Arizona republican., 1901-06-01

LOUISVILLE, KY NEW YORK. NY For sale by all Druggists. Price 60c. per bottle. million spears of xerXes. Gladstone in the halls of parliament may do as much for his countrymen as the Prince of Orange on the battlefield. There never will come an age when any form of citizen will surpass the soldier of the true and the right As the twen- tieth century is greater than the twelfth so is the moral hero of this period grander than any mailed war rior of a former age like Ivanhoe or Clisson or Percy. These old troopers founded or defended a castle, but the knight of this period acts for a re- public whose increasing population al- ready exceeds 70,000.000 The castle Of mediaeval Europe has expanded into a nation of more than 5000 miles In breadth.
 Very recently. 1t must be admitted, a new conc5 c5ption of national duty and obligation has seized our people which may make the new century in our countrys history more resplendent than any past one. We have entered upon the highway of ths' worlds prob l;ms and struggles. The stars and stripes have been hoisted over distant islands of the sea and are respected as never before by the worlds greatest empires. More than one-half of the worlds population faces the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The extremes of the worlds civilization are now meet I'm he nd La l. timate elevation of the Asiatic mill lions into intelligent freemen and re- lgious liberty, will depend chiefly upon the extension to them of that spirit of Christian enlightment and bensvo!ence which in twoand one-half centuries has enabled American civilization to ad- vance from Plymouth Rock to the sunset sea.
 Members of the class of 1901, thesa last days of your career in this school should awaken in all of you a su- preme consciousness of the great op- portunity and duty to which your future years now summon you. You will go hence, 1 trust, with a consum ing passion to make the most of your selves by being diligent students so long as you live, and to offer the larg- est possible contribution to the worlds progress upward and onward l coun sel you to remember that the excel fence of your service will depend even more upon what you are than upon what you do-on the mass and mo- mentum of your mental, moral and spiritual life; on the capacity of infiu- ence with which your person, your words, your deeds are charged; on the power there is in you; on the virtue that goes forth from you. You will put your soul, such as it is. into whatever you are and say and do. If that soul he sentualized, materiallzed absorbed by earthly things alone, your best h. tended endeavors for the good of others vii! be limited by the limitation of your own being If that soul be en- larged, exalted, hallowed by heavenly aspirations, there will be an efficacy literally divine, not only in what Jou say and do expressly for others, but in tho mere example of quiet. faithful and persistent duty.
 A more luminous hour than this very present one may never come again to your soul. The presence of sympathetic admiring, affsctionate companions and friends, the consciousness of having attained a goal toward which you have been striving during the years Of I>at- tent toll and study; the contemplation of the highest ideals of life, may have already united in making this trans figured hour to each of you. Then cherish the splendid vision which now fills your sou. Never again break faith with your best ideals for no tragedy can ever be so sad to you as their death Guard them as more precious than life itself and thus you will attain not only to the greatest character but also to the greatest service.
 ''The Dawn of Day" was sung by the class, when Waldo Christy stepped to the front of the stage and delivered the valedictory. His subject was Indus trial age in the United States" The speaker showed that he had given care full study to the subject and spoke un. derstandingly He said in part
 , In material progress the nineteenth
 century stands pre-emincnt, hence it is called the industrial age"
 ? The speaker then reviewed the condi- ? tions existing during the first twenty
 five years of the last century, noting t the absence of nearly all business and | homelike conveniences of today Be r ginning with the advent of the Erie f canal in 1895, he referred to the effects I of it's building. on material develop . ment, and followed with a history ol the revolutionlzing effect of railroad : building. describing with what leaps t and bounds this was pushed forward