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Evening star., 1916-09-10
MAGAZINE SECTION for September 10, 1915

3Take Raine to his room, boys. Help
i'm wash up. I've got to see to Brokaw-
an this crowd"
David protested. He was all right.
He needed only water and soap, both Of
which were in his room. But Hauck in
sisted that it wasn't square-and wouldn't
look right--if he didn't have friends as
well as Brokaw. Brokaw had forced the
affair SO suddenly that none of them had
had time or thought to speak an encour-
aging or friendly word before the fight.
Langdon and Henry would 60 with him now.
DAVID walked between the two to the
Nest, and entered his room with them.
Langdon, tall man who had looked
hatred at him last night, poured water
into big tin basin, while Henry, the
smaller man, closed his door. They APP
peared quite companionable.
aDidn't like you last night, Langdon
confessed frankly. Thought you was
one of them damned police running your
nose into our business, mebbe."
He stood beside David, with the pail
Of water in his hand; and as David bent
over the basin, Henry was behind him.
He had drawn something from his pocket,
and was edging up close. As David
dipped his hands in the water he looked
up into Langdon's face, and he saw there
strange and unexpected change-an ex-
preston of deadly malignity. In that
moment the object in Henry's hand fell
with terrific force on his head, and he
crumpled down over the basin. He was
conscious of single agonizing pain, like
a hot iron thrust suddenly through him;
and then great and engulfng pit Of
darkness closed him in.
To be continued nert Week.
Evening star., 1916-09-10

ABreak your opponents knees the
missioner said, @and you've got him."
The idea had been distasteful to him
and he had never practised it. But he
knew the method, and he remembered
the little missioner's words-@when he's
straight facing you, with all your weight,
like a cannon-balll"
Suddenly he shot himself out like that,
as Brokaw was about to rush upon him-a
hundred and sixty pounds of solid flesh and
bone against the joints Of Brokaw's kneesl
The shock dazed him. There was a
sharp pain in his left shoulder, and with
that shock and pain he was conscious of a
terrible cry as Brokaw crashed over him.
He was on his feet when Brokaw was on
his knees. And now he struck in-with
all the strength in his body he sent his
right again and again to the jaw of his
enemy. Brokaw reached up and caught
him in his huge arms; but that jaw was
there, unprotected, and David battered
it as he might have broken rock with a
hammer. A gasping cry rose out Of the
giants throat; his head sank backward;
and through a red fury-through blood
that spattered up into his face-David
continued to strike until the arms relaxed
about him, and with choking gurgle of
blood in his throat Brokaw dropped back
Imply, as if dead.
AND then David looked again beyond
the bars. The staring faces had drawn
nearer to the cage, bewildered, stupefed,
disbelieving, like stone images. For a
space it was so quiet that it seemed to him
they must hear his painting breath and the
choking gurgle that was still in Brokaw's
throat. The victor! He flung back his
shoulders and held up his head, though he
Evening star., 1916-09-10

He heard scream. 1t was that scream
the agonized cry of the girl-that
brought him to his feet while Brokaw was
still wiping the hot flow from his dripping
Jaw. 1t was that cry that cleared his
brain, that called out to him in its despair
that he must win-that all was lost for her
as well as for himself if he was vanquished.
For, more positively than at any other
time during the fight, he felt now that
defeat would mean death. 1t had come
to him definitely in the savage outcry of
joy when he was down. There was to be
no mercy from those who were watching.
Even in the silence of the Indians he had
read an ominous decree. And Brokaw-
He was like madman as he came
toward David again. There was no longer
the leer on his face. The grin was gone.
There was in his battered and swollen
and hurt could not hide it. 1t blazed like
fires in his half closed eyes,-the desire to
kill, the passion that quenches itself in the
taking of life,-and every fiber in David's
brain rose to meet it. He knew that it
was no longer matter of blows on his
part-it was like the David of old facing
Goliath with his bare hands. Curiously,
the thought of Goliath came to him in
those flashing moments. Here, too, there
must be trickery, something unexpected,
deadly stratagem; and his brain must
work out his salvation quickly. Another
two or three minutes and it would be over
one way or the other.
He made his decision. The tricks of
his own art we're inadequate, but there
was still one hope-one last chance. 1t
was the @knee-break" of the bush-country
"a horrible thing, he had thought, when
Father Roland had taught it to him.
Evening star., 1916-09-10
By OLIN L. LYMAN

science letters" are unsigned, the writers
apparently preferring to hide their dark
ness under bushel. In contrast, most
of the letters received by the New York
Central are signed fully-in some cases
with all three names and complete address.
In many cases, however, remitters do
not write the roads, but content them
selves with calling at some station and
handing the amount due to the agent,
with or without the name of the repentant
refunder being given. The money is then
sent in to headquarters. Most of the sys-
TENS put the proceeds into the earnings
of the road in this way: ticket is pur-
chased to cover the amount, and the reve-
nue. thus goes forthwith into the passenger
traffic earnings of the company.
A specimen of the communications
from agents is found in an instance re-
ported by the Central agent at Buffalo.
He said that a man called at his Office
one morning and told of an unpaid trip
over the line forty years previously, for
which he owed the road a dollar. The
agent accepted it and inclosed ticket to
Middleport and return, Endorsed aCon-
science Fund, to cover the item.
A pathetic letter came to the Central's
New York Office from woman in Ore.
gon. She inclosed post-office money
order for $9.18 to cover fare for her boy
many years before from Syracuse, New
York, to Chicago. She had suffered since
for representing him as younger than he
really was, and had learned that the way
Of the transgessor is hard. She added
that there was still more money due, and
that she would pay it as soon as she could.
Il had to save this money little at
time,' she wrote, "but it does me good
to send it to you. My husband feels the
same way, as God has saved his soul as
we'll as mine." (.
AS is invariably the custom in these
cases, very cordial and sympathetic letter
was written to the woman, urging her to
exercise her convenience in regard to the
payment Of the extra money that she
said was DUE.
A letter came from man in the South
Evening star., 1916-09-10

along WIN railrOau on your
conscience? Own it? No, to
AA- o,pe it, for service it gave you
sometime in the sin-swathed past with
out its knowing it. And any service a
railroad renders free of charge, it is safe to
assume, is unknown to said railroad.
You take child with you upon rail
road journey, a very young child that
looks younger. You should have paid
half fare for said child. You did not, and
for years you revel and gloat in secret
over having dented soulless railroad cor
poration for that much money. Or maybe
in the initial royal flush of your youth you
were tramp and hoboed it over earth's
green fields between oceans wave-beat
shores. And the railroad was handy and
you used it, aunbeknownst.' You swung
yourself under bumpers with companion
cinderfellas; you slowed yourself away
with pork barrels or other merchandise.
You could never estimate what you owed
the railroads for those stolen rides before
you became wind-galled and spawned
and retired from the road. And for many
years you don't care a honking hoot, and
in your shady soul you are inclined to be
glad of it.
Then there comes great and abound-
ing difference. Billy Sunday comes to
town. There is Weakening, a flood of cor
respondence. And after many days the
bread of the railroad, chuffing along the
waters of life, has returned in the CON-
venient form Of dough, and the poor strug-
Cling corporation is able through the re-,
mittances .of conscience to keep clubbing
along. And the confessed sinner, be he
the father of that original child, perhaps
now grown to manhood, Or be he that
hiker Of the past who is resting his feet,
now walks cheerfully and more erect: for
the weight of whole outraged railroad
system is off his conscience. e.
"Billy Sunday Helps the Railroads"
@RILLY SUNDAY is certainly a help,
to the railroads." declared one Of the
most prominent officials of the Erie Rail-
road when interviewed by the writer.
Evening star., 1916-09-10

ave have noticed, particularly in the last
two or three years, that if he is holding
one of his monster revivals anywhere in
the section traversed by our system, we
Immediately get a big acceleration in the
number of conscience letters and remit
tances. OF course, this is true in result of
all religious revivals, since the emotional
disturbance engenders a swelling in vol
ume of the still small voice, but it is par
ticularly true of Billy Sunday. There's no
doubt whatever that the athletic revivalist
has brought to the tills of the big railroads
in this country, in this conscience money!
amounts totaling many thousands
All Kinds of Letters
SURPRISINGLY few of the letters are
from ignorant and illiterate persons.
By far the great bulk of them are well
constructed and well spelled, and the
handwriting is uniformly good.
Another development is that in many
of the letters the fact is revealed that
there is certain selfshness in saliva
ton, disregard of the welfare of any
one in the round world save the writer of
the letter. 1t is an interesting study of
the ego rampant through fear, and it re-
grettably shows decided yellow streak
on the part of the writer's. For many Of
these people do not scruple to get an i'm
nocent conductor, who passed them by.
ain wrong by telling the train and the day
upon. which the incident of wrongfhg the,
road happened; but in some cases they
actually dig up the name Of the conductor
rs an ignorant party to the transactionl
Against this depressing picture can be
placed many an instance Of q repentant
man or woman brooding over the wrong
committed till it assumes magnified pro-
portions, and making honest recompense
in spirit Of real justice toward the de-
frauded corporation, and often at the ex-
pense Of much Of real self-sacrifice.
There's q queer diversity in these
conscience customs Of the country. For
instance, the writer was informed by
officials of the Erie that most Of their 4con-
Evening star., 1916-09-10

inclosing fifty cents to pay for stolen
ride in central New York many years
before. At the time of sending his first
letter he did not give his name, but
merely signed the letter, @Your repentant
friend"
Then conscience began skirling in his
soul again, and he put in couple of more
troubled months. He then wrote the
Central that he had been thinking it was
not right to withhold his name from the
system, so he was giving his cognomen
and address. He filled in all three Of his
names for good measure. The Central
replied cordially that the debt was now
more than squared, and that he need
trouble no more about it.
A father wrote during a recent Billy
Sunday revival that, having experienced
grace himself, he was now also cleaning
house. In this occupation he had found
that his son, minor, had two years be-
fore departed from the way set for him.
He had travelled over q short distance on
a Central side line in that region on
pass that he had borrowed from Central
trainman-and the father took pains to
give the trainman's name. The sum that
the Central should have had was $4.24,
and this amount the man inclosed, asking
the systems forgiveness for his boy.
Such forgiveness was extended without
delay. But here's betting that the average
reader will in this particular case be ex-
tending more sympathy to the trainman
than to the father.
Hope for the Railroads Salvation
MANY of the letters contain expressions
- from the Bible, and in some cases
expressions are encountered Of hope that
the railroad company, too, may ct some
future day experience salvation.
One man sent in remittance Of twenty
two cents last year to cover the amount
due on @blind baggage ride year or
two previously from Rochester to Chill.
The spirit of aslevity appears but seldom.
A Syracuse man sent in some mileage due
for ride between that city and Utica.
He explained that the conductor had
overlooked him, and because he was inn
Evening star., 1916-09-10
A Railroad On Your Conscience

TOW would you like to stagger
along with railroad on your
conscience? Own it? No, to
IL
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
MOVIE COURSES IN UNIVERSITIES.

It isn't often that big universities interest them selves with the fve-cent of the popuace. But the movies to be receiving serious consider alton from tn institutions of higher learning according to reports. Columbia University gives a in scenario writng-not teaching movie fans how to out scenario every hour, but teaching the qurements for dpcture, following real dramatic laws of the screen.
 The School of Fine Arts the University Kansas is working for better music motion picture theaers This will be a than welcome improvement Even motion picture patrons gifted with musical ability least enough appreciation of the things be seriously annoyed by the rgatime sentiment al stuff furnished them by indifferent pianist chestra. The first time the musician plays 'The Per feet Day. the very when everything has against the hero, the audience may be amused But in time American audience grows bored and wishes that it could have either music all something least half way appropriate.
 Perhaps the motion picture business grew too fast for it's ngood It has of mistakes if is to forward and not degenerate. That it has possibilities development along worthwhile lines shown by the recognition given university
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
UNIVERSITIES AND BUSINESS.

Columbia University is opening a department-a take the first two of regular academic work and will then specialize in subjects intended equip them for business There will courses in ing, banking finance, transportation, and trade, bushes reorganization management adyert ing in stenography ypewrting bookkeeping and such secretariaI studies Tense open students who prepared the higher business branches
 The tendency to connect education with life is fly growing The ideal education should be twofold; equip students with practical training which will enable them to comfortable, generous living; and to give them mental and spiritual with which to vivfy and beautify their lives
 The purely technical education which teaches them how to make the living but leaves them helpless the end of a working day, dependent upon artificial of false standards ohusng and living generally, is vain. So too is the od-fashioneG purely cultural" educaton which people intellect resources and fine tastes without the ability to them, and which too often left them as empty any ideal community service as the more severely practical training is often said to do.
 Every in the direction of making hand. brain and spirit work together the enrichment life and the service of humanity is to be greeted with favor
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
THE AMERICAN VOTE.

In dominant phase of the election every good American may take profound satisfaction. The the studied, the evident it becomes that are a divided nation-tlat nearly all of us voted groups but individuals using personal judgment.
 For the past two years have heard much of the "hyphenated vote" During the campaign there was much prating of the vote" and the labor vote" and the Catholic vote And the election figures convincing proof that there thng-hat all these votes" fgments of excited imagination.
 The "German-American vote, the most discussed of all political groupings, disappeared into thin air. What the causes. the painacs speak for them selves. Even in the German citades of Milwaukee and St Louis the presidential candidate supported by zeaous proGeman organizations lost and the candidate who had supposedly aienated all citizens The great bulk German citizens obviously against any particular candidate just about other citi- zens did the basis of convictions made in Ger many but the basis of their independent con clusions In New York City where professional Ger manAmericans headed by the StaasZeitung had black listed congressman of both parties who had voted in of maintaining American rights at nearly all the prescribed congressman reelected The German
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14

voters failed to follow the lead of the German language press.
 It had been expected by both parties that organized labor would swing heavily to Wilson. It failed to do so. Labor up voted Independently just "hyphen ism" did. Even the railroad men, considered almost solid for Wilson, did expected.
 It so with the vaunted woman vote" In Re publican communities the voted the Republican ticket the did. In Democratic communities they voted the Democratic ticket. Race and religion, prejudice and economic prejudice, all far less figure the average would dared hope
 The answer is convincing And while about half our people naturally feel disappointed that the election failed to go they voted, every of should rejoice in the dssoving of groups and the wipng out of lines of cleavage It is demonstrated that America is unified and sound at heart that there is among menacng division, that the only divisions personal and ndivd ual ones which trend to correct each other
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
Tuesday Morning, November IA, 1916.
PROHIBITIONS TEST.

Emphatic endorsement of absolute prohibition for Arizona was recorded by electorate. It will be prising official countfais that the amend ment received general support than any which up popular decision This fact however, should lead overconfdence that the enforcement of the will be comparatively easy. Prohibition lead CTS who deserve abundant credit for their work in the campaign task ahead grueling than that of prediction days.
 One has only to recall what took place the preme Courts decision permitting personal cleared the atmosphere get a definite line the magnitude of this Following the adoption of socalled prohibi ton in 1914 the temperance the intended to be stringent the act voted upon week. other words, that personal denied police powers this view regulation for their conduct and acted accordingly Bookkeeping the authorities discovering that they did suf fcent numerical strength with the law-defyng element.
 It that uncertainty the interpretation of contributed demoraization. but it heess demonstrated residents through patronage of booteggers proposed defy prohibit edcts. When the official of last Tuesday are received fairly good estimate may be made by subtraction of the number voters sym pathy with absolute prohibition this number, for midabe per centage may be expected undertake de- of the law other words perpetuate the despc able trade known bootleggng
 The situation in Arizona after next January 1 will be similar that existing in 1914 and the early of 1915, except splendid army prohibition sts has increased Yet there will be hostiIes and this force beovercome To accomplish this, heroic task be performed and the temperance army aided by recruits under obligation supervise law enforcement. Police powers longer in doubt to the prepOnderance of public sentiment in favor of prohibition they may be counted upon in all confidence strive the unfolding the of the law.
 Arizona is, believe, the only to adopt what intended be absolutely prohibory law and there fore the experiment will be watched with keenest n- throughout the civilized world It big that Arizona has undertaken Absolute prohibition may be q big Let the residents of State make de- termined and unified effort prove so. but always bearing in mind that the fight will be bitter and be attained solely by tremendous and con work.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
THE eUARDsMAN's OATH.
courses.

There is trouble with the National Guard the federal oath Many of them refuse take it. There are whole organizations, it seems, now on duty along the Mexican border that have formally subscrb- ed to it. They not obliged to accept the form of enlistment but has been supposed that they would do almost unanimously present federal ized militia plan adopted out of deference to the guardsmen themselves
 Many of the guardsmen, it appears. object to being liable federal service the will president Still of them object obligating themselves for six years service The regular militia term has been three years. The law provides for additional three years during which the guardsmen remain the army reserve subject call Those who do not take the oath will their threeyear period the state organizations, but will be regarde feder- alzed" and will not receive federal pay
 It's another striking evidence the inadequacy of the fedora militia plan. The demand for genuine pendabe army is steadily growing
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
PROTESTS AT
 EXPRESSING OF BELGlANS

LONDON, Nov 13.-Cardinal Mer- cier. primate of Belgium, has issued a protest to the civilized world against the deportation of Belgians to Ger many for forced labor The protest is dated November : and is signed by
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14
WITHDRAWAL NOT ID
 BE FORGED BY MEXICO
(Continued from Page D

number has been increased. it is being claimed that the movement has special significance but can deny this empha- tically. The Carranza government is going after Villa with sufficient force
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14

Cardinal Mercier in hebalf of all the Belgium bishops except the bishop of Bruges, with whom he was unable to get in touch.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14

Apartment houses planned for West End avenue. New York, in past F months represent a cost of over SS,00O.000. Ten have been finished at
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14

One of the exasperating consequences of the debat able election is the difficulty many citizens having in collecting their election bets
Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-14

The German method of making cheaper bread by the of potatoes will hardly be adopted this country The increase in the price of potatoes likely make them even expensive than flour.
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to overcome and eliminate him and his bandit band"
MANILA MAIL SEIZED
 BY BRITISH CRUISER. MANILA, Nov. 13.-The British

steamer Tanning, which arrived here from Annoy, reports that the British cruiser Cornwall cOnfscated four sacks of the Manila mail for the pur- pose of examination at Hongkons.
The Red Cloud chief., 1916-04-27
Home Talent PLAY.

The following is the caste Of char.
acters in the home talent play who's
Hat which will be given at the Or
pheum theater on Tuesday evening,
May 9th:
The Red Cloud chief., 1916-04-27

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