The Educator and Companion from McPherson, Kansas • 1

State His. Ken, A BUGATORSEMPANION SCR. A Weekly Journal of General Information, Devoted to the School, Home and Farm. VOL. VI.

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1 M. SNYDER. Entered as second-class musil matter ar Me Pherson Kansas. It is claimed there are over $8 000 in sted in bicycles in this city. There is prospect of several more families being added to the population of College Place.

Eld. Daniel Vaniman will travel in the interest of the College. His first visit will be eastern Kansas, Prof. Harley's house on College Place is being framed, When completed it will be a handsome residence. D.

Vaniman and wife spent Saturday and Sunday at Bridgeport, where Bro. Vaniman held meetings. He reports good interest. Mr. Good's house was erected a few days ago in his beautiful grove near the college.

It adds greatly to the appearance of Euclid avenue. A. W. Vaniman goes to Lawrence this week, where he will transact business for the College and also attend the Bible Meeting at Bismark Grove. The County Normal is progressing in a very interesting manner.

Prof. E. Miller of the State University leetured before the teachers in the High School building 011 the evening of June 8th. Since the payment of the heavy debt on the College, a new impetus is given to many to work for the college. They feel that success is now assured.

Mr. Joseph Stutzman of paid the College and his friends here a pleasant visit last week. He has faith in Kansas, He has invested considerably and is looking for another chance to invest. Jacob Beery, for some time a resident of College Place, suddenly died at his home ten miles east of McPherson on Monday June 12. He was quite old and his death seemed to be caused by heart disease.

He was buried in the Monitor cemetry. Funeral services conducted by F. H. Bradley. Eld.

J. Flory has just published a book with the little. Thrilling Echoes front the wild frontier, giving his own personal experience on the frontier among the Indians, hunting. hair breadth escapes. Truth stranger, more thrilling and enteriaining than fiction.

1t will doubtless have a large sale. Price, cloth binding. $1.00 postpaid, He wants an agent in every neighborhood. Good pay. Write him Chicago until August after that Lordsburg, Cal McPHERSON, The commissioners will probably not select an architect or decide upon plans for the new county buildings before the July meeting as they will want to look and compare some of the public buildings of the same nature throughont the state.

Such men as Secretary Foster ought to have enough common sense to keep within their bounds financially, and not ovestep so far their financial stand ing. The average Kansan realestate dealer would even not take such chances as did Foster. Normal Lecture. On next Tuesday evening, June 13th. Prof.

Miller, of the Lawrence University, will deliver an astronomical lecture on the sun in the high school auditorium; the talk will be interspersed with photographic lustrations by a powerful stereopticon. This is the first of a series of lectures to be given during the normal on a variety of subjects. "Does cigarette smoking injure the lungs?" asked some one of a leading New York physician. For his answer the doctor lighted a cigarette, and inhaling a mouthful of smoke, blew it through the corner of his handkerchief which he held tightly over his mouth. A dark brown stain was distinctly visible.

such a stain," said the do c- tor, "is left upon the lungs." If you ever smoke another cigarette, think of the stains you are List of patents granted to Kansas inventors this week, reported by C. A. Snow solicitors of American and Foreign patents, Opp. U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.

C. J. M. Burton, Wichita, stock-car; G. W.

Harrop, Manhattan, collar fastener; J. W. Higgason, Belleville, tireheater; R. W. Hilliker, Kansas City, adjustable appliance tor hanging window shades; W.

F. Ziegler, Lincoln fodder cutter. ADMIRING THE RIGHT THINGS. One of the most mischievous ideas which young people are likely to conceive, especially in large towns, is that it is more important to please passing strangers or mere acquaintances than their friends at home. Thus they are kind and good-natured to outsiders, and cross to their brothers and sisters.

They array themselves in very fine things for company, and appear in untidy wrappers and unkept hair before their home friends. Similar in kind is the procedure of the poor, ignorant working who spent all that she could save for months upon an elegant brown satin gown, with hat and shoes to match. In this attire she paraded the streets, with absolutely not a stitch of clothing beneath it. She even went without night gowns to pay for her brown satin finery. This is only an extreme example of what is going on about us all the time; women denying themselves even necessary food, that they may robe themselves showily in public.

One of the most hopeful features of the College settlement on Rivington street, New York, is that the noble young women who work there, dress with the utmost plainness. A certain merchant in a great city took his family last summer to a famous watering place. They were accompanied by three servants of their own, and special attendance was supplied them at the great hotel where they were boarding. Their expenses are said to have been seven hundred dollars per week. Yet at that very time this man was heavily indebted, and was borrowing money at exorbitant rates of inter- SDAY est.

He must have known that the crash which has since shattered his fortunes, was impending. It evidently seemed to him more admirable to spend money lavishly, to be followed by the gapes and stares of the public, and of obsequious servants, than to have a conscience void of offence, and to live in the simple way becoming to his true situation. Because unthinking men admire a small waist, compressed feet and padded figures, the great mass of women have come to regard them as admirable also. It is characteristic of Mr. Moody's School that right standards of physical development are maintained there.

Corsets, tight shoes, and all deceptive and artificial modes of dress are discountenanced there, and girls are taught that the Maker's handiwork must not be tortured. A man who would like his sons to admire the right things must show to those sons that he admires them himself. If he admires smoking and betting and loose conversation it will not take express words to acquaint his sons with his predilections. They will see his ideals almost before he realizes them himself, and they will act accords ingly. If a mother wishes to make home virtues and foundation gracedearer to her daughters than fashionable dress, unhealthful candy-munching, and miscellaneous society, and unseemly eagerness for marriage, she must show them that she herself loves the right things best.

Your girls will soon detect what you consider most desirable, and they will not be slow to practice upon your covert wishes. Let us be sincere with ourselves. Most of us know what we ought to admire. Our Bible, our pastors, our teachers haye instructed us rightly from our youth up, but do we really accept the loftly ideals wehave read of? Do we not usually admire what it is most fashionable to admire without going into the ethical meanings of things? Yet our ideas are pretty sure to be tnose of our children. They will admire what we admire, not what we pretend to think admirable.

-Sel. AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER TO ALL WANTING EMPLOYMENT. We want Live, Energetic and Capable Agents in every county in the United States and Canada, to sell a patent article of great merit, On Its Merits. An article having a large sale, paying over 100 per cent profit, having no competition, and on which the agent is protected in the exclusive sale by a deed given for each and every county he may secure from us. With all these advantages to our agents and the fact that it is an article that can be sold to every house owner, it might not be necessary to make an "extraordinary offer" to secure good agents at once, but we have concluded to make it to show, not only our confidence in the merits of our invention, but in its salability by any agent that will handle it with energyOur agents now at work are making from $150 to $600 amonth clear and this fact makes it safe for us to make our offer to all who are out of employment.

Any agent that will give our business a thirty days' trial and fail to clear at least $100 in this time, above all expenses, can return all goods sold to us and we will refund the money paid for them, Any agent or general agent who would like ten or more counties and work them through sub-agents for ninety days and fail to clear at least $750 above all expenses, can return all unsold and get their money back. No other employer of JUNE 14, 1893. agents ever dared to make such offers, nor would we if we did not know that we have agents now making more than double the amount we guaranteed and; but two sales a day would give a protit of over $125 a month, and that one of our agents took eighteen orders in one day. Our large descriptive circulars explain our offer fully, and these we wish to send to everyone out of employment who will send us three one cent stamps for postage. Send at once and secure the agency in time for the boom and go to work on the terms named in our extraordinary offer.

We would like to have the address of all the agents, sewing machine solicitors and carpenters in the country, and ask any reader of this paper who reads this offer, to send us at once the name and address of all such they know. Address at once. or you will lose the best chance ever offered to those out of employment to make money. RENNER MANUFACTURING 18-4t Pittsburg, Pa. THE trustees of the Gilchrist eda: rational trust of England, have decided to send two and perhaps four teachers in secondary schools and training colleges to America for the purpose of reporting on the system of education carried on in this country.

TELEGRAMS from Washington indipate that the naval anthorities have not decided whether to paint Uncle Sam's warships green or black. It they can't be painted red. as the young officers would prefer, let them be green, by all means, to please the majority of the crews. Ax Eastern capitalists whose money had been drifting in the pocket: of his illegal adviser claims to have been hypnotized. His theory seems to be that capability in theft, cultivated to a point approaching perfection, loses its larcenous character and becomes a science.

A NEW ORLEANS doctor agreed upon a $1,000 fee in case of curing the patient. The patient died, and the doctor sent in a bill for $2,500. Complaint has been made, and the affair does look odd. But what can laymen presume to know of matters so purely professional as this? NUMEROUs metal ties have been invented and many roads have tried them, but all have proved unsatisfactory. The principal objection to them are their cost and their nonelasticity.

A track laid on metal ties wears out rolling stock much faster than one laid on timber. THE British house of commons having decided by vote that members of the body should receive salaries, other chorished institution of the mother country has gone glimmering. The Briton with brains is now on an equal footing with the Briton who has bullion in the political arena. AS THERE are faint signs on the horizon that the pugilistic industry is declining in this country, the professionals should look over the field offered by the French chamber of deputies. If the Frenchmen knew how to put up their props anybody would give $10 to attend a session of the chambers.

TALK ABOUT BUSINESS." By A. E. Rice. A banker's business hints for men and women. Published by F-emont Publishing Fremont, Ohio.

60 pages. Paper 40, cloth 75 cents, mail, postpaid. Descriptive pamphlets free. This book, as its name indicates, is a talk about business; a banker's talk to men and women about the common, every day busi. negs affairs of life.

It is brimful of useful ideas for young and old, and is a book that should be on every desk and in every home. $1.00 Per Year. THE Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore is responsible for the information that by a secret process bona fide rubber is now being made in that city from cotton seed oil. The process is said to be so simple that no patent could be obtained for it, so that the only protection of the manufacturers 1s in secrecy. EIFFEL is said to be a fugitive.

The possibility that he may have climbed his own tower seems to have been overlooked by the police. If ho has, some cunning engineering device may be expected to pull the tower up after him, and what would French justice do then? True, it might convict De Lesseps some more. THE impression is popular that Chicago leads the world in the number of divorces granted in proportion to population. This impression is wrong according to W. F.

Wilcox in Political Science Quarterly. Saa Francisco in the unmarrying business takes the lead. Chicago ranks second and Cleveland is a close third. IT has cost Edison $1,000,000 to prosecute infringement suits on his patents, and not one of his lawyers has been compelled to go to the poorhouse. A record like this is thing for a man who a few years ago was a poor telegraph operator to be proud of.

He is believed to have saved a few millions out of the wreck to pay his own housekeeping Oxpenses. THE reason that hats are occasionally lost at the White house these days may be due to two diametrically opposite causes, thus: As a result of some interviews with Grover the head swells to such an extent that the hat is lost in the howling wilderness about it; in others the shrinks to such a degree that the owner swears he never possessed such a misfit in his life. THE Geographical club of Philadelphia has decided to take an active part in promoting the next expedition of Lieutenant Peary toward the north pole, and has agreed upon a plan for raising $8,000 or $10,000 of the $20,000 or $25,000 that will be required. In return Mr. Peary proposes to turn over to the club whatever collections of scientific value he nay make in the arctic region.

Is IT the newspapers or the theaters that have changed the character of provincial amusements? Lectures are not very popular in small towns any more, because the people are pretty well informed by the papers on topics that lectures used to treat. The old panoramas, containing a mile of painted canvas" the old dioramas, with moving figures, seem to have lapsed into absolute desuetude. Two Americans, so dispatches late, blew out their brains at Monte Carlo recently, as evidence that they had not succeeded in beating the game. 'The sorrow will be subdued, and possibly a casual observer might overlook it altogether. When Americans spend their money on foreign confidence men, when "sure thing" gamblers stand in every corner in their native land.

they lack in patriotism. MASSACHUSETTS has a new warden for its state prison. His first offisial act was to deprive the convicts ol the dumb bells with which their cells had been supplied. The reason assigned for this revolutionary act was that a prisoner had threatened to brain one of the guards with one of the dumb bells. Incidentally the warden remarked that he would try to give the prisoners enough work to abate the demand for gymnastic exercises..