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The freight train leaving here at 430 p. in. car ria pacoenKera from here to Valley. COLCMBCB AMD NORFOLK. PawnKTHrriveBfroni Sionx City :1230 p. a lvavro for Sioux City A JO p. m Mitch! leavea for Sioux City 8:00 a. m Mixed arrives.. HUJp. m roBALBION AMD OEDAB BAPID8. Mixed leavea ...... Mixed arrives t-PaBsensftr lavc .. arrives.. 6.00 a. m .... 8:20 p. m 1:90 p. m ....12:40 p. m gcietg getitts. 3r-AH notice under this heading will be '. ' charged at the rate of $2 a year. A LEBANON LODGE No. 58. A. F. & A. M. Regular meetings 2d Wednesday in each roonui. All oreuireo ukiusu w ""J"" J. D. Stibkm. W. M. w. II. NOTC8TUN. Sec'y. 20Jny WILDEV LODGENo.44,I.O.O.F., i meets Tuesday ereninga oi eacii -week at their liall on Thirteenth atraet. Visiting brethren cordially invited. " W. A. Wat. N. G. VY. It. Notbiteix. Sec'y. 27janM-tf COLUMBIAN CAMP No. ST.. WOODMEN OF th World, meet every econd and fourth .Thuradaiaof the month, 7:30 p. m.. at K. or 1'. Hall, Eleventh fttreet. Itegular attendance is very desirable, and all v initio brethren are cor . dially invited to meet with us. janSt-tf-i REORGANIZED CHUICCH OF LATTEIUDAY Sainta hold regular services every Sunday at 2 p. m., prater meeting on Wednesday evening at their chapel, corner of North street and Pacific Avenue. All are cordially invited. UiultJtf Elder IL J. Hdisun. I'reaident. GERMAN IIEFOUMED CHUBCH.-Sunday ScIim1 at ViSii a. id. Church every Sunday at 10.30 a m. Ohrintiau Endeavor at 7 JO p. m. Ladies' Aid Society every first Thursday in the month at the church. 14nov-Bl Truth ia always present. Eraereou. Fine jol work done at The Jodknai. office. Dr. Naumann, dentist. Thirteenth - street, tf Dr. T. K. Clark, Olive street. In office at nights. Tell the truth and shame the devil. Shakespeare. The White Front Dry Goods Store. tr TueCecilian club will meet Mon day evening with Miss Wake. Every truth in the universe agrees with all others. Daniel Webster. - Otto Pohl furnishes a column for the Fremont Herald as sporting editor. Drs. Martyn, Evans & Geer, office three doors north of Friedhofs store, tf . Dr. lu C. Voss and C. F. O. Miessler, Homeopathic physician8,Columbus, Neb. Free to our customers, the use of our folding chairs for parties. Herrick. 4 Hanker Stuart of Madison was in the city yesterday to meet Ed. Burnham of Tilden. Ask your grocer for Marmoy & Sim mons' vegetables. The best is the cheapest. 3t Nice residence on Eleventh street for sale at reasonable rate. Inquire at this office. tf Dr. Arnold moved his office into the front rooms formerly occupied by the Y. M. O. A. The St. Catherine Beading Circle will meet with Misses Fitzpatrick Wednesday evening. Envelopes with your return card . printed on them, for 50 cents a hundred at The .Todrnai. office. If you want any cleaning and dyeing done, go to the Columbus Dye Works. Also clean all kinds of hats. 4t G. L Babcock, R O. Babcock, E. C. Babcock and G. F. Fisher rode up from 'Lincoln Friday on their wheels. '' W. R. Xotestein had new potatoes out of his own garden Sunday; they were about the size of a hen's egg. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor was quite sick last week, . but is now reported as much better. Bring your orders for job-work to . this office. Satisfaction guaranteed, and work promptly done, as agreed upon. . Albert Clark of Burt county, Ne- 'imskjC died recently. He was well known to many readers of The Jocrkatj. The pupils of the high school had a picnic in Stevens' grove Monday. The seniors and teachers were invited as guests. Haze Morgan of Buchanan, Vs., ar rived in the city last week and will study law and assist his cousin, C. J. Garlow. Subscribe for The Journal any day. Fifty cents will get you the paper for the next three months, $1.50 for the next year. Judge Kilian issued marriage li censas to John Olsufka and Eatharina Sturack; W. F. Rhodehorst and Mary Flogeman. Baptist church, J. D. Pulis, pastor. Services 11 a. m 8 p. m. June 7: morning, "A Memorial"; evening, W. C. T. U. Presbyterian church. Bev. Rogers will lead in the Young People's Societies of the city, at their meeting in the park, next Sunday at 3 tfetook. Everybody invited. The Building and Loan Association have opened up Series F and it will re main for subscription till September 1. ' Series A and B have closed by limita tion. . George Wilbur, living near Leigh, has found coal on his farm. He has tried it says it burns well. He does not ' know yet whether it is in paying quan- tities to mine. We are informed that the Great Eastern charges $5 an acre for perpet ual water right, and 50 cents each year for the use of water, and that these are all the charges mud. , BaMB"'" wanal Mrs. F. H. Brown will sing "The Ra diant Cross next Sunday evening at .Grace church; last choral service before Fall. REMEMBER!! E. T. Bowers, vet erinary surgeon, will be in Columbus the first week of each month, to answer calls. tf WilhelmRoth,carpenter and builder, corner of I and Eighth streets, is ready at all times to talk business or do work, as necessity calls. 3m Rev. Z. C. Rush of Madera, Califor nia, was in the city Thursday on his way to St. Edward, where he will officiate at the marriage of his son Bert today. Within the last week we have made arrangements so that we can furnish to our readers the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and Columbus Journal, when paid in advance, at $1.75. tf The "Western Swine Breeder," a journal devoted to swine exclusively, can be had with The Journal, one year, when paid in advance, for $1.60, for the two. Now is the time to subscribe, tf Grace Episcopal church, Sunday, June 7. Litany with Holy communion. 11 a. m., sermon, "The Key of David." 8 p. m., choral service and sermon, "Memory." Solo by Mrs. F. H. Brown. Wednesday evening a cow belonging to Mr. VanAlstine was run over by the Norfolk passenger train cutting off both of her hind legs. The accident hap pened at the crossing on west Thirteenth street. v Miss Flora Compton, a Columbus girl of former years, and who has many friends here, is studying in a hospital in Galesburg, HI., to become a professional nurse. She has been there about three months. Strayed, May 13, from my premises near the First ward school house, a dark chestnut sorrel mare, weight about 800 lbs.; has a bunch on the side of her nose; is nearly twenty years old. C. A. Woosley. tf The city Sunday school union will hold services Tuesday afternoon, begin ning at 2:30 and evening at 8. Speeches by prominent workers have been pre pared. The Cecilian club will sing in the evening. Eugene Bacon is of the opinion that artesian water will be reached at near 700 feet in the Monroe well. On Sat urday last they had got down 575 feet and water came within twelve feet of the surface. Sam W. W. Wilson and Allen Mc Learie caught some fine bass the other day. They went down to Cut-off lake one evening and next morning caught twenty-seven nice fish, but we didn't see them brought in. Marmoy & Simmons have started this spring to do a wholesale business. Vegetables will be left at grocery stores for sale. They ask a continuance of the liberal patronage of former customers and the public generally. 3t A. B. Cramer has moved into the business house formerly occupied by E. W. Gassman on Eleventh street, and will, within a week, open with a large stock of fresh groceries. He asks a share of public patronage. A correspondent from Long Pine writes that they are having plenty of wind; it is quite dry and crops and gar dens starting slow. This sounds odd to us who have had a wonderfully prosper ous season in every respect. There will be a Union temperance meeting, June 7, at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. C. M. Woodward, National superintendent of railroad department, will be th'e speaker for the evening. A special invitation is extended to railroad employes. August Loosing has brought an in junction suit against the Nebraska Cen tral Irrigation company crossing his land with their ditch. The petition was filed Monday, but in the absence of Judge Sullivan in Dawes county, noth ing more was done. C. D. Murphy, together with his sister, Miss Nora Murphy, and uncle, D. M. O'Sullivan, were in the city Sat urday, on their way home to Hum phrey from a trip occupying several months spent in Arizona and California for Mr. Murphy's health. About 75 men and boys, and 67 wo men and girls were confirmed Sunday at the Catholic church. Bishop Scannell of Omaha, Father Mauritius of Omaha and Father Jerome of Humphrey assisted in the services. The church was crowded with friends and relatives. Now is the time to subscribe for The Columbus Journal and the Lincoln Journal, semi-weekly, both for $2.00 a year. Three papers a week at a cost of less than 4 cents a week. This very liberal offer will only last until May 5th, when the rates will be raised. The Mandolin club serenaded sev eral of their friends Thursday evening, The instruments, consisting of three guitars and two mandolins, produce ex cellent music. The members of the club are Rudolph Miller, Earl Pearsall, Will Anderson, George Whaley and George Hollenbeck. John Glick and Walter Niccolls drove over to Columbus Wednesday, at which place Walter took the train yes terday for Collins, Col., where he ex pects to abide in the future. John re turned in the evening accompanied by Dr. Cain, who has thoroughly recov ered from his long Ulness. Leigh World. The first of January the Atlantic Monthly sent to 1500 public, school in structors for answers to a number of given questions on education. Out of all the number who responded, Superin tendent Williams was chosen as one of twelve to prepare articles on their expe rience as teachers. The article has not yet been published. Sunday evening, as Drs. Martyn & Evans were returning from the south side, they got into the .middle of the stream, when their horses became un ruly and got- away from the vehicle, leaving the doctors nothing to do but wade out to the shore, which they did, and got a farmer to bring them in. We didn't get further particulars. Ole Olson of Nance county was in the city Wednesday last and gave The Journal office a very pleasant call. Formerly a citizen of Columbus, he has been away so long that he sees more strange faces than familiar ones. He had been to the South Omaha market with a ear load of fat cattle, and was umlaoky enough to strike an of Burket. Many people do not know how easily they can protect themselves and their children against the bites of gnats, mos-' quitos and other insects. Weak carbolic acid sponged on the skin and hair, and in some cases the clothing, will drive away the whole tribe. We have no doubt that horses and cattle could be protected in the same way from flies, which sometimes nearly madden them. Madison Chronicle. Will Bagatz and MiasKate Fox were married in the Catholic church at Schuyler, Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Those who attended from here were Mrs. H. Bagatz and daughters, Lillie and Emma, H. Hockenberger and fam ily, Mrs. Gus Becher, Joseph Ryan and Miss Jessie Schram. Both the groom and bride are well known here, and their many friends heartily wish them the richest of earth's blessings. At the meeting of the school board Monday, bills to the amount of $149.69 were allowed; a transfer of $200 from the license to the general fund was or dered; W. J. Williams was elected superintendent; Mr. Leavy, Mrs. A. C Ballon and Mr. Weaver, principals of the three schools, George Whaley and L H. Britell, assistant teachers in the high school and Miss Ida Martin, to con tinue. Adjourned to today at 2 p. m. We are in receipt of a compliment ary scholarship ticket to the National Liberal Arte & Science League summer school to be held at Sturgis, South Da kota, June 22 August 14. Another, under the same mannagement will be held at Glenrock Park, Wyoming. Both places are noted for beauty of scenery and will be gardens of beauty for artists to paint. For further particulars, write to L. A. Mint, National Director, Sturgis, South Dakota. James W. Beebe died at his residence in Platte precinct, Polk county, Tues day of last week. The funeral was held at Benlah church. He leaves two little girls seven and ten years old. The Os ceola Record says: "'Little Jim,' as he was familarly known, was a man of ster ling character and upright manhood, highly respected by a large circle of friends and beloved by all. He was a great favorite in his neighborhood and will be sadly missed." There was a conference of the ad vocates of free and unlimited coinage of silver held at the Thurston house Fri day, at which were present Judge Sul livan, R. H. Henry, George Lehman, Wells of Central City, Wooeter of Sil ver Creek, LL Albert, G. W. Phillips. S. L. McCoy and W. Saunders. The object, we learn, is to unify all the sil ver elements of this congressional dis trict to secure the election of a con gressman holding their views. Col. McKinnie of St Louis writes to friends here that the track of the tor nado was a mile away from his house. It was a fearful sight E. von Bergen has a letter from a friend in the city who says that twelve warehouses and two elevators were demolished; two hundred people were killed; five hundred maimed and mangled, many of them beyond re covery; six hundred families were ren dered homeless by the storm, and the money loss is estimated at $50,000,000. The board of health drove over the city one day last week and as a conse quence about 300 notices were served by the chief of police on property owners to clean up alleys, etc Some, hearing of the proposed trip of the board, were found engaged in cleaning up, others had just got through, but most plead guilty to neglect and abundance of work elsewhere, and various other reasons for the state of affairs that-had been allow ed to pile up grievances. Get rid of the garbage. The Woman's Club will hold its regular meeting at the residence of Miss Minnie Becker, on Saturday, June 6, at 3 o'clock. The following is the pro gram: Roll-call; Response with Cur rent Events; Paper. Mrs. McAllister; Solo, Mrs. Warren; Reading, Mrs. Haight; Quartette; Reading, Mrs. Saunders; Instrumental Solo, Miss Schroeder. After the program will oc cur the election of officers for the en suing year. Eelle M. Merrill, President. Oehlrich's team got loose Saturday and among others took in the street in front of the opera house where there were a great many teams but without striking any of them. At Way's corner, Ernest Mayes got out of his buggy and caught the lines of one of the horses, but they trampled him down and two wheels of the wagon passed over his neck. He was taken to Mr. Stovicek's and Drs. Martyn & Evans called, who dressed his wounds. He came to con sciousness in about an hour and went to his residence in the country. A letter from A. M. Jennings at Fitzgerald, Georgia, under date of May 28, says that Columbus people are all well, except Herb Thnrston; on occa sion of the opening of a new railroad an excursion came up from Macon and old Confederate soldiers met the G. A. R. and S. of V. of Fitzgerald, the speeches showing the Confederates to be soldiers and patriotio citizens; each side seems to have fully concluded that the other can be gentlemen, and that it is a poor place to wave the "bloody shirt;" the entire state and county tax is 90 cents on the $100 valuation, and they value personal property about as in Nebraska. Great preparations have been made by the militia company for today (Wed nesday), when they will be mustered into the state militia as company K, and composed of 50 members. Exercises will be witnessed by Governor Holcomb, Adjutant-General Barry, Major E. G. Fechet, Gen. C. F. Bills. Colonels Bratt, Colton and Lundeen. In the evening a banquet will be spread at the Meridian hotel, where the company with a few invited guests will be called on for im promptu speeches. The Monroe band will furnish musio during the evening. Tuesday of last week the officers were elected with the following result: J. N. Kilian, captain; Charles Jens, 1st lieu tenant; Charles Stillman, 2d lieutenant; George Whaley, 1st sergeant; H. H. Dawson, 2d sergeant; D. C. Kavanaugh, 3d sergeant; G. H. Winslow, 4th ser geant; Will Anderson, 5th sergeant; E. & Pearsall, 6th sergeant; C. W. Segelke, 1st corporal; H. Morgan, 2d corporal; J. A. Haney, 3d corporal; B. Y. Brodfueh rer, 4th corporal; musicians, C F. Miner aad E.J. Scott Hlsa SekMt Graiaatea. The opera house was packed Friday evening with friends of the graduates to listen to the program. The audience was unusually attentive and quiet, and the evening nof too warm to be pleasant The hall was beautifully decorated. Each side of the curtain, wide panels of purple flowers and green foliage were fastened on, and above the stage hung the class motto, "Dip the Oar." Along the front of the stage potted fern and palm plants aided to complete a beauti ful frame for the stage picture. Around the entire gallery hung in festoons the class colors in bunting, royal purple aad white. The Maennerchor orchestra furnished several selections during the evening, and the Cecilian club gave two selec tions; both were well appreciated by the audience. Rev. Rogers opened the program with prayer, Rev. Brown dismissing the au dience with a benediction. The flower gifts were beautiful and an enormous lot were given. More pres ents as books, eta, were given than in previous years. Sup't Williams delivered an exceed ingly appropriate address to the class, on the presentation of diplomas, and nothing occurred during the evening to mar the interest. Below, we give brief summaries of the orations, only wishing that we could reproduce the whole evening's enter tainmentwords, voice and gestures. The entire class acquitted themselves handsomely. Miss Lora N. Becher began her ora tion on The Majesty of Intellect by Sir William Hamilton's reply to the query What is great in the universe? viz: "There is nothing great but man, and in man nothing great but mind." When we consider the creator of man and bis nature, and that mind in man is but a spark of the infinite, we will concede the statement to be true. We were made in the image of our creator, and this image is not to be found in the body, but in our intellectual and moral na tures. This intellect is capable of un derstanding and interpreting all the phenomena of nature. In the language of Emerson, "Water dissolves wood; air dissolves water; electric fire dissolves air; but the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws; method and tho most subtle, un-named relations of nature in unresistless infusion." Those who achieve greatness gain it only by the active employment of the faculties with which nature has endowed mankind in general. Intellect commands the ser vice of perception, memory, imagination and thought powers, including judg ment and reason. The philosophy of the different faculties was fittingly set forth, due importance being given to imagination, a faculty so commonly mis understood and maligned. Reference was made to the fact that nations rise to eminence through their men of in tellect. A recent notable illustration is the victory of Japan with her forty mil lion people, over China with her four hundred million. At the time the Roman people rose to unrivalled polit ical ascendency, they stooped to pass under the intellectual yoke; and it was precisely at the time at which the scepter departed from Greece that the empire of her language and of her art became universal and. despotic. Thus it is seen over what a vast domain in tellect rules. It discerns the move ments and the distance of the stars in space. It invents the telegraph, -the cable, the ocean steamer, the railroad. It thinks noble thoughts and pens them. It does brave deeds of self-sacrifice. Its majesty transcends nature and art It is daily making new conquests, bring ing to light new truths. The strong holds of ignorance, superstition and error are fast giving way before its on ward march, and the time will come when the sway of its scepter over hu manity will be as sure and as universal as the uplift of the moon upon the sea. Practical Education -was the subject of R. B. McCray's oration. Man was created for action as well as for thought All action worthy the name must be the expression of some thought; worthy thought ultiraates in worthy action. Success in both thinking and acting re quires as its important condition a course of training. This process is called education. The means by which man properly is enabled to provide for bis own wants and very frequently for the wants of others, is called practical education. The end of education is the perfecting of manhood, the realization in each pupil of what each has in him to become. The child is an organization of faculties, of which reason and con science are the crowning glory and the controlling authority. School work is the means by which the pupils' senses are aroused and he is incited to develop his moral and rational self-activity. The personality of the instructor has a great deal to do in the formation of the character of the pupil. A plea was made for the study of the classics on the ground of its practical usefulness. To succeed in life we must understand the motives for human action, the work ings of his own mind. The acquisition of power and skill is the practical result power, which can be applied to human welfare, and skill, by which he can most easily and efficiently use his power for the accomplishment of the highest re sults. To develope each faculty ac cording to the degree of its importance; to train the sensibilities; develope the affections and control the desires so as to make them contribute to man's highest well-being, is practical. It in volves the strengthening of the will so as to give it power to control man's en tire activity in such a manner as to contribute to the accomplishment of the end of his being. Man's appreciation of the true, the beautiful and the good are sources of his highest enjoyment, and no education is complete which leaves out of account man's aesthetic nature. Education is the knowledge of. how to use the whole of one's self. That man is practically educated who can apply rightly all his faculties to all practical purposes. Harry W. Lawrence devoted his time to a consideration of Fanaticism. Pub lic opinion is not always correct There was a time when nearly everv one thought slavery right Step by step this has all been changed. As public opinion has changed on the question of slavery so will it change on other ques tions. Progress means that some one mast deviate from the old idea. Colon- bus was called a fanatic because he be lieved the earth is round. With zeal he set out to prove his theory; we benefit by bis labors. Reference was made to Savoaorola, Galileo, Fulton and the manner in which they were treated be cause they held- opinions at variance with those commonly received. Fanat ic, in one sense, means inspired by the gods. Nothing short of divine inspire- tion would inspire many of the deeds of heroism. Especially was this the case with. the early Christians who suffered all manners of ignominy, torture and martyrdom for the sake of the truth even their fortitude causing men to wonder if the things they taught were not tree. A fine tribute was paid to the pioneer of this country, the oration closing with the sentiment that we must be willing to deny ourselves the present applause of men if we would achieve that which will forever contribute to the welfare of the race. We may suffer temporary defeat but in the end -we shall wave palms of victory. Mimicry of Nature was the subject of Miss Stella U. Elliott's oration. The tendency to imitate is a fact of nature. The phenomenon is well known to scien tists and is beginning to be of interest to the masses. Mimicry is imposture in nature. It has a two-fold purpose protection and securing of food. Nu merous instances were given of insects and animals, but the power of imitation reaches its climax in man. The peculiar shades and colorings of bis life depend largely on his environments. The child imitates the mother or the father. The pupil, takes the teacher for his model, we are all so constituted that we have certain ideals that we consider perfect. These ideals may find their embodiment in a companion or classmate at school or they may have no real embodiment anywhere abont us. The motives for imitation may be as various in man as those manifested by the lower orders of animals. A young man imitates his associates whether good or bad, in order that he may enjoy their esteem.' lie reasons thus: the ways of my associates are satisfactory and pleasing to them selves and if I conform to their modes of thought and habits of life I shall be protected from ridicule. So natural is this tendency to copy the ways of 'oth ers that we have only to observe the habits of a stranger to discover the de gree of refinement and culture in the home in which he was reared, the school he attended, the church of which he was a member, or the social circle in which he moved. It is the design of the Crea tor that man should follow the highest models of excellence. By so doing he rises from one degree of refinement to another until he reaches perfection. An intense desire has been implanted in every christian heart to translate into his own character and life the perfection of the world's Redeemer. This divinely implanted desire will never be satisGed until there is a realization of its perfect embodiment Then and there only will man be fitted for a communion with his Maker and for association with those who have attained perfection. Imita tion results in assimilation and assimi lation has its fruits in everlasting fe licity. That .the government of the United States should own the railroads was maintained by Carl O. Johnson. Among the considerations stated were that we have 175,000 miles of track, representing a capitalization of nearly twelve billions of dollars, and giving employment to eight hundred thousand men. The evils of the system have assumed such gigantic proportions that they threaten the downfall of the nation. Over half the time of legislators is taken up in enacting laws satisfactory to railroads. Honest managers are scarce; frauds and rascalities of every known description are permitted to -exist end railway monopolies, controlling the products of almost every industry, flourish with the greatest ease. The system is in its in fancy and it the evils are not checked, what may we not expect in the future? Government ownership is the only remedy that can be successfully applied to the present system of fraud and ras cality, from the fact that it would take a sovereign hand to effectually quench the evils. The railroad is a public high way, and only when it is run by the government can it be operated for the best good of the people. The idea that the government would not be equal to the task of operating the railroads be cause of the employment of so many men, was combatted by the thought that surely our government is not the all powerful agent it is reported to be if it is unable to manage a force twice as large as the present Government own ership of railroads has been successfully practiced in Australia, Hungary, Bel gium and the German empire. In Aus tralia a man can ride 1,000 miles for $6.50, first-class passage. A laboring man can ride six miles for two cents, or thirty miles for ten cents, and the em ployes receive twenty to thirty per cent more wages for eight hours work than the employes of the United States do for ten hours. In Victoria the revenue received from the railroads is sufficient to pay all federal taxes. In Hungary the fare is one cent for six miles, and since the government bought the rail roads, wages have been doubled. In Belgium rates are one-half and wages twice as much as when railroads were owned by private corporations, and rail roads pay into the treasury an annual revenue of four millions of dollars. In Germany the fare is four miles for one cent on government lines. Wages are 125 per cent higher than when corpora tions owned them and the net profits have increased forty-one per cent during the last ten years. In 1895 the govern ment railroads of Germany paid into the treasury a clear profit of twenty-five millions of dollars. In 1892, the rail roads of Prussia yielded a net profit of fifty-two millions of dollars, that sum being larger than the sum derived from taxes of all kinds in Prussia. Thus it is seen that in countries where the rail roads are owned by the government, the rates of fare are from one-half to one fourth as cheap as in the United States, and in nearly every case the wages of employes are increased one-half to three fourths. Rates must be high here where interest must be paid on watered stock; where unnecessary expenses are incurred in high-priced managers, unnecessary solicitors, passenger agents, presidents and receivers. C. W. Davis, probably one of the most level-headed writers on railroad questions, estimates govern ment ownership in hia country would save WOfiOOflOO by abolishing the evil, exclusive use of shortest route, dis pensing unnecessary employes, disband ing trattc associations, etc; It is time the governing power, the people, permit the flow of wealth into legitimate chan nels, and such a system can be had only through government ownership. Fred C Williams began his reply by j referring to the universal interest in the subject to the necessity of railroad transportation in every form of indus try, and therefore they are a potent fac tor in our national civilization, and the problem is Can the railroads of this country be brought to a more perfect condition and if so, could this result be accomplished better by government ownership and control than by that of private corporations? He believed there is room for improvement but that the preference is for private ownership: The government should leave to the in dividual whatever be can do equally welL Putting railroads and other large corporations under government owner ship and control would develop the so cialistic spirit in this country as it has done in Germany, where capitalists have not the same daring in undertak ing and developing large business enter prises that English and American capi talists have. They feel dependent on the state and wait for it to take the ini tiative. Would it be wise for our gov ernment to purchase the railroads of this country? They are valued at twelve billion of dollars. In order to purchase them, three per cent government stock would have to be issued for this im mense sum. Very impracticable. $125 each to every person in the country. with an annual interest of $6 each. We already have the remainder of a large national debt to pay. For over thirty years we have been struggling to meet this obligation, and shall we now assume a debt of four times this magnitude with an annual interest of one million dollars a day? Our past, experience should influence us to answer, No. Ref erence was then made to the civil ser vice which such an addition to govern ment functions would necessitate, and the claim made that results would be far worse than now. While government ownership may lower rates, it has bad effects otherwise, and we cannot afford to convert our people's government into a centralized power controlling all in dustrial functions. The clo6o of the speech was devoted to a description of the progress of the country through the construction of railroads; the lower ing of rates and the uniform bettering of service. The ideal of the whole ques tion is to give railroad owners a fair profit on their investment and havo schedules so arranged that shippers may know they are not liable to frequent fluctuations. Another consideration is that under government ownership, rail roads would not be taxed and that bur den would become all the greater. For instance, take Platte county: the total amount of taxes paid into the county treasury is $113,000 per year, of which tho railroads pay $18,600. See what a rate of increase if this were taken off the list, about one-fifth. The theme of Miss Anna A. Taylor's oration was Silent Forces. It waB affirmed that all changes, whether of material forms or customs, manners of living and methods of speech, have been the result of forces, silent yet powerful, which all through the ages have been incessantly at work. Gravitation is tho most important factor in producing physical change. It causes rivers to seek their' levels, carrying with them the debris that fills up the valleys and makes the level country; by this they are caused to revolve, producing day and night, cold and heat, seed time and harvest. The world is a vast garden, yet man tills only a small part of it The unseen forces of nature do an im portant part in preparing it to raise a crop. Frost disintegrates the clods to form the soil. Oxygen in the air de composes the most stubborn hills into the softest soila Man mixes the soils by means of the plow, but nature does this with natural plowmen who, never idle, turn the earth's crust over from year to year, foot by foot, and oven grain by grain, much more patiently than man does. Even before Adam delved in the garden of Eden these agri culturists were at work, millions of them in all parts of the world, at differ ent seasons and in different ways tilling the world's fields. The sun, as the source of all our energies, was included in the silent forces of nature, as was love, purity, intellectuality, godliness; art, literature, personal influence and conscience, that imperious feeling with in us which assumes supreme authority to guide and then to reward or punish, ever prompting to act according to the highest dictate of our moral judgment and if we fail so to do spares not the rod; conscience, by obeying whose promptings we rise from one degree of excellence to another, until we finally attain the most exalted heights of moral excellence. The theme of M''as Florence B. Elli ott's oration was "Night Brings 6nt the Stars." The orb of day conceals from us the splendors of the firmament It is during the night that the panorama of the sky is open to us. The solitary hours of night are in truth the most beautiful of all our hours, those in which we have the faculty of placing ourselves in intimate communication with the great and holy nature. At the hour of midnight the heavenly vault is strewn with stars, like isles of light in the midst of an ocean extending over our heads. Night seems like a canopy, which love has spread to curtain her sleeping world. Figuratively, night rep resents two distinct classes of difficul ties to be overcome by men. First, those trials that have to be endured that they may become spiritually great; second, the sacrifices required to attain intellectual eminence. Night may fitly represent adversity. Grant was referred to as one of the stars in the firmament in the civil war; to Clara Barton whose noble deeds and kindness diffused bright light over all Europe. Adversity brings man into sympathy with his fellow-man; develops a higher appreciation of the better qualities in human nature; it causes him to discover the secret of human greatness. There are sufferings which are nobler and more elevating than the sweetest enjoyments. They whisper of things unseen and eternal; awaken in us susceptibility to divine promptings and give us wings with which we fly upward in the night of grief, guided by its stars. Tears prove HENRY RAGATZ & GO., Staple and J L J! ancy Groceries, I CROCKERY, GLASSWARE Aad Eleventh Street, - We invite you to come and see us. We regard the interests of our patrons as mutual with our own, so far as our dealings are concerned our part of the obligation being to provide and offer Good - Goods - at - Fair - Prices. twTEVERYTHING KEPT that is expected to be found in a fast class, up-to-date grocery store. BECHER, Farm Loans. And Insurance.. COLUMBUS, the telescope by which we see farthest into heaven. The heart is enriched by its sorrows. Tribulations purify and develop the soul. It is night that brings out the stars. Poverty, often regarded as a form of adversity, is but a blessing in disguise, the cloud behind which is hidden the stars of patience, industry and a whole constellation of other stars that adorn the firmament of human greatness. An apostrophe to music and art was well spoken, the oration closing with a picture of the dreadful night of the Passion week when there appeared above the darkness that was over all the lan'd, the stars of patience, pity, mercy, compassion, forgiveness and all the sublime virtues that made the Savior the chiefest among ten thousand. Truly, O night, thou art a revealer of the glories that without thee would lie for ever concealed. Peace Hath Her Victories was the thought of John L. Clark's oration. Victory suggests a battle field, strewn with the wounded, dead and dying; sug gests brave deeds done by brave men. War has her victories but they are bloody, they waste the substance of the people. War rouses the ferocious in stincts in man; peace endeavors to coun teract these and put in their place self control and broad mindedness. War is the furious whirlwind, peace the restor ative sunbeam. The field of battle in which peace gains her victories is the human mind; her weapons are ideas; her foes are the prejudices, fallacies and vices of mankind; her product is the moral or christian man 'and woman. The ideal of a savage when resenting wrong is a fiendish frenzy leading to massacre. Hasty action is yet too often the rule rather than the exception. In the French revolutions hundreds of thousands lost their lives. In England, the rulers yielded to the just demands of the people, and little by little the people obtained their rights and today the Englishman has fully as much lib erty as the Frenchman. The Franco German war of 1870 resulted in the humiliation of France and the payment of a billion-dollar war-indemnity. How much better for all, in every way, had the differences been settled peaceably? The intense feeling aroused in this country and England recently over a discussion of the Monroe doctrine was a triumph of intellectual coolness over bloody haste; reason over madness. Had the two great nations gone to war, the cost, the waste, the lives lost would have been fearful, and what good would have followed, that could not better be accomplished without? Littleness is giving way to liberality of mind; rage to reason; might to right, and already among nations the United States has set the example of arbitrating disputes. The crowning victory of peace is that of the Prince of Peace in the human heart The victones of war do not compare with it for a moment. Youth of Colum bus: the future, with all its possibilities, is before you; you are advancing into responsibilities which will weigh upon yon. Whether you shall aid in winning the victories of peace; the victories over vice; of ieason over prejudice, and, greatest of all, whether the "peace of God which passeth nil understanding" shall bless your lifo, shall be for each one of you to decide. The observation of Memorial Day Saturday last was perhaps never ex celled in the history of the city. The procession was composed of Baker poet, G. A. R., Sons of Veterans, the Drum Corps and the Fire Department. The opera house was crowded to suffocation with interested men, women and chil dren, to listen to the program of exer cises, as published in The Journal of the past two weeks. We had prepared a full account of the erercises, including the masterly address of Sup't Williams, but find at too late an hour that we have not space for it. Suffice, that it was an occasion long to be remembered by those who were present The school children, especially, taking part in such exercises, are to be highly commended for their thoughtfulness, earnestness and patriotic spirit After exercises at the opera house, the procession was re formed and marched to the cemetery, where the usual details were made for decorating the graves of the dead heroes. M. Bossiter a Silver Creek banker, was in the city Sunday to see his wife and four children confirmed ia the Catholio church. :- COLUMBUS, NEBR. & GO, Real Estate NEBRASKA. i. 50 CENTS -ON THE- $ 50c shirt waist seta .25c Side Combs, the 25c ones lOoto 15c Side Combs Sterling mount ed .25c Tortoise shell-back Combs, 75cto 1X0 All lengths belts 50c on the dollar. 50 new belt buckles 25o, 50c aad .75o Stick pins 10c, 15c, 35c, all worth double. Free silver badges 15c Solid gold baby rings .50c ED. J. NIEWOHNER, 8t Sign of the Bic Wat ck. MIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIWtllWvawivMawJal gmMhusM rV s. 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