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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



October 



"He went wrong as a boy of 19, " she 

 continued. "My uncle might have 

 saved him, but refused to. That is vphy 

 I have taken up nursing. I knew he had 

 sunk, but I dichi't Ivuow he had come to 

 this. I hoped I might find him if 1 

 mixed with the poor. ' ' 



In one little matter I was able to save 

 her some pain. 



At the door I met an officer in plain 

 cjlothes whom I knew by sight. 



"I'm after a man for the Forest Gate 

 cobbery. I hear he is in this house. ' ' 



' ' He is up stairs, ' ' I said, ' ' but you 

 are too late. He is dying. ' ' The detect- 

 ive hesitated. 



' ' I give you my word as a physician 

 that he will be dead before midnight. 

 If you arrest him, he will certainly die 

 on the road to the station. Do you know 

 his real name?' ' I asked. 



The detective looked at me sharply. 



"No; what is it?" 



"William Clinton, a nephew of the 

 man he tried to rob. At the present mo- 

 ment his sister is watching by his bed. ' ' 



The officer made a note of it in his 

 book. 



' ' I shall have to keep an eye on him, 

 doctor, " he said kindly, "but you. may 

 depend I sha'n't interfere, for the sake 

 of the ycuug lady. ' ' 



And so William Clinton passed 

 thi'ough the gate of life in peace. — An- 

 swers. 



The Helpless Lord Chancellor. 



The responsible office of chairman 

 or president of a legislative body is one 

 that generally carries with it both pow- 

 ers and privileges. There are, however, 

 exceptions to the rule. In the British 

 house of lords it is not the lord chancel- 

 lor but the whole bouse that is addressed 

 as "My lords. " 



The speaker is the sole judge of all 

 questions of order in the house of com- 

 mons. In the house of lort s such mat- 

 ters, when there is a conflict of opinion, 

 are decided by the whole house and not 

 by the lord chancellor. 



If several members of the house of 

 commons rise simultaneously to take 

 part in a debate, the speaker decides 

 who shall speak first, but if two cr 

 more peers rise together in the house of 

 lords the lord chancellor cannot decide 

 who shall first be heard. It is the voice 

 of the house that determines. 



Happily etiquate is so strong in the 

 gilded chamber that it rarely happens 

 when the house by cries expresses its 

 desire to hear one of the contending 

 peers that the others do not give way. 

 But some years ago there was a notable 

 scene over the question whether a peer 

 who had risen from the front Tory 

 bench should be heard in preference to 

 a peer who hcd risen from the front 

 Liberal bench. 



Neither i.oble lord would give way, 

 and to bring the curious situation to an 

 end Earl Giunville moved that the Lib- 

 eral peer Le hearci. The house divided on 

 the question j:nd decided by a big ma- 

 jority that the Tory peer should be 

 heard fiist. 



It is difficult for the average man to 

 understand why the lord chancellor 

 phould not b'j able to exercise authority 

 which is vested in the chairman of 

 every public meeting, but there is a 

 subtle coustirr.ticual point involved in 

 this appai( nt;y ridiculous procedure. 



All peers are equal as legislators in 

 the house ( f lords. No one of them can 

 be vested with authority over the others. 

 Therefore, \ALen a point of order is in- 

 volved it is the whole house and not 

 the lord cliLiucellcr that must decide the 

 issue. — Louucu Sunday Magazine. 



Kiugs In Servants' Clothes. 



The lord mayor of London has 15 

 servants, eight of whom are over 6 feet 

 3 inches high. They are dressed in 

 sapphire blue velvet uniforms, with 

 heavy gold bullion lace. I once asked 

 an eminent clothiers' firm in Ludgate 

 Hill, which seems to have the monopoly 

 of supplying uniforms to lord mayors' 

 and sheritis' servants, why they were 

 not handed on from one lord mayor to 

 another. 



"They are the perquisites of the serv- 

 ants, " was the reply. 



"And what tio they do with them?" 1 

 asked. 



"They sell them to African kiugs, 

 though a few of tliem go to the theater? 

 f«ir kings' servants there. Weouee made 

 a crown to go with one t these uni- 

 forms out to Africa," tonriuued the 

 clothier. "In fact, we have .>•l^^il^d 

 African kiugs with mcst tiir^)^ ti.y 

 require, s'aeh as thrones, ; : c >.; ■ ., 

 from time to time." — LcLucn CL.it;- 

 SDOudent. 



