Students travel in the best of Rigs, and they get them of TOOTHAKER.
Boys and Girls Not Rich.
There is a general public opinion that it costs a great deal of money to go to college. Many boys and girls want to make themselves more manly and womanly by a higher education, but are discouraged by parents and friends. Now any one acquainted with any college will tell you that any healthy boy or girl who will work, can graduate from any school, even Johns Hopkins. He may have no money, but he can earn some by teaching, or in other ways, to start with, and then he will find opportunities—tutorships, janitorships, monitorships, doing chores, working at his trade, or even staying out of school a year to teach and earn money. He generally gets through as soon as the richer boy, and never takes more than a third more time.
In Kansas University one-third of the students pay all their expenses, two-thirds pay a part, and the other third are not rich and have to economize. Here are some figures as to the total cost for six college years of forty weeks each, given by one of our graduates, now editor of a city daily: $65, $120, $225, $300, $350, $400. After the first year he earned his own way, finding plenty of opportunities, and earning enough to live more luxuriously.
One of our janitors paid his way at a cost of $200 per year, and lived well.
Another janitor economized more and paid $175 per year, using the rest of his earnings to help educate another student.
A school teacher started with $300,
and stayed out of school to teach and
taught institutes in the summer. It
cost him $160, $180, $240, $300,
$350.
A civil engineer earned his way by working in a livery stable. You can get an education if you are not too lazy. Even poor health will not prevent if you take more time.
Now how to start. Get through your district school. Then either study at home or go to some high school and get ready for sub-Freshman year. You must study arithmetic, algebra, U. S. history and constitution, descriptive and physical geography and English grammar before you come here. You can get the rest here. Use your home schools first. If you are near a normal or business college, take all you can there that will help you here. You can live cheaper at home, and find more chances for work. Hold on to will your home acquaintances, for you go back to work there. If your life work is teaching, graduate at Emporia State Normal before coming here. Earn $200 and come. Don't write to the University professors for work, but come and find it for yourself. Teaching or some trade is the best thing you can do to earn money. No one will help you through. You must rely on yourself. You must expect hard knocks and rigid economy at first; plain clothes and little social life. But he who endures overcomes. You will soon learn how to do the hardest work with both mind and body. Ability to work hard is what the business world pays for, and this is the aim of a college course. Thus you will have the very best education. So come up here with us. Kansas wants the hardened vim and trained ability of her poor boys and girls. She pays the professors to teach you. Come pn, we want you.
WESTERN NATIONAL FAIR Bismarck Grove, September 7th to 12th.
Will be the Grandest Exhibition ever known in Kansas! Agricultural and Speed Ring attractions unsurpassed!
Occurring this year the week of examinations, students will have excellent opportunity to attend. Street car line runs to within one block of the University to the Grove. Admission only 50 Cents.
VIEWS.
EDITOR VIEWS:—I wonder if in this warm summer weather a View on camping out would please your readers. I am now camping in a beautiful grove called Sleepy Hollow, situated near Tiblow, 22 miles east from Lawrence, on the U. P. railroad. Some months ago the proprietor, John McDanield, discovered iron springs here. Though not yet prepared for a summer resort, Mrs. McDanield asked a party of her young friends to camp here for a couple of weeks.
R. W. CUNNINGHAM, Secretary.
two leg cats, white washed wom and without, are built in primitive style. On a knoll fronting the south, about 120 yards away are eight of the springs. Several others are across a knoll to the west. It is a delightful place to recline in a hammock swing under the rustling trees, and read or think one's self to sleep. Not far off is Wolf Creek, where one may catch a nice mess of fish for supper. The pure air and sunshine gives one an appetite for meals at all hours. Nothing goes begging from crackers and cheese to sardines and cherry pie. For a party of students who have a week or two in which to recruit for another year's hard study, this is the very place. Our party has averaged fifteen, although there have been over thirty here at different times. Among these were the following students: Mrs. Nellie Shepherd, nee Reid, formerly of '85; Alice and Ella Ropes, '87; Chas. F. Foley '84, and Chas. Simpson, '87.
STUDENT.
Camp Greaseupthefryingpan.
SQUEGEE CANON, COLORADO.
DEAR COURIER: Having successfully accomplished our mule-team journey from Kansas to the Rockies, and being comfortably camped in a cozy canon fifty miles from Nowhere and thirty-seven and one-half from Peterson's sheep ranche, and surrounded by snow drifts, evergreen forests and precipitous mountains, we thought it fitting to write that promised letter, and thus inform our many anxious friends of our whereabouts. I can but marvel that so many students will scorch and wither away during the hot summer months, when at so small an expense they can spend the summer climbing the Rockies, chasing the deer, the bear and the wapiti from their native haunts, bearing pure,fresh, invigorating air, drinking cool, gushing water as it comes rippling down the craggy slopes, and in so doing gain health and strength preparatory to the great work before them.
Arriving at Peterson's ranche toward the latter part of June, we spent a few days enjoying the scenes about us, then procuring the services of four burros, we packed the beasts preparatory to an extended trip in unknown parts. The first day proved
full of tribulations. Scarcely were we started when a misty fog enveloped us, and our trail was soon lost. This, together with the fact that the packs would persist in slipping off, made matters very sad. It was five o'clock P. M. when wet, tired and hungry, with feet blistered, we reached a suitable camping place. One of the boys thought we must be forty miles from the ranche. Others thought it could not be less than sixty. And one poor comrade entertained the delusion that we had pressed beneath the soles of our feet the mud of one hundred miles that day. I judged we had traveled thirty. We were gathered around a rousing campfire drying ourselves, and each ravenously devouring a chunk of burned bread and fried bacon, when we heard the brush cracking in a neighboring quaking asp grove. The simultaneous impulse of course, was that bears were after us. Each man who retained his presence of mind grabbed his gun for the battle. Presently a small herd of cows merged from the grove, driven by Peterson's boy, who informed us that we were ten yards from the trail, and that a tramp of three quarters of a mile would take us back to the ranche. Although our days travel had been a fizzle, we were sufficiently plucky to hang up where we were that night and try again next day.
Four days travel brought us to apparently good hunting grounds. Here we decided to remain one week. Trout were plenty, and we never lacked for squirrels and grouse. But I know you are anxious to hear about our bear hunt. As soon as we were settled the first thing in order of course, was a hunt, and we could think of hunting nothing smaller than bears. So bright and early, with Winchester and shot guns, and a good supply of grub and ammunition, we started. We didn't know where we were going exactly, but we were going to hunt bears. The foremous passed off very pleasantly as we tramped along talking, singing, and laughing. At eleven o'clock we halted for dinner on the east slope of a canon, near the edge of a meadow. Before we were through one of our chums saw an animal grazing on the other side of the canon. Exactly what it was we could not make out, but concluded it must be a deer. As we neared the place one of the boys exclaimed in breathless excitement: "It's a big black bear; don't you see it yonder?" And sure enough, not two hundred yards distant, could be seen the back of the beast as it moved along the edge of the willows. As I was the only crack shot in the crowd the shooting fell to me. I aimed steadily and fired. From the way the mud and other debris flew in the direction in which the bullet had sped, we knew something was hit. We hastened to the spot and there to
our utter astonishment, lay a poor burro, writhing in its death agonies. We comprehended the situation when not fifty yards distant we perceived the cabin of its owner. Fortunately for us the proprietor was absent. And as the noble steed began to "sleep the sleep that knows no waking," we began to make back steps as lively as our legs could carry us.
The golden sun was sinking behind the snow capped mountains as we decended into the canon from which we had started that morning. As we neared camp we found a huge piece of bacon upon which some monstrous animal had been gnawing. This aroused our curiosity. But alas, when we reached the place where our camp was! A Kansas cyclone could not have produced greater devastation. Our tent had been torn down, the flour sack trailed for five yards around, sugar, coffee, meal, salt, bed clothes, potatoes, everything, lay in utter pandimonium. The younger boys knew it must have been a big niger, because there were his barefooted tracks in the ashes. But scratches and hair upon a neighboring spruce tree told us upon reflection that old bruin had called in our absence, and in as much as he had obtained a good taste of sugar, etc., the best thing we could do was to "take up our bed and walk" before he returned to obtain a taste of us.
I must confess I was the object of considerable mirth for some time after killing the burro, but have redeemed myself since. Concerning the redemption, I shall be obliged to relate to you in the series of papers upon our trip, which I am preparing to read before the Science Club next winter. S.W., &c.
LOCAL.
J. C. Shinn—honest, hard-working Joe gains honors for Kansas University as Road Overseer, near Chanute. He returns in January.
Do not think it will be any annoyance to us to mail you the catalogue of the Lawrence and Atchison colleges. School year begins Sept. 1st. Students received any time. No vacations or term divisions.
Messrs. Hays & Hutchings will be pleased to mail their Shorthand and Telegraph Advocate to any address free, giving full information regarding their school of Shorthand, Type Writing and Telegraphy, Lawrence, Kansas.
James William Mulvane died at his home in Topeka, Sunday evening, August 9th. Mr. Mulvane was a member of the Freshman class. He made many friends by his gentlemanly manners, who will deeply regret his early death. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
The prospects for a large attendance the coming year are most flattering. Better understanding of the needs of students, improved text books, introduction of a new system of actual business practice, which has challenged the unqualified admiration of all business educators and business men who have examined it, as being the simplest, most practical, direct and effective means of illustrating business that has ever been devised, and additions to the teaching force, are some of the advantages awaiting new students of the Lawrence and Atchison Business Colleges.
University of Kansas
Department of Science, Literature,
and the Arts.
Department of Law.
Department of Pharmacy.
Department of Elementary Instruction.
Department of Miusc.
The Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts
Offers eight distinct courses: Classical, Modern Literature, Scientific, Latin Scientific, Civil Engineering, Natural History, Chemistry and Physics, Didactics, leading to the degrees of B. A., B. S., B. D. A Preparatory Medical Course offers a year's thorough work to those studying medicine.
With an extended course of study, and a large corps of instructors and lecturers,
The Law Department.
The Law Department, Now offers the very best of advantages to students of the law.
The Department of Pharmacy.
With L. E. Layre, Ph. G., late Professor of Pharmacy in the Women's Medical College,
and Instructor in Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, as Dean,
will give complete and thorough instruction in this line of work. The course will be two years in length.
The Deprtment of Music,
Having been thoroughly reorganized, is prepared to give instruction in Piano, Violin, and Orchestral Instrument Music, as in Vocal Culture and Chorus Singing.
A Department of Elementary Instruction,
Is maintained especially for those who heck the preparation in the Languages necessary for admission into the Freshman Class. This Department will also give instruction in other preparatory branches.
The Fall Term Opens Wednesday, September 9th.
J. A. LIPPINCOTT, D. D. Chancelor,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Col. Walker's Livery turns out First Class Rigs at most reasonable rates. Go there.