completely every obstacle in the way of the novice in business is provided for. Suppose one wishes to buy a car load of lumber, he would first consult the price lists in the different markets. Here he finds them as published by the different wholesale lumber yards, both of Indianapolis and 1898, No. 4221

here finds the whole commercial world in minature, while most business men familiarize themselves with only the one line in which they are immediately interested. Most business men have á very indefinite idea about what is done in the Clearing House, and many do not even know what

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in the Clearing House in this city. And, as it is not imaginary work, but all real business as transacted by three hundred different students, each and every one on the watch for any failure to make proper endorsement, and fully informed on the commercial law governing all kinds of endorsements and commercial transactions of every kind, it will readily be seen that the clerk in the Clearing House will meet with any complication to be met with anywhere in the active duties of life. It will thus be seen that one will learn more in a few days by observation in this school, about how business is done than he would in a whole term in a text-book or budget system school.

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Chicago. After knowing the price in each city, must then know the freight rate from either city to his home before he can determine where it would be the most advantageous to buy. He must then consult the Union Freight Company, as represented in one of the accompanying cuts. Thus it will be seen that one not only learns debit and credit but at the same time he learns in the most practical and expeditious manner possible, how and where each item of information in the transaction of any business, is to be found. And it will readily be seen that one will get a wider range of information, and specific information too, in this school than most men get in a whole life time of actual business for the reason that one

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becomes monotonous, and is dull and uninteresting and of little or no educative value.

Another interesting feature of the school is the extensive use of the latest office appliances, such as the neostyle, mimeograph, hectograph, diagraph, speaking tubes and telephones. Students in every part of the large establishment have direct communication with each other by means of the latest improved intercommunicating telephones and speaking tubes which connect every department. Mr. Vories has a complete telephone system in his school, including the exchange. If a student in one department wishes to talk with

cost and the rooms were fitted according to his orders. For the teaching of office work a special department is established. This department is presided over by a teacher of eight years' experience in all kinds of office work. Mr. Vories has employed the best teachers to be had. He has a teacher in each department who makes a specialty of the work in his line. Students are thus insured the very best instruction to be had anywhere. The private office and reception rooms are furnished in the most elegant style, the walls being solid mirrors.

The location of the college is one of the best in

one in another department about any transaction, he calls up the exchange and calls for that student's number from the Telephone Directory, just as a business man calls up another business man in the city. The College Telephone Directory gives the different toll rates to the different towns and cities in the state, just as they are found in the Central Union Telephone Directory. The exchange collects toll rates same as the Central Union does, except that it is paid in college currency. Here again it is impossible to describe the elegance, beauty and convenience. One must make a visit to appreciate fully the extent to which Mr. Vories has gone in fitting up the school. The building has been remodeled at an enormous

the country. It is in the old Journal Building, northeast corner of Market street and Monument Place. There is good light and splendid ventilation. Students are not troubled by the noise from the streets. There is splendid elevator service and all modern appliances for lighting and heating.

Mr. Vories is to be congratulated on the excellent work he is doing. His school is a great success. From the writer's personal knowledge of Mr. Vories, it is certain that he leaves nothing undone that will add to the usefulness of his school and keep it in the front rank. He is especially to be commended for the personal interest he takes in assisting all his pupils and especially

minions of the devil, and almost every community has had not only its wolves in sheep's clothing but wolves who have even donned the garb of the shepherd.

It is not surprising, therefore, that education, and more especially business education, has been sometimes chosen as a field of operation by a class of conscienceless scamps who reap a rich harvest from the gullibility of those young people who have not yet learned that there is no royal goldpaved road to capability and success.

We are led to these reflection through the perusal of the circulars sent out by an alleged business college concern whose inducements to students are self-evidently fraudulent. This charlatan, who, judging from the language of his circular, is as illiterate as he is dishonest, baits his hook with the time worn humbug of an offer to "guarantee" positions to the students who come to his school. The bait is so artfully put forth, and is made so speciously attractive that no doubt it draws many unwary students to the sharper's hook.

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positions agree to refund the money, but they are certain to make some twist which allows them to keep the money. The best exposé of the fraud of guaranteeing positions is to be found in the October number of The New Education from which we take the following extract:

EDUCATIONAL BUNKO MEN. GUARANTEEING POSITIONS A FRAUD. There is no vocation too respectable to be used as a cloak for the operations of the confidence sharp, the swindler or the thief. The burglar conceals his nefarious calling under the guise of locksmithing; the seemingly innocent engraver's shop may turn out to be a den of counterfeiters, while an inoffensive looking second-hand store may prove to be a notorious "fence" for the disposal of stolen property. Even the livery of Heaven may be stolen and worn by the

This fraud of offering to guarantee a position at a specified salary to a young man or woman who completes the course of a business school, has been so often exposed that the wonder is that it continues to be a good bait even for "suckers " Of course, no school proprietor can really do anything of the kind, and when one carefully reads the contract" put forth by the fake school to which we have alluded, it is seen that the sharp proprietor does not even agree to do so, although he makes his dupe think that he does, which amounts to the same thing."

Every one should have a business training. It matters not what his trade or profession. He can

not avoid touching the business world at some point in his life, and if he expects to follow commercial work, a business education is not only a start in life, but an absolute necessity.

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