The Mail from Hutchinson, Kansas • 1

I Hi VOL. III. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, JULY 17, 18DG. NO. 18 TPF nil KANSAN ither establishments, having learned from it.

It gives a complete course of ladies' penmanship of the fashionable styles, and is now used by them to a considerable extent. Reaching a sale of over going to nearly uJI parts of the English speaking and writing world, he a thor may el I congratu la te himself on the success of the system-It is worthy of note that it has been introduced into many of the leading counting rooms of London. Consider MEXICAN PROSPERITY IN A HORN. Editors Kansas I see that some of our un-llepublican free silver papers of late have a large amount of free til-ver rot about the prosperity of Old Mexico, because of her free coinage silver monometallism, and I want to give your readers some official lacta. in reierence to the condition of unit lieuthen country, consul General Gray in his report No.

07 for lbl)5 says thut, in the stale of Aguas Calientes.iield iu-borers get l-'a cents per day and two quarts ot shelled com, also; that coin is 4U cents per bushel, beans l.uo to $3.20 per bushel beef 10 cents, mutton pork 14 cents per pound; and everything to eat in the same proportion, in the state of Chiapas, laborers get juts per day with an aluiud (or short 1. 1 TURTLE IS FAITHFUL Hagerstow July 11. (Special Correspondence). In 1840 Miss Dovie Peele lived with her parents in Paoli, the seat of Orange county. She was then 10 years of age.

One day during fhat year she, with some young companions, went into the deep woods a-tout two miles from her father's bouse to pick blackberries. Aftet a while she became tired and stopped to rest on a green and shady bank beside. a tiny pond. She observed a small object moving in the grass at her feet. Upon investigating she discovered the object to be a distant relative of the great and ancient family of tortoise, or testudinada, known in the vernacular as the "land terrapin." This little creature has most interest ing the claims of the Englishmen to the best penmanship, this is quite a compliment to this American style, the only one receiving that distinction.

A Biofraphlcal Sketch ol J. W. Farr. (BY H. IIAKIH The subject of this sketch John Wesley Farr, Principal of th Farrian Business University, and author of tilt Farrian Series of School and College text hooks, no well known throughout i he United States, wan horn in Civil Hend, Daviess county tirnt seeing the light of day through the glass win-clow of a large old fashioned house, August 13th, 1804.

Mr. Farr is of descent and came from an educated family. He is the eon of the Kev. William Jackson Farr, and a grandson of the author and writer, William Miller Farr. Young Farr was of good parentage.

However, he was not born with a "silver spoon in his "golden egg in his pocket," nor a "fortune for his billow," but born with what is better, a thirst for knowledge, which is not yet quenched. Hedid not reach his pies-en success except through many difficulties, hard study, labor, untiring energy, and that genius which lifts h.m from the sphere of an imitator to tl at of an originator. He like many otheis, pent his early life with his parents i the farm. However he had fair advai -tages for an education, his father Lm-ing a gifted teacher, gave him a gocd academic and business education in a private academy at home, which mitht be said to bi in session all the entire year except Sundays. His actual scholar ic preparation for the duties of life began at six years of age.

At eight he took great delight in reading the Bible, especially the New Testament. Young Farr was a great lover of books, and notwithstanding that his opportunities for gaining knowledge were at timeB the "cold arms of the world." Desiring to be at the head of an institution for the training of young people for the active duties of life, he accepted the Principalship of the Farrian Business University, of Hutchinson, and devotes his entire time and energies to its interests. It has a thorough l'reparatory Business Shorthand and Penmanship course. Sinci his connection with the University In has toiled incessantly and the fruit his labor promises to be an institution of national renown and take the lead of all similiar institutions in the West. Fortunate is the student hose circumstances are such as will enable them to take a course of instruction in one of the departments of the Farrian.

As Principal of the University, Mr. Farr is firm, yet kind, and chooses to govern a modest, quiet way, keeping the good will of his teache and students through a love for the right, the true, the beaut it ul, the good, and not through fear of anything. Mr. Farr has a heart which beats in perfect sympathy with his students. He studies their needs and mukes their interests his life work.

Personally, Mr. Farr is six feet in height, weighs 100 pounds, and has good health, lie is erect in form, blue eyes, light hair and complexion, is of good address has thoughtful countenance. He is honest, consci ntious and above reproach. Mr. Farr is one of that vast army of self-made men of today.

All that he desired and determined to do he has accomplished and succeeded far beyond his most earnest expectations. His cireer in life has been a successful one. He has by that indomitable industry of twelve hours a day of actual labor worked his way the front ranks of an all round educator. Today he nils a position among the great leaders of ing and peculiar habits. It is usually found near ponds, or in deep recesses of woods where jungles of foliage provide the coolness and moisture, withou which it does not seem to be content 1 he first edition oi his penmanship book having been exhausted within a short time, it encouraged him so much that he at once decided to complete his modern series of school and college text-books which he had been mapping out and planning so long.

Fourteen years had passed by, during which time, with an experience as student, teacher, editor, author and business man, he was continually selecting, arranging and writing that which he hoped some day to publish and to give to the world in permanent book form. At last with time and gome means at his command, he sat down to complete that labor which he had so often resolved in his early years to execute, and at the end of ten years hard labor from the time his undivided attention was given to the series, at an expense of several thousand dollars, and with the aid of skilled workmen in every department of bookmaking, the Farrian Series of School and College Text-books was given to the world. These books are now filling a long felt want in the educational world and are destined to make the name ol "Farrian," a familiar household word It is wary, cunning, inoffensive, and re matkably beautiful. It is armed cap-a pie with a firm shell, in color a scram bled red of the prevalent Persian mode It exhibits the strongest attachment for the place it has selected for a home, and if removed ill return again and a gain, even in spite of greot'dilliculty Miss Peele took the little creature in to her hand, admired its mottled armor laughed at its ludricous haste in enscon nomewnat nmireu, oy incustry, perse cing itself within its tough shell.slipped anu uiugence ne succeeued in in every home in the land. Their sale it into her pocket and took it home peck) of corn, and the same of beans every 8 days.

That by the montn he gets 5 and has to pay fur his living, xxe gets extra per month 14 ounces beei, 10 of pork, 5 ears ol corn, i pound of beans, ounces of rice and lo ot luid. Holy Alobos don't the prosperous live tat in that lite saver Mecca 1 In the slate of Coahuiia, the laoorer gets bl cents per day Unei ftute borders on xexas) puid in ruui or goods no money worm speaking ol. lie pays lor beef and pork i-'. 2 cents per pound, corn 5 cents, beuiis cents l-er quart, Hour coins aiid lard bi cents per pound, in the slate ol Du-ruugo, he gels lrom $4 to 0 per mount iiu 13 quurts ol shelled and lit the slate of are lroin is to 1U cents per day witii no prcqu-sites. In the state of Hidalgo wUecs lor day laborers are 18 to 2i cents jier day with a small allowance of cuxu.

flour sells at tS cents, uieal iU, laid bo, brown sugar 0 cents per pouiiu. in tne state of Jalisco wages per montn u. to ith '63 quarts ot shelled corn, 4 ol ueuus, 3 ounces of salt. Day worker get lrom 12a to lb4 cenis, wuii uarts ol corn every days; the price ol meat is 10 cents, bread sugar suit 4 cents per pound. In the i-edeiut district of tiie city ot Mexico they get ctl cents per day with no allow aiicos.

iu the stuie ot Alichocau on tne i acinc slope, '2i cents per day is paid tne pour liall naked heatlieiis. ALeut sells in that state at 12 to 18 cents, lard -'o per pound, beans 18, corn tS cents perquuit. in the state of iNuevo Leon he gets to $8 per mouth ith an almud oi coin every 8 days. In the stale of Ouxacu ne gets 25 cents per day or $4 to 'l pur inoutii with an aiinud of corn eveiy a duys. This is uu olhuiai report, ot a government officer, and it is true to the letter and the same conditions anu prices exist in every red siner country on earth, viz: iuex co, Oliniu, du-pun, India, and South Auiericu, not tAJ speak of liussia that is now trying to leave these heathen conditions, una has not lieen confined to this countrj netting a liberal education, having obtained a high grade on 26 branches for bis profession.

His ambition has al alone, but they have gone in large ways been and now is to see an all She placed it in a box, but as the little prisoner refused food she concluded to release it. It was suggested that she in iters to Canada, lMtglnnd and many a teacher's certificate. At home he studied late at night by the aid of the round business education placed upon 1 I or the Isles of the Sea. The success ol laniuy lamp ana often by the aid of IB iruin-r c-uiicauonni uhkih. 10 tills these books was immediate and perma carve her name in the little fellow- the light which named from the old end he is ever on the alert studying nent, meir influence on education was shell, and as tin's would cause the term nre place.

As often as he could bn immense and their sale has far sur- tne luiiuamental principles and how to utilize them whenever an opportunity passed the expectations of the author piu i'o pain, she did so, together with spared from the duties or home, he attended the district school in order to secure the knowledge and experience presents II- 1." I -1 the date. an-mis bo aeviseu plans, ar Notw ithstanding the great saleof these books, its author, and Topeka, Kansas, are not content The occurence passed out of Miss ranged studies and unproved methods that he has one of the best working Peele's mind, and ten years rolled by 01 oiner teacners man Ins father. These short district school experiences helped him much, but his education was principally obtained in his father's to allow them to rest on their past sue cess. scnoois in tne state. In 1850 she married a Mr.

Wible, who It seldom happens that an author ol subsequently was clerk of Orange coun it iingiit ne auuea mat ne lu es in the hearts of the Hor, and that he al private academy by continually dig a text-book nas the good fortune to se- ty several times. In the course of the ways takes a great pride in helping siiMsiuciory expression oi lilt summer after her marriage she found ideas in the first, or even in the second ging away at his studies. It is said that rather than do without new books from time to time, or put his parents to additional expense in purchasing tnose no are wining to help then selves. Notw ithstandmg the many du herself at exactly the same spot she or third editions of his work. Espeei ties resting upon him, he finds time to ally is this true in the ca6e of text had visited ten years before.

As she mingle with his friends, attend social inem, ne worjceu ior me small pittance books. However good the fundamen mused upon the occurence of that day, gatherings, the Sundav school, church tal plan may be, defects in its elaboration are sure to creep in, despite the her attention was attracted to a small and prayer meeting. hat he has done has been by pluck, moving object in the grass. Her sur utmost vigilance of the reviser and the perseverance and determination. He proof-reader.

No other book reouires prise and delight may be imagined often says: "To every one talents are when she found the object was the ter tuuu great care in its preparation, as the book that is to be used in the given and it is our duty to improve them." A student who will sitm a note rapin she had found there before, 6eliool room, and which should there A- wj get an education in ere Jong sign a There was her name in living letters lore be a model both in accuraev of going to the gold standard, ilio capita of money any iree silver country in the world is in Mexico o( if( a montn with which to buy the books so much desired. Thus by his own indomitable exertions he became an educator of no mean rank. His great ambition seems to have been to get a thorough knowledge of the preparatory and business branches. Having spent much time on the preparatory branches, while some of his associates were mastering the business branches, he did not fail to observe the fact that those of his acquaintences who passed through the portals of the Business University went out lrom them into good positions, prepared to teach school and advanced verv I statement and nerfection of nVtM.I. upon the creature's shield and she contract to Day it.

"That a constant application of strokes to the same point 4.71, China $2.08, India 3.1-8, Souiu thought no knight errant of old had 1 hen, even though the book becomes mechanically perfect, the teaching wuiimany tear down the strongest wan," and that "It is never too late ever more laithfully protected hi pian it represents must still run the America 65 cents, Japan $jY2. iNuw let us compare with these ngures aa many countries and those wincu Have kept pace with the highest civilization. the differ. to 1)6 wnat we might have been." gauntlet of actual trial bv sweetheart's insignia than had this ar etit t.enchera u-hn nmir nn tKu in -nuurui ur jiuiron comes to mm mored knight protected hers. This trial is apt to result in the sue- always ready to help a Hie united States has a per cupiiu of She took the terrapin home to show gestionof many improvements.

As ueffrving student in obtaining an edu- uioney at present of gold U.O'J, oi silver fU.08, of paper fo.UO, a total ol io- cation. It is a pleasure to write the originally published, it was the first her friends. She lightly traced her new name under her former one, also career of a man who has done much expression of the educational methods 07. bhe does a credit business wuiiuut pre-eminent service in elevnf incr the rapidly in business circles, and he at once put forth every effort to reach the goal of his associates, that he might hold in his own hand the key that unlocked the door to the "temple of fame." employed by the author in his own tue use of money ot $00.50 per canita the date 1850, and sent her knight forth educational interests of our eoiintrv tn work, anu tne marked success all this under a bimetallic system.wnicn keeps up a continual disturbance in its present high standard, and the in upon ins erranty. Alter many years or winch attracted wide atte-tion be Mrs.

Wible became a idow, and re lore their publication was completed commercial atlairs. The wages in this comparable aid that he is tending toward to the advancement of young Alter completing the business With a full realization of the de moved to Hutchinson, where mand of the advancing age, together men aim women wno are taking advantage of the opportunities he is offerim? orancnes ne taught mr several yean in all grades of schools, from the pri country according to Labor uoiniuia-sioner Wright's report tor 1804-Uo, are (1 to if 1.50 tor common day laoor, or an average of (1. 25. With pork aud bee "mi superior Knowledge gathered tneui uary to me su perintenaency. she married a physician, Dr.

McKin-ney, and where she yet lives. During the summer of 1872 6he visited her old home at Paoli. While she as there uom a large range of experience, nn Mr. Jjarr had a great love for the A Reporter Shot provements and additions are steadily being made, and no effort or expense beauty of beauties in penmanship at 3 to 4 cents a pound, lard 8, beans sugar 10 pounds lor a dollar; everything we eat or ear more lliuu uu per into W. II.

b. Benedict's seed house at nnu resolving to reacn perrecnon in spureu to maintain tne reputation this art, he practiced daily with hi her terrapin was found ar. the identical spot where it had twice before been mat me rarrian system of bchool and No. 400-401 North Main street to take a look at the large assortment of seeds cent cheaper than in any tree silver country in the world, and wages lrom pen. His father being a teacher of the College Text-books has sustained uid Kound Hand," he first mastered trom the first.

twice to hve times higher here thun in which arrived the first of this week that system, then the The Farrian text books as copyright any free silver country in the worlu, then the "Spencerian," and next the tie never saw such a display of seeds nd our people are educated, and civ u- ed oy wie a i nor embrace: Farrian captured. Mrs. McKinney cut her changed name beneath her two formei ones, smiling as she did so at the knight's constancy and the maid's fickleness. She returned to her western Gastenan" which was followed by ta before in his life and was nerfectlv aa. lZed as well.

England has $13.50 iitu- speller and Hefiner, Farrian Header capita, all gold, blie transacts fibij.uu wug wilting lessons oi rror. lr. a. lias kell, the author of the Gasterian sys nnu jiocuuon, rarrian System of Fen- tonished at the low price for which manshin. Farrian System nt Ll un l-U I ill 1 VI OA (1 'I Oiwwln a per capita on credit, or exchange; she pays an average of b2i cts.

per day lur tem or Penmanship. With these les sons before him, he improved his pen home, and in time ceased to think about her experience with the common labor. The necessaries oi iiie xuukb, poping istyie, 7 Farrian erticle Copy Books. (Verticle Style, 7 Farrian Eiementnrv Arithme v. fft) owiu.

ucoc ocrctio arc all fresh and the readers of the Kan-8 an are advised to call on Mr. Benedict manshipvery rapidily and soon be are slightly cheaper than in this country. England does a larger business came noted as a penman and began tic, Farrian Complete Arithmetic, Far- rin casing leHcning penmansnip ot evenings, in In the summer of 1895 Mrs. McKin Arithmetical Kev Far which he was very successful as a writ ing teacher. tim irmifl I.1! en i i I ney received a letter from a friend at Paoli, together with a copy of a local paper which contained a statement of Farrian Wm Vr Tours the Rock Mountains.

run Jail nvStPUl nf I nivounnnHana I Born in a retired part of North Missouri where school advantages in child- Farrian Business Forms. ml hm.n The "Scenic Line of the Woi Id," the noou were lew, and possessed of ex the above facts with the informa Denver Rio Grand Railroad, offers to System of Book-keeping. The purpose of these text-kooks is to treme sensitiveness as to the lack of tion that the terrapin had lately been tourists in Colorado, Utah and New needed education, he realized the want of books that would serve as a teacher captured at its old home, and brought teach the student how to do the right thing at the right time in the various Mexico the choicest resorts, and to the into town, after which tha date was and guide to those ho desire an edu transcontinental traveler the grandest positions and duties of life. These text oooks are not onlv used bv his Univer IJouble daily train service canon, Dut wno had little opportunity for securing it. "When quite young he carved upon its shell, and the creature re'eased.

The terrapin was not per sity, but by manv other leading schools on credit than we do, because there is no disturbance of her monetary system. Every debt or contract meuiis 100 cents to the dollar. France lias a larger per capita of money, 40.55, and does less on credit, $71.00 per capita, because of her enormous debt of She pa 258,000,000 interest annually, and her credit is noiso good at home or abroad as ours or England's. The price of wages and necessaries of life are about tne same as in England. The same can be said of Germany and several other gold standard countries, all of which use silver for change or as subsidary coin.

These are the most civilized, best educated countries. They pay the best wages and sell cheaper goods than half civilized free silver countries in the world. In the onward march of civilization, they have left modern democracy and its cardinal principles of free coinage with through Pullman sleepers and anu colleges throughout the Union. i-esoiveu not to only teacn school and obtain a knowledge of business life ceptibly larger when last found than it tourists' cars between Denver and San is the author and proprie had been when first found fifty-five nimseii but to embody in a series of Francisco and Los Angeles. tor or the Farritm Steel Pena uhiVh books such information for the use of have had a large sale during the past few years.

Don't Move years before. Each time it had been released near the center of the little town, and at least two miles from its It is a lamentable fact that Mr. Farr Until you have investigated the re altllCted With thatdi-enrl fliaetme Pen sources of Utah. Send two cent stamp habitat. Paralysis or "writer's cranio u-hinh to aaieign, uenerai l'assenger Probably no more remarkable mani has caused him a great deal of suffering and at times the entire disuse of his Agent, Kio Grand Western Kailway, festation of an animal's attachment for Great Salt Lake Route, Salt Lake City, its home is known than this furnishes.

lght hand. However, Mr. Farr pushes" his ends to a successful completion, notwithstanding all reverses Chicago Inter Ocean. for copy of "A Pointer to Prosperity," illustrating and describing the agricul otners that he had realized in his ow experience that the masses of the people needed and required. arr Was a believer in the adage: "That a thing of beauty is a joy forever" and bo continued his untiring study and practice of penmanship by digesting several of the more modern systems of writing, however, not finding a system to suit him, he went to work and wrote one of his own, the arnan System," whih has probably had a greater sale in the same space of time than any other system extant.

It has now beeome very popular in all our leading cities, many of our best penmen now teaching in business colleges and occupying positions in insurance and free banks thirty-five years behind, and they will never go back to a condition that has at all times and every tural resources of the new state. The recent coal mine horror recalls and obstacles with which he has met Mr. Farr is one who admires the idea and the importance of a broad and the awful fact that it costs an average Now that the Prince of AVales has of one human life for each 90,000 tons ymetrical education, one that will horoughly qualify young men and of coal mined in the United States. young women to keep books, do busi been made Chancellor of the University of Wales it is to be hoped that he will introduce baccarat among the stu- where and in every country resulied in silver monometallism, low wages for the workingman, and high prices for the necessaries of life, and a general stagnation in all kinds of business. Our silver dollar is now worth more than in any free silver country in the world and will purchase tw ice as much sound money.

J. W. P. ness, teach school or writa shorthand, The St. Louis hotel keepers will de ou uii uic.v mignt aiways ne Btire or desirable and profitable employment ents also that he will quit "mash- mand advance payment from some people hereafter.

nouses, ana as book-keepers, in case they should be throw unon ng.".