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Arizona republican., 1915-01-10

the life of the world-has constantly to be fed from the bottom. It has to be fed by those great sources of strength which are constantly rising in new generations. Red blood has
 to be pumped into it, new fibre has 60 be supplied That is the reason have always said that I believed in popular institutions. The humblest hovel may produce you your greatest man. A very humble hovel did pro- duce you one of your greatest men. And so that is the process of life, this constant surging up of the new strength, of unnamed, unrecognized, uncatalogued men, who are just get ting into the running, who are just coming up from the masses of the unrecognized multitude. You do not know when you will see upon the level masses of the crowd some great stature lifted head and shoulders above the rest, shouldering it's way
 not violently but gently to the front, and saying: Here am T. follow me" And his voice will be your voice, his thought will be your thought, and
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can enlghten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.
 An association merely of young men might be an association that had it's energies directed in every di- rection, but an association of Christ ian young men is an association meant to put it's shoulders under the world and lift it. So that other men should feel that they have comrades in bearing the weight and heat of the day; that other men may know that there are those who cared for them. who would go into places of who regard themselves as their brothers keepers. And then I am glad that it is an association, every word of it's title means an element of strength. Young men are strong; Christian young men are the strong est kind of young men; and when they associate themselves together, of organization.
 I remember hearing a very wise man say once, man grown old in the service of great church, that he had never taught his son religion dogmatically at any time. that ne and the boys mother had agreed that if the atmosphere of that home did not make a Christian of the boy, nothing that they could say would make Christian of him. They knew that Christia lity was catching and if they did not have it it would not be communca .ed. If they did have it, it would penetrate while the boy slept almost. while he was un- conscious of the sweet influences that were about him, while he reckoned nothing of instruction, but merely breathed into his lungs the whole some air of Christian home.
 That is the principle of the Young Mems Christian Association, to make place where the atmosphere makes great ideals contagious. That is the reason that I said, though l had for gotten that I said it, what is quoted on the outer page of the program that
 You can test a modern community by the degree of it's interest in its Young Mems Christian Association You can test whether it knows what road it wants to travel or not; you can test whether it is deeply interest ed in the spiritual and essential pros pcrity of its rising generation. l do not know of any test that can be more conclusively put to a commun- ity than that.
 Now, if you find men who have grown old, about whom the crust has hardened, whose hinges are stiff, whose minds always have their eye over the shoulder. thinking of things as they were done, don't have any thing to do with them. It would not be Christian to exclude them from your organization, but merely use them to pad the roll. If you can find older men who will lead you accept ably, and keep you in countenance, l am bound as an older man to advise you to follow them. But suit your selves. Do not follow people that stand still. Just remind them that this is not statical proposition it is a movement, and if they cant get a move on them, they are not ser viceable.
 Life, gentlemen-the life of society,
Arizona republican., 1915-01-10
PLACE SHOULDER UNDER
 LOAD AND LIFT SAYS WILSON

the way of developing his character. My advice is, don't think about your character. If you will think about what you ought to do for other peo- pie, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product and any man who devotes himself to it's cultivation in his own case will be- come selfish prig. The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish in terests. And that is the lesson of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself And no man is a true Christian who does not think con stantly of how he can lift his brother, tow he can assist his friend, how he
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you will follow him as if you were following the best things in your selves.
 Whenever I think of an association of Christian young men, I wonder that it has not already turned the world upside down. l wonder not that it has done so much, for it has done a great deal but that it has cone so little; and I can only con lecture that it does not realize it's own strength. l can only imagine that it has not yet got its pace. l wish 1 could believe, and 1 do be- lieve that at seventy it is just reach ing its majority, and that from this time out a dream even greater than that George Williams ever dreamed will be realized in the great accumu- lating momentum of Christian men throughout the world.
 What I am hoping for is that these seventy years have just been a run ming start, and that now there will be a great rush of Christian princi- ples upon the strongholds of evil and of wrong in the world.
 Those strongholds are not as strong as they look Almost every vicious man is afraid of society, and if you once open the door where he is ne will run. All you have to do is to fight, not with cannon, but with light. That, in my judgment, is what the Young Mems Christian Association can do It can point out to it's mem bers the things that are wrong It can guide the feet of those who are going astray; and when its members have realized the power of the Chris tian principle, then they will not be men if they do not unite to see that the rest of the world experiences the same emancipation and reaches the same happiness of release
 l believe in the Young Mems Christian Association, because I be- lieve in the progress of moral ideas in the world, and l don't know that l am sure of anything else.
 l have come here today to bid Godspeed to the grand work of the Young Mems Christian Association. I love to think of the gathering force of such things as this in the genera tions to come. If a man had to mea- sure the accomplishments of society, the progress of reform, the speed of the worlds betterment, by the few little things that happened in his own life, by the trifling things he can contribute to accomplish, he would indeed feel that the cost was much greater than the result Rut no man can look at the past of the history of this world, without Saeing a vision of the future of the history of this world; and when you think of the accumulated moral forces that have made one age better than an other age in f'o progress of man kind. then you can open your eyes to the vision.
 The Association is one of the forces we are utilizing to make the average and fight for virtue.
 l once commanded a regiment in a war; and I speedily found that I had no use for the man who said he want ed to be hero, but who didn't do his every day duty. So, in our or dinary life, the vital essential is that each day the man shall perform hon. estly, decently. his duty to his fam
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fly, his friends. his neighbors and his business associates.
 My constantly growing interest in the Young Mems Christian Associa tion has sprung primarily from the fact that by actual experience it helps to teach the performance of every day duty. And even more. because
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caught an inve-erate point of view, when they have the searchlight that they can swing and see what it re- Veals of all the circumstances of the hidden world and I am more inter- ested in it because it is an associa ton of young men who are Chris t.ans.
 wonder if we attach sufficient importance to Christianity as a mere irstrumentality in the life of man. kind. For on- I am not fond of thinking of Christianity as a means of saving individual souls. l have always been impatient of processes and institutions, which said that thei.' purpose was to put every man m
Arizona republican., 1915-01-10
w. J. Bryan Appeals to Boys

Every young mans body is worth more to him than any fortune. He can squander it; he can waste it: he can throw it away. The wealth of this country is not in the ground-it is above the ground The most i'm portant wealth of this country is it's manhood
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it gives help in the only way in which help can be permanently given. by teaching the man to help himself.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-30
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1t was not merely that the girl who asked him to go with her happened to be Helen Bertel that Felix Hazard readily consented to do so. but, more over, because he had confidence in her sharpness and common sense, and felt that he was not sidetracking busi- ness of moment in needing anything brought by her to his notice In a few minutes they entered typical West side rooming house on a busy street and were going through an unusual form of introduction. inasmuch as Miss Bertel could observe the customary ceremony no further than to murmur Hazards name, and leave it 10 the other to identify himself as best he could
 The waif. however, was by now per. fectly self-possessed. Miss Bertel had felt justified in aequainting him with all the circumstances. He realized his predicament, and was not without a theory to account for it-one which showed that he was neither unintelli- ge.t nor wholly unread.
 He was Incorporating man of per haps thirty, and of pleasing person. ality and address.
 q have been mulling the whole thing oyer." said he. and have come to several conelusIons which may or may not be helpful.
 First of all"-with an admiring. grateful. but withal respectful glance at the girl know that I'm deucedly lucky to have fallen into such consid- crate hands in my present plight.
 I've forgotten everything about my self up to the time l saw Miss Bertel looking down at me. l suppose l was hit over the head-knocked down and out-and that the blow has destroyed my memory. You can't imagine how horrible il is to realize such state.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-30

T am inclined to believe all you have said Mr.
 The pause fell flatly; the air of ex peetant waiting was natural and per suasive. The waifs features lighted up, and it seemed for an instant as if he were about to supply the name, but at once the light died away, and the good-looking features clouded over with shadow of melancholy.
 Its no use,' said the young man. T cant remember
 You very nearly did" Hazard en- couraged; you will. too. in time Keep trying. Fasten on to any flash of memory-any little detail. however fragmentary-and it will serve with our help to rend the veil from your past Only have patience; amnesia is by no means uncommon.
 Now want to ask you to come with us Miss Bertel and have to get to our place of business. It may be that you are luckier than you imag- ined: for We both happen to be in the employ of the Sutherland Datec- tive agency"
 Sutherland the other interjected i've heard that name!"
 Gan you recall any dealings that you ever had with us in the past?"
 The man seemed to concentrate all faculties on the effort of remember ing; but in the end he shook his head dejectedly.
 No, nothing. It was only a flash; there is no association of ideas what ever"
 T was about to add" Hazard pur- sued that out of common humanity if for no other reason, I would help you; but there is another reason, and after I've had time to turn the mat ter over in my mind we shall see what can be done"
 The unknown offered no objections to going with them. and as they pro gressed downtown Felix Hazard watched him narrowly. Only once did the detective address him directly.
 Chicago is not wholly unknown to you, see"
 The man turned to him eagerly.
 By George! You've hit upon one
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l have only confoundedly sore bump to show for whatever adventures may have passed through.
 T do know, though. that I'm not the crook the envelopes in my pocket seem to show l am. I've given that phase of the matter more thought than any other. It is possible, of course, that the blow that brought me to this state also knocked all the crooked kinks out of my character; I've heard of inherent depravity being cured by cranial operations; but some how with me l can't believe such to be the case. All my instincts and in clinations revolt at the very idea of gross wrongdoing or lawbreaking. l feel that l have always been used to an atmosphere and surroundings radi- eai1y different from those implied by Miss Bertels description of the Raw lings type. I feel that I-I-it's hard to say but l mean that I'm positive that I've been accustomed to an en- vironment that would be strange to this Denver Ed and his friends"
 While the young man was speaking Felix Hazard had been watching him intently. He now nodded thoughtfully, adding:
 For your peace of mind l can as- sure you that, whoever else you may be, you are not Denver Ed Rawlings. have some acquaintance with the gentlemen, and l know. Let me have those envelopes and the card.'
 The young man promptly handed them over. All bore cancelled stamps and were addressed to Rawlings, in the same hand, at Louisville. Ky. gen eral delivery. In addition to the ad- dress the card bore only one written line:
 July 2, g p. m. Same old place"
 July second" observed Hazard, was last Thursday" He fell into a brown study, while his fingers played with the empty envelopes and the postcard At last he reused himself and said:
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we'll drop in on my friend Cowles over at police headquarters.
 An hour later Lieutenant Cowles greeted the trio at police headquar- ters.
 "I have the whole mob he an nounced. eyeing Hazard. Keep your promise and tell me why I'm holding them; don't want to get into trouble" :"
 You'll get into the newspapers; that's about the worst that will hap pen to you" returned Hazard. Fetch m Rawlings"
 The immediate effect of that indi- viduafs appearance was startling and thrilling. Before anyone could lift a hand to interfere the unknown leaped at Rawlings and the two went to the floor in a fighting, snarling heap. They thrashed about so furiously that it was impossible, until some seconds had elapsed. for any of the several po- licemen present to secure handhold upon either of the combatants.
 When presently they were dragged apart Rawlings was colorless and gasping for breath. while the other lay inert, d thin trickle of blood from a wound above one temple indicating where his head had struck against a chair and caused his grip to relax.
 In less than a minute, however, the young fellow recovered consciousness and looked about in a daZed, bewil- dered way. Helen Bertel and Felix Hazard, who were bending over him, he seemed not to recognize at all. lg- noring them, he rose unsteadily to his feet His gaze straightway fell upon Denver Ed" Rawlings securely held between two uniformed men.
 You dirty thug!" he gritted Then to the policemen: You chaps didn' t get here any too soon; that rascal was about to drop me into the river. Why. he's got my clothes on!" in a sudden burst of recognition.
 Do you know him?" Hazard in- quired.
 Know himi" exclaimed the other. q know him for a crook and a black leg. Tried to make me believe he was Henry Biddle-strung me along till he got me into this joint-no, this isn't the place, either; l must have been knocked silly. We were on a river dock where lot of small boats were moored Three huskies jumped me at once Last thing l knew they were tumbling me into one of the boats"
 "You are from Prince & Penthouse7'
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-30

covered his senses, but remained si- tent. He kept watching me with a puzzled expression, as if he felt he ought to know me but couldn't recall my name or where we had met. In deed, everything he looked at-even his hands. the lake, the boat. the moon all seemed strange to him
 What is your name? l asked him
 Name? he repeated, looking more puzzled than ever. And what do you think ?-he didn't know!
 'I soon realized that l had a charge that was as helpless and dependent as little child. Fancy! It was nearly midnight, tool"
 What did you do with him?"
 The girl eolored. but answered steadily:
 Why, just what I thought you or any. gentleman would have done un- der the circumstances. l felt a re- sponsibility. When l saw how help less he was I went through his pock- cts. And he let me proceed as if 1t were quite the proper thing to do; just watched me in a bewildered sort of fashion All found was some en- velopes and a postcard. Did you ever hear of Denver Ed Raw lings 2"
 "The yegg? Don't ask foolish ques- tions."
 Well, the envelopes and the post card were all addressed to Edward s. Rawlings-.Denyer Ed
 Felix Hazard relaxed from his at- tentive attitude, seeming all at once to lose interest He said in an indif ferent tone:
 T suppose you turned him over to the nearest copper?"
 The gray eyes flashed, and she re- torted warmly:
 T did nothing of the kind! He's no more Denver Ed than I am, but a handsome young man who needs pro lection and care as much as any baby ever did. Why. I had to take him by the hard and lead him. l took him
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Hazard pressed him.
 The young man returned a ques- tioning look, but answered.:
 Yes. Frisbie is my name-Carl Frisbie. At the last moment MT. Prince was taken III. and I had to come in his stead. Are you MT Biddle?
 No, but I'm representing him. I'll explain everything by and by. Do you remember this lady"
 Frisbie glanced at Helen and col. ored with embarrassment.
 I'll think not, he stammered. T never saw her before"
 Helen and Hazard exchanged glances and smiled, detecting which Frisbie pleaded:
 What the dickens does it all mean? I've had the devils own time since landing in Chicago"
 All in good time, Mir Frisbie; there are number of explanations to be made all round.
 First, though, about the papers you were to bring"
 The other interrupted:
 By George, that crook didn't get themi l was taking no chances. Be- fore leaving New York l mailed them to myself, registered, care of the Blackstone hotel. I suppose they or a notice are there now"
 Some time later when Felix Hazard, Carl Frisbie and Helen Bertel gath cred in the frst-named's office, the young engineer was incredulous when told that he had lost whole twenty four hours out of his life, but after a while he believed, and could not find words to express his gratitude. As a matter of fact, his demeanor toward Helen was so ardent that Hazard ex- perienced a peculiar feeling of resent ment against him; his interest in the affair promptly grew lukewarm.
 And when, finally, the connection be- tween Denver Ed" and the Hercules company's competitor was established, and Rawlings and an official of the competing company were convicted of criminal conspiracy, the detective re- ceived the news with an exclamation of impatience.
 Miss Bertel, who told him about it, gave him sly look.
 Perhaps" she demurely added, you think they should have gotten longer stretches; but for one feel sorry for poor Ed Rawlings. He looked so handsome-in Mir. Frisbies clothes" !"
 Copyright. 1915. by W. G. Chapman)
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-30
NJ DEVELOPMENT
 ON ANY WAR FRONT
RUSSIANS HAVE WON SOME SUc- CESSES AGAINST WEAKER
 ENEMIES IN PERSIA.
BRITISH ENGAGE WITH TURKS
It Is Reported Sir Edward Grey's Health May Compel Him to Leave the Cabinet-Derby Recruiting
 Scheme Is Considered.

London.-The news from various war fronts continues to show no im- portant developments. The Russianss are winning successes against weaker enemy hostile forces in Persia; the British in South Persia have had some severe fighting with the Turks, without materially altering the situa- tion: the allies at Saloniki contem- plate their nearly completed fortifica- tions with the utmost satisfaction; on the west front there is little to re- port, except minor artillery and bomb ing operations.
 Although a holiday in Englard. the members of the British cabinet re- turned hurriedly from the scenes of their Christmas festivities for an i'm portant meeting, at which were dis cussed the Derby recruiting scheme and other matters which must be threshed out when Parliament recon venes.
 The parliamentary situation con- tinues full of uneasy rumors and some changes in the cabinet are being wide ly talked of.
 There is a possibility that Sir Ed. ward Grey's health may compel him to leave the cabinet The sudden re- turn of Winston Spencer-Ghurchill to England likewise Is the basis of many rumors. David Lloyd George, the min ister of munitions. received a great ovation from the holiday crowd when he arrived at Downing Street for the cabinet meeting
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-30
Exhaustion Often Overcame Soldiers in the Retreat From Mons,
 Says Eyewitness.

Stories of the sleep of soldiers on the march are not uncommon enough; but pr. George w. Grille states that of the several hundred thousand men who made the forced march from Mons to the Marne, nine days with but the slightest rest, the great ma iority slept on foot. The unvaried testimony of the soldiers was that everyone slept at times.
 They passed through villages asleep the doctor said, according to the New York Evening Post. When sleep deepened and they began to reel, they were awakened by their comrades. They slept in water, on stones, in brush, or in the middle of the road as if they had suddenly fallen in death. With the oncoming lines of the enemy. no man was safe who dropped out of the ranks, for no mat ter on what preteXt he fell out, sleep conuuered him. That the artillerymen slept on horseback was evidenced by the fact that every man lost his cap
 Doctor Gross of the American ann bulance tells of the exhaustion of the men at Meaux, where he found large school building packed with 500 wounded men. Some were dying, some dead, but all were asleep.
 "Bleeding. yet asleep; legs shat tered, yet asleep; abdomen and chest torn wide open, yet asleep he said. They were lying on the hard floor, without hay or straw Not a groan, not a motion, not complain-only sleep!"
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-30
Restrained Affection.

Uncle Joe" Cannons pedigree is Scotch-Irish, and he delights in stories of both nationalities. particularly those touching the peeuliarities of the Scotch temperament He has one with reference to the self-repression of the Scot in matters of affection.
 It appears that an old friend of his, of this stern ancestry, had been mar ried about year and was devotedly attached to his wife. His life with out her had been a hard and solitary one, and in the sunshine she brought him his nature had blossomed wonder fully.
 You are not as melancholy as you used to be- said Cannon to him.
 Melancholy! I should say not!" was the emphatic reply. How could anybody be sad with such wife as I've got? Why, sometimes, Joe, when I think of what she's been to me. it's as much as l can do to hssp from showing right out what l think of her!"