1897 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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cot, but looKen at her with the same 

 kiudly light which they had worn wheu 

 she stood beside him at that fatal cross- 

 iug, aud there was a strange sweetness 

 in the thought which came to Marie 

 that at least he did not hate her for the 

 misery she had brought upon him. 



She began to say in a hesitating fash- 

 ion how sorry she was for the accident, 

 but, as was said, she was brave in what 

 she considered her duty, aud presently 

 she grew calm and, with only the en- 

 couragement of the kindly eyes, went 

 on and confessed tlsat she meant to do 

 what she could to atone for her heedless 

 conduct, and that she "had begun by 

 bringing him some flowers and a bit of 

 fruit." The big officer held out his 

 hand to the little woman, aud without 

 any hesitancy she placed hers in it, aud 

 a kind of a compact was thus sealed. 

 He said in a gentle way he "was glad 

 be saved her life," aud when she had 

 promised to come again aud had gou(« 

 the flowers were laid against the mus- 

 tached lips, and there was a feeling in 

 the big heart for the little woman that 

 was very tender and very sweet. 



Well, of cour; e the little woman came 

 again, and of course the big policeman 

 was glad to see her, and as the days 

 went on the old story was again new 

 for these two people, who had been .so 

 near to death together, and when the 

 blessed day came that Officer William 

 Smith was released from the hospital 

 almost well and i]ot so very lame, either, 

 it was understood that there was to be a 

 wedding, by which Miss Marie Denton 

 was to become "Mrs. Offirer William 

 Smith." And, sure enough, the wed- 

 ding came off in due time, aud the big 

 policeman's chief was present, besides 

 many of his brother poiicemeu, aud 

 among the gifts was a gold medal, 

 which was bestowed on the groom in a 

 neat speech by the chief and which 

 bore the i::?criptiou, "For bravery," 

 and there is a pretty little home in oue 

 of the quieter streets which bears upon 

 its simple brass door plate the name 

 "Smith," but at which nobody thinks 

 of asking for the big policeujan for all 

 that. He has a rival — a pretty, pink 

 cheeked, round, rollicking baby, which 

 the neighbors, as well as the silly par- 

 ents, call the "little policeman," and 

 which looks enough like ti:c big polic?- 

 man to be called "a chip off the old 



biocK. ' — lunsa x'carie in v^nicngo xtid- 

 Dne. 



Japauese Looms. 



According to reliable statistics, there 

 were in Japan in 189(5 949, 123 looms in 

 operation, distributed among 660,408 

 different esrablishments, giving an av- 

 erage of less than 1)2 looms for each 

 establishmeut. This average shows that 

 the weaving industry of Japan is still 

 to a very great extent a home industry 

 and is far from having reached that de- 

 gree of centralization which it has in 

 this country. The number of persons 

 employed in the weaving industry of 

 Japan last year was 57,850 males aud 

 985,016 females, aud the total estimat- 

 ed production for 1896 was 96, 187,335 

 yeu, including silk cloth amounting 

 to 46,471,401 yen; silk and cotton 

 amounting to 10,281,272 yen; cottou 

 cloth amounting to 37.083,757 yen, the 

 balance being hemp aud sundries. — Dry 

 Goods Ecoiiomist. 



A Witty Bishop. 



A good story is told of a war of words 

 betweeu the paradoxical Cscar Wilde 

 and a witty bishop whom he met at a 

 social gutheriug. Church aud stage 

 crossed swords, and it was not the 

 church that bit the dust. 



"I am yours, my lord," said Mr. 

 Wilde, bowing low and smiling ironical- 

 ly, "to my shoe buckles." 



"I aui yours," said the courtly bish- 

 op, "to the ground. " 



The author of "An Ideal Husbaud" 

 coutiuiKu: 



"I am yours to the center of the 

 earth. ' ' 



The pillar of the church quickly re- 

 sponded: 



"I am yours to the antipodes. " 



Oscar Wilde began to feel decidedly 

 nettled. Indiguant at his defeat by a' 

 mere clergyman and a man of piety he 

 exclaimed, as a last thrust: 



' 'I am yours to the lowest pit of de- 

 structiciu!" 



"There, Mr. Wllde, " responded the 

 diviue, "I think I'd better leave you!" 

 — Exchange 



Vaccination as a preventive et 

 pox is said to have been pr;. :. 

 ;hina 1000 B. C. It wr.s^ 1 . . 

 ■uto Er.gliiud by Lady Wf'- , . 

 •jagu in 1721. 



