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THE AMKRICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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wheu I Raw au empty cab standing at the 

 door. 



"Miss Dora lias just arrived, sir. I'll 

 tell her you are iiere. " 



I stepped into the drawing room and 

 ■wailed. In a few minutes I heard the 

 dear girl running down the stairs. My 

 heart leaped with joy. 



"How do you do':" she said, placing 

 her little hand in mine and looking in- 

 to my eyes with infinite pity. "I do 

 hope you are better. You are looking 

 pretty well. " 



"My dear Dora, I was never better in 

 my life. That was all untrue about my 

 illues.s. I am in perfect health." 



"Untrue?" 



"Allot it. I will explain it to you 

 another time. " 



"Then you are not going to die in six 

 months?" 



"I hope not, nor in six decades. Are 

 you sorry?" 



"Sorry? Of course not, but" — 



"I have your father's consent to our 

 marriage. Darling, you will now be 

 mine?" 



"Impossible I" 



"How so?" 



"Well, the fact is — I — I am mar- 

 ried!" 



I sprang hack amazed. 



"You see, I thought you were a doom- 

 ed man. I heard it from your own lips. 

 Marriage with you would have been 

 mad, impossible. And papa's strange 

 talk alarmed me, especially when he 

 gave his consent. I was terrified and 

 feared his anger. So I went away to 

 friends at Brighton. There I mot Cap- 

 tain Aiusworth. He was my first love, 

 and I have never reallj- lost my affection 

 for him. He asked me to marry hiiL, 

 and — well, I did so at once, as he is go- 

 ing out to India. You really cannot 

 blame me, can you?" 



No; I didn't exactly blame her, but I 

 cursed my f.-'te, and I told Bligh that he 

 was the bigj^est fool in his ijrofessior, 

 for which he has never thoroughly for- 

 given me, though he says he has. — Lou- 

 don Tit-Bits. 



NaiJoleoD's Advice About Horteiise. 



Louis, who was governing Holland 

 with reference to its own best interests, 

 and (.rdering theafiaiis of his own fam- 

 ily rigidly, but admirably, received a se- 

 vere and passionate reprimand from 



«Le emperor for his economy. What was 

 wanted was pay for the troops, plenty 

 of conscripts, encouragement for the 

 Dutch Catholics, and a giddy court, 

 where men would forget more serious 

 things and where Queen Hortense could 

 make a display. "Let your wife dance 

 as much as she wants to. It is proper 

 for her age. I have a wife 40 years old, 

 and from the field of battle I recom- 

 mend her to go to balls, while you want 

 one of 20 to live in a cloister, or, like a 

 wet nurse, always bathing her child." 

 — Professor Sloane in Century. 



A Bond. 



"Yes," said the Cumminsville sage, 

 "I don't doubt that having fought in 

 the same regiment is calculated to bind 

 men together firmly, and so is a mem- 

 bership in the same lodge, but for real, 

 heartfelt sympathy gimme two fellows 

 who have the same kind of rheuma- 

 tism. " — Cincinnati Enquirer. 



Saw Him Fed. 



Ccntrary to general belief, Munchau- 

 Eon is not dead, or he must live in the 

 persons of some of the continental tour- 

 ists you meet around the Metropole and 

 tho Victoria. They repeat this conversa- 

 tion of one of those enterprising but pre- 

 varicating end of the century explorers: 

 "I visited Russia, Qei-many, Austria, 

 Italy"— 

 "Indeed I So you saw Venice?" 

 "Well, I rather guess I did." 

 "Did you see the lion of St. Mark?" 

 "Of course I did. Why, I saw him 

 fed." — Washington Post. 



Overdoing It. 



"Now, I maintain, " said Miss Strong.S 

 "that there is no place filled by man 

 which a woman cannot fill. Is that com- 

 prehensive enough?" 



"It is very comprehensive, " replied 

 Mr. Northside, "but I am prepared to 

 go still further in advocacy of woman's 

 ability. " 



"Are you?" 



"Yes, I am. On the seat of a street 

 car, for instance, she can fill two men's 

 places." — Pittsburg Chronicle - Tele- 

 graph. 



Oregon has 18,798 hands in her fac- 

 tories and makes every year $41,432,- 

 174 worth of goods. 



