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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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faithful wife, the wife of your youth, 

 aud I gave you all I had to give — luy 

 money, my love, ruy toil." 



Before Mr. Jaueway could answer 

 she was goue, aud he sat aloue. 



The uext day, however, he took the 

 old photograph down town aud ordered 

 for it a gorgeous frame. When it was 

 returned, he hung it in his library 

 W' here it locked strangely alien between 

 a St. Cecilia aud the Arabian Falconer, 

 bought at the instigation of the archi- 

 tect. 



Florry, with a child's quickness, no- 

 ticed the fine gilt frame that surrounded 

 the ugly, good face. "What have you 

 done to the lady?" she asked. "Aren't 

 you going to pack her away, like mam- 

 ma said?" 



"No; the picture is to stay here. Do 

 you remember who I said it was?" 



" Yes; it was your first wife. " 



Mr. Jancway took her on his knee. 

 "Florry," he began soberly, "when I 

 was a little boy, I was very poor, as 

 poor as the Gaits" — a family celebrated 

 in the town for ill luck and poverty. 

 "I went to school when I could, but 

 that was mighty little, for I had to 

 work most of the time. Sometimes I'd 

 get most discouraged, but I had to work 

 just the same. One year I worked for a 

 man named Deering. He had a daughter, 

 and when she found how much I wanted 

 to go to school she lent me some money 

 — money she had saved by pinching aud 

 scraping. After awhile her father died, 

 and she married me. I had nothing, 

 and she owned a good farm, but she 

 married me. In six years she died and 

 left everything to me. She gave me my 

 start. She was a good woman and be- 

 lieved in me when nobody else did. The 

 other night i ;;pa dreamed that he saw 

 her aud talked to her, aud it made him 

 feel ashamed that he had seemed to for- 

 get her. ' ' 



Mr. Jaueway felt that he was making 

 a haudscnie reparation, but he wars a 

 man who aimed to do right. It wa^ 

 necessary to his self esteem. 



The child wriggled from his arnn 

 and walked away, with au awed glance 

 at the picture. 



Mr. JaiJtwaj' stared at it musingly. 

 "Are you satisfied now, Sarah?" jjc 

 caught himself saying. "Pshaw! That 

 dream holds to me still," he exclaimed, 

 "but auvhow I've done her justice." 



And though the architect declared 

 that the photograph quite spoiled the 

 effect of the library and begged that it 

 might be banished to some back room 

 Mr. Jaueway was firm, and the dull, 

 good face of his first wife kept its place 

 between the St. Cecilia and the Arabian 

 Falconer.— Chicago News. 



The New Ribbons. 



The new ribbons are very delicate in 

 texture like silken gauze, and the vari- 

 ety in grass linen efi'ect^ has multiplied 

 many times since last season. There are 

 Scotch plaids, light tinted grounds 

 plaided off with some stroug color and 

 scattered over with polka dots or sprays 

 of flowers, and plain colors, with fancy 

 edges of hair line stripes in various col- 

 ors and checked borders, which are very 

 effective. Taflf eta seems to have the lead 

 among the plain ribbons, and some of 

 these are satin faced. Moire ribboufi 

 with corded edges are also seen. 



Didn't Understand English. 



A Chinaman was once "hauled np" 

 before a magistrate in Sydney, New 

 South Wales, and charged with some 

 offense. In reply to his worship's usual 

 query as to w'hether he pleaded guilty 

 or not, he would only answer: 



"Me no sabee! Me no talkee Eng- 

 lishee!" 



The magistrate, however, who was 

 quite accustomed to the proceeding on 

 the part of i>'iany Celestials who came be- 

 fore him, turned to him and said: 



"That answer won't do for me. You 

 know English well enough, I'll be 

 bound. ' ' 



"Me no sabee — me no sabee!" were 

 • the only words to be drawn from obsti- 

 nate Chinkey, and, no Chinese interpre- 

 ter being in court, the magistrate, tak- 

 ing the matter into his own hands, di- 

 rected the case to be proceeded with as 

 if the accused had pleaded not guilty. 



After hearing the evidence of the 

 witnesses the accused was fined $10 and 

 costs. 



The clerk to rhe bench, who was a 

 bit of a wag, called out to the accused: 



"Johu, you are fined $25 aud costs." 



"No, no!" promptly replied the non- 

 English speaking Chinese. "He say me 

 fined only $10 aud costs." — Chicago 

 Post. 



