4 THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, .1000. AND BEE KEEPING FOR THE MAN WITH DEES. An Uncapping Box Possessing Many Excellent Features. A few words In regard to the un capping box that I use. The upper section, that holds the capplngs, Is six feet long, 27 Inches wide and 18 inches deep. It has a heavy, wire screen bottom, a rim of narrow boards around the top, with three cross pieces to support the combs. A spike is driven up through the center of each of the latter to rest the frames upon when uncapping the combs. Tho corners are halved together in both sections. There Is a cover that flta on bee-tight. The bottom section Is tho same size, only much shallower, the sides being only Ave Inches deep. The ends are seven inches deep In the middle, but are reduced to live at the ends. To ' help support tho screen above, a board seven Inches wldo Is placed lengthwise of the lower section. To tho bottom of this framo is nailed a sheet of galvanlzod iron six feet and one-half-lnch long, and enough wider than tho bottom so that an edge can bo turned up all round, nailed fast ' and pounded down so as to make a smooth edge and a tight joint. At each' corner 1b nailed a piece of board as long as the end pieces aro wide at the middle. These pieces furnish what might be called legB, and keep the box firm In an upright position. Each section Is furnished with handles made from tugs cut from an old har ness. There Is a honey gate at one end of the lower section. Here are some of the advantages of this box, explains a writer in Bee Keepers' Review. The capplngs can be spread out over a large surface, which allows the honey to drain out 'much more freely than It does In a small box or can; there Is not only 'plenty of room to spread them out, but they can be stirred occasionally with a garden rake; there is room and a place to hang the combs after they are uncapped where the drip will go into the box, and they are in A Mammoth Uncapping Box. la very convenient position for tho man who puts them Into the extrac !tor, as he has only to reach out with jhls right hand and pull a comb to wards him; there 1b room for three, ox oven more, men to work at uncap ping at the same time; then their itoes can go under the edge of the box, iwhich allows them to lean against .the side of the box. The latter may seem like a small point, but it counts for a lot In a long day's work. Tho box may be painted black, furnished iwlth a cover made from sheet Iron, when, if set out in the sun, the heat will go up from 110 to 120 degreees, and practically all of the honey will rur out, especially If tho capplngs are stirred occasionally. ' The upcapping knives should be Icept as sharp as possible, and some means provided to keep them In hot or warm wator. An extra knife or two Is an advantage, as it gives op portunity to exchange a cold knife for a hot one. Knives ought to be as light aB possible, yet strong enough for the work; and a support In the shank for the thumb and finger is an advantage. Saves Time In Apiary. It is quite Important to keep drone comb out of sections, a reason that possibly some bee-keepers have not thought of, Is that a queen Is more likely to go up into the super and lay eggs there, if there is drone comb in the super, unless Indeed she finds plenty of drone comb In the brood nest. I have more than once seen a few drone cells In one corner of a sec tion left vacant awaiting the queen, when the section would have been en tirely filled had no drone cells been present. All comb built by tho bees goes under tho namo of honey comb. Colls will bo found In honey comb measuring fivo to the Inch, these- are worker cells, while drono cells meas ure four to the Inch. In changing from drone to worker cells, a few Ir regular cells are built, called transi tion cells. All of these are used for storing honey as need requires, there Is no difference between drone and honey comb. When bees store honey rapidly, the surplus comb built is generally drone comb, perhaps be cause a given amount of wax will con tain more honey if drone comb Is TjmIU than If worker comb. So It is a saving of time to build drone comb, and such busy creatures as beea like to cavo both time and wax. The operation of natural swarming gives the bees an Impetus that causes them to work more rapidly, both at honey gathering and comb building, 'than would havo been the case had they not gone through that process. There is a sort of Influence obtained from natural swarming that gives betten. results than can b Ob tained without It a gae by Another name. What the Sallorman Meant When He Told of an Adventure In Force 10, DoubtlesB there were many puzzled readers when a deep sea skipper rolled Into New York harbor a few days ago and reported that his ship had been belated by a gale which had piped up to "force 10." "Force 10," It was explained, meant something like a hurricane. It Is a term borrowed from the Beaufort scale, a schemo of wind measurements devised by the British Admiral Beaufort before the days of oceangoing steam. Force 1 waB 'a calm, force 2 a light breeze, and so on up to the hurricane velocity. Perhaps, too, the Beaufort scale may give a clue to those who have been wondering for eome time at the title of a popular German picture. It is just one expanse of frowning cloud and storm tossed billow, and the artist has named It "WIndstarke 10, 11." Wood-Choppers of Australia. The Australian choppers are slender men, and might be taken for anything rather than lumbermen. "Oh, we aro fairly strong," said Mr. MacLaren; "but, you know, It does not require Strength to chon. It In n VnnrV. A ton-year-old boy, If ho cuts clean, will ouicnop a grown man. Much depends, of course, upon tho axe used. We use American tools entirely In fact, notning nut American toom is used in the Australian bush. Axes for use in competitions are kont In nrlmn tion; even the handles are given spe cial treatment of rosin rubbing, or wo bone them as baseball players bone .the handles of their bats. In London wo shaved a man on the stage with one of our axes. Razor steel? Yes: all eood tnnln steel. Almost anybody can sharpen an axe, Dut wnen It comes to a saw, there is as much skill required to do a good Job as in drawing a picture. For Instance, I have lived in camp all my life, yet I cannot sharpen a saw properly. It takes Jackson tn rln that, and you should see him every mr-nlng bevelling the edges of each tooth of the crosscut we use." Les lie's Weekly. Illustration of Form. James Ten Eyck, oarsman and coach, discussing rowing one day in the Syracuse Herald office, said suc cess depended on form. He explained what he meant by form. Then, by way of illustration, he added: "Everything, everything, goes by form. Thus, out West in the old days, It was the essence of form to be in formal. My father used to tell about a 'squire who would marry the young couples that came to him in some such form as this: '"Bill, do ye take this gal whose hand ye're a-squeezln' to be yer law ful wife, in flush times an' in skimp ?' " 'Mame, do ye take this cubs ye'vo lined fists with to be yer pard through thick and thin?' '"Yer right, for onco old man.' " 'All right, then. Kiss in court, an I reckon ye'er married as tight as the law can Jine ye. I guess four bits'll do, Bill, if I don't have to kiss the bride. If I do, it's six bits extry. " Marjorle's Remark. Marjorie, aged four years, has a fox terrier, in the welfare of which she takes great interest. Said fox-terrier wears the customary collar and license, and Marjorie understands the Importance of these perfectly well. The other evening a young woman came to dine at the house of the Bmall girl. She wore around her throat what was possibly a souvenir of some sentimental nature, a tiny chain, from which depended a gold heart. "Dear me," said Marjorie when tho guests had assembled in tho drawing room, and she was bidding them good night before going to the nursery for her supper. "Dear me, mamma, Mls3 Smith has on her license, hasn't she? Why are Fido and Miss Smith the only ones who have on licenses?" And then she was hustled off sum marily to darkest retirement and Miss Smith, tag and all, went out to dinner. It Came at Last. Few letters have remained so long in the keeping of the post office as one which has now safely reached Its destination after a lapse of twenty nine years. On Christmas day, 1871, the document was posted at Swindon, addressed to a young lady who resid ed in Charnham street, Hungerford. A day or two ago It was delivered to a lady at Newbury, having occupied a quarter of a century plus four years In transit. Tho delay was caused by the missive falling behind some wood work at the Swindon office, where it lay unnoticed until certain alterations in the building brought It to light. It was then sent on to Hungerford, where there happened to be a post man who knew the lady to whom the letter was addressed. Hence the de livery to the rightful owner, In spite of the fact that she had changed her name three times since the envelope was inscribed. Automobile's Odd Feat. A chauffeur in Kansas City was un able recently to stop his car when he took It in at the rear door of a gar age In Broadway in that city. The ma chine went straight through the gar age and plunged through a large plate glass window facing the street and stopped with the front half of the machine on the sidewalk and the rear half inside the garage, says tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch, John Davis, the chauffeur, was on tho front seat of the motor car when It went through the glass. He was unhurt and after the big machine stopped he got out upon the sidewalk. The machine was viewed by thou sands aa It huntr In Mia wioAaw. HOME DRESSMAKING By Charlotte Martin. A YOKE 8HIRTWAIST. Pattern No. 439. This is one of tho most popular designs of the sea son. It is made up in white linen and finished with stitching and an em broidered collar is worn with it. The pattern is cut in five sizes, 32 to 40 bust measure. Size 36 requires 3 1-2 yards of 277-Inch material. CHILD'S COAT DRE8S. Pattern No. 440. This little dresa Is suitable for a boy or a girl, and suggests the Norfolk jacket in con struction, there being two boxpleats in back and front. The closing is in visible under the boxpleat in front and extends all the way up and down so that the dress lays flat when laundering. The material is blue and white checked gingham, and the collar, sleeves and belt fasten with pearl buttons and are trimmed with navy blue wash braid. The sleeves can be finished with tucks or a straight wrist band. This pattern is cut in three sizeB, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 6 requires 3 1-2 yards of 27-lnch material. 8IMPLE LITTLE DRESS. Pattern No. 432. The above design illustrates one of the simplest of dresses for the little girl. The sleeves of this little garment are straight on tho edge and can be made especially pretty if trimmed with bias bands, as used In the picture. A band of tho same edging extends across the front between the tucks. This garment Is also pretty worn with a sash. This pattern Is cut In four sizes, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years, Size 6 requlros 2 8-4 yards of 27-lnch material. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Bend ten cents for aaoh pattern d llred to Charlotte Martin, 468 W. Mfi Stmt, Now York. Qlva N stf ut. UtcvHi faa.gati . .n. OLD TOM AND NELSON. Tells How He Ruled the Rules of the Queen's Navy. Tho great Nelson's sovereignty was Confined to the seas; on shore his valet, old "Tom," ruled him complete ly. He was no hero to Tom, but a boy to be governed kindly but firmly. To the end of his days the faithful old servant ascribed his master's fato to tho fact that ho was not aboard Nel son's Bhlp at Trafalgar. Tom had been everywhere with Nel son until the time of Trafalgar. On that occasion he was detained In Lon don too late to go to sea wlti Nelson, and ever afterward he used to say: "If I had only been there Lord Nel son would not have been killed, for he should not have put on that coatl "He would mind me like a child," the old fellow would go on, "and when I found him bent on wearing his fin ery before a battle I alwayB prevent ed him. " 'Tom,' he would say, 'I'll fight this battle In my best coat.' "'Oh, no, my lord, you shan't,' I'd say. '"But why, Tom?' he'd say. "'Why, my lord? You JuBt ask no questions, but fight the battle first,' I'd Bay, 'and then I'll dreas you up in all your stars sand garters and you'll look something like. But after tho battle, not before, my lord.' He got on his best coat nt Trafalgar, because I wasn't there to prevent htm, and it was the end of him." St. James Budget. A CIVIL ANSWER. "Mlght I inquire why you think I operate an air-ship?" "Why, when yo' was walkln' along dls mornln', de boss sez to do missus, 'heah comes de new Bky-pllot.' " Life. The Difference. Sydney Rosenfeld once wrote a comedy entitled The Optimist, which achieved success after the production, but was a long time reaching the stage. Manager after manager re fused the manuscript, and one day Mr. Rosenfeld, whose patience was exhausted, blurted out to his sole audi tor: "Of course you don't appreciate the play! You don't even know the meaning of its name." "Yes, I do," protested the im presario. "Well," insisted Mr. Rosenfeld, "what's the difference between an op .tlmlst and a pessimist?" The manager barely hesitated. "An optimist Is an eye doctor'," ho said; "a pessimist Is a foot doctor." Harper's Weekly. Warning. "No, Alice," counsels the fond ma ma. "You should not marry Mr. Left over. If you do you will regret it." "Why, mama? Because he Is a wid ower?" "Not exactly. But he will not make a good husband." "Why, mama! Everybody knows that while his wife was alive he was a shining model for all the other hus bands In town. He never drank, smoked, or swore; he never stayed out late at night; he never danced with any one but her he was simply perfect" "I know, my child. And I want to tell you that a man who has been held down that way during his first mar riage will know how to dodge such rules the second time." Just for Fun. A Rhode Island farmer set a ban tam hen on fourteen turkey eggs, and great was the scandal thereof through out the neighborhood. Friends from far and near dropped in for to see and for to admire tho freakish feat. "Sa-ay, Silas," asked envious Hi ram Haggers, "haow many turkeys d'yew cal'late ter git outer them aigs?" "Oh, shucks!" Silas answered. "I ain't cal'latin' t' git many turkeys. I jest admit f seo that pesky little crlt ter a-spreadlng herself!" Harper's Weekly. Manifest Lunacy. "We find the prisoner not guilty by reason of insanity." "But tho plea was, not that of in sanity," remarked the court "That's just the point we made," rejoined the foreman. "We decided that any man who dldn'tJjave sense enough to know that an Insanity plea waa the proper caper must be crazy." Rather Rough. Gunne And now comes a profes sor who declares that fruit Is just as healthy with tho skin on as It Is peel ed. Quyer H'ml I'd like to see some body start htm on a diet of pineapples. Chicago News. Complete Trousseau. Stella Rave you got your going away gowaT Bella Yea, and a golng-hoae-to-K ether gowa. The Bon. DEBIT AND CREDIT. A Bit of Wit and a Bit of Wisdom Apropos of Unpaid Bills. One of the moat amiable men who over dunned a delinquent debtor has condonsed the argument of his calling into an epigram and pasted it on tho back of his collection book. It reads: MAN CAME FROM DUST DUST SETTLES. ARE YOU A MAN? In one of the offices of the Depart ment of Education, New York City, hangs a card which gives the other side of the philosophy of owing money. "There Is something ennobling," it saya, "about tho patience of our credi tors." Women Like Pockets. Talk about the small boy and his desire for plenty of pockets," remark ed Harry New, manager of one of the biggest concerns in the city or in the west, manufacturing women's gar ments, "no youngster with his first pair of trousers Is half as excited about his pockets as is the averago woman buying a cloak or suit. With in the last few years the question oi pockets has come to be an important matter In women's garments. Wom en not only like pockets for carrying various small articles, but they can even like them so placed in their coats that they can walk with their hands In them, the same as a man. It's getting so that we manufacturers hardly dare put out a garment with out paying attention first of all to tho pocket feature." Cleveland Plain Henry Snyder & Son. 602 & 604 Lackawanna Ave., ScrantotuPa. PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES FOR Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Lambs, Calves and Live Stock. Apples in Season A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE FARMER. Old Phone 588 B Now Phono 1123 II,I"IIIII,IIIII,IIII fI Telephone Announcement This company is preparing to do extensive construction work in the Honesdale Exchange District which will greatly improve the service and enlarge the system Patronize the Independent Telephone Company which reduced telephone rates, anddo not contract for any other service without conferring with our Contract Department Tel. No. 300. CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE CO. of PENNSYLVANIA. . Foster Building. We Pay the Freight No charge for packing this chair It is sold for CASH at BROWN'S FURNITURE STORE at $4.50 each Roll of HONOR Attention is called to the STRENGTH of the WayntfCounty The FINANCIER of New York City has published a ROLL OB HONOR of the 11,470 State Banks and TruBt Companies of United States. In this list tho WAYNE COUNTY 8AVINGS BANK Stands 38th in the United States Stands 10th in.Pennsvlvania. Stands FIRST in Wayne County. Capital, Surplus, $455,000.00 Total ASSETS, $2,r33,000.00 Honesdale. Pa., May 29 1908., IJ.ifri.J KRAFT & CONGE HONESDALE, PA. Represent Reliable Comoanies ONLY i
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