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LEFT HOMER 43 HOMESTEAD !rich August Wolf, maintained that writ- where her success has been such that jng was unknown in Homer's time; that she has remained a member for over the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were by dif- twenty years. Probably her most suc- ferent authors, put together in the 6th cessful role is that of Amneris in Verdi's century B. c. "Aida." The weight of critical authority favors the hypothesis that they were at first the "work of a single mind; though certain books and passages have been added. The "Iliad" is the story of the siege of Ilium (Troy), and the attempt to rescue Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, whom Paris, son of Priam, King of Troy, had abducted. V^J HOMER The "Odyssey" relates the return, through many hardships and adventures, of Odysseus (Ulysses) to his home after the siege of Troy, his welcome by his faithful wife Penelope, and punishment of her presumptuous suitors. The style of these poems is simple and noble, the action rapid, and the theme dramatic and heroic. HOMER, LOUISE, an American con- tralto; born in Pittsburgh, Pa. Her maiden name was Louise Dilworth Beatty; in 1895 she married her teacher in harmony, Sidney Homer. After studying in Paris she made her debut there in "La Favorita" in 1898. The following year she sang at Covent Gar- den, London, and in Brussels. In 1900 she joined the Metropolitan Opera House, LOUISE HOMER HOMER, WINSLOW, an American artist; born in 1836, at Boston, Mass. At the age of twenty-one he began mak- ing drawings for "Harper's Weekly," and first gained prominence by his Civil War drawings: "Rations" (1863); "Prisoners from the Front" (1865) and "The Bright Side" (1865). These re- ceived favorable notice from European expositions and encouraged Homer to continue his work, which he did, confin- ing himself for a time to pictures from New England life. His most celebrated work has been his pictures of the life at sea in which he has excelled all other American artists. Among his best works are "Lost on the Grand Banks," "Undertow," "Eight Bells," "The Maine Coast." He died in 1910. HOMESTEAD, a borough in Alle- gheny CO., Pa., on the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, the Bessemer and Lake Erie, and the Union railroads; 10 miles S. E. of Pittsburgh. It is the trade center of the surrounding country; is the seat of the Carnegie steel works; and has several glass works and machine shops. There are daily and weekly newspapers, electric lights, public schools, high school, electric street rail- ways. National banks. On July 6, 1892, labor troubles culminated in a serious riot, provoked by the introduction of Pinkerton detectives in the mills. The riot was subdued by the State militia