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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



April 



■anavoidable wroug doue Wilson was to 

 give him his liberty without a moment's 

 unnecessary delay. 



"Then he sent for Mrs. Wilson and hex 

 two little girls. She came all in a trem- 

 ble, as woruen say, for the officer had 

 given her an inkling of what was going 

 on. And the release — say, boys" — 



Jim's voice broke. The boys refilled 

 their pipes hastily and in the cloud of 

 smoke that followed the next moment 

 the tears that filled the eyes of the re- 

 porter who was supposed to be hardened 

 to human misery were hidden in the 

 wreaths that mounted to the blackened 

 ceiling. 



"It was a great scoop," one of the 

 fellows said, "the greatest of the year." 

 — George Brown in Detroit News-Trib- 

 une. 



A Queer Priesthood. 



The most extraordinary costume worn 

 in religious ceremony is that of the 

 priests of a hill tribe near Darjeeling, 

 in India. 



A photograph of a group of these pe- 

 culiar priests has just been brought back 

 from India. All of them wear masks of 

 enormous size, painted in the most hid- 

 eous manner, possibly by the priestly 

 artists. The colors are chiefly bright red 

 and yellow. The faces have strangely 

 shaped noses, eyes and ears, and many 

 other things are done to make them as 

 striking as possible. 



When all these priests are engaged in 

 one of the elaborate ceremonies of their 

 religion, the scene surpasses anything 

 on the comic o^era stage. The fierce hill 

 men of Darieeling are very much im- 

 pressed by the the sight of the repre- 

 sentatives of their gods decked out in 

 this fashion. 



One mask indicates that its wearer 

 represents the god who looks after the 

 spears of the tribesmen and helps to 

 drive them home. Another deity cares 

 for the bows and arrows, etc. The war- 

 rior who hopes to do good work with 

 any of these weapons must liberally 

 propitiate the priests. 



The hill men have a particularly great 

 ceremony once a year, when, led by 

 their priests, they go out on to the plain 

 and indulge in warlike exercises, bid- 

 ding defiance to all creation. The city 

 ©f Darjeeling, being in the hills, is used 

 to a considerable extent as a health sta- 



tion by British vesidents in India. The 

 surrounding country, also c»alled Dar- 

 jeeling, is inhabited by a fierce race, 

 who are only kept in order by judicious 

 treatment. Many of them have enlisted 

 in the Anglo-Indian army. — San Fran- 

 cisco Examiner. 



Goodwin and the Dude, 



One evening after the performance 

 Nat C. Goodwin went to a restaurant 

 for a late "bite. " At the table adjoin- 

 ing the one where the actor sat with a 

 couple of friends was a small group of 

 first row youths. One of these young 

 men had met Nat Goodwin somewhere 

 for a minute. He wanted to show to his 

 friends that ha was acquainted with a 

 real actor. Accordingly he brought up 

 some topic relating to theatrical matters 

 and made a statement which some other 

 Prominent Citizen, Jr. , disputed. ' ' Well, 

 now, I'll leave it to Goodwin," said the 

 young man who had met Nat Goodwin 

 — somewhere, for a minute. So he turn- 

 ed around and called out rather loudly: 

 "Oh, Goodwin! I say, Goodwin, come 

 over here a minute, will you?" The ac- 

 tor was startled for a moment, and then 

 he arose. He took hold of the back of 

 his chair, and, with all the artistic dig- 

 nity at his command, he said, looking 

 coldly at the young man, "Call me ei- 

 ther Nat or Mr. Goodwin, if you please. " 

 Then he seated himself. — San Francisco 

 Argonaut. 



Took Her Advice. 



A clergyman in a southern state was 

 called to perform a marriage ceremony 

 in a poor white settlement. After the 

 knot was tied the mother of the bride 

 placed before the guests refreshments in 

 the form of rye whisky. The pastor, by 

 virtue of his olfice as a Christian min- 

 ister, remonstrated with her for thus 

 starting in life the new couple. The 

 mother, a large woman, about a foot 

 taller than the minister, placing her 

 arms akimbo and looking him straight 

 in the eye, said, "Look a yere, mister 

 preacher, yer kim yere to marry this 

 yere couple. Yo've married this yere 

 jouple. Now git. ' ' — New York Tribune. 



Great extents of coimtry have been 

 planted with fir and juniper trees by 

 the thrushes and other small birds which 

 feed upon the seed. 



