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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER, 



July 



cnew I was in 



certainly not, i never 



■ ■- "■■ ■• child,' I re- 



spectable anrt nscci ro come ara caKe 

 with us every h-'anaay evening?' 



" 'Of courso; 1 do,' I answered r;.t 

 testily. 



'"Well 

 love then, i1j.< 



" 'Why no, 

 thought ff ■' 

 plied. 



"'I was ij, r.u: ^.cj.;w, and I was 

 very muck in Icve, and with you, you 

 silly goose. You never knew it, you 

 paid no attention to me, but would talk 

 to father or some of the guests, and I 

 would sit up and drink in your words 

 and think thtm wisdom. Why, I re- 

 member one evening when I was sent 

 up to bed ai i) o'clcck I came back after 

 the maid wr:.s gene and sat at the head 

 of the stairs vvhere I could hear you 

 speaking. Then my feelings got the bet- 

 ter of me and I began to cry. Mamma 

 heard me, but you didn't, and she came 

 after me and sent me back to bed, be- 

 sides giving n.e a good lecturing. ' 



"And Amy laughed heartily and I 

 thought with unnecessary gayety. And 

 so I made a fool of myself. In a mo- 

 ment I felt that my cousin Amy was the 

 one woman in the world for me and that 

 she had really always been. (And she 

 will always be. ) 



"And I said to her, 'Amy, you are 

 telling me cf years ago, may I tell you 

 something of the present time?' But she 

 understood me, and Amy was loyal. 

 For a moment only she seemed startled 

 and drew a long breath. Then she 

 smiled again. 



" 'No, no!' she said M'ith her old gay- 

 ety, 'when your story is as old as mine, 

 you may tell it to me if you like, but 

 the exchange is not fair now. ' Which 1 

 thought was a jioor way out of it, and 

 I told her so. 



"Still, when I left her and went out 

 ujiou the ver;inda to smoke, I forgot to 

 light my cigar. " — New York Sun. 



Nervess and Skyscrapers. 



A nervous condition bordering on 

 prostration, to which the doctors have 

 not as yet given a name, has lately 

 been observed to affect persons who 

 work many hours a day high up in the 

 modern skyscrapers. The ailment re- 

 sembles nervous prostration, except in 

 the principal symptom, which is a con- 

 'iitidn of intense restlessness and, as one 



or rn. ;^ x- 



pressea w, " "li si;:g;:i,:r r;;..:!''' lo scream 

 or to get down to the earth quickly." 



A sensation of relief is noticeable 

 when the patient is taken to grass, so 

 to speak, which leads some physicians 

 to the Vielief that the change in the 

 rarity of the air, slight as it is, has a 

 peculiar etrect upon certain very seiisi- 

 rive organ izatio!;^. Others think chat 

 the constant trips in the elevators cause 

 a slight disarrangement of the nerve 

 centers, which brings on the condition 

 referred to. In any case, there is no 

 doubt that a new ailment has come 

 among us with the advent of the sky- 

 scraper. — -New York Journal. 



FEEAiasH 8TREAMS. 



REMARKABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF 

 SOME .ARGE RIVERS. 



The Mispissippj No JLonijer Holds First 

 Place In No7th America — A River of 

 Writing Fluirl — Wonderfnl Channel of 

 •■China's Sorrow." 



It is a recognized fact in science that 

 very few great rivers have been thor- 

 ■cughly txplorcd by going up stream. 

 For nearly 2, 000 years travelers and ex- 

 plorers endeavored to discover the 

 sources cf \\vo Nile by ascending that 

 wondei'fTil river. But by the time they 

 had reachf^d the difficult pai-t of the 

 stream i heir supplies and energy were 

 exhausted, and they could gone farther. 

 It is only b-y seeking tlie sources of 

 rivers by overland routes that explorers 

 meet with success. It was in this man- 

 ner that Kenry M. Stanley traced the 

 i-oute CI the Kcngo in Africa. In this 

 way of procediire Frederick Schwatka 

 was enabled to float down to Yukon 

 and Speke f :und the secret of the river 

 Nile. 



One of the most curious rivers that 

 has ccme to the knowledge of men is 

 the Webbe Lliebeyli, of eastern Africa, 

 a deep and rapid stream, abounding in 

 strange fr-h and ferocious crocodiles. 

 Although it flows for hundreds of miles 

 through fertile lands the immense vol- 

 ume of water never reaches the sea. A 

 .short distance north of the equator the 

 river is lost in a desert region a few 

 miles freni the Indian ocean. 



