students from out of the city. He keeps two horses and buggies and drives students from place to place until he finds them comfortable and cheap lodging places, and places to work for board for such as choose to do so to save expenses.

Mr. Vories will not guarantee a position to any one to get his money. He will and does in all cases, gladly do anything in the power of any institution to secure positions for his students. A glance at his "Record of Positions Secured" will convince any one that he is very successful in securing positions for his students and much more successful than schools that guarantee positions because such schools have not the confidence and

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.

Schools that guarantee

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 cannot 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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NEW YORK. CHICAGO.