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Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-19
Christmas Customs
and Traditions

Continued From PAGE Twol
fingers in an impressive degree. Still
even staid New England is 'loosening
up bit, and certain customs of the
progressive West are bound to be a.
dopted there, sooner or later
Time was not long ago. when the
more religious of the New England
parents insisted that their children
observe Christmas Day like the Sab.
bath Any oasterner who has PASSED
a Sabbath i'm New England viii appre-
ciate what that means Sunday is a
long and solemn day in New England
In some portions they stin like to
make Christmas like the Puritanical
Sabbaths on Sundays there. some
OF the orthodox still taboo the cleo
trio car ride-even 10 church-which
TO take an expression from the Die
tionary Of Slang, would appear to be
going some I'm the matter Of close
observance OF the literal laws of Scrip-
ture
While no doubt. maintaining the
true spirit of the Christmas season I'm
a manner as fully depicting the spir.
It Of sincere Christianity. i'm as desir.
able q manner as the most Puritanical
section OF New England, the West
however, does it I'm a much more com.
Portable manner In the realization
of the purposes Of true sincerity.
characteristic of the West from the
earliest days of its settlement. the
people Of this great and truly progress
siye section have learned that it is not
the form that counts so much in any.
thing, as it is the real spirit behind
the act and the ultimate result gained.
So, Christmas Day is observed i'm a
manner which tends TO do away with
the more rigid forms of the East.
Sports, amusements and general good
times are entered into with much Of
the vim and vigor which characterizes
Observance of the Birthday of the Ma.
ton There is none of the effort to
make the day like the old New Eng.
land Fast Day, which, by the way. was
sad and dismal day for the youth of
the Puritanical families.
But Christmas IS Christmas
Wherever one lives and wherever one
wanders. one finds the spirit of Christ
mas observed i'm greater or i'm less de
gree. Peace on Earth and Good VIII
TO Men" is the motive which actuates
nearly every one on Christmas Day
if on no other occasion. for one hardly
could be other than kind and benevo
lent-if he has the means-on Christ
mas Day
The gift without the giver is bare
says the poet and so, on Christmas
Day, it is not the costly gifts from an
empty and cold heart which please
Rather is it the simple souvenir card
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haps few tears for pleasures gone
by for friends of another day-.but.
may it be hoped for an i'm the Warren
District and everywhere happiness
and cohtentment-and, whatever the
creed,a lasting trust in better life
somewhere and somehow and-for
the fighting nations of Europe and
poor little MeMco-the hope THAI,
long ere another Christmas season
comes sweet peace may rest like the
hand OF God upon the land
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sent by one whose pocketbook is emp
ty, but whose heart is fun TO over
flowing with Good win Toward Men 3"
It's a trite saying but a pertinent
truth, that Human nature is the same
the world over" Il makes no differ
ence whether one journeys far from
home, or remains by the warmth of
the home Preside Friends prove true
and false, wherever one goes. The
good the bad. the false. the true. the
excellent the indinerent-all 30 to
make mp this world of shuttle and of
Inconsistencies
So. on this Christmas Day of 1915.
the Old World IS going it's way Phil
osophers and theolorians may argue
at length whether or not the world
is becoming better or worse. To the
lay observer, st seems to maintain a.
bout the same old pace.
The tendency Of the modern time IS
to get away from the Orthodox. to feel
that there Is no set code which may
govern anything and everything I'm the
moral and spiritual world The con
census of the more liberal opinion
seems TO be more strongly inclined to
the view that Circumstances alter
Cases" and that no man can be set
down as absolutely good nor none as
absolutely bad The rigid laws Of the
old day theologian which consigned
men to eternal Heaven and eternal
Hell are, in large degree, set aside
Men like to iceland thinking men.
too-that the good somehow win en-.
dure-the good that exists IN some
measure in each and every one-and
that nothing win be wholly lost
So, on Christmas Day. in discarding
some Of the hard and fast rules of
what the forefathers Of older Puritani
cal days liked to cali Orthodoxy. one
may feel growing satisfaction in the
truer brotherhood existant among all
classes Of men-in which respect this
old World surely is a bit better.
America, at peace with the world
and its different Commonwealth I'm
harmony of Union tending to a mutual
betterment; America. the only coun
try of power on the Globe whose
hands are not stained with blood
thanks God that. on this Christmas
Day. however varying may be the
/ customes Of observing the birth Of the
/ Christ Child as carried out I'm differ
ent sections, whatever be the varying
traditions of widely separated cline
( in one and all rests the Dove of Peace
apd Christmas in America may, en-
deed, be q day of honest enjoyment
of real pleasure and truest worship
It makes little difference just how
/ one observes the day-so long as tn,
spirit is right The world is cominl
more and more to the realization o
this truth-that it's the spirit and moi
the deed, the thought behind the acf
and not the creed, that counts.
So another Christmas Day passes
with it's pleasures and regrets per
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only that ] cried out. Get up. Why
don't you get up2 Debout les morts'
"Was 80 madness? No. because the
dead answered mon They said, We
are following
And as ! cried to them their soul
joined my soul and made a glowing
mass Of it, a stream OF fused metal.
Nothing could astonish or stop me-
had the faith that moves mountains
the exaltation OF the worker OF mira.
cles, who by his will caused the mira
Gle My voice, which was hoarse and
worn out with shouting orders for two
DAYS and nights came back TO me
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-19
FRENCH INSPIRED
BY STRANGE TALE
Soldier Who Calls on Dead to
Rise and Fight Inspiration Of
Warriors of France; Weird
Tale Of Warfare.

PARIS Dec. 1S-No incident of the
war has taken so strong a hold on
the French imagination as that of the
soldier who. i'm the press Of the fight.
ing, when most Of his comrades lay
dead around him. called upon them
as the Germans repeated their at
tack. Up with you. ye dead meni''
and with the help or their spirits. as.
sisted by few wounded, routed the
foe.
The story is told in the Echo dc
Paris: "The Germans had swarmed
into a French trench and broken down
the resistance of the defenders, whose
bodies covered the ground Suddenly
man rose. and, Selling a sack OF
grenades, he shouted Debout les
Mortes At this summons the
wounded I'm the trench staggered to
their feet and drove the enemy out"
The hero Of the episode was Lieut.
Pericard. a man of 49, whose hair is
already white. He started the camp.
align as a sergeant, but was quickly
promoted to the commissioned ranks
Pericard is a man of intense religious
feeling. This is his own story. as re-
peated by the Echo's interviewer.
"The trench was fun of corpses
with blood everywhere. At first
walked delicately, uneasy alone
with all these dead Then, little by
little, ] grew holder and ventured tc
look at them They seemed to be
watching me From our trench my
men We're watching me with terror in
their eyes thinking He's sure to be
killed. It is true that the Brooches
We're redoubling their efforts Their
grenades were pouring down and the
stream of them rapidly getting near
en- Was their sacrifice to be useless
81 was seized with a holy madness
OF what ! did of what exactly what
/ said. no longer remember / know
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reward was intended. so the London
Gazette of June % last stated that
Lieut. Musson had bee recommended
for the Military Cross. On July "a,
the War Office, having discovered the
mistake, cancelled the award. But
Lieut. Musson never learned Of the
cancellation. He was killed in action
five days previously.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-19
PATHETIC WAR MISTAKE.

LONDON--A pathetic case of de.
aoration by mistake has come 20 light
IN the case of the late Lieut.. J. H.
Musson OF the Royal West Surrey Re
yiment The name of this young Of
icer had been confused with the
lame Of another officer for whom the
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-19

Charles E5 cts. owner of the
Htooklyn dodgers. has announced has
intention Of putting up a fight to
cave The National lea que season omen
one week later Gold weather poor
attendance. and small gate receipts
are his reasons for espousing the late
opening April . would be a good
date to begin the season, Ebbe,s
thinks.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
Before the Barnes-Roosevelt trial is
over the Ananias club should be re-
cruited to wal strength.
TURTLE BAY.

Turtle Fay is the next bette noir.
1t is the heading of, another chap.
ter on the Yellow Peril.
This alleged Japanese naval base
which Secretary Daniels is invest!-
eating is known as the best harbor in
the Pacific waters of Mexico. 1t is
just north of Magdalenat Bay.
There seems to be little necessity
for alarm. The presence of Japanese
craft there is qquite reasonable, in
view Of the fact thpt the cruiser Asa
ma went ashore in Turtle Bay. Per:
haps the battleships of Japan may be
there to salvage the wrecked cruiser,
This is a very plausible explana'
ton, but hardly as sensational as the
one sent out by the Pacific coast cor
respondents that the bay was full Of q
Japanese ships.
The act Of Japan ip sending ships
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
Duet: Clipping the Eagles
Wings"-Thomas Hall and Carl Jor-
censor. tt%- ~
REPRESENT NOBODY.

Several well meaning women left
New York this week to engage in q
peace conference AsThe Hague. 1t is
all a beautiful dream and we only
hope and pray that the boat with its
precious freight viii not strike a float
ing mine.
These peace advocates represen'
no one but themselves and their de
alterations will have the cruel accom-
paniment of screeching %shrapnel. LIE
us hope that the belligerents will no
mistake these enthusiasts for regu
larly appointed representatives Q
this nation. They are not authorized
and their efforts will have no effec
upon Fastening peace.
1t is all a beautiful diversion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
THOSE ELK

Forty pages crammed full of bright,
breezy matter and a generous amount
of display advertising describes best
the Elks Booster Edition, just off the
Tribune press.
The paper is a credit to the local
lodge and especially the editorial staff
responsible for the excellent manner
in which they handled the publica-
ton. 1t is no easy matter to get out
so creditable a paper in such a short
time. .srs Iy~n ,.~ ~
But aside from being an organ of
the Elks, the paper has another sig,
%nificance, which means much to the
city. Il, lisa big boost for Bismarck.
Its. columns show that the city has q
large number of enterprising citizens.
The varied resources of the best city
in the state are shown through the
columns of interesting and attractive.
ly displayed news matter. 2
A full page is devoted to an in
tensely interesting article on "Bis'
marck and Burleigh County, the Corn
Belt of North Dakota" Copies Of this
paper will be sent to all quarters OF
the globe and Bismarck will get some
Of the best publicity it has ever had
Those Elks are boosters par excel
lence.
What would Bismarck be without
them?
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
Where were the welcome" signs
when 'Huerta landed?
WEATHER IDEAL.

While many feel that more moist
ure would improve conditions, the
weather is ideal for field work. Seed
ing was never so far advanced as ii
is now.
Another week or ten days of the
same kind of climatic conditions will
not cause any material damage. The
farmers will be able to finish much
of their seeding.
This is the season when dry wealth
er means little except for those de-
pending on pasture. There is an area
of $4,000, 900 acres which, during
March and April, needs comparatively
dry weather for proper cultivation.
The conditions are ideal and North
Dakota is getting a good start for a
bumper crop. Y q. Z
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
u IN aIsINEss

Great Northern's gross earnings in
the current fiscal year are running
over 10 per cent behind last year, and
in the nine months ended March 81,
the road.had done Sc 1858, 14O less bus.
mess than for the same period of
1914. Solid reductions in expenses
have Offset this revenue loss, and en-
abled the dividend balance to be pro-
by it's usual substantial mar.
gin. Figures for the nine months are
not yet available, but at the end Of
the eight months to February %, the
surplus, after charges, miscellaneous
depreciation and nine months divi.
dends, that is, three quarterly pay
ments Of l "a per cent each, was
$~4,150,9O0. In other words, if in the
last four months of the fiscal year.
charges were just earned, the whole
years dividend would still be cover:
ed. The eight months balance was
less than $1,000, 900 behind last years
balance for the same period.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
so EAR so GOOD.

The assignment of the two newly
elected city commissioners has met
with the approval Of the voters. 1t
is now up to Messrs. Kirk and Best
to make good. ....
They enter upon their terms as the
choice of a large majority of the peo'
pie. 1t only remains now to be seer
whether this confidence was well
placed, or not. The Tribune wishes
them success.
The average voter is not interested
in the petty questions of patronage.
He is merely concerned with results
1t is important, however, that efficient
officials on the city payroll be retain.
ed. It may be advisable to make
some readjustments in the police and
street departments. Commissioners
Best and Kirk will be held RESPONSE.
Bile for these selections.
But over and above all is the best
interest Of Bismarck. Everyone is
for a bigger and better city. Let fac.
itonal strife be forgotten and every.
one put his shoulder to the wheel in
the interests of efficiency and prog.
!ress. %4.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22

bet thought Of the day with rfard
to educational progress and ecoimy
of administration. It promiseI to
solve a long,standing question oAPre.
cedence between the University on
the one hand and the Agricu1 ral
College on the other. That theS is
considerable overlapping of worAhnd
some needless expenditure due tdFhat
overlapping is admitted on all les.
Just who should take the OVERLAP ing
work has been the vexed que}on,
and the Board Of Regents will Rve
this problem among others to I'VE.
That it will solve the problem inIon-
formity with the best INTEREST," of
the state there is no reason to dtbt.
Meanwhile F., S. & H. understhds
that this law, together with a huber
Of others, is liable to be held in
it's operation by an appeal to a 1er-
endum vote of the people as proved
for by the North Dakota constitupn.
1t appears that any new law cal be
suspended in its operation until he
people have decided upon It by s&lr-
ing something less than ten thoupd
signers to a demand for a ~referen(m.
1t would seem that the logical ice
to use the referendum is wherehe
expression of public opinion hasIot
been clearly made and where tire
is a well-founded doubt as to the is-
dom OF the law to be referred. TO-
badly four-fifths Of the peopldin
North Dakota are convinced thathe
new plan, while perhaps not Ideals
at least better than the old. 1t wild
seem, therefore; that the referenlm
move in this instance is in the if1r-
est Of delay and ineficiency rafr
than in a, real desire to serve the et
interests of the state educatiorfy
and politically.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
PRINCIPAL cAUsEs or DEATH.

The latest, report on mortality in
the registration area" of the United
States, relating to the calendar year
1913, recently issued by the Bureau
Of the Census, Department of Com
merce, contains some interesting and
significant figures with reference to
the principal causes Of death in this
country. More than one.half of all
the deaths in the registration area
which in 1918 contained about IS per
cent of the total population of the
United States-were due to nine
causes: tuberculosis, heart diseases,
pneumonia, Bright's disease, and ne.
phritis, diarrhea and %tenteritis, can
Ger, apoplexy, %diphtheria and Group,
and typhoid fever. The first three Of
these maladies alone were response
bile for more than 80 per cent Of the
total mortality reported for that year.
The death rate from these nine
causes combined in 1913 was S10.4
per 100, 900 population. This is a ma.
terial decrease from the correspond
ing rate in 1900-937.4 per 100000
when the Census Bureau made its
first annual collection Of mortality
statistics. The number of deaths re
sulting from these causes, however
formed a somewhat greater proper,
ton of the total reported mortality
in 1918 than in 190O--57 per cent in
the later year, as compared with So
per cent in the earlier.
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correspondence
=
4 MoFFif.ss 4
. $@4A@ee :. GO 60

Eddie Adams, who has been oper.
ated on for appendicitis at the new
hospital in Bismarck, is resting nice
~ and will soon be able to return
home.
Marshall xDralle and wife we're call.
ers in town Friday. l..
4 Mr.. Hoover. Of Sterling occupied the
Motif pulpit Sunday in the absence
of Rev. Bruce.
Fred Hinsey was a capital city call.
er Thursday.
Mrs. Joe Kendall returned home
from Bismarck Saturday, accompan,
led by her little daughter, Lucy, who
has been ill at the hospital for some
time. She is very much improved in
health.
Mrs. Ella Porter spent last week a!
the Galloway home in Brittin.
C. E. Motif and family moved out
to the farm 'last'week, where they ex
pect to spend the summer.
Geo. Brittin, H. P. Aselstine and S
T. Mank autoed down to Hazeltor
Wednesday.
Everybody is wishing for rain in
this vicinity.
Mrs. L. Il. Heaton Of Mckenzie, dis
trict president of the w. C. T. u, viii
address the ladies of Motif and vicin
ity intithe'Benz hall, on Tuesday at
ternoon, April 80, at $3.50. All the
ladies, rerinvited to be present.
Mesdames Adams and Anderson
were calling in town Monday.
Ed. Adams and family autoed ul
to the capital city and back Satur
day.
Mrs. Ben Porter was calling or
friends in town Tuesday.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
of ability and broad experience: no
estimate Of worth could be placed on
the value of his services.

of ability and broad experience. nc
estimate Of worth could be placed on
the value of his services.
He was the main spring" and on
watch at all times, sacrificing other
duties and enjoyment for the Best
People On Earth. When the last form
went down at. 1880 o'clock yesterday
morning, Mr.. 'Crockard was there in
shirtsleeves "behind the gun" He
was as strong at the finish Al, he was
at the start, earnest, sincere, and act.
i've every minute of the two weeks
he devoted to the success of the Boos-
ter. And he didn't, stop at that. but
in addition has attended every re.
hearsal and will take a liberia! part in
the minstrel as end man Friday night.
AL. Thimmescn, well known In 10.
cal newspaper circles. served as Mr..
C~rockard's assistant in the work.
Thimmesch is the kind OF a young fel.
low that has his heart in the. game
every minute of the way. He Is a
member OF Dubuque lodge, No. 297,
gB.P. o. Elks, and because of his
splendid experience in newspaper
circles Of that city, 4, immediate.
~ became q big cog in the Booster
machine. Like Mr.. Crockard, he will
be one of the ".troupers" Friday night,
singing a song and appearing in a
travasty which is a feature of the
second show. Y,
A. w. Lucas and J, p. Sells, who
with Mr.. Crockard form the commit.
tee in charge of this work, were lib.
eral contributors to the financial sue.
cess of the publication. Both gentle.
men were identified with the advertis.
ing work of the paper and their re.
suits in this department of the Boost.
er speaks for itself. Messrs. Lucas
and Sell r two of the best known
and successful business men in the
city.
Last but not least comes ]. NJ. Baer,
the postmaster c%artoonist of Beach,
who needs no introduction in these
parts. Mr.. Baer's work appears con.
spicuously throughout the entire 40
pages of the edition. Baer is not
only an artist with the brush in his
sketches of prominent Bismarck. Elks
and business men, but he is also a
very clever and versatile writer and
his contribution to the Booster with
it's illustrations in this respect, is de.
serving of special mention. Mr.. Baer
will also give more to the success Of
the Flks' show with his chalk talk
that is billed as one of the features Of
the coming entertainment at the Aud.
itOrium. ,M MN
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22

to Turtle Bay is hardly tantamount
to declaring that a naval base. The
correspondents will have to furnish
more substantial proof before 1t con
be even insinuated that Japan has
violated the Monroe Doctrine.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
KRUPPS MAKING HEAVY GUNS THAT WILL
SURPASS ~ CENTIMETER, SURPRISE WORLD

Enormous guns that surpass in
size and destructive power the huge
~ centimeter mortars that destroyed
Notifications and cities. in Belgium,
are now being constructed at the
Krupp works in Essen, Germany. It
is predicted that these guns will sur
prise the world. The Krupp factory,
kept busy in normal times by sup
plying guns and ammunition to al.
most every country in the world ex.
ceptf France, is now bu~siersthan ever
Nth $780, sS;9t. men 'aaaa " and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
DON'T KNOW

That Willis Seed Store and .Nurf,
is the correct place to get Sdi
Trees and Shrubs?
You can go to the Nursery, picgl
the trees and shrubs you want andf
them dug if you wish.
You should know better than tof
a smooth tongued travelling shark
icy prices.
1t is now time to plant that Ash
gus bed, some Rhubarb and numef
other things which help to makef
worth living.-Ady.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
With the Editors
4 OF

Farm, Stock & Home, Minneapolis,
April 15.-North Dakota, after years
of discussion, has finally adopted the
%one-board system instead of separate
boards for its various educational in
situations. This is in line with the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22

Results in Aberdeen show that
John B%arleycorn is ,on the run. South
Dakota is making a valiant struggle
to get in the dry column.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22

Brooklyn p%ostofice inspectors have
held up a number of post cards ask.
ing William Jennings Bryan to re-
sign. Why hold them up?
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22

Ills of the municipality are being
studied by Grand Forks citizens this
week upder the leadership of Charles
milford Robinson of Rochester, N.
" the we'll known city, plan expert.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22
Tour 81 Chinese Team

The Chinese university of Hawaii il
making a tour Of the United States.
led by Lai Tin, the Chinaman who
was supposed to Join the White sox
this summer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-22

1t might be recorded that Frame.
unlike Kraabel, is not drawing Cover.
nor Hanna's pay while he is out Of
the state.