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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



May 



words of au enlisted man, "The mar 

 who harms her I'll kill. " 



The same day Wi-ue-ma's husband, 

 Riddle, was riding horseback and was 

 shot dead from ambush by a Modoc. 

 The body was dragged many miles ovei 

 the trail by the frightened horse. Wheu 

 the horse stopped, the head and shoul- 

 ders of the coprse were so horribly mu- 

 tilated that the body was unrecogniza- 

 ble. Then the three little children oJ 

 Wi-ne-ma and Riddle were murdered as 

 they slept and their bodies burned in 

 the rude family dwelling. Wi-ne-ma, 

 under the cover of darkness and eluding 

 the hostile members of her race anci 

 family, made her way across the deso- 

 late lava beds to the government post. 

 She was sick and broken hearted at the 

 horrible fate of all her family, but she 

 nevertheless became the constant and 

 devoted nurse of Colonel Meacham as 

 he lay in the hospital recovering from 

 his six gunshot wounds. It was 11 

 weeks before the colonel was able tc 

 leave his bed. By that time Wi-ne-ma 

 was almost a helpless invalid. She was 

 an important witness for the govern- 

 ment in the trial of Captain Jack and 

 his subordinate chiefs for the murder ol 

 General Canby and other officers, and 

 for this she herself was shot through the 

 chest as she sat one evening by a win- 

 dow at her lonely home. Colonel Meach- 

 am gave the little woman chief liberally 

 from his means, and the soldiers at the 

 post saw that she never lacked medical 

 attendance and nursing. — Philadelphia 

 Times. 



The Big Hat In Church. 



This is what happens to the man be- 

 hind the hat. The preacher disappears 

 until nothing remains but a voice. And 

 with the hat standing against the spot 

 where the voice is, and the modulated 

 sentences breaking against it, how is 

 attention to be fixed upon the sermon: 

 The mind grows lax, the quiet and 

 sweetness of the sanctuary tend to dis- 

 traction, the hat fills the whole visi- 

 ble universe, and involuntarily one's 

 thoughts center upon it. It is a wonder- 

 ful construction. There is a yellow rose 

 Jrembling on a long stem with every 

 xnovement of the wearer's head, and one 

 begins to calculate the extent of its arc. 

 There are bunches of feathers disposed, 

 apparently, with view to preventiuR 



anything from being seen between them 

 whichever way the hat is turned. And 

 there are stalactites of ribbon, upright 

 and immovable, which still further ob- 

 scure the horizon. Occasionally one gets 

 a momentary glimpse of the hand of 

 the preacher as it is stretched out in 

 gesticulation, but it seems a mere de- 

 tached fragment uselessly beating the 

 air. The preacher himself has disap- 

 peared as if he had never been. The 

 only thing visible when the hat is turned 

 for a moment is another hat of the same 

 kind farther on. — New York Observer. 



Abuse of the Eyesight. 



In the waiting room of an up town 

 physician sat, one morning, a dozen 

 persons trying to read. The windows 

 were draped with heavy lace curtains, 

 the dull yellow shades were drawn 

 down to within about a yard of the bot- 

 tom of the long windows, and as the 

 day was cloudy the light in the room 

 was a very subdued twilight. Finally a 

 late comer had the courage — it required 

 some, everything was so very quiet and 

 irreproachable — to go to the hall and 

 ask the dress suited door opener to come 

 and raise the shades. This he at once 

 did and turned on as well the electric 

 lights in the back part of the room, to 

 the great betterment of the reading 

 light. Which little incident is cited to 

 emphasize what an oculist characterizes 

 as the reckless abuse of the eyesight 

 which in these days has assumed the 

 proportions of an evil. 



"On street and railway cars, in libra- 

 ries, schools, offices, homes, everywhere, 

 eyes are unnecessarily tried," he says, 

 "with the result that half the world is 

 in glasses years before the need should 

 arise. It is so usual a thing now for 

 persons to be afflicted with ocular head- 

 aches, that when a physician's advice is 

 sought for a persistent and unexplained 

 headache the patient is first turned 

 over to an oculist. Nine times out of 

 ten defective vision sufficient to produce 

 the disturbance is found, and seven 

 times out of ten the sufferer is the vic- 

 tim of his own want of care in the use 

 of his eyes. Women are frequent sinners 

 in this respect; they protect their com- 

 plexions in every possible way, while to 

 the delicate organ of sight they give 

 never a thought till the mischief is 

 done. ' ' — New York Post. 



