Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1916, Page 2

THE BEE MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1916 OMAHA PRESIDENT AND KAISER CONFIDENT| Poincaire and William Tell Re- spective Armies Victory is Sure to Come. TEXT OF NEW YEAR ADDRESSES PARIS, Jan. 2.—“Nineteen hun-/ dred and sixteen will be our year of victory,” says President Polncare in a message to the officers and sol- diers of France, which was being distributed along the whole front last night. The message which is | one of great simplicity, expresses the | confidence of the entire nation in its | defenders. The letter follows: “Like you, my noble friends, I have read with emotion In the army bulletin messages addressed to you on the eve of the new year by the mayors of our ‘arge cities. The same language is used by all these French cities and it Is easy today to draw from thess numerous ex- pressions the unanimous sentiment of the country. “Everywhere you have seen maintained without effort this sacred union spon- taneously established seventeen months ago under the menace of the enemy, Why would not the civil population follow the | example of the agreement and harmony which you give it? In the trenches and on the battiefields you bardly think of considering your personal opinions. Civil discord does not disturb the fraternity of arms, which, with its common perils and Identical duties, binds one and ail. You have your eyes fixed on an ideal which constantly diverts your attention from secomdary objects and you know that your patriotic mission cannot be performed by others. “While you are thus sacrificing every- thing to the salvation of the nation, i3 it not natural that those Frenchmen ‘whose age, health or duties prevent them from meeting at your side the fatigue and perils of war work should at least repel harmful suggestions of hatied and conserve the public peace? “The mayors of France have spoken some of the charitable works result- from the successful joining of hearts. ost of these institutions are destined ald you, your aged parents, your chil- dren, your wounded or imprisoned broth- ers. In citles farthest from the front, your condition thus remains constantly SEER clined to forget. The mourning which ilies, moreover, {mposes on those who have been less severely afflicted the plous obligation of meditation and grav- | listen w! of the day—a patience, of will, of calm, of confidence and of serenity.” Kalser Congratulates Army. LONDON, Jan. 1.~The Amsterdam cor- respondent of Reuter's says that Emperor not son Another year of severe has elapsed. Wherever a superior of enemies have stormed our lines they have falleq before your loyaity and bravery. Wherever I have sent you into bave gained a glorious victory. ‘we remember today, above brethren who joyfully gave their order to gain security for our at home and imperishable glory fatherland. What they have begun accomplish with God's graclous madness, enemies from the from the north and south, prive us of all that makes They long ago buried in honest fighting. their masses, on the itire people, on the campaign of calumnia- &8 mischievous as it is belleve they can still Ml not succeed. Be- which im- the army and those at be miaerably disap- to discharge the duty last breath and victory we enter with God for the protection for Germany's s HEH i g EH i | i f tendent Has on State's ‘ Educational 8ystem (From & Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)- The state superintendent re- cently completed the compilation cf some Interestin statistics concerning the schools of the state. A little later the Department of Public Instruction prom- ises & more complete survey of all of Nebraska's educational interests in order that the people may be able to more fully appreciate the ccndition of the schools. The following figures tell their own story: T 1,588 T4 51 gl}'“ J18. | HENRY FORD HOME WITH VIEW PEOPLE T0 BLAME FOR WAR (Continued from Page One.) sonal glory, gain or advertising. I have more money now than 1 can use, and I feel 1 am simply custodian of what I have. It was entrusted to me by the peo- ple, some of whom are today fighting in the trenchea’ ’ Commenting on the preparedness issue in President Wilson's message, Mr. Ford sald I am against preparedness, as prepar- edness means war. No man will arm him- golt unless he means to attack. Even when he takes a fork in his hand he is preparing to attack an oyster or & beef- steak.” Should Ask People. . “It would be better for the administra- tion to find out first If the people them selves want armament. If they do, they will eventually get what Burope is get- ting now. As to the other features of President Wilson's message, especially with reference to trade and a greater merchant marine, we are all with him on that” At the request of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, Collector of the Port Dudley Field Malone arrangsd for Mr Ford, a member of the naval consulting board, to be taken off the Bergensfjord on a special customs cutter as soon as the ship cleared quarantine. Mrs. Ford, their son, Edsal Ford, W, A, Livingstone, a freind, and Mrs., Samuel Marquis of Detroit, whose husbane returned with Mr. Ford, went down the bay to meet him. Arlington Couple Celebrate Golden Wedding _Anniversary ARLINGTON, Neb.. Jan, 2.—(Special)— Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frederick Willlam Reckmeyer of thia place celebrated the fittieth anniversary of thelr wedding day here last Tuesday at the home of their #on, Willlam Reckmeyer. Relatives and friends were gathered to congratulate them and partake of the golden wedding cake, A program of music and readings and addresses in English and German was given, Both were born in Germany. They met and were married in Quincy, IiL, in 1565, Mr. Reckmeyer rerved in the union army during the civil war and was mustered out a sergeant. The couple came to Nebraska in 1864, \WASHINGTON SBES living at Fremont, then at Ariington. They then returned to Fremont and later to Arlington, where Mr. Reckmeyer with his son is engaged in the hardware trade. Those attending were: Mrs, Hammang, Vern Reckmeyer, Mrs. T. Hutchinson, Wilma Coutfer, Mra. A M, Ludwig, Christine en Stelnel, Edgar ibe. Wihe. Nibbe, Arth v Nibbe, Mildred V' » Reckmeyer, §r. H. Nibbe, J. 1. Dorbecker, Wm. Reckmeyef, Jr., B, L. Whitcomb, W, J. Ladwig, Rev. Coutfer, A. G. Ludwig, Jdw, L. Andre: E. F. McGuire. rom out of town L A L. Hughes, David City; Mrs. ; utehinson, Norfolk; Mr. and =r-. cGuire ead; Zella_E. 'Worle University niversity Grassmueck, Nebraska City; Mrs, 3 Ame Fremont; Clarence Reckmeyer, Fremont; t Whitcomb, Fremont; Mr. and A. Reckmeyer, Fremont. HOLLY ANCIENT DECORATION Origin Lost in the Dust of Ageos— Many Varieties Are Grown. Keckmeyer, A. mont ; Lud rassmueck. ‘The custom of decorating with holly at Christmas s an anclent one. By some it has been regarded as a survival of the usages of the Roman Saturnalla and by others it has been thought a development of an old Teutonic practice of hanging the interior of dwellings with evergreens as a refuge for the spirits of the woods from the inclemency of the weather. That the custom had some such origin is indi- cated by the superstitions which still exist In certain localities regarding the use of holly. In the English county of Rutland it is deemedq particularly unlucky to introduce the evergreen into the house before Ch eve. In some English rural districts the prickly and the nonprickly sorts are distingulshed as “he"” and “sh And in Derbyshire the tradition is current that, according as the holly is smooth or rough, the wife or the husband will be master. The holly that has been put to sacred uses, as the adorning of churches in parts Of England, is much esteemed and cherished, the possession of a small branch with berries being supposed to bring & lucky year. At one time & notlon was prevalent in Germany that a twig of consecrated holly hung over the door would ward off evil spirits. ‘There are about 1 different varieties of holly, though comparatively few varie- ties grow in North Ameriea. TIts greatest development is found, not in Burope, where its use seems to be more general but in Central and South America and in Asia, especially the Chinese-Japanese area. The Hulver, or common holly, is, however, largely grown in England and s abundant in France, particularly in Brittany. It is found generally in forest #lades or in hedges and does not flourish under the shade of other trees. In Eng- land its sise is usually small, but a tree 41 | may attaln the helght of sixty or seventy One tree at Claremont is sald to ure elghty feet and some of the trees In Shropshire are asserted to be fourteen feet in girth at some distance GRAYE SITUATIO If American Rights Violated Torpedoing of Persia, Rela- tions Threatened. DETAILS ANXIOUSLY AWAITED in China fs practically at a standstill as ot a result of financial conditions brought appendicitis and was operated upon, but |and swollen you can hardly get your WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—Official about by the Buropean war. The Bel ! MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 2.—-|his condition is very‘rm_ml An:l the worst }.ho«. on or off? Why don't you get a awalted details of the torpedoing of |the virtual suspension of this work is a | MaD, Will be placed on trial in dis-| The village board of Beemer, in this | “Tiz" makes your feet glow with com- the British steamship Persia, on hard blow to the country which is, as yet, | trict court lwn\mmurmw for the al- | county, at a recent meeting has decided |tort; takes down swellings and draws which American citizens were known | 'nadequately served by rallways and|jeged murder of his wife, Mary |to have the village ordinances revised and |the soreness and misery right out of While it was realized that reports | merorts have n’w-'n .n‘;n'»’ ':nfl'mu-v.--« ploneer family of Minnesota, It i8| has been chosen to .|..'n.n work 3 and m{.lnr‘:st,m'"r';: '"Inlnxl::;‘;:; {cr\‘r ?l;:':i" expected from consular and diplo- |American capital in several of the lines. | charged that Price pushed his wife| 8. A. Wade and family, who have aching, sore feet. No more shoe tight- matic representatives might show |Chinese officials are confident that the | over an embankment on the East|oNned and operated a farm South of |ness—nio more foot torture.—Advertise- that the submarine commander was justified in sinking the vessel, of-| ficials were not Inclined to minimize the gravity of the situation confront- ing the United States should it de- velop that there has been a violation of American rights. New dangers it was admitted, threatened the rela- tions between the United States and the central powers which seemingly had just been placed on the road to satisfactory adjustment by the as- surance contained in Austria’s reply to the second Ancona note. Vienna Has Chance to Exp! Should It develop that the submarine was of Austrian nationality, as there ap- parently is ground for belleving, the Vienna government will be given every opportunity to explain Meantime, the State department desires that it be de- termined definitely whether the Persia tried to escape; whether the torpedo was fired at it after or hefore it had stopped: whether warning was given; and whetber the passengers had sufficlent time in which to leave the vessel. Only two official dispatches concerning the sinking of the Persia were received by the State department today. These were from Consul General Skinner at London and the information they con- tained virtually was identical with that in press dispatches. Coples immediately were transmitted to President Wilson at Hot Springs, and the department dis- patched requests for Information to ita representatives at Alexandria, Egypt and other points where survivors must be landed or details of the attack must be available from other sources. May Plead Lack of Time. It was realized that should an Austrian submarine have destroyed the vessel, the Vienna government might offer tle explanation that there had not been suf- ficlent time for mnew instructions con- forming to the assurances contained in the last Ancona note to reach submarine commanders. It was pointed out that this note was delivered to Ambassador Pen- field only Wednesday and that the attack on the VPersla occurred Thursday. Whether new instructions regarding sub- marine attacks went forth from Vienna coincidently with the delivery of the note, or at some previous time, is not known here. Bhould such an explanation from Vienna bo accompanied with proper dis- 'owal and provisions for reparation, it was considered likely that the United States would accept it. Officlals of the State department are not inclined to thgoubt the good faith of the assurances given by Austria In its last note. Wilson Hears News. HOT SPRINGS, Va., Jan. 1.—President Wilson recelved the news dispatches on the sinking of the Persia and later the official report of Consul-Generad Skin- ner at London. was forwarded by the State department, but he would make no comment. STRANGEST MART IN MEXICO ~Hand Wares of Al Deserip- fehs Sela Thieves’ ble for anything but very small boats. THE BEST IN VAUD. Marke Many other lines which have been pro- Datly Mstines, 3y ants are company employees. Jected and partially surveyed have also GERTRUDE py The so-called thieves' market In San {been abandoned temporarily because of HOFFMANN CHICAGO 7 Luls Potosi ia one of the eurfous and |war conditions. & Tur o M,l & s P v rices : . llery, 10c: > characteristic insitutions of the eity, B e ant ke et Tt 1 w.ukee t. aul writes Colonel Wilbert L. Bonney, Amer- lcan consul. It consits of a series of small booths along the side of the public market. In the booths every article known to the hardware, plumbing and novelty trades may be found at second- hand in every conceivable state of pres- ervation or decay. The name of the market is no reflection upon the pro- prietors nor upon thelr patrons, but is an implication that thieves sell in his market their miscellaneous plunder. Here are found tools and implements, knives and pistols, plow points, door knobs, bottles, hings, valves and el- bows, chain, bridie bits, razors, relig- fous books from the old Barcelona press, cheap jewelry and occaslonally odd pleces of table silver. In fact, any bit of poitable and nonperishable merchandise may be bought or sold in the thieves' market. It constitutes a serious com- petition for the hardware store, for if the householder finds himself in need of & door knocker, a hinge or a pane of glass, his first resort is to this market. Many parts of implements from the plantations find their way to this market. The proprietors are said to geal in more goods, such as precious stones and metals, but these are not shown to the public nor offered to strangers. Antique pleces of brass work, china and sliver may sometimes be found, should be purchased with the customary caution, gots what he can, depending largely in \FEELS THE EFFECTS OF WAR|PRICE MURDER CASE |5 ot it it “Tiz” For Tired f 1 et & Tear vl & Oow mObRe Aftee e | e \ | Chinese Railroad Building at Stand- | wite | Use ‘“Tiz"’ for puffed-up, burn- still on Account of the Lack Caming Oounty Not | ing, aching, calloused of Money. Y A e : [ Minneapolis Man Will Be Arraigned | WEST POINT, Neb., Jan. 2.—(Special.) l feet and corns On Charge of Throwing Wife | Over CIiff. | |~Word has been received by relatives | here of the dangerous fliness of Bernard - - | Gerken, a former resident of this place. | Why go limping around with aching, STORY OF ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE | Mr. Gerken was suddenly stricken with |puffed-up feet—feet so tired, chafed, sore MANY LINES PARTLY FINISHED Iu'nrrupnmhmo of The Associated Press.) PEKING, Dec. 20.—~Railway construction but these There are no fixed prices. The dealer upon the patience of the customer. The pawnshops turn over to this market Buropean nations would turn over their The Chinese chemselves are trying to finlsh the rallway between Lanchow, in Kansu provindg, with the sea at Tung- chow, In Kiang-su province. This line is more than 1,000 miles long and is of prime importance as it runs east and west through a rich country and crosses the two important north and south rafl- ways. One of these connects Peking and North China with Shanghal. The other connects Peking with Hankow, the great Interior commercial metropoils on the Yang-tse river, which city is called by Chicago of China and will undoubtedly be one of the most important commer- River automobile road on the night of | given to the woman by her father. | The chiet witness for the state will be | Charles D. Ktchison, a traveling sales man of Washington, D. C., indicted jointly with Price on a charge of first degree murder and who, after his arrest | in Washington and while en route to Minneapolis, signed a confession in| which he said he accompanied Price to| the scene of the alleged crime, He fur-| ther charged that Price had planned to rid himself of his wife several months before her death. and that while he (Etchison) first refused to have a hand in the alleged crime, he finally con- the hardware and implement business. West Point for the last two years, have | ment. interests to a neutral country, such as ;5 sold their interests here and returned to the United States, if Amerfcan financiers | November 28, 1914, with a view 10 |their former home at Nelson, Nuckolls would undertake to complete the Iines. |inheriting a goodly sum of money |county, where Mr. Wade will enter into AMUSEMENTS. | —Devoted to— Brilllant Musioal Burlesq TWICE DAILY vA%5 Mat, Today ““Your 0Id Pal,” GAYETY| For Weak Stomachs Inactive Bowels Drugs Olils Enemas BUT FIRST—STOP USING TGET™ FRUIT #VIGOR clal centers when adequate rallways are . E provided in the Yang-tse valley. sented to make the trip to the River AL can_ neither cure aliments nor Road cliff, for which 1t was understood "q"'"m"'“"““""::’“:‘.,".:,‘.,.., gt Road Partly Completed, that ' Price was to cancel a note of about a medicine. nor a luxury, elements The Lanchow-to-the-Sea line is already | 1,0, [ 2 . Its fruit-derived partly completed through the section be- :;::; ln.'::sh" g np i e and are thenatural corrective for disorders of stomach, 3 3 AUTY BHOW. v, bowels, kidneys, and ts vitalizing upbuilding tween the sreat north and south rall- roads, and its managers are carrying on the work toward the west on a loan pro- vided by the Chinese government. The Defense Wil} Attack Story. work is fitful, however, and there is | Counsel for Price had not before the (] i llu,’sfl. v-r?‘flscgs little prospect of completing the line | day of the trial made known the line of DEAR READER: without forelgn assistance. defense. That an attack upon the state- AV, Smste would be comsiats witheat i g A Work has been suspended on the Brit- tsh railroad, projected between Nanking ang Sinyang. This line is about %0 miles long and connects Nanking with the Shanghal and Peking main lines and with the Peking-Nankow line at Sin yang. Only nine miles of earthwork has been completed on this profect. The en- tire route, however, has been surveyed and all plans perfected, but the loan for financing it had not been negotiated be- fore the outbreak of the war. Surveyors are still at work on the pro jected British rallway southwest from anking to Ping Hsiang, a distance of about 500 miles. The survey will be com- pleted next spring, but at present there is no money in sight for the building of the rallway. Funds Running Low. The Chinése are continuing the exten- slon of the rallway from Kalgan, north- west of Peking, to the Yellow river in Mongolia through money that has been raised by a local loan, but the funds are insutficlent to complete it. The original plans provide that this line shall connect Mongolia to touch rallway near Lake Balkal in Siberia. ‘Work has been suspended on the In- ternational raflway designed to connect Hankow with the heart’ of Szechuen province, to the westward along the Yang-tse river. Americans dre interested in this line together with the English and Germans, The American section ex- tends from Ichang, in Hupeh province, to Wan Hsien, in Szechuen province, a distance of 20 miles. R. W. Randolph, the American surveyor in charge, is at Ichang, but most of his staff has re- turned to America and work has been suspended untll after the war. The Ssechuen rallway will tap a terri- tory of over 60,000,000 inhabitants who are now without Tieans of communication with the rest of China except throush the Yang-tse river, which, through its upper reaches, is filled with gorges and rapids which m®%e navigation impossi- Plague of Rats in Lines of British (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, Dec. &—There is a plague of rats along the British and French lines {n Flanders and France. A soldler de- scribes the invasion as ‘“‘worse than the Germans” in a letter which adds: ‘“Trenches, communications, fields, woods, houses, cellars and barns are choked with them. We have them hold- roads and giving concerts by day in the with the projected Russian line across | the Trans-8iberian | ing congresses at night in the busiest| Etchison is expected to repeat his story at the trial, ment by Etchison will be made, however, was indicated in a statement issued by Price soon after Etchison's arrest. Price declared that “there will be a complete change of public sentiment after the truth has been told about Etchison.' Keen interest has been manifest in the case. Mrs, Price had = wide circle of friends. She married Price against the wishes of her family. Not satisfied with a story told by Price and Etchison that Mrs. Price had fallen over the embankment while trylng to rescue her pet dog, David H. Fridley, her father, after whom the town of Cascarets Sell Twenty Million | Boxes Per Year| Best, safest cathartic for liver and bowels, and people know it. | —— 1 They're fine! 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The other night some of our men had their surgical first-ald packets, which they keep in a coat pocket, attacked and carried off. Woe to the man who goes to sleep with a morsel of chocolate in his trousers! He will wake up to find him- self without his chocolate and almost without his treusers.” The methods of warfare that are being used of the ingenlous glant traps devised by writer goes on to describe the against the new enemy, particularly some harmess-—never gripe or sicken. i - < sad “ DELIVERY BODIES R g A R Tn Larin® Whee specs: ude Rook those diamonds of his. would carry on the w 1] ish they wore mi Their nings, Sunday & Holids S, a6o, 500 and 780, FexMATS, 15¢ and 25¢ Chew gum it_you like. LADIES' TICKETS by Oarriage Garage in the Event of Ye ki the Dertect order-fres from aiments. 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