1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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thar's suushiiie m ins eyes in a moment, 



" ' "I'll think of you every day lor 

 that," lie wliispers wheu he kisses her, 

 "an if I come back when the war's 

 done I'll look for you yere. " ' 



" 'The little Sanders girl — she was 

 shorely as handsome as a pinto pony — 

 blushes a heap vivid at what she's done, 

 but looks warm an tender. Everybody 

 lookin on, while the play is some ouus- 

 ual an out of line, agrees it's all right, 

 bein that Wu all was goiu to a war. 



" 'Now yere, ' goes on Enright, at the 

 same time callin for licker all around, 

 'is what you all will agree is a mighty 

 romantic deal that away. Yere's a love 

 affair gets launched. ' 



" 'Does this lone hand gent who gets 

 kissed by the Sanders lady outlive the 

 war?' asks Texas Thompson, who has 

 braced up an gets mighty vivacious lis- 

 tenin to the story. 



" 'Which he shorely outlives that 

 conflict, ' replies Enright, 'an you can 

 gamble he was in the thick of the stam- 

 pede, too, every time. I will say for 

 this yere captain that, while I wasn't 

 with him plumb through, he was as 

 game a gent as ever fought up hill. 

 He's one of those sports who fights an 

 goes for'ard to his man. Thar's no white 

 feathers on that sort. They're game as 

 hornets. An bad. ' 



"'Which if he don't get downed 

 none,' says Texas Thompson, 'an hit) 

 Tennessee alive, I offers ten to one ho 

 leads this Senders female to the altar. ' 



" 'An you'd lose a whole lot,' says 

 Enright, at the same time raisin his 

 whisky glaps, 'That's what I states 

 when I trails out on this yere reminis- 

 cence. Fern' !es is frivolous an plumb 

 light of fancy. Now, this captain party 

 comes back ^- Pine Knot, say about 2}-^ 

 years later, v ; what do you all think? 

 That Sanders girl's been married mighty 

 nigh two yc rs an has an infant child as 

 big as a b'ar cub, which is beginnin to 

 make a bluff at walkin. Now, on the 

 square, an I'm as s'prised about it as 

 yon be — I was more'n s'prised; I was 

 pained — I dmi't allow, lookin over re- 

 sults an rec;»llin the fact of that b'ar 

 cub infant c.jild, that, for all her blush- 

 in an all hei tears an kissin that captain 

 party goodby that away, that the San- 

 ders girl cares a hossha'r rope for him 

 in a week. An it all proves what I re- 

 marks, that while females ain't malev- 



olent malicious an don't do these yere 

 things to peerce a gent with grief, their 

 'fections that away is always honiu for 

 the trail an Is prone to move camp. 



" 'But, bless 'em, they can't help it 

 none if their hearts be quicksands, an I 

 libates to 'em again.' Whereat we all 

 drinks with Enright, feelin a heap sim- 

 ilar. 



" 'Whatever becomes of this pore 

 Uaptaiu party?' asks Faro Nell. 



" 'Well, the fact about that cap- 

 tain,' replies Enright, settin down his 

 glass ag'iu, 'while the same is the 

 merest incident an don't have no direct 

 bearing on what I've been relatin ; the 

 fact in his case is he's wedded already. 

 Nacherally after sayin "Howdy?" to 

 the little Sai.'.ders girl an applaudin of 

 her progeny, which it looks like he fully 

 indorses that away, this yere captaiu 

 gent hits the trail for Nashville, where 

 his wife's been keepin camp an waitin 

 for him all tlie time. ' " — Dan Quinn in 

 San Francisco Examiner. 



A Story of L.ord AmpthiH. 



The following story is told of the late 

 Lord Ampthill. When he was a junior 

 clerk in the foreign office, Lord Palmer- 

 stou, then foreign secretary, introduced 

 an innovation whereby instead of being 

 solemnly summoned by a verbal mes- 

 sage the clerks were expected to answer 

 his bell. Some haughty spirits rebelled 

 against being treated like footmen and 

 tried to organize resistance, but Odo 

 Russell, as he then was, refused to join 

 the rebellious movement, saying that 

 whatever method apprised him most 

 quickly of Lord Palmerston's wishes 

 was the method which he preferred. 

 The aggriev-d clerks regarded him as a 

 traitor to his order, but he died an em- 

 bassador. 



An«^ She ^Vent Quickly. 



"Mamm; has just gone across tha 

 street, ma'am," said the demure little 

 6-year-old t" the caller. 



"Did she say when she'd be back?" 

 asked the lady. 



"Yes'm," as demurely as before, 

 "just as scon asyou had gone, ma'am." 

 —St. Jf'aul Dispatch. 



Twenty-six days are required for the 

 journey between New York and .sierra 

 Leone. 



