8-A TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 5, 1915. OMAHA ELKS VfILL HONOR THEIR DEAD Kemorial Service! to Be Held Thii Korninj at Orpheum Theater ty Local Order. MATTHEW GEE.INQ THE SPEAKEE. Omaha Elk will hold their annual memorial services this morning at 10:J9 at the Orpl.eum theater when they will honor th twenty-thre member of the ordrr who have died during the lat year. Thin tn the grestest number of any one year since the chapter wn secured for Omaha. About one-half of those who died joined the lodge prior to V.r. The ritual will be conducted by Payr mond O. Toung. exalted ruler, and oiher ffi?er of the order. The princi pal rpeaker will be Mathew Gerlng of l'lattsoiouth. Following la the program: PART 1. Prr-'- The A"""nptlon Massenet Henry Cox and Members ot the Omaha fctring Orchestra. Opening cerrmotuVa Kxaltrd Hu!er and Officer 1-fwlse. Opening Ode Brother. Invocation Art in Chaplain Lyle I. Abbott. Crossing the liar Hhya Herbert Omnha Klks' Glee flub. God Shall Wipe Awav All Tear. .llarker Beulah Dale Turner. Thanatopsls Bryant E. C. Pm. PART II. Interlude In Memorinm Grieg Henry Cox and Members of the Omaha String Orchestra, Not Aahamed of Clirirt Dank J Grace Poole. Address .... Mathew Oerin, Tlattsmnuth tnds. Elegy (Dedicated to Omaha l4lixe of Elks) Cecil W. Berryman Cecil W. Berryman. Teach Ma to Pray Jewltt Mrs. Turner and Miss Poole. Closing ceremonies Kxalted Kuler and Offlcere of Lodge. Doxolosv , Brothers and Audience. Great Good is Done ' by Fund Raised by- Sale of Xmas Seals Never before hare aj many questions, whys and what, put to Mrs. K. R. J. Rdholm, state airent for the Bed Cross . Christmas seal, as have come to her this year, " . Mrs. Edhotnt now puts these questions to the public: Do you know that Red Cross Christ mas seals sell for 1 cent each? Do you know that tl.JOO from the sale .if the Red Cross Chrtstmes eals In Dmaha In the last few years has been ' ised by the Visiting- Nurses' association ' n their work with tuberculosis cases? '. Vo you know that $25 from the sale . if last season's Christmas seals was the 'Irst money to be used toward the penny mup lunch at the Train school? ; Do you know that bubbling fountains have been placed In scores of small owns throughout the state by the sale i,,t the Red Cross Christmas seats. Do you know that Red Cross seals ,3uy pure clean milk for the pre-tuber-, iular children T ! Do you know that the Red Cross bhrlstma seal has provided many a Mi-son afflicted with tuberculosis with i window sleeping tent? . MENOMA, CHORUS WILL : ! MEET MONDAY NIGHT : i ; Permanent arrangement hav been 'ned to hold the regular Monday night rehearsals of the recently organised mala - home In the Lyric building, Nlneteentn ind Farnam streets, j The Menoma churus Is the name by Ahlch this body of singers will be known, iccordlng to action takon at the last re learsaL j This is a contraction of "Men of Dmaha." and la distinctive, easy to pro nounce and not difficult to remember, i Under Director Carnal splendid pro !Tree la being made In the preparation A songs for the first concert to be given o the winter. j New members wUl be received half an lour before each regular rehearsal. NEBRASKA FARMERS MAKE j NEAT PROFIT ON HAY CROP Nebraska'! annual wild hay crop haa ii train begun to move eastward and from ground Newport and Baasett the North Western Is routing one and two t rain ed s of balod hay dally. As In former .ears, this bay Is going to Chicago and jyond. It Is asserted that farmers and J.thera) who are shipping are making from i to S2.W per ton net t Owing to the frequent summer rains ? he Nebraska bay crop In the north-cen-i ral counties was unusually heavy. Con siderable, however, was damaged by ! hesa rains, but the Quantity of market ale hay Is ease d to be much greater nan during previous year. 2ITY MISSION KIDDIES ! TO STUDY THE VIOLIN A clasa of twenty boys and girls has n organized at the City Mission to aise up the study of the violin, both ha musical Instruction and the lnstru nents to be given free. On Thursday afternoon and evening the uplls will get Individual Instruction, and Monday evening will be called "orchestra tight." when the children will take the tudy of music la class and practice to gether. A few have asked for piano In unction. Mia Madge West, assisted by. Mr. Fells llrk, have donated their time and serr - to the instruction of the class. PATRICIAN CLU3 WILL otur ri sv in iittiiinx s uivc run i ir jkimuhtu . John V. Brennan Is directing player f the Patrician club, a young men's , al and educational organisation of Bu -utrlck's pariah in production of the .Uy, "Never Again," to be presented : i o early In January, at Crelghtoa unl vr.iity auditorium. Tickets are already M ng sold and the proceeds of the enter i l.io will be used In providing a summer '.uLhouse for the club at Carter lake. SPECIAL TRAIN OF SAXON CARS EfJRO'JTE TO COAST The MUwaukee-Unlon Pacific are han ' 1 iiisf a train of Ha ion automobiles to an Franrlsco. Ttiere are twenty-five '. rs la the train, each carrying four .ut.s. The train Is Wing run special, ing ahead of regular freights. t.uod far Stele Headaches. Cunftlf.atU'n cauaes s!;k heartache and f. Kliir's New Mfe I'llls will cure 't. ke a O'ise tonight, ti-c. Ail drugg-lsts. A i i;, t.jtieut ORATOR AT ELKS' MEMORIAL! SEEVICES TODAY. CRUE HORRORS OF WAR Scenes and Incident! of Battle of Champagne Described in Letten and in Diariei of Soldiers. MEN OP BANKS CRY FOR PEACE (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) PARJS, Nov. 10.-Letters written by German soldiers during the battle of Champagne, found on prisoners and dead, throw some light on the spirit of the ttoops. "The battle front has disappeared In a cloud of smolce," wrote one. "Nothing can be seen, for the French artillery fires Almost as rapidly as the infantry. One rrmored shelter was crushed In and not one of the sixteen occupant escaped. Mer are felling Ilk flies and the trenches are nothing but debris." "t-'hells are simply raining upon us,"an olher wrote. "If the end wero only nearl This Is the cry everyone should raise, 'Peace! peace!' " "Cruel hours!" a captain noted In his "lary. "It Is ss If the earth were crum bling up. Our losses are very heavy. One company of 259 men had sixty killed Inst night and battery close by lost sixteen dead. A shelter five yards deep, protected by two rows of logs and two and a half yards of earth, wss caved In ox If It were only a match; that's a spect rin of the force of the French shells." Many of our men are useless" wrote the captain of the Twenty-fourth infantry in a report intended for his superior off- rer. 'We must have reinforcements at once. Our men are dying of fatigue, privation and loss of sleep Nothlasi to Est. "Nothing to eat; heavy losses." noted another. "The French haven't ceased firing since the morning of October list: It haa gone on sixty hours: how long win ii laeiT Kvery spot of our noaltion Is so bombarded that It is next to im possible for human beings to hold out any longer." "KU of our men were killed by shells yesterday morning," wrote a captain. "Our trench has been nearly levelled. The Eleventh battalion haa suffered heav. uy." How the reinforcements were rushed un la revealed by another officer. "We were crowded Into autos," he wrote, "and rushed madly from Vouslera to Tahure. After two hours rest In the rain and sis hours march to our position under constant shelf-fire, we reached the trench, losing flfty-als of 80 men of the Second company by the way. W never US hours without food in a trench not two feet deep. IUII couldn't be worse. 8lx hundred more men Just arrived; tuey will only replace the killed and wounded of the last few days." Surprise and demoralisation of the Oerman first Una troops by sustained artillery fire have -both been given as explaining the considerable number of prisoners taksn. Orders of German com. mandera' that fell into the hands of the French indicate that the attack was not a surprise and there haa been a natural reluctance to believe that Oerman organ. Uatlon and discipline were in d.r.i.it Information obtained by the Associated Press from eye-witnesses of the opera tions is to the erroct that the Oerman counter-attacks were neither spirited nor wen planned. 'fasten in Haalta. If the attack was no surprise the hi of It was a revelation; it appears to have thrown a certain confusion into the Oer man ranks, resulting in preplcltate and almost dUordorly engagement of reserves. The men seemed both exhausted and de moralised Incapable of properly under taking a general counter-attack. Over confidence in the solidity In the first line trencne seemed to be general among the officers, for many of them were found in bed at Trou-Biioot a half hour after the attack began. They were Ignorant of the capture of the first line of trenches because the telephone wires naa peen ruptured. In the counter-attacks divisions were broken up and scattered, regiments even were divided, battalions sent to rlrht and left In absolute contradiction of the Oer man spirit or organisation. There were engaged between the Maiaon de Cham pagne and 19 Hill thirty-two battalions oeiongmg to twenty-one different regl ments. What acted most on the nerves of the uerman troops, according to informs. tl jn brought out by questioning prisoners, was the continuity of the French artillery ure, .n weaaness or their own reply, the extent of their losees. lack of food for several days and thirst Thev sue. rendered In sections In many Instances and in whole companies In some, AH acknowledged they were tired of the struggle. A fact that is regarded as significant Is that the reinforcements the Germans sent up during the battle were mostly of the contingent of 11S with some volun teers of the contingent of 19U previously held In reserve at their besea. The con clusion drawn by some military critic is that Germany U n earing the day when she will no longer be able to maintain her present force on all her lines. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Dr. F. If. Mlllener. superintendent of the I'nlon l'acific bull'!ln, lias rnoovrrrd fro nihts recent lllniva and la again able to look after h'.s dutiea Apartments, flats, bouses and cottages can be rented quickly and cheaply by a be "For Roat" Gathering Coins to Help Clothe and Feed the Pefltn Claus' life Is no easy one. Particularly bard Is the life of trios" ten Santa Clauses who have taken their positions on the streets beslle thlr chimneys to gather money for the Volun teers of America ChrlnUius dinners and clothing for the poor. All day long to stand in the cold, ringing a beil and gathering coins from those who have more than th y need, to give to those ho have naught-.t Is no essy life. But are these Santa Clausrs sad? Ha, ha, sad, you say? Why they're the happiest old codgers, t-'top and talk to them and they're all cheerful. There may be Icicles in their whisker and their feet may be numb, but they're happy, for they're working to feed and clothe hungry and shivering children and mothers and old people. On Klxteenth street, between Douglas and Iodge streets, Arthur L Kymbail stands beside his chimney in his red coat bordered with white fur and rings his bell to attract the passing throng. Mr. Kymbail needs no artificial whiskers, for be haa a set of gray ones, all his own. "I am the original Santa Claus," he says proudly. "I've been a Santa Claus for sixteen years." This Banta is right on the Job, for he doesn't stop ringing his beil even to talk. "Yea, you meet all kinds of folks," he continued. "Sometimes a little newsboy will come up and drop In a cent, and then again, a man onre came up and stuck In a 11 bill. It all helps to feed the hungry that couldn't have nothing if we didn't raise this money and buy things for 'em. ' Tne spirit of this veteran, "original Santa Claus" runs through the ranks ot II the Santas stationed about the holi day-thronged streets. It's a part of the spirit of Christmas. Who gives of himself with his gift feeds three. Himself, bis hungering neighbor and Me." TROUBLE FOR THE AMERICANS Traveler! in the European Nationi at War Frequently Arrested as Being Spies. ENCOUNTER MANY DIFFICULTIES (Correspondence of the Associated Prcsa) PARIS, Dec. , Difficulties for Ameri cans traveling on the continent are In creasing. Walter Morse Hummel, the American composer and pianist who has been living for many years In Paris, and hi wife, formerly Theresa Chalgneau, a French pianist, were arrested at Dieppe recently, suspected of being spies. They were returning home from Lon don where professional engagements called them. They had submitted their paper to the French consulate general In London and had received a safe-conduct to Pari. Ther had an American passport and a personal letter from Mr. Thackara, the consul general. They were searched after their arrest at Dieppe. Although nothing suspicious wa found they were detained In a hotel overnight. The next morning Itummel wa taken by gendarmes through the street, fol lowed by children calling out that he wa a German. Both he and hi wife were locked up In prison until the next morning. Rumme!' cell companion wero two person accused of theft. Mr. and Mrs. Rummel were transferred by train to Rouen, imprisoned there in cells, the floor of which were covered with filth and the wall with obscene drawing. They wero thero sis hour be fore being able to buy a pteo of tale bread and a piece of ckeese. Rummel' fellow prisoner wa an Apache who con fided to him that he had Just stabbed a woman. Rummel had at every stage of his experience explained who he was and demanded that; the authorities should Inquire at the American embassy In Pari. Luckily he had been able to send a telegram to the consul general In Paris before being Interned. He and his wife were released therefor after forty-eight hour detention altogether, upon repre sentation of the American consul in Rouen. Mr. Rummel' father and gradfather were British. Ill mother was tn daughter of 8. F. B. Morse, the Inventor of the telegraph; Rummel happened to have been born in Berlin during a period when hi father was ther on business. Ho wa registered as Brltlsh-born at the British consulate. HI parent went to America when he was three years old. Aftor the death of hi father hi mother resumed American cltlsenshlp. Toung Rummel wa entitled to take his mother nationality and did so. The cir cumstance that he wa born in Berlin appear to have drawn upon htm the suspicion that he was German. The American embassy has gone fully Into the affair and ha mad representa tions to the foreign office upon the In dignities Mr. and Mrs. Rummel suffered. They have spent most of their time since the war. began in hospital and other charitable work tn France, particularly tn organizing funds for musicians, cp NOT YOUNG GOVERNMENT Halted State Classed aa One ( the Oldest Natioaa 1-a the World. The United Bute or America I on of the oldest nations on earth. With the exception of England and Kussla it Is, as an existing nation, older than any country In Europe. And alone in the Western world It has stood for the last 12& years with an unchanged government. Its boundaries have expanded and Us constitution has been amended and It has gone through civil war, but the T'nltrd States is "ruled" today a It was ruled in 1739. and Is the only western nation that Is. The constitution of the United States of America was adopted In the year the French revolution began. Since 17SS Europe has been remade. Among the nations four stand out as "ancient" England. Russia, Denmark and Spain. Yet tn the last century and a quarter these countries have lived through gov ernmental changes that show beside the stability of the United States rule aa exceedingly significant "shifts." The ohangea that have taken place in the English regime are the most In tereetlng. because they are the least known to the world at large. It is in evitable with us all that the mention of an "ancient nation," a "stable gov eminent." the "oldest country on earth' should bring the thought of England to our minds. But the government of England, we know It today, dates Its t-eglnnlng from the year 1S3L That is the date of the passage of Uie first reform bill. Poor and Hungry in Omaha r- i .avar' tJ a . VOLUNTEER'S or AMERICA W,,; I HUNDREDSrBASKET orFcoaToTHE Pom-OA aha I CHRISMAS DAY PLEASE HELP. : These bills the first in 1832, the sec ond In 1867 and the last in 18M shifted the government of England from Lords to Commons, from nobles and men of great property to the people themselves, changed the "limitation" of England' monarchy from a feudal to a popular right. Without revolution the govern ment of the country was effectively rev olutionised. The striking evolution which began In 1S33 with the granting of the ballot to the merchant and men of small property In the realm, moved on Its final step In the Parliament bill of 1912, which took away aU but "suspensive veto power" from the House of Lords and left the Commons ruler of BnRland. France began It revolution a all the world knows, in 1789. Since then it has had two empire, three kinds of kingdoms and three republic; It ha ex ecuted one king and deposed two other, and it haa forced each of Its two em- porers to abdicate. Since the final form ation of the third French republlo it cabinet has been changed very nearly on an average of once a year. Out of the Franco-Prussian war grew, a every one know, th present German empire. In 1789 there stilt existed In central Europe that "Holy Roman Em pire." which was. as Mr. Bryre has pointed out, "neither holy nor Roman, nor an empire." It consisted at that time of between 3S0 and 400 separate and practically Independent state. Phila delphia Ledger. Press of China Is Charging Misuse Of Salvation Fund (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) kmamuhai, Nov. 80.-Charges and counter-charges are mad dally in the Chinese press concerning the use of th Salvation fund, which was started at the height of the boycott against the Japanese, In an effort to provide money for the strengtenlng of China. There have been many statement made aa to the sums subscribed. Th promoter. Ma Tsau-son. set IbO.OUO.OOO as th goal which the fund should reach within six month. l8ome of the contributors understood that their fund war to be returned if thta goal were not reached In th specified time. i With the appearance of the monarchi cal movement, contribution clumped and disgruntled contributor demanded their money back, saying that they did not care to continue their support of the fund on deposit In government banks. No exact statement ha been mad a to the exact amount of money con tributed, although It Is generally reported that at least $5,000,000 Mexican, were actually paid In. Some large subscribers refused to pay contributions, when It became clear that the monarchy Is to be re-established. There is difference of opinion a to what disposition shall be made of It A Han Hay Eat Any f.lcal And Digest It Easily It He WUl But Try. rosa DiorgTiTB tablets. . Don't be afraid of your meals. The reason you have dyspepsia Is that some thing Is lacking In your digestive appa ratus necessary to the stomach's work. A perfect stomach loves to work. Per fect digestion 1 not afraid of any meal and benefit by It consumption of food th whole machine of man. Btuart's Dyspepsia Tablet make easy the work of digestion, because they com bine active fruit and vegetable essences which are needed by the stomach. These essences are so powerful they digest food without aid from the stom ach. They have done this with a meal encased In a glass tube. We will send a trial package to any one free for hi name and address. Eat what you will or when you will then take a Stuart Dyspepsia Tablet and see how you will digest that meal. In a short time your stomach will have natural supply of gastric Juice and your whole system will be able to take care of digestion easily. 1 Ask sny druggist about Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets. Hi answer will tell more than we can say. Ask him how they sell. If you want to buy them give him Wc But If you want to test them writ us and you will reoelv a trUl package by mall without cost. Addresa F. A. Stuart Co., 213 Stuart Bldg.. Marshall. Mich. ICS j M V ;.;:." ; ! : t - ' V' '"'Vvi j: V . :: . .. 1.. '? J - : JT.k, V I f.r Sr :;; V,'f : (: ) . - L s-vr- ;5 1 r j Some members say that the fund must be kept going and devoted to the ex tension of Chinese Industries. Ma Tsau son recently printed a letter in all the Chinese papers saying that the fund wa started with a good object, which has been defeated by the recent , up heaval In politics and that the money given to the fund must be returned to the donors. He also says that he will take legal steps, if necessary, to protect contributors. - - To Ta-chlng, the chairman of the com mittee, which Is handling the fund, and Ma Tsau-son have had much correspond ence concerning the matter, most of which ha been published. The chair man la seeking delay for further con sideration of the demands made by sub scribers,- who gave their money to help to strengthen the republlo and have no ympathy with the movement to re publish the monarchy. 1 i 1 s m cNext best" to i ; ii I ' m ml I -y& m: ml I You will knoto them by their stylish Black- Treads OODRICH CROSS SWISS FRONTIER WITH MESSAGES ON BACKS (Correspondence of the Associated Press) LAV8ANNE. Swltserland. Dec. J Women are always more closely ex amined than men at the Swiss-Austrian frontier, writes a correspondent on the Austrian side to the Gaxette Ie Lausanne. Read The Bee Want Ads It ray. iS Ah The Stroud Pianola Delivered to Your Home for a Down Payment of Balance in C o n venient Amounts Monthly. $15 The Automatic Sustaining Pedal secures a richness of tone such as only master pianists may equal. The Themodist makes the melody sing clearly above the ( accompaniment. The Metrostyle guides you to a perfect interpretation, im parts the brightness, the sentiment, suggests the rush and hurry, the slow, measured beat, or the swinging "moder ate ' ' just the tempo that the spirit of the musio demands. The Pianola i$ th Player Piano mad by the Aeolian Company. It may be had in Steinway, Weber, Stech and Stroud models. Upright Model Grand Model Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. 1311-13 Farnam St., Omaha, Nebraska. Exclusive Representatives for Pianola Pianos. "SILVERTOWN Tires" w required in the spinning of the two Cable-Cords their g;rcolation under enormous pressure with Hyper ubber, the cross laving of the two layers of Cable Cord over each other so as to secure precisely the same tension on each strand all the special Machinery for thi3 had not only to be made, but invented. Owing to demands upon the facilities of every big Machine Shop in America, at present, for War-Materials, we are unable yet to have these newly invented Silver town Machines built in large enough quantities to make more than one "Silvertown" Tire for every four the Country now clamors for. THIS Advt is therefore chiefly intended as an Explanation to Consumers and Dealers, who want "Silver-towns' ' and can't yet ob tain them. It is also intended to help the situation by putting out a new Goodrich Fabric Tire with the same BLACK Rubber Tread as has distinguished Silvertown Tires. The appearance is almost identical with that of the "ARISTOCRATIC" Silvertowns, and the material used in the Treads, i3 practically the same. No increase in the price of Goodrich Tires will be made because of that smart Black Tread distinctiveness, and "Silvertown" expression. This, in accord with the fixed policy of the B. F. Goodrich Co. (which pioneered practically every big im provement in Rubber, pr Tire Manufacture, during the past decade) viz: to give Maximum Value to Consumers first of all, and then trust to resulting Volume for satis factory dividends. T Is now more Ucodnch (Jo. brought out the hrst ura lire" (for Bicycles) viz: the Palmer Cord Tire. And it is many years original Silvertown Cord Tire, (the only genuine "Cord" Tire for Automobiles). That it practically withdrew the first genuine "Cord" Auto Tire from the Market, until the Silver town" PRINCIPLE had been brought up to the Good rich STANDARD of Mileage, Safety, and Value to Consumers, is a matter which concerns your CONFI DENCE in all Goodrich Products and Promises. Please note that Goodrich Tires henceforth the Fabric construction as well as the Cord "Silver towns" will have handsome BLACK Treads. LINES WILL MAKE THREE TALKS AT FREMONT TODAY I. R. Lines, religious work secretary of the Toung Men's christian association, will make three addresses today at Fre mont during a session of the annual state convention of college Toung Men' and Toung Women's Christian ssoclatlon representatives. About 1B0 men and women of various Nebraska colleges will attend. No other player piano can equal The Pianola no matter what its price, nor the honor of its name. The Pianola was the first, and is basic ally the most perfect of all players. Its exclusive expression devices give it a musical superiority that no other instrument may achieve. $550 to $1,250 $1,350 to $2,350 E eant produce "Silvertown" Tires as fast as the Market now calls for them. This because the intricate Machinery than 20 years since the R F. since it first brought out the THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. . Akron, 0. FAIR-LIST THRE