1897 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



307 



luto inm. 



Apaiu he pat down in the door of his 

 Bback to "(iCiible his ironey. " 



"Tl'iis is letter than gheep, " Paid he, 

 "for tl (v herds theruselves. And they 

 are like mules in one thing — yon are 

 liable to set hurt if you fool with 'em. " 



This wave of prosperity broke up as 

 soon as forn-^r ones had done, for be 

 had imported a bad case of foul brood, 

 and within a j'ear the hundred swarms 

 had petered out. When we went down 

 there last summer in the interest of a 

 new company which has taken up the 

 work of completing the canal, Whaleu 

 gathered the bones out of the old shed 

 in the cut and hauled them to the rail- 

 road, where he sold them for fertilizer, 

 realizing enough to buy two more mules. 

 With his four mule team he is at work 

 in the ditch for day's wages. Somewhat 

 grizzled now, and not so brick red of 

 hair and whisker as formerly, he is 

 happy as ever and sanguine that he will 

 double his money. 



"Here's hoping" that he may. — G. 

 B. Dunham in San Francisco Argonaut. 



Barristers' Fees. 



Barristers' fees in England are a 

 variable quantity As viewed in a so- 

 licitor's bill of costs they look some- 

 what mysterious. A barrister's guinea 

 ($5.25) is always £1 3s. 6d. ($5.87); 2 

 guineas (|]0 50) are invariably £2 7d. 

 ($11. 75), and so on. This is explained 

 by the fact tiiat he charges a supple- 

 mentary fee tor his clerk at the rate of 

 2s. 6d. (62 cents) for every guinea he 

 earns. No fe3 is less than a guinea. An 

 unwritten law, dating from the time 

 when the guinea was a coin of the 

 realm, decrees that barristers must not 

 accept silver. One transgression of this 

 rule is recori.rd. A somewhat impecuni- 

 ous member cf the profession accepted 

 a few shilliijps as payment from a poor 

 client. He wt's promptly called before 

 the benchers cf the iuu to explain. His 

 plea was thut if he did not take gold he 

 at least took all the man had get, 

 whereupon he was at once honorably 

 acquitted. It was impossible to cavil at 

 such a worthy upholding of all the tra- 

 ditions of the piofession. Like physi- 

 cians, barristers cannot recover their 

 dues at law. The fee is supposed to be 

 an "l.tLnrarium" which was not ex- 

 cected. Ih'reis a auaint survival r,f 



liie aiiegtci sensitiveness of banisters 

 about fees. In their gowns may still I e 

 noticed a sort cf long, narrow j.cel: t 

 arrauyement, hinging down at lie 

 back of the left shoulder. Its occupa- 

 tion is gone now, but in the old time it 

 was the recognized receptacle for the 

 guinea.s which were supposed to ba 

 dropped in surreptitiously by the cli.=nt. 

 Very dift'ereut is the brazen effrontery 

 of these days, when eminent pleaders 

 will calmly demand their 50 guineas 

 "retainer" to induce them even to Icok 

 at the proffered brief, — New York Mail 

 and Express. 



Saved Against His Will. 



Another V. C. of my acquaintance — 

 be is anything but a doctor — once saved 

 a trooper whose horse had been killed. 

 His argument was rather original. The 

 man wasou foot, and the enemy — Zulus- 

 this time, and they are beautiful fight- 

 ers — were coming down at a run, and 

 be said very decently that he did not 

 see his way to periling his oflElcer's life 

 by double weighting the only horse 

 there was. 



To this his officer answered, "If you 

 ion't get up behind me, I'll get off and 

 I'll give you such a licking as you've 

 never had in your life." The man wa& 

 more afraid of fists than assegais, and 

 the good hoTi-Q pulled them both out of 

 the scrape. Now, by the regulations an 

 officer who insults or threatens with 

 violence a subordinate of his service is 

 liable to lose his commission and to be 

 declared "incapable of serving the 

 queen in any capacity, " but for some 

 reason or other the trooper never report- 

 ed his superior — Rudyard Kipling in 

 Youth's Compa nin-i 



The Society of New England Women 

 intends to give an entertainment in. 

 Novembei, and the "Mask of History" 

 will be presc uttd The central feature 

 will be the k jaesentation of events of 

 general ivijri local American history by 

 the descei.daiits of rhose makers of the 

 nation wli f "^'f^ rnted in t hem. 



Fit and Faught. 



One would have thought this an 

 Americanism, but I find it in Garrick's 

 "Miss In Her Teens," where Tag says 

 to Flash: "Oh, pray let me see you. 

 fight! Trhere were two gentlemen fit?' 

 yesterduv." etc. (act 2). 



