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April 22 1904 - THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE - . 7
1 FACTS AND FANCIES.
BY ALLAN D. MAY.
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It is all right to toot your own
' \is- \ , horn , but be sure you have prac-
, tised privately : before you toot
I publicly.
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! _ - ; : . The postmaster at a neighbor-
! . , - lug town . received a letter . addressed -
: . - dressed to The Leading : Mer-
! chant" of that town. The post-
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; I ' , " master was wise , for he consulted
: . : " ' , . the editor of the local paper and
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, : ' , , . . . . learned the name of the most extensive -
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I . tensive advertiser and delivered
: ' , thc letter accordingly.
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! . ; , . , It is no longer lawful to shoots \
' : . , ' ducks in Nebraska , but yesterday
II . a maiwent ' hunting and loaded
r . , . , - , - one barrel of his gun with No. 5
i - shot and the other barrel with
I . buck-shot. The No. 5 shot was
for the first flock of ducks he
, . ' , , : saw. The buck-shot was for the
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: \ . warden , if he happened a-
. : game
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t' . . > ' . long. He saw neither.
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' ' : , _ He had hoarded wealth and garnered
. in the golden sheaves of grain ;
" He had bonds and stocks and acresand
his bins were filled with grain ;
He was rich and getting richer every
day he spent on earth ,
And his neighbors said he really did-
\ n't know what he was worth.
, In this ignorant bliss he labored till
1\ one pleasant April day
. Came the deputy assessor , and before
he went
away
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' . This man's personal education had a'
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, new and mighty birth
' . . And he knew , down to penny , just the
_ . : ° " . . . sum that he was worth.
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, - ' Let us learn a wholesome lesson , find
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a moral if we can ,
. : : . . In this tale of the assessor and the rich
( . : - : " and powerful man.
I' ' . ' Let us make a resolution not to lay : up
I ' . treasures here
I. . Where the moth and rust corl"upteth ,
! and assessors we must fear ;
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6. But instead of bond and morgage and
I' of hogsheads filled with gold ,
I , ' . Lay our treasures up in Heaven , for in
, ' - scriptures we are told
M : : , ' , 'l'here the wicked cease from troubling
' \ ' - : , ; and the weary are at rest.-
! : . : ; , Which would indicate the absence of
assessors 'mid the blest.
- :2' When we were a boy we were
always trying to make some-
ing-to build some kind of a
ic"s machine or invent some kind a
. ° contrivance or other. Whenever
r.
we came across an odd shaped
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- . ' bit of metal or an old rusted
spring , or a bolt or screw , we hid
it carefully away in a box kept
for that purpose , in the belief
Y that some day it might come in
\ handy. In those days we tried
: ' to build everything from a wooden -
. en windmill to a dynamo a phon-
-
'j ograph and a locomotive. In
those days we allowed nothing to
) ' . . , : L go to waste. The main spring
, - 'p- c ' and wheels of an old clock might
be of no use to day. but tomorrow
they might be just what was
needed to complete ! : some marvel
of mechanical ingenuity that
. . would fill with envy an the other
boys for four blocks around. So
. , " . ' . the keeping of aU odds and ends
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that came into our possession , be-
came a habit. If we had a nickel ,
we would spend it for chewing
gum or soda water , but if we had
a casting from an old dismantled
lawn mower or an old lamp burner -
er , we would file it carefully away -
way in our treasure chest. This
habit clung to us : until , with
other childish things , we put away -
way the making of mechanical
marvels and took up the more
prosaic work of trying to make il
living. But how often are some
of our childish habits recalled in
in later life ? The other day we
wanted an old sewing machine
stand out of which to make a
typewriter table. A friend do-
nat d us an old machine and
when we came to dismantle it we
were seized with the same old de-
,
' ' t' '
sire and foumrourselves looking
for a box in which tn put an the
component parts and yet we knew
very well that they could never
be of the slightest use to any-
body. But the old temptation
urged us to save all those bright
knobs and little polished ding-
bats and blue steel thingumbobs. .
'Ne did not save them , and yet
we could not regret that the old
habit had , for the moment asserted -
serted itself and recalled the
days when our work shop in the
wood house was a busy place and
of the days when the world Vas
deprived of many mechanical
triumphs , simply because the
wheels 'wouldn't go round or the
dynamo withheld its current.
At most any meeting of the
county board the innocent bystander -
stander may hear something be-
sides long and dry reports of the
committee on revenue and taxa-
tion , or the more or less strenuous -
ous complaints of those who have
fallen through defective bridges
and cracked their crowns , and the
corroobrative evidence of some-
on who came tumbling after.
At oneof the sessions of the board
last week , Mr. McCray took occasion -
casion to protest against the furnishing -
nishing of the inmates of the
poor farm with tobacco at the ex-
pense of the county. He declared -
ed that tobacco is a luxury , and
that those dependent upon the
county for support had no right
to expect to be provided with
luxuries. When the kick had
been duly registered , vIr. Glasser
attacked : Mr. McCray.s position
in a very forcible and masterly
manner. He pointed out that to
the aged and infirm men at the
county farm , tobacco is not 'a
luxury , but a necessary of life.
After a man has used the weed
for 10 , these many years , to de-
pr'e him of it , would be to sub-
ject him to torture ; to fill his declining -
clining years with insufferable
longing and to bring his gray
hairs down in sorrow to the grave.
There are men who would rather
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go with but two meals a day and
have their tobacco than to have
three meals a day and do without
the weed. And we believe that
Uncle Joe is right. 'ro the old
mall who has seen better days ,
but who has come to spend his
last years in the more or less
friendly shadow of the poor house
walls , the pipe must be as a so-
lace and a comfort. As the fra-
grant smoke curls upward it will
form before his weary old eyes
the images of friends in the days
when he had friends ; out of the
curling vapor will be formed the
faces of the dead and he will go
with them again down the old
paths that lead amid the old
scenes. The kindly hand of
Dame Nicotine will smooth many
of the rough lines from the pic-
ture of the past. To deprive ,
him of this solace would be cruel ,
and ifoe must be cruel , let us
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capture a book agent and burn '
him at the stake , but let us be '
merciful unto the old man who is
dependent upon our bouri ty.
Nay , let the old man hit the pipe
As often as he will ;
Provide him with the weed and let
The county pay the bill.
Deprive him not of pleasant dreams .
Conjured by curling smoke ;
Deny him not this boon although _
The treasury goes broke ' "
Reform-ah'tie a glorious thing ,
'l'he time for it is ripe ,
But use it not to separate -
'rhe old ulan and his pi pc.
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Two minutes is not a very long
stretch of time , but it is long
enough to cause you to miss your
train if you do not keep track of
the changes in the time tables.
E. V. Kauffman has let the
. contract for a three story brick
hotel and sanitarium to be erect-
ed at Sycamore springs.
Falls City , Nebraska I
Friday May 6th.
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