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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



March 



just thiuk of it! The old school a stable 1 



' 'Henry, "he finally remai'ked, "there 

 is just one thing I seriously want to and 

 must see. There used to be a big cotton- 

 wood tree over on the river bank — you 

 remember it — where I carved my name 

 one day — my name and that of a girl. 

 I'm married now, but, do you know, 

 I'd like to see that old tree and see if 

 the initials are there yet. The girl was 

 Ida Jordan. I suppose, of coui'se, she 

 has 12 children and" — 



"She's dead, Dave — died V70 years 

 after you left. And the tree has been 

 cut down to give wav to a lumber ysird 

 and"— 



Hardesty interrupted him. 



"Say, " he cried, "you sell that stuff 

 of mine for what you can get. I don't 

 want to see it again. Your town is too 

 prosperous for me. There's only one 

 thing more I want to know. I want to 

 lick the man who cut down that tree. 

 Who is he? Where can he be found?" 



"It was on my land, and I cut it 

 down," said hip friend, the agent. — 

 Chicago Record. 



Our Dear English Cousins. 



Somebody has been informing the 

 London Times that "American children 

 are trained in their higher schools to 

 exercise the ritual of 'saluting the flag' 

 in military style, and that their mar- 

 tial ardor is by this and other means so 

 blown into flame that when these young 

 persons leave their schools they form 

 themselves into societies and take a 

 vow to avenge with their blood any in- 

 eult to their coimtry's flag." This 

 somewhat vivid description has excited 

 the horror of another reader of the 

 Thunderer, and he leaps to a conclusion 

 in the following amusing and highly 

 characteristic style: "Apparently your 

 correspondent uses the expression 'young 

 person' in the technical sense of a fe- 

 male creature somewhere between a girl 

 and a woman. Does he really desire that 

 young females of this kind should in 

 England form themselves into societies 

 to avenge with their blood any insult 

 to the union jack in Venezuela or else- 

 where? Seriously, I think that the 

 American example in this, as in some 

 other things, is to be avoided as degen- 

 erate rather than followed. Surely our 

 ancestors managed to oonauer at Cresay 



and Poictiers and Agincourt, at Blen- 

 heim and Trafalgar and Waterloo, with- 

 out all this absurd civilian ritual on the 

 part of schoolgirls, this religious wor- 

 ship, or rather idolatry, of the personi- 

 fied country under the symbol of a flag, 

 and these silly vows by young Hanni- 

 bals in petticoats. If the people of the 

 United States is really beginning to 

 worship itself as an abstract unity, it is 

 a sure sign that it is beginning to aban- 

 don the only true worship, and to retro- 

 grade to mere civic paganism. " 



Episcopal Prerogaiive. 



The only daughter of the Right Rev. 

 William Croswell Doaue of Albany is a 

 married woman living in the same town 

 with her episcopal father. Mrs. Gardi- 

 ner and her large family of small chil- 

 dren crossed the Atlantic on a steamer, 

 where the following remark was over- 

 heard by another passenger. Her little 

 eon was "caught" in some game of play. 

 "Why," he exclaimed, "I can't be 'iti' 

 My grandfather is a bishop!' " 



Paper Floors. 



Paper floors are manufactured at Ein- 

 siedelu, Germany. In the form of a 

 pasty mass the paper is spread upon the 

 surface to be covered and submitted to 

 pressure. It behaves like plaster of paris, 

 and is said to be noiseless under the foot 

 and particularly effective in preserving 

 a uniform temperature. Having no 

 joints, it presents a perfectly smooth 

 surface. 



Safe. 



' 'I heard you fought a duel with Par- 

 ker?" 



"I did." 



"Weren't you afraid to stand up be- 

 fore a loaded pistol?' ' 



"Not with Parker holding it. I'm in- 

 sured in his company." — London Tit- 

 Bits. 



Evident. 



Reporter — Did you find out the cause 

 t)i that suicide this afternoon? 



Officer McGobb — Yis, sor. It wor a 

 ope. — Indianapolis Journal. 



A legal bushel of onions is 48 pounds 

 in Indian*, and from this figure the 

 range is upward to 6T pounds in Arkan- 

 ias, Q«orgi«, Illinois and other states. 



