AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



685 



RMDOM STIMGS 



FROM THE STINGER. 



Now, there's Editor Leahy, 

 Who is quite beeahy. 



In a " Progressive " way ; 

 With a bee " in the ear " — 

 A little too near — 



Yet Leahy is happy and gay. 



Bellamy has been " looking backward " 

 at the joys and sorrows of bicycling, 

 and he asks Olennings, who has been a 

 great exponent of the fad, to tell about 

 the sorrows of bicycling — " such as head 

 wind, sudden rain making wet roads, 

 fright to horses, repairing, causing 

 hump-backs," etc. (See page 534 of the 

 Bee Journal.) The Stinger will say 

 that Bellamy is right for once ; but 

 there is no Utopia for the man who rides 

 a bike, be he bee-keeper or not. 



Ernest, you may paw the air 

 While we ride to the church fair. 

 That ivc will surely get there 

 Is because our steed's a mare. 



The Stinger does not hold himself re- 

 sponsible for the following dialogue, 

 which took place between a father and 

 son in Ohio not long since : 



Son — " What is that on that bicycle, 

 father ?" 

 Father — "An apiarist, my boy." 

 Son — " Do all apes ride that way." 

 Father — "No: that is not the kind 

 that monkeys in trees, as you seem to 

 imagine, but one of those that monkeys 

 with bees and bicycles." 



Here is a fable that is supposed to 

 have got lost when /Esop sent his copy 

 to the printer many years ago. It is 

 here given for the first time : 



A Proud Hen walked into an Apiary 

 one day, and met a Duck that was eat- 

 ing Drones, as they came out of a Bee- 

 Hive. 



The Proud Hen asked the Duck what 

 she was doing, and the latter said, "I 

 am eating Drones." 



"Are they nice and sweet?" interro- 

 gated the Proud Hen, who prided her- 

 self on being an Epicure. 



"You bet," replied the Duck, who 

 never made any pretensions to being a 

 Fine Liver. 



The Proud Hen then walked up to a 

 Hive and grabbed the first Bee that 

 came in sight. The Bee stung the 

 Proud Hen, who, to revenge herself on 



the Bee-Hive, scratched upon the en- 

 trance of the Hive. A lot of Bees came 

 out; she thought she would now have a 

 Grand Feast. But, instead, the Bees 

 piled upon her and stung her full sore. 

 The Proud Hen ran off with her head 

 under her wing, to where the Duck was 

 standing on one foot watching the Silly, 

 though Proud, Hen. She was going to 

 give the Duck " fits" for telling her to 

 eat Drones. 



" Why did you say Drones were good 

 to eat?" demanded the Proud Hen in a 

 sharp voice. " You knew that they 

 were Hot and Peppery, you mean Old 

 Thing !" 



"Because they are good to eat," 

 meekly replied the Duck. 



"They are not, and I came near being 

 killed by the Drones, for taking your 

 advice," retorted the Proud Hen. 



"You did not try to find the Drones, 

 as I do," said the Duck, " but you were 

 trying to eat the Bees, who have Sharp 

 Stings, and are too Hot and Peppery to 

 eat, as you seem to have found out to 

 your sorrow. I thought you knew the 

 difference between Drones and Bees. 

 The next time you will not be so hasty 

 to satisfy your greed before you learn 

 just what you are going to dine upon." 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1893. 

 Dec. 7.— Carolina, at Charlotte, N. C. 



A. L. Beach, Sec, Steel Creek, N. C. 



Dec.l2, 13.— Illinois State, at Springfield, Ills. 

 Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



Dec. 13, 14.— Eastern Iowa, at Delmar, Iowa. 

 Frank Coverdale, Sec, Walton, Iowa. 



Dec. 19,20.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford, Til. 



B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. 



Dec. 28, 29.— Kansas, at Ottawa, Kans. 



J. R. Barnhard, Sec., Ottawa, Kans. 

 1894. 

 Jan. 24, 25.— Vermont, at Burlington, Vt. 



H. W. Scott, Sec, Barre. Vt. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — ^Thb Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. 



Vicb-Pres.- O. L. Hershiser Buffalo. N. Y. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer- George W. York. . .Chicago. Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President- Hon. R. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gbn'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



