=" | THE THREE HOMES, “Where it thy home?” I asked a child, W ko, in the morning air, Was twining flowers most sweet and wild In garlands for her hair. “My home," the happy heart replied, And smiled in childish glee, “Is on the sunny mountain side Where soft winds wander free, O1 blessings fell on artless youth, And all its rosy hours, When every world is joy and truth, And treasures live in lowers! “Where is thy home?’ I asked of one Who, bent with flushing face, To hear a warrior's tender tone In the wild wood’s secret place; Bhe spoke not, but her varying cheek, The tale might well impart; The home of her young spirit meek Was in a kindred heart. Ab! souls that well might soar above, To earth will finally cling, And build their hopes on human | That light and fragile thing! ve, “Whete is thy home, thou lonely man?" 1 asked a pilgrim grey, Who came, with furrowed brow, Slow musing on his way. and wan He paused, and with a solemn mien v pturned his holy eyes, “The land I seek thou ne'er hast seen, My homas is in the skies!” QO! blest—thrice blest! the heart 1 To whom such thoughts are That walks from worldly fetters fr Its only home in Heaven! SERRE LRN ee BACK AGAIN. The sea lashes the coast with its short and mountainous waves, Little white clouds pass very qaickly across the great He repded in a wheezy voice: *‘I'm just taking a rest in the shade, Why I ain't doing you any harm-—am I?” She went on: “*What are you spying around hike that before my house for?” The man answered: “I’m doing no harm to nobody. Awm’ta person allow- ed to sit on the edge of the public road #» As she could not find any answer to this observation, she went into the house again. The day passed by very slowly, About \noon the man disappeared. But he passed by again about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, They did not see him du- ring the evening, | Levesque camein about nightfall, They told Lim about it, He said: “Must be some sneak or villain,” And he went to bed without feeling the | least anxiety, while bis wife kept think- { at her with such queer-looking eyes, { When day came round there wasa | big wind, and, secing that he could not | take his boat out, the sailor began to | help his wife to mend the nets, { About 9 o'clock the oldest Martin—who had been sent for came running with adrighte and cried t: “Mamma, there fr again! gliri—a bread, face, od on ghost, she said to her husband: to him, Levesque, as a 11 taik And Levesque, a burly brick, with a rough, red beard, blue eyes with a piercing black pupil, and a strong nick, always encircled by a woolen scarf to protect him from cold winds and chilly rains at sea, arose very blue sky, swept on by the wind, like | birds; and the village, in the wrinkle of | tise little valley sloping toward the | 111, warms itself in the sun, | AL the very entrance to it stood the house of Martin Levesque, all alone by | t+ edge of the road, A humble fisher- | n.n’s dwelling it was, with walls of | clay, and thatched roof plumed with | iris lowers. It had a garden not big- | ger than a pocket handkerchief, in | which some onions, cabbages, parsnips and chervil were growing. A hedge | divided it from the road. oy wife, seated by the door, was busy re- | pairing the meshes of a great brown net, spread against the wall like an im- | mense cobweb, A girl of fourteen, seat- ed in a chair propped back so that she could lean against the fence, was occu- pied in mending underwear, already | overdarned and patched. Another girl, younger by a year, held in her arms a very young child, not able to speak or gesticulate, and two urchins, whose ages might be two and four years, sitting flat upon the ground, face to face, were | playing at gardening with their tlumsy little hands and throwing dirt into each other's eyes, | Nebady spoke. Oaly the child which | the young girl was trying to put to sleep cried continuously in a little sharp voice, A cat slept in the window, and | at the foot of the wall extended a veri- | table cushion of white gillyflowers, about which buzzed a whole tribe of | bees, All of a sudden the girl sewing near the gate cried out: “Mamma!” The mother answered: “What is it?” “Here he : The whole family had be HLeAsy gince carly morning because of a wan who bad kept prowling about the house —an old man who looked like a beggar. They first saw him while they were go- ing to the boat house to see father off. He was then sitting by the ditch, di- | rectly in front of the door. When they came back from the beach he was still there, looking at the house, He seemed sick and very miserable, He had not budged for more than an hour; then, finding that he was being | watched Like a malefactor, be had risen | to his feet and gone away, dragging his legs heavily as he walked, But after awhile the girls saw him coming back, walking with the same glow and weary step, and be sat down | again—this time a litte further off— | and kept watching them, i Tho mother and her girls began feel afraid. The mother was particulars ly worried because she was naturally timid, and then her husband Levesque, would not return until nightfall. Her husband’s real name was Leves- que, and hers Martin; and the neighbors called them the Martin-Levesque folks. This was because she had first married a sailor named Martin, who used to go to Newfoundland every year to engage | im the cod fisheries, After two years of married fife she had a daughter growing up, and was | shortly to become a mother again when | the vessel that her husband had shipped onthe Deux-Seurs, a Dieppe three. master—disappeared. No news was ever heard of her; none | of ber crew ever returned, so it was generally believed that she had gone down with all hands, La Martin, as folks called her, waited for her husband ten long years, raising her children with the greatest difficulty, and then, asshe was known to be & good industrious woman, Levesque, a fisherman of the place and a widower with one son, asked ber to marry him, She accepted his proposal, and had two more children by him within three years. ; They lived with difficulty by the hard- est work. Bread was dear and meat was almost an unknown luxury in their cottage. Sometimes during the winter im the stormy weather they would get beavily in debt to the baker, Still the children were wonderfully healthy. Folks used to say: “They're pe ~the Levesques. La Martin ’s a gre worker, and there’s nobody ean Levesque fishing.” The girl at the continued: “Looks as if he knew us, P’raps it’s Sone beggar from Epreville or Ause- But the mother could not be mistaken. No, no, it was nobody from that part of the country, sure! -— he potiatned matioujesn ae a stake eyes Jostiskels fixed on the tation of Martin. Levesque La Martin Sutomg Tutus at ving courage, spade and went out in front What do" you want there?! she Poy Ala We rey to quietly and walked directly to prowler. And the twe began to The mother and the children watched them from the d All of a sudden the stranger rose and followed Levesque toward house, up had anything to eat for two days.” And they both entered the cottage, followed by the mother and her child- to eat, keeping his head down, as if to avoid being looked at, The woman standing near him, watched him keenly, and the two tall daughters, the Martin girls against the door-posts—one of him with curious eyes; and the two lit- of the pot stranger. Levesque took the fire-place, stopped playing with in order to contemplate the a chair, and sitting good ways off?” **I have come from Cette.’ “On foot—just like you are?” “Yes, on foot. When one hasn’t the means, one has to walk.” “Then where are you going to?” “Going bere,’ “Know any folks here?" “Guess so.” They stopped talking. ly, hungry as he was, He ate slow- He had a worn face hollows —and seemed to great deal, Levesque roughly asked him: is your name?" He replied without “My name’s Martin.” A hiver passed through mother, took one long step for- ward, as if co get a closer view of the tramp, and remained standing in front of him, ber arms hanging lifelessly by her sides, her mouth opened as if to cry out, Nobody said a word, resumed, ‘*Are you from this place?” He answered: wrinkled, full of have suffered a “What fe diuing his eyes, strange s the She in a to be remained fixed, mixed together gaze so motionless that it seemex interlocked, And then in a voice wholly changed, iow and trembiing she asked: *‘Is that i, my husband?" He articulated slowly: me.’ He did not move, and continued munch his bread. Levesque, more it “Yes, it's ¥ to surprised than Martin.”> The other replied simply: “Yes, it's me.” And the second hus. band then asked: **Where on earth did did you come from?” The first replied: “Frem the African coast. We foun- dered in a shoal, Three of us were saved —Picard and Vatinel, and me, And then we were taken by the sava- ges, who kept us twelve years, Picard’s It was an English traveler passing through who saved me and took me with him to Cette, And here | am.” La Martin was crying, with her apron lifted to her face, Levesque muttered: ‘What will we do now?” “Martin asked: “It’s you is her hus- band now?” Levesque answered: ‘‘Yes.” They looked at each other and re- mained silent, Then Martin, looking at the children standing in a ring around him, nodded his head toward the two tall girls and asked: “They are mine?” Levesque replied: “Yes,” He did not get up; did not kiss them; only observed: ‘‘Good God! how big they have grown!” Levesque reiterated: “What am I to do now?" Martin equally puzzled could not tell, Finally said: **Me, I'll ix matters the way you like.. I don’t want to do you no wrong, Still, it's a bad fix anyhow, when one thinks about the house, I've two children; you've three; each one can have his own. The mother—is she yours or is she mine? I'll agree to any- thing you want; but the house-—that's mine, L— my father left it to we, and because she’s got papers at the no. ’s to prove it.” Martin was still tle sobs she hid behind the of her apron, The two tall drawn near and were staring at their father. He had screamed to the tramp, finished eating and exclaimed In bis turn: “What am I to do now?” A sudden idea came to Levesque: “Gio see the priesty-he'll tell.” Martin arose, and as he approached his wife she flung herself sobbing upon his breast. ‘My husband, it's youl Martin, my poor Martin, it's you!” And she hugged him tightly, thrilled all suddenly by the memory of other days—by a great shock of souvenirs that recalled to her the days of her own twenty summers and her first ove. Martin himself affected kissed her white cap. The two children in the fire-place began to howl simultaneously upon hearing the mother cry, and the baby in the arms of the second Martin Levesque stood there waiting, ‘Come,’ he said, “We've got to settle the mat- ter,” Martin separated from his wife, and as he stood looking at his two daugh- ters the mother said to them: *“Can’t you kiss your father?” little afraid, And he kissed them one after the other ont both cheeks loud peasant’s kiss. On stranger draw near, the baby serea S10 Then the two men went ont As they were about to pass de Commerce Levesque asked, we take a drink!” “I'm willing,” declared Mar 3 Lin. yacant bar-room, and Levesque cried: “Oh! Chicot—bring two brandies; the good stuff you know. This is Martin, who's come back—Martin you know, of Of the Deux-Sooeu, who was lost.” And the barkeeper, with three glasses in one hand and a decanter in another approached--stout, sanguine, puffed up with fat, and observed very quietly: “Well, 80 you're back again, Martin?” Martin answered: *['m back again.” — —.. The Carlous Palm Crab, “They have a curious crab in the continued the skipper, the palm crab. The was one night to take look at his pigs that were being fattened I said certainly, and we it visiting a friend there, anc Yes, these palm crabs, They were them weighed a matter of twelve pounds, others five and six. They were looked Nike half If you have ever seen a hermit crab out of its shell, try with its tail covered 51 Lue as large as anything you ever saw. of short balrs, bristles and feelers. and “When I first saw one it ren me of these fantastic figures t out of boxes when you raise tue The palm crabs are found vari vy iys and to nuts they eat, the Malays make a regu- which tl them into mats and various articles of Y ou might wonder how they climb m off with their Le trees and twist ther in 1 ¥ ¢ : « Go the same with your reciate the app strength é nut | UTOUD down, ften dropped, the crab wi It then tears off the husk AWS, times LL nor it OE is wit IWAys cominen Lin Sometimes they break the shell bammering it on a rock, “This friend of mine told me about crab. when a lot of natives were off on a crab hunt, one of them nearly had his ears torn off. They went for them at night, and as one of the men took hold of a linb, or branch, of a cocoanut to give t a shake, a big crab that happened sone the it fo be and nearly lifted him off the ground, and would have torn his ear off if some oue had not killed the brute with They are very five eating, and here, or any other game. China great place for native patent is medicines cures is made out of a fossil crab that powder, me.’ —— fi ——— His First Mirror, In the raftsmen, who arrive in Chat- tanooga b the East Ternessee mountaineer, with all his green characteris{jcs, his cour- age, integrity, ignorance and crudeness, Saturday last, a raftsman, fresh from the mountains, was coming up Market street at a rapid rate, 6 wore the typical yellovy jeans of Lis locality and carried a huge mountain staff, As he passed Flicker’s jewelry houss he hap- pened to glance into the store and saw his body reflected in the large mirror in the rear of the storeroom, He had never seen a mirror béfore, and recog- nized a familiar object in the figure and supposed it was one of his friends, He glanced a gecond time, his features broadened into a smile of recognition, and 8 htening up he gazed intently at the reflection in the mirror and ex. claimed: **Wait a minit, I'll be thar, Bill,’ and the same instant be hurried around the store to meet his Juppased freind, He found no one, and looked lexed, He returned to the ooked back, and on seeing the figure again the frown lett his face, and, shaking his fist at the fgure, he exclaimed: “Walt for me, Bill; I'll come right away!” and ran around the corner again as quickly ashecould., He searched for several minutes, and, on to find his friend, returned to look! note Perplexed than He pin furtively into the shook his head and continued up imaginary friend, i It was Sunday. Mr. Skinner was very tired, and thought he would lie down on the sofa in the back parlor and rest, People never learn by experience, and he was 10 exception to the common rule, He lay down, and crossed his feet with a parade hardly justifiable in and saw him. “If Iever heard of the li.el down on that new sofa with on, and oh my goodness! you that lace tidy that 1 had dos week, man I ever saw in my life.” Mr. Skinner got up, and smoothed out the tidy and i arranged it. Lying + up last who had no mtention of using slang. | “1 did suppose you had more sense,” “I used to have,” said Mr, Skinner, good-naturedly. *“Ya-a-a-ah, | | take a nap if I could find a place to drop { down, Ya-a-a-ah.” | *“*You had better read said Mrs, Skinner, She was a good, un comfortable woman, 80 clean and neat and orderly that she made her family wretched with her domestic drill. Something called Mrs, Skinne: aud when she was gone al down, when a and she bounded from { if it had been a cannon ball. Yes, it was just as she had feared; her husband had gone stairs, and found him stretched out in bed on top of a white counterpane, his grizzly-gray - nr 2:%:1 yOUTL B ie, off came she uy up pillow-sham, with these words embroi- dered in the center: “Sleep, sweet, be- loved!” Ile was not only as'eep, but soporing, with a look of content on his wide-open mouth, “Jr0-t S-k-i-nn-erl” BWeal have done credit to a gymnist, and staring at the fearful hollow in the bed and the wrinkled dent in the pillow sham, very foolish, **Alice, haven't 1 a place | where I can lay my head?” “Don’t talk nonsense,’ said Lis wife, sharply. **The idea of a sober man go- ing to bed with his boots on.” “Would you rather I'd get— Te "” sense;” she said, “If you must sleep lounge down in the Kitchen; no one will disturb you there. ungraciously-*'1 can take off the quilt, and the shams, and let you have your nap here, though it's wicked, that’s what it is, to sleep Sunday, it's a bad example to set t and the children, Lot “But I am =o husband: “my head and 1 cannot keep mv ey “Haziness! sheer 1, fe in a sharp tone, Mr. Skinner vent sloppy.’ w iown 1... H 1t words his wife », that there was rest it she was picking up the embroidery ou the misused sham with a pin, and did not heed him, When | she went down stairs he was not in sight, ppral him say for the Wenry. supper, and thought no moreabout him, She was a distinguished woman; dis- tinguished in the town where she lived as being the cleaest housekeeper in it. | No girl could be found neat enough to with ber; all mottoes in her house were to the effect thet cleanliness is akin to godliness, She dusted every ¢ of furniture in the house times every day, she scrubbed the sIYETAl 80 ofien she scrubbed so clean that at last scrubbed through the Kitehen floor i the cellar and was nearly lost to community. vA nun the her and dirt. The front parlor was never opened to the family, and althogh Mr Skingper bad furnished it he had never sat down in it a momentsinee, a tomb, After it had been opened to company for an afternoon, the children went round their throats and drank ginger tea, It was the handsom- est parlor in the community, too, and had the family pictures amd their mar- riage certificate fmamed acd hung up there, When dinner was ready—and it vas ren where their father was. They did not know, This seemed strange; she questioned them closely, but they had not seen which way he went when he passed through the room. ner never went oul on Sundays without “He said he was going where he'd Skinner, “Well, we won't walt dinner for him,’ said his wife, and they sat down to eat, But a spell seemed to have fallen upon fhem, and when the dinner was over and cleared away, and they were in the gitting-room with their books, there was a sense of d loss, and Mrs, Skinner sat with the Bible open on her lap and wondered why he had gone out and remembered that be looked queer, It was in consonance with her habits of living that she got up in the middle of these speculations to catch a wander- ing and belated fly and induce him to be annihilated. “Strange!” she sald, as it grew dark. “11 take the children and go down to his mother’s and see if he is there, and if he is, I'll just give him a plece of my mind.” But he was not there, and his mother said Lot had looked badly the last time she saw him, and she thought he seemed Hoitied; hoped it wasn’t business trou: les, No, it wasn’t business troubles; Mis, Skinner knew that, and she began to wonder if she had clean d her husband out of his mind. It came over her with sudden force that she had been dri him from pillar to post at ratiroad and at the end a broom or d brush, wr sane, Horrible thought! He might have committed suicide, She harried home with the children. All was gloom. She went to his bureau to look for his razor, It was the only firearms he possessed—Iit was gonel Then Mrs Skinner broke down and cried, and the children cried, and it was indeed, a scene of desolation, when sud- “I overslept myself.” he said, in a wife, *‘and the dinner is all eaten up, but 1’ll fix up something nice,” and she How much of it Mr. Skinner ever knew it is impossible to say, but there was aa immediate and satisfactory delighted him. He could lie down any- where when he was tired, and his wife would throw a shawl over him, and leave him in peace, He has even been seen to lie down on the sofa in the par- lor where he took his Rip Van Winkle sleep, and nobody disturbed hi Mrs. was at heart a woman of sense, and when she realized that one hair of LiY-Eray head was worth mo pLIOW thie Wi ut the One away in t y i. SAINS In inst a demented assortment And they are, re in any zool ? HOW. Banking on Faith, The President of down town, New York, wh amount to upwards of twenty millions, one of the largest we deposits the Manhatten Company seemed to be ‘“1t is impossible.” sald be, repose confidence in some one, can not set a spy to watch his actions, 1 take the securities in my vaults on That they originally came in I evidence of my books, and they are still here I presume, fo is allowed access to them unles 3 wr 33 Oi have the that no one he is an employe of tried pr “Then,” said the reporter, employe of tried probity should subst tute packages of brown paper of same size and appearance as the pack- age of genuin when wou “Not until for use, and were opened,”’ the President. “That might not be for years? asked. “Possibly not for years.” “if the package should be altogether, when would you learn o ities that you have, 1 know of the change?” were called answered Sends § f bent the securities we Ace Not until our regular examinationsof securities, which is done ye banks four times a year, sowe me once, and some pot all, or Bank Examiner visits us. M learn of trot } You must posable for u Or eve ry wees packages, and We do not have er and we mi el” “What, ‘Mere side of { the tally “Youd 0 = # wx 9 when the OURS 3 4 Li . on i the wer milli IONS DAY 1 youl uree that much?” $1 d« have » not Ki hie attainable.” Gon them. Care for Love, Auntie Susan Molay J fortune teller whose pecull is dealing with Jove affalss, “What do vou fortune-tellers consider te to love?’ inquired a reporter of her. “Dar’s a heap will beetle, ‘eross’ ob ‘em. Ants’ cure it, and'so will Three hairs ob a donkey will egus de mixin’ ob aken from de act like a to die afterward a cat indicates good luck to a woman ef her face over her ears, she will have “What are the signs of tinued the reporter “If a swallow builds on de house it shows dat sum person in de buildin’ is goin’ to mrrry befe’ fall, Mo meet a sow with a litter or pigs shows dat de brunette in de family are in love, jess as when you sce pigs carry straws in dar moufs it shows datit’s to rain, Pigsshew a heap ob things, In dar foah feet isa hole which you kin see when de pig am dead and the hair is cut off. Sum say dat’s where de devil went out, ‘cordin’ to the parable. De number of little rings roun’ dem holes will tell yer how many times you will fall in love durin’ yo' mortal life. Another sign is dat ef a white pigeon settles on de chimney it shews dat you will marrv a blonde, but if you meet two magpies flyin’ to. gether she'll die befo' the marriage cere- mony comes off. Ef a girl doan’ wash her hands after milkin’ her man will be sure to go back on her, an’ ef a crow croaks an odd number of times lookout fur trouble in yoah brother's family, Ef you doan’ know jes de condishun of yoah sweetheart’s mind toward an’ you ask de advice of aman ridin’ on a ple. bald horse, you ken be sure dat de an- swer will be kerrect. 1t is unlucky for a bridegroom (o keep or kill a robin. Ef a woman wears a bouquet of diamonds it 18 a snare sign dat she is in love, ‘cause de diamond am an emblem of Jove and innocence, an-—'' but Auat Melay's volubility was broken short by the acci. dental dropping of the vial contain the alcholized tarantula on the floor, the smashing of the glass into a thousand mA MII IN ROH. People would rather be insulted than be unperoeived, : | Biting Ball in War Paint, a Buffalo Bill, accompanied by Sitting Bull and 15 Indians, called at the War | Department recently, and paid their re- | spects to General Sheridan and Adijt, | Gen, Drum, The Indians wore their | war costume. Their faces were embel- | lished with red and yellow paint, and | on their heads they wore immense sin- i gle feathers, Biting Bull’s head was {| adorned by a number of feathers of | large size, In Gen, Sheridan’s room { but little conversation was indulged in. Sitting Bull gave an occasional grunt when spoken to by an Indian compan fon. He paid but little attention to his | surroundings. The other Indians were interested in pictures of Indian life that adorned the walls. They paid spe- | e1al attention to the buffalo scene and | calling the attention of each other to it, | talked and laughed. The Indians left the room in single file and passed about 100 War Depart- ment clerks who stood in the corridors, The visit to Gen, Drum was brief only a formal introduction taking place Before leaving the State, War Navy Department building the party visited the State Department lig brary and examined the original copy of the Declaration of Independence and other relics, The party next pa Mae need wels 03 retary Bayard, who received them Ly rest The President re- y in the library where place, but Sitting Bull | ceived the com a general hands | there were no | said however, was delighted { with his trip east wished he had seen all this when he was a boy, At the Interior Department Secretary Lamar and Indian Commissioner Atkins shook hands all around, and had a short con- | versation with the party. Sitting Bull expected t | pow wow with the Great i 3 King Ook speeches, y have quite a Father, and | was disgruntled by the brevity of the He went out with a sullen { air, and as he passed down the stars he | Interview, | said: ‘Ugh; no good,’ : ‘But,’ explained the interpreter, | Great Father 18 very busy and cannot {find time, Hundreds of men vit hrs Os Wil come and stay months, and cannot he vie grunted the old chief; *whits man one great fool. dn——————————— Grindstones, ‘There are {wo mistaken ideas about grindstones in the public mind,’ said a dealer in those articles, whose place was visited by a reporter. ‘One is that they are going out of use, and the other that they explode. Instead of their going out of use, ry is the fact, for more are used now than ever before, Why is t Because of improved cut- ting machinery that requires the aid of grindstones to kee: tion. As for the x read about every once in a while, t a'l nonsense, They do not explode, But they break, them- selves about ¢ jut this is doe frat $1 . 4 just the contra iia daisy do attering wrongly, not to anything « ature about them.’ of the asked, sive Where do most ere 00 ost ' Was anon and (Germany IO ANG eérmany ca Th. a 3 1 work —for flat st cutlery. 1 3} 10 people aska and Ca y Central Am The size most generally sold with a three to | ¥13 3 nch diameter 1 Space, ‘What do grindstones cost?’ ‘The smallest is a three-inch diame . 2 inches thick, A single one of these sts 30 cents and $1.75 a dozen. One ches in diameter, 2 inches thick, One 30 inches in diam- ur inches thick, costs $3.50. One hes in diameter, 7 inches thick, A grindstone 48 inches inches thick, which is regular lists, costs 8 141 cenis, 3 18 50, liameter, 8 iaigest in Lhe Worry over Trifles, Hundreds of women, in America are wearing themselves out, body and soul, by painfal intensity of regarding trifles, | They call it good housekeeping, and | they even fancy themselves in some way holy martyrs to the effort to save their husband's income from waste and to make the home machinery rua on smooth wheels. Very few are the bus. bands, however, who would not gladly purchase health and ease for their wives and peace for themselves at the price of a few almost unnoticed irregulartites in the household, The burden of this un- philosophical way of looking at life can not, however, be thrown exclusively upon the shoulders of the gentler sex, Who does not know irascible or nervous men that make their own existence and the lives of all around them miserable burdens by precisely the same sort of exaggeration—men who fume over the delinquenciés of the untamable office boy, fret at the delay of even an unime ee
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