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THE . I MERICu I N BEE- KEEPER. 



15 



J.Gage, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Mark 

 Twain, Robert Grant and others nearly as 

 famous and nearly two hundred illustrations, 

 to which the followii g artists contribute: 

 Hopkinaon Smith, Kemble, Harry Feun, F. 

 O. Small, Attwuod, Henckel, Dan Beard, 

 Keinliar ami Remington. Think of h iving 

 tin- World's Fair (lone by KUi'h expensive 

 men as llowells. Mark Twain and Paul 

 Bourget, and sending such artists as < harles 

 s. Reinhart to Chicago for a single number 

 of a magazine to lie sold for only 15 cents, 

 or l>y subscription \'1\ tents. A book pub- 

 lisher, preparing such a book would not 

 dare incur these expenses short of *">.UU a 

 copy. Is it not a revolution that is an im- 

 provement upon old methods a revolution 

 of vast importance to the reading public ? 

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A heart's SONG. 

 A RAIN drop fell from the leaden sky. 

 And a gray bird sang when the day was nigh. 

 The crystal drop was lost in the rain — 

 By an arrows thrust the bird was slain. 

 A tear-drop fell from a heart's o'erflow, 

 And a maiden's song was sad and low; 

 For the one she deemed so true and strong. 

 Proved fal-e to singer, and to song. 



— Albert Hardy in January Godey's 



THE AGE" 



How fortunate for us all would it have 

 been had we heen b rn a century or two 

 later, or had civilization begun ten centuries 

 earlier! For the nineteenth century has 

 been, in a large sense, a probationary epoch. 

 an era of beginnings a period of the plant- 

 ing of seeds of which the twentieth or some 

 later century will enjoy the fruit. Man has 

 long been preparing for this great harvest 

 of time. For ages past the clearing of the 

 ground, the ploughing and harrowing of the 

 soil, have gone on ; and a harrowing time 

 it has proved for poor human nature. The 

 planting began later, and has reached its 

 height of activity in the present century, 

 this era of great disc veriee, valuable inven- 

 tions, strife and stress of industrial relations, 

 and general turmoil of social conditions, in 

 all of which we perceive promise of rich 

 fruit for the coming generations. -Cn coves 

 Morris, m January Lippincott's 



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1894 



Semi-Centennial Volume. 



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