1897 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



179 



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Wheu he comes out of his stupor, he 

 finds himself under arrest for being the 

 accomplice of au adventuress. He learns, 

 to his horror, that Cars Ferris is Madge 

 Delaphine. That she engaged herself as 

 corapauiou to a little, miserly old wom- 

 an. That she and Barringtou, who is 

 her lo'^er, planned the old woman's 

 murder, in order to obtain possession of 

 the money and jewels which she hoard- 

 ed about her. That Madge Delaphine 

 accomplished the murder by means of a 

 subtle poison, packed the body into a 

 trunk and conveyed it to Barrington's 

 house, where it was buried in the cellar. 



The very trunk which Andrew fer- 

 ried across the river! Andrew is taken 

 before a magistrate, where he tells his 

 Btory, omitting the love passages. But 

 the magistrate is an astute old man and 

 reads between the lines and pities the 

 lad. 



"The woman and her lover have been 

 arrested. I want you to identify her." 



He opens the door to an inner room 

 and utters an exclamation of dismay. 

 There, prostrate upon the floor, with 

 her jeweled hairpin stuck through her 

 heart, lies Madge Delaphine quite dead, 



"Is this the woman?" 



"Cars Ferris had dark hair," returns 

 Andrew, who is white to his lips. 



The magistrate lifts a wig of dark 

 hair from a table near by. 



"A very simple disguise," he says 

 and motions Andrew back to the outer 

 room, where, after a few more ques- 

 tions and some fatherly advice, he dis- 

 misses him. The misery of Andrew's 

 journey home is boundless. 



When he reaches the familiar spot, he 

 is taken ill and for weeks is delirious 

 ■with brain fever. Jen Hardy is his pa- 

 tient and faithful nurse. To Andrew it 

 seems as if the memory of his folly 

 must torture him forever, but as the 

 months go by the shame and agony die 

 away little by little. 



Jen, faithful soul, believes in him 

 and loves him. He is young and the 

 world is fair and life is pleasant after 

 all. 



So, gradually he returns to his old 

 allegiance, and it all ends as it should 

 •-with a wedding. — Dublin World. 



Moscow, the ancient capital of the 

 :zars. is 4. -{66 miles from Washington. 



He AlboMshcd tiie Page. 



For many years the Cincinnati En- 

 quirer used to print a solid editorial 

 page and employed an exclusive editorial 

 staff of six writers, who wrote all their 

 matter at night in order to keep abreast 

 of the telegraphic news. One Fourth of 

 July evening as they assembled to begin 

 work somebody suggested a patriotic 

 drink in honor of the occasion. They 

 filed down to a restaurant near by, and, 

 as they lined up at the bar, the door 

 opened and Washington McLean, the 

 presiding genius of the paper, came in. 

 Mr. McLean did not drink often, but 

 when he did he drank very hard. On 

 khis occasion he was celebrating the 

 Fourth. 



The result was that round, after round 

 of whisky was ordered, and nobody 

 thought of the editorial page except one 

 writer (who tells the story in the Chi- 

 cago Times-Herald), who went back to 

 the editorial rooms and sat down to 

 write an editorial, ^e never got beyond 

 the first sentence, "Yesterday was the 

 Fourth of July. ' ' The next day, when 

 the paper came out, on the editorial 

 page there was just one line of editorial 

 matter. At the top were the words, 

 "Yesterday was the Fourth of July," 

 and the rest of the page was filled with 

 news. The reading public believed that 

 the change was intentional, and Mr. 

 McLean received so many congratula- 

 toiy letters commending his enterpri.se 

 in giving news preference over editorial 

 that he abolished the editorial page per- 

 manently. 



Needles. 



Needles are all made by machinery. 

 The piece of mechanism by which the 

 needle is manufactured takes the rough 

 steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths, 

 files the point, flattens the head, pierces 

 the eye, then sharpens the tiny instru- 

 ment and gives it that polish familiar 

 to the purchaser. There is also a ma- 

 chine by which needles are counted and 

 placed in the papers in which they are 

 sold, these being afterward folded by 

 the same contrivance. 



Opinions Diflfer. 



Critic — That performance of yours 

 last night was rare. 



Manager — I can't agree with jou. I 

 think it was well done.- 



