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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPIIi. 



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jntippL'i's culiinicnceti leaving, ana by iiie 

 25tii not ouo could be found. 



"If ever men showed true pluck under 

 dJscouriiging circumstances, the farmers 

 did during the spring of 1875. Braver men 

 never lived; truer men never 1)it bread. 

 The season continued favorable, and an 

 immense crop of corn and vegetables was 

 raised. 



"The plague has not visited Kansas 

 since." — Kansas City Times. 



MAYFLOWERS 



Darkest Time In the Revolution. 



The clo.se of the year 1780 was, in the 

 southern states, the darkest time of our 

 Revolutionary struggle. Cornwallis had 

 just destroyi^d the army of Gates at Cam- 

 den, and his two formidable lieutenants, 

 Tai'leton, the light h(jrseman, and Fergu- 

 son, the skilled rifleman, had destroyed or 

 Bcattered all the smaller bands who had 

 been fighting for the patriot cause. The 

 red dragoons rode hither and thither, and 

 all through Georgia and South Carolina 

 none dared lift up their heads to oppose 

 them, while North Carolina lay at the feet 

 of.Cornwiillis as he started through it with 

 his army to march into Virginia. There 

 was no organized force against him, and 

 the cause of the patriots seemed hopeless. 

 It was at this dark hour that the wild 

 backwoodsmen of the western border gath- 

 ered to strike a blow for liberty. — "Hero 

 Tales From American History," by Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt, .in St. Nicholas. 



Alas! 



' ' Mrs. Talker is a very obedient woman, ' ' 

 "A HI ever noticed about lier is that she 



is an awful gossip. ' ' 



"That's why. What you tell her goes." 



— New York Journal. 



It is supposed that there are at least 17,- 

 000,000 comets in the solar system. 



Demonstration. - 



Phili.stine — I don't see what right an ed- 

 itor has to call himself we. 



Scribe — If ycju tackled his duties once, 

 you would understand it all rij^ht. — De- 

 troit Tribune. 



The orbit of Jupiter is 1,000,000,090 

 miles in extent, and it takes the giant 

 planet -i,332 days to make one round trip. 



Rather Too liOng. 



A peasant went with his wife to the 

 theater. At the conclusion of the fir.st 

 act he said to his better half: "Come 

 along, old woman, let's go home. The 

 second act doesn't begin till five years 

 later." — Lokal Anzieger. 



Puritan niayflowers creeping, 



Clad in their virginal white; 

 Puritan iiiayfidWTs peeping 



Tiniiuly up at the light ; 

 Cheered by its ray day after day, 



Softly tiieir petals unclose, 

 And as tjiey part each to its heart 



Gathers the tint of tlie rose. 



Gone are the colony's daughters. 



With the dimity kerchiefs of yore. 

 Here by the Athmtic's broad waters 



They are beliolden no more. 

 Here away blows the summer's wild rose; 



Blossoms fill copsewood and glade. 

 But the fairest that blow are the blo3- 

 soms of snow — 



Types of the Puritan niaid. 

 -Alice I'Anson in Ladies' Home Journal. 



EETUEN TO NATURE. 



"Rev. Augustine St. Gregory, Miss 

 Helen Mackintosh. Married" — 



"Tear up the wedding cards!" inter- 

 rupted Pris Armstrong. "It was infatua- 

 tion — fanaticism. How could a Boston 

 girl, brought up with every advantage of 

 education and association, marry a full 

 blooded Sioux! I went to the wedding 

 under protest. As Helen's nearest friend 

 I sat there under protest, and it required 

 all my self control to refrain from shriek- 

 ing aloud at the words, 'If any man can 

 show just cause why they should not law- 

 fully be joined together' " — 



"You talk as though he had just arrived 

 from the jjlains, in wampum and war 

 paint," returned Annie Chesley indig- 

 nantly. "I met him at Mrs. Cotting's re- 

 ception and thought him perfectly fas- 

 cinating. He has the loveliest manners, so 

 gentle and subdued, and with his soulful 

 dark eyes and melancholy face he remind- 

 ed me of E'idwin Booth in 'The Iron Chest.' 

 Such an interesting history as he has too. 

 He lost his father at the Ijattle of the Lit- 

 tle Big Horn, and after the flight of Sit- 

 ting Bull and his men into Canada the 

 poor little fellow was fovmd by a mission- 

 ary and sent to Hampton. Later, by 

 means of an old ladv's bequest, he was 

 educated for tlic ministry, jn-eparatory to 

 going as missionary to liis own people. If 

 you had heard him speak, the last Sunday 

 in Advent, when the collection is taken for 

 the domestic mission, you would realize 

 what religion has done in transforming a 

 savage into a ("hristian gentleman and 

 clergyman." 



"Helen was taught from babyhood to 

 save her pennies for the domestic mis- 

 sion." said Pris slowly, "In Lent lier 



