RECOMPENSE.
What is the price, the price of war,
That men give life's brave service
for?
Fierce slnughter on the battle-field,
The dread Doath Angel's sword re
vealed;
An army's rude and riotous haste?
The city and the farm laid waste!
Cease,
Behold, the wide world’s larger liberty
and peace,
What are the of
war,
That men despoil their foemen for?
To make a master's proud demands;
To win fair cities and broad lands;
At least. for country's sake, to spend
One's life, and gain a glorious end.
But. best of all, when storms and bat
tles cease,
To win the wide world's larger liberty
and peace,
hopes, the hopes
What
That men have ever battled for?
Slaves. who were lords and kings of
yore;
The exultation and delight
When nations
might.
But, at the last,
Cine,
is the end, the end of war,
crown their men of
Behold, the wide world’s larger Hberty
and
: "Of
— NeW
ork Iadependent,
The prin
gervant and
“Where is
The muzhik
hut
demanded he
doorway of
stood bow thie ground.
to the
high no but they had dashed up like
terran! Bir tt} . v t
signal fires a fie rds; yet
eyes
he affect
ed not to under
“It is
the hig!
wands?’ he
i Fearll ff »
is full Of &
man, Iv Ivanoviteh,
would
the old an
) \ '
1 honor with his
noine
comn “His servant
ern”
er
» interrupt
“What do |
“Bother Ivan
ed the prince impat
want with
your son, |
you
Come tile one
re added
hey say
who slew the wolf, t least ™
quickly, witl
but I do not !
ft
shes
possil
The
hands
longer
proofs
the w
he slew
flown from
hearts of
flamed ug
o tok
Such a th was!
like for 20 Kopecks
any Russian fair
by the Russian peasant
having a i
dle. It
hilt, with
“1 have
served
“It is
prince as he turned ti
his hands
At
Llack eves surmounted by a huge har
crooked
was
Blood,
viet
ha «ii
hott
i
the peasant
wonderful” rrinred
fe about
pair of
this juncture a
anka peer round the corner of the hu
and as quick!
Presently
vanished
he prince looked
the d. “Let
wonderful child and hear
from his own lips.”
The peasant looked sharply rou
“He kere
noble drew up.
boy!"
the
was even when the high
There are the hatehet
and the wood he was chopping.
ka, Ivanka! He hidden
the rascal”
The prince laughed,
“Ivanka! Ivanka!” shrieked
the peasant. “I will teach you to run
and hide when the high noble come
from far and near to see you. By all
the saints, if you do not Tnstantly come
forth from your hiding hole and relate
the whole occurrence the noble
prince, 1 will break every bone in your
body.”
Then it was that a cont of sheep
skin that just cleared the ground
emerged from behind the hat and mov
od slowly over the trodden snow to
within a few paces of the prince,
could only tell by the shining
and the tip of a small red nose that
peeped between the high stand-up eol-
lar that inside of it was a small boy.
Where he stood the blood sun bathed
him in heroic glory.
Ivan
has Itimsedf
almost
to
You
of a Truit-stenling culprit before the
chinovnik. The prince regarded him
with mock severity.
“YYhat is this I hear of you, Ivanka?’
he began, “Then say that you have
slain a wolf!”
Ivanka would have hung his head
but that hif collar prevented it; so he
dropped his eyes in guilty silence. The
peasant, behind the prince's back, rub-
bed his hands and chuckled.
“Come here!” commanded the prince,
his mustache lip twisting with a
whimsical smile.
The coat moved to the prince's fect,
Then the swall boy inside it felt him.
¥
gelf caught up In strong arms and
borne into the hut,
Now, though it was a ruddy winter
sunset outside, in the hut It was quite
| gloomy.
| A dull yellow glow, like a big bullseye,
fand a glimmer like a glowworm from
| the tiny lamp that burned before the
| holy image. The dim outline of a wo
man and a ehild in her arms could be
{ discerned by the stove. She came for.
{ ward as the prince entered and, bend
ing low, raised the hem of fur
mantle to her lips and silently return
ed to her seat,
The prince sat by the window, and
| Ivanka stood between his knees, where
| be had been placed, He trembled in
| side his sheepskin, vet it was a gentle
{ hand that lifted the baranka from his
| curly head and raised his chin,
“How old are you, Ivanka?” inquired
the prince.
“Ten noble
{ the boy; but, his
{of the prince at that moment, he cens
| ed to tremble, and the longer he looked
his
faltered
meeting
YOArs, prince.”
eyes those
{ the more comfortable he felt,
“And you have slain a
| tinued the prince.
“Yes, noble prince.”
“And what had the
Ivanka, that you should li
his life?”
wolf?"
wolf done to you,
ive taken
“He had seized our little Minka and
would have up.” Ivanka
drew a sh
“How
prince
eaten her
rp breath,
exclaimed the
How al
It is
fgbwut
erriblel”
“But midget!
dare to tackle such a foe?
ineredible! J1 me all
Ivanka
you
you
it Begin at the begh A
Ivanka at the
He ted] one
other amd cracked all
i words
but the
gazed eround in =
around t
uckh
would
lence,
Ivanka, do.”
cing volee from
Can
gh nobility how
pause, and at length, in
Ivanka began
to
ry voloe,
the town
3 ¥
ALIGeD
inka broke
time to «
which
So |
hensts,
took
I left the «
to let
anther
Dow,
id stole
not
the fod
1
l
* Knife ay ont GOT
bit old
Minka
fe
open a enough the
on father. but enongh to hear
I had fed the cows In
corner of
when 1
uttered
He
} JOTK ©
the
tossed] back
oF
prey
Ww my SMEs
not af:
who had never
taken his ey
¢ boy ¢ he began to speak
did of fear"
Ivanka, I though of my
Minka, and, iercely 1
itn monster! kills
think
reps
i
+1
poor
hated
1 t fear,” he
added reflectivel)
“And then?’ inquired the
“Oh
prince,
dropped Minka
rolled in the
he snarling and worrying my
He would have made an end of
but for my sheepskin,” And
boy patted his breast and looked him
then he and
over and over we SHOW,
whe 1]
akin,
ne the
self over complacently,
After that
rattled
until m3
Then 1
mouth
he shook
in
him,
me
my =Kkin
gud my
and I was so
have let him finish me,
cried, ‘lvanka, Ivankal
and it seemed bard to leave her
it that moment I remembered
that 1 «till grasped the knife.
bones
was under
full of his hair,
that I would
Minka
was
¥pent
i
pat
fo
was
mighty paws until my arm was free
to plunge the weapon in his throat 1
know mot, but [ felt the blood gush
ont over my face, And then—and then
Minka's voice went farther and far
ther away, and 1 seamed to be falling
as a star falls through the air.”
As Ivanka ceased speaking a half
| stiffed sob was heard from the inter
for of the room. The prince had cov.
Leredd his eyes with his hand as though
dazzled, yet the sun had gone down
and the place was more gloomy than
Lever. The peasant stepped forward
Font of the shadows and stood before
the prince in the dim light of the win.
dow. He took up the tale.
“It was the screams of the little one
| that awoke me, your high nobility, and
I ran out. Al never shall I forget the
sight that met my eyes!
in death convulsions, When 1 picked
up my Ivanka, I thought him dead,
he not at once opened his eyes,
“ ‘Minka,’ he whispered-—-'is
hurt?
“ ‘My darling, no,’ 1 answered. ‘She
sereams too lustily to be hurt
“and the wolf? He raised his head
from my shoulder and looked wildly
around
my hero,’ 1 asured him,
“hen he shut his eyes with a great
i sigh.
“Lot
| “'He Is dead. You have slain mm,
i
i
me sleep, father, he mur
| mured. ‘1 an so tired.” ”
The peasant chuckled, “He was
played out, ny lttie wolf slayer. The
noble prince should have seen how he
lay lke a sack and slept and slept.”
Meanwhile Ivanka had grown
gazed wistfully toward the
shy
again and ge
door: but the prince still held him
tween his knees, Even when he
to go the high noble detained the boy
with a hand on his head.
“(3ive him to me” he
peasant. “Let take him
when I go to Petersburg. 1 will
a great man of him. He
and fight for the (
depnd
be
rose
the
Hie
said to
me with
fase
shali be a
nr.”
gilence, The
[1x
in jealous
soldier
There
ant's face had gone crimson,
mi and held him
wis peas
©“¥ -
flew to his su
regard
“Will
will
with
to help
nvading
You shall bee t
the sons of the highest in the land ¢
shall the
cadet
you go me, Ivanka, you
slaver, keep the human
from
of the Czar?
dominions
aught
wolves the
wear uniform of an
imperial
to
toward him.
solemn
bent
handsome
nn ised eyes
yay ¢
GRANISE 1A
th collar
autiful,
and good and b
Ivan,” he
piiron
found his tor
ist
noble pring
too. looked towars
are by the
ne
the high noble
‘Ty young.’
replied the prince
totall)
* more males than
read in Russian
find an aged peasant who can
and it may be ace
§ opted
that probably not 20 per cent
rites an
of
tire population of the empire
has obtained the firet rudiments of this
knowledge There are over 10,000 vil
laces in Russia where no school exists
It calenlated that by disbanding
100,000 men of hig huge army the Canary
would have funds
FO Ons
ju
at his disposal for
and 10,000
houses,
bnllding schools
village
wold
nid
have a million pounds sterling
for paying the teachers’ salaries
And he world still have MYLO
diers—na number greater than the com:
bined land forces of England, Germany
and I'nited Example i=
better than precept. Let Russia set an
example of disarmament sorely
needs t-Humanitarian.
schoolmasters’
over
scl
the Hintes
she
An Indian War
For some years
in New England.
the New England
settlers were not troubled by the In
diane, but in 1630 war broke out with
the Pedquots, a flerce and warlike tribe
In the winter of 1836.37 they kept the
little Connecticut towns in continual
fear. The next summer a small band
of white men, some seventy in num
ber, attacked the Indians in their Pal
isaded town, One of the leaders of
this company thus briefly tells the
story: It is reported by themselves
‘that there were about four hundred
souls in this fort, and net five of them
escaped out of our hands, Thus it
wns that the Peguots were extermi
nated, and not until forty years later,
after the fate of the Pequots was in
| part forgotten, did the savages again
| dare to begin war upon the whites,
——— A r
Stee! Taken from an Eye with a Magaet,
The powerful magnet at the Rose
| Polytechnic Institute, at Terre Haute,
Ind, was successfully used a few
| days ago in a surgical operation by
which the eye of a patient was saved
A plece of steel had struck the eye in
the upper part, and piercing it, had dis
appeared. An incision was made be
low the pupil, the magnet was brougit
| close to the front of it, and the slivet
| of steel was drawn out.
FUR TRADE OF THE NORTH. |
HARD LIFE OF THE HUDSON BAY COM: |
PANY'S VOYAGEURS,
Result of Spring Hunt Varles Poriagiog the |
Severest Work that Comes to the Hunter
— Tragedies at the Outposts —A Suggestion
of Cannibalism.
The quantity
which
sult spring
of course, bat in
to 3500 may
He may have cight
an
an Indian may
of his hunt ”
a good yea? sis S200)
be tnken as a fair average
a doz
en beavers, four or five otters, a num
of lynxes, musqu
When all the hunters ui
ber muskrats
ish or
furs are pressed into pa
dred
boats to the
pounds and
Ment
they are ¢
thes
afterward sold at
ga los the
Mirch, which
from all pas
In the hat
where
?
ii company
are atte
week, and
and double that
the
in
bate on
orn 1
gnn-—-Drown
winter-—-izs nn gow game
some localities pinnat
rie chickens are
ubiquitous jittle
fon, is iow here
botue” to tHe hunies
jx often such a strange?
man that Indian
the tree which
«lip the noose that he has fixed to the
eid of 8 pole over his head, After the
first snow in the fall rabbit shooting is |
good sport, and in seasons when they
are plentiful fifty or sixf¥ to the credit
of n single huntsman in an aftersooon
Then there
walk to
ting and
an will ap
npon he is sit
i aot an URCOMINon Core
j« the large game, such as moose and
deer, while now and then a stupid bear
pokes his nose in dangerous proximity i
to the fort. the staff turns out and he |
i« shot for his fatal Inquisitiveness,
At one of those posts where 1 was
Rept a for
years. She was taken when very
young by an Indian, killed her |
mother, and brought the calf in his ca
noe to the fort became quite
tame, and in the second winter we |
broke her to drive in harness, Her |
chief amusements were scaring In. |
dians by racing up to them and stop
ping abruptly with a loud snort, ‘and |
stationed we Hoge two |
who
Ble
planting her forefeet on the backs of |
the train dogs. A train dog will howl
upon the slightest excuse, and the pa
thetic outbursts which greeted the |
snecossful performance of this latter |
feat appeared to cause Maud unstinted |
enjoyment and a certain mild wonder
which it wag ludicrens fo behold.
The clerks often set traps adjacent
to the fort, and in this way find anoth-
er means of passing time and of add.
ing to their incomes. Snowshoeing in
also popular exercise on the short days,
and nt posts where they are kept
horses sve in much requisition,
At an outpost where a clerk Is alone
with his Indian servant, however, the
Hie is wearisome to a degree, and pri
vation not infrequently adds to the
Mupplies may run short
from
iieh his post Is situa
« table and his dogs, as well
hix larder by the expert
himself with fish taken Bets
3 %
3
the lake, near w
ated, for hi
in
we -0f hig un wre in
curred where, through
aupplies hind not reached the
far outposts
tended
i in
d literally died
York
for were
mien his
¢ Out of a boat's
supplies
Rock ¥
Mackens
moun
were dr
headag
# Gutpo were le
ithout th
« supplies,
er had
[ URROWING ANIMALS
Some Diz Holey Merely for Love of
Thing.
gug a
{turned
person
See t
Prog»
pry *
gave him courage, for before he
had been
it Ig noticeable that the
of
dors ; the harvest
Mouse,
two weak
est and least op TOUS our
mice,
the
do
monse,
and
uot multiply or maintain
od make pests,
bai hens
FIR Li
the fact that there are
} burrowing mice
and mol
members rs . Towels allied wpm
wile
that
h do burrow
t. seems to indicate
an acquired one
tion It ix worth noting
which do not bur
times form burrows in
eal amd protect their
or. if they do burrow, make a
different kind of a more elaborate
Among these nursery bur
rows are those of the dog, the fox and
sand martin, the kingfisher and the
sheldrake., Foxbonnd litters never do
«0 well as when the mother ss allowed
CI fey
animals
other
go 8.08
whicn 10 Com
row at
of a stack. In time she will
work this five or unix feet deep into
the stack and keep the puppies at the
far omd while she les at the entrances
Vixens dig or appropriate a
clean burrow for their cubs, which is
a patural habit, or, at any rate, one
acquired previously to the use of
earth by adult foxes,
———
Somewhat Discouraging,
“Rome philosopher says: “The eon.
«iraw
either
“That may be all right as far as the
man bimself is concerned, but it is
discouraging to be a member of a con.
tented poor man's family." Chicago
Times Herald.
Destroyed the Evidence.
“i know the secret of your birth”
hissed Reginald J. Porter, after Miss
Clytie T. Maginnis had rejected him,
“fudecd you deo not,” she replied em-
phatically., “I sut the birth page sul
of the family Bible years ago.”—Do
CAGED BEAUTIES
Exposed ¥or Hale to the Passer-By iw
Algerian Marts.
Mr. William Shark describes in Lon-
don Literature a visit, while in Alge-
ria, to a street of caged women, It
seems it is forbidden to Europeans af-
ter dark, but wandered in, partly
through incident, partly through curi-
osity, He writes: "Bome women were
in barred rooms and some in cages,
fered for sale, in the first
cage | passed pretty, and,
though her hair was dark, she had pale
he
of -
The woman
was rather
were
blue eyes, Her long loose tresses
everywhere clasped wi blue
brooches, and |
the end of her ears and h
i
were
noticed that her lips,
tips
accosted
asked me
away
stained a dull
me in Moori
if 1 would
red
sh-French,
not like to take her
ckals of Moors and Arabs,
WAY
ana
farer, and
LOMOrrow,
Arab (
and not a Moor
tranger. a
migh
fie Was not an
sed!)
but a Koul Lie
re, feah “rr “& > # ™ 3 BY
Moorish woman by a Turkish
One girl's face and manner im-
ressed me greatly, She was nol beau-
¥ pretty : had a sing-
large, fine,
as a European,
winsome face
like eyes
a Spaniard, from one of the Balearic
fair,
gold
Isles St she was
of a
rangely very
y
with blonde hair full
sheen to Oran, at
She-has been taken
he extreme western end of Algeria
naval officer, and there
few weeks had been deserted,
some months she was a derelict iz
Hispano-Mauresque town After
id was born she
had gone inland
Tiemcen old Moorish
the
Fg 1 hat ate i arid 5 5 »
town that stands within sight of the
There
her 10 his hs :m
rontier of Morocco
agen
& rich Moor
On hi
had been
Algiers
Turk at
{ her,
an Aral
of her in
glreet Cage
months later she
by a Jew from and
i FOUnE
red oO
ates 1
Jinuies 3
imprisoned
took
{0 move
ret i
urn to the foreign
d passed on before 1
"he next moment
puntenance of
ind th Cage f Oran
had
0 our conversation
Woh
set op
he had not a
forward
want her or not?
overed that
er to deal with he came
‘Do you
sneeringly,
‘No?
and
Then
dog
You vaiue your
ng extract fre
John Burr
eR
or the
Uy an error
hing except a lack «
wanis are
honorabil
wealth with
better to al
ing else
mind is one of
seek--and fastes and
The man who gets these,
maintains himself comfortably, is
mach more admirabie and successful
than the man who gets money and
neglects The realm of power
has no me 1 would
rather seclusion and peace
of mind,
finer
these,
fascination for
have my
“This log hut, with its bare floors, is
sufficient { am set down among the
beauties of nature, and in no danger
of losing the riches thal are seattered
all about. No one will take my walks
or my brook away from me Flow-
ers. birds and animals are plentifully
provided. 1 have enough eat and
to wear. and time to see how beautiful
the world is, and to enjoy it
io
rhe whole world is after
money, or the things you have bought
with your money. It is the trying to
keep them that makes them seem so
precious.
“i dive to broaden and enjoy my own
life. believing that in so doing I do
what is best for every one. If I had
run after birds only to write about
them, 1 should never have written
anything that any one else would
have cared to read. I must write from
sympathy and love—that is, from en-
joyment-—or not at all,
your
Where the Great Forests Arve.
A table in Science shows that Can-
ada leads all other countries in the
extent of her forests. She possesses
199.280,720 acres of forest-covered land,
ae against 450,000,000 acres in the Unit.
sd States, Russia Is credited with
498,240,000 acres, about 48,000,000 more
than the United States. India comes
aext with 140,000,000. Germany haa
34,347,000 acres, France 23.466450, and
the British islands only 2.695.000. The
table does not include Africa or South
America, both of which contain im-
mense forests, It may surprise some
foress-covered land is larger in several
European countries, Germany for in.
stance, than in the United States,
Dangerous Vince,
First Tragedian--Just listen to thie
“In California there are ostrich egas
weighing three pounds.” Second Tra-
godian-—Great Beott! Jen’t it lucky
our troupe didn’t get a chance to play
fn California this year?