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THE AMEEICAIi BEE KEEPER. 



February 



consent of the state senate, until be bad 

 paid a third visit. 



All this time he was pretending to be 

 carelessly indifferent to the photograph 

 in the Lester flat, and Louise Rhodes, 

 in her letters to Mrs. Lester, sometimes 

 mentioned that she would be glad to 

 meet Mr. Barnet, having read so much 

 about him. 



Last week the Flavius girl came to 

 Ohicagro for the long delayed visit. 



Joe had been advised that the photo- 

 graph girl was coming. He appeared at 

 the flat promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Les- 

 ter, fluttering with importance, met 

 him at the door. 



Joe did not wait to be welcomed. He 

 slammed his hat and coat on the rack, 

 rushed into the parlor and then and 

 there threw his arms around Louise 

 Rhodes and kissed her. 



Mrs. Lester shrieked and then tottered 

 over against an armchair, actually faint 

 •with terror. She thought that Joe had 

 gone stark, staring mad. 



There had to be an immediate expla- 

 nation, but it did not satisfy Mrs, Les- 

 ter. She said the two of them were no 

 better than the people who go to matri- 

 monial agencies or put sloshy "person- 

 als" into obscure weekly papers. She 

 was shocked beyond expression and did 

 not fully forgive them until they had 

 pleaded for at least five minutes. — Chi- 

 cago Record. 



William Morris as a Socialist. 



Mr, Joseph Peunell, writing in the 

 London Daily Chronicle, records the fol- 

 lowing incident: I remember seeing 

 William Morris one Sunday afternoon 

 walking up Parliament street. A meet- 

 ing was being held in the square. I now 

 forget entirely what it was about, but 

 the people holding it had made up their 

 minds to march to Westminster abbey, 

 with a vague idea probably that when 

 they got there they might do something. 

 Suddenly an enormous crowd begaji t(/i 

 pour out of the square down Parliameniy 

 street — a black, solid, muddy mass, tor 

 it was a wet, wintry day. On they came, 

 ■with a sort of irresistible force, which 

 really frightened one looking on as a 

 spectator. And right in front — among 

 the red flags, singing with all his might 

 *'The Marseillaise" — was William Mor- 

 ris. He had the face of a crusader, and 

 he marched with that big stick of his as 



the crusaders must have marciad. 



One turned round and went with t'ao 

 crowd, wliich, when it got to the abbpy, 

 seemed half inclined to smash the win- 

 dows, but those at the head of it were 

 switched off and passed into Poets' cor- 

 ner, there to sit down and be preached 

 to, while the others, who could not get 

 in, were addressed by Canon Rawliu- 

 Bon outside. But what was so curious 

 was to find this artist — like another 

 Courbet — leading a crowd who really 

 did not know what they wanted to do. 

 However, had this crowd determined to 

 destroy, to tear down even a stone of 

 the abbey or to break a window, I think, 

 instead of William Morris leading them 

 a step further, that they would only 

 have taken that step over his body. I 

 am not so sure what would have hap- 

 pened had the crowd marched against 

 St. Paul's, for Morris hated the one sort 

 of work as much as he loved the other. 

 —St. James Gazette. 



Dashed. 



Friend — I say, Daub, I suppose you 

 heard about our house being broken into 

 the other night? 



Artist — JSo, I hadn't heard. Did they 

 take much? 



Friend — A couple of watches, some 

 silver, a suit of clothes, and, it's a fun- 

 ny thing, but you know that picture 

 you painted me. They cut it out of the 

 frame, and — 



Artist (interrupting excitedly) — By 

 Jupiter, old man, you don't say so. 

 Why, my fortune's made. Yes! 



Friend — And nipped off with the 

 frame, the beggars. 



Artist — Ab, did they? It's rather fun- 

 ny, isn't it? Good day. 



Friend — Good day. — Pearson's Week- 



ly. 



WTiat to Eat. 



The carpenter, hardtack; the watch« 

 maker, minute pudding; the printer, 

 pi; the wheelman, meets; the uphol- 

 sterer, stuffing; the plumber, long bill- 

 ed snipe; the blacksmith, hammered 

 steak; the banker, golden pheasant ; the 

 balloonist, aiipel food; the clown, ca- 

 pers; the glovcmaker, lady fingers; the 

 shoemaker, solos; the political speaker, 

 his own words; the bummer, swallows; 

 the oarsman, crabs; the tramp, any old 

 thing. — Up to Date. 



