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1 t BSTABMSIXD Mat tl, 1870. Columbus goutnal. ColumbiiN Ncbr. Kitsrvd at the I'ottofflco, Colamlmt, Ntr., m eond-clss msll mttr, l'UIIUSIIKl) WKUNKHDAVd IIV Columbus Journal Co., (INCOIIPOHATKD.) TBSM Of HCBiOMPTIOH! OaarMr,brmll,pMtMt prwpsld ll.M Hit month TnrM months u WKDNKHUAY, JUNK 21 nUISICI I. AJ8STT, tiitsf. HK.NKWAI.H-TI10 ilntc citiltn innr tintim im yonr I'M)", tir wrnNr Ihih tn hM tlnm jour nlwrlptlon I" iwlil. Tlnm JntiU'i uliimit IIimI lxuinoot hM licm rpcciTnl up In Jmii. I, llu, Kb to fob. 1, IMUA ""'I " n. Whi'tl m turrit I ntMlft, Ihw iUt, wlilrh RtiBwcm nn ft nwlit, will ImrhnnifnliMTiinlliiitl). DIHHNTINUAN'r:rt-IUwinidiilniinli;rlli. m will contlnnn tn m-elvii tlif Joiirrml until Hm iinlilllinmnr nirtiflnl liy Mtr illiwoiilliim-, wlion all nrrmmmw hum l l"tl'l. " "" '" ''' wlith ihrtJiMinnilrontlmiPil fnrnmtliiT rvir ut ter thn tliii lil fr Ima psiilrrd, tu lniniil Kimvionaljr notify tw ttiiliamiuUtiiin It. IMIANUK IN ADimwtrt-Wlirn iinlijrinn n rliniin tho nlitrt, kiiImmtIIhtx rlnulil Umuru to nUn thxlr old n will nn tlii-ir new mMriwii. 8omo Columbus genius should riM op and inront a burglar proof win ilow. It rained today, bnt It did not pro vent the addition or twenty now ounM to onr subscription Hut. Wo bog to okil attention to thn state new department which we am start lair today. Thia will be a permanent fere. Bin ban often boon called a disease Now that'Mrs. Kddy donieii thn oxls- tence of dlsoaso germs, tho clorgy will be forced to coin a now definition for in. We are gratified at thn Increasing narabar of Journal anbaorlbors who 'take the tin to sond ai a ewa items. Continued oo-operation along thin 'line will mnke tho Journal thn best ,'paper ever. I Dr. WlnihU) Bays that Platto 'Monty baa the sweetest, youugeat and .prettleit lot of teaohera he ever ad ;dreMi. It la Dr. Winahlp'a good judgtaabt that haa made him famona and he waa never guilty of displaying 'bettor Judgment than in thia case. When three or four empty headed jgaoraoMUM make a practloe of get $iag together and Hooding thn cement aidewalka with tobanoo spit, It In (ime for the good people of our city to rlae up aad deaaaatd an antl-expoo-toratioa ordinance and inaiit nn ita enforcement.. The women's or daniaatioaa ofOmaha and Lincoln have been lastramental in wearing tho passage of aaeb ordinances, and tho Journal suggests that tho time is ripe for aotloa in Oolambus. NOT l'OUTJCS. Now that the supervisors hnvo tnkon aation likely t6 result in the retnrn tn Platte ooanty of somo tlOO oollootod Illegally by supervisors Brsnt and Mender in one year, It Is proor for the Journal to state the reasons which have prompted thia paer to take tho part it has taken. "First of all, it ia not a political matter. Democrats and republicans alike are Interested in clean govern ment and honest administration. In charging thnt supervisors Krnst and. Bender had collected from tho people of Platto county more than tho law avowed them, the Journal simply atatoti 'a faot relating solely to the official oondnot of these men, whioh It waa (the duty of thia paper and every ottor newspaper in tho county to atate." For if a newspaper does not owe It to Ita readers to publish faots of olHelala aalaoondnct. regardless of tha frailties of .the men Involved we kuow'no duty that it dues owe them. TbeJoaraal haa printed the names of these aaan ia large, bold letters be fore the tax payers of Platto connty not beoause they were democrats but beoaaae they were members of the law making body of this county, en trusted with the expenditure of our money, from whom wn have a right to demand an administration in strict conformity to law. If thoy do not ltvt within the law as roipeota their own salaries' what shall wo expect of them wlfji reference to the expend iture of our money for otbor purposes? These, men have known for months tba$ they bad collected more than the law permitted them to collect. Super visor Dietdrlaa early laat fall objected to tha allowance of one of their bill Then thn Journal pointed out tho facta to then. After all tbla notice before' the last meeting of the board laat year, they presented bills this year, for but , yeara services, bills whioh' shoald have been presented laat year, had they not boon afraid of opposition from Supervisor Dlednch. Taev have never made a public ex planation of their conduct, bnt they state privately that thev "did the work ajndfire entitled to the money." There oaa be no argument on this point. No public oilloer la entitled to more than the taw .allows him. If ho is not satisfied with what the law gives, thoro surely is no law compell ing him to take the office. Supervisors Gaotz, Ktnnan.Clother and others hnvo probably not been paid for all tho tlmo they have worked for tha county. Why did they not also collect more than thier legal allowance V, If the bars are let down : where shall wn stop? On tlio name theory thn fixed salaries or oar county and state officers and teachers and thousands of others would have no moaning. Wn want onr supervisors not only to live np to tho law thempelvcs, but wn want thorn to protect us from others. At tho present tlmo thoy nre j itntlv gnllty republicans nnd demo crats uliko for thn illogal payment of money to tho olllcial papers. Who will he thn first tn oall a halt? Tin-: niisv sthi: Cigarettes, paper novels nnd truancy nro the first three slept in n path of crime for tho school children of onr land, according to thn opinion of Tru ant Ollluor Parker. "The cigarette 1ml It is almost in variably first In tlio downward career," snid Mr. Parker. "A fnw days ago 1 saw n statement which gave truancy this nnenviablo position, but in niy judgment it Is erroneous. To bn sure, truancy Is almost always a factor, nnd iudeed thn prime factor, bnt yon will find It preceded by nlgnrettes. The boy who will not smoke nnd rentl cheap novels is tho boy who will not give tho Irunut oilloer trouble, nlthough 1 presume that any boy with red blood in his veins will piny 'hnokio' once In a wbiio. uost or tho nabituai truants, however, smoko cigarettes." Mr. Parker is tut c-iested in tho mat ter of parental schools and detention homes for truants nnd thinks they would for tn a vnlunblo adjunct to thn present Juvenile court system inOmnha liy its provisions bad boys nro placed on probation or locked up. If Omaha had a parental school truants might bo placed in it rather than tho jail of the juvenile court when thoy violate their parole. Mr.Paiker said: "Tho parental school is like tho ordinary public school except that overy child attending it is closely watched and attendance is absolutely compulsory. In cities which have such a school tho truant officer gathers those together who stay away too often from other schools and puts them together in this one sohool. They must report to him uvorv day. Many children would prefer this to being locked up and thev would fool the obligation of attendance mom than at proaont. " Los Angeles hns a parental sohool and a detention homo. The former Is such nn iustitntlon as I hnvo describ ed, and the latter is what its name signifies, n homo. Tho boys in it am under very strict discipline. If they prove unmanageable bore thev are sent to the reform sohool. liOs'Angeles believes In a succession of steps, ac cording to thn proforenco of tho boy or girl concerned. First, there is tho publlo sohool near their borne, thon thn parental sohool, then the detention home, and last tho reform sohool " Tin: old asi the new. Thn Honorable John L. Wobstor of Omaha, vion-prostdoutlnl possibility, has always failed to get near to tun heart of thn great common people, ap parently because bo is a Irillo too mncb np to date ton modern, ns it were. Ills gorgeously (lowered waist coats and his poetically creased breeches have not stirred np a reHjion slve throb within thn morn sluggish bosoms of tho multltnde; in faot they have long boon tho target of envious soolfera. And now John L. hns rnn afoul of anotbor olasa of citizens nnd for the aamo reason. Last Tuesday ho deliv ered tho annual address before tho Phi Beta Kappa society of the Uni versity ofNohrntkn. This is n nattounl college soolety tn whioh tnouihorship Is based not on social or tluanclnl con ditions but on scholastic attainments. Kaoh year nn elite few nrn r looted from the graduates of thn various col leges and universities to membership In I his intellectual aristocracy. In the course of his remarks be I ore this nlassio society John L. took no. casion to annnunoe that this devotion to tho classiu literature Is all foolish- uess; that the an 'lent Greeks, for in stance, were a semi -barbarous people ; that while a few cloistered hook worms still dig Into classic lore, the vast majority of thn present gener ation wouldn't know it if they should meet it on thn street ; that people don't road Herodotus now when they want history, or Vnrgll or Dante for poetry, or Demosthenes for oratory. They are all out of date. As a result of these t.omewhnt rash assertions Mr. Webster is receiv ing left-handed bouquets from the cloistered bookworms aforementlonrd. They intimate that the honorable Pos sibility baa butted in where angels fear to tread, and haa dealt himself a band out of all proportion to the natnber of chips he had iu tho game. Aad so the dootors disagree. It would seem to ua that John L. baa hardly established his cose, liy the same method of reasoning ouo might say that Haoh and Beethoven are out of date. For while a few oloisterod devotees tney still worahlp at the shrines of tho old composers, the multitude knuwoth not of them; whereas in every hamlet and village you may hear the inspiring strains of Tho Man Behind tho Gun. Mo .art got out some pretty good tunes for his day ; bnt nowadays the happy messen ger boy nn the streets whistles not an aria of Mozart but rather that tear stained ballad entitled The Villain Still Pursued Her. Therefore our music schools should drop all the old chestnuts and devote themselves to somnthlng that the majority likes better. For onn man who goes into raptures over thn Slstino Madonna yoa will find n hundred who prefer the gorg ecus lithographs of tho comic supple ment. Therefore, Itnpnael nnd his crowd wore good enough for their sniul-hnrbnrnps time, but they have been superseded by fluster Hrown and wo ought to iuit talking about them. Shnkcspcnro no doubt lived according to his lights, but thn lights went out two centuries ago. Nowadays, young Aiuorlcu will be found reading Tho Adventures ot William Wnrwhoop, while female America reads The Dunhess. Therefore, otc. Very fnw ieople probably could quote nuyibipi from the orations of littrkn or Fox or Dnttiol Webster; but every man wlnwe memory runneth back over a period of oight yoara can repeat: "You shall not ornoifv hu manity ou a cross of gold." There fore, etc., etc. It seema haidly nooessary to mul tiply oxnmplos. Mr. Wobstor Is Just a trlllo too modern. 11EAVTY. Prosldont Kllot is incorrigibly apt to say somothing wbon ho speaks. In his address at the opening of the Al bright Art Gallory in Hnllnlo.on Mon day :Ji, be laid it down thnt tbe ulti mate object of democracy la to. In crease the satisfaction and joy of lite for thn great mass of tho pooplo, and that nno Important way to do it is to cultivate the sense of beauty. Our democracy, bo thought, based tn im portant measure", on Kngllsh Puritan ism, had thus far failed to take due account of tho sense of beauty aa n meana of happiness,and to provide for training it. Ho found that "oar bar barons legislation taxing imported worka of art" mukea it the harder to establish galleries '.and museums, ktnd ho thought our schools were not yet doing what they should to foster the appreciation of beauty. Tbe main object in every sohool, he thought, should bn, "not to provide the child ren with meana of earning a liveli hood, bnt to show them how to live a worthy and happy llfo inspired by ideala which exalt and dignify botb labor and pleasure." He found it "monstrous" that tbo common school should give much timo to oompound numbers bank discouut, aud sten ography, and llttlo time to drawing; and monstrous thnt the school which propares for colloge should give fonr or live hours n week for two yeara to Greek, and no timo at all to drawing. Thero la somo novelty In the diffus ion of sentiments liko these by a col lege president of Dr. Eliot's distinc tion. It will come promptly to most renders' minds that of all people the Japanese seom to bavo cultivated most generally and farthest tho ca pacity to appreciate beauty and derive happiness from It, nnd yot the Japan ese have demonstrated effectiveness in nther nnd more "practical" di rections. Tbe ability to earn a living tn thia land is so important a oondl-tiou-preoedent to happiness, thnt we aro prone to think it the one thing needful, ami to be jealous of tbe schools devote much time to anything else. Hut somo day, and soon, we shall realize better than we do yet that some timely diversion of atten tion to tho understanding of beauty betters onr chanoea of making a living and stands at the same time aa an In surance against complete failure of happiness iu case we don't get nob. Hnrpor's Weekly. SOME DIFEEEESUE.l Last fall our fiiend tho llleuo called us somo hard namea because iu a political argument we said that f was U ier cent of f 100 and explained in onr next issue that we had meant to say t per cent nnd the extra figure got in through an error of typography. Thn Iliene in tho Arst place charged us with deliberately trying to deceive tbe people by n gross misrepresenta tion of fact. Secondly, and rather tllngically, tho llienn commented very nnfeellugly upon the feeble intelteo tual equipment of anybody who couldu't tlgaro any better than that, nnd suggestetl that we refund tbe inouey whioh bad been paid na in former years for services as Instructors of youth. Thirdly the Blene sarcas tically inquired whether anybody ovor rend proof on the maltor that went in to this euligbtenod sheet. Timo pawed. Last week the Uieoe republished an article from an exchange on the sub jeot of German-Americans. After a paragraph which waa rather uncom plimentary to certain Germans on American sohool boards, the Hlnne iuteriKilated an editorial comment to the effect that the nme condition ex isted here in Columbus. Receiving a written protest against such Insinuation from Mr. Brngger, socretary of tneColumbus school board, tbe Blcno .explains tbla week that It waa doe to a iyiograpbical error ; that tho comment waa intended for another paragraph of the article bnt got transposed by one of those unaccount able errors that will creep In. The Binne's explanation Is entirely reasonable and satisfactory, nnd no body who has had any experience in newspaper business will call it into question. ;; lioxKsT. Whilo tho aetossmenr figures for UK).") arn not yet complete, It Is known definitely thnt tbo total assessment' of Platto county will reach to six mil lions, or about V.'GO.OOO incrn than last year. This iucrenso comes atone in the personal property ou the farms of Platte county, Fur reel estate rdnuds where it was placed Inst y"ar Wo ropeat that tho iucrean cornea from tbo personal property on tbe farms of Platto connty, It mast be said to the credit of tho farmers of this, county, that In spite of tbo at tempts of tbe democratic press last fall to aronse them against the high assessment undor the now revenue law, they voluntarily listed from r to 'JO per cent morn personal property this year than last Just because they wished to co-operate with tho assessors in an honest enforcement of tbe lawj. And it must be snld to tbe equal shame of some of the leading business men of Cnlumbur, that tbe city of Co lumbus turned in f 12,000 less of per sonal property tbla year than laat. Thia falling off lioa chiefly iu the failure to list mortgages aa required by law. Assessor Galley is going cnretnlly over tho rocords, nnd has determined to demnnd that tbe man in whoso name mortgages n.o recorded, sbnll either himself bo assessed, or divnlge tbe name ut tho real ownor. In this de termination Mr. Galloy will have tbe baoklng of every boneat man in Platte connty. If the law saying 'tax mort ages, "is wrong, chango it. Bnt aa long as it is tho law, let it be enforc ed. No man should bo spared because his name ia Smith or Jones. Every mortgage that escapes tax ation imposes an extra burden on tho honest taxpayer. And every man who ia in any way connected with the con coaling of the real ownership of a mortgago puts bta band in bia neigh bor's pocket and takea money there from and ia wori-o than a common thief. He ia more than a common thief because bo la more cowardly. Tho Journal will oooperato with Assessor Galley in thia matter by publishing in foil if deairable tbe nnmoa of tbe partlos in whoso namoa mortngea nre recorded and tbe part of same not rotnrued bv them. A sharp halt should bo called to tax dodging, A Bad Scare. Some day yon will get a bad scare, whon yon feel a pain iu your bowela, and fear appendicitis. Safety Ilea in Dr. King's Now Life Pills, a sum cure, for nil bowel nnd atomacb, billions ness; costlvonesa, etc. Gnaiautoed at Chas. Daok'a drug atom only 2K cents. Try them. Bstarday'a Daily Jenraal, Prof. Hike, teacher music, Barber bldg. F. K. Belknap of Orastoa waa in the city yoterday. Fred Bohals left tbla morning for Milwaakee over the Burlington. Mita Mamie Howard of Bohuvler la spending a few daya In tbe city visit in friends. Miaa Mando' Brown of Sohnyler la visiting for a few days at tbe W- N. Honsley home. , Hnlley Wade of tho Schuyler Quill force was in tho oity to-day en-ronte to St. Edward where bo will visit over Sunday. Mrs. August Bohaok and two child ren nnd Mrs. Carl Evert left this morning over the Bnrllngton for a ten tiny visit in Chicago. Mrs. I. H. Brltoll and dnugthor Mabel left over tho Bnrllugtou this morning for Barton, Wisconsin to vis it Mrs. BrltolPa aunt They will tie absent about ton days. Miss Leona Harbort who was em ployed lost winter at thn Independent Telephone olllon drove over froinCres ton Columbus yesterday for her sister Misa Flossie Harbert who waa attend ing thn inatitnte. WANTED-Brigat. hoaeat young wan over 18 fromOolambaato prepare for position in Government servloo. Good pay and cbanoa for promotion. Address Immediately W. Fox one, Cedar Kapida, Iowa. It w. Mis Mamie Calio left today at noon for Chicago where ahe will reside in tbe future, making her home with a sister. She has lived in Columbus wltb her unole, M.O. Calto, for about twolve yeara and has many friends bare. Invitationa have been issued for the marriage of Misa Harlett Terry to Mr. Floyd Gal of Silver Creek. Mr, Gal The Bread m When the working man "knocks off" at noon, lie likes to find the bread in his pail light nnd tasty, not soggy and unhcalthful. jr' tnu ii inu cook Knows her, business and use s that superior Puritan Best Patent Flour i the bread wil be a de light and n satisfaction to the appetite every day in the year. Ask for Pictures for the Children Wells-Abbott-Nieman Co. A'SWflllK. Only by H. was principal and Miss Terry assis tant .pringipal ,of -stne Silver Crook schools. Tho marriage will occur on Jute 28 at Lincoln. i J . . i Shell. Clark, deputy assessor of Woodville township was iu tho city today. Mr. Clark's returns show nn in crease of about 'M per cent in the valuation of that township. It in creased from lini.OOO to f ISO.OOO. Mr. Clark ia an officient assessor. There has been a change in tho office of the Binger Sewing Mnohino company in Columbus. II. E. Price Who haa had charge of tho office re ignod Inst week but will romnin in Columbus engagod iu other work. M. Jordan who came several weeks ago to assist Mr. Price has also resigned and will retnrn to Hastings tonight where for thirteen years bo has repre sented the company. Ed. Jones, super vising aleaman was in tbe city today looking over tbe field. He will supply a representative for thia city in a fnw daya. Misa Zi minor will retain hnr position aa bookkeeper. .Oaptaln.Wagnnr announces that if room can be mado on tbe Fourth of July program, a sha'm buttle can he arranged between the militia com panies of Oolnmbns nud Schuyler for that day. In such nn event tho Columbus company ought to be ro drnlted up to Ita maximum strength, and there ia yet room for about 25 moro membors. The matter of tho sham battle will be considered to night at a meeting of tbe Fourth of laly committee. Moaday'a Dally Journal. 8. J. Ryan mado a business trip to Sohuylor today. Dra. Martyn, Evnns. Evans Sc Mnrtyn Jr., office three doors north of Fried- bof'sBtorr-. Robert Adams, editor of tho Fnllnr. ton Post was in Columbus today, re turning home from Llnooln. fe. H. Leaoh and F. H. Pratt, ed itor of 'the Humphrey Domoorat. were in the oity on business today. Mrs. W. 8. Evans will entertain Thiifaday' afternoon In honor or her slater, Mra. Clark of Salt Lake City. J, F. BelfoFd-WaB-oalled to Lincoln yesterday by tba death of tbe little naagntor or, nia nepnew, w. v. Barton. Editor J. W. Tanner of thn Fnllnr. tonjNewa- Journal wont through Co lumbus today ou bis way to Kansas. Rev. W a: Pattee ttt Oedar Rapids waa iu tho oity todnv enronto to fhe Only Sold Track Railway be-, tween the Missouri River and Chicago Fast dailv train servir Pacific & North-Western Line from noint in Nebraska to Chicago Six trains a day Omaha cnange. Two trains aany at. raui and Minneapolis. Che Best t For rates. Ikkett want-in uniiin J. a his. ini. Chicago & OMAHA. NEB, .NWtM WMXa&SMiXK.yiX! the Dinaar-Pail m i MB Ragatz & Co. Schnylor to offlolnto at tho mnrrlngo of Misa Bryant. C. N. MoElfresh, attorney. Oollnct ions n spoclnlty. tf. Thn Misses Wintnrbothnm of David Oily arn gnosts this wnok at thn homes of Mr. nud Mrs. J. If. Galley nnd Mr. and Mrs. V. Pollock. For ilro insurance, sen U. N. Mo ElfrcMi. olllco ovor Colnmbns Stntn Bank. tf Mrs. J. W. MnrthiB nnd ohildren who hnvo boon iu Now Mexico several years for Mrs.Mnrthis' health, return ed today. Mr. Mnrthis is conductor on the Burlington freight. FOUND. A cameo sot. If was lost dnring the parade Sunday. Owner can get same nt Journal o!Mce by pav ing for this notice tf " Znolow, the Schuyler tailor, will mako yon clothes that fit well, wear well nnd look well as long as a piero of the cloth remnius. FOUND. -On Dr. M. T.McMnhan's lawn, a large dog collar, bearing n dog tax label. Ownor cnu got snmn at Journal olllco by paying for this no tice, tf. Hnvo yon nn nccount you rnn not collect ,J Take It to MnHlfrosh. tf LOST A point Inco handkerchief at the opera honse nt commencement exercises. Finder will return to Mrs. II. H. Millard or to thn Journal office. J. J. Barnes nnd two daughters, Misses Mnudn and Jennottte, wont tn Chicago Saturday for a ten days visit. They will visit relatives nt Gibson City, III. also. Tho Misses Maggie nnd Mary Dlnoen accompanied them. Thev will visit an nuule in Chicago. Miss Maggie Wlllnrd returuedSntnr day from DesMoines whom sha has been nttoudtng the Des Moines mus ical college. Sho obtained n tenchor's certificate this spring nnd will return next winter to completo her courro. George Willnrd, Jr. also returned home Saturday to visit ovor Holiday. Last night Lee Bennntt bad his leg broken in n friendly wrestling match with Lowell Cbatfiold. A crowd of yonng follows wero bohind Sohilz's store nnd Bennett nnd Ohatfiold en gaged in n wrestling bout whioh re sulted in onn fall for each and n broken bono, just nbovo the auklo, for Bonnott. Dr. D. T. Mnrtyn, .ir. at tended to the fracture, Bennett was ont thin morniug on improvised crutches, though ordored bv thn doc tor to stay In bod for two days. Double vhi tht (".Mmr I li and East to Chicago, without Detween Umuhaand of Everything and lull Information apply rcini n k fir jjrrki eta. rrtW u hnr, Igt. North - Wtem Hy. : r a m l S vr i) aVa r r- k.Lm m -a""aaBBBBBBBB HI saBBBBBBWH l W X dii i r " M n i ... 5- O I . mit.