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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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and goue. Fur ^0 seconds Big Tom had 

 felt t-uuh a raging bate in his soul that 

 he was trauf^formed into a human devil. 

 The child had smilod into his burning 

 eyes — her soft touch had lulled him — 

 her words had brought back his reason. 

 Was he punished? No! A year later he 

 was pardoned, and today another fair 

 haired, blue eyed, smiling child puts 

 her arms about his neck and says : 



"You are such a great, big papa, but 

 you wouldn't never hurt nobody, would 

 you?" — Detroit Free Press. 



A Gentlemanly Profession. 



A city man was lately asked to recom- 

 mend a nice, gentlemanly profession in 

 which a quick fortune could be made 

 without risk. He replied that he knew 

 of only two such professions, and they 

 were both rather hard to get into. They 

 were the professions of Kaffir million- 

 aire and American railroad reorganizer. 

 The Kaffir millionaire is not entirely 

 unknown to our readers, but perhaps 

 they are not so well acquainted with the 

 railroad reorganizer. His native habitat 

 is New York, and he is only to be seen 

 in London as a bird of passage. He may 

 honor us with his company for a few 

 days when on his way to the Riviera or 

 the upper Nile, bvit he would be making 

 himself too cheap if he were to recog- 

 nize such a thing as bu-^iness when he 

 "had only run over for a short holiday. " 

 His work here is done vicariously 

 through sympathetic agents or public 

 spirited committees. He has also com- 

 mittees in New York, and nowadays he 

 finds it necessary to have syndicates and 

 underwriters as well. 



A playful professional fiction assumes 

 that these committees have been elected 

 by the reorganized bond and stock hold- 

 ers to protect their interests. Another 

 pleasant illusion gives the syndicates 

 and the underwriters credit for stepping 

 into the deadly breach to save the reor- 

 ganization scheme from imminent peril. 

 And they have to be paid accordingly, 

 or, in professional phraseology, "com- 

 |)ensated. " — Saturday Review. 



leiesi, looking upou that scene, so graph- 

 ically illustrated, of Gireely and his lit- 

 tle band of surviving explorers strug- 

 gling with death and worse. At the 

 same time we were listening with sad- 

 ness to the eloquent recital which was 

 given to groups of visitors every few 

 moments by the attendant, when sud- 

 denly, durin;4 a pause in the proceed- 

 ings, an old granger — that was his ap- 

 Jiearanco — broke out feelingly, 'I alius 

 bought it was a shame that Qreely 

 wa'n't elected president and said so to 

 the Grant ciowd to hum at the time.' " 

 •-Washington Post. 



A Racial Difference. 



There can be no question that Tery 

 many of tlie differences, mental and 

 bodily, that exist between the aver- 

 age Frenchman and the average Eng- 

 lishman are caused by the distinct 

 methods of education that prevail on 

 the different sides of the, channel. You 

 would not like your son's only school- 

 ing to be obtained in France. On the 

 other baud, you have a pretty distinct 

 belief that if French boys were sent 

 over here young enough and put to good 

 English schools, they would grow up 

 into a very fair sort of Britons. A typ- 

 ical story of the ways of French school- 

 boys, with their ushers, is reported in 

 recent morning papers. Some spirits 

 had been smuggled into one of the 

 dormitories — a thing, we fear, not al- 

 together unknown in some English 

 establishments. It is even conceivable 

 that the English master who discovered 

 the bottle would have confiscated it to 

 his own use, but this would not have 

 been at the invitation of his pupils. 

 But the French pion in question was 

 contented to make one of the party, and 

 as he was not so used to rum as his pu- 

 pils, he got so terribly drunk that he 

 died. Happily for the French boys, 

 their compuls(jry military service gives 

 them an opportunity, later on for learn- 

 ing a little discipline. — Pall Mall Ga- 

 zette. 



Greely and Greeley. 



"Do you know," said Representative 

 Aldrich of Chicago, "meeting. General 

 Greely recently reminds me of a day at 

 the World's fair, when we all stood 

 with open mouth wonderment and in- 



What a vast deal of time and case 

 that m^n gains ■who is not troiib'yd 

 with the spirit of impertinent curi- 

 osity about others. — Anon. 



