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CURRENT VERSE. Friendship. fefy friend and I haw wandered hand In hand I In thought less pleasure on those happy short a ’ Alight with blossoms, where the song bird soars, plad to the soul with Joy of sky and land. Yet as we strolled no thought of more than love Enthralled our senses. We but saw and knew A comrade’s pleasure * loyal, sweet, and true; We basked together ’neath the blue above. Hut onre we Journeyed where the way was dark Where danger threatened and dishonor dwelt; And then at last, almost In nwc, we felt The flame that kindled from brave friendship’s spok. A Broken Song. "Where nm I from?" From the green hUts of Krln. "Have I no song, then?" My songs are nil sung. *Whnt o' my love?" 'TIs alone I nm farin', Old grown nn heart, nn' my vo(po yet Is young. •'If she was tall?" I.Ike a king's own daughter, "If she was fair?" J.lke a mornln’ o' May. When she’d ennie laughin' 'twus the run nln' wather, Wtien she'd come hlushln' 'twns the lireak o’ day. ■'Where did she dwell?" Where one’st I had my dwellin', •‘Who lo\ ed her best ?" There' no one will know. "Where Is she gone?" Och, why would I he tellln'l Where she Is gone there I ran never go. — Moira O'Neill. The Mistaken Moth. •MU1 the summer Hush of roses lied and white, Bat a datnself fair, a very I’retty eight: TIM a butterfly, so smnrt, With k flutter and a dart, Kissed tier mouth, and made her start In a fright. •'Ah. forgive me!" begged the Insect, “If you please; I assure you that I didn't Mean to tease. I tnit took your rosebud lip !For the rose wherein I dip. All the honey sweet to sip At mine ease." Paid the beauty to the moth: "You may try To excuse your forward conduct, Pir, hut I Wish It clearly understood That such roses are too good To tie klsHed by every rude Butterfly!" Pet's Punishment. Oh. If my love offended me. And we lied words together, •To show her I would master he, I'd whip her with a feather) If then she, like a naughty girl, Would tyranny declare It, I'd give my pet a cross of ppnrl; And make her nlways bear It. If still she tried to sulk nnd sigh. And threw away my posies, I'd catch mv darling on the sly, And smother her with roses! Hut should she elench her dimpled fists, Or contradict her betters, I’d manncle her tiny wrists With dainty golden fetters. And If she dared her lips to pout— Like many pert young misses — I'd wind my arm her waist about, And punish her with kisses! .1. Ashby Sterry, Open Thy Doors. Open thy doors, O my soul, To ocean nnd sky nnd pjaln, To shelving shore anil breakers' roar, And the mountains Hint shout again. Open thy doors. O my soul, To the scent of the climbing rose, To the meadow's sweep, nnd the drowsy sheep. And the woodland's deep repose. Wider, wider, my soul. The winds through the pine tree blow; *Tls the Word of God that moveth abroad, And deep to deep will go. Open thy doors, O my soul. And the fret and pain of rare. And the futile stress and the pettiness. Will vanish Into air. —Edward Arthur Wither, In Sunset Mng aalne. j The Color Scheme. When she set enures for Smlthers, She tnmle her plans aright, Found out his favorite color And dressed herself In white. When Jones was her admirer She showed a business head; To rater to his liking She garbed herself In red. Another change she managed When Algy came In view, | ChameleonwKe she shifted And gowned herself In blue. You ask which hue chromatic Became her married catch? The color of his money Was what she had to match. —New York Sun. In the House of Dan Cupid. And a» she looked about, she did behold How over that same dore was likewise writ, Be bolde. be bolde. and everywhere, Be Bolde; That much she muz'd, yet could not con strue It By any riding skill or commune wit. At last sin spyde at that rowme's upper end Another dore, on which was writ, Be not too bolde; whereto though she did bend Her earnest mlnde, yet wis not what It might Intend * —Spenser, "The Faerie Queene." Up Life’s Byways. Two paths go up the hill of life. The path of wrong, the path of right: One way Is strewn with toll and strife. The other decked with flowers bright. Inviting looks the path of wrong. More toilsome looks the path of right One sends a wave of ribald song. The other less of mirth and light. But 'tls the goal, and not the road The pilgrim needs must keep In view The path that lures the lighter load Is not the safer to pursue. GETS PAY FOR CHEERFULNESS Atmosphere Imparted by Calm, Agree able Optimist Is Worth Money to His Employer. "I have one mnn In my employ that I pay more Ihnn he's worth," said a storekeeper, "because he’s cheerful He Is not an obstreperously cheerful man, not a babbler; but in his calm and agreeable way he Is Indomitably optimistic and hopeful, and nothing seems able to make him otherwise; and his cheerfulness helps everybody In the store. Let one of our men come In feeling down in (he mouth, in (he dumps over something and then let bint run up against the cheerful man and the first thing you know the other fellow has lost the dumps and Is smiling himself and feeling better Yon see the cheerful man radiates: cheerfulness and yoi can't come with In his influence without absorbing some of his spirit. Why, I’ve come into (lie store myself when business' was dull not feeling very chipper, may be feeling inclined to gloominess, and then I’ve hud a word with our cheer ful man and left myself bracing up right away and thinking about how we could start things tip a hit. lie Isn't the best salesman in the world, inti he gives us an atmosphere, as you might any, that really helps; and we j pay him and are glad to pay him for j that” SLEEPY SENTRY WAS A HERO How^Sir Roger Palmer’s Life Was Saved at Balaklava by Man He Had Protected. A romantic story Is told of Sir Roger Palmer, a Crimean veteran, whose death was recently announced. Sir Roger was a lieutenant, aged twenty two, when the Imitle of Ralaklava, fa mous for the charge of the "Six Hun dred," was fought. The night before the battle he was going the rounds ot tho camp when he found a sentry of his regiment, the Eleventh Hussars, asleep at his post. Although he could have procured the man’s trial by court martial, which would have meant a death sentence, Palmer decided to say nothing. Next day Palmer led his troop “Into the valley of death." A Russian cav alryman was about to run his sword through the lieutenant's body when a trooper of the Hussars dashed up and clovo tho man's skull to the chin. It was his sleepy ; • ntry who had thus saved Ids officer's life and proved Ids gratitude. Women Vote In Wurtembercj. Tho Diet, of Wurtemberg has grant ed women the right to vote for mem bers of chamber of agriculture and lias also made them eligible on the same terms ns men. Tho chamber of agriculture Is a new Institution. The bill providing for Its establishment gave votes to women on equal terms with men but did not mako them eligible. The Suffrage association at once sent a petition that women be made eligible as members They point ed out that according to the latest cen sus nearly as many women as men j wore engaged In agriculture In Wurt temberg, that more than 20,000 of them owned the land which they worked, that Wurttemberg Is essential ly a district of small farms on which are carried on industries that belong I especially to women, such as poultry raising, vegetable and fruit growing, etc, The committee appointed to con- ! shier the bill reported against the women, hut when the measure came up in the Diet a motion (o amend the : bill by making women eligible was carried by a vote of 43 against 27. Avellino Sends Chestnuts. The province of Avellino, devastated by the earthquake, which since Pliny's day has furnished to the world fa mous chestnuts and hazel nuts, em-, braces 1,172 square miles of territory and n population of 500,000. The cap ital and chief trade center, an episco pal city of the same name, is a town of 25,000. Not far from Avellino are the ruins of the famous Convent of Mount Yeriugo, founded In 1119 on the ruins of the temple of Cybele. This convent Is visited every‘year by thou sands of pilgrims, many of whom ascend the mountain barefooted and crawl on their hands nnd knees from the church door to the altar. The chief Industries of the town are the manufacture of cloth, hats and chairs. —New York Tribune. The Picture Show In Spain. Deputy Consul Albert S. Trough ton states that during the last four years the cinematograph has become very popular in Malaga, Spain, the four theaters being crowded nightly. Only cents is charged for first class seats, and l1^ cents for second class. French and Italian films are used exclusively. Laid Up. Redd—Your boy Is still pursuing his college studies? Greene—Oh, yes. “What's be studying now?” "The last time I heard from him he was studying in the hospital." “Oh, going to be a doctor, is he?” “No; he's trying te be a football player ”—Yonkers Statesman. Only a Hint. She—Mrs. Wilkins threw a flatiron at her husband’s head because he ac cidentally sat down on her new hat. I couldn’t do such a thing as that! He—No, you love me too much for i that! She—Yes; and, besides, 1 haven’* any new hat. 1 FIGHT AGAINST OPIUM CURSE Reports From All Pirts of Chinese Empire Show Habit Is Being Rapidly Stamped Out. Ever since the issuance of an impe rial edict in China placing opium and opium smoking under a ban reports have been sent out regularly showing the progress of the anti-opium strug gle in all parts of the Chinese empire. From these It would appear that the opium habit is br ing rapidly stamped out, but the Peking correspondent of the Lancet, after an Investigation of • his own, feels justified in stating that such is not the case. According to his report, in some provinces the demand for opium continues a.s great as ever and efforts are being made to meet it without official Interference to more than a nominal extent. In the prov ince of Shantung, however, where there has been of late a very great in crease of opium imports, apparently j from Shanghai, the authorities at Klaoehou (the customs port) confisca ted 40 cases amt ftnprlsoned the own ers, thus raising an Important legal point as to whether they could do so on an article which comes under treaty regulations and has paid duty according to stipulations. As far as hospital experience goes one would at first say that opium smo king had almost disappeared. The Chinese have now become secretive and deceptive about it and it Is now very rare for a man to seek treatment for smoking or to confess, when being treated for other complaints that he Is stfll addicted to the drug. But among the people about throe-tenths have stopped and among the officials about j eight-tenths. The latter, however, are 1 subject to examination and stop for varying periods, resuming their smo king after examination. An exception must be made in the case of army officers. The habit would seem to be entirely abolished in this class of men. It is now rather difficult to buy opium in Peking unless under license, which permits a smoker to buy livo drams weight. Each license costs 10 cents and Is available for three months after issue. Gov ernment regulates the amount pur chasable each time, so that a gradual diminution takes place each renewal. As for morphia, there was undoubt edly a great rise in the number of opium smokers who left off opium and took to hypodermic Injections of morphia at the time of the anti-opium j edicts and for some months after their issue. But this craze has died down. | The reason for the diminution is sim ply an inability to procure the drug or the hollow needles. At the same time there is a certain amount of mor phia taking still. It is sold in an un derhand way in Japanese chemists’ shops. By those who are willing to pay the cost of this comparatively ex pensive luxury it can always be got, but if one were to compare Peking with other large cities, such as New York, there would be no difficulty in proving that the number of morphia maniacs in the latter city is very much greater. URGES ABSTINENCE IN ARMY Secretary of War Dickinson Encour ages Temperance Movement— Its Rapid Progress. The movement for temperance is spreading among all classes. It has extended to the cadets in the naval school at Annapolis. The members of the first class got together recently and pledged themselves not to use intoxicants, also to exert their in fluence in this direction with the oth er classes. They are convinced that the standard of discipline and effi ciency can be raised if rum drinking is stopped. Secretary of War Dickinson has commended voluntary abstinence to all within and without the army. A letter was read at a mass meet ing held in a Washington church for the purpose of inaugurating total ab stinence associations in the army and navy. In the letter Mr. Dickinson says: “1 believe in everything that en courages voluntary abstinence both within and without the army. All other things being equal, the man who abstains is better qualified to be a useful and law abiding citizen and to promote his own happiness and that of his family and friends.” The Cocaine Habit. Probably few readers had any pre vious knowledge of the prevalence of iho cocaine habit so shockingly ex posed in the recent proceedings in stituted by the pharmaceutical board. This drug is of recent introduction, and in certain limited uses It has been found a highly beneficial agent; in the rapidity with which its abuse has spread among various classes of j people its dangers have come to out weigh greatly all its benefits. The very properties which make cocaine ! useful in skillful hands mnke it ex ! tremely injurious in its continued con- j stltutional effects, says Philadelphia j Ledger. Physicians are aware of this j danger and of the seductive nature ot the drug, and employ it with extreme caution, but all sorts of quacks have seized upon it to pander to a depraved i appetite, so that its consumption has been stealthily extended until it has become actually a public menace. 1 UNTIL JANUARY 1st SIX MONTHS \ , The Falls City Tribune Richardson County’s Leading Newspaper -FOR I 50 Cents i 9 A Clean Family Newspaper. An expo nent of all that’s good and wholesome; fearless in its condemnation of all that is evil. We want YOU to read it. / „ Grand Opening The New Zimmerman Music house has thrown its doors wide open, and in the fullest sense are now ready to serve the public in their line. A full line of all kinds of Musical Instruments will be carried, together with exten sive assortment of Sheet Mu sic and musical supplies. TWO CARL0AD5 Hi^h Grade Pianos just re= ceived and now ready for inspection. Zimmerman “oust FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA %
