On a Continental forty-five dollar bill, issued on the 14th of January, 1779, is represented an Apiary in which two Beehives are visible, and Bees are seen swarming about. The motto is “Sic floret Respublica--Thus flourishes the Republic.” It conveys the simple lesson that by industry and frugality the Republic would prosper.[679] Bees in the heroic ages it appears were not confined in hives; for, whenever Homer describes them, it is either where they are streaming forth from a rock,[680] or settling in bands and clusters on the spring flowers. Hesiod, however, soon after makes mention of a hive where he is uncourteously comparing women to drones: As when within their well-roof’d hives the Bees Maintain the mischief-working drones at ease, Their task pursuing till the golden sun Down to the western wave his course hath run, Filling their shining combs, while snug within Their fragrant cells, the drones, with idle din As princes revel o’er their unpaid bowls, On others’ labors cheer their worthless souls.[681] It may be surprising to many to know that Bees were not originally natives of this country. But such is the case; the first planters never saw any. The English first introduced them into Boston, and in 1670, they were carried over the Alleghany Mountains by a hurricane.[682] Since that time, it has been remarked they betray an invariable tendency for migrating southward.[683] Bees for a long time were known to our Indians by the name of “English Flies;”[684] and they consider them, says Irving, as the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man, and say that in proportion as the Bee advances, the Indian and the buffalo retire.[685] Longfellow, in his Song of Hiawatha, in describing the advent of the European to the New World, makes his Indian warrior say of the Bee and the white clover: Wheresoe’er they move, before them Swarms the stinging fly, the Ahmo, Swarms the Bee, the honey-maker; Wheresoe’er they tread, beneath them Springs a flower unknown among us, Springs the White Man’s Foot in blossom. Many Apiarians contend that newly-settled countries are most favorable to the Bee; and an old German adage runs thus: Bells’ ding dong, And choral song, Deter the bee From industry: But hoot of owl, And “wolf’s long howl” Incite to moil And steady toil.[686]