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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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you're a sky pilot by yer choker. What 

 do you say?" 



"I quite asree with your father. He 

 must be a most seusibJe man, aud I 

 wish I knew him. Believe me, a circus 

 lady can be just as useful a lady as any 

 other if she will only try, and I am 

 sure you'll try. " 



The girl rose from her seat, so did 

 the scholar. She held out her hand to 

 bim, aud be took it, and the old man 

 and the girl looked into each other's 

 eyes. 



"Goodby, " said the girl. "I'm glad 

 I came, though you are so iggorant 

 about love poshins." 



"I'm very glad you came," said the 

 scholar heartily, '"and, believe me, you 

 need no 'love poshins.' You are quite 

 charming enough without. " The girl 

 flushed up to the roots of the furze 

 brush. Then the scholar said, " Would 

 you like some roses?" The girl said, 

 "Please, sir," in the shyest, smallest 

 voice, and the scholar held the door 

 open for her to pass out. Then he fol- 

 lowed her arross the hall and through 

 the open front door. He took his prun- 

 ing knife from' hispocket and he cut her 

 a great buEch of the roses that were 

 famed throughout the county. Then he 

 walked down Ihe drive with her, aud 

 at the lodge gate he bade her goodby. 



She started down the road and then, 

 looking back and seeing him still stand- 

 ing at the gate, she ran back, saying 

 breathlessly: "I wish you'd come and 

 see me ride. I can jump through the 

 'oops beautiiul, I can. I should like to 

 show yer. " 



The scholar's eyes were very kind, 

 but he shook his head, saying: "I'm 

 getting an old man, my dear. I hardly 

 ever go out at night." 



"But there's a matinee — an afternoon 

 show, "she explained, ' ' this afternoon. ' ' 



The scholar wavered, then the be- 

 seeching blue eyes caught his aud held 

 them. "Phyllis would like me to," he 

 muttered; then, "I will come and see 

 you ride this afternoon." 



"I shall look out for you, mind," 

 laid the girl. "Don't you forget." 



The scholar did not forget — he went. 

 •-Windsor Magazine. 



Better Than Wealth. 



It is a laudable ambition which 

 prompts any person to earn and to save 



a pcrtK.^, ( t ll,e earnings. The founda- 

 tions ct most if not all of tbe colossal 

 fcrtriH-s oi the rich people in the world 

 had their Lcf^iunirg in that way. But 

 there are httttr things in the world than 

 wealth. Good health is one of them. 

 We are quite apt to envy the posse.ssor 

 of great wealth, but far more is to be 

 envied the man or woman with robust 

 health, unwavering courage and the 

 disposition to go through life with a 

 long aud a smile. The happiest people 

 in the world are those who work and 

 work cheerfully. — Housewife. 



Gold From Sea W^ater. 



To extract gold and silver from sea 

 water automatically a tank is placed 

 over the water at the right height to be 

 filled as the tide ebbs, a valve prevent- 

 ing the escape of the water through the 

 inlet pipe, conapelling it to flow out 

 through a filtering material composed 

 of alternate layers of coarse aud fine 

 carbon covered with a layer of wire 

 cloth. 



The Way to Teach. 



Any method \\hich is productive of 

 lasting and Ltutficial results is a good 

 method. "Reasoning," says Locke, "is 

 the faculty cf deducing unknown truths 

 from princi' les already familiar." 



The principal difficulty with teachers 

 today is the sane as Horace Mann 

 pointed out years ago, "We do too much 

 telling aud too little teaching." Pro- 

 fessor Dewey says of present day meth- 

 ods, "They succeed in crushing out all 

 spontaneous interest in the subject it- 

 self even if they do not all but destroy a 

 capacity for it. " 



It is this spontaneous interest that 

 must be awakened aud kept alive. The 

 teacher mubt be spontaneous, enthu- 

 siastic, very much alive. Such a teacher 

 never uses a textbook during a recita- 

 tion, is ready aud apt in his illustra- 

 tions, pleasing in manner of presenta- 

 »ion, able to present the same thing in 

 different ways, never resorts to sarcasm 

 as a means cf ccrrecticu or to cover up 

 his own lack of information, gets his 

 class where the members are not afraid 

 to try, sits little during recitation, pos- 

 sibly not at all, censures sparingly, 

 praises much. But this kind of teach- 

 ing takes time for careful preparation, 

 and much hard work is required.— 

 Journal of Peeus-cev. 



