Our School Journal from Columbus, Kansas • 3

OUR SCHOOL JOURNAL. fc" "As Quiet as Mice." This is an old saying but few give it as Published monthly, TTmiIaw lha nnomito nf Iho rvimila thA I I much thought as it deserves. While I cannot, say with Col. Sellers There's millions v. most earnegt anJ th teacher8t our Hieh School: Bovs 16.

eirls 23. total 43. LOLUmOUS Lrraaea oCn00l. family always do their work well. Intermediate; Boys 23, girls 28, total 49.

in it," yet it might be reasonably said there is much in the expression, "As quiet as Our'thanks are especially due to Mr. Second Primary: Boys 89, girls 34, io- COLUMBUS, KANSAS, DECEMBER, 1877. IL Gardner for the valuable assistance tal 73. First Primary: Boys 41, girls 80, mice." You never see a quiet man, woman. rendered in the composing room.

If the total 71. Total enrollment: Boys 118, girl or boy, that you are not instantly attracted towards him Or her. The distress Two weeks vacation during the hoii- j0Urnal has any typographical excellence, girls 118, total 236. uav8' it is entirely due to his care and taste. daily attendance.

-The whooping-cough has considerably A nW hnift ia ft ff0nd thin HiBh ScIlool: Bovs irla 22 total ing stillness holds you spell-bound. While I always like those boys or girls who are full of jollity and can speak right out in 33. Intermediate: Boys 17, girls 16, to lessened our average attendance. for anv to have. Columbus is favored meeting," I am more than charmed by those tal 86.

Second Primary: Boys 29, girls 24, total 53. First Primary: Boys 22, Miss Nellie Patty, an ex-pupil, is em- in this particular, as George Bryant knows ployed in the Ferris district this winter. just.what the traveling public require, both Harry Moore is preparing some mag- as regards clean beds and appetising cuisine. girls 25, total 47. Total Boys 79, girls 90, total 169.

nificent scenery for the school exhibition. Our thanks areliue to our citizens for U3 Maudie McDowell, of the Second Pri- the warm encouragement and the ready pe Obituary. mary, has returned from a visit to Indiana, cuniary assistance so freely bestowed upon -n --j -n our enterprise. This kindness has been so On December 13, 1S77, passed from this life (FUUjJC V. X.

lUVllUlS UUU Jil, O. Smith are the great telephonists of Colum- uniform that tt would be unJust to discrim into eternity, Orla Goklsberry, only son of our esteemed neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. T. W.

Golds- bus. berry, and a member of the Intermediate de partraent of the Columbus Graded School. -C. W. Harvey carries a second grade A11 Persons havinS lheir possession firMfW WW books belonging to the Public Library will as quiet as niice The old saw, "I smell a mice," did not originate from the fact that the person suspected made a aoiso or bluster, but from the surrounding circumstances of reserve or ac almost unbearable reticence.

And, yet quiet people are generally, very clever people, and the declaration is often made, That boy or that girl is very clever, he or she is so quiet." This class sometimes astonish the world by a lifetime of silence to be broken by one solitary act that captivates our admiration, and startles us by the grand idea evolved from a lifetime of the purest Bilence, 'Tis then the world smells a large-sized Had we not all then better be "as quiet as mice," if we can by quiet industry, quiet study, do one grand good thing, one gnat thing, rather than go plunging, spluttering and rattling Orla was Much esteemed by his class- sound common sense conter a great tavor by returning the same mates and hia uniform kin(iness and manli IK. i trr i cuuimg wee, ne are neeuing some oi nfiRa won the tonfidence of his teachers and T. A. Stockslager, the best county su the books in the daily exercises of the perintendent we ever had, is now ttaching viuuui-ruuiu. I i x- i i.

a in district number 18. The Journal will take especial delight and as stepping upon the threshold of use in remembering any of the former pupils fulness, God in his wisdom claimed him for "Handsome Husband" and Betsy Baker," with a good cast of characters, are of our school who are now engaged in the His own. He is not dead, but the plays selected lor the exhibition proteSSlOn OI teaclline. All 01 this ClaSS is a saviher hard in rftfllirp ThA Wonted mivnoT-r icciio ma nnvnnaoiniimTin (V I will confer a favor bV informing US Of their mother, in her lnnlra ni. tha vnnnt a.

i i ji i i ouer8 oi me county nuea present whereabouts. chai beholds untouched dish on" the at this school. A long list of the foremost along life's' pathway, and when the recollection of our noise dies out, recollection of Miss Millie Kennett (one of us) is tame, tne laminar treaa is not neara in tne us dies also teaching a very successful school in district nail and nightIoses over her leaving this Miss Ida Martin, an old pupil and 93 Millie was famous for her neat Wank- void unfilled. The silent sorrow of the i i wiiu-ny a leacner in mis county, is now at board exercises and we warrant her pupils father, who pictured in his mind the future 11 Ti ji i ji I iae Massacnuseits atate formal bchool, are modela in thig regpect) solace and usefulness of his first born as he Salem. uept hiiu eAauipie are uuuueu.

ar' tuauuuwu piiuc, mv -Hon. C. W. Harvey will address the pu- we fiall ftttenHon ia fhft fpw aurth.ns from his declining years, cannot lils of the city school at a time not far dis- bu8inesg cards fouQ, ou That the "good die first, the bad bum PROGRAMME OF School Entertainment! To be given by the pupils of the Colvmbvs Graded School, At OPERA HALL, Saturday Eveh'g December 29, 1877. tant.

Subject, Life and teachings of tH are found here show that thoge fi to the socket." To him it is terrible death, j- Jt i no wpnt ft slAAn. 'In a svmnn.t,Uv or our are true irienas oi tne pudhc scnoois oi the A Hon. W. Perkins has promised to citv and county. Few cities of our size can people is with the bereaved parents, and all deliver a lecture for the benefit of our city furnish business men of equal integrity and hoPe and that.

sad ordeal may i I il. scnool, sometime during the coming term of enterDrise soon Pass irom ineir nP3 anu uou wm x- court. yt tt i tt I strengthen them to bear a loss tnat man Th i kind cannot assuage, Song, "Greeting," By the School. Tableau, "Our Protectors." iuc wvrfiuS vuo ui me ucbiiuub paia a nne oi one aoiiar lor punisning a 1 i 1 1 propounaea at tne last examination "In saucy, impudent bov who committed one of what case is the subject of a verb or par- the grossest breaches of school discipline. Song Patriotic, Flora Gates.

Efiie Brasee. Flora Laporte. A I ucipiei Henry ought to be ashamed of himself for The night has a thousand eyes, The day but one; Yet the light ol a whole world diea With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, The heart but one But the light of our household dies With our only son We had the pleasure of meeting the not taking an appeal and instructing his Rev. C.

Combs, of Osaera. on Tuesdav last, district as regards what constitutes ma 1 I Tableau, "Night and Morning." The Drama Kutitled HANDSOME HUSBAND Mr. Combs is one of the most eloquent di- licious prosecution. i viuea ia mis wyuicreuuc. a Miss Hettie Felton, Carrie McDowell, in 0ur city.

L. A. Vincent, J. H. Cast of Chabacters Jennie Lawver and Mr.

George Baird, all of Spear, James Snevely, Miss Kate the Columbus Graded School, are now at- Young, Miss Anna Snevely, Miss Millie All About Our New Maps. The present' School Board certainly deserve a great deal of credit, and on our part, a great deal of gratitude, for supply tending the Mornsville (Mo.) Institute. Kennett, are "amateur stars" of more 1 The High School will shortly miss the than local celebrity, and, if they are mem- J. L. McDowell.

Samuel Scaggs, Alfred Cochrau. Miss Anna E. Miss Laura A. Wilson. Miss Emma McDowell.

Bedate features of Frank Hoover, which bers of the society, we insure some pleas Mr. Wyndhara, Mr. Fitzherbert, Stephen, -Mrs. Wyndham, Mrs. Melford, Mrs Twisden, Maid, will indeed be a great loss.

Frank is going ing entertainments the present winter. i 1 it. 1. JJ 1 ui ij uuwu iae ruie oi pupu auu assume We Dliri)0SB undertaking the nublica. ing a want so long existing good wall maps.

For several years, in fact since the organization of the district, our bare walls have forcibly reminded us of a desired need unsupplied. We never beheld a stranger entering the school-room but the tell-tale blush would tinge our cheeks, and it was tuat ui peuiSugue. school iournal devoted to Miss Sallie Hutsell, one of our former the interests of our city school; whether Miss Allie Weaver. The Ploughboy," Belle Jaokman. teachers, is freely spoken of as a fitting we are successful or not depends upon lhe Song, candidate for the next county superinten- liberality fof our citizens.

All must be dency. We emphatically say that she would aware of the advantages to be derived by adorn the position. our city from an enterprise of this charac 1 Tableau, "America's Pride." Music (instrumental), Miss A. E. Snevely.

Song, Birdie Willis. The Farce Entitled BETSY Mfts Jessie A. Wilson, (formerly of the ter. A live school and neat churches are High School) is now teaching at the Brush the greatest attractions that any town can Creek school house. Her success as a possess 1 teacher is told in saying this is her third vear in that district.

Boll of Honor. all because we had no maps. But now our blushing days are over we see the unfamiliar face enter our workshop and we grin with proud delight. Many thanks to you, Mr. Officers.

We will try and remember (you as we attempt to locate the course of the Congo according to Stanley's last letter, or as we follow Xenophon in his famous retreat4 of the immortals, as promulgated by Mr. Rollin. An American would meet with many difficulties in undertaking to cat his dinner without the use of knife or fork well, maps in a geography or history lesson are knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks and napkins thrown in. This, at least, is my individual opinion about maps. By the removal of Mr.

Monroe, to Illi- List of pupils who have been neither ab nois, our school has lost one of its most sent nor tardy during the term: Cast of Characters Mr. Marmaduke Mouser, W. H. Timberfcike. Mr.

Crummy, Eugene Turner, Mrs. Anastasia Mouser, Miss Sarah Allen. Betsy Baker, Miss Kate Young. promising pupils. Albert E.

was but High School: William Pender, Ambrose thirteen years of age, yet by his studious Bennett. habits, had won an excellent grade in all Intermediate: James Vincent, Flora La his classes. We predict for Albert a bril- porte, J. L. Pender, Anna Dooley.

50 cents, will furnish Admission, The Columbus Orchestra music for the occasion. liant and useful future if he eontlnues to Second Primary Kate Swanson, Calvin apply himself as he has done while with us. West..