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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Lots on Easy Payments.
For Any Information Call on or Address
Barber & Fowler
Room 10, 1041 O St., Lincoln, Nebraska
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