1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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son as sue snowed the old lady her copy 

 of the soug and pointed to the words: 

 He bold as llie hawk 

 And she isolt as the dawn. 



— Youth's Compauica. 



Well Mixed. 



The Moultrie (Ga. ) Gazette says that 

 there is a family uear by which consists 

 of two mothers, four fathers, one grand- 

 mother, six sons, one grandfather, three 

 daughters, three sisters, six brothers, 

 five husbands, three aunts, two nieces, 

 seven uncles, six nephews, two wives, 

 one mother-in-law, three sisters-in-law, 

 seven brothers-in-laws, one father-in- 

 law, one son-in-law, six grandsons, two 

 granddaughters, and there are only ten 

 in the family. 



SUHERSTITIONS. 



The Momentous Part They Sometimes Play 

 In Uuiuan Affairs 



The London Iruth gives the follow- 

 ing inside view of a great historical 

 event said to have been hitherto un- 

 published: 



When Sir Charles Napier had con- 

 quered Meliemet Ali, he found it im- 

 possible to force or coax the wily Egyp- 

 tian into signing the treaty which only 

 would make his victory effective. He 

 had 19 interviews with Mehemet, in 

 which the Englishman by turns argued, 

 flattered and threaleued his antagonist, 

 •who listened day after day v. iih the 

 same immovable, smiling countenance. 



One day Sir Charles, in speaking of 

 ■pugland, said casually that it "was 

 governed by a lucky woman. ' ' A strange 

 flash passed over the pasha's counte- 

 nance, but he made no answer. As soon 

 as Napier was gone, Mehemet sent for 

 the English consul, who was an Egyp- 

 tian, and demanded: 



"You were in London when the Eng- 

 lish queen was crowned. Were the 

 omens bad or good?" 



"All good." 



'You think that good luck is written 

 on her forehead''"' 



"I did not think upon the matter be- 

 fore, but now that you ask me I be- 

 lieve that it is. When she asked Aliah 

 to help her in her work, her eyes ran 

 over. Allah loves the imoccnt. " 



"No doubt of that," said Mehemet 

 anxiously, "the must be lucky " 



Early the next morning he sent for 

 Sir Charles and signed the treaty. Eng- 

 lish power and English cannon he could 

 brave, but not "the luck" written up- 

 on the forehead of a good woman whom 

 he had never seen. 



General Gordon's remarkable influ- 

 ence over the Chinese was in a large 

 degree due, it is stated, to their belief 

 in Jiis extraordinary luck. During the 

 Tae-Ping rebellion he was followed by an 

 army which did not comprehend either 

 his ability or his religious zeal, but which 

 believed that he was protected by an 

 invisible being who led him to victory. 

 No sword could wound him or bullet 

 kill. A certain black ebony cane which 

 he carried was supposed to be the mag- 

 ic talisman which brought him victory, 

 and General Gordon was shrewd enough 

 always to carry this cane when he led 

 them into battle. 



These superstitious seem absurd to 

 us, but they at least show that the ig- 

 norant men who hold them believe in 

 an invisible power who can give good 

 or ill fortune at his will. Are they more 

 foolish than the educated, busy man, 

 who recognizes no power in life stron- 

 ger than his own will and effort? 



The Barrier. 



"Say," said Weary as he looked up 

 from the clover in the fence corner. 

 "How do the 7 git at the gold up ther in 

 Alasky?" 



"By washin," replied Weary's pard. 



"Count me out," said Weary. — Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer. 



One of the latest achievements in 

 chemical science is a pellet containing 

 the concentrated elements of coffee, 

 sugar and milk. It may yet devolve 

 upon chemistry to beat the coffee and 

 sugar combines and upon pharmacy to 

 enfrauchi.se the breakfast table. 



A Japanese Argument. 



Japan has an income tax, and this is 

 the way they enforce it: If a taxpayer 

 protests that he is rated too high ty the 

 officials, he is thrust into a daik room 

 and told to "think it over carefully. " 

 Sometimes a man stays there 24 hours, 

 buried in darkness and thought, and 

 finally he is apt to agree with the offi- 

 cials that he is richer than he had at 

 first supposed. 



