The Inter-State Advocate from Morrill, Kansas • 3

MORRILL, KANSAS. The following beautiful description of Morrill and vicinity was clipped from the Washington DRIFTWOOD. To breed up the son to common sense, Is evermore the parents' least expense. Drydcn. County Rtguter: SUBSCRIPTION, 25 CENTS A YEAR.

Morrill is a beautiful little villiage ol some 500 inhabitants. The college stands PERSONALS. upon an eminence northwest of the village, Rose Foster, the Philo Nightingale, has just recovered from a severe attack of Bil and being above the greater portion of it, The sum of duty let two words contain, Oh may they graven In thy heart remain, lie humble and be Just. -Prior. Let us draw their mantles o'er us Which have fallen in our way; Let us do the work before us, Cheerly, bravely while we may, ious Pneumonia fever.

commanding some beautiful scenery; north half a mile is the cemetery. Few lie there J. P. Farmer, our extensive traveler, is entombed, yet it has been a burying ground for years; nearly evergrave is marked by teaching near Baker. We learn he is do ing a good work.

THE ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OF THE MONTHS. January. The Roman Janus presided over the beginning of everything; hence the first month of the year was called after him. February. The Roman festival Februs was held on the 15th day of this month, in honor of Lupercus, the god of fertility.

March. Named from the Roman god of war, Mars. April. Lat. Aprilis, probably derived from asperire, to open; because spring generally begins and the buds open in this month.

May. Lat. Mains, probably derived from Maia, a feminine divinity worshiped at Rome on the first day of this month. June. Juno, a Roman divinity worshiped as the Queen of Heaven.

July (Julius). Julius was born in this month. August. Named by the Emperor Au Ere the long night-silence cometh, and with us a slab, or a monument placed there by lov- Ing hands to note the cycles of time, and It is not day -Whlttler. Emma Ramsey, sister Lillie and brother remind the gay.

the frivolous, and the Frank, are now at home in Atchison Co. Let us here from you. grave of the "fierce spirit of the.grass and We may roam through this world like a child at a feast, scythe." Another mile north and we reach C. O. Elliott is teaching in Clinton Co.i Who but sips of a sweet, and then flies to the the Pony Creek, whose placid waters me rest.

Mo. ander through aun and shade, expanding And when pleasure begins to grow dull In the Jessie M. Rowe is teaching penmanship east, on the plain or hugging close the rocky bluffs on the south. To the north broad We may order our wings and be off to the west. Moore.

fertile bottoms wave their ripening har- vests, or lone rows of Khea maize shoot from the earth, like sunflowers on the sunny HEAD WITH CAKE. It is not our purpose to have a stereotyped course of study, which, like the laws gustus Ca-sar, B. C. 30, after himself, as he regarded it a lucky month, being that in which he had gained several victories. Blopes of Washington county.

The Pedee coming from the northwest adds also its gentle undulations and increases the acre September (septem, or 7). September age of arable lands. Two miles west of was the seventh month in the old Roman of the Medes and Persians, shall be unchangeable, but ever to recognize the wants of the progressive age. It is as impossible as it is unwise to attempt to cling to the nieorings ol the dark ages in deciding what in Hume, Mo. Flo.

McClintpck and brother Rawley are rusticating near Walnut Grove, Mo. Eddie Reynolds wields the rod near Pardee. Bennie Eyer is teaching young Kansans the way of Intelligence in Nemaha Co. 8. F.

Smith, our expert catcher and-never-to-be-beaten base-ballist has been retired on the sick list. Capt. A. J. Dalrymple, of Washington county, drills his company weekly in Normal Hall.

Minnie Mell, not long since accepted the town is the ridge separating the waters calendar. that run into the Delaware on the south, October (octo). Eighth month of the and the Nemaha on the north, and here are old Roman year. extensive deposits of limestone of good November (novem or 9). November was shall and what Bhall not constitute a liberal course of study.

The imperative demands of the times must be recognized in both the matter and manner of teaching. quality and easilv quarried. From the the ninth month in the old Roman year. college campus we see well tilled and rich December (decern, or 10). December farms rising, terrace upon terrace, or fat, We invite a careful and critical compar was the tenth month of the early Roman year About the 21st of this month the sleek herds basking in the sun.

Southward ison of our course of study with that of any Private, City or State Normal School, or sun enters the Tropic of Capricorn, and '2 miles is a larg and valuable min call of one Smith, and now wears his cogno' tonus the winter solstice. eral spring. In company with our teach men with meekness an1 humility. We hope our new brother may prove all that that of any College in the country. While it may not extend over so many branches, ers one lovely Saturday afternoon, we drank Let every Philo and student take his name implies.

school paper, keep posted on the happen- of its crystal waters, gathered flowers on its banks, bathed our face and hands in its or consume so many years, it yet embraces all that is needed in the preparatory work for teaching, the law, medicine, the minis nings of the Normal, and become A. L- Evans will keep books for the In ted with the new members of the family. dependence Canning Co. try, or editorial life. limpid witters, and as the wet tern sun neared the third quarter we turned our faces homeward.

The timber, singing birds and rippling waters, gurgling over The Philos give one of their bewitching plays April 1st. Angie Davis our mimic ItRIDOES. and character player takes the letding part The first bridges were of wood, nnd the suing lor breach of promise. Forell, the comic Irishman, is her delendent. earliest of which we have any account was built In Rome 500 B.

C. The next was built by Julius Caesar for the passage of his army across the Rhine. great bridge D. W. Miller, one of our worthies of last year, gave the old Normal a pleasant visit last week.

over the Danube, 4,770 feet long, was made of timber, with stone piers. The Romans stony beds, called liatk the halcyon days, when a little child, thoughtless, careless, free as the wind that tossed my hair, gathered pretty stones, and prettier flowers, on Riddle Creek, for mamma. One mile east of Morrill Little Terrapin surges over a small cascade. The sound of falling waters and soughing winds fall like mellifluence on the weary soul. Here we pause listening to the wierd sounds as they rise and swell or die away, only to be renewed with Increasing sweetness, on the next zephyr.

Most beautiful landscapes Btretch far out from the very door ol the L. Kinsey is the prosperous of the Dawson flouring mills. C. S. also built the first Btone bridge, which crossed the Tiber.

Suspension bridges are Hall is roofing it in Dakota. The Hair. The Romans never adopted long hair, considering it effeminate. Kings and nobles among the Franks were distinguished by long hair. Mr.

Cleveland is the first President who has ever worn only a mustache. Archbishop Tate forbids'one of the clergy to officiate because he wore a mustache. Lord Justice Knight refused to hear a barrister because he viore a beard. It is said that Dyonisius, the tyrant, singed his beard off with hot walnut shells. Red hair became popular in the reign of queen Elizabeth and has continued more or less ever since.

False hair was worn ages ago. It was Preached against by the fathers of the church, but to no purpose. Lank hair, among the ancients, was a sign of cowardice; auburn hair, or light brown, evidence of susceptability to tender passion, as well as a rare inteligence, indus of remote origin. A Chinese one mentioned Allie Stumbo is quietly pursuing her art studies near the Nemaha while her brother by Kirchcn was made of chains supporting a roadway 830 feet in length. It was built A.

D. 65, and is still to be seen. The first large iron bridge was erected over the Severn in 1777. The age of railways has college. To the southwest we look up the Terrapin to near its scoiirce, and mark the dim outlines of shady brought a remarkable development in this branch of engineering, especially in the construction of bridges of iron and steel.

groves, green hedges, grassy lawns, waving corn ripening wheat and neat tasty dwell PLYMOUTH ROCKS. ings. Fairview on the south with its rock houses, and stone churches lifts its outlines A few fine thorough-bred cockerels at $1.00 each. I have bred to produce excel try and a peaceful disposition; black hair is roaming in "No Man'a Land" (Oklo-homa.) W. J.

Cornelson a student of last year was with us last Tuesday. B. F. Stephens, formerly ol the Normal College, is now doing a thriving business in Wymore, Neb. J.

E. Foster is clerking in a drug store in Swanton, Neb. Inda and Amanda (Pierce are at home with their parents in Padonia. At the last ellection of the Philos the following officers were chosen: Cherlena Wat kins, E. Terry 1 Vice J.

L. Codington, K. L. Klaus, Treas. Dora Graybill, chorister, E.

A. Codington, Atty. Mary Walker and J. M. Keid, Re was not highly esteemed, the possessors of lent layers, giving long, plump bodies, and short lees.

Eggs 50c per dozen. Call and it being thought jealous and quarrelsome. sharp against the pale blue sky. Hiawatha on the southeast, blazes in the evening's sun when the western rsys fall full upon her many windows. The Walnut the Mulberry, and their tributaries enshrouded in see my John M.

Reid, Red hair, in general, was an aversion, a mark of reprobation, even before the time Morrill, Kan. The Spring term opens April 5th, you of Judas- "As wicked as a red ass" was freely applied to any one having bright timber, enliven the wide plains with their beautiful green foliage, On the east as on the west, step by step the farms and cheer cannot do better than to spend a term in review, which will prepare you nicely for red hair, and was a popular and approbri-ous saying, and, to make that sentiment more binding, one of that patient tribe of ful surroundings rise until the power of vision fades away, and the eye wearies at the county institute. We are near you. Save your car fare, and at the same time take advantages of small classes through work, and the best instruction. quadrupeds was made to attone for it every the loveliness.

Dell Mixniear, viewers. J. V. Walker, Critic, ueo. Jl Frye and W.

W. Parsons, Marshals. year by being thrown from a high wall. Morrill, June 15, 1885. Choice raspberries and blackberries, very Thayer county, Nebraska, sends four students this term, one of whom J.

W. Wal The object of the normal training is to cheap. Try me. John Rkiii, ker will finish the teachers' course. Morrill, Kan.

Excited young man (to druggist) Have "Maud, dear, why is a gardener like your cheeks?" "Now, John! you know I never can guess conundrums. Why is he?" "Because he is the culler of roses, love." Tubleau. yon got any medicine that is good for man and beast? train students up to a healthy standard of teaching. The object of our normal is to give the world the benefit of well prepared young men nnd -women for every station in life. At our school, their physical, and mentnl, and moral life shall be perfected after the best models, nnd we want to assure the parents who may entrust their boys and girls to our care, that they will grow up Druggi't Yes.

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Do not fail to study our catologue, and course of study before you decide where you will go to school. Any one sending us one dollar and four new subscribers will receive the Advocate Druggist What's the matter? Excited young man Pa got run away strong in all manly and womanly virtues, and when we give them back to their homes, they will come as objects of pride one year gratis. with a mule, and one of 'em was hurt, but which we don't know. The're bringing him home now, and I thought I'd get ready tor an emergency. toenriehthe fireside circles, from which they had gone.

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