1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER, 



373 



sea aud cursed it Then iu taking off 

 his soaked wcoi jacket be felt his watch. 

 He held it to his ear "It did not stop, " 

 he esciaimed, ta};piug the lid lightly 

 "It is a very good watch " 



When the sailors were dressed again 

 and somewhat vvaruitd by the wine, 

 they usked about tlieir boat. A deep 

 flush spread over Fierre-Alarie's i'ace 

 ■when he heard that the pilot, Alexan- 

 dre, had saved it. Although the sailors' 

 limbs were still trembling and their 

 hair still' and wet from the salt water 

 they at once stepped into the vessel, 

 hoisted sail aud steered for the pretty 

 harbor of tiordi-ry. Some cue must tell 

 "la petite duueuantiu. " 



I took the road and arrived at tho 

 same time. The murmurs of the sym- 

 pathetic crowd was the first premoni- 

 tion the little girl had that somethiiif; 

 was wrong She came out of her door, 

 still dressed iu black, her restleiis littk 

 head cover( d with a white coif. Slid 

 saw the tari.iers aud fishermen form in- 

 to a group She knew they were pityiu^ 

 her as they turned aside their bends 

 She could hear the "alas, alas!" which 

 the wind carried to her. 



A nameless fear urged the girl for- 

 ward to meet the crowd. SVith palu 

 face and eyes wide open with horror 

 the child understood at once when she 

 saw the two tishermen alone. She tied 

 back home, calling out iu tones broken 

 by grief: "He is dead 1 He is dead!" 

 This was her message to the unseen 

 dwellers there. 



"He is dead! He is dead! Dead with- 

 out confession!" she cried and fell down 

 before the black crucifix that hung on 

 the white wall. 



"He IS d^ad! He is dead!" she whis- 

 pered, kneeling on the floor, her head 

 pressed against the stones, her arms 

 spread out toward the crucifix. 



And the crowd of fishermen and farm- 

 ers stood on the doorsill. They held 

 their hats iu their hands. They did not 

 speak. They found no word of comfort 



And 1 — J was in their midst, one of 

 them. — From the French of Sara Bern- 

 hardt For Chicago Times- Herald. 



Ignorance In Motion. 



I do not in the least mind if England, 

 ■when the people are less ignorant and 

 more experienced iu self government, 

 eventually uecomes a democracy. But 



violent, seLlsh, unreasoning nemocra' 7 

 would bring expensive bureaucracy and 

 the iron rule of a Cromwell Let tho 

 demagogue remember "Liberty forget- 

 ful of otk-f!rs is license, and nothing 

 better than treason." The hero of the 

 morning is loo often the traitor of the 

 afternoon it was the mob who smash- 

 ed the Duks of Wellington s windows 

 on the anniversary of Waterloo. As 

 Goethe says, "The worst thing in the 

 tvorld IS ignorance iu motion. " The 

 world would grow into the wickedest 

 of worlds should all this babble and 

 gabble ever succeed in impressing on the 

 people that the obligations of contract 

 are mere tyrnnny and that law is noth- 

 ing but coercion. — Tennyson. 



Quit© Likely. 



Tracher — Willie, if your father gave 

 you 10 cents and then took away 4 and 

 gave them to your brother, what would 

 that make? 



Willie — Trouble. — Yale Record. 



Reflection of Souud. 



In gome of the large cities of Europe 

 the principle of the reflection of sound 

 is very ingeniously employed in locat- 

 ing the position of inacce.ssible obstruc- 

 tions in the pipes of the pneumatic tube 

 service. Thus, when a pipe is constrict- 

 ed a diaphragm that is so thin as to 

 vibrate instantly under the force of a 

 sound wave is attached to the end of 

 the pipe and connected electrically 

 with a chronograph in such a manner 

 that when the diaphragm vibrates it 

 %vill close the electric circuit and regis- 

 ter on the chronograph. A pistol loaded 

 with a blank cartridge is then fired into 

 the tube through an ope'niug just below 

 where the diaphragm is placed. When, 

 therefore, the shot is fired, the sound 

 wave causes the diaphragm to vibrate 

 and registers the exact time on tho 

 chronograph. The sound wave will 

 travel along the tube until it meets the 

 obstruction and will then be reflected 

 back. On this reflected sound or echo 

 returning to the end of the tube it 

 causes the diaphragm to vibrate again 

 and make another registration on the 

 chronograph, which by this simple op- 

 eration will correctly indicate the exact 

 interval of time required for the sound 

 to travel from the end of the tube and 

 back. — Exchange. 



