of science. There seemed to be experiments happening everywhere, even inside his own house, known as the Villa. A man from the Chicago Herald was shocked to notice a swarm of bees flying through the Villa’s open window. Fabyan laughed. “Those bees are just going into the music room to deposit their honey,” he said. “You see I didn’t trust that particular bunch of bees, so I had their hive placed inside the [Villa] and had it glassed in so we could watch them and see that they didn’t cheat. . . . It’s made honest bees out of them—this constant
