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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



The Golden 'Wedding: anni- 

 versary of Mr. and Mrs. Win. B. Mc- 

 Cormiek, of Uniontown, Pa., was cele- 

 brated on Nov. 10, 1892, they having 

 been married just 50 years on that date. 

 Some 50 friends helped them to remem- 

 ber the occasion, and among the number 

 of handsome and costly gifts were a gold 

 watch and a beautiful Masonic charm. 

 There was present Miss Sophia Gadd, 

 who attended the wedding 50 years be- 

 fore, and who has bravely survived the 

 importunate pleadings of many a would- 

 be lover. 



The local newspaper adds the follow- 

 ing sketch of Mr. McCormick, who is 

 among the host of admirers of the old 

 American Bee Journal : 



William B. McCormick was born near 

 Smithfleld, Aug. 25, 1821, and came to 

 Uniontown with his parents in 1832. 

 He was reared on his father's farm near 

 Uniontown, and was educated at old 

 Madison College. For 20 years he was 

 a successful school-teacher in the schools 

 of Fayette county. He was principal of 

 the Uniontown schools from 1848 to 

 1860. His 71 years sit lightly upon 

 him. He is as active as most men at 50. 



He is engaged in a number of business 

 enterprises, and is one of the principal 

 stockholders of the Uniontown water 

 company, of which company he is secre- 

 tary. He is a high authority on bee- 

 culture, which is a favorite pastime of 

 his. Mrs. McCormick is a daughter of 

 the late Matthew Allen, who served as 

 sheriff of Fayette county for six years, 

 having been elected in 1837 and again 

 in 1850. 



The Bee Journal wishes to unite 

 with the many friends of the happy 

 " young couple " in the hope that they 

 may be permitted to enjoy yet many 

 years of purest happiness, even to the 

 celebration of their " diamond wedding." 

 So mote it be. 



Mr. H. Kohlenburgfh, who 



lives near Eddy, New Mexico, started 

 last spring with 100 colonies of bees. 

 Since then he has sold over 30 colonies, 

 and received more than $1,000 from 

 honey. At least, so says a Colorado 

 paper. 



CONDUCTED BY 



Mr®. Jennie £Uc£tley, 

 Floyd. Hunt Co.. Tex. 



Can a Queen Produce Life Without 

 the Aid of a Drone P 



Dr. James Williams, of Farmersville, 

 Tex., asks the following question : 



" Does the queen-bee have the power 

 to produce life without the aid of the 

 male ?" 



Others ask from whence come the 

 germs that fertilize drone eggs ? All 

 request me to answer and give my opin- 

 ion in the American Bee Journal. 

 With the help of a friend, I will do the 

 best I can, for I do not think they will 

 get a satisfactory answer from any one. 



Now let us see. I believe it was Dr. 

 McCosh, of Princeton, N. J., who said, 

 "We must often be satisfied with facts 

 alone, because science in a thousand 

 things gives only the facts, but hides the 

 reasons." Now that will be the harbor 

 into which I may run at any time before 

 closing this article. 



Again, I have another fortification 

 behind which we can all run for confes- 

 sion. It is metaphysical, it is true, but 

 none the less real and true. Dr. Hamil- 

 ton, of Scotland, author of the " Philos- 

 ophy," to which I now make reference, 

 says that " All thought is conditional." 

 To prove this, he writes a long chapter. 

 Now Pope means about the same thing 

 when he says — " How can we reason but 

 from what we know " — the mind is lim- 

 ited in its objects of thought. It cannot 

 create anew. 



We may use a hors6 for illustration. 

 The head may be taken off and a cow's 

 head put on ; the tail may be removed, 

 and that of a peacock put on in its place; 

 we add the wings of a bird, the hide of 

 an elephant, etc., but in all this the 

 mind is conditioned or limited to objects 

 of the senses — it can only work from 

 what it knows. The mind is finite, aud 

 can only have finite conception. It is 

 limited and conditioned to finite things. 

 It is bounded all around by the infinite, 



