The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, November 05, 1884, Image 4
; i n 'i i THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5, 18S4. Eiterei at ths F::t:2:, Ccltsta, Hoi., diss niter. :oks1 THE MAN AND TRE BIRD. A FABLE. Once a man was walking along, Among the trees; Ho saw the birds and flowers, And then the bumble bees. But looked he only at the birds, For one he wished to catch; That it might lay some eggs, And for him some young birds to hatch. And then he laid the net. And caught the poor bird; It begged for freedom, And said of such cruelty never was heard. But the man only answered, But then I want you; In the woods and the air, "What good can you do? The bird said I can sing and chirp, And you can come into tne grove: And hear me sins: the praise of God, And then of Him my love. But after awhile The man himself was caught; And for his liberty With all his might he fought. But he was overpowered And into prison he was threw; Then of the poor bird's feelings Very much he knew. But when he got home He let it flv away to its nest; And now he "always thinks before he docs And always thinks for the best. Charles D. Wilson. School Examinations. J. P. Sprocher, principal of the Norfolk schools, and ouo of the ablest workers in the state, has a very sensi ble article in the News, which we herowith reproduce. If promotions, upon merit shown, are made often that fact alone causes greater progress among the body of students striving to get forward : "Examinations of some 6ort are nec essary that tho teacher may obtain information in regard to the mental improvement of pupilp. While serv ing this purpose, they may also bo made incidentally useful to pupils in stimulating them to greater exertions ; by revealing their imperfect knowl edge of a subject; or .by aiding them to a fuller understanding. Somo of tho evils connected with them are that they may occupy too great a pharc of timo and attention ; may re act injuriously on the pupil's physical health through nervous excitement and too lorn: continued and intense application, or on hip moral nature by inducing him to resort to trickery that he may rank high. "With a view to securing tho great est benefit with the least of accomp'a nying evil we propose the following system of examination?. There shall bo no regular monthly, term, or year ly examinations occupying from a day to a week at a time. Promotions -will not bo made en masse at stated times as the result of a single 'ex haustive' examination. Teachers who have had their schools subjected to such tests know that their best pupils 6omctime3 utterly and unaccountably fail whilo a poor one may achieve a rank he is far from able to sustain. It is better to watch the daily work of pupils, and whenever it becomes evi dent that from an error in the orig inal classification, inequality of men tal capacity, irregular attendance, indolence, or any other cause a pupil ought to be promoted or dropped, let it be done. By this gradual readjust ment there is no necessity for a final examination. The pupilB who remain in a class at tho cud of the year will generally be able to go lorward with the work of the course the next year, though some readjustment will usu ally take place at that time. No ex amination will continue longer than one-fourth of the day's session, at most about ouo hour and a quarter's work. Examinations in writing and spelling will not occupy over thirty minutes. If possible, no class will havo examination in more than one branch on tho same day. Examina tions in writing, spelling and reading will occnr on the second, third and fourth Fridays of the month. Exam inations in other branches will occur whenever the claes has finished the text-book work on some subject or division of a subject iu that branch ; and these may not occur regularly every month, but will mark intervals of progress, Thti6 a class will not spend more than about one day each month in this work, which is not an undue allowance of time for this test work; and scattering it on different days throughout the month the vital energies of pupils will not be over taxed, nor will their mental vigor bo subjected to a strain through long continued effort that will prevent their putting forth their best endeav ors. Thus we hope to mako our ex aminations something to be looked forward to without dread ; an incite ment to higher efforts rather than a discouragement. "The teacher's main object in ex amining is to obtain information. To this end there must be perfect honesty in the work on the part of pupils. The sentiment of honor must be cul tivated in the pupils and measures taken to prevent and detect cheating. Again the questions must net bo so difficult as to overreach the ability of the pupils nor so easy as to make tho examination a farce. And since, by a comparison of rcsultp, we desire to ascertain the relativo standing of classes and of different pupilB iu tho same class, all lists on the same sub ject given to different classes should involve equal amounts of test-work and marking of answers should bo done on a uniform plan ;and all ques tions on the same list should involve equal mental tests or have a value assigned to it proportional to its difficulty. Further, a series of such lists on different subjects given to the same claes must involve equal amounts of test-work or the results obtained by averaging the standing in different branches would not rep resent accurately the relative merits of different pupils. Considering then the difficulties in the way of prepar ing proper questions; of assigning proper valueB to each question; of making equal tests in different branchea and classes ; and the differ ence in value that different teachers would put upon the same answer in marking, it will be seen that exami nations require great care to make them serve their proper function; and that the figures on the examina tion rolls of different schools; of different rooms or classes in the same school, or of different pupils in the same class may give very erroneous ideas in regard to the relative merits of such schools, rooms, classes, or pupils." John Brennan, the Irishman elo quent of Sioux City, spoke these for cible words in Fanuell hall, Boston, before the election : My brothers : Under the roof tree of Fanuell hall in the vicinity of Bun ker Hill, amid the echoes of tho voices of Sumner and of Wendell Phillips loud cheers J, I feel that'I am stand ing on holy ground, and I deem it my first duty to offer up upon your behalf and upon behalf of the oppressed peoy pies of the world, the humble homage of our gratitude to tho warriors and orators whose blood was shed and whoso voices were lilted to heaven iu the sublime cause of our common liberty. Cheers and applause. Wo are on the eve of a presidential battle, and this presidential battle is not a vulgar fight for spoils. The armies consist of 10,000,000 of men. They are the most numerous armies that were ever engaged in the history of the world in any moral or political combat. The issue iu this combat is as to who shall controll this govern ment, whether it shall be controlled by Americans or by tho power of England and tho power of the English government. Let it go forth from Fanuell hall to-night to all America, and to all the world, that, whenever America is troubled by any foreigu power, whether it comes from Eng laud or from France or from Home, we Irish-Americans stand by the side of our adopted country. My home is in tho far west, in the state of Iowa, the eldest sister of Massachusetts ; in in the state where, in the valleys, the corn grows twclvo feet high, and where fat swine and cattle are graz ing leisurely on sunny hills; where thero is an army of school teachers disseminating thought throughout tho land ; where the popularity of James G. Blaine is such that when tho book agent comes around to sell Blaine's "Twenty Years of Congress," the family bull dog comes out and opens tho garden gate. Laughter and ap plaupc. Wo of Iowa are an agricul tural people Wo have there the finest crops that the baud of God over gavo the children of men. Onr gra naries arc bursting with wealth. Wo have everything that an abundant harvest could give us. You of Mas sachusetts aro manufacturing people, who live by the labor of your hands, and whoso labor is protected by tho policy of protection to American in dustries, and I of the west am here to-night to ask you of Massachusetts whether you aro willing that the good things raised in Iowa shall feed the pauper months of Europe, or shall be eaten by the free laborers of Massa chusetts. Cheers. Diplomatic Secretary Fisk. Governor Hamilton Fish was noted for his deportment, and he took great pride in Bending to the courts of Eur ope in a diplomatic capacity gentle men whose dress and manners would not excite comment. He was much concerned, however, when it became his duty to commission Horace May nard, of Tennessee, as Minister to Turkey, and Godlove 8. Orth, of In diana, as Minister to Austria. Neith er one waB remarkable for his observ ance of the social proprieties, and it was some time before Governor Fish could devise to give them a lesson in dress. At last, so the story goes, an idea struck him, and sending for Orth he said something like this to the Indiana statesman : "Mr. Ortb, I have a favor to ask you.' "Anything I can do for you, Mr. Secretary, I'll be glad to." "Thank you, Mr. Orth, thank you, Bir, you are very good. Mr. Maynard, you know, is an excellent gentleman, but he is not accustomed to the ways of society as you or I are," and the Secretary smiled pleasantly at the guileless Orth, who had on a sky-blue necktie and nnblackened boots. Af ter having clinched his point he con tinued : "I am afraid he will invent somo startling innovation on the cos tume usual among gentlemen when they are out in society. He may startle the foreign courts with a red necktie and a sack coat, and now what I want to ask you, Mr. Orth, is to givo him a hint, as you are both going over on the same steamer, about what you and I should wear on social occa sionsthe dress coat, black trousers and waistcoat and the simple white tie. You will know precisely how to do it, and you will oblige me greatly by attending to tho matter of so much importance, as you, as a member of polite society, know." The hint was taken, and Mr. Orth was noted among the diplomatists at .Vienna for his faultless attire. Mr. Maynard, with his long black hair and Indian features, was not so apt a scholar. Ben. Pcrley Poorc in Bos ton. Feeding "Store" Cattle. One great specialty of agriculture ib tho breeding and focding of beef cattle for market. The expert in this business has learned that thero must be, for the highest profit, no stand still in tho life of the beef auimal. Where there is no growth, the food eaten is lost. All growth comes from tho extra food ; if only enough is given to support tho animal, it must remain stationary, without any increase in weight or in valne. A numerous class of farmors keep what they call "store" cattle, through tho cold season, in a stand-still condition ; and thoy do not seem to rcalizo that they have been throwing away all the food consumed through the win ter, because they have not given food enough to produco any growth. This ought to bo so plain to them as not to need explanation. Tho store animal, that makes no growth, is actually becoming less valuable, be cause its capacity for digesting food becomes impaired, and it often takes a month, on good grass, to get these storo cattle in a thrifty condition again. If these farmers would study this storing system carefully, they certainly would not repeat it. As we have often shown, it takes two thirds of a full ration to keep the animal alive, without growth, and this is lost unless tho other third is added, to produce a vigorous growth. It costs from $10 to $15 to storo a steer through the winter, and if the farmer has ten head, his loss will be from $100 to $150 ; whilo bad he fed $50 to $75 worth more of feed, the growth would have paid a profit on the wholo.feed. This system, then, shows a great want of foresight. National Live-Stock Journal. We see that the atrocity" of voting gold headed canes to public men con tinues. This is a relic of barbarism. It is wrong to induce people to vote at ten cents a ballot for a choice as to whom the cano shall be inflicted upon. But the cruelty does not stop here. It goes on and appoints a com mittee to solemnly approach the re cipient and stuff him full of lies about how popular he is and how his friends have ached for several years for a chance to show how much they thought of him and how they all hope the cane will bo a comfort and sup port to him through many years of old age. And then tho victim in forms the committee that he is over come with emotion, that he is deeply touched and that he will never forget, and all that. And tho victim wears the cano around for a day or two, feeling like a fool. He then throws it into the back end of the deepest closet in tho house, and the miserable affair gradually fades from the mem ory of men. Slate Journal. The Horse Creek murder mystery, to far as developments here are con cerned, remains just as it did when the coroner's jury returned its verdict any reports published in papers of tho State to tho contrary notwithstanding. Sheriff Zibble Btarted somowhere the latter part of last week in response to telegrams which gave him encourage ment that Furuival had been arrested, but whether he went to Springfield, Mo., or to the iutcrior of Mississippi, as the diverse accounts published in the Omaha Bee, Lincoln Journal and St. Louis Glubc-Dcmocrat, is not gen erally known here. Indeed, it is dif ficult to put much crcdcucc in the ac counts alluded to, so long as they contain 60 much purporting to be the statements of Mr. Zibble of the facts of the case aud the probable action of the people here. It is more likely that much of such accounts are the imaginations of enterprising reporters than that Mr. Zibble is so excessively communicative abroad aud so reticent about the matter at home I'ullerton Telescope. Tho last words of a pressman of a Boston paper who was crushed iu his press recently were: "Go ahead with the press, boys. Get the edition off aud don't lose any bundles." The sentiment expressed by tho humble pressman in tho dingy press room, amid the clatter, of the ponderous presses, is just as noble as that of tho gallant Lawrence of the American Navy, whoso last words, "Don't givo up the 6hip," have become historic Rochester Union. Blataal Toleration. "My dear," said a wife to her huB band, "I know that I am dreadfully cross with you at times, that I am not as patient as I should be, and I think .the same can be said of you." "Yes, certainly," he frankly ack nowledged ; "I am almost as bad as you are."- " What's that?" "I I say that I am just as much to blame as you are." "I think," went on the lady, "that we ought to cultivate a mutual tol eration of each other's faults," and she bent over him fondly and kissed him. "You are not looking well to-night, my dear," he said, stroking her hair. "No," she replied; "my feet pain me dreadfully." "That's because you wear shoes two sizes too small for you." Then the trouble began once more. The Next Lefflnlatare. Among the specific things promised by candidates for the legislature we find tho following. It will bo well enough for the people and press to bring forward the work needed to be done by the next legislature. Much demands in having bills ready for in troduction and discussion early in tho session : 1st. Change the time for assess ments from April to January 1st, so that stock owned in the county can be assessed before they go to market. 2nd. Makea taxes become due March 1st, instead of Jan. 1st, bo that farmers and others will not be re quired to pay taxes when all other bills become due, and produce is forced on the market at the lowest pri ce. 3d. A bill regulating R. R. traffic, which shall do eqnal justice to all parties. A farmer out in Harlan county (says the Lincoln News,) is terribly mad. He bad a big pumpkin that he intended to send for exhibition among Nebraska products at Now Orleans, bnt he missed hia cows re cently, and after two days search he found them penned up inside tho pumpkin. Some of tho boys had cut a door through tho side, put the cows in and fastened the piece in again. Ho might not have found the cows rat all, but the vine was still growing, and it dragged the pumpkin around over the ground so fast that tho piece jolted out. "No," said Mrs. Briny to an inquir ing stranger, "we don't havo malaria here, I admit, but it's the best board-ing-houso on tho bay shore, and my daughter Sally makes lemon pics that can't be beat 'round these parts." When the visitor had gono Mrs. Briny said to her daughter: "Well, .lane, I guess we'll have to lay in a stock of that malary, for all of 'em as comes here keep askin' if we've got it." "I loHt my dog," said Mrs. Ilarity. "Why dou't your husband look for him ?" some one asked. "Who, Jim ? Why, you know Jim's on the detect ive force. Ho can't find anything." In the whole univcrso thero aro no agentB to work out the misery of tho soul like its own fell passions. Not the fire, the darkness, tho flood, or tho tempest. Dr. Dewey. KRAU !5EiS"H l(Ha m m v XaTnUEKRr 5c AGAIN TO THE FRO NIT! The season for self-binders and reapers, which has proved successful to us beyond anticipation in the extremely large number of machines we sold, as well as in the perfect operation of each ma chine and the unbounded praise and satisfaction expressed by each purchaser, being over, we are again ready, and offer to the farmers of Platte and adjoining counties goods which are now in season and which we propose to sell at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. XebraNkn Sclioota at the Expo- fcltlOB. Superintendent Jones has issued a circular in respect to Nebraska's showing in public school work at the world's fair at New Orleans, ne says : The work of the children of the state is of the highest importance, and should occupy the most promi nent place. The teachers of the state are especially requested to make this department most creditable. Examination, daily written work, map -drawing, free-hand drawing, compositions, specimens of penman ship, which may be copies of several lines of prose or poetry, specimens of handiwork in or out of school, in fact anything that shows what our children arc doing in an educational way. Ungraded, graded and high school work will be included in this depart ment. The county superintendents, teachers and principals are earnestly requested to lend their assistance and urged to co-operate in making this department all it should be. All pupils' work should be upon one paper of uniform size, 8xll inchep, with a margin of one inch, written only on one side and neatly bound for preservation. This department will be in tho hands of Superintendent J. J. Points, of Omaha. f A I Tiot According: to Bro. Roan. A man from the outside world of realities describes tho life of Arkan sas as follows: Long days of doing nothing beget little energy. Little food is needed, and less new cloth ing. In the fall and winter the crops are gathered and turned over to tho merchant, who holds a mortgage. To sum up the labor of the year: I was on the placo yesterday, and found an old double log house, so nearly rotted down that it was propped up all around ; the windows wero without glass, the door frames were without doors, the children could pass out be tween tho logs in any direction, tho lady and a friend were sitting in a "gallery," a space between tho two cabins, on splint chairs, contentedly "dipping" snuff, while tho lord and master, in dirty, begrimracd clothes, gat under a tree doing nothing, but looking happy as tho day is long. Fences rotted down, and loan pigs with "pokes" on them, two sorry lookiug horses trying to pick a living from 6hort grass, and littlo children, half a dozon or more, with but a singlo garment on, were listlessly playing in tho shade. The land, originally poor, withbut two or three inches of soil on the prairies, was worn out and abandoned. Rising Independent. The board of managers of tho state fair mot last night and audited bills incurred at the late exhibition. The expenses were about $19,000, and re ceipts $20,000, leaving a profit of $1,000. Tho expenses were swelled this year by tho high rent charged by tho driving park association. The secretary was instructed to advertise in tho Omaha and Lincoln dailies for locating the state fair for the next five years, beginning with the exhibi tion next year; bids to be received up to Jan. 1st. Lincoln Journal. FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, FREMONT, NEB., Prepares Young Men and Women FOB TEACHING, FOR BUSINESS LIFE. FOR PUBLIC READING AND SPEAKING, FOR ADMISSION TO COLLEGES OR PRO FESSIONAL SCHOOLS, To Enjoy and Adorn Somo and Social Life. : Superior Instruction in: MUSIC, DRAWING, & PAINTING. THOROUGH TRAINING IN Penmanship and ALL THE OTHER COMMON BRANCHES, in Commercial CorespoHiIence anil Book -keeping. Samples of writing teachers' script sent to inquirers. The President of this College has had OVER TWENTY YEARS' EXPElt IENCE. in educational work, and has thoroughly inspected and compared the construction, organization, methods, ar raxgements, and equipments of more than one hundred Universities, Normal Schools, and Business Colleges. FALL TERM (10 weeks) will begin Oct. 21, 1SSJ. WINTER TERM (13 weeks) will begin Dec 20, 1884. SPRING TERM (12 weeks) will begin April 13, 18S5. EXPENSES VERY LOW. Families can purchase houses and lots near the college on easy terms as to time and interest. For particulars address W. P. JONES, Prcst. of Normal aud Business College, Fremont, Neb. 11-lm HENRY LUEBS, DKALER IN WE ARE PREPARED TO GIVE BARGAINS IN- Mowers, Hay Rakes, Hay Sweeps, Farm Wagons, WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pimps Repaired ei short notice o 3TOnc door west of Heintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. 8 Spring Wagons a Buggies, Sulky a Walking Plows, Wind Mills, Pumps and Pipe. 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