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Young Sling say him heep glad ; him 

 say me make him cousin well him give 

 me $100. 



So me go up to sick Chinaman's bled, 

 open him shirt and shake sugar-fly out 

 of blottle on Lee's skin and put back 

 shirt and blanket belly quick. 



Slam Lee jlump up belly mlighty 

 quick. Him get big move on him, as 

 ploliceman say. Him yell and jlump 

 allee samee him clazy. Chinaman come 

 in flom stleet and belly much astonlished 

 when they see Lee with big move on 

 him. Lee lun ablout, upset flurniture, 

 and tlear him hair from him pig-tail. 

 Him fearfully clazy; me muchee sclared, 

 for me thlinkee him mlight hap die, and 

 ploliceman takee me to calaboosee. 

 Pletty soon Lee lun out of housee into 

 stleet with nothing on him but shirtee. 

 Him allee time yell and tear him shirt 

 and queue ; big crowd gather, and hood- 

 lum boy say, " See the clazy heathen 

 with nothing on but a shirt and pig-tail, 

 and him tlying to get them off as flast 

 as he clan." 



Lee was lunning in bliznese street 

 when ploliceman stop him and wanted 

 to takee Lee to clazy housee. Jlust 

 thlen a sugar-fly got out of Lee's shirt 

 and blit ploliceman under him nlose. 

 Ploliceman swore and jlumped worsee 

 than him clazy with too muchee gin. 

 One Melican man allested plolice offlicer 

 for using heep bad cuss-word. Lee now 

 lun home and get sting taken out of 

 him. 



Him soon all lite, and work in glarden. 

 Young Sling glive me $100. Me belly 

 much heep slatisfled with sugar-fly ; 

 make belly much money flom him. 



Nexa time me tell you more what 

 me do. 



Slan Flanclisco, Claliflornia. 



Notes from Utah — W^lnter JLosses, 

 Swarming, Etc. 



Written for the A.merican Bee Journal 

 BY E. S. LOVESY. 



The Bee-Keepers' Association of Salt 

 Lake county is holding meetings through 

 the county this year, and among other 

 questions considered is the winter ques- 

 tion. We are trying, if possible, to ar- 

 rive at so'me satisfactory conclusion as 

 to the best method of wintering the 

 bees. The winter question here causes 

 more loss than any other single ques- 

 tion. I have interviewed over 100 bee- 

 keepers on this subject, and in going 

 through the county I have collected 



some very interesting points. I also 

 have information from other parts, 

 which I will write about later. We hope 

 to be able to adopt some plan to protect 

 ourselves from those heavy winter 

 losses. 



INTEMPERANCE THE CURSE OF THE AGE. 



I very much admire the remarks on 

 the liquor question on page 745. I look 

 upon intemperance as the curse of the 

 age. It is the cause of nine-tenths of 

 the crime, misery, poverty, etc., in our 

 fair land. If this rum fiend could be 

 abolished, it would be a happy land. It 

 fills the jails, thereby taxing the indus- 

 try of the people. You can scarcely 

 conceive of the wreck and ruin caused 

 by the drink demon. He robs his victim 

 of his reason, his health, wealth and 

 happiness ; takes his home, and those 

 that are dear to him, and even his life 

 must pay profit to this rapacious mon- 

 ster — intemperance. 



While the people here are sober and 

 industrious, as a rule, our bee-keepers 

 are especially so. I do not know of one 

 intemperate bee-keeper. The bee-hive 

 is Utah's emblem, and many of her peo- 

 ple pride themselves in being called " a 

 working bee in the hive of Utah." 



There seems to be a fascination about 

 the little, busy bee that tends to create 

 a soft, kind, refining influence, which 

 helps the possessor to become satisfied 

 with himself and all that he may come 

 in contact with. Thus they tend to 

 calm, and sooth, and develop a sympa- 

 thetic disposition. They cause many a 

 brilliant star to shine, which might 

 otherwise remain in obscurity. I might 

 mention dear old Father Langstroth, 

 and Mr. Doolittle, Mrs. Atchley, and 

 many others. It is seldom that this 

 class of people, after becoming ac- 

 quainted with their little friends, the 

 bees, like to part company with them 

 entirely. When the time comes that 

 such people may have a strong voice in 

 our government, the intemperance prob- 

 lem may possibly be solved. 



THE SWARMING PROBLEM. 



I have read and heard considerable of 

 the swarming or non-swarming problem 

 of late. In my own apiary the bees do 

 not swarm. This is the fourth year 

 since I have had a swarm come out, on 

 the natural plan. While I do not pre- 

 tend to have solved any problem, it 

 seems simple and easy to avoid natural 

 swarming, if you have the bees shaded 

 a little, and work for extracted honey, 

 or part comb honey. I do not think that 

 natural swarming can be prevented en- 



