BUSY ARIZONA BEES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 346, 25 December 1902, Page 3

BUSY ARIZONA BEES.

■II I 'l» '.'.~~; *. HQHft£»aaAAm,, ' -;l f » ■ S%» greatest erop of hotesy, aver teams ia Arisona is that of «ie posset year. The average product of theterritory is somewhat in execes oi 5,C00,000 pound*. This gotir it will lie ! ' 4ar to. ezeesa of t&ftt amoun*-~prob- " ftfcly double. The greater part of this honey wfDt find a marks* & Chicago, reports the Chronicle. Strange as St may seem, the m«quite and cactus, which flourish without water, provide the bees with a honey far auparior to that from «dltlvated plants, and the blossom and fruit of the «actu« are i*ven better than the mosquito blossom. The most handeOßM' ■ o< grow on the hundreds of varieties of •actus. One of the most beautiful is thai-of•the Census Gigenteu< the organ cactus, generally known by its' Spanish, appellation of the "Saguara," Arisona's most typical plant, that towers in great, green, fluted chaffs* the most conspicuous and oddest eubr Jest on all the ploina. Tri the late Springtime each saguara is erbwnttS by a mass of brilliant, silken white flowers," eOmstiittes over 100 in : a /-bunehii* .'Each- bloseoin ; is > abput four inches across. Nearly aU develop to fruit, the "petahaya," the most palatable o£ the-wild and in the blossom and the fruit the wild bees and the tamed ones And the. essence of honey, The prickly pear, th« night-blooming eersus, the oholie, the "doubly barbed terror ofs? the?''desert, *he ocaiilla »»d many others grjre hoaay to the beai,, wUle the jwild TtQ&m of the tmkfi, and the thousand© of small*? Sowers aid in furnishing i , the most deli'cately flai'ured hcEtsyj

known to the apiaries. In the Salt Slv*r valley bees worlr for a-longer period that;, in any other locality, 6 crop of, 300 pounds of honey to each hive being apt unusual, while an aveaßage of 100 pounds for the season to maintained. From Phoenix and Tampe alone are shipped about 1,000,000 pounds of honey each year, nearly aS of it being separated or strained. The wild baas of the' desert and mountains' provide an interesting study and honey-hunting is a most unique sport, which is not without its dangers, but, with recompense ..sufficiently delightful to repay one for its difficulties. Xn the cavities of the highest rocka the bees gather in, great swarms and store their supply of food. With remarkable sagacity they choose the most inaccessible spots and frequently And places which baffle all ingenuity of even the Indian, the most persistent seeker of honey. Frequently great hoards of honey ape found in oaves and down the sides of steep cliffs; where thousands of bees have stored their produots for perhaps scores of years, and sometimes as much as a thousand pounds of. honey are taken from such places. The Indian bee hunter many times risks his life to obtain the neetar of the wild bees, \ and swings himself at the end of a frail rope, far down the aides of a steep, precipice. Neither is his danger ended there, for if not well protected from the onslaught of the bees; 'sometimes in .dense swarms of thousands, he is likely to beoome a victim of the angry defenders. Indeed, not long since a Papago young man -was' stung so badly while robbing a wild; hive that he died soon after his comrades had pulled hfen up to the too of the ettff. - » , ■■:. ■

On the desert, 400, tha beet make their homes, sometimes swarming in the shell of the decayed cactus and often in'caves along arrbyos and tha beds of the large streams. Tory often they swarm close to the agricultural districts and it is a frequent and very, easy thing for the ranchers'to gather them into-hives and hold them.; On* rancher a few miles southeast of Phoenix has on his property a small isolated butte, near vthe top of which is a email eave. Prom'-this piece of rock the owner has gathered honey •nought to pay for his ranch. Several years ago a great swarm of bass settled in the cave and the owner has gradually tamed them, and sash' year gathers from .1,000 to 3,000 squads f4 boney from them.

Something 14Ice- a> Oov*y« Two. old hunters were swapping yarns and had got to quail. . "Why," aaid one, "I remember a rear when quail were ao thick that rou .could get eight or ten at ft shot ; ,with.a,rifle." ■-*&wi&x.uThe, other jjna sighed. * !r ' "What's the matter?" said th"# flrst. "I wae thinking of my quail hunts. I had a'flne black horse that I rode i very where, and one day out'hunting juall I saw a big eovey on a'' low branch of a tree. I threw tha bridle rein over the end of the limb and took a shot. : Q VSeyeral birds fell and tha reei flew iway. Wall, ejbr,, there-were; so many \ luait on }\va)* that when they 'S*w off "it sprang back into place and lung my horse I "—Los Angeles Times. ■Aa# «*»• aa«d Plar*d Oa, Browne—Who is that eJmnsx Sfomfen dancing over there? Greene—l don't know;' but certainly hers is not™ a horseless cantatas* to .•'•,'"'' Her Comment, -•*■*• Dusnap—Did aha say:; "Thlfl is Be fludden? Bertwhistlc—You forget, She" imt ft widow. She saidt "You're bjta&dsed JFor A Pain in the side or;chest there is nothing better than a piece of flannel;dampened ;i with Ohambeirlain's 'Pain -■Balm and applied ,to, the <seat of pain,-. This; same treatmenf i's'a sore lame back, One application gives relief. ; Try : iti. '.Wfj and; Sons/" Merchants, dr«i sell it. ■ ~;:^: ^"V: -

'■jfSM HWMSinwk 4 ' fl||}tt«C7 KVaSalu*AJonc Not C*lcqVv tale* J* »»Ve>*a' JOriainaitty '■ truth.is th^milit^rjr''&£n "'' England did not show themselves one whit more competent to estimate the mhftarj^.problems of the Boe)r f war than feli|di*lpe civil—itfna, on tradlwon, andiaujhed at the r % n fd*tfcfchat any such changes had taken '.'place, in-thwart l - of ,war as were.:jg|e- .'is, dieted ''%f J \ theorists, *whodeclared, ; among other things, : that 'offensive I warfare was much more difficult than formerly, says' Jean de isitit'kf i *%-a. National Beview. The cause o|Jmiiitary blindness is in no .way obscure. . Military training is itself antagonistic to original thought. It is no. wonder, ;■■'_ therefore, that nowadays when rifles and artillery are a hundred' times more powerful than before, when ar- , mie» are times larger, and when xttilw£y« -have 'changed' the whole art of war ; , that we' find the system differing very , little from that employed in the days of Napoleon, or, for the-iaatterlof that, in the'days of'GustcA^us'Adolphus. Yet even amottg.military men 'themselves the .more .enlightened feel as" many doubts as iiiarshal |^xe. .That the methods to be Vdoptjed in the future wars are a matter of grave I doubt has been declared by writers as eminent as ,von !Rhone, Jansbn, Muller, '" Pellet-JSarbonne and Skugarewaky. It is expressed excellently in ''£bj/t"'ytbf&? of Gen. Luzeux: "Let. the inistructorß first agree amgng th\'emi..sj&Jvea.*''. I?or can soldiers nowaday! i claimthat experience ha& given them a-tig'ht to dictate to civilians. Nine : isuif&tof - ten; ''experienced" soldiers ( h*¥e* at "most shot or bunted sav■^aegis, and'the majority have seen.no | flghttng at all. t

AT A MEXICAN HOTEL.;' ; isms O* the Table Delicacies 'That , Sara served at the Saveral Aining-room is scrupulously clean, and- ihc mozoe -»re in attendance ,in, their spotless white blouse-* (which resemble our shirt wais-fs. . with the gathering string- let out at I>h«i bottom), the corners lied in a hard knot in front below the waist, says a writer in the International Magazine. The first meal of the day is called desayuno, and consists usually of different kinds of bread, some very fancy and sweet, with coffee or . chocolate, also iruit and eggs, if you desire them. After a very slow canter about the country on the back Of tt burro, through banana groves, j to: sugar'plantations, etc., you return promptly at 12 o'clock, ready for your dinner (comida). This is a full course meal, beginning with; soup and rice. All the dashes are novel and are generally liked. Some of them are rather after afjew meals you find that your taste for chile con came has become cultivated, and you enjoy the piquancy of the delicacies set before you. I have learned to be very ftmd of the Mexican's favorites, such with cheese and roasted; veisy delicious combination i of peas, pineapple and banana boiled together; meats dressed with chile; salad of the alligator pear (butter fruit); oniony, tomato and chile, and the standby of all Mexicans, tortillas (corn cakes) and frijoles (beans). These last" are always served. after the meat bourses. Then we. have the dulces (preserved fruits) and, coffee. The (supper) at seven is. of the same number of courses as -thje dinner and verysmuch. like it. ; .J

THE OLD-FASHIONED BOY. J &a laanlKr About a Missises VmM Made* at a Biaaar of •!*■ .>• I ■■ % A...-.,■ Tl«aer».., ov'''' •" T Madittle dinner of a few ojd-timef a : in thisfceity the other night, report* the New York Sun, one of thespeakers said: —• * • "What* has become of the old-fa«fe« The on* who looked like his father when his father carried the lort offcpomposity which was like the divinity that hedged a king in the time when knighthood was in its break; o* day. The boy who wore a hat which threatened to come down over his ears. The boy whose trousers were mada over from his father's bybiamothe*d or aunt, or grandmother.•-;* The MS (whose hair had a cowlick in it, toelwfe and waa sheared off the same lenfjfii behind* The boy who walkelLwltiJ both hands in thie pockets ei Ma trc-us* era,"and who expectorated between hi*; teetfc'When his teeth were clamjpeJßftb*!, gather. The boy who wore boots, ruff down at the heels. The boy who neves wore knickerbockers or a roundabout! coat. The boy whoae chirography wa« shaped by the 'gymnastics of ht* tongue. The boy whojbelievedhip fe>. tier was the on in the world* and thatiif couldnafebeen president if he wanted to be. The boy who wets' hi» mother** man whan the sa&n sras away from hom»." -smSm ...if! . Tfmbes? om Paget So«*«. Probably no place on earth will a*» ferage acre for acre.the timber thai the' Puget sound region can furnish. It is. fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock and alder, as well as maple and oihen wood*. Ite Douglas fir—the snoaS common variety—ha* been found ate* perior to yellow pine and other wood! heretofore used for car jA pa '""-i Caaaea'a Seaeoaaf. ' '\-» •'■« tEM pastern Canadian from the Bay of Funday to the Strejftg of Belle Isle, covers a distance ©9 5,000 miles, and British Columbia*with its multitude ©f bays and moms* 4 tainoua islands, has a |eacoaat» b| -;'. * 7,180 miles and a salt water inshore) ■ ; • • area, not including minor {adfegfefe ; tiwk at MW eftuwa nailM****-^