaha, Neb., as 

 as well as a bee-keeper, made the "shot." 



Many of the faces bring back to me pleasant 

 memories, and I should like to give some of the 

 little incidents, chats, and handshakes called 

 forth by many of the faces, some whose names 

 I can't even now recall ; but space, and the fear 

 of ignoring some just as deserving, forbid. 

 One pleasant good face brings back a feeling of 

 sadness, and that is the likeness of Mrs. A. L. 

 Hallenbeck, whose untimely death I have al- 

 ready spoken of in a footnote to one of the 

 Straws in this issue. Quiet and unassuming 

 though she was, she will be remembered by all 

 who attended that meeting. 



