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TUE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



September 



jeaious mistrefrs auci exacts toe utmost 

 effort and eternal euthusiasm, together 

 with indomitable perseverance and per- 

 sistence and superior special qualifica- 

 tions and sound judgment from those 

 who are to secure a permanent foothold 

 or acceptably to perform the responsible 

 duties assigned the engineer No tran 

 fiieut occupation or divided aim is toler- 

 able The profession must be supreme, 

 and, further, to be truly a (competent 

 engineer involves the necessity of inti- 

 mate acquaintance with all the prac- 

 tical sides of the work — the reconnois- 

 sance, the location, trial surveys, years 

 of patient study and laborious physical 

 work in the mines, mills and shops, 

 life in camp and in the field, hazardous 

 duties faithfully performed ou the dizzy 

 heights of lofty false work for erection, 

 handling of iron and machinery in tun- 

 nels and excavations, blasting and 

 building as well as drawing or even cal- 

 calculatin^ a plan, and these lessons are 

 not only necessary to success, but for 

 the safety of lives and property always 

 dependent upon the engineer's construc- 

 tions. ' ' 



The Girl Bachelor. 



There is no occasion to commiserate 

 the condition of the girl bachelors who 

 keep house. They do not want it, but 

 are rather to be envied. This is a mat- 

 ter of wonder to those who worry about 

 women going into trade ou the ground 

 that it will destroy their love of home. 

 On the contrary, it develops it. The 

 woman who is forced to earn her living 

 and resents it seeks the consolation of a 

 boarding house. The real girl bachelor, 

 at least the sort with whom I have 

 come most in contact, is not a dis- 

 gruntled person who has known better 

 days and always takes pains to remind 

 you of it. She is a healthy, hearty be- 

 ing, who wants, to be sure, to help out 

 the family income, to relieve her father 

 of at least one of his burdens, but she 

 is, more than anything else, !an actual 

 bomemaker and a housekeeper. 



it is the girl bachelor who loves chil 

 dreu and is not ashamed to say so, the 

 girl bachelor who lives not unto herselt, 

 but to all the world, because no Visitor 

 is so unwelcome that he may not have 

 a cup of tea and a cracker,- be his visit 

 ne'er so untimely. It is the girl bachelor 

 who does not apologize for dust, or 



care a rap tor what the ueignnors tniuK, 

 or hope to marry a rich man. She is 

 the future mother, because the volun- 

 tary one, of better men and women. 

 My sunbonnet is off to her. She is 

 settling the woman question while 

 other people talk of it Financial inde- 

 pendence for herself is the explanation 

 of everything. — St. Lnuis Fost-Dispatch 



Her Political Aspiratious. 



Professor Felix AdJer, in an address 

 *E "The Political Aspirations of Wom- 

 en," says: 



"In no country is there more defer- 

 ence shown to woman than in ours, 

 not alone in the outward exhibition 

 shown them of courtesy, but genuine 

 respect, which comes from all ranks of 

 society. Yet she i.s denied the franchise, 

 except in a few states, and there her 

 franchise is in most cases confined to 

 local matters. 



"Her position, it has been often said, 

 its similar to that of infants, criminals 



and the insane Some even go further 

 and say it is worse, for the infant will 

 grow to manhood and inherit the risht 

 of citizenship, the sentence of the crim- 

 inal will expire and his rights be re- 

 stored to him, and even the insane per- 

 son may recover his reasoning power 

 and enjoy the franchise again. In no 

 cour.try is there greater liberty, yet it 

 was the intention of our fathers to limit 

 the male voters by a property require- 

 ment, which was swept away by a tide 

 of democracy early in the century. Our 

 fathers probably never intended matters 

 to be as they are, but their barriers were 

 nuable to stand before the rushing tide 

 of young democracy. Then caa:e the 

 civil war, and the franchise was given 

 to the colored man, yet it is still with- 

 held from half of the population. 



"Women need the ballot for self pro- 

 tection. It is true no class can safely 

 trust its interest to another. This is to 

 me one of the convincing arguments in 

 favor of woman suffrage, and I think it 

 should be worked for deliberately and 

 conscientiously. I believe that when the 

 time is ripe they should be participants 

 in the government. I strongly believe 

 that, but I believe the time, however, 

 is not yet ripe. " 



In conclusion, Professor Adler said 

 that education was the argument to 

 onen the gates. Great power, be assert- 



