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3C XJ.UC Sweet (Diarjoi DUNLAP, KANSASgE. 1 1S87. Miss Mollie Ralston, teacher in the Academy, writes that she is spending the Summer helping lessons in Painting! alxTttending the Normal school. She is so plain, sensible and free from mean prejudices, that the pupils all felt at home in her company. We should like to suggest some scenes in Dunlap for the artist's brush.

FREEDMEN'S Academy of Kansas. DUNLAP, MORRIS KANSAS. The Danger. LESSONS FROM THE CENSUS. "In 1880 there were in the United States, in round numbers, 10,000,000 voters.

Of this number, 2,000,000, or one-fifth of the whole number, were illiterate. One in every group of five could not write his name one in every six could not read his ballot. This vast army of illiterates, armed with the most powerful franchise ever bestowed on man, have power enough to change the results in almost all of our State and National elections. "The uneducated freeman is a slave. The dupe of the designing and unprincipled demagogue, his powers may be employed, not only against society, but also for his own destruction.

"Many have thought, and not without reason, that illiteracy will prove to be the sand-bank upon which our ship of State will be stranded and destroyed. "Of one thing we may be sure, such a franchise of universal suffrage, without commensurate education, is among the greatest perils of our free institutions. And, what is more and more alarming is that, in spite of all the efforts of Church and State and all other educational agencies, illiteracy is on the increase." American Journal of Education. 'The purposes for which the Academy is established, are to offer to the Colored people of the West such an education as will qualify them for teaching in the Public Schools, for the management of business, for mechanical industries, and for an honorable home life also, to encourage the settlement of colored families in country districts where they shall have the opportunity of education." Chartcr Mrs. Professor Atchison has been spending her vacation at the home of her parents in Michigan's capital city.

In her last letter she writes that she has just bid farewell to two of her friends who are going to Persia as missionaries. It is bad Christian training that makes no missionaries. Robert Bright is one of the brightest Colored farmers in the Dunlap colony. Six years ago he had next to no home a small house in the village. Now he owns 160 acres, nearly 100 acres under the plow.

He also owns seven head of horses and sixty head of cattle. How's this for one of the Exodus families, which spent every cent to come to Kansas Course of Study. Primary Department. I. COURSE FOR CHILDREN.

II. COURSE FOR ADULTS. In this Department Ileadine, Writing, Numbers, Geography, Drawing and Music are taught. In termedia te Departm en t. The studies of the Primary Department are continued, with the addition of IT.

S. History, Physiology and Temperance. Academic Department. I. LITERARY AND NORMAL COURSE.

II. BUSINESS COURSE. III. DOMESTIC TRAINING. This department comprises three years' work for pupils who have completed the common school studies.

Graduates are qualified for admission to the Freshman class in college; for the management of business for teaching in the Public Schools; and girls for excellence in house-keeping. No charge is made for teaching, and boarding is very cheap. The school is well taught and well governed by Christian teachers. Ji i a i 1 jf i MEMORIZE THESE VERSES. Our plans may be disjointed.

But we may calmly rest What God has once appointed Is better than our best. What though we seem to stumble, He will not let us fall And learning to be humble Is not lost time at all. Happy the farmer this season who can sing: My mind to me a kingdom is Such present joys therefiTl find, That it excells all other bliss That earth affords or mills can grind. Content to live, this is my stay I seek no more than may suffice I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies Lo! thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring. vprv fi til (irkSk wii si rtirkit rM iiiiip hum- LAND 1 LAND LAND Last year 240 acres of good land was purchased near the Kansas Freedmen's Academy for the purpose of encouraging poor Colored families who make a difficult living in the cities to remove to the country.

This is an important part of the work which the Academy Board has undertaken to do for the advancement of colored people. It is impossible for poo people to rear their families well in the cities, and they cannot buy land on any terms at private sale and an outfit for farmer's work without help. The 240 acres bought here is cut into ten-acre lots and given to Colored families without price. It is the gift of a lady in Maine who used to send money to John Brown and Gov. Robinson to help the free-state men in Kansas before the war.

Let us hear from Colored men or widows on this feature of the Freedmen's Academy. How many would leave the cities for ten or twenty acres to be had on very easy terms Address ANDREW ATCHISON, Principal Academy. The clever wife of a professor in a western college wrote in one of those confession books where people put down their opinions on all sorts of subjects, in answer to the question, "What is your idea of a heroine "An educated American woman who does her own housework." Boston Traveler. a school prayer-meeting. The Fall Term will open on the First Monday of October.

For further information address ANDREW ATCHISON, Principal. We are now charged with the edut cation of eighteen millions children and youth, who in less than ten years will be the nation. Of these ten and one-half millions are enrolled in public or private schools, six millions is the average attendance, while seven and one-half millions, or five-twelfths of the whole, are growing up in absolute ignorance of the English W. Blair, U. S.

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