| Show s V BUSY BEE THE f A news item in yesterdays yesterday's TELEGRAM I said 4 that t Utah bee owners had completed the gathering rit r t tOP r. r seasons season's honey hobby and ana a d sent their colonies of i t gatherers to California that the tile bees might i 5 c their 5 work all winter on on the California S s then the intention g to return them S f rt Utah to gather another harvest of honey next Summer u thus making the bees perpetual slaves V- V ud obliging them to work summer and winter S We Ve have a a. a s suspicion that tha the avarice of f those owners will lead to their undoing We have llave havethe S. S th the story r ry cf of Press Wands Wand's s 's bee enterprise but kf the benefit e of of t those lOse e. e who have have- con con- c d the idea of making their bees work a t 1 e shift will win repeat it Wand Vand was as a half haIr professional pro pro- r S resSi l I aI sport in in Nevada 5 He accumulated some 2500 and nd with the 1110 money went to California for cl winter I Soon after reaching San Sail Francisco he heis met a friend just from Honolulu lulu who was t i f s 's in in ill his description of the wonders wonder of Hawaii i. i l that nigh his dreams were of the enchanted V 7 i. J put in iii a the thc P pacific Next morning his atten- atten i ft j S by seeing a group of men in lU a i y ro m surrounding lg some objects there and aud f f listening to a man who seemed to be bek be making an anS a S address He entered the place and found that the theo thea crowd fo o d was examining some hives of bees The man s- s in ji n ch charge rge vas explaining f v that-each that hive would S. S in iV j. a a se season son make nuke pounds of honey that the the honey sold readi readily J- J Jat at per pound and that the toe dema demand d was unlimited Wand went to to his and examined the figures They left a S. S handsome mc profit Then the thought came a ue to him im that if he lad the thc bees in Hawaii where there is s sno sno no winter of course the bees would work all the year rear round and the profits would be doubled He lie passed a restless night Next morning lg he ho went back to the bee vendor saved out from his little money invested all the thc rest in bees becs loaded them oil ou a bark and taking passage in the same saUle bark in due clue time arrived in Honolulu The rhe bees at first were cre as much delighted as w was ws s Wand They found new flowers and many varieties of Wand Vand watched them and reveled in prospective prospective pros pros- wealth But when it came time for fOi winter nc nl winter vintel c came caine me The rhe bees b began gall to get got slack in thc their 1 work vork After a few weeks they stopped work and nd began to cat their own honey Then rhen when they had eaten their stores one swarm after another another an au- other took to the woods Wand Vand borrowed money to to pay his way back to San Francisco and as long longas as he lived mention bees to him and his ins reply would be Bees are arc like men rh They y are d d-d d d dirty loafers Not one in a thousand of oT them will work unless he has to |
