1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



A ROYAL PROGRESS. 



When spring, liko Raleigh, flung his cloak 

 For hor small fool's litiht treading. 



The Htriiiling lurches fresh buds broke. 

 And pennon leaves 'gan spreading. 



The vassal sun, hia glory shedding, 

 In (doth of gold drest humblest folk 

 When spring, like Ualeigh, flung his cloak 



For her small foot's light treading. 



The loyal birds shrill homage woko. 

 And daisies, luiniblo liild flcAvers heading. 



Curtsied and bobbc^d beneath an oak 

 Decked out as for a royjil wedding 



When spring, liko R;:ki!;:h, flung his cloak 

 For her small foot's light treading. 



L. Hereward in New Bohemian Monthly. 



A 31 AN FROM OHIO. 



Mr. LoTigJey's mi.stake, the mistake 

 of liis life, grew out of liisfir.st mistake, 

 wiiicji was in evorcomiiifi; to Califoniiji. 

 He was agent for the Pacific Steamship 

 company prior to his occupyiug a simi- 

 lar position in a groat Likes company. 

 He had never seen tho ocean until he 

 came to Monterey. Bnt ho didn't think 

 much of it — not after <bo lako.s. Of thw 

 people he thought even less. 



Ee us^^d to go over to the telegraph 

 oflice where Carpetiter was, and there, 

 on a pile of blae butter boxes, air his 

 mind pretty freely concerning "these 

 infernal greasers. " Longley wasn't a 

 bad fellow back in Ohio, but out here 

 he could not or would Jiot shake into 

 place. He was going back, when he had 

 a stipulated sum saved, to marry the 

 prettiest girl in Ohio. Meantime he 

 chafed and fretted at his chain. 



One of the first things he did had 

 gained him the ill will of all the loung- 

 ers in the crooked little sti'eet. Benito, 

 4 years old, came running to him. Ev- 

 ery one adored Benito, for the [Spanish 

 are baby lovers and not in the least 

 ashamed to show it — Benito, witli lovely 

 crimson cheeks and great, velvety black 

 eyes. Dirty? Oh, so dirty, but also so 

 charming. Just as he reached the hom- 

 bre grande, he tumbled flat, and the 

 "great man" calmly put out his foot 

 and lifted Benito out of the way on the 

 toe of his boot. They all saw that — 

 Manuel, Francisco, the Moreno boy.s, 

 Jose Errou, all — for they were sitting in 

 front of Charley Rodriguez's saloon, 

 keeping a wary eye out for possible 

 whales in the l:av. Benito ran howling 



to them, and the wound his vanity had 

 received was healed with candy and soft 

 words. But it would have been well for 

 Mr. Longley if that had never happened. 



The Spanish mamma is an excellent 

 matchmaker, and very seldom has any 

 old maids on her hands. She takes ad- 

 vantage of tliat contrary little twist in 

 a man's nature which makes him want 

 what is just out of his reach. So Isabel, 

 or Carmelita, or Dolores, as the case 

 may be, is sedulously guarded by the 

 mother, who makes certain that her 

 daughter is never alone with any young 

 man a moment. Mr. Longley said often 

 he did not care a pin for their customs. 

 He was from Ohio and brought his own 

 code of ethics and etiquette, wliich these 

 greasers were obliged to trim to — not he 

 to fit to theirs. No, sir! So, inline with 

 these sentiments, he told Carpenter one 

 day that he was going to take Julia Es- 

 tudillo to the Thanksgiving ball. 



"Have you asked her mother?" in- 

 quired the cautious Carpenter. 



"I don't intend to, ' ' replied Mr. Long- 

 ley. "I haven't aiked the girl yet, but 

 she'll jump at the chance to go with a 

 white man. Say, she isn't a bad looking 

 girl for a g . " 



"Look out!" interrupted Carpenter, 

 "you are a little too handy with that 

 epithet. And you intend taking the 

 girl alone?" 



"Alone!" said Longley firmly. "No 

 old duenna tags me around. " 



"You'll get yourself in trouble sure," 

 Carpenter warned. "If you're not sand- 

 bagged at the baile or assassinated be- 

 fore the baile — mark my words — they'll 

 rope you into marrying the girl. " 



Mr. Longley slapped himself on his 

 chest and gave his friend to understand 

 that he had not journeyed all the way 

 from Ohio to have his life cut off in its 

 flower and prime by Ihe hand of an as- 

 sassin, nor did he leave the prettiest 

 girl in "the states" to come out here to 

 marry one of these "Spanish beauties" 

 and for the rest of a fevered existence 

 strive to keep enough frijoles and tortil- 

 las in the larder to feed her and her 

 4,000 relatives. "Don't you worry over 

 Longley. He can take care of himself. " 

 wag Ins parting adjuration. 



Lured by the sound of viol, flute and 

 bassoon, or, to b? GS-:ict, accordion, two 

 guitars and a fi.idle, Carpenter stole 



