1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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sign, entitled "Peter Brown's Anns. " 

 In explanation of tliis frontispiece Mr. 

 Priest says: "Peter Brown, a black- 

 Bniith of this city, having ruade his for- 

 tune, set up his coach, but so far from 

 being ashamed of the means by which 

 he acquired l]is riches, he caused a large 

 anvil to be painted on each side of his 

 carriage, with two pairs of naked arms 

 in the act of striking. The motto, 'By 

 this I got ye. ' " 



■\Vhat a Blessing Is EducationI 



These are some answers to examina- 

 tion questions given in an eighth grade 

 school not a thousand miles from Chi- 

 cago: 



"Liberia was established in 1823 as a 

 colony for aspirated negroes." 



"Nine-tenths of all the plants not 

 found in any other part of the world 

 are found in Australia. " 



"Salem Witchcraft was neither a sol- 

 dier nor a sailor, but he discovered 

 some cities." — Great Divide. 



A NAVAL YAM. 



Man. 



Bearing in mind that, as far as gen- 

 eral configuration goes, the ground plans 

 of the present continent have been about 

 the same, only an occasional bit of land 

 having been topped off, as in England, 

 the question arises. Is man an animal 

 of the old world or of the new? If we 

 descend from some anthropoidal ape, 

 then that Asiatic or African monkey 

 must have had a fair hand, and, above 

 all else, a working thumb. Baboons run 

 on all fours, but the gibbons, who are 

 arboreal and live on fruits, have nicely 

 developed thumbs and can pick a nnt 

 and shell it neatly. An American mon- 

 key has not these exact capabilities He 

 does not depend on his hands to cling 

 to a branch. He uses a fifth limb, which 

 is his prehensile tail. The true gibbon 

 is not, however, utterly a nut or fruit 

 eater. If confined to that diet alone, a 

 strictly vegetarian one, he pines. He 

 likes eggs and devours small insects. 

 Vary his diet in a menagerie, making 

 him slightly omnivorous, and his con- 

 dition improve.s. If not, then, for these 

 arboreal ancestors, who had hands, we 

 might never have been. We may then 

 trace our origin from the old rather than 

 from the new one, but we really know 

 but little about the particulars. — JSIew 

 York Times. 



Twenty years ago there came to Tien- 

 tsin an Englishman and his son. The fa- 

 ther was a reiired army officer of some 

 means, and they were traveling for pleas- 

 ure. Thoy took a fancy to Tien-tsin and 

 decided to settle therefor awhile. Looking 

 about for a house, they were much attract- 

 ed by one just outside the city, which 

 stood near the water's edge and command- 

 ed a beautiful view of the harbor. Their 

 friends, and more especially their Chinese 

 servants, cried out aghast, "They must 

 not think of such a thing." The house 

 was haunted. No one had lived in it for 

 years. It was as much as one's life was 

 worth even to j^ass it after nightfall. The 

 Englishmen, however, were not to be 

 friglitenod off by any such silly stories. 



They rented the house and moved in. 

 For several months all went well. Both 

 father and son were delighted with the 

 place and finally decided to buy it. One 

 evening the son, who had been dining in 

 town, came home quite late. As he opened 

 the front d(Jor he heard what seemed to be 

 a scuffle in his father's room. Before he 

 could reach the top of the stairs a soul 

 piercing shriek rose high above the con- 

 fused din. Then all was silent. Rusliing 

 into his father's room, the young man 

 found him lying on the floor in a pool of 

 blood. There was no one else in the room, 

 nor was there any apparent way for any 

 one to have left it without passing him in 

 the hall. A knife was sticking in the 

 brea.st of the wounded man, a wicked 

 looking Malay knife, with a curiously 

 carved handle. The young man stepped 

 into the hall to call the servants to his fa- 

 ther's assistance. When he stepped back 

 into the room a moment later, the knife 

 had disappeared! 



The wounded man never rallied. lie 

 lived se^■eral hours, but was not alile to 

 speak. His face was distorted by an ex- 

 pression of unutterable terror, and he died 

 with the look still in his eyes. 



The associations of the place were too 

 painful for his son to remain there longer. 

 He offered a large reward for the discovery 

 of his fatlier's murderer and left a minute 

 description of the knife that had so mys- 

 teriously disappeared. Tlusn he packed up 

 his belongings and returned to England. 

 The house stood vacant, of course, more 

 dreaded than ever. 



Months passed, perhaps years. I do not 

 know, but after acertain lapse of time one 

 of our men-of-war visited the harbor of 

 Tien-tsin. t-^everal of the officers were 

 ashore one night dining with a party of 

 foreisin residents at the club. Snino on« 



