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2 VOL. 2. ~ ATWOOD, ONT., FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1891, COMMUNIGATIONS. Sunday School Convention. To the Editor of THE BEE. DEAR Sin:—A 22 page pamphlet,con-| mand their owner's assistance taining report of proceedings, statistics, any farmers become very apt bee en, Butasa rule where only a few colonies are kept they hold a very sec- ondary place in the case of their owner, and as they, like all life, are visited by disease and other troubles which de- , more rompt action might beexpected at the m m ete.,of the County of Perth Sabbath hands of the specialist than were they School Association, has just been is-| owned by a casual bee-keeper, Take sued, and will be distributed, free, to a'!l| that dread disease foul brood for in- teachers and officers of the schools in| stance, which has become so prevalent, thecounty. From a giance at its pages | and yet how few of us are acquainted 1 conclude that it will be of great ser- withit, scarcely one rhas elapsed vice to ail Sabbath school workers. <A | since the Ontario Legislature passed an better condensation of the addresses, | act for its suppression. This was ac- &e., could not possibly be given, which| complished through the Ontario Bee- reflects great credit on the pains-taking | Keepers’ Association appointing a com- Secretary, Rev. A. Henderson, M. A.| mittee todraft a bill and wait on the who prepared the matter for the press. | Minister of Agriculture, which they did, Getit. Read it. D. RoGers. Atwood, April1, 1891. Bees and Honey. PAPER READ BY D. CHALMERS, oF uvs-| Visited this locality, but _as to whether | go and through the agency of the Hon. Mr. Drury had the bill passed. It then became the duty of the directors of the 0. B. K. A. to appoint a foul brood in- spector and also asub-inspector. The former, Mr. McEvoy, has [ understand, SELBURG, BEFORE TIE NoRTH PERTH | he found trouble ornot, Lam notaware. FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. Could we ever have hoped for sucha move With equal resuit were itnot for i Reason an- tilling the Soil which deserves: no- |SWers, no. Our 0. B. K. A. have now tice and is worthy of being discus- | been incorporated for four years and re- sed at such gatherings as the present, it|ceivea yearly grant from the govern- ie there is any ocenpation apart from | specialists in bee culture? is that of bee Keeping. all things in His unfathomable wisdom and expenses of The Creator of | ment of $500, and also pays the salary the two inspectors inas made the bee an agent, as it were,| Which cost the government last year to carry the fructifying influences from 3602, The same inspectors have been one flower to the other so as to enabie| appointed for this year and [ would like the tree or plant bearing such blossoms | betore closing to urge all who keep bees ‘to reproduce themselves, and while that | to have them inspected; it won't cost little insect is performing that all im-4youanything aud the inspector is not portant office itis at the same time col-{Something to be feared, his aim 1s to lecting the necessaries for its own sub- { ty and cure without resorting to the sistance, an d if the season is at all|last alternative, cremation. Wishing favorable it will store an over-abund-|youeach, all the success this coming anee thereby giving mankind the privi-|Season that the hands of the laborer lege of sharing with i effective medicine as well. IIoney is ripened nectar, and nectar t in that most] deserves, delicious and healthful food—honey, which in some throat diseases is an Perth County Notes. Knox church pulpit, Stratford, is still is a liquid secretion in the glands of | vacant. plants which gives forth an inviting roma thereb Mr. Idington, Q.C., has been nominat- inducing the honey bee} ed as one of the benchers of the Ontario tu make a visit and partake, and while} Law society. <loing so its body becomes cvated with the pollen of the flower which the stamens and anthers produce, and when pistillate bloom is visited. by bees so quoted, their chances, for fertilization We understand that Adam Berlet the Monkton shoemaker, will build 4 new shop this spring. The vote to consolidate the St. Marys is one hundred fold greater than if that | town debt was carried Friday, March function were left to the wind. In proof | 20th, by 148 for to 10 against, of this allow me from the A quote the following tfor n Bee Journal, of the|eda protective association to guard The butchers of Stratford have form- 12th March, which article it copies from | themselves against delinquents. the Farm Journal, of Philadeiphia: _ “Hees and berries go together. Some years ago a friend, who is a great lover|)ast week, by the Speaner, fon. Mr. of strawberries, located in an unsettled | Ballantyne. part of a Western State; and as soon as he could get the soil into proper condi- tion set out a large bed of several var- ieties. As it happened, every one of them were pistillate, but he did not know the difference. The next sprin Rev: J; A; Turnbull was one of the guests at the dinner given at Toronto Deaths, principally among old et have been frequent in Mitchell within the past few weeks, and the undertak- ers are reaping 4 rich harvest. Wm. Beirnes, of Henfryn, has sold I g\,. ; as the plants wese white with bloom, but| his hotel, at Walton, to John Weiss, of not a berry did he get. long, doleful letter, blaming the soil, | taken this fall, Ile wrote me a| Stratford, for $2,700, possession to be This is saidto bea climate, ete., and asking me what he good sale. should do. Do wild strawberries grow} Rev. W. J. Brandon has moyed into there and are there any honey bees inf the house lately occupied by C. H. the neighborhood? I asked. Plenty o Merryfield, Monkton. It is understood wild strawberries, but no bees within 15] the property will be bought for a par- niles, he replied. Itold him to get a|sonage. colony of bees, cultivate his berry patch At the congregational meeting held well, and I would guarantee him a full |in thgFirst Presbyterian church, St. crop the following year. Tle did so, and | \farys, on Monday, March 23, a unan- sure enough the crop was there. He] jmous call was extended to Rev. J. A. gathered over 20 bushels ot berries. | Cosgrove, of Port Hope. Piant alternate rows of pfstillate and perfect lowering varieties and shut 0 the bees and the pistillates will set one- Plant the pis- tillates in one bed and the perfect var- ieties in another, and have plenty of bees about, and you will harvest a full third to one-half a crop. D. G. MeNeil, formerly a teacher in Downie, and a good one too, has passed his final examination at the Western University, London, and obtained with honors the degree of M. C. lf. Merryfield bought from John crop from both. Bees will work when- | Sanders, the property near the mill, ever the weather is such that pollen will | Monkton, which 1e moved into th develop, and they will carry it to every other day. This will be handy for Chas. blossom. Bees and berries go together.” | 88 he will be right at his work, The farmer as weil as the horticaltur- Among the changes in the Active ist should feel interested in the success | Militia of Canada, recently announced, of bee-keeping, inasmuch as the assur- | is the following: Twenty-Eighth Perth ance of his fruit crop and clover seed | Battalion, Stiatford—To be assistant may be said to beat the bees disposal. | surgeon, Daniel David Ellis, vice Chas. Should the weather during fruit bloom | Patten Clark, left limits. prove wet or unfit for bees to be on the The German people have the brick on wing, just as surely will your crop of} the ground for their new church, Monk- fruit beshort. Now,if you intelligent} ton, which will be built in ajfew months. farmers are so unobserrant as not They are a go-ahead people, and we notice the barrenness of the first red | hope they may have a large congrega- cleyer of the season; there is reason for ae to cl end the same. So SOE everything and has any of you asked yourselves what is the cause of that, has it never oecurred to you that the detic- iency of clover seed attending the first bloom may be attributed to the limited number of bees which visit that bloom. The tubes are so long that our common honey bees are unabie to reach the nec- tar with any degree of comfort, it would therefore be a losing battle gathering straws for them to try to sip the nectar trom the red clover, while at that sea- son abundance of alsike and white clover is in bloom, but bv the time af- ter growth opens, other sources of hon- ey are more scarce, and that crop is visited by & much greater number of domestic bees, the bumble bees also by thattime have greatly multiplied and the result is that a much more abund- ant crop of seed will be reaped than from the first crop. Since we have roved to a limited extent the subserv- ience of that little insect- in the repro- duction of plants it will now be open for discussion as to whether a few col- onies of bees should adorn the lawn of every farmer or should bee keeping be made a specialty. Were I permitted offer an opinion the latter wouid cer- tainly be favored, but would by no means discountenance the former as s The trustees have chosen Miss Annie M. Fennell, late of Guelph, as superin- tendent of the Stratford hospital. ected to assume the duties about cupies the position of hea Bliss Llospital, Saginaw, Mich. ‘The many friends of Mrs. Harding, wife of the Rev. Freeman Larding, formerly of Mitchell, and sister of Mrs. .R. Davis, Sarnia, will learn with sorrow of her death after a week’s illness from inflammation of the lungs, in Kamloops, B.C., on Tuesday the 16th While coupling cars Tuesday morn: ing of last week, at the freight sheds, co ig ® . R, met with an accident will probably prove fatal. Iav- en fer some years a yardman, he was assistingin the yard where there was a shortage of men, and had !ust made his last coupling for the night when. he was caught between a car and the shed platform in such a way as to crush him terribly. His collor bone and several ribs were broken, theends of two of thelatter penetrating one of his lungs. Heis still alive, but there is not | business he may undertake for 4 liveli- much dope of his recovery, hood, Additional Local Items. APRIL, DOLLAR wheat. WHat about Arbor day and the 24th of May celebration? Last Sunday was Review Sunday in all the Sunday schools. Dr. RicE renewed old friendships in Drayton last Monday. does not know when to go. Last Wednesday was All Fool’s day. Did you get fooled? Y-a-a-s. A. CAMPBELL and E. Hill were at- tending the County Court at Stratford this week. Mrs. Patton, of Listowel, spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Donald Gordon, last week. THE roads arein a frightful state at present, but it is generally accepted that they will not last long and that we will have an early spring. We hope HORSEMEN should get their route bills printed at THE Bex office this spring. Try us. Rates moderate; route pub- lished in the paper two weeks free of charge. Tue time of year is about at hand when the recording angel will close his book and go on a yacation until the last carpet has been whipped and the last tack driven. Services in the Methodist church next Sabbath morning-and evening. In the evening the pastor will preach to young men. At both services a collec- tion will be taken up for the Superan- uated Ministers’ Fund. A FARMERS’ excursion to the Model Farm was decided on by the North Perth Farmers’ Institute last week, to take place next June. Prof. Shaw promised to dohis best to make the visit one of pleasure and profit. {ne Mitchell Recorder has the fol- lowing to say of the pastor of the Meth- Atwood, preached the Sunday School anniversary sermons in Main street church on Sunday and greatly pleased his hearers both morning and even- ing. A REPRESENTATIVE of the Independ- ent Order of Foresters was in town Tuesday with a view to establishing a branch of the Order in Atwood. meeting for that purpose will be held next Tuesday evening. Parties wish ing to join can get full particulars from the-Instituting Officer, J--H. Dickson, at the Elma Hotel. WE would kindly request our hither- "{ to faithful correspondents to remember Ture BEE from week to week. During the election we willingly excused them as the space, usually devoted to corres- pondence, was necessarily filled with campaign matter, but now that the bat- tle is over we would urge our scribes to send along their welcome weekly bud- gets of news. Tue Stratford Sun has set.to riseno more. Friend Butler is having pretty hard lines, and while sympathizing with him in his present embarrassment, we cannot help think it folly of him to have even hoped to succeed in a place of 10,- 000 inhabitants with four old establish- ed rivals. Journalism can be overdone, and Stratford isanapt illustration of this possibility. R.K. HAL, of Listowel, informs us that the birth notice credited to his wite in our last issue is untrue. The re- port was quite wide-spread and general- ly accepted in this locality as being authentic and hence we inserted the notice in good faith. We sincerely re- gret having given publicity to it since Mr. Hall atlirms it to be false, and therefore we take this early opportun- ity of contradicting the said notice as well as rey thy and honorably ac- quitting Mr. Hall. Census ENUMERATORS.—S. 8. Fuller has appointed the following enumerat- ors for North Perth:—Stratford—Avon, J. P. Watson; Hamlet, Walter McMill- jan; Shakespeare, W. H. Burnham, P. R. Jarvis; Romeo, J. J. Hagarty and J. R. H. Fisher; Falstaff, Joseph Duns- more. Ellice—Henry Robert, Louis Pfrimmer, Jacob Herr. Elma—T. E. Gibson, Thos, Fullarton, 8. 8. Rothwell. Listowel—W. Dickson, Alex. Morrow. Logan—W. E. Lawrence, Geo. G. Cov- eny, Louis Pushelberry. Milverton—C. F. Witte. Mornington—James Hunter, W. B. Freeborn, Jno. Watson. SUSPENDED.—Yes3, that bright, newsy and ever welcome exchange, the Mit- chell Advertiser, has succumbed to its inevitable fate, which is a source of re- gret for variedreasons. Friend Colwell has been in business in Mitchell for twenty-two years; has passed through two disastrous fires and sustained other heavy losses; he is left with a lifetime half spent, a large family dependent on him, and penniless. is stock and remises have been seized, and are now in the hands of the bailiff. The debt under which the execution was issued being scarcely room for two papers in Mitchell, much less for three. ever, we hope thata bright future may et-be his,and that the good people of - .| form: THE winter would be all right, only it} odist churchi:—Rev. David Rogers, of, tchell will stand by him in whatever | fro Huron County Notes. Wingham’s new Town Hall was y opened last week. Tenders are asked for the building of a new bridge over the Maitland at Jamestown. There will be more work in Wingham this summer for the laboring man than for many years past, John W. Fear, formerly of Brussels, has purchased a hardware business in the town of Waterloo. - Over $2,000 worth of produce was purchased on the Wingham market on Thursday, March 18th. Rev. D. Forrest and D. Campbell, of Walton, will attend the General Assem- bly at Kingston next summer. Dickson & Son, of the Goderich wool- en mill, have started the manufacture of rag carpet in addition tothe regular work done by them. A lodge of the Septennial Benevolent Society has been organized in Wing- ham by. Richard Bowker, Provincial Organizer, of Toronto. Samuel Vogan, of Huntingfield, had the misfortune a few days ago to break one of the bones of his wrist which will lay him up for some time. J.T. Mitchell, at onetime of Blyth, recently started a paper at Ridgetown, but the venture has not proved profit- i and it has been discontinu- e Atthe approaching Huron Assizes, which open on April 13th, a heavy cal- ender will be placed before the court there being quite 2 number of crimina c Geo. Blatchford, Exeter, received word. the other day that he had been successful in the distribution of awards made by the London Free Press, to the amount of $100. Geo. Anderson, of Exeter, is the pos- sessor of a brood of chickens, thirteen in number, which were hatched the other day. They are all living and ina thriving condition. The West Huron License Commis- sioners will meet at the house of In- spector Paisley, Clinton, on Wednesday, April 15, for the purpose of granting licenses for the coming year. Clinton is seeking from the Legislat- ure authority. to consolidate its-debent=1 ure debts, which amount to $295,000, and issue debentures to redeem the ont- standing bonds as they fall due. Wm. Clegg; Wingham, -has~sold” and shipped during one week recently, 28 carloads of grain, 10 of wheat, 10 of peas, 4 of barley and 4 of oat® Ali the grain was shipped to points in Ontario. E. A. Martin, L. D. %., late of Brus- sels, has graduated as D. D. S. at Mary- land University. He is studying libbert, a, Apri . Mitchell, Friday, April 3. Blanshard, Kirkton, April 9. Wellesley, Wellesley, April 16. -East Huron, Brussels, April 17. South Iluron, Brucefield, April 15, Donegal. Our friend William, now of the 8th con.,who has been roughing it over there for the past few months, has al- most decided to get a permanent cook. Thisis all the more necessary in view of the approaching barn raising. —Com. Logan. Geo. Stewart, of St. Thomas, was home for a couple of days last week. The Methodist people of this circuit: are about buying a house for parsonage purposes. ‘ A. Stewart, lost a valnable horse in the tfireon Friday night, March 28th, in Mitchell, Mrs. Mrandon was called suddenly away last week to see her mother, whe it was expected was dying. Listowel. R. Gordon, of Wingham, was in town this week. , Dr. Wright, of Bayfield, was in town last week. A. Edmunds, of Drayton, has moved to Listowel. Miss Mary Scott is home for her East- er holidays. I. Lowry, of Teeswater, is clerking for 8S. Bricker & Co, Thos. MeDonnell, of Mount Forest, Sundayed in town. II. Large, of Shelbourne, spent Easter under the parental roof. Miss. 8. Brown, of Wroxeter, is the guest of Miss Bertha Dickson. Good Friday services were held in the Methodist and English churches. _ J, E. Carson..is-at-present-suffering~ from an attack of inflammation. Mrs. Durrant, Wallace street, purpos- es re-opening her private school. —Miss-B--Morrison; of the Toronto Normal, was home fora few days. ~- A, D. Freeman has pugehased the stock of J. H. McHardy, of ‘Beimore. Wm. Hess, carver, has gone to Hamil- ton where he has secured a position. La grippe has again struck the town but not so severely as it did last win- medicine also and will write M. D. after | ter. his name in the course of a.couple of ears, W. J. Fairfield, of Brussels, while in Wingham last Friday enroute to Bel- fountain for his health, died of con- sumption. Deceased left several thous and dollars life insurance as a legacy to his wife and several small children. The Clinton New Era say they hope Editor Irwin, of the Blyth Standard, will never have any more care or anx- iety than to “setup” after hours look- ing after the “small caps,” It is to be hoped he will never have to “slug” the little “forms” as few could “justify” or ia at. The festive hen has arisen from her long winter torpidity, and started in on her spring work. Mrs. Jolin Ransford, of Stapleton, is the happy possessor of hens that lay eggs 6 by 8 inches, weigh- ing almost fourto the pound. When the Secretary of the Salt Association wants poached eggs on toast he gets em, The Gorrie Vidette says:—It is our ainful duty this week to record the] q aumies of Geo Strong, which took place on Monday evening last. Strong was one ot the early settlers in Howick, and has filled the position of ‘Treasurer of the township for the last 23 years. The deceased was a member of the Methodist church anda true and devoted Christian. He was in the 80th ysar of his age. He was buried with Orange honors, of which order he vasa member, Wm. Dempsey, of Clinton, was tried and committed to Goderich jail for com- mitting rape on the wife of Sam Barr, a respectable farmer of the 16th con. Goderich township, 14g miles from Clin- ton. The woman has been crazy for a number of years, and the indignation there is very strong against the prison- ere Barr, it issaid, caught the man in the act, and besides giving him a good een nara held him at the point of a re- volver all night long until he was able to secure assistance from the neighbors, who at once sent for Constable Wheat- ley, of Clinton, and had Demsey ar- ested. Samuel Hannah, of Griswold. Mani- toba, who has been in Seaforth fora couple or weeks, left for home on Tues- day of last week. Hetook with him a carload, sixteen head, of as fine horses as ever left Seaforth station. The lot cost $2,092.50 delivered here. Among the number was a magnificent pair-of three year gia mares purchased from jenry Mason, of Tuckersmith, for 3; these took the first prize at Lon- don :ast fall; also a mare from W. J Dickson, McKillop, for $225, and one Mrs. Ge — La! “— m for $150. Prives still keep up for good horses, . mmill, of ‘uckersmith, | ad C. Ifacking has been made Honorary President Of the Mlarriston Cricket Club. Posters are out announcing the Sth annual spring show which is to be held on Friday, April 17th, J. F. Dundas has sold his bakery and confectionery business to Jolin MeCor- mick, late of Stratford. A represeutative of the firm of J. J. Daly & Co.. farm agents and money lenders, was at the .Queen’s. hotel.-on ‘luesday. The Epworth League of the Metho- dist chureh hold a topic party in the lecture room of the church this (Friday.) evening. , D. D. Campbell has received the full amount of the insurance on the house owned by him, which was burned at tie time of the factory fire. : Rey. Mr. McQuay, of Parkdale, reached in the Congregational churcli ast Sunday: A Japanese convert will occupy the same pulpit next Sun- ay. ° The young peopfe of the Presbyteriam *!echureh held an At [ome in the school room on ‘'hursday, March 26. Games were provided and a short program ren- e Wm. Bruce, student in the office of his uncle, W. M. Bruce; having received a telegram on Monday stating that his mother was dangerously ill left-for his home near Bradford. ‘ In the absence of the pastor, R. Holmes. the popular editor of the Clin- ton New Era, preached last Sunday in the Methodist church. Iie preached forcible sermons and on any future vis- it will again draw large congrega- tiors. On Tuesday, 24th ult., after the regu- lar meeting of the lodge, a number of the brethren of the Listowel lodge of Oddfellows assembled in Brook’s res- taurant, where a supper had been pre- ared in honor of Bros. Wm. Roberts, Vitmer and Dundas, all of whom,are leaving town. Miss'Phelps, of St.Catharines, address- eda mass meeting in the Methodist church on Sunday, March 22, after the close of the regular service. Several camein from the other churches and all listened attentively to a woman, who is not only a powerful thinker but a polished lecturer, W. Webb had another case up bofore P. M. Terhune, on qoeeday, 24th ult., against Thomas Freeborn for ilegally pg a surgery inthe case of Mrs. ohn Bayne. At the close of the case the magistrate held that the evidence duced did not show a hope of reward and a8 no conversation took place dur- ing the cure he dismissed the case.