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>y New Year ? ? - ? T* - ????? Times Happy New Year Lf. JOHNSON, K DITO K AND MANAGKlt. THE COUNTY, THE STATE, THE UNON. SUBSCRIPTION XLIV. , LQUiaBtmO, Itff. JAM. 1, lfllrt. ^ NPMBER 46 tills time perform jomo brilliant ex | ptolts In Russia. The British cavalry ] will win victories greater than tin* | artillery and fnfantry. while the I French artillery and Infantry will ex ceed In skill the French cavalry. Victor} lor British Nuj. "The French losses will be more I staggering than tlie English because I the Germans will center their assaults I more directly upon the French than j the English. I saw, when I was asked about the English army, a dog 'swal lowing a young chicken. The dog was very sick as It had strangled upon a bone. This meant that the Germans would have much trouble trylhg \o down the British. When I asked about the British navy, I saw a rod being struck into the midst of breaking eggs. In that way the British Navy will smash the German. "I saw a man being stabbed In the back when I asked about the" French navy. I predict for it surprise, I be lieve, awaits it in Mediterranean waters. "I saw a hunter hunting a faountain over for a prize when I asked abput the Hussian army. The prize, I would see, Iky hidden upon another moun tain. That means the RusBian army will campaign In the wrong direction. I predict distrust of the general staff and a lack of harmony in the Russian army. A placid stream appeared to tell the fate of the Russians navy It means the Russian navy will lie still and never do. anything In the war. A P?we Between Japan and America "A thunder storm in with thunder claps in all parts of the sky answered my prayer about the United States and Japan. The noise of jlngosm between the two countries will sound loud, but will do little harm?more harm in Japan than in the United States. A frozen sea thawing out depicted Japan and Germany. It means that after the war good spirit will prevail between HS." JAPANESE, WITH THE AID OK MYSTIC STICKS, PROPHESIES EOR 1915. Rlvlner Says President Will Meet Three (iml Problem" and Will Come Out Right In All?Roose velt's Tendenc; Downward, He Ah serts?K? War. Between This Coun try and Japan. New York Doc. 24.?Following a custom that was imported Into Japan from China agcB ago, Denshot Kodama a Japanese prophet and diviner, prayed before a fruit trimmed' altar tor two hours yesterday at the Nip pon Club, in West Ninety-third street. While he prayed Kodama held In his haqds bundles of slender sticks and occasionally he would burst the bundle 'apart, holding a portion In each hand. He would count the sticks and then he would write In his book of divinations. (lives Out Prophecies. When the ceremony was concluded, Kodama gave out 1916 prophecies con cerning the war, Including the date of Its ending, concerning the future of President Wilson, which was bright, and the future of Col. Roosevelt, which was rather gloomy. ? Kodama chose yesterday for his prayers because It was the shortest day of the year. For many years on this day, It has.been his custom, he said to ask Of the "Almighty Power" about the national and International events and to announce his prophe cies. Proceeded Shinto Religion "But this year I was away from my own land," he explained "and so I made my devotions and sought answers to my questions h ore In the Nippon Club of your city. The prophe tic power which I Invoked was not taught to me as part of the Shinto religion or any other religion. It came to the Japanese before the standard religions did. "In Japan I would have erected on my altar a plain piece of wood on which I would have draped decora tions of white. But here I chose a little green tree and decked it in white and put fruit near It and llghtel candles. The white decorations represent truth and the power an I purity of the Almighty Power." A question submitted to Kodama had to do with Col. Roosevelt's im mediate future. Dark Outlook for Roosevelt. "It wa? a picture of a stream run ning placfdly down hill," he answered "No tendency to run uphill, or torren tous tendency. That means that Co'. Roosevelt will be going down all next year Rnd never going up at all. also means that he will submit to It. T saw this picture onpe before. I asked what would happen to Victorisno Hureto in Mexico. He was then at |he height of his power, but he ran down hill after that aB I prophesied hf would." , Mr. Kodama, a middle-aged man who wore long hair parted in the middle, smiled a little over his prophecies, and readily abandoned them. He said that when he was younger and loss adept in the art his prophecies often came out wrong. Mr. Kodama said he was here on a tour of the world, as a student, and expected to take up three years pn his trip. He planned to stay here until June, he said so as to reach Europe after the war has ended. The Hethodlxt Church. There will be services at the Methodist church next Sunday at 11:00 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m. The sacrament of the Lord's supper will be adminis tered at the morning service. Import ant announcements will be made at this service and the members are all urged to be present. At the evening houj the .taster' will take up a new scries of sermons on Ten Command ments. The heating plant is fully adequate to heat the church in the coldest weather that we have in this clhnate. The new windows for the church auditorium have arrived and will be installed this week. The walls will also be tinted this week, so that next Sunday the church will be more comfortable ana "fifore beautiful than il^haa been. ) Suntfay achoo' meets at 9:30 a. m. The lesson for btspiness Men's Bible Class is the flrsfchjapter of Romans. This class has undertaken for this year a study of the great doctorines of Christianity as found J in the Eptstlea at , Paul. Let every . man bring a New Testment with him. All men who would like to engage\ in this Interesting study are Invited to join this class. *> \ To Magistrate*. Mr. J. J. Barrow, Clerk Superior court, requests us to i attention of the Magistrates county to the importance of prompt returns of all cases -the Mr Court will conveM'Oii Monday, January nth, and there 'arti still several Magistrates who have not made their returns. Vet everyone at tend to this at once. M t - Brakes Hip by ftdltaff.j Mrs. S. M. Beasley, mother of Mr. W. F. Beasley, suffered severely from 'a fall tin the sleet and lee n the yard j>f her son on Monday morning In the fall she received /a broken hip besides being badly brtased. Her ?any friends will be glaifl.to learn however t bat she la getting along ?feel* ?' I A HEW YEAR IS BORIS' WHAT WILL IT BRINU ITO! A New Year 1? born! Nineteen hundred and fifteen. What will it bring us? Will it be a year of plenty?or of want? Will it be one of happiness?or of misery? Will it be one of honor?or of obloquy? Will it Ije one of llfe-^or of death? If we only knew! ? A New Year! To, many of us it will be a year of plenty?If w* do our part?if we but use our brains, and our energy, and our perseverance?if we use them in the right way - ^ But will we do that? Will the right way appeal to u?? ! * Many of us have made the customary New Year's resolutions, with the full intention to live up to them. But will we so Jive? Will the year be one in which we place right above all other con siderations? > ? . * ' Wfll it be one in which we place honor above gold, and charity above creed, and gentleness above arrogance? Or will we plunge headlong into a fanatic and gasping, rush for the golden end of the rainbow? ? < \ " ' j Will it be a year in which our simple word is as good?or even better?than our bond. Or will it be one in which we haggle. aAd twist, and squtrrn, and evade, and conceal, and deceive? It may be the one, or the other. But which will it be? We mean well?but wiil we do well? Only time can tell. ' i . '. A New Year! ? ?To ao m o it will bring sorrow, and sadness, and tears ^"it wilt bring suffering, and agony, and despair. ? It will-bring want, and hungerpHTd desperation. And from desperation to crime is often but a step! And crime is the pathway that leads down to the depths of hell into the arms of the devil?to everlasting torment and the eternal dam nation of a soul. But the sadness of such an ending might often be avoided if we but extended a helping hand in time. Just a little help?a few kind words?a slight effort to obtain food and employment for ttjose who are unfortunate, yet worthy?who are tottering upon the brink. We might extend that help?we could give something?if we would! ? ' But will we?" ( A New Year! ^ . AnTl there is a King of Kings, who keeps a great book, and each page of that book contains the life record of a human being?OF US! It will contain our records for this new year that is just born, as it contains our records for the years that are gone. And what will be our record for this new year? Will the Great Book record little acts of kindness, of good cheer, of assistance to the maimed, and the sightless, and the aged, and the needy of com|>aasion for the little ctiM-that knows no home. Will our records for the new year be such as will bring a loving smile to the kindly face of the King of Kings? Or will it bow His gentle heart in grief and sorrow? It will be as we choose to make it. at what will we choose? ? , B^wl - A New Year! Will It bring gladness to all homes? # Or will It find some who are yet weary, and heavy laden, and in need of rest and spiritual cheer? Not all of the good people .have their names inscribed in tHchurch register. The world is full of good people who seldom see the inside of a house of God, to whom His teachings are but a memory, whose pleas ures on earth are so few there surely must be some great recompense for them in the life beyond. Some of these may be closer to us than we think, may be low In the depths of poverty, may be hungering for the voice of a minister, yet fearful of entering a church lest they Le shamed by their rags. -What will Uie new year bring them? Will it cast but a little sunshine into their shadowed lives? * i Wfll It send some brother or sister to innjUe them to a place of worship, where their .souls hunger may be appeased by the gentle words of a man of God? ? k # " We might be a "good brother" or a "good sister" to these worthy unfortunates. But will we? * It might add cheer even to our bwn hearts. But<lo we want such cheer? A New Year! ,? What will it bring to our community? ? Will It'brlng us a continuation of that great peace whicli provi dence has thus far bestowed upon us? Will It blaze for us a highway through the network of entangle ment* which have drenched the soil of half the World with the life blood of thousands upon thousands of the most Intelligent and enlightened peoples of all times? Will there be a bright and shining star to lead us safely through the appalling perils that now beset the earth? ( Or will the new year visit upon us r?he withering blight of war, and pestilence, and famine, and extermination? ?. . Will the sweet music of the humming wheels of Industry and the joyful notes of gladsome voices raised in song be replaced by the roar of canaon, and the shriek of shells, and the bursting of "bombs, and the groans of the maimed, and the mutilated, and the dying? WhHch will It be? -If we only knew! A New Year Is born! Nineteen hundred and fifteen!' "And what of that?" you ask. Not much?Just a little?and yet so much! Nineteen hundred and fifteen! Only four words, and n> those words signify our time from the year in which Christ was born?that Ideal rnan^?our perfect man?the only mah whd w man! - And In {he infancy of the new year shall we keep before us* the (Continued on Page 81*) ?J brows-ma* Quiet Home Wedding Celebrated Till* Afternoon ut Three O'clock At Home of Bride. Miss Athalea .May, daughter of Mr. James M. May was united in marriage this afternoon at 3.00 o'clock to Mr. Janies Howard Brown of Hol ton, Kansas, the mariage being, very quietly celebrated in the presence of ohly a few friends at the bride's home on Halifax street. The cere many was performad by Rev. J. C: Wooten, pastor of Edenton Street Methodist church. The bride wore a handsome cloth suit of midnight blue with a becom ing hat of the same shade. Her bou quet was of white carnations. After the ceremony Mr. Brown and his bride left for Charlotte to spend a week or so visiting his parents be fore going to their home in Kansas. I The many friends of the bride regret very much to see her leave the city. | She is a charming and attractive girl with a beauty of disposition that has greatly endeared her to all who know her. She has been connected with I the State Health Department for some time. 1 Mr. Brown is the son ot^Ir. and | Mrs. C. F. Brown of Charlotte. He is a graduate of the class of 1911 of i A. & M. College and 1s very pleas ! antly remembered by many vfriends 1 in the city. He is also a graduate of the Kansas City College 1914, He is county Y. M. C. A. secretary with headquarters at Holton, Kansas.? Raleigli Times. Make a Stir. Make a stir! What for. Because j If you do not you never..wlll accom plish anything. Life is a field into which harvest handB, In great num bers. have been sent. Make a stir! Swing the scythe and cut down the grain. Use your hands, binding into bundles all that.is ready for the gar dener. Make a stir. If you are a mer chant, to be on the alert; display your goods, attract the people, and in n lively way move around tKem, and show you are a willing servant, even anxious to accommodate in the small est of matters. Advertise! Be en ergetic here. Why, your patrons are | looking for some word from you. and realy expect you to annuounce some great bargains, as you profess to labor in their Interest. Stir around Make the most of your opportunities; and make life a grand success. Life ;a I a battlefield and no battle was ever I won without a struggle, and no strug gle ever took place without some stir; hence we repeat it .make a stir, or you1 will never ^gain a victory. Progress of European War. -r Pans, Dec. 30.?The-official announ cement on the progress, of the war as given out by the French war depart ment this afternoon, reads as fol lows: "In Belgium we. have won a little territory in< the region of Nieuport, opposite JPtyieijfc, and to the north of Lombaertzyde. The enemy subjected St Georges to a violent tyombard- j ment. This is the position we are | putting in a state of defense. . "We have captured a German point j of support located to the southeast of Zonnebeke on the road between Bece laere and Paschendaele. "From the Lys to the Oise there is nothing to report. "In the valley of the Aisne arfd in Champagne the enemy has manifested another burst of activity which has taken the form particularly of a violent artillery fire to which our heavy artillery # replied effectively. "In the Argonne we have made slight progress In the region of Four Departs. "Between the Argonne and the M68elle there ,has been cannoning along all the front, but particularly severe along the heights of the Meuse. "In the Vosges the enemy deliver ed an attack against our positions at Latete de Faux; this was repulsed. "In upper Alsace we are consolidat ing our positions. Our heavy artillery reduced to silence the German howit zers which were bombarding upper Ashpach." France claims slfght gains nfear Nieuport In the _ official announce ment?" given oufl>y the war department thia ^afternoon. This communication also recites other points along the line where German attacks have been driven back. There has been heavy bombarding at St. Georges, in t Aisnet region, and on the hefghto'ef'j the Meuse. * Russian assertions that an impor ** ? * tant victory has been won over the Austrian forces in Gallcla were co? flrmed today in an official statement from Vienna, In which the admission was made that the Anstrians were compelled to retreat along the entire eastern front. It is said that the situation to the north, *ln Poland, 1* not affected by this reversal, although Petrograd asserts the movement of the main German movement- of. the main German army has been checked with losses described as enormous. Austrian's defeat at the hands of Servia apparently has been followed by renewed activity by Montenegro, whose troops have carried the fighting M Austrian soil in Herzegovina, and are now undertaking a vigorous of fensive movement. The Vienna war office attacks thus far have been re pulsed easily. . Russia's Claim to a vctory over the Turks in the Caucasus is disputed by reports which reach Berlin from Con stantinople saying the Turks hava won "another success" and are pur suing the retreating Russians. It Is also said at Constantinople that another British attempt to land troops in Arabia failed. Russian announcements of defeat of the Germans are disputed today in th? Berlin war office, which states that the attacks of the invading armies In Poland have made progress, and that strong- Russian assaults have been repelled. No mention is made, how ever, of the situation ita Gallcla. where the Russians are described as hav ing inflicted a severe defeat on the Austro-German forces. - ???*?? Tht French campaign for reposses sion of its lost privince of Alsace, one of the first objectives of the republic after the war's outbreak, apparently is making progress. Unofficial re ports last night that the allies were shelling Muelhausen are supplemented today by the statement of the French war office that the town .of Steinbach, In upper Alsace, has been Invested. In France and in Belgium the fighting drags on with small victories for each side. The German official announcement tells of the capture of a French trench in a burned forest west of Apremont the temporary loss of this trench but adds it was retaken later after three counter-attacks. Both Paris and Berlin mention minor gaius with violent fighting at various points. The French statement says the allies have captured the Bel gian town of St. George, around which heavy encounters have been 'in pro gress for some time. ?Another striking charge in the eastern military situation where neither of the contending forces has been able to keep the ascendency for any considerable period, is indicated in dispatches from Petrograd .and Vienna. Tip Russians now appear to have won 4ne upper hand. The Petrograd war office states the Germans % who have been pressing forward in Poland have been repulsed with -.heavy losses. In Gallcia the Austrians are reported to have suf tt^ed a reversal and to be hastily re treating. Their defeat apparently breaks up the maneuver aiming at combined Austro-Germap attack on the souttfiirn forces of "the Russians, which, if successful might have im perilled the Russians left wing. Berlin, however, views the situation in the east with optAnism, intimating im portant developments in Poland may be expected shortly. ? Fighting in the west has been in terruptetd by a violent storm. Not withstanding this hinderance further progress has been made by the allies, according to the French war office. . Recent developments have glvpn the United States a more direct interest politically in the European situation. Washington has sent to the British government a note voicing its objec tion to the methods employed in hold ing up and searching Amerienn vessels. Another important question 1b raised by Germany's disposition- net to recognize longer American Cobeuta in conquered Belgian tnrritnrf inleti? they are acceptable to GeniM|r: r ?? : ^ . Kpcertoe's Big Hale. ? As will be seen from M? pake ad vertisement elsewhere In tht? Issue Mr. R. Z. Egerton will begin a record breaking sale on SslnrdsjK. This tale will be te charge of Mr. Wood, of Wood Bros, sale pr delphta, who haa succeMftglr coo- ' ducted a buraber c41 ?hs public i nice asd Interesting t Egertoa'i salas are i saw when Inquiry was made about President Wilson. "I saw a man rov ing a boat across water," he said, "and Isaw him reach the other shore in safety. This means that President j Wilson will tace troubles, but will solve them all right. I predict that ! e< will meet three big problems ne <t _year.j two t>t,them domestic and one connected with" foreign affairs. Ho' will gettle them all right and'-when he has done so there wljl come a i end to his unpopularity. The peo ple will like him for doing it. One will come to him from the Sputhwest, 7 would say from Mexico. War to End tn May "When I asked abbut the end of th 1 war I saw a'picture which enables me to predict that th* war will end next May by the Intervention of a powerful nation. Since on? of the problems I saw brought to President Wilson came-from abroad I feel that he may be the powerful force which inter venes to end the war." Kodama said that six of the twenty ?ne questions he asked as he prayed had to do with the armies and navies at the, warring countries. It explained the predictions he was willing to venture That all must be fulflled before May, since that month was to see the war >nd*d. ? K? -V"In the first place," he said' "the British fleet will do a very daring aad bold thing In the spring. It will raid the German naval basis and will suc cessfully assault It. The battle will (e 6ne of the greatest ever fought In na val hiatory?one to be remembered aad It will end la the complete de struction of the Otnai naval base despite the mine* guarding It Th? amy, hawever, will kafiiN KK
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