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TEE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



April 



stick f f a V ife you have, and you are 

 just soft eiiouf?h to wear tight boots and 

 oil what little hair you have left ou the 

 top of your head aud go around figuring 

 up how long before your wife will die. " 



"Say now, see here, professor, there 

 is a limit to endurance. I am going. " 



"lam coming down to see you nest 

 •week. Will it be all right?" 



"Yes, if you drop this kind of talk 

 and won't tell of my complaints about 

 my wife. I'll try your medicine. Would 

 you stick for that prescription about the 

 pocketbook aud $20 notes?" 



' 'How much did you say you have 

 made together?" 



"I cave. The dress will be all right, 

 and the pony and phaeton will be handy 

 for the gals. Come down and see us, 

 old man, but not a word about this 

 talk. If you wasn't an old man, I'd" — 



Tipping his derby back on his head 

 and shaking the wrinkles out of his 

 tight trousers, he put his hands into his 

 pockets aud sauntered away. 



"There," said I, "is one man who 

 has taken the only legal and God given 

 way of getting rid of a miserable wife. ' ' 

 —Exchange. 



Her Old Slave Aided Her. 



Two members from Mississippi were 

 swapping stories during the intervals 

 between refreshments, when in an acci- 

 dental way the name of ex-Senator 

 Blanche K. Bruce was mentioned. 

 "That reminds me, "said one, "of a 

 story told me a long time ago by a bar- 

 keeper at the Ebbitt. I was in there one 

 day when Bruce came in, went into one 

 of the side rooms, and, having been 

 served, walked out without saying any- 

 thing to any one. 



" 'You don't draw the color line here, 

 John, ' I remarked to the barkeeper. 



" 'Not on that man, sir, I don't,' was 

 the reply. 'I have had a pretty good 

 opinion of him since a little thing that 

 happened soon after he first came here. 



" 'Bruce was in his seat at the capitol 

 one day, wlien a card was brought to 

 him. He read it and at once went out 

 to the waiting room. There he met the 

 "woman who owned him when he was a 

 slave. With her was her daughter. Both 

 •were in tears. She had lost all of her 

 property during the war and was abso- 

 lutely penniless. The negro once her 

 slave was the only man she knew in 



Washington. She appealed to him. 

 Bruce listened to her story. He got his 

 hat and went outside with her. His car- 

 riage, drawn by a handsome pair of 

 bays, was waiting there. He called the 

 carriage, asiiisted the mother and daugh- 

 ter to enter it with as much deference 

 as he could possibly have shown them 

 in the old plantation days, closed the 

 door and told the coachman to drive to 

 the treasury. Then he called a public 

 cab and followed. The three entered the 

 treasury together, and before Bruce 

 came out he had placed in the hands of 

 the woman he had once called "missus" 

 an appointment to a good clerkship in 

 the treasury department. ' 



"That," added the Mississippi mem- 

 ber, ' 'was the reason why the barkeeper 

 didn't draw the color line at Blanche 

 K. Bruce, and it seems to me the reason 

 was a mighty good one too." — Wash- 

 ington Post. 



Nansen's Fram. 



Nansen invented the model of the 

 Fram, making her hull round and slip- 

 pery, like an eel, with no corners or 

 sharp edges for the ice to seize upon. 

 She is the strongest vessel ever used in 

 arctic exploration. He said that pressure 

 would simply lift her on the ice, and so 

 her bottom, near the keel, was made al- 

 most flat in order that she might not 

 capsize while on the ice surface, and her 

 screw and rudder were also ingeniously 

 protected. The many experts who said 

 her design would not save the Fram 

 from instant destruction were mistaken, 

 for she met these resistless ice pressures, 

 and they merely lifted her out of her 

 cradle, and she rested safely on the sur- 

 face. 



Grumbling:. 



Grumbling is a potent cause of ill 

 health. It keeps the sensitive nerves 

 constantly vibrating with discordant 

 emotions, aud not only hurts the grum- 

 bler, but every oue who hears it. It real- 

 ly prepai'es the system of the grumbler 

 for iU! attack cf any malady that hap- 

 pens to be prevalent. 



No Room For Doubt. 



Arthur — Are you sure she loves you? 



"Yes. When I told her I had no 

 money to marry on, she asked me if I 

 couldn't bnr-'-Mv.' some." — Pick Me Up. 



