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THE SKYLARK. The skylark in the morning Sings a song of hope and trust He asks not for God's bounty: He knows that come it must Andthelistener'siheart is turned to Heaven, Hia faith raised from the dust. He sings again at noontide A song of love and joy, And endless throbbing melody With naught of earth's alloy A&d the listener's heart Is purlfi Of earthly thoughts that cloy. But the skylark in the evening Sings a song of peace and rest And of all these glorious harmonies This surely is the best, For the listener's- heart is quieted And turned from earthly quest. Thus morning, noon and evening Sings the bright birdi of light While listeners pausing In their work, Grow trustful of Heaven'® might. Till they, too, sing in sunshine. And And peace in the night. -Chamber's- Journal. THE BEE THAT oe WAS NEVER HIVED by HELEN MATHERS. 6XKXOOOOOOOU 1^ UT you'll have to hive some day," fl said the man. 'ine girl shook her head. "It is the bee who escapes that ab ject swarming—gathers honey for it self, and eats it—who sees life," she taid, "and, like the spirit of the great Hokusai, 'comes and goes at will across the summer fields.'" "And when night falls—what then?" said the man. "The night and the night perfumes are even more glorious to it than those of day!" "And autumn and winter—how then, when all the other bees are warm, and hived, and fed "Warmth is not everything—nor comfort—nor food. But travel, says one of the easterns, is riches. My bee may perish in an early frost or blunder into a spider web but even bees know that the gods die young they don't want to grow old—nor do I. And just think what frolics that bee would have —in the long, long days and nights, he is certain to hap iipon other truant bees, who have thought for them selves, and declined to be uncounted units of those bronzed, convoluted masses swarming over each other into—" 1 "You mean hive of marriage," he said, frowning, as she paused. "Have you ever read your "Line upon Line' carefully?" she said. "There was no one to square the Press then, men were written down just as they were—and are. The east set the west the pattern of manhood then, and through the centuries east and west have altered little up to the present time." "You know too much," he said, with a strong distaste. "The women of the last generation did not talk thus." "No, they were first chloroformed by love, then soundly cudgeled into submission .when they came to their senses," said the girl. "Nowadays if a man wins a woman's respect it is worth having—because it is purely voluntary." "And how can he win it?" "By curbing the lust of the eye— looking deeper than a dazzle of pink and wh te skin—marking the meaning of a gl?nce, not the color of it—study ing the expression of a mouth, not its shape— and searching a heart, not for its own flattered image in it, but ideals pure as those he once had, and lost, and now may find again—if he will." "But I thought we mep were bad eggs from the beginning?" "No, it is your bringing up, the boundless license j-ou are permitted from birth, that makes you what you are. And how you physically deteriorate! Look at our girls— straight, strong, often beautiful, and look at the brothers who start under the same conditions of health it is the difference of the life they lead that stunts the one and perfects the other." "Then you demand a muff—an ab solutely good man." "On the contrary, we demand a man half bad and half good, who, aware that if he is wholly bad, no one will punish him, elects to stand by his better self and the woman who loves him. Then you get self control, loyalty and, trust me, we women know how to reward him. For one human soul to help another up, not down, O! there's a fascina tion in it that all the excitement of tobogganing down precipices can never beat!" "You might lead a man any where you liked," said the man, looking at her with eyes gloomy and thwarted in his handsome face. "Strip off my white and silver gown," she said, contemptuously "strip off my wretched pink and white body, and what do you find worth the having? Nothing. For a few brief years, just so long as my bloom, my youth, lasts, perhaps but my heart, tny intelligence will ripen, not fade, and when I find the man who will love me for those—" "And don't I value them? Listen. It will grow upon you—this restless ness, this incapacity to submit your self to love—you will become a moral vagabond, your inclination your only law, till at last you will find it impossible to tether yourself to one place." "Only a heart could do that. A man offers it to a woman and gives her a home his heart, his inclina tions, walk out at the door to con quer fresh fields." He moved impatiently. "I don't see why Have you 'so little faith in your power to bind your lover to you?" "01 1 could bind a woman or child, or any other human thing, tat not a man. If I were," she hesitated, a plain woman—forgive my frank ness—I might risk it. The man's eyes would be blind to my envelope, if the soul, the spirit in me, content* ed him. The only happy marriages I ever knew were made by remark ably ordinary women." "You think—" "That the best looking, brightest women attract the worst order of men. They go on pursuing the type —not the woman the man who will go on loving a woman in spite of and not because of her beauty is worthy of her love indeed. But he is incredibly rare." "Hermione," urged the man, "you have everything—beauty, and brains, and heart and if no man could ever be worthy of you, don't you know he would have sense to realize the treasure he possessed?" "Till he possessed it. Yes," she said, and rose, laughing, from her seat in the winter garden and the man rose, too, an ugly look deform ing his handsome features." "Some day you will be tired of wandering, and there will be no hive open to you," he said to himself, savagely but that time seemed far enough away as they entered the ballroom, and she was at once sur rounded and besieged by lovers. "What a beautiful voice that wom an had," said a man who, sitting at a distance, had been able to catch the sound but not the sense of the conversation, though a phrase or two, uttered by her companion, had reached him. Jasper George, a gross man, «r1th ears alert for supper, grunted, and named her, but without enthusiasm. Women of Hermione's sort and their voices had no attractions for him his tastes were much more eas ily satisfied by a firstrate chef, and neither of the two men had sought nor would have been at home in the ballroom, but as guests staying In the house they had escaped from the racket to the shadow of the palms. A cessation of. the music, a quick ening, a hurrying of sound In the distance, drew the stout man alertly out of his chair, and he offered his arm to the other. "Supper," he said. "None for me. If not too much trouble, you'll come to me later— or send my man?" "Of course." The man who was left listened to the greedy footsteps retreating, then lay back with closed eyes, thinking. His was a strong, lean face, square jawed, that would have been grim but for the melancholy, hard fought, but finallly submitted to as a habit, that softened it. There is many a tough lesson learned in silent en durance, but it is mostly physical, not mental, suffering that teaches it. A girl came softly, swiftly, in, tak ing the vacant chair before she real ized that the one next it was occu pied. She sprang up, vexed, but the man's eyes suddenly opened, and the sadness in them, or perhaps their indifference, so unlike the quickening of most men's gaze at sight of her, staid her steps. "I thought every one was at sup per," she said, and sat down again. He knew her voice at once and leaned forward eagerly. They talked of trifles at first, and each moment his pleasure grew. Here was one of those oases, set apart in the dusty desert of life, that mightily refresh thirsty souls and bodies, giving them strength to continue their long cara van march and in the long hour that followed the blind man and Hermione came to an understanding of each other, got the grip of one another's characters, that with her beauty mflcle visible, and mentally obscuring his judgment, they never could have done. The only interruption came when a long nosed, reproachful young man appeared round the corner, murmur ing: "I've been waiting outside that door all this time, Hermione—you said you were having your dress mended—and"—his glance added— "meanly gave me the slip." "Go to supper, dear boy! she said, "I'm busy," and he went, and she breathed freely. For it quickened her pulse to know that at last, all to herself, she had the man whose eyes showed no trace of blindness, but who had been struck down by it in the height of the success of his crowded worldly and intellectual life and now the strenuous, the worldly, the ambitious side of it was over, and only the intellectual, the inner, one remained, and into it he had drawn her for this one full, full hour. A man's voice sounded on the other side of their retreat, a voice thick ened by wine, and Humphrey Fletch er thought: "That is the man who wanted to hive the bee and failed." '"I wonder where that poor devil Fletcher has hidden himself," went on the man on the other side of the orange trees "the best judge in the world of women's looks, and sud denly smitten—blind! Even Her mione Saunders would be no better to him now than an ill-favored serv ing wench." -O! he must know it—he must know, it—he must feel it, if she were anywhere near him," said a woman's impatient voice. "She is like her opals, milky, with a heart of fire and has Isut to show herself, rain bow like, in a room, and the rest oi us are not Ven visible." ""And yet," said Humphrey, almost under his breath, but she heard, "when you see her mind her face must needs be forgot." She trembled, loving him for hit misfortune. And in that moment, though she knew it rot till later, the bee was safely hived at last.-* Black and Whit*. BUNTING MULE-FOOTED HOGS. The Extraordinary Experience of A Kshm* Volunteer While Return* lug front Purault of Price. Away back in the fifties, when I wae a boy of 15, a relation of mine, who had traveled some in Kansas and Indian rerritoi'y, told me that the Cherokee Indians had a breed of hogs that had mule feet. The story made such an impression on my mind that I was de termined to investigate for myself some time in the future, writes Aslier S. Childers, in the National Tribune. In August, 1862, after I had enlisted in the Eleventh Kansas and -was sta tioned at Fort Leavenworth, I heard some soldiers say that there was such a breed of hogs in the mountains of Missouri and Arkansas. In a few weeks my regiment was ordered on a forced march to the northwest part of Arkansas. While on this campaign I TJIE HOG STOPPED. quite often heard the boys speak of seeing this kind of hogs while out foraging. And just after the battle of Cain Hill I heard some members of my regiment say they had killed two mule-footed hogs in a pen out in the country a mile or two but I did not see them. In the spring of 1863 my regiment went back north to Fort Scott, Kan. Some time after this my regiment and the Tenth Kansas were ordered south again, reports said to Yicksburg, Miss. at least, we marched across the state of Missouri in that direction un til we got to Salem, in the southeast part of the state. After we had stopped here a few days, my regiment was ordered to Kansas City, Mo. We stayed there or in that vicinity until the next winter. In December my company (C) was ordered to Hum boldt, Kan. In February, 1864, my company and a detachment of Indians went down in the Indian Territory to break up a gang of bushwhackers that murdered every soldier that traveled the road between Fort Scott and Fort Gibson. While on this scout I again heard of this peculiar kind of hogs, but up to this time I had failed to see one. In the fall of 1864, when Gen. Price invaded Missouri with an army of 25, 000 men for the last time, every soldier of the Army of the Frontier "had to get a move on him for three months we had not time to think about mule footed hogs. After Price was defeat ed at Westport now a suburb of Kan sas City, and started back south, my regiment was close on his heels until the remnant of his army crossed the Arkansas river at Weber falls, in the territory, a few miles above Fort Smith. Ark. Our horses were either all dead or played out. I will not say anything about the good things we had to eat for the last week before we got to Fort Smith, as I am sure that all the "boys in blue" that were on that terrible march will remember all about it as long as life lasts. After our regiment had rested a few days at Fort Smith, about December 1, my regiment started back north by the way of Fort Gibson. As otir com missary wns very scant, we all took every opportunity to hunt for what ever we could find to eat. We traveled the military road from Fort Gibson to Fort Scott, until we got to Horse creek there we cut across the prai rie to the Neosha river, a little east of where the town of Chetope is now. The Neosho river in all dry seasons has no water in its channel from near this place to its junction with the Spring river. I have traveled in its bed for eight or ten miles without seeing a drop of water. At this time there were two or three feet of water in the channel. We encamped in a grove of timber on the bank of the river on the other side of the river there was a heavy body of timber. My partner, Watts Roe, proposed that we wade across the river to hunt for something to eat. It is not a very pleasant un dertaking to wade a river 200 feet wide and three feet deep in the month of December to take a hunt after one has walked 25 or 30 miles. But when one is starring the case is altogether dif ferent. So we took our revolvers and carbines and waded the river. My! bow cold the water was. I can feel the chill yet. While we were putting on our clothes I noticed some peculiar locking tracks in the sand. After we had walked across the bend we saw a large hog and some small ones on the other side of the river, but so far away that we could not get a shot. We went a little higher up the river, where we found a low place in the bank, where a path led down to the water. Just above the path the bank was 25 or 80 feet high. On this bank was quite a thicket of black haws. We stopped to eat the haws. In a few minutes we heard the report of a gun out in the timber, next to the prairie. Immedi ately we saw a large black hog coming towards us. Watts Boe says: "Now, when I grunt you be ready to shoot." When the hog got within 50 or 80 yards of us, he turned sideways to us, mak ing for the path that led down to the water. Just then Roe made a noise, the hog stopped both our carbines cracked about the same time, but the hog loped ahead down the bank and plunged in the river, as if he had not been touched. When he had swam about half across the river, young Roe shot at him with his revolver. We could see the shot strike him between the shoul ders, on the back. Just then the hog turned over on his side, and the cur rent and his kicking turned him back to our side of the river. Just then the soldier that had fired the first shot came to us. When he saw the dead hog floating in the river, he said: "Boys, I will go in and pull him out if you will divide." Of course, we agreed to his terms, very gladly. He waded in to his neck before he could reach the hog. He pulled the hog to the shore, but the bank was wo steep we could not pull him out of the water, so we pulled him up the river to a better landing, where we could get him out of the water. I had often read stories about hunting the wild boar, but this was the first one I had ever seen. But my joy was complete when I discov ered that he was the long-lookcd-for "mule-footed hog." Then we knew the strange-looking tracks we had seen in the sand when we crossed the river were made by these hogs, and that there was a colony of the hogs running wild in the woods along the river, as there was no one living within miles of this place. 0STERHAUS AND HIS SHELL. An Expression of the German Gen* eral W.hlch Always Gave the Boys Amusement, "Gen. Osterhaus," said the major, in the Chicago Inter Ocean, "was even in his serious moods and his most passionate outbursts, a source of amusement to his men. He mastered easily the science of war, but he could not master the English language, and some of his characteristic expressions were as household words to the men of his division. When Gen. Leggett's division was formed fQr an attack on Little Kenesaw, the general in com mand sent Capt. Evans, of his staff, to Osterhaus to ask the latter to con centrate his artillery fire on Brush mountain, and make a diversion in our favor. "Capt. Evans found Osterhaus seat ed at a little table eating a very frugal meal. He saluted and said: 'Gen. Leggett's compliments to Gen. Oster haus. He directs me to say that he is about to attack the enemy's position on Little Kenesaw, and if you will con centrate your artillery fire on Brush mountain, the diversion will be of great assistance to him.' Osterhaus looked at Capt. Evans a full minute without speaking, and then said, ex plosively: 'You make my compliments to Gen. Leggett, und say as soon as I get through mit this little refection I have here, I will yoost make dem fellers hell smell.' And before Capt. Evans could report to his chief, Oster haus' guns were blazing away so ef fectively as to soon silence the ene my's batteries. "Osterhaus and Sigel were on op posite sides in the disturbances of 1848-49 in Germany, Osterhaus having a command in the Prussian army, and Sigel being conspicuous in the revo lutionary forces, and they had no lik- "MAKE MY COMPLIMENTS TO GEN. LEGGETT." ing for each other after they entered the union army in 1801. Knowing his sensitiveness as to Sigel, Osterhaus* staff officers were in the habit of drag ging Sigel's name into the conversa tion when they wanted to see the old German soldier at fcis worst in hand ling the English language. On one oc casion he burst out with: 'Sigel, Sigel, I hear noding but Sigel'3 fighting. What did he ever do yet? In a fight, I could kick Sigel mit de pants, with one hand tied behind me.' Where Jaclsson Was Baptise*. Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jeffer son ("Stonewall") Jackson were once stationed at Fort Hamilton, New York harbor, the former while it vrse being built. 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