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The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
The Future Of the Republic
From n Lecture by Ralph
Waldo Emerson.

Ii is certain that our civilization
is yet incomplete. Ii is not a ques-
ton of whether there shall be mul-
titude of people here. That is
settled. But shall we, the new ma
ton, be the guide and lawgiver of
all nations as having clearly chosen,
and firmly held, the simplest and
best rule of society? To buy and
import much from England and Eu-
rope does not make us better men.
Every town has its cottages, its
fashions, its church, from England.
America is provincial. Ii is an im-
mense Halifax. Laughter and ap-
plause. Our politics threaten Eng
land, and her manners threaten US.
Our tendency is to make men all
alike, and extinguish the individual.
The builders of London gave you
your houses, and the Bishops of
London your faith. Laughter.
Thus we find that often the passion
for Europe casts out the passion for
America; they, for whom London
and Paris have spoiled their own
homes, can well be spared to return
to those cities. l can not only see
room for more genius than we have
here, but for more than we have i'm
the world. Our young men lack
idealism. A man, to be q success,
must not be a pure idealist, but he
must have ideas. He does not want
to be sun-dazzled or sun-blind, but
he must have glimmer enough to
keep him from knocking his head
against the wall. We want men
of originality, with their ideas wider
than their nationality, and taking in
the interests of the race and of civ
iliZstion. We need men of moral
and elastic minds, who can live in
the moment and take step forward.
Columbus was not a backward feel
ing crab, nor was Martin Luther,nor
John Adams, nor Patrick Henry,
nor Thomas Jefferson.
The genius and destiny of Amer
ica is not sluoOard. but ia an inces-
SAINT advance, like the hand on the
dis's face aud the heavenly bodies
by which il is moved. The flower
of civilization is the finished man
the man of sense, of accomplish
ment, of social power,-s gentleman.
What hinders that he be born here !?
The new times need the new man,
the complemental man, whom plain
ly this country must bring forth.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
Columbus Post once.

pen on Sundays frem IL A. NJ. to ~ VI.
and from $3.50 to 8 p. M. Business
hours except Sunday 6 A. NJ. to & P. NJ.
Eastern mails close at IL A.. M.
Western mails close at AIS PM.
Mail leaves Columbus for Madison and
Norfolk, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, 7 A. VI. Arrives at d p. NJ !.
r'Or Monroe, Genoa. Waterville and Al
bien, daily except Sunday6 An Ar
rive, same, q Pm.
For Postville, Fsrral, Oakdale and
Newman's Grove, Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays, q Am. Arrives
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
at JPN.
For Shell Creek, Creston and stanton,
on Mondays and Fridays at A. NJ.
Arrives Tuesdays and Saturdays, al
6P. M.
For Alexis, Patron and David CITY,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
Jpn Arrives at 12M.
For st. Anthony, Prairie Hill and st.
Bernard, Fridays, 9 A. NJ. Arrives
Saturdays, Bpm.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
Children and Music.

Let no child be taught music who
has not a natural appetite for it.
Decided musical talent generally
shows itself early. Many children
sing before they can speak. | have
written down with the date affixed,
go that there can be no mistake,
more than one actual tune invented
and sung by a small person of three
years old. But the negative to these
positive instances, is less easily as
certained. The musical, like anOth-
er faculty, developes more or less
rapidly, according to the atmos-
phere it grows in.
And there is always certain Pc
riod of "grind" so very distasteful
that many child will declare it
'hates music" and wish to give it
up, when little perseverance would
make of it an excellent musician.
am no cultivated musician Il wish
with all my heart the hard work Of
life had allowed me to be-but |
feel grateful now for having been
compelled, three times over, amid
many tears, to 'learn my notes.
which was nearly all the instruction
destiny ever vouchsafed me. New
ertheless | believe / did good deed
the other day.
A mother said to me, "My child
is thirteen and has been working at
music ever since she was seven
She has no ear and no taste. If she
plays q false note she never knows
it. Yet she practices very consci-
entiously two hours each day. What
must do?" Ny answer was brief:
"Shut the piano, and never let her
open it more" The advice was ia
ken, and the girl, who now spends
that unhappy two hours upon other
things, especially drawing, in which
she is very dilligent and very clever,
would doubtless bless me in her
heart if she knew all. But the love
Of music, which she had not, often
exists without great talent for it.
Still, in such cases cultivation can
do much. Many vocalists, profess
sional and otherwise, have begun by
being Uor ct pr9terea niha, that is
possessing a fine organ, but no skill
in using it.
While, on the other hand, many
delightful singers-I recall especial
| ly Thomas Moore and Sheridan
Knowles-may have had scarcely
any voice at all. The expression, 4,
the taste, the reading of song, are
as essential and delightful as the
voice to sing it with and these last
long after natures slow but inevita-
BILE decay has taken away what TO a
singer is always sore thing to part
with, so sore that many are very
long-far too lOng-in recognizing
this. Sadder to themselves than to
their listeners is the discovery that
now, when they really know how
to sing a song, they have not the
physical power Of singing it.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
The Silent Woman Of Mon 4.
tana.

On Willow creek resides a woman
who for fifteen years, except on one
occasion, has not uttered a word.
In 1865 she was relentlessly forbid =
den by her parents to marry the
man of her choice. Soon after this
the family moved to Montana, and
since the day of their starting, the
young lady, now grown to woman
of 80 years, has not articulated rs
much as half a dozen words. Her
long silence is attributed to intense
and abiding indignation at the cru
city of her parents, and probably
conceiving words to be useless and
inadequate to express the poignancy
of her suffering, she concluded new
er to speak again, resolution which
she has adhered to so far with re-
markable tenscity. She lives with
her parents, occupies room by her.
self, refuses to see strangers, and to
all intents and purposes is absolute
ly dumb. Her memory is strong
and accurate for one who neither
talks nor reads nor takes other in
tellectual exercises. Through the
partition in her room she will some
times listen to the conversation of
those in the adjoining apartment,
and occasionally, several days after
it has taken place, it will be found
on paper in her room, written out.
There is no doubt of her ability to
Miner.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09

and only once since 1910 do we find
him appearing in public. This was
IN 1866 when he addressed the Ed
inhurgh students. For many years
he had serious doubts of having
gained the ear of the people to any
considerable extent, and of "The
French Revolution" one of his great
est works, we find him saying
"What its effect on the public was
I knew not, and know not, but re-
member well and may be here per-
mitted to acknowledge the deep, 81
lent Joy, not of weak or ignoble
nature. which it gave to myself In
INV then mood and situation; as it
well might"
As many of your readers doubt
less know the manuscript of "The
French Revolution" was destroyed
before going to the printers. Gar
lyle was well nigh disheartened, but
in about five months finished a Sec
ond manuscript. Whether this lat
ter effort was rs good as.the former
we do not know, and we might we'll
think Carlyle himself was in doubt.
To Thomas Aird who met him in
Dumfriesshire after the labor was
completed, he expressed his opinion
that the second effort was better
than the first but some time since
when in conversation with CORES
pondent of the World, of London,
he remarked of the work, al set to
and wrote il all over again" but in
melancholy tone concluded 81 dinna
think its the same; no, | dinna think
its the same" Be il the same or
not, we know for a certainty that
these historical works utterly trans
cend anything of the kind produced
during the same period ; and indeed
il were hard to find their equal in
any day. His works will be handed
down to posterity, even apart from
their literary excellencies as the hon
est productions of diligent hand.
| remember having read an anec-
dote of him which shows clearly
how accurate and painstaking he
was. | was so much impressed with
it that took it down in my note
book and give it here as | read it.
Ii was during the first reprint of his
miscellsnies. Coming one day
from his printers in Charing Cross,
he was laughing prodigiously, hav-
ing enjoyed the following joke all
the way from the printing office. In
urging on the printer, that worthy
had replied: "Why, sir, you are SO
very hard upon us with your correc-
tions! They take SO much time you
see." The author urged the plea
that he must be accustomed to that
sort of thing, and that he had got
such work done in Scotland. "Yes,
indeed, sir, interrupted the printer,
we are aware of that. We have a
man here from Edinburgh, and when
he took up bit Of your copy he
dropped il, as if it had burnt his
fingers and cried out: "Mercy on
us, have you got that man to print
for? Lord knows when we shall
get done with all his correctionsw
But he is gone-gone to meet her
whom he loved sac dearly" and by
whose death he said, the lamp of his
life is gone clean out. His form
now lies in the ancient grave yard
he visited so frequently; and he
rests by the side of her over whose
grave he so often knelt, and the sods
of which he wet with his tears and
covered with his kisses. Peace to
his memory. L. l.. ID.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
Thomas Carlyle.

WEsT HILL, NEB., Feb. Ia. 81.
ED. JOURNAL Having for some
months been almost mOmentsrily
looking for the intelligence of the
death of Thomas Carlyle, | was
hardly surprised when saw the ac-
count of il In last weeks JOURNAL.
Having always been an ardent ad-
mirer of his, | deem il not out of
place to offer few lines in regard
TO him and his life to the readers of
the JOURNAL realizing, though, that
few, perhaps none of them, are so
interested in any thing pertaining to
this great and good man as myself.
Thomas Carlyle was born Decem-
Der 4, 1895, and consequently at the
time of his death was more than 50
wears of age. He wss one of those
men whom Scotland delights TO hon.
or, and who was, is now, and ever
will be an honor to Scotland and
not TO Scotland only, but to the
whole world, and the age in whic h
he lived. We know comparatively
little of his life, for il is one of our
great disadvantages, as with the
contemporaries of other great men,
that we are not so well situated for
knowing him and forming true es-
innate of his character and real
worth as will be subsequent genera
tions.
Mr.. Carlyle entered Edinburg
University before he had completed
his fifteenth year, and studied, | be-
lieve, with the intention of entering
the ministry, in accordance with the
wishes of his father, but a change of
views when be was twenty-one
made this imprscticsble. In ISIS
we find him in Edinburgh with his
life-worS still unchosen, but with
decided leanings toward literature.
He married in 1896 and in ISIS set
tied in Dumfriesshire on an estate be-
longing to his wife. Here his whole
time was given to literature, and it
was while in this place that ne wrote
assrtor Resartus" and the remarks
BILE essay on Robert Burns. Between
the years 1sS7-40 Carlyle attained
considerable eminence as lecturer,
and a portion of his lectures deliv-
cred during that time have been
published. Notwithstanding his
success in this direction, bis extreme
modesty and natural timidity caus-
ed him to dislike the lecture nela'
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09

The prohibition amendment was
sacrificed in the interest of the rail-
roads. Church Howe did it. Had
the prohibition bill been managed by
a man who was friendly to its pas
sage, it could never have been de-
feated. 1t was used as a stock in
trade, an article of merchandise, for
barter and sale, and when it had
been used to its fullest extent and
all possible advantage derived from
it, the amendment was thrown over
board like a sucked orange. We
predicted this from the start. 1t
could hardly have been otherwise
under such a leadership. But Ne
braska people are like all others
they are credulous and enjoy having
their credulity imposed upon.--Lin-
coin Globe.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
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There are good many things in
this world to make a man mad. The
young man who kindly stopped to
assist poor blind man, afterwards
found that the young girl who was
looking at him from the window of
the house was the house-maid and
not the daughter and heiress of the
proprietor.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
Celt or saxon.

Ed. JOURNAL Il have been inter-
ested in the temperate and judiciOus
articles of Mr.. James Kay on the
Irish Question, but there is one point
of fact as TO which | should doubt
whether he was quite right. LII
understand him, he is inclined to
think that by the time of James the
First the Saxons (and Normans) in
ireland were nearly equal in number
TO the proper Irish. He appeals for
confirmation of this opinion to the
commonness of Saxon names. Ii
has probably escaped his attention,
that in the reign of James the First
an act was passed, requiring the
Irish. at least within the English
pale, to give up their Celtic patronym-
les, and assume some common
English name, such as White, or
Brown, or johnson, or the like. Of
course this act was very imperfectly
carried out, and like the act abolish
ing the name of MacGregor, fell
ultimately into entire neglect; but
IL will serve to show how Saxon
names, by thousands, might be as
sHmed by purely Celtic families.
The relative proportions of the
two religions in Ireland would sup
port the same view. Apart from the
Norman mobiles aud their retainers,
who came In with and before DE
Bourgo. the main British immigra-
ton into Ireland took place after the
Reformation and while the Ssxons,
whether Scotch or English, had
small inducements to turn Catholic,
the MIlesians had powerful induce
ments of interest to turn Protestant,
which, however appear to have had
little effect except among the great
families. We may therefore pre-
sumo the Irish Catholics to be almost
as of course Celtic, and the Irish
Protestants, Saxon, or at least Brit
ish. This would give at least three
fourths of the true Irish, reckoning
in the old English of the Pale, who
were settled there before the Refor-
nation, and who cast in their for
tunes with the original inhabitants.
There is one element of doubt,
however. The Scotch Highlanders,
as we know, are Irish, as Ireland
was the original Scotia. And
great many of them have remained
Catholic. How large an immigra-
ton there was of them back among
their kindred, is a question. Their
names, of course, would be very
much the same as those of the Irish
proper. But so many of the High
land names have been transplsnted
TO the Lowlands, that it is often hard
to say whether a North Irish Pro-
testant family is originally from
Scotland, or is of the native stock.
Yet on the whole, as an Irish gen.
tleman once remarked to me, in
Ireland, religion is still a pretty
good criterion of race. And that
would make the true Irish over
whelmlngly more numerous than
the descendants of the immigrants
who came in after Henry the Eighth
had exchanged his title of Lord of
Ireland for King of ireland.
Perhaps our friend Judge Higgins
would favor us with some papers
respecting the exact ethnology of
ireland. As one in whose veins, as
well as name, Irish Celt and English
Teuton are commingled, | should be
very much interested in the dis
cussion.
CHARLES CASEY STARBUCK.
Clsridon, Ohio.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
The Rest DOughn uts.

The doughnut has been favorsbly
mentioned in literature, and it fills
an honored place in our memories
of childhood; but the doughnut
which is rolled in pulverized sugar,
and which has raisin in the center,
possesses an ideal grace never at
tanned by the plain fried cake, or
even the ring. Take three pints OF
flour, piece Of butter about the
size of a hens egg, one cup OF su-
gar, one egg, a small bowlful of
milk or water, four or five teaspoon
fuls of baking powder; flavor with
nutmeg or cinnamon. The dough
made in this way will be thin, and
you will need to sprinkle flour
enough over it and OH the kneading-
board to roll it out nicely. Cut the
cakes out with biscuit-cutter then
take knife and insert it at the edge
of the cake until the point of the
knife is at the centre; then take out
the knife and put the raisiD in ;
press and fiatten the cake, and cut it
out again with the biscuit-cutter.
This operation prevents the raisin
from bursting out when the cake
rises.--EUeRtng Post.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09

The happiness ofyour life depends
upon the quality of your thoughts;
therefore, guard accordingly, and
take care that you entertain no no.
tions unsuitable to virtue and un-
reasonable to nature.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.

C. II. VAN WYCK, u. S. Senator, Neb-
raska City.
ALVIN SAUNDERS, u. 5. Senator, Omaha.
T.. J. MAJORS, Rep, Peru.
Elk. VALENTINE, Rep, West Point.
STATE DIRECTORY:
ALRISUs NANCE, Governor, Lincoln.
7. Alexander, Secretary OF State.
F. w. Liedtke, Auditor, Lincoln.
q. NJ. Bartlett, Treasurer, Lincoln.
~ I Dilworth, Attorney General.
! r. Thompson, Supt. Public lnstruc.
Fl. c. Dawson, Warden OF Penitentiary.
y ", y W aAaIS' AGSey' Prison Inspectors.
1r.J. e. Davis, Prison Physician.
A. p. Mathewson, Supt. Insane Asylum.
JUDICIARY:
;. Maxwell, Chief Justice,
Georss i%sss Gobh. ;; 1ake' Associate Judges.
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
u. W. Post, Judge, York. -
N. B. Reese, District Attorney, WanO
LAND OFFICERS:
4. B. Hoxie, Register, Grand Island.
VIM. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Island.
COUNTY DIRECTORY:
{. G. Higgins, County Judge.
John Stautfer, County Clerk.
J. W. Early, Treasurer.
BENZ. Spielman, Sheriff.
K. l.. Rosssiter, Surveyor.
iS.ssS & SSsS %sSf; %;;;. S;;., oo""'yco"".'o"'''
Dr. A. HeintZ, Coroner.
J. +. Mohtcreif Supt. of Schools.
g. b. Bailey, Just;cas softbePeace
harles Wake, Constable.
CITY DIRECTORY:
J. p. Becker, Mayor.
ii. j. Hudson, Clerk.
C., A. Newman. Treasurer.
Geo. G. Bowman, Police Judge.
J. G. ROutsOn, Engineer.
CoUNCILMEN:
Ist Wdrd-John Rickly.
G. A. Schroeder.
I'd Wdrd-Wm. Lamb.
5. McAllister.
Sd Wdrd-G. W. Clother.
Phil. Cain.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
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c.. III. VAN WICK, u. 5. Senator, NeD-
raska City.
L. j. MAJORS, Rep, Peru.
Elk. VALENTINE, Rep, West Point.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09
u. u. Time Table.

Every day except Saturday the three
lines leading to Chicago connect with
q z. trains at Omaha. On Saturdays
there will be but one train q day, as
hown by the following schedule:
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by mail
e. ft.TOl Obio.
For sale by \. lElNTZ, Druggist Columbus. Neb.
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q. A. R.-Baker Post No. 9, Department
of Nebraska, meets every second and
fourth Tuesday evenings in each
month i'm Knights of Honor Hall, Co.
lumbus.
JOHN HAMMOND, =. G.
ID. d. WADswORTH, Adj't.
II. =. BOWER, Searg. Maj.
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-03-11
The New President.

President Gartield's inaugural
is good. On the sectional issue
it is more than good-it is grand,
1t speaks to the South and to the
country on the the highest plane
Of craftsmanship, and touches
deity the chords Of National feel
ing which Lincoln swept so elo-
gently, but in vain, twenty years
ago. His attitude must make a
profound impression upon the
country, upon the North and the
South alike. He holds up the
only trHe remedyf for race discords
and dangers. Cancellation may
be obscured for a time; Temporal
ry eXcitements may cloud over
the clear shining Of this policy,
but it mast triumph in the end.
lnaugurated by Mr.. Hayes, new
~ avOwed by President Garfield
against the reactionary tendency
Of the campaign on which he was
elected, it makes the true and
substantial progress toward Ma
tional unity. Gen. Garfield is, of
course, sound upon tho financial
issues, and is widely specific,
dealing with several great ques-
tons in a few sentences. On civil
service I. form he is brief, and
addresses himself to Il practical
point--the regulation Of the ten
ure of the subordinates in the civ
il service. This includes the
method Of appointment also; if his
allusion to the "protection Of
those who are intrusted with the
appointing power means any
thing. The whole reference is in
cluded in one sentence, to which
a very wide construction may be
given. 1t is safe, and does not
promise more than can be accom-
plished. To accomplish so much
will prove that Mr.. Hayes efforts
have not been in vain, and Presi
dent Garfald's Administration
takes vantage ground for reform
on Mr.. Hayes. The new Cabinet
has spoken a happy omen for his
Administration.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-03-11
ANAUROSAS, PAINFUL AND
MISUNDERSTANDING
One OrtEle first ladies Of KNOX
vile Restored.

DIR. JoNEs-Dcar Sir: For sixteen
months before you commenced treating
my eyes, they had not been free from
pain one instant. In three days after
using your medicines the pains and
torture ceased, ] found sweet relief and
they have been recovering until now,
| use them, aud read and write with
ease. DR.. Jones, my heart swells with
gratitude for this great cure, and | adj
wise the afflicted and suffering TO lose
no time, but 60 to headquarters ut once
ms this visit Of DR.. Jones to Knoxville Is
Il god-sind to the afflicted.
Mrs. $. l.. ADKINS.
Knoxville, Feb, II, 1881,
Through the urgent solicitations Of
many Of the best ladies' aud gentlemen
0fthe State, DR.. Jones has prolonged
his stay at the Hattie House, Knoxville
until April first.