HOMER, The place rides up to the palace gates And his eyes with tears are dim, For ae thinks of the beggar maiden sweet Who never may wed with him. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small, And there's many a splendid palace That's never a home at all, The yeoman comes to his little cot With a song when day is done, For his dearie is standing in the door And his children to meet him run. For home is where tho heart is, In dwelling great or small, And there's many a stately mansion That's never a home at all, Could I but live with my own sweetheart In a hut with sanded floor, I'd be richer far than a loveless man With fame and a golden store, For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small, And a cottage lighted by lovelight Is the dearest home of all, ~(Gieorge Horton, in Chicago Herald. ec —— - 5 r TERRIBLY ACCUSED. oc. HARBAUGH. HRREE more pies went last might. This is getting little provoking,’ | and Aunt Jessamine | sat down and looked | ut Jack mendin ness in of the room. " “Bears! ¢ some har- one corae: said Jack, without took- | 1" mg up. “I tell you, mother, the varmints are gittin’ EF St too numerous me, and we'll have to Jock the larder o' nights if we want keep things in safety there.” “It ain't bears—not of the kind that walk on four legs,” determinedly replied Aunt Jessamine. *‘I tell you, Jack, it's the other kind, and, while I name one, I believe I could, if I would, you where the pies go.” “Don’t suspicious, m watch to-morrow night.” “Oh, he's not coming back that soon. I heard him that he wouldn't be back for a week.” “Then you suspect some onel” “I do.” At that moment the door opened and Rachel came in, a sweet backwoods girl, the belle of the settlement and the fa- vorite of all She stopped at the door and swept the room with her blue eves which finally settled her mothe whose perturbed countenance seemed tell her that something was wrong. “What's the matter, asked, gently. “Three m the three I baked for the preacher who will be here to-morrow.” “I thought some one was in the larder Jast bt, for when I went in 8go there were crumbs “wy § 8, parent re have be ‘Bears are cute animals—' to tell be on Tr tn te “wat A 3 mosaeri sae ire pi 1 es went last night a while on the floor" re’s ag Lie » ate them there.th yom to believe this, n very hungry.” ’ “Bears?” and Aunt Jessamine glanced at Jack, at which she did not seem to cat “You remember that Billy saw tracks down in the ravine and that the Wilson girls were chased by a bear in the berry patch last week. I shouldn't be sur prised it bears had found out your larder—"" : “I think they have. There, we won't argue this question any longer,” and Aunt Jessamine rose and swept out of out whose lips lurked a smile LB ] { who was | mother anything in her present state of mind, Bears visit larders and play havoc there, and a feast of pumpkin pies would tempt them. But I'll write Josh not to come to see me till 1 sengl for | him, for I don't want him to mother very soon.” Rachel did that that very day. In the solitude of hier little chamber she wrote meet | its pegs and turned “The bear! the bear! Heaven help us all!” and Parson Linton discovered that he was safer inside than at the door, and he rushed back to be passed by Rachel, who snatched Jack's rifle from again toward the | yard, a letter to her sweetheart, telling him | that he might postpone his regular visit for a fortnight, and ended by saying that she would explain all when they met again, This letter she entrusted to her brother Jack, who went to town es. As she crossed the threshold she saw the black form of the bear lumbering off toward the ravine, and taking deliberate | aim, she sent a bullet after him which | mother” pecially to post it, and Rachel felt that ! she had done her duty. In anticipation of the traveling par son's visit, more pies were baked and closely guarded. they were set before him, and received the praise they so well deserved. “You never have trouble with your pies, Mrs. Palmer,” said the shepherd of the backwoods flock, as he helped him- self to « second piece. *‘Yes, but we have, Brother Linton. We miss them from the larder before we are ready to eat them. I regret to say that we have some unregenerate people {| “You must recollect When the parson came | { Mrs. Palmer, { some figure of Josh came ov m this neighborhood who are so fond of | pumpkin pies that they are not particu- lar where they find them when they are hungry,” and Aunt Jessamine glanced at Rachel, who blushed, aud for a mo- ment hung her head. “I would like to have these people come under the droppings ol the sanctu- ary,” replied the parson; but the next moment he was surprised at Rachel's re- marks. “You would want a gun to deal with them, I'm thinking," said the girl, “You can't convert a soft words and —"" ‘‘Rachie, Rachie, bear with what are you say~ | ing?’ broke in Aunt Jessamine. for | no | | Across the the room leaving Rachel to look at Jack | | for an explanation. “Do you know whom she suspicions? asked Jack, stopping in his work and fixing his eyes on his bandsome sister. “‘Mother is of the opinion that Josh ate the pies.” In an instant the face of the backwoods beauty colored and she gave uttersace to a cry of astonishment, ‘Impossible, Jack! can't have such a terrible suspicion. It is nonsense,’ and then she laughed, but presently con tinued ; “It is a good joke on Josh, anyhow, but I don’t like mother's suspicion. What if it should get abroad -." “Which it is quite likely to do unless we disabuse mother’s mind of it, really believes that Josh, your beau, stole into the outhouse and ate the pies Strange to say pies have vanished on the nights of his visits; I have noticed that She She tended a raid, and eager Accustomed to obey her mother, the fair girl subsided and in a little while had passed from the house, leaving the parson and his host to continue the sub. ject they were on. Night seemed to come soon after that The long, soft autumn shadows over the farm house and Rachel lighted the lamp and carried it to the sitting room where the parson was dis cussing the needs of his flock. As for Rachel, she retired to her room and window, meal, sto:e \e in the gable sat at the clearing in front of the house lay the shadows of night; but by bye the silvery disk of the moon ap- peared over the horizons rim. It wasa sight and one which had hundred times from that very and now she watched it as it beauty and the whole 1 of silver in the light and beautiful she seen a window, @ seemed to grow in earth became a be of the moon. All at ground toward the ravine sumet came forward, and Ra it grew larger. ace hing that hel watched it as Now and then it stopped and for some in outitne for her 1nsp y watched it, it was an animal, Palmer sprang i, gazed at the iy § to start the L seemed irom 4] showing the hugh haul P girl ran 10 a corner and it a rifle, which she knew how ieadly effect. back one, and for a moment a with he came to the window Was of d Sapp 0 : ntment took possesi) feared she had missed But suddenly the animal came into view again, and this time in the vicinity of the spring-house, where the larder was. Rachel looked to the priming gun and again the bear vanished. was now almost certain the prowler in to encounter him and bring his schemes to naught, she slipped downstairs aad out into the and si her opportunity. of the She ym the house she could hear the voice of Parson Linton in conversation in the little parlor, and thought of Jack, who was paying his As she passed fro ! nightly visit to town three miles AWAY. | AD XIOUS eyes. Ihe backwoods beauty stopped near the spring-house and watched it with The door was reached by a descent of several steps, and it was common to fasten it with a chain, which could be unloosed without much trouble “Why, the door is open!” exclaimed tachel as she neared the spring-house and ventured to look down the steps { “Islipped the chain over the stapie with myself, Rachie, and, as rwother has heard | that Josh is a good hand at a feast, you should not blame her so very much.” “But he didn't eat them, no, he never went to the larder, and all this talk about his eating the pies is unjust.” “Of course, it is. I don't believe Josh would do that, but the pies have | vanished ; you will admit this, Mother Is convinced that he is the deprecator | and and" Rachel, unable to control herself, had | felt an involuntary thrill, fled from the room and Jack went back | to his task, “It's queer,” he mid to himself, “Don’t I know that Josh likes pies, es- pecially pumpkin pies like mother bakes, sod there is just the slightest doubt in | my mind that he didn’t come back after | he bade Rachie good-night and tackled | the ones in the larder.” Meanwhile Rachel Palmer was walk. ing across the meadow toward the ravine | that ran through the farm some distance from the house. It was a rich autumn day and the sun was painting the west with his most glowing colors, Bhe was still indignant, and now and then her white bands shut, and her eyes filled with a look which told the feeling Sugting at her heart, made her way down the ravine tll she came to a cwok, the banks of which were clayey and soft. “Here my own hands; but it is off now.” The next moment a noise startled lachel nnd she fell back a pace, for it seemed to come from the spring house. Posting herself, however, with termined face, she waited for other proof that the larder was being attacked at that moment, and it was not long de. layed, | taken; it was the other checked his eareer and stretched him on the leaves dead. “Therel I guess you're satisfied now, said Rachel, when the larder had been examined and the remains of two pies had been found on the floor. that bears as well as men can tell good baking when they see it. I think you ought to apologize to Josh.” “Bat I named no names,” “I didn't pies; but to dida't know persisted that the who CisQ Josh truth, would SAY ite the tell Rachie, I do it.” Three days later when the tall, hand- the clear. ing it was met at the gate by into the house got as the two came to be done watched wedding guess Ws the here Jessamine, she Aunt couple. “There'll be a before he goes back, and to please Rachie I'll apologize.” And Josh had with Aunt Jessamine, she his hones y and said : “I beg your pardon, Mr. Jobuson, } thought you ate the pies, but I was mis- '—Yaukee when shaken hands looked up to t fac bear! | Blade. resolute | A Feathered Wiater Friend. A writer in the Contributors’ Club in the February Atlantic writes pleasantly | of the chickadee as a winter friend: { MAY there appeared on the Set the bid- How he helps himself to the tinie forth a feast of suet on ll, and he will 1 no window sill, and partake of it. lit daintily ned r 10 come morsels, never bill witl crammin grossa mouthfuls as do the board, the nuthatch an They, woodpecker! guests, doubdtiu ance, even, pr we themseives as while he, low, crumbs win repast, pecking leisurely satisfaction. You expect to see him swept from your sight by the gusty blast, but he holds bravely to his iffled in epirit | his fierce his with half like a thistie.-down Asdaiiant ariness and desolatio days, his cheery the frosty air, and of the suow | the | th it #4 2a iil Dearien alls sky a. veil from Ww I — Harp. The Tuneful Harp playing is again in vogue. Fash. ionable young women are hanging their banjoes on the willow tree; they are tak. ing lessons in harp manipulation. The light airs of the instrument so long held sacred are forgotten in the deeper and more dignified notes of the harp. We suspect that the decorative qualities of | the barp have considerable to do with this revival of that ancient instrument. A barp iss pretty thing. A curiously carved cabinet from Venice or an oddly fashioned table from France caunot be more effective in a drawing room, The harp has a noble ancestry. Skill in bringing forth music from its chords won praise and honor in the day of King David. Kings and Queens have enjoyed its music through hundreds of years. Its addition to the orchestra, however, does not date back many years. A Chicago musician has made a study of ths instru. ment, and he says its possibilities are not { yet fully understood; that the semitones | would not recognize the de. | if the harp can be regulated with a nicety heretofore unknown, No doubt Tannhauser and Orpheus harp if they were to see it, with the Chicago modifi- cations, standing in & white and gold parlor and responding to the graceful touch of a Michigan avenue belle's sien. | der Angers, Indianapolis News, | All at once tho huge, dark figure of | something came out of the spring house and as it rose in front of the girl, she for it was a bear and he was standing on his hiader feet as if masquerading as a maa. In all her life she had nevir seen bear of suck proportions. He looked as tall as Jack, and as he tottered up the steps and the next moment stood in the moonlight a splendid target for Rachel's rifle, ho was seen to have a face ludie- rously daubed with the sweets of the spring house. Rachel summoned her nerve to her as. sistance and leveled the rifle at the in. vader, At that moment she heard a door be. hind her open, and her mother's voice mag out: “Rachie, Rachie, where are youl!" The answer was tho clear, ringing re. port of the family rifle, and there tot. tered from the fair girl an animal, which dro upon all fours, only to fall to the ground and roll over in his ¥. + Palmer stood spell. in the door, and behind her was visible the | | EE —— ee — Novel Decoration for a Room. A novel plan for the decoration of an mvalid's room has been successfully ear. ried out in a house in New York City. The upper floor, which was not par- titioned ofl into rooms or finished with a plaster ceiling, is fitted up to resemble "he upper deck of a river steamboat, Some round holes are placed in a slight curve a short distance from the front { and back windows, and these uprights support horizontal rods on which cur. tains are hung, by rings, allowing light or securing darkness, sceording to the mood of the luvalid, On the walls are window su ng frames of light oak, and the wall is painted to suggest wood. work, The wooden rafters overhead are painted in gray and blue, soft blue mellowed with yellow ochre, and Indian red, and “‘flatted” with a little, very little, zine white, not white lead. In the onken frames, pictures with a large pro- portion of sky are fitted, and are changed four times a year. In deep win. ter the pictures are of South American sconery ; in spring, they are all Italian FISHING ON THE LAKES, AN IMPORTANT WINTER INDUS- TRY OF THE WEST, The Fish Supply tor Eight Great | States — The Kind of Boats and Nets Used in the Business, EW of the distinctly Weslern | industries are more interesting or of greater public importance c than the fisheries of the great lakes. The charming blue of the waters, their freshness, the beauty of the species of fish taken aud the methods employed render them very picturesque ns well, | From the depths of these great seas ure taken tens of thousands of tons of fish every year, and the food supply of at least eigut Btates ic vastly richer and better for it. Lake whitefish, pike find a weicom pla trout and co in their season on the menus of hotels throughout the North, and caviar 18 manufactured of such quality and quantity that not only the is supplied in main, but a considerable amount is ported to Germ ny and other Ei countries, home demand the Each lake has a distinct its fisheries. Whitefish are the great fish of Lake Superior, lake trout of Huron and Michigan, and herring and blue pike of Erie. All species are found in all the and a quantity cach is taken in every one them, but the predominant species caught gives in- dividuality and character to the In size of catch Erie Michigan second, Huron a ciose t and Superior fourth. Lake Erie alone yields about twenty-hve thousand tons of fish annually, two-fifths of which is lake herring, a smaller species of the white. foot in length and a pound in weight, but riva J 1 $4 td lakes, considerable ol § LE whole ranks first, with third fish family that rarely exceeds a the whitefish itself in besuty of scale of on its silvery sides when taken from the Blue prie r the col the mother-of-pearl effects COM prises or of It bladders ising] the early days esteemed, but sm cured in large quantities an More Lake sLIp pe i i towns of Western 1 of Ohi ana thar Erie is on svivania Wi) juarter i zen Darre fre i Pp ye it ing, but a ail the Osh named he g used in deep water, exceeds | pound } profitable and impossible, and usually is not twenty-five feet. The gill net is six feet wide, u single sheet of varying in openness with the size of fis to be ‘taken. Each long, and they are set together in gas of forty to sixty nets. Thus each stretch tween three and four mi {ll net i eet the employed in a greater depth than about meshe LN ut 300 feet Is AlM nie in 5 Jy means of floats on one side and sink ers on the other it takes an upright posi. tion on the bottom of the lake, where it is anchored and its place marked by buoys and little flags at the surface, The fish in swimming up or down the | strike this mazy stretch of twine, push through it if they can, and thore that are too large to pass through are caught bs the gills and held, because if the net hours the fish is drowned and will then soon become worthless, Not infre. quently in November the storms prevent a visit to the nets for several often when they are lifted circumstances there are hundreds of dead and bloated fish in them. aK It is a cruel method pot lifted 1] ina few days, and under such 8 The pound vet is a mich more humane contrivance, It takes the fish alive and ! keeps them so until the fishermen come to remove them, It was first intro duced on the lakes about 1850, and is the familar net of Connecticut fisher. men, It has three parts—lesders, fun- nel or heart and bowl or pot. The fish strike the leaders, and il too large to poms through its meshes turn aside and ollow along to the fuunel, and thence | through it nto the bowl, from which | they rarely escape, Lifting & pound net | consist, accordingly, of simply raising the bowl and scooping the fish from it | into the boat, while the whole zill net must be taken up and changed and washed every time it ia visited, A few years ago the fishing tug was a rarity, The dingy and pound-not mil boat were almost universal. But with the development of the industry tho em. i ployment of the steam tug of from five | ta twenty tons burden came in rapidly. | A score of them are now in the business in Erie, Penn., nearly as many in Cleve. land, and many more in Sandusky. They will soon about entirely supplant the sailboat, as steam is more certain than the fickle wind, and getting fish to mar. ket Jeom y is quite as important as oy Lake Erie §s now being ) . “ caaracter in | ~ the average 18 probably somewhat under half that much. This is due quite es much to the larger number of nets as to failing supply-perhaps almost wholly to the former. Fish culture is replen- ishing in a measure the drain caused by the enormous annual catch, and more may justly be expected of it a few years henge, —-New York Advertiser. EE — cc ars— Philadelphia has 130,694 pupils in her | public schools, In battle only one ball out of eighty. | five takes effect, The British Muscam contains the first | envelope ever made. Now York any other city ity has fewer alleys y in the world The Egyptians kneaded their bread in + wooden bow! with their feet. with petrified shison, Kan. Hispa mbus on his second voyage, nwood tree near Aft to Drought been celebrating the the establishment ountry. of that ¢ port very popular in Nor- of flying kites, which are, 1, of very large dimensions. sarer, of Valparaiso, Ind., an elk horn in the ia tree, where Le supposes it to bave been for 100 years or more. mfectioner says that he is roish wedding h, and 500 onto | than | | | | | are thousands is recorded, i Chinese i the viemarks more than ¢ t is said to haw petrifying ha- + was drowned in Mediterranean Sea ret with perishing t houses by Nero. y have Deen p, erected said 1 and gems, it paintings and furnish, it x mile in length and ball which tation of the motion Was could perp t- About Search Lights. It seems rather incredible to speak of candle power of search lights as in millions and hundreds of millions, ut is warranted by facts. The lamp itself does not give a very high andle power when measured in any one but when a magnifying lens this direction, s used, which collects al the light, as | it were, and throws it in one direction, of the light is enormously For instance, in the search light which is being experimented with world's fair grounds the candle the inteusity creased, apon the power of the arc light alone is only 150,. OU) candies, inches long and one and threesixteenth inches diameter, rounded by a reflector four feet in di in umeter the candle power is multiplied to ! | ! the somewhat startling figure of 46 ), 000 candles, Electrical World, Two Muskrat Pets.’ Mrs. Sarah Howard, of Houlton, Me., has a pair of muskrats for pets. They came up through the drain into the cel. lar, and soon became 80 tame that they invaded the cat's saucer. The old cat pays no at tention to the rats, but the kittens some. times cull them. The strange visitors tore up a broom, and with the straw made for themse ves a nest under the cupboard. When eating milk they dip their paws into the saucer and then lick the milk from the fur, It takes them half an hour to eat a small saucer of milk, «= New York Dispateh. EE ————— Told by an Indian. The old Indian San Diego, who peddies game in Yuma, announces the important fact that there will be some pretty high water in this vicinity the coming season. He olaimy that the beef entrails, which his mahala serves with mayonnaise sauce on a rawhide napkin, in the cooking process floats to the top instead of sinking to the bottom. This, San Diego claims, is aa laiallible adi. - When this is sur- | kitchen and made them. | selves entirely at home, eating out of the | the carbons being twelve Mr. Wm. Wade INDIGESTION RELIEVED Good Appetite and Good Health Re- stored by HOOD'S Wm. 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