The Educator and Companion from McPherson, Kansas • 4

THE EDUCATOR 1 AND) COM EANIQNi a- one hundred ikfoepdrlmekt'tecii' niorith is witli-in the reach of every student, and worth many times the effort of securing it. The religious 'interest at the college continues. Last Sunday evening one more came forward and was received, into fellowship on Monday by the 'solemn rite of baptism. 1 la charge of the President and Faculty of Meriierson College and Industrial Institute. S.

Z. SHARP, Educational Editor. DAfl'L. VANIMAN. Associate Editor Every week brings U3 new students.

Mr. J. W. Kant of Elyria, F. S.

Green of McPherson, and Miss Lydia Schisler of Pretty Prairie, are among the newcomers this week. The Chilians are happy over the prospective continuous peace between their government and the United States. The time has come when the barbarous method of settling difficulties between Dations by war should cease and the more sensible method of arbitration should prevail. One of the tendencies of teaching in this age is to change from the catechetical to the topic method. Just how soon and how much this latter method should be used must depend on the good judgment of the teacher.

That it is the true method when practicable leaves no doubt. FACULTY. 8. L. Sharp, A.

M. Mental and mor Science and Bible History. Leonard Huber, A.M. Latin, Greek, French German, and Anglo-Saxon. H.

Frances Davidson, A. M. Physical Science and Literature. Edward Frantz. A.B.

Mathematics and Astronomy S. B. Fahnestock, Fen Art, and Supt. Comraer cial Department Mrs. Amanna Fahnestock, Stenography and Typewriting Freeman Muir.

Vocal and Instrumetal Music. TRUSTEES. Daniel Vaniman, President. A. W.

Vaniman, Secretary and Treas John II. Feck, John L. Kuns. Samuel Milller Eld. S.

Sharp, Ex. Of. VISITING BOARD. Eld. Enoch Eby, F.ooth, Kan Eld.

John Forney, Abilene. Kan Eld Jacob Trostle. Hope, Kan Have you resolved to do better this month than last? Some colleges have prohibited football playing. most abject-, misery. A woman, with h'cr facehdrribly swollen, lay upon the floor as if 'dead.

She was scarcely recognizable as a human being, neither 'eyes nor nose being visible for the mass of bluish flesh into which disease had transformed her, features. In one corner lay a fifteen-year-old boy whose legs and arms were in a' most pitiable state of emaciation. He was unable to move for his stomach was swollon to an abnormal size, presenting a monstrosity more horrible than could be conceived by the most imaginative caricaturist in the world. Two other members of this family were sick with typhoid fever the peasant's wife and her five-year-old boy. There was not even a crust of bread to be found anywhere about the room.

Not a cow nor a fowl was to be seen; everything living-in the shape of a domestic animal was killed and eaten. "In other houses of that village we found conditions of distress more horrible, if possible, than those described above. Women, children, and even tender infants, were lying about on benches dying in terrible agony. The scene beg-gers description. We found 900 victims of hunger and the maladies which it produces in that one village with only a few nurses to care for thm.

They were left to die by thoie whose strength enabled them to escape from the scene before the famine took the epidemic form. "Just think of it!" In Kazan province alone there are 950,000 human beings dying of hunger, while 15 neighboring provinces contain 27,000,000 millions of people almost as bad! A truly pathetic picture is presented by these millions of peasants dying the slow death of starvation without a murmur, while the government relief committee have as yet only discussed a means of alleviating the distress! The deliberations of this distinguished commission, under the presidency of the czaro-witz, are securely bound with red tape and impenetrable mystery, though, thus far, they have seemed to consist mainly in diligent efforts to suppress all accurate news relating to a calamity unparalleled in the history of this sorrow-stricken empire. "The fact is it will require at least two billion rubles (a billion dollars) to provide the food, clothing, seed, and cattle that shall be necessary to tide over this disaster, and it is needed at once. Count Tolstoi, with the help of his wife, two sons and two daughters, is feeding over a thousand families. In Moscow he has started a relief fund, while at many other points he has opened soup kitchens to which the famishing people flock in thousands, blessing the philanthropist's honored name.

The above was intended only for private circulation as the government officials dilgently suppress all news relating to the calamity. The terrible situation is the direct result of the despotic system of government, whicli is maintained by 1,500,000 soldiers, besides an immense army of police and spies, writes the Countets Norraikow. Small wonder is it that there are Nihilists in Russia. -THE' GOVERNORS HAD i I ('QUARRELED. Carlyjo draws a picture, at once ludicrous, sad, of a body of peaceful English peasants who are disciplined drilled and dressed in red and sent away to Spain, and there placed opposite nninber of French peasants, also in uniform, and with guns in their hands.

At the word of command, both parties fire, and thirty men on either side fall dead; "and in place of frixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough Apart; were the most entire strangers; nay, in so wide a universe there was even unconsciously by commerce some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Sim-pletor Their governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." Is not this, in a nutshell, the history of half the wars the world has seen? The governors have quarreled, and the people have been made to believe the quarrel was their own; and is there not the strongest reason for supposing that as education spreads, as governments become more truly representative of the people whom they govern, and as the people come to understand more truly their real interests, wars, of this kind at least, into which kings lead their subjects blindfold, will no more be heard of? Ex. AN "AWFUL FAMINE. We take the following from an article published in a recent number of Harper's Weekly.

It was written by a correspondent of a St. Petersburg paper who, accompanied by a physician, made a tour of the famine stricken districts: "The famine is increasing at a most apalling rate. The aid thus far rendered the sufferers is but a drop in the ocean of distress. We came to the village of Mikhay-lovka, which comprises about fifteen hundred inhabitants. The place had the appearance of being quite deserted, as scarcely any one was seen upon the streets.

On entering a peasant's house, our attention was first attracted to a bundle of rags and an old hat that were lying upon a bench. As the the pile seemed occasionally to move, we turned it over and were astonished to find the man of the household lying underneath apparently suffering from a high fever. His body was almost rigid, and as the doctor examined him he betrayed hardly any signs of life. His face was pale and expressionless, save, perhaps, as it indicated the abandonment of hope. His eyes were fixed on us though they manifested not the slightest gleam of intelligence.

''Like all the residents of St. Petersburg, including the few who have rendered some assistance to the starving multitudes, I was quite ignorant of the actual state of affairs. This particular household was a sight terrible to behold; one which I will nover forget. The one room which constituted their 'home' presented a picture of the After a -most i fervent, prayer by Bro Forney, and th'o singing of the Doxology, the class of.lS92 EMERSONIAN 5, On the evening of Jan 29th," the commercial hall was well filled with friends of the society gathered to near the program, which was carried out very The address by our new president was very encouraging and should arouse every Emersonian to a determination to perform his duty well. The united efforts of the members are what will make any orginization a success.

There is a law pervading the universe, and lying at the foundation of all system, hence the success in every orginization. This law, or principle, co ordination. J. Z. Gilbert.

Misses Sherfy and Brooks read interesting essays. Mr. Koplin appeared before the society for the first tim, and delivered a declamation entitled "Ancient Manuscripts." The music should not be forgotten. We can only thank the quartette and assure them that the music was highly appreciated. Judging the excellent order during the exercises we can but conclude that every one present felt that he was well entertained.

One more was added to our list of active members. All are invited to. attend the society in the chapel, Feb. 5. A good program is expected.

X. Emersonian. THE WAY TO GET MONEY. The man who wants more money will find no royal road to the wealth he covets, no patent method for its acquisition, says a writer in the Forum. He must give something for it make it honestly his own, and the man who sets himself earnestly to do this will find that all financial systems will bend to his conquering will.

The gambler, whether he plays his game in the exchange, at a faro table, in a policy-shop, or with smaller stakes in private circles, will find the issue precariotis and unrewarding. The way to get more money without any loss of peace or self-respect is to earn it by toil of brain or sinew, and the funds thus acquired have no gnawing teeth. All other wealth eats like a canker. SIMPLE AND SAFE RULES Experience teaches that it is always best to do business on business principles, no matter with whom it is done. It is a good plan to make a memorandum of any contract you undertake, either for the payment of money or an agreement to do a piece of work.

It often saves annoyance in case one or the other forgets the terms. Never hire a person and set him to work without first having the price fixed upon. Many law suits havfl arisen from such neglect, i Never sign a paper, no matter how simple a matter it may appear to relate to, without first carefully reading it, and if you do not thoroughly understand it, have it explained before you sign it. The State Superintendent of Kansas has addressed a letter to the teachers of the State, making a strong appeal in behalf of a proper educational exhibit at the World's Fair. On account of the neglect of the legislature to make suitable appropriations of money, the burden will rest on the educators to maintain the honor of the State in this particular.

BIBLE NORMAL NOTES. The University of Tokio, Japan, has 2,000 students enrolled. The main building of the University will cost $350,000. The teacher who ceases to be a student also ceases to be a true teacher. Commend whenever you can judiciously find fault only when you must.

It is an accomplishment to be able to control oneVteinper and language under provocation. Miss Rachel Zook, sister of Mrs. S. Z. Sharp, returned eastward after spending a month on College Place.

The last discourses of the term were delivered by Eld. John For-nej His first subject; was the "Lord's Supper and the Communion," a topic to which he has given special attention, and in which ho is probably as well versed, if not better, than any other minister in the church of the Brethren. By hia method, the gospels of: Matthew, Mark, and Luke are per-, fectly reconciled with the state-; mentby St. John. No suppositions are needed, either, to help him out, like those of some commentators, but the literal statements of all four evangelists are taken and perfectly harmonized.

We learned some new facts from these discourses and were strength-in some points. We wished that all the. ministers of our church could have been present to hear. His statements were rendered more expressive by diagrams and calculations on the blackboard. All the most important doctrinal subjects of the New Testament were explained during the short course of four weeks.

The closing lesson of the Bible Normal was an unusually solemn one. The study of such sacred subjects and the daily recitations greatly endeared the members of the class to each other, hence the thought of parting was a sad one. Eld. P. R.

Wrightsman preached three interesting sermons at the college on last Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Minnie Hoffman, on her way to Denver, stopped a few days at the college to see her brothers and sister. Colorado College has made elocution compulsory. Every student takes his tarn in delivering an oration before the entire school. Prof.

Mnir's class in music is nearly prepared to give one of those enjoyable entertainments with which we have occasionally been favored.