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THE ALLIANCE -IN DEPENDENT. A Village Plctora. Yon lies the village,' beneath the hill. White, are the houses, the church is white, And the steeple shines like a shaft of light In the summer noon, and all is still. r Sloping down to the river side Are sunny moadows, green and wide. The river, winding to and fro In gleaming curves, runs deep and slow. Hero and there, in a lazy pool, The lan :c-like water-grasses grow, And oft, as wand'ring breezes blow. They whispered, like a restless school. Sweet are the fields with summer flow'rs. Tho wild-roso blooms along the hedge; Hroad water-lilies star the sedge, And clover-banks are fresh with show'rs, Under the woodland's grateful shade Tho bl-se-bell no's, and in the glade Tne mxlcst violet, all alone, Hides by a gray and mossy stone. Wagner's Boyhood. In great musicians, as in great poets, the gift of genius usually manifests it self at an early age. Mozart and Keats are only brilliant examples of what may be called a general law. It is the more interesting, therefere, to note a case like that of Wagner. His step father, Ludwig Geyer, who died when the boy was seven years old, was very icv.d of him, and on the evening before his death, we are told, asked the little fellow to' play on , the piano two operatic airs which he had been taught. Richard played them not so very badly, and the sick man said in a feeble voice to his wife, "Do you think he might have a taste for music?" The next morning the mother talked to the children about their dead father's affection, and said to Richard, "He would have liked to make some thing of you." The boy never forgot the words. At that time, however, no one would have dreamed of making uhim a pro fessional musician. When he was 9 years old his mother devoted him to a classical education. He is described as a headstrong, "fantastic" child, who would fly into a passion at nothing, but who, nevertheless, gave himself up to an enthusiastic study of Greek, and soon became his master's favorite pupil. He took lessons upon the piano, al most of course, but had little taste for the instrument, and found the technic of it a bore. His teacher after awhile dismissed him as incorrigible. For all that, the boy even then had dreams of being a composer, and a few years later, at his own request, he was put under an instructor in harmony. The poor man had a hard time with his eager but headstrong pupil, and before long he, too, was constrained to give him up in despair, saying, like the professor of the piano, "Nothing can ever be made of the boy." And yet the boy was to become, if rjresent iudsrments are to be trusted, one of the few great musicians of the world. Unbecoming. "One of the greatest Flemishes of the Fair Sex" is the subject of a quaint warning addressed to the reader of "The Young Ladies Conduct," a wise and witty essay on behavior, published in London in 1722. The book is one of the first written specially for women. It is rather amusing reading now, but it contains food for reflection which has not been at all hurt by age. "Above all," the writer urges, "avoid Anger which is a professed Enemy to Reason, Prudence and Advice. This Passion once let loose and encouraged soon grows domineering, and quarrels with the most trivial things in Nature. A drop of Rain falling on the Angry Person's Garments is Cause enough to raise a Tempest in the Mind that Reason cannot quelL "There is a Consideration I should think has Weight sufficient to allay this Passion, that is, that there is noth ing so pernicious to the Fair, and puts so bad a Face upon them. It gives an ill-natured Cast to the Eye, and a disa greeable Sourness to the whole Counte nance; it makes the Lines too strong, and flushes the face worse than Brandy; I have seen it overspread the face with heat Spots, as a Lady has been chiding of her Servant for the Breaking of a Glass, or Pinning her Manteau away; and indeed never knew any Angry Woman preserve her Beauty long. "Be carefully then to nip this unruly Passion in the Bud; suffer not yourself to be made uneasy for Trifles, so will you sooner stifle your Anger upon greater occasions; to get such a Con quest over the Heart will be a Tri umph worthy of yourselves. Anger is the very Death of Beauty, Grace, and Virtue. Consider Ladies how far you are addicted to this unbecoming habit and reclaim yourselves by the contrary Virtues of Patience, Meekness, and Forbearance." lie Lost Ills Fish. Private Sampson was spending his first summer in Montana, where he had ample opportunity to indulge in his favorite snort of trout-fishing. One afternoon he had been unusually suc cessful, but just as he was setting out for camp with a heavy string of fish, he caught sight of a great pine which had blown down and was lying with its top in the water; just the place for hooking a monster trout. He had been fishing up a deep and rapid mountain stream, the banks of which were thickly grown with bram bles and service-berry bushes, among which he had to thread his way, his rod in one hand and his heavy string of fish in the other. Pushing along to the fallen pine, h( climbed upon it by dint of hard scramb ling, holding on as best he could with both hands full. The tree was close to the bank and the stream was boiling. He was in the midst of the branches, crowding onward, when suddenly, just over the roaring torrent, something on the other side of the tree rose up close beside him an immense she bear, with her cubs beside her. There was no time to hesitate. To run was impossible, and she was com ing toward him, growling savagely. On the impulse of the moment Samp son dashed his string of trout full in her face! In doing so he lost his bal ance, and the next instant there was a tremendous splash and he disappeared in the boiling water. He emerged some distance farther down the stream. He scrambled to the bank and looked back. There on the pine sat the bear, intently watch ins the hole where the man had dis appeared. Sampson did not go back to inform her that he was not there, but made for camp at good 6peed. WESTERN NOm COLLEGE PROPERTY FOR SALE. the Could Afford It. Rtrawher Do vou notice that cashier in our restaurant has on anew gown every day? Singerly Yes; but I am not surprised at it. Strawber Why not? Singerly She's the wift of the head waiter. Cloak Review. The cocoanut trees of Florida are due to nuts washed ashore from a wrecked vessel sixteen years asro. Now the state furnishes nearly all the co- coannts used in the United States. w fei S Ijf 111 SSpbSPPSSS MAIN BUILDING 266 FEET FRONT. This famous college is located in the beautiful, healthy suburb of Haw thorne, and there are forty houses now being built, just out .side thi corporation limits, giving city advant ages, with country taxes. From Fifty to One Hundred Houses A Will be needed for the accommodation of students by September 13 and tho management of the Western Normal College Guarantee the Rei)t at the Iate of $48 a Iooiji for the First Year. And tho owners of houses to receive pay for fuel and light extra. No better place than Hawthorne to build houses for investment. Frop erty will double in value within twelve months, and now is the time to invest. 1,200 STUDENTS ARE NOW ENROLLED. The association has a large donation of lands which they have platted in lots and have put them on the market at very low figures for the next ninety days. Prices of Lots From $50 to $550. Take the Lincoln Street Railway corner O and Ninth streets to Haw thorne. $300,000 to $500,000 will be put in buildings before January, 1, 1893. Any parties buying lots can double their investment in a short time. Bargains in City and Farm Always on Band. t Lots on Easy Payments. For Any Information Call on or Address Barber & Fowler Room 10, 1041 O St., Lincoln, Nebraska i i in MM ' WiPi m i ' 'W -jnarnier;