. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1909. American ^ee Journal vehicles had not yet left the home grounds. During his life he "saw the buffalo disappear and the red man take his flight; he saw the herds go and the farmer take his place; he saw the little settlement known as Grand Island, grow to a city of 10,000 inhabitants: he saw the desert wastes made to bloom as the rose; and he saw the ignorant barbarians supplant- ed by the scholar and the school. * * * "With a heart of love he lived for others, and was unmindful of himself. He has left the world better for hi^
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1909. American ^ee Journal vehicles had not yet left the home grounds. During his life he "saw the buffalo disappear and the red man take his flight; he saw the herds go and the farmer take his place; he saw the little settlement known as Grand Island, grow to a city of 10,000 inhabitants: he saw the desert wastes made to bloom as the rose; and he saw the ignorant barbarians supplant- ed by the scholar and the school. * * * "With a heart of love he lived for others, and was unmindful of himself. He has left the world better for hi^ living, and has thus not journeyed here in vain. He loved his father and mother, and hoped to live that he might be as a staff unto them in their declining ; These are the words of one who spoke concerning the life of Richard StoUey. The earnest sympathy of a host of friends will go out to the sorrowing family in this their time of mourning. with the report of the Illinois State brook will have the sympathy of all in Bee-Keepers' Association. Mrs. Hoi- her untimely .ind unexpected sorrow. Duncan Cameron McLeod. D. C. McLeod, of Pana, 111., died De- cember 3, 1908, at the age of 8r years. He and Mrs. McLeod celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last July. He had been a bee-keeper for many years, and a reader of the American Bee Jour- nal. R. B. Holbrook. R. B. Holbrook was a member of the Chicago-Northwestern Association, and attended its last meeting in December, 1908. On account of continued ill health and despondency, he committed suicide January 4, 1909, at South Elgin, 111., by shooting through the head. Unlike most suicides, Mr. Holbrook had made careful preparation for the step, and his earthly affairs were all well settled before lie ended his life. Mr. Holbrook was 45 years of age, and for several years was a prominent Dec- keeper at May fair, 111., (a Chicago sub- urb) from which place he moved to South Elgin, with 100 colonies of bees, several months a
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