The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-14
The Bee That Saved Kingdom.


told in print, though it is a very popu-
lar in the bee country.
Once upon time, there was a bad
king, and the people wished him to
make a certain good law.
''NO,' said he, 81 will not make
that law, it is too good. 1t will make
peace. Here is the law wish to make
Then all my people will 60 to war;
The two documents lay in front of
him on the table all written out, and
whichever one he signed would be the
law of the land. He took up a big
quill pen, drew the bad law nearer to
him, and dipped the pen in the ink.
just then, a bee began to buzz. It
was wise bee.
'Z.z.z-z.z! No zuch Flaw zhall pazz!'
buzzed the bee, over and over again;
but no one noticed him. Zign re Ozzer
ze-0zzer-'ze ozzer--Ze ozzzer!',
The king would not listen; so the
wise bee lit on his nose and stung him
justa little, still buzzing: s'Si On re
| OZZer, re OZZer, re OZZer!''
"Open the Window roared the
king. land drive out this bee, or kill
him!''
They opened the window. Out few
the bee, and in rushed the wind. 1t
blew very hard. The papers Tapped
and flew across the table. The bad
king was SO mad that he stamped his
foot, seized one of the papers, and
signed it in a rage. There was his
name,-'King Blunderbuss, ''----and
nothing could alter it. Then he saw
that in his haste and rage he had
signed the good law. But he was too
proud to own his mistake.
The bee hurried to the garden and
whispered to the honeysuckles:
"Zome of your bezt,----zome of YOUR
beet! Zhe good law is zigned, and all
zhall be peaze and happinezz!''
So the honeysuckles gave him all
their best honey: and the people out
side of the kings palace built great
bonfres and shouted with joy:
"'Long live the king! Long live the
good King Blunderbuss!''
"OhO!'' said the king to himself,
when he heard this; ssthat is the best
sound have heard for many a year.
''And after that, he was afraid to
give Way to anger, for fear he might
sign bad law by mistake. The bee
did not have to light on hisnose again
The king made only good laws and to
the end of his days his people shouted:
''Long live the king!''
Julia Deans kehearsals-An Incident of Her
Early Life.
Celia Logan in New York Dispatch.
Her best character was that of Mrs.
Oakley in "The Jealous Wife, In
this she introduced a good deal of new
stage business. She and her father
travelled together one afternoon they
arrived in certain city; she had come
too late for rehearsal, so she sat down
before the glass and began going over
a little bit of the business of Mrs. Oak
ley, in which she was to open. It con-
sisted of going into a hysterical fit, be-
ing much worked up after a quarrel
with her husband, throwing herself
into chair, dropping her handker.
chief, and exclaiming, amid signs and
tears:
cha ha! ha! order me boiled
chicken, ha ha! ha!
1t was telling point and ALWAYS
brought down the house.
1t happened that the landlord of the
hotel had a little room, the window OF
which overlooked Miss Deans. He
was sitting at this window when he
heard the words, ''Order me boiled
chicken, and mechanically started up
to obey, when the strange, hysterical
laugh fastened him to the window,
where he watched the woman sink
into chair, drop her handkerchief,
and shrek:
''Ha! ha! ha! order me boiled
chicken ha ha ha - Not merely
once or twice, but fifty times, without
any apparent reason for the monoto-
nous proceeding.
A thought struck him. Rushing to
her room and finding the key on the
outside; he softly turned it, and gave
orders to the servants that they were
not to notice the order for boiled
chicken, not to answer the bell, or to
go near the room, on the peril of their
lives, as there was "crazy gal inside
Old Dean had gone out-''his custom
always of an afternoon''-and usually
turned up at the theatre in time to take
Julia home.
When she wanted to go to dinner,
she found herself locked in. In vain
she rang the bell; nobody came; but
hunger was nothing compared to the
fear that she would not be able to go
to the theatre in time.
She could not understand why she
had been made a prisoner. About
half an hour before the rising of the
curtain it CHANGED that old Dean went
to the theatre, and not finding Julia,
became alarmed, and tore off to the
hotel, but he could not get into her