1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



29 



xva or ine concern mentlonea are 

 said to be greatly discounted in acts 

 of charity. 



A dual life seems to possess great 

 attractions for people in high sta- 

 tions. A certain peer, bearer of a 

 name that has in its day done 

 doughty service in political life, 

 spends half his time in his wonted 

 sphere as a member of the aristoc- 

 racy and the other moiety he whiles 

 away by donning the blouse of a me- 

 chanic in an engineering workshop. 



In similar manner another mem- 

 ber of the hei'editary house is in the 

 habit of often dropping his iden- 

 tity as one of the "upper ten" and 

 seeks and finds employment as en- 

 gine driver on one of our prominent 

 lines of railways. Yet another live 

 lord is credited with leading the dual 

 existence of a peer of the realm and 

 driver of a hansom cab. 



The motives that influence such 

 oases as these are different from the 

 reasons actuating a London clergy- 

 man whose income from clerical 

 duty is so small that he finds it nec- 

 essary to conceal his identity during 

 four days of the week in order that 

 he may supijlement his scanty sti- 

 pend by doing the work of a wine 

 merchant's clerk. 



By far the larger proportion of dual 

 lives are adopted for nefarious pur- 

 poses. Charles Peace, the notorious 

 hurglar and murderer of Mr. Dyson, 

 is an example of a criminal who for 

 a long time successfully adopted a 

 double role in life. At Lambeth, 

 Greenwich and Peckham, where he 

 successively resided in first class 

 style, Peace led the life of a gentle- 

 man of independent means, enjoying 

 the respect of his neighbors, none of 

 ■whom had the remotest idea of asso- 

 ciating him with the daring bur- 

 glaries perpetrated in their midst 

 during his residence among them, 

 and of which he was in reality the 

 author. It was the intimacy which 

 his assumed position gained for him 

 in getting admittance to the hDiuiAa 



of the gentry around that enabled 

 him to commit some of his most no- 

 torious robberies. — London Tit-Bits. 



Pencil Boxes. 



The pencil boxes now so common- 

 ly carried by school children are 

 made in about 125 different styles. 

 They retail at from 5 to 25 cents 

 each. Formerly all the pencil boxes 

 sold in this country were imported 

 from Germany, but for the last few 

 years we have been making pencil 

 boxes in America. About one third 

 of the boxes sold here are of home 

 manufacture and of superior quali- 

 ty. The production is steadily in- 

 creasing. All the locks used ar€ 

 imported from Germany. There is 

 a box made here with a catch instead 

 of a lock, an American idea, which 

 is made here entire. The cheaper 

 German boxes are made by hand at 

 the homes of the makers. The bet- 

 ter ones are made in factories by 

 tnachinery. All the American boxes 

 are made by machinery in factories 

 located in lumber growing regions 

 in proximity to the wood supplies. 

 — New York Sun. 



Met the Enemy and Won. 



"That new trunk of yours came 

 through all right. It must be very 

 strong." 



"Yes. The baggage man is wear- 

 ing his arm in a sling." — Detroit 

 Free Press. 



The Waltz In 1781. 



I was engaged in looking at these 

 fine people when a gentleman and 

 lady came whirling by and had al- 

 most overwhelmed me. I could not 

 imagine what they were about. I 

 had scarcely extricated myself from 

 the danger with which they threat- 

 ened me when another and another 

 couple came twisting by in like man- 

 ner. I found on inquiry that this 

 was a favorite German dance called 

 a waltz and is performed in the fol- 

 lowing manner: The lady and gen- 



