Lo! a pale matron comes, with quiet pace, And aspect of subdued and gentle sadness;-- Fondly she clasps him in a warm embrace, And greets him with a burst of grateful gladness! "Praise be to Heaven!" the weary wanderer cries, "All human love is not a mocking vision: Through every change, in every varied guise, The son still claims his mother's recognition!" --_From the Danish, by Mrs. Abdy._ 902 HOME. Home's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and gilded; Home is where affection calls, Filled with shrines the heart hath builded! Home! go watch the faithful dove, Sailing 'neath the heaven above us; Home is where there's one to love! Home is where there's one to love us! Home's not merely roof and room, It needs something to endear it; Home is where the heart can bloom, Where there's some kind lip to cheer it! What is home with none to meet, None to welcome, none to greet us? Home is sweet,--and only sweet-- When there's one we love to meet us. 903 Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on a human being whose affections are without a tap-root! --_Southey._ 904 I am as homeless as the wind that moans And wanders through the streets. --_Longfellow._ 905 GIVE GOOD MEASURE. When I was a young man, there lived in our neighborhood one who was universally reported to be a very liberal man, and uncommonly upright in his dealings. When he had any of the produce of his farm to dispose of, he made it an invariable rule to give good measure, over good, rather more than could be required of him. One of his friends, observing him frequently doing so, questioned him why he did it, told him he gave too much, and said it would not be to his own advantage. Now mark the answer of this man. "God Almighty has permitted me but one journey through the world; and when gone I cannot return to rectify mistakes." 906 To be honest and faithful is to belong to the only aristocracy in the world--and the smallest. --_Israel Zangwill._ 907 COMMERCIAL HONESTY. On one occasion the first Napoleon being informed that a certain army contractor had cheated the government by supplying the troops with very inferior and insufficient food, sent for him to inquire into the affair. "How is this?" said the Emperor: "I understand you have been violating your contract." "Sire," was the answer, "I must live." "No," replied the monarch, "I do not see the _must_. It is not necessary that you should live; but it is necessary that you should do right." 908 Too much assertion gives ground of suspicion; truth and honesty have no need of loud protestations. 909 REUBEN AND SANDY.