280 



RECREATION. 



the floor. These the bee seizes and 

 works to the proper consistency with 

 her mandibles. 



The nectar of flowers does not be- 

 come honey until after it undergoes 

 certain chemical changes in the 

 honey-bag of the bee. The bee takes 

 the nectar from the flowers, carries it 

 home in her honey-bag, and regurgi- 

 tates it into the cell from honey. 

 Bees are the most cleanly animals in 

 in the world. They will allow no 

 filth in their habitations, but will care- 

 fully deposit such on the outside. If 



a strange animal, such as a grub or a 

 moth, comes into the hive, they im- 

 mediately kill it. If it be too heavy for 

 them to carry out, they bury it beneath 

 masses of a resinous, gummy substance 

 called propolis. This substance they 

 extract from poplar and kindred trees, 

 and use also for stopping up all 

 cracks, etc., in the walls of the hive. 

 In the honey-bee, socialism is ideally 

 perfect. The good of the common- 

 wealth is everything, and, in serving 

 the commonwealth, the individual 

 weal of each inhabitant is achieved. 



NOW THE NEZ PERCES ARE AT IT 



Warren's, Idaho. 

 Editor Recreation 



I want to make a kick, and one in 

 which I am indorsed by all the citizens of 

 this mining district. Ten days ago the deer 

 were here by hundreds, in their annual -mi- 

 gration to the Salmon River, where they 

 winter. The woods were full of them. They 

 could be seen every day along the trails and 

 from our cabin door. Then came several 

 bands of Nez Perce Indians from the Ca- 

 mas, or Lapwai reservation, near Lewiston. 

 They made their camps in the main passes, 

 at the summit of the divide, to kill or hold 

 the game back, and from morning until 

 night every ridge is dotted with Indians in 

 skirmish line. Not a deer can pass, and 

 with the constant fusilade and the howling 

 dogs, the poor beasts have been killed, 

 frightened and scattered all over the coun- 

 try. Four Indians camped 2 miles from 

 here, killed 44 deer last week. A band at 

 the head of Slaughter House creek killed 

 over a hundred ; and as there are a number 

 of other bands camped all along the divide, 

 the slaughter must be frightful. Two of us 

 hunted all day yesterday and saw only one 

 deer, and almost no fresh sign. A week 

 ago we could have seen 50 on the same 

 ground. Some of your correspondents 

 think redskins don't slaughter game. We 

 know they do. At every Indian camp the 

 drying racks and tepees are loaded with 

 venison, and there are piles on the ground, 



while poles and limbs of trees are hung full 

 of fresh and grained hides. These vandals 

 not only butcher the game, but they scatter 

 it, and keep it from its winter range. 



The sight of one of these Indian camps is 

 enough to drive a sportsman wild. Any one 

 band "of these Nez Perces will kill more 

 deer in a week than all the citizens of this 

 section would have killed this fall. 



These same Indians recently received 

 their choice of their lands in allotment, and 

 $675,000 in cash from the Government. 

 They must hereafter stay at home and not 

 be found hunting east or south of the Sal- 

 mon River. This is the last season they 

 will be allowed to butcher game here, and if 

 the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the 

 agent who has charge of these Indians do 

 not keep them at home, there will be an- 

 other Jackson's Hole affair ; and the hole 

 in the Nez Perce tribe will be too big to 

 patch. 



I don't know what position Governor Mc- 

 Connell, of this State, takes in this case, but 

 . if he is a friend of sportsmen, and a lover of 

 law, order, and decency, he will brace up, 

 as Governor Richards did, and aid us in 

 this matter. There are no guides doing 

 business here, so the Eastern Indian ad- 

 mirers can't say they are the ones who 

 make this kick. Just the same we won't 

 have this game slaughter repeated another 

 season, come what may. 



M. W. Miner. 



