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THE AMERICAN BEE-KKKPKR. 



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ted. He was (old that lie couJd go, bnt 

 he remained. His lawyer, to whose suc- 

 cessful flefouse lie mainly owpd his lib- 

 erty, hinted to Jiim apaiu that he was 

 free to depart, but sti^l he staid. 



There being no more cases to be heard 

 the court was getting empty, when tl ^ 

 lawyer, giosving impatient, asked, with 

 some asperity, why he didn't go. The 

 injured, innc^ecnt man whispered in Ins 

 ear: "The lact is, sir, I did not like to 

 move till the witnesses had left the 

 court." 



"Why so?" 



"Because, sir, I have got on the trous- 

 ers that I stole." — London Tit-Bits. 



like, was too exciting for him and he 

 decided forthwith, provided he got sa^"- 

 ly out of that scrape, to leave it to those 

 with better luck. — Macmillau's Maga- 

 zine. 



A Modern Siniibad. 



Some imaginative writer tells the 

 tale of a sailor who was shipwrecked 

 three times, was in four collisions and 

 two fires at sea, suffered from sun- 

 stroke and yellow fever, lost a finger oi 

 two by frostbite, had one eye gouged 

 out in a fight at ban Francisco, came 

 home, married a shopkeepiiig widow, 

 who henpecked him, got out of his 

 course one foggy day and walked intc 

 the river, where he was found next 

 morning still chewing his overnight 

 quid of tobacco, but without his glast 

 eye. This js the novelist's type and i.' 

 perhaps somewhat highly colored, bu( 

 it may be compared with some actual 

 types. 



One of the men we have in mind fell 

 from the main yard and broke his l^ft 

 arm before he had been at sea a mouih 

 on his first voyage as an apprentice. On 

 the return voyage from ban Franciscc 

 he f < 11 fii m the same yard and broke 

 one of his legs. The vessel was wrecked 

 in a gale otl the southwest coast of Ire- 

 land, and this unhappy youth, fato pro- 

 fugus, was saved, with three others, out 

 of a crew of 26, only, however, to fint] 

 that his next ship, laden with coal, tcoli 

 fire on the otlter side of Cape Horn and 

 had to be a'uandoned by her crew, whc 

 were six days in their boats before a 

 homeward bound ship pit;ked tin m up. 



His third vessel ran ashore at the en- 

 trance to H( ngkong harbor in her hur- 

 ry to get inside before a Yankee with 

 whom she was in company. When oni 

 friend four.d his fourth ship dismastcfl 

 in a cyclone in the Indian ocean, lie 

 came to the conclusion that sea life, 

 which he had been quite prepared te 



Charles Beade on Bare 'Walls. 



I had the honor once to know in Lon- 

 don Charles Hcade, a most remarkable 

 and great man, as well as a great novel- 

 ist of tiio higher realistic school. Reade 

 was, above all things, a practical man. 

 He had the eye of an eagle, and no 

 things that needed reformaticn escaped 

 it. One day, when I dined with him al 

 his house in London, his rus in urbe, as 

 he called it. he said that he had been an 

 examiner at a board school examination 

 that day and that he had been again 

 struck by the barrenness and unattrac- 

 tivencss of the average public school 

 room. "I suppose, " said I, "that it is 

 a realization of the American idea. By 

 giving the scholars nothing to look al 

 but their books their attention is sup- 

 posed to be concentrated on their les- 

 sons. " "Just so, "he said, "but it isn't. 

 The brain Morks through the eye. Those 

 infernal bare walls do not stimulate the 

 mind. They stupefy it. " Here is the 

 statement cf an absolute fact which, 

 fortunately, wise teachers are now rec- 

 ognizing the world over. — Collector. 



Ho-w to See the Wind. 



Take a polished metal surface of two 

 feet or more and with a .straight edge. 

 A large handsaw will answer the pur- 

 pose. Take a windy day on which to 

 make the t.cperiment, paying no atten- 

 tion to atmospheric conditions, for such 

 an experiment can be as successfully 

 made on a clear day as it can on a 

 cloudy one, and the results will be 

 equally good in summer or winter. The 

 only thii;g you nf ed to look out for ia 

 that you do not attempt to "see the 

 wind" on a raitiy or murky day, as con- 

 ditions are then very unfavorable. 

 When everythii:g is in readiness, hf 'd 

 the metallic surface at right angles to 

 the direction of the wind — i. e., if the 

 wind is in the north, hold tlie metal 

 east and w< st, but instead of holding it 

 vertical incline it about 42 degrees to 

 the horizon. When this has l.>een done, 

 sight carefully along the eelge of a 

 sharply dnf.ned object for some mo- 

 ments anel y(.u will see the wind pour- 



