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TEE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



January 



issuance of a swarm with a queen 

 having wings. Therefore it is advis- 

 able to have the apiary located under 

 or near low trees, where the hives can 

 be readily seen from the house. 

 Carniolan, Italian, and .Cyprian bees 

 give less trouble to passers-b}' or to 

 live stock than do ordinary brown or 

 German bees, or hybrids of these 

 races, yet whatever race be kept, it is 

 best to have the apiary as secluded as 

 the necessary or desirable conditions 

 will permit. 



American and I^nglish Girls. 



American women in Paris have 

 been grossly insulted by a benighted 

 iieathen of an Englishman who had 

 classed them with his own country- 

 women in some tirade he was mak- 

 ing on "the little Frenchwomen." 

 American girls adore their French 

 sisters and utterly despise their Eng 

 lish cousins. The reason is not far 

 to seek. The American girl is pret- 

 tier and better dressed than the Eng- 

 lish girl. That is the lovely Ameri- 

 can's opinion of herself. Her broth- 

 ers, uncles and grandfathers are 

 quite in accord with her. One of 

 them, who evidently knows what he 

 is writing about, says, "The English 

 woman dresses herself to look like a 

 guy, and as she has little but a 

 ghapeless plank to start on she gen- 

 erally succeeds." 



This spirited citizen of the great- 

 est country in the world winds up 

 with an elegant invitation to us to 

 come over and see for ourselves. 

 "If half the race of whisky and soda 

 drinking, bacon and egg eating, eye- 

 glass folding islanders should come 

 on a visit to the States (Chicago in 

 particular), they would be so enter- 

 tained the;.'^ would never return." It 

 is very kind of him, and we know that 

 Chicago is famous for its pigs and 

 its butchers, but why mix them up 

 With American girls? So long as 

 thoy havo big enough dowries we 

 don't mind how they get them. — 

 Kealni. 



German Villaf?* XJfe. 



Heidelberg is- in natural location 

 a curiously situated place. The 

 town is built at the jjoint where the 

 Neckar river shortly before it emp- 

 ties into the Rhine emerges from a 

 winding defile in the mountains. 

 The river abuts so close to the moun- 

 tain edge there is scarcely room for 

 a town, so that the houses have been 

 stretched out along one principal 

 street. This is the so called Haupt- 

 strasse, or main street, which is of 

 course neither wonderful nor beau- 

 tiful. It is simiDly a winding road- 

 way where one may observe various 

 phases of German village life. The 

 shops are nearly all located here, 

 where not only the natives trade, 

 but where are found all those vari- 

 ous novelties and souvenirs which 

 are distinctly of the place and which 

 tourists are so addicted to carrying 

 home with them. The other lead- 

 ing street, and the one most fre- 

 quented by foreigners, is the so call- 

 ed Anlage, a broad earth path be- 

 neath a double line of trees, adjoin- 

 ing at one end a small park. This 

 is the aristocratic quarter, where 

 nearly all the hotels are situated. 



In common with all German towns 

 and cities, the soldier life on this 

 street and elsewhere is very much 

 in evidence. A regiment with its 

 stirring music goes marching 

 through the town once or twice a 

 day to keep alive the martial spirit 

 of the people and to impress them 

 with the power of the government. 

 It would seem that there might be 

 in Germany one or two particularly 

 pretty little towns, such as this is, 

 perhaps excluded from the military 

 jurisdiction, where those people 

 might resort who are not so fond of 

 the army. The German government, 

 however, trusts so little in the in- 

 nate goodness and reliability of the 

 individual that such a course has 

 never commended itself to it. — Hei- 

 delberg Letter. 



