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The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
STICK TO YOUR JOB
MAN WHO aGOT THERE" GIVES
 ADVICE TO YOUNGSTERS.
If a Man Has Any Ability at All, He Should Make Up His Mind to Stick to His Appointed Task Right
 to the Finish.

More than thirty years ago a man I know was working in tobacco fac tory, says a writer in Golfers. He was stripper-that is, he was en- gagged in stripping the stems from to- baeco leaves. Such work is extreme ly arduous and the prospects of se- curing advancement are remote.
 This man, however, was ambitious. He wanted to work himself from wages to salary. It was his desire to labor with his brains instead of with his hands. Pictured in his minds eye was that plateau against which the top of the ladder of success rests.
 Did he seek another job? He did not
 He kept right on stripping. Today he is the president of a $65,000 900 corporation! And he is still in the to- bacco businessi
 The man. I might as well tell you, is Caleb C. Dula
 Tn my day" said MT. Dula. T have seen much written and heard much said about men becoming their own masters. What foolishnessi The young man is told to start in business for himself He is told to give up his job and get one that brings in a larger income That advice has ruined the prospects of more men than any other I can think of.
 If man has any ability at all, and is interested in his work, he should make up his mind to stick right to the finish. If he has no ability he will not stick. Do not misunderstood me- If man is in the wrong job-that is to say, if he is not the right man or is not in the right job-he Is do- ing both himself and the job great injustice to continue his relations. Un- der these circumstances a business di- vorce is necessary. The man should have a new job and the job should have rev mani
 Generally, however, every man. be he clerk or a clergyman. a we'll dig ger or steeplejaek, longshoreman or a lawyer, should realize that his environment Is his savings bank. He is paying int it days of his life. The investment will return larger interest tddh diy otHeI He coulu ludhe Iue man who leaves job for slight raise in salary loses his investment. In a new field he opens another account. And it is likely to be a meager one for some time, as he generally is a stranger in strange land, and until he has proved his worth his associates and his employers have their eyes con- stantly on him. watching for him to make some break"
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

better now, was waiting. He had pulled long coat over his Chinese clothes and wore a slouch hat. As he looked at the incoming passengers he spied the man he was waiting for the young crook who had been wait ing in the shrubbery outside the na y building when the torpedo model was thrown out.
 The man had the model carefully wrapped up under his arm. As his eye travelled over the crowd he recognized Wu, but did not betray it. He walked by, and as he passed hastily handed Wu the package containing the model Wu slipped it under his coat Then each went his way, in opposite direc, tions.
 It was a close race between the car bearing the two crooks and that which Kennedy had impressed into service but We kept on through the city and out across the country, into Conneeti- cut.
 Time and again they almost got away, until it became a question of following tire tracks. Once we came to a cross roads and Kennedy stopped and leaped out. Deeply planted in the mud he could see the tracks of the car ahead leading out ty the left road Close beside the tire tracks were the footprints of two men going up the right-hand road toward the sound.
 You follow the car md the driver, y decided Craid hastily indicating the road by which it had gone. III fol- low the footprints
 The secret service men jumped back into the car and Kennedy and I went along the shore road follow ing the two crooks.
 Already the wounded crook, sup ported by his pal. had made his way down to the water and had come to a long wharf. There near the land end, they had secret hiding place into which they went. The other crook drew forth a smoke signal and began to prepare it.
 Kennedy and I were able. now, to move faster than they As We came in sight of the wharf. Kennedy paused.
 There they are, two of them,' he indicated.
 I could just make them out in their hiding place. The fellow who had stolen the torpedo was by this time so weak from loss of blood that he could hardly hold his head up, while the other hurried to fix the smoke signal. He happened to glance up and saw us.
 Come, Red, brace up, he muttered. They're on our trall."
 The wounded man was almost too weak to answer. II cant" he gasped weakly. "You-go." Then. With a great effort, remembering the mission on which he had been sent. he whispered hoarsely. T hid the sec ond torpedo model in the Dodge house in the bottom of He tried to fin
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They rushed out and into the eonser- vatory in time to see the crook. who had broken away. knock out Jennings He sprang to his feet and darted away
 Kennedy's mind was working rapid ly Had the man been after the other model? The detectives went after him But Craig went for the torpedo. As he looked into the tank, it was gone, He turned and followed the crook
 I was still in the garden with Elaine and Aunt Josephine when I heard sounds of a struggle and a moment later man emerged through the win dow of the conservatory, followed by two other men. l went for him. but he managed to elude me and dashed for the wall in the back of the garden The secret service men fired at him, but he kept on. A moment later Craig came through the window.
 The crook by this time had reached the top of the wall Just as he was about to let himself down safely on the other side. shot struck him. He pitched over and ran forward.
 But he had just enough of a start. In spite of the shock of the wound he managed to pick himself up and, with the help Of a confederate, hob bled into a waiting car, which sped away just as We came over the wall.
 We dropped to the ground just as another car approached. Craig com mandeered it from it's astonished driver. the secret service men and l piled in and we were off in few sec onds in hot pursuit.
 Down at the terminal where trains came in from Washington, Wu, much
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
Radla ator Water Saves a Life.

Because of the not infrequent occa- sions on which motoring parties find themselves chilled, as in snow or rain- storms on tours. while insufficiently protected by coats and cloaks, it is Of interest to remember that the radiator of an automobile at all times when tho car is running has a supply of hot water. Prompt application of hot va. ter recently saved a half-drowned woman at Manhattan Beach, New York. from severe chill and pneu- monia Doctors declared that the ra- diator water undoubtedly saved her life.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
SYNOPSIS.

The New York police are lrystified by series of murders and other crimes. The principal clue to the criminal :s the warn ing letter which is sent the Nictims. signed with "clutChing hand" The latest vic tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Dodge the insurance president. His daughter Elaine employs Craig Ken nedy, the famous scientific detective, to try to unrayel the mystery. What ken nedy accomPlishes is told by his friend. Jameson, a newspaper man After many fruitless attempts to put Elaine and Craig Kennedy out of the way the Clutch ing Hand is at last found 10 be none other than Perry Bennett. Elaire's lawyer and the man she is engaged 70 marry. Ben nett fees te the den of one of his Chl- nese criminals. The Chinaman forces from Bennett the secret Of the whereabouts Of S70n0oo Then he gives the lawyer pc tion which will suspend animation for months. Kennedy reaches BenHetts side just after he has lost consciousness.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

ish, but he was too weak. He fell back, dead.
 His pal had waited as long as he dared to learn the secret. He jumped up and ran out just as we burst into the hiding place.
 Kennedy dropped down by the dead man and searched him, while dashed after the other fellow.
 When I returned I found Kennedy writing nasty note.
 q couldn't follow him. Craig" l confessed.
 Too bad" drowned Craig, evidently greatly worried by what had hap pened, as he folded the note. Wal ter" he added, seriously, T want you to go and find the fellow He hand ed me the note. And if anything sep arates us today-give this note to Elaine"
 Meanwhile, as nearly as I can now make out, Kennedy searched the dead man again. There was certainly no clue to his identity on him, nor had he the torpedo model Craig looked about. Suddenly he fell fiat on his stomach.
 There was Wu Fang himself coming to the wharf, carrying the model of the torpedo which had been stolen in Washington and brought up to him by his emissary.
 Kennedy, crouching down and talk ing advantage of every object that sheltered him. crawled cautiously into an angle. Unsuspecting Wu came to the land end of the wharf
 There he saw his lieutenant dead and the smoke signal still beside him, unlighted. He bent over in amaze ment and examined the man.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

structive mental activity In time the race acquired the fixation of these lev els. and the iRtoxication impulse had served it's usefulness.
 The impulse survives today in its harmful aspects" says the New York Medical Journal in reviewing Doctor Partridge's book Studies in the Psy chology of Intemperance, and con tinues: Tt no longer has a great func- ton to perform. It dominates indl- viduals and social groups when they are unable to reach these higher lev els Of activity. to direct their vital
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

thing called conversion, men con, sciously wrong, inferior, and unhappy become consciously right, superior, and happy. It produces not change, but revolution in character. It does not alter, it creates new personality. The phrase "a new birth" is not rhe- torical hyperbole, but a fact of the physical kingdom. Men, who have been irretrievably bad. and under con- version have become ardent savers of the lost, tell us. with all the pathetic emphasis of their inexpressible and impenetrable discovery, that in the
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
lNTOXlCANTS ONCE OF USE
Physician Has Made interesting Delve Into the Worlds Usage of Ar
 dent Liquors.

Intoxication. according to Dr. c. E. Partridge, was originally an accompani- ment and the source of those exalted psychical states necessary for the de- yelopment of individual and racial con- sciousness, which meant enlarged mental horizon and the lifting of in diyiduals and nations to levels Of con-
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

energies into these channels, and so are dependent upon it's temporary and inefficient exhilaration. They find in it also a social reaction, likewise in- adequate and eyanescent, but feeble survival of the effective social awak- ening that intoxication produced in the early history of mankind. The narcosis of alcohol or other drugs is now merely refuge for those whose mental organization demands release from the too great pressure which they are unable to meet in ceaseless struggle for existence and advance,
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

the unequal struggle between instinc- tive forces and ethical conditions"
 According to Doctor Partridge, the cure for habitual intoxication must consist in directing the activities of the sufferer to higher spheres, which must be such as are capable of arous- irsg an interest sufficient to stimulate and sustain him in his best endeavor
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
A Mera Irifle

T was asked to stop in town and get little something for my wife. but 1 can't remember what it was," said Scadsworth.
 'Ribbons?" asked Dubwaite.
 No"
 .Hairpins. toilet water, face powder, candy?"
 None of those things. An! re- member now. She wants a new cleo trio runabout."
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
No Road to Riches.

After looking over the life history Of some of the wealthiest men in the world. we have about reached the conclusion that none of them got rich by saving tobacco coupons.-Toledo Blade.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

change which overcame them they were conscious of being born again" To them, and we can go to no other authorities, this tremendous revolution in personality signifies a new birth Twice-Born Men.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02
What Is Conversion?

Whatever we may think of the phenomenon itself. the fact stands clear and unassanable that by this
The day book., 1915-10-25

NOTHlN' DOOM ON THE FREE
SPEECH STUFF-8 ARRESTED
Streets are public property.
This is supposed to be free coun-
try. --..---..
All of which has to do with Mandel
Bros. and Holden ct.
Believing that city police would not
dare interfere with the constitution
of the United States which grants
free speech to all American people,
1000 Chicagoans gathered in Holden
ct. Sunday night to listen to a series
Of political economy addresses.
But Mandel Bros. claim Holden Ct,
over which they have built their de-
partment store, is private drive
way.
Marshall Fields, Carson-Pirie-
Scott and Stevens probably agree
with Mandel Bros, for they have all
built their stores over what was a
public street open to the free use of
all the people, and now claim the
street as private property. They use
Holden Ct as private loading yard
for delivery wagons and won't even
let a wagon drive in it unless, the
wagon is on their business. -
Forty speakers were on the job!
Soon the police appeared. There
were not many police and there was
no trouble. The police simply dis
agreed with the right of the people
to be there and the audience did not
argue. In a few minutes the courts
was cleared.
On a street that not even the de-
partment stores claim is private
property eight speakers again tried
to tell their message. They were
arrested. They are: L. w. Hardy,
1645 Belmont av.; Geo. Koop, 1923
N. bennington ay.; Jos. Frank Hal
latt, 21 N. Morgan; Redwood Bailey,
500 N. State; Morris Becker, 807 S.
State: Michael Walsh, 122 N. Shell
The day book., 1915-10-25
ANNA HELD :

AS guaranty of good faith that
the film concern which has just
signed up Anna Held to appear in one
picture would pay her the contract
price of 100000, she has already re-
ceived $5, 200 of this sum. The French
actress will leave early next month
for California, where the picture will
be photographed:
HOLD MAN IN GIRLS DEATH
Dodge City, Kan., Oct. 25.-Archi-
bald Sweet, farm, hand, gave him
self up to the authorities of Grant
county after bloodhounds had fol-
lowed a distinct trail from the spot
where Nellie Byers, the school teach
er, was murdered, to the house where
Sweet lived. The officers early to-
day spirited Sweet out of the commu-
nifty, fearing mob violence, and
lodged the prisoner in jail at Lakin.
Sweet denies his guilt and declares
he gave himself up to get the pro-
lection Of the law
The day book., 1915-10-25

The most costly thimbIe in the
world is owned by the queen of Siam,
1t is shaped like lotus bud and is
made of gold, thickly studded with
diamonds. -. ;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-10
LIQUOR RING DECLARES
BOYCOTT ON OPPONENTS
Booze Association Opens Fight on
Business Enemies.

Booze Association Opens Fight on
Business Enemies.
A boycott OF all business men who have
lined up with Governor Brumbaugh OH
the local option fight has been begun
by the Retail Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton in Pennsylvania. Lists of business
men who have supported the Williams
local option bill have been prepared and
distributed among the 1iO00 or more re-
tail liquor dealers.
The compilers of the list, however dis
covered to their regret, yesterday, that
they had made some mistakes. A big
Philadelphia baking company, which was
the first 10 feel the effect OF the boyeott.
notified Neil Bonner, president OF the
Liquor Dealers Association, that n was
not in favor of the local option bill and
asked for an explanation OF why Goa
saloonkeepers ana licensed hotels here
should have stopped buying bread from n.
Mr., Bonner Immediately wrote a person-
al apology to the irm and explained that
a false rumor has been Responsible for
the boycott against It. The saloon men
today said they intend to enforce the
boycott against department stores. hard
ware stores, grocery stores, butcher
shops and all business tabllshmants
with which they trade.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-10
VALUE OF SKILLED MARKSMEN
SHOWN BY MAN IN TRENCHES
Crack Snap Shots Did Great Work at
Close Range.

The Importance the individual skilled
marksman Is playing In the great war in
Europe Is pointed out in Arms and the
Man, which gets It's facts from a letter
received from a man on the firing line,
who is well qualified to give them. Arms
and the Man says. in part: I'm other and
more peaceful times this man himself was
one of the foremost rihemen of the world.
We could expect him, then, to pay more
attention TO the effects of small-arm fire
than to any other feature of the combat
He says there were 4 remarkably large
number of opportunities for individual
shooting, especially when the lines of
trenches worked up close to each other
There the individual who was good at
snap shooting often made the enemy pain
fully aware of his presence. He confirms
to us the reports received from other
sources of the liberal employment by the
Germans of individual, sharpshooters
armed with rifles equipped with telescope
sights. He expresses the opinion that at
least 30 per cent. of the officers OF the
Allies killed have met their death from
individual rife fire, usually delivered by
marksmen separated from the main line,
either being behind. to the front, or on
one side of it. He deplores the fact that
the Allies seem to have neglected the de-
velopment OF experts skilled in the use of
the telescope sight
1T takes times of stress to drive truth
home. The nation whose military men
can most clearly see truth will have pre-
pared in peace for some Of the eventuall-
ties of war. The United States cannot be
said to have lived UP TO her opportunities
in this respect"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-10
JOHN HAMILTON
Manufacturer, Union League Member
and Ex-Representative.

Manufacturer, Union League Member
and EX-Representative.
John Hamilton. founder and president
of the firm of John Hamilton & Sons,
carpet manufacturers of Howard and
Huntingdon streets, and a prominent
member of the Union League. died last
night at his home, $3.50 Seminole avenue,
ST. Martins
Mr.. Hamilton was born in County
Derry Ireland. In 1915. He emigrated to
the United States in 1865 and settled IN
Philadelphia where he learned carpet
weaving, He entered the carpet business
for himself in 1870. Mr.. Hamilton was
member of the Philadelphia council
from 1895 to 1897 and for years was affiil-
ated with the Trades League, the Phila-
delphia Bourse and with the National
Security Bank, as director. In 1900 he
was elected to the House of Representa-
tives by large majority and reelected
in 1902. He was also n member of the
Committees on Banks Congressional APP
portlonment Education, Military and
Ways and Means.
lie leaves "A widow and two sons, vii.
liam c. and Robert G, Hamilton. members
of the carpet firm. The funeral services
will be held Tuesday afternoon at Q
o'clock from his late home in ST, Martins.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-10
SIX BROTHERS OF RIVAL
CLANS FIGHT TO THE DEATH
Triple Duel Results From Feud
Started by Ball Game.

LETART. w. Va. April 10-Two men
are dead, two are dying and two more
desperately wounded today as a result OF
strange triple duel, in which six broth
-eFs, representatives of two families, drew
their knives and faced opponents. selected
with regard to age. Several hundred men,
women and children stood by
The dead are Earl Shirley, 2S years old,
and Urson Bosworth, 3S. both eldest broth
ers of feudists clans, who were paired in
the duel They were the first to meet and
cut and slashed until both dropped
Then Jack Shirley and John Bosworth
the next in age of the fighting seXtet
cIashed. fighting a few yards from tho
place where their brothers were stabbing
each other to the death. Jackson Shirley
and John Bosworth are dying, physicians
said today.
Harry Shirley and Tom Bosworth paired
of few minutes later. They are boys in
their teens. Both are desperately
wounded. but may recover.
The feud began over a baseball game
many months ago. The crowd which
watched the duel had been attending an
entertainment at the Howell school
house, four miles from here. As the en-
tertainment neared it's close those inside
the schoolhouse heard quarreling outside.
The program was cut short and the peo-
pie poured out of the building to see the
tight.
The fight of the Oldest brothers was the
hercest. Earl Shirley fought until life
left him. He was dead, spectators said,
when he fell Both he and his opponent
were disemboweled and their throats were
hacked to shreds.
Sheriff Lescher and a posse remained on
guard at the schoolhouse all night fearing
other members of the family would clash.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-10
JURORS IN CLAY TRIAL
PLAYBALL IN CITY HALL
Court Attendants Guard Each
End of Corridor to Keep
Spectators Out.

| new type Of football, played with a
heavy medicine ball, made its appearance
today with six men to side in the sixth
floor, west corridor of city Hall. The
players are the jurors in the trial of
Henry Clay, former Director of Public
Safety; John r. Virgins and Willard H.
Walls, contractors, accused Of conspir-
acy to cheat tile city by contract Jug
glery.
The entire west corridor was turned
over TO the Jurors late this afternoon
when all the offices had been closed
Court attendants guarded each end TO
prevent visitors from getting to the jury,
and for two hours the shouts Of the men,
most OF whom are young, reverberateu
through the hail.
Director Porter declared today that
Walter s. Hopper, former chief clerk
under Clay, did not know what he was
talking about when he intlmated that con-
tracts and specifications were never read
by the Director Of the Department of
Public Safety.
II can say nothing OF previous admin
istratlons," sold Director Porter, but the
chief clerk has nothing to do with de-
termlnng who shall get contracts under
this administration. He has absolutely
no cay In the matter at all.
Numerous small contracts come to the
Directors desk folded UP for his sigma
ture, but they are all drawn to form by
the City Solicitor and checked UP in va
rious ways TO see that they are as they
should be-"
Director Porter corroborated Hopper in
the latter's statement that there should
be dn engineer In the Department of Pub
lie Safety. He said he has held that opin-
lon for some time Under the old condi-
tiona the city architect was the official
who investigated specifications to see they
were as they should be, the Director said.
Specifications are now checked up by the
chief OF the Bureau of City Property.
Hopper, IN his testimony yesterday re-
atlng to the details In the Directors Of
fce, made no direct reference to the pres
ent administration. He intimated, how
aver. that procedure similar to that under
Clay still obtained.
The trial will be resumed Monday morn
ng. Judge Ferguson thought the Jurors
should have n chance today to get some
air and exercise Handballs and base
oalls have been provided for them, and
hey will be taken on a long automobile
'ide today and probably again tomorrow.