Commercial Journal from Wichita, Kansas • 3

QUESTIONS ANSWERED. The passengers on the railroad train of life are divided into three groups: the capable and alert, who stand on the pilot of the engine and watch for what is coming; the incompetent and neglectful, who crowd about the rear platform and sigh for the things that have passed by; and the lazy and stupid, who lie asleep in their berths, heedless of the course of the train and of the country through which it passes. drafts, note accounts, and go through every step known in commercial transactions. Students of the Wichita school buy and sell with the Packard College of New York City, the Grand Rapids Business College in Michigan, with Chicago, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Minneapolis, Mlnnesota.Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and several others. Goods are represented by cards.

Every shipment is accompanied by all the necessary papers. Every paper must have the teacher's stamp of O. K. All checks are indorsed, stamped, paid and returned, Just as the banks and the clearing houses do them. It is an actual business carried on with all parts of the United States under the supervision of acknowledged authorities.

The student's day's business is as much a matter of uncertainty as the day of the man who actually buys and sells merchandise. It is no theoretical humdrum and senseless druggery of terms used nowhere outside of the school room. The work of the entire commercial course requires about six months. The students, upon graduation, go right on in business methods. The Commercial College of Wichita doesn't turn out failures.

The business schools of this country are each year training thousands and thousands of young men and women to be alert, capable, self-supporting citizens. They are doing a work that the higher colleges and universities cannot do, and for a class of persons which the latter cannot reach. The disposition which is manifested in some quarters to sneer at business colleges comes from senseless prejudice, and from utter ignorance as to the aims and results of commercial education. The following questions come to us so often from correspondents that, as a matter of general Information, It Is deemed advisable to print them, together with the tenor of the answers thereto: First "When is the best time to begin the course of study?" Students are admitted on any school day throughout the year with equal advantage to themselves and progress as rapidly as their abilities and application allow. This is rendered possible by our method of individual Instruction, and the large number of teachers employed.

Second "Shall I lose time by entering at the middle of a term?" No. There are no regular term divisions. The student's time begins when hg enters and ends when he has completed his studies. Third "Shall I lose the time I am kept away from school on account of sickness?" No. In case of sickness or other unavoidable detention, time will be extended.

Fourth "Where do students board, and what does it cost?" Our students board almost entirely with private families. We keep a list of such, with the accommodations offered, and can find homes for pupils in any part of the city immediately. Good board, including furnished room, can be had for from Ten Dollars a month, upward. Some students rent rooms and board themselves for less. Fifth "How long will it take to complete the course?" It is impossible to make an exact estimate of the time, as so much depends on the student's energy, industry and application.

Grammar school graduates can easily complete the business course in six months. If shorthand and typewriting are taken up in addition, about two months longer will be needed to acquire a working knowledge of those arts. Every student is advanced as rapidly as his industry and ability will permit. We are glad to announce that students are rapidly finding positions as they complete their courses of rtudy. While the recent war scare has somewhat contracted the volume of business, there still seems to be a continuous demand for intelligent young men and women who are well prepared as bookkeepers and stenographers.

Mr. H. G. Koogle, In the civil service and located at Newton, with the Santa Fe. Mr.

Bert Allen, with Goldsmith Book and Stationery city. Miss Agnes Thurston, stenographer for a wholesale grocery company, Arkansas City. Mr. A. L.

Knouse, clerk In Fletcher's grocery store on Douglas avenue. Mr. A. C. Coble, bookkeeper for the Sash Door city.

Mr. Blatt Dawson, special delivery clerk, postofflce, Wichita, Kan. Mr. J. A.

Willlgan, accountant and stenographer for the Frisco, Ft. Smith, Ark. Mr. R. A.

Goertz, bookkeeper and stenographer for a milling company, Newton, Kan. Miss Nellie Fitzpatrick, stenographer for Amidon Oonly, attorneys, city. Mr. John A. Murphy, bookkeeper for Citizen's Bank, Enid, O.

T. Miss Vertice Simmons, teacher of shorthand and typewriting in business college at El Dorado, Kan. Mr. J. R.

Vincent, stenographer for Stewart Burns Loan company, city. Mr. Mac Dobson, cashier for the Fulton Clothing House, city. Mr. J.

H. Wells, stenographer for Adams Adams, city. Mr. James M. Taylor, bookkeeper in a bank at Perry, O.

T. Miss Jetta May Laycock, stenographer for United Sash and Door company, city. Mr. Amos Stites, with Johnson Larimer Wholesale Dry Goods House, city. Mr.

Fred Swartz, bookkeeper, Newton, Kan. Mr. O. S. Shirk, bookkeeper for Israel city.

Mr. W. R. Isenhart, bookkeeper for the Standard Oil company, city. Mr.

J. E. Farrow, deputy register of deeds, Sedgwick county. Miss Ona Parsons, stenographer at Garden City, Kan. Mr.

G. D. Royer, stenographer at Gove, Kan. Mr. C.

B. Walker, bookkeeper for L. W. Clapp, city. Miss Bessie Swineford (Mrs.

Shirk) stenographer for Fourth National bank, city. Mr. S. A. Sefton, attorney, Wichita, Kan.

Mr. Clyde Maxwell, bookkeeper and stenographer for Wichita Mill and Elevator company. Mr. Warren Cobb, bookkeeper and stenographer for Reese city. Miss Inez Creditor, bookkeeper and WHAT SOME OF OUR STUDENTS ARE DOING.

One purpose of this journal is to set forth the general character of the work of our school, its methods and its purposes. Our readers will find in the present issue a number of articles written with this purpose in view. It will pay those who desire a practical education to read these articles, that they Mr. Frank Jensen, clerk passenger department Rock Island railroad, Ft. Worth, Tex.

Mr. J. T. Vandervoort, stenographer and accountant with Santa Fe railroad at Newton, Kan. Miss Anna Freels, stenographer and bookkeeper for Bryan Bros.

Fruit city. Miss Daisy Ades, bookkeeper and stenographer with Fulton Clothing city. i Mr. Z. R.

Stocker, stenographer and accountant for the Santa Fe railroad, at Newton, Kan. Mr. Perry Chandler, bookkeeper and stenographer for First National bank, Newton, Kan. Miss Lena Josephs, stenographer for MeCormick Implement city. Miss Nora Stebbens, stenographer and bookkeeper for the Houck Hardware city.

Mr. Harry French, stenographer for Bentley and Hatfield, attorneys, city. Mr. Myron Boyle, bookkeeper for Boyle Commission city. Miss Maud Gowen, stenographer and bookkeeper with Hewlett Wheeler, A SPECIAL ADVANTAGE.

MISS SADIE JOSEPH Miss Joseph made the quickest time of any graduate from the shorthand department completing the course in ten weeks. She is now stenographer for the Implement this city. city. Mr. Ned Larimer, ensign on the battleship Indiana.

George Dennis and Bert Latham, joined the regular army and are fighting the Spaniards in Cuba. Miss Agnes Brown, stenographer for Mr. William Bolton, Woodford, O. T. Mr.

Walter Bolte, check clerk with the Rock Island railroad, Wellington, Kan. Students can enter the college at any time, and it is not necessary to wait for the formation of classes or the opening of terms. Class instruction is largely done away with, and when classes are conducted there are so majiy of them that students of different grades of advancement can be readily suited. For instance, there are three classes in arithmetic which recite daily. As rapidly as one class completes the subject another is formed.

Individual instructions in the subject of bookkeeping, penmanship and the other general branches is the rule. The rapid student can advance as his abilities will permit; the slower student is not advanced more rapidly than is consistent with a thorough understanding of the subjects being pursued. This method of individualizing instructions gives full sway to the ambitious, and just as full courage to those deficient in enthusiasm. It neither condemns the strong to the slow pace of the weak, nor does it force the weak to work beyond their ability. It extends to all the inspiration of securing solid knowledge, and avoids an ungenerous competition at the expense of the weak.

YOUNG MEN WANTED AS may know what a course at this school includes. We desire that all students who come to us should know just what we offer in the way of fitting them for life and its duties. Here is a good rule for every young man to paste in his hat: "Never borrow money except to make an investment." It need hardly be said that the money a young man borrows in order to provide himself with a practical education, is the very best kind of A STRONG ENDORSEMENT. BEGINS WORK IN NEW QUARTERS IN SHEETS BUILDING. stenographer with a large grain firm, St.

Joseph, Mo. Mr. E. S. Binning, Principal of the Ward school, Wichita, Kan.

Miss Ina Hodges, bookkeeper for the Hodges grain company, city. Mr. C. C. Bowersox, bookkeeper for the English American Insurance St.

Louis, Mo. Mr. Guy Truex, with the Fulton Clothing House, city. Mr. Thomas Corn, stenographer for a law firm at Cheyenne, Wyo.

Mr. J. E. Gresham, in employ of the government at McAllister, O. T.

Mr. Arthu E. King, bookkeepe: in the Waukomis. O. bank.

Miss Laura Morris, stenographer for the Potts Wholesale Drug House, city. Mr. Harry Isenhart, bookkeeper for the Standard Oil company, Salina, Kan. Mr E. D.

Jennings, with the Missouri Pacific railroad, city. Mr. W. D. Matton, stenographer.

Colorado. Miss Nettie Alexander, stenographer and bookkeeper with the Wichita Wholesale Produce Co. Mr. Edward W. Sneed, bookkeeper and stenographer for the Perry, Mill and Elevator company.

Miss Marguerite Shea, stenographer for a law firm in Bloomington, 111. Miss Stella Windle, bookkeeper for Mr. J. T. Ludlum, insurance agent, Wichita, Kan.

Mrs. A. M. Wilbur, stenographer f'r I. E.

Spencer, Wichita, Kan Mr. B. T. itb Mr Cash Henderson's Dry -oods FAovse, city. Mr.

Harry Brown, traveling for an implement company. Miss Grace Taft, stenographer at St. Joseph, Mo. Miss Hattie McClung, bookkeeper for the McClung Wholesale Boot and Shoe city. H.

W. Osterhout, bookkeeper and stenographer in a bank in Virginia. Mr. Morris Congdon, stenographer for the Hon. S.

R. Peters, Newton, Kan. Mr. Emery Swisher, bookkeeper and stenographer, Meade Bicycle city. Mr.

George Schanbacher. stenographer for the Santa Fe railroad company, Newton, Kan. Mr. S. L.

Albaugh, Wells Fargo Express Arkansas City, Kan. Miss Margaret Snively, stenographer for the New York Life Insurance Kansas City, Mo. Again and again we have called attention to the fact that there is an urgent demand for young men stenographers, and that we cannot supply the demand upon us for this class of help. The scarcity still continues, and men who are anxious to secure positions, they somehow fail to realize this opportunity. What can we say to bright young men that will awaken them to this fact? Mr.

R. S. Stewart, head bookkeeper Stewart Iron Works, Cincinnati, O. Miss Nora Recob, bookkeeper in a bank in Indiana. Miss Julia E.

Walton, bookkeeper and stenographer, Thomas Shaw's Music House, Wichita, Kan. Mr. J. F. Bort, bookkeeper for Michigan Lumber Kingfisher, O.

T. Mr. S. Culbertson, stenographer for United Sash and Door company, Wichita, Kan. Mr.

Charles A. Sowers, bookkeeper and stenographer, Wichita Creamery. Miss Nellie Rees, stenographer and bookkeeper, Maxwell McClure. wholesale house. Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. J. C. Kelly, bookkeeper Sedgwick County bank, Wichita Kan. Miss Minnie Smith, court stenographer in Iowa.

Mr. Glen Lehman, in a bank at Newton, Kan. Mr. Charles Wichita Wholesale Grocery company, Wichita, Kan. Miss Birdie Fisk.

stenographer at Register of Deed's office, Wichita, Kan. Mr. C. R. Brown, accountant in a bank at Augusta, Kan.

Mr. J. C. Robinson, proprietor and manager of a large stock ranch near El Dorado, Kan. Mr.

George H. McCall, stenographer for a large wholesale house, Chicago, 111. Mr. George C. Carrie, head bookkeeper for Standard Oil company, Han-ibal, Mo.

Mr. J. F. Minnich, Maxwell McClure wholesale house, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Edith Hall, bookkeeper for the Bishop Paint city.

Miss Grace Huff, stenographer for Santa Fe railway, city. Mr. Zepher Davis, agent for the Frisco Railroad company, the youngest agent in their employ. HABITS OF ORDER AND (From Wichita Daily Eagle, Feb. 16.) Yesterday Professor Robins' Commercial College opened in its new home, which comprises eleven rooms in all, especially arranged for the purpose of the school, being more spacious and comfortable than the old rooms in the Y.

M. C. A. building recently purchased by the Masons for a Temple. The main room used for the class in Actual Business Department, second term work, will accommodate 125 students, besides the bank, wholesale, retail and transportation departments.

There are large, light, airy rooms for typewriting, shorthand and beginning work in the commercial course, and a department of telegraphy. Professor Robins opened his school here four years ago last September with a small attendance and a small faculty. By thorough, practical and exhaustive training of students he has developed the Commercial College into an institution of first-class size with a first-class faculty and more than two hundred students. They do actual business in bookkeeping, banking, shipping, etc. Students of the school buy and sell on order, making invoices, bills of lading, bills of account, checks, Every young man wants to succeed.

Doubtless he becomes weary sometimes listening to the advice of those about him. Sometimes the wisdom of fathers and elderly people is a little tiresome; still the young man of good judgment and open convictions will always find something in any advice which is really good advice. How easy it is to admire people who agree with us. It may not be true that every boy who smokes cigarettes is hopelessly worthless; but it is true that nearly all the worthless boys smoke cigarettes; and that ought to be enough to make every self-respecting boy let the "coffin nails" alone..