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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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jsugland and Her Friends. 



Englraid as a uation has not and. rare- 

 ly has had a friend. She is isolated, 

 and the world delights to impress her 

 isolation upon her. Once, indeed, she 

 drew very close to Holland, so close 

 that, after fighting her battles for two 

 generations, she offered to make one re- 

 public with her, but the only results 

 were seven of the fiercest naval engage- 

 ments ever known and the ousting of 

 the Dutch from their dominion of the 

 sea. The only European people who 

 having passed from under our rule con- 

 spired to return to it were the Gascons 

 at the close of the hundred years' war. 

 There can be no more curious example 

 of the caprices of national friendship 

 than tills. Normandy and Brittany, 

 nearer to us in breed, climate and posi- 

 tion, joyfully cast us out, and the hot 

 blooded province of the south, for all 

 that it had once rebelled against the 

 Black Prince, entreated us to stay. 



With Scotland the j^se was different. 

 She had for many hundred years a 

 friendship, hardly extinguished until 

 the middle of the last century, which 

 brought woes unnumbered both upon 

 England and herself and many times 

 threatened to ovenvhelm England alto- 

 gether. So surely as an English expedi- 

 tion went to France down came the 

 Scots across the border. The victory of 



geville's Cross was won when Edward 

 I lay before Calais; the victory of 

 Flodden was won when Henry VIII lay 

 before Tournay. The story was eternal- 

 ly the same. 



If that you will France win, 

 Then with Scotland first begin. 



Nothing could shake the friendship 

 of France and Scotland, and it was 

 when France was in her direst need 

 that Scotland came forward to help her 

 in her own territory and for reward re- 

 ceived the high privilege of guarding 

 the sacred person of the French king. 

 — Macmill an's Magazine. 



The Thief Discovered. 



An employee in an up town resort 

 has been beld under suspicion for some 

 time, and came near losing his position, 

 on account of the antics of a big tom- 

 cat. For v.'eeks the cash registers, when 

 counted at the close of the day's busi- 

 ness, .showed a deficit of several dollars, 

 and no clew could be had to esnlaixi .the 



mysierions absence of the money. The 

 proprietor, having' great confidence in 

 his employee, was mystified, and not un- 

 til a few nights ago was the matter 

 made clear. While alone in the place, 

 after closing hours, the proprietor was 

 startl' d to hear the click of the regis- 

 ters, follovred by repeated clicks, like 

 those of a uovice upon the keys of a pi- 

 ano. Looking up, he found his pet eat 

 playing upon the keys of the register 

 and apparently enjoying the perform- 

 ance as .•much as if he were a feline 

 Paderowski. — New York Journal. 



Vindicated the SL.aw. 



A friend of Representative Culberson 

 of Texas related the following incident: 



"When Mr. Culberson was prosecuting 

 attorney," he said, "there was a crimi- 

 nal statute universally disregarded. The 

 indictment of a well known man for 

 violation of this law v^as secured through 

 the efi:'orts of Mr. Culberson, who prose- 

 cuted the case with more vigor than al- 

 most any he had ever conducted, suc- 

 ceeding in securing a conviction and 

 sentence to the penitentiary. Then he 

 left town, and no one knew where he 

 had gone until he and the prisoner, who 

 had been taken to the penitentiary, re- 

 turned together. Mr. Culberson had 

 gone to the governor, obtained a pardon, 

 and met the convict at the peu:tentiary 

 with it. The law had been vindicated, 

 and there %Yere no rcore viclftions of 

 that statute in Jefferson. " "^--i--- 



A Model Citizen. 



If anybody wants a model for a citi- 

 zen of the highest clei.«;, he may find it 

 in this eulogy of a. Boston man, written 

 by a friend who was worth havi;:g: 

 "Martin Brimmer, freed from privr.re 

 cai'e, dedie-ated himself to the comnicn- 

 weal ; he took his part in legislation, m 

 charities, in education, in cultivation 

 of art. He mingled in all public affairs 

 — not only miuglen, but led. Nature 

 had made him prepossessing. His dig- 

 nity, his de: .baratloB. his reserve v. ere 

 imposDig, hiy gentle courtesy was vviu- 

 uiug, and when at last he intered a few 

 pregnant words in a judicial tone the 

 majority of his hearers fancied that he 

 was but expressing their ser'timent.s, 

 while the minority decided that opp:-i- 

 tion was vain. The fusion was cc:i)- 

 nlete. " 



