The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1907, Page 3

MISS WHITTLESEY SEER R eRe CAH HART EVEL LEER REELS SY LETTERS OF CHESTER TO CHARLOTTE, Dear Charlotte f enctone a tittle & morning, so that it ie a ly the Seventh (Enclosed room that | wrote at three o'clock this | fresh from my pen. CHESTER Published in The Star recently.) = To Chariotte Seattle, Aug, 27, 1908. My Dear Chariotte 1 you an apoloay and an explanation and | feel that “y have reached that where | feel that | could never hold my head up again tid mot make them, 1 must apologite ¢ anawering you, either through carele Yeu can have no idea what a terrible time | have had with ween during the last two years. | could not bear to teil im trouble and when | began to break down ur the oval t began to lose hope in you White wae in good health | could not help feeling hopeful, that you might care for me, but ae soon as my health te break, hope left think the last letter that | wrote wae two years age this gunman, when the dentiet first started work on me, | re qaaker veiling you what a fine time | was having with my smauth tell of apparatue and living on milk {gid Ret expect to go to see you thia summer, but when yong simply could net go without you any longer, so ford bi of the apparatus out of my mouth and hunted yeu up. a that | made a mistake in not opening my heart is terribly hard for a fellow to admit that he ie im trouble, weclally to a girl, and atili more so when he ig in teve and the gir! does mot know whether she cares for or not. Please do not misunderstand my motive in writing. | p know that 1 have fot you. | know that | deserved to lose you. But | don't want you to think that | ceased to care of that | was moan or grossly neglectful, J suppose that | can have mo idea of how | loved you or do point tt for atiowing your letters to go se long eee OF mean -” p that | oer setinnnetietain ee ° ex tat tT yu i teve you. f have lived like a hermit all my life, The boys at school Seed to call me “The Hermit." While they were at play, | was off by myself dreaming. When | got home from schoo! | struck off inte the woods er got a book and went off by myself to read or dream. | And when | was about tweive | took up photography and every spare moment working at it, | gave myself to it, and soul; spent my time reading and studying photog: 5 rapy, working in my dark room or roaming the woods and Pelde and waterfront hunting for pictures, | lived in a glorl ‘gms dream of sunsets and sunrises, misty mornings, and hazy “gharneons, 2 land of blue skies and white clouds worked all a in my dark room, in the soft, red glow of the ruby i and when | met you, you were all—all that ever was fasten that ever will be. Bean stand it to give you up. That is merely a great grief to vhorne. | can't stand it to have you think that | ceased to you or that | ever did anything to hurt you willfully. 1 would have given my life at any time to have saved pain. | could not have intentionally caused you pain. if there is anything that | can do to atone for the past, | do it, no matter what it may cost, even to my life. Yeu may think that this letter is awful, It is awful. | great things are awful, The starry sky at night is awful | & Infinite love. You may be sure that throught all eternity | will love | Yeu, and | hope that you will mot think of me as one who shat- | tered your dream, but as one who was broken. ? 1 can bear my own sorrows. What breaks my heart is ea that you may have suffered. Sur. Aug. 27, 1905. ‘Miss Charlotte Whittiesey, Care Mra. A. J. Fisken, 1120 Union. OPINION OF CHARLOTTE, in a letter Sept. 18, 1905, addressed to Wells College. All Bo JHESTER, . “Of al! the idol smashers, dream breakers, idea! blighters, etc, ete, you are the worst | have ever rum up against. >. “1 have stubbed my toe many a time, but never before have | taken such @ tumble. It reminds me of the hero of | Castle Crane Crow, who wondered how far he would drop and how hard he would hit. De you remember in Evangeline, ‘Longfellow says, “When she had passed it se-med like the coas of exquisite music!” “t think | could describe you by saying, “When she had it semed like a cyclone had struck you.” How do TER’S LETTERS TO en cs 9 00 bad Ed oh ha headed sd ki head dees see eee eteeee society will meet | me the gre up rooms | You eamnot say that your home ton by Minneso (18 modern and comfortable, It your purposes. It is | bathroom fixtures are old and un to erect « permanent sanitary. G. H. Brown Plumbing lane to he known as the Min- (CO. 221 Pine street. Both phones and after the big! $150 $5.00" We've a large number Wood and Coal Heat are anxious Wood Heaters | |. Coal “Ht { Heaters of ers which we to dispose of quickly They are odd lots—one two or three of a kind st which we cannot ri licate becau the producing them for some re n or other They are all good stove capable of giving the maximum of heat at in fuel So if you find that an needed in tra heater is All the Credit You Want to hand it over to the ant ‘A SOCIETY BEGING show ING FOR EXPO. FUND | versity, to be used for educational purposes RO tt ttt tT a TO It * * * LOUIG W. HILL BLAMES DEALERS. * * + . ST. PAUL Minn Jon, 16 Loule W. Hill mots. J. Wi, ® *® now In the W t inve igating the coal famine re father ®& e | an follow * - 1 find that a combination of fuel deale in the Dakot ndeat® = # the head of the lake nd not the car shortage, ls reapor le f * y ® the fuel famine Parties trying to get coal delivered early last fall ® wd ® were refused by these firm The ‘ fi deal s have for ia® "DOCK" AUBURY, A LAZY, IL.| tle. and promined the donor that # combine which controls the coal busine tas Mestbeenl, one LITERATE YOUNG FELLOW, | "f Would ko lo the country and os usages : ast a harvesting the ovata, We * will boycott any Duluth or Superior firms selling to outsiders, # PUT UP AT AUCTION AND] went to the home of a distant rela ® If the retaflers’ combine assumes control, the entire t * SOLD UNDER AN OLD LAW AT) tive and went with the family to hive dulieenlsd tha domed sad dictld et expets. tue rativenly@ ELIZABETHTOWN, KY.— CAN | chureh a de cee ok atte ks thas” ea w ot OO WONDERFUL Puare ay| Chere Wane revival mesting cing & to supply towne in amounts of & car ot 1 time, The nib “DOCK’S” LITTLE &XPRRI-| him, Ino few days they fan aw aererneen seee sone, Re: 98 e ENCE WITH MATRIMONY AND | #!! Boing into the clerk's office of is the clerk that they wanted to get CRP SSOP CCRC CCE Se eee eee eee eee FATHER-IN-LAW’ BOOT. RY, WHO WAS SOLD, LEXINGTON, Ky. Jan, 10.—Ker tucky’s old vagraney law, by which & man may be sold Inte slavery, ts still in foree, and under ite provis fons “Deck Aubury, a white ma f age, able-bodied but I was sold to & master for at Eltzabethtown, the yea ate months other day Aubury bro ple would th lite nine ht but $1. Most peo k this rather cheap for the rervices of @ full-grown mar for nine long he, but t are | others who doubt if J, J. Jonnson, a} Hardin county blacksmith, the pur chaser, got a bargain. Dock” has the repatation of being | & big eater, Those who aay they know cun clean up & table set for an ordinary family in a few minutes ‘They say “Dock” setually did this. He had upon one the home of the county Judge to bee ‘The cook bad spread and placed din- ner upon the table and wae just! about to ring the bell for the fam- | ly when she had a call to the tele phone upstal When she minutes “Doek helpe to everything In sight and onty rem. | nants rematned to tell the tate | Dock” married a few years ago} to a pretty young «irl of the Brad- | enburg neighborhood, He had bee ged & new suit of clothe may he occasion gone to bout five himaett Black and white for the coloring and satin crepe and Olecon lace for | jthe materials are fashioned into | stunning dinner gown for semi forma! occasions. The skirt of the dress is elaborately trimmed, be ing thickly shirred about the bips | and many narrow ruffies below the | shirring | The black satin blouse ts cut) merely to expose the throat, and the sleeves are puffed above the elbow. Over the blouse is a cape like bolero. This is made of the! Alecon. It tn turn is trimmed we a seart of soft black ribbon, which has embroidered ends. A high gir | dle is about the waist | | | @uit for the recovery of. $43,008 | ie brought In the superior court; today againat the Title Guarantee SUES FOR $43,000. snd Surety company of Scranton, Pa, also doing business in this leity. John F. Douglas is the plain } tiff and he alleges that he a | to provide all the building material for the construction of a seven story building on lota 9 and 12 | block 66, of A. A. Denny's addition for $47,000, and subsequently the Fireproof Construction company failed to put up the building ss con tracted for, eupon the plaintiff himself did at an additional expense VESSEL ENCASED NICE quick trip, City arrived ng from Skagway » cargo of 1 was coat | f $60,000 remarka After a in port this mo with 94 passengers fresh halibut. The ve amer Cot ed with tee 1 those who were | awaiting her arrival were given @ sight which is very seldom, if ever, The trip down bat no rough jseen in this city was exceediniy cold, weather was reported OREGON FAVORS EAPOSHTION (Revippe: Telegraph “Berviee.) SALEM Jan. 16 Chamberlain was this afterne a second His advocates the election of 1 Mulkey to the senate popular the augurated for menage hotce creation of wnlor im He alro an appointive railroad ce al demurrage law ent of wat@rwaye and the soquinition by the state of the ady yur mone Beat | urns Schilling’s Your grocer if you don’t nd coftee like | the ppeared and went on the loafing job again Now Mr. Jobneon, who Dock,” has begun to fear he has made a mistake Dock” is about Sind Oh wore oll Chen tes ttarey n Women’s n Clothing biackamith te right with him, The Hi h roe d first thing “Dock” did was to asnint igh-(orade — a. rim while Mr, Johneeon | . . or 1 ren, joys with the hammer Dock" wo end. pulled the, tie Tailored Suits and Youths wer the side of the anvil | SCENE AT THE SALE OF “DOCK” A bammer Broke ft in Gwe eff RRR RR RRR Rt ii Rt ti tok ff fn tok tot to ttt Retter buy one of An excellent chance to save places, runing the rim eo that it|® * Sortable suite at On imp | money on first-class suits, over- " t be tine * KENTUCKY WHITE|SLAVE * severe, eae pays Sastre ‘asain aka balmacmae Mr, Johnson set “Dock” to shuck- | ® WHO BECAME GREAT HERO. * Special prices ing and hie little boy came in soon | ® * q 60 Also, special prices on chil- . with ¢ report that the y one |® Vagrants have long been sold Into bondage in Kentacky, @ 71> ste dren's and boyw caps, hate and waa fant aaloop in the corn crib. & Lang before the war a worthless white man called “King Solo- ® 8 . | seratehinne When “Dock” firet arrived on the | ® m6n,” because when sawing @ limb from a tree in the court yard ® a See BONS lplace the honest blackemith gave|® there upon one occasion he stood on the limb and eut it off # he Sa nasthaas | ‘The price concessions are very him @ seat at the table with the ® between himself and the tree, getting an ugly fall for hin care- # Mrs, A Keating, importer | Important family, an he did any other farm ® leexneas, was put up and auctioned off the same as slaves were ® and inery, ie : ‘ hand, but "Dock" took a whole pone | @ Sold In those dayn + now kk cond floor We |G correctiy and: become of cornbread and emptied the meat | # He was bought by an old woman known a “Gingerbread # of the store ingty dish tn hie plate the first time it was | @ Charlotte,” because she Iived by selling gingerbread on the # passed to him. Now “Dock” eats in| ® #tfeets, “King Solomon” went home with her, but would not t the kiteNen, and only euch thi as * ork, and ehe finally drove ht away * iad ean be are given him. {* Later, *% the cholera broke out here, grave diggers could ® & Asked how he itked being a slave | @ not be as fleeing for his life, but “King Bolo- @ . . Dock” said he did tke the idea] ® mon” t de and worked tight and day burying the ® Av., C Columbia St. of being so far from town. He said | @ dead in the city graveyard. * 800-804 First Av., Corner jum! he could net think of walking so | ® For this "King Solomon” received his reward. He was made ®& 800-804 First Av.. Corner Columbia St, far, but that he must go te town | ® a hero, and no history of Lexington or Kentucky ts complete ® Saye r soon or he would lose his mind. Mr, |® without telling of the deeds of "King Solomon” during the 1833 # Ladies’ Waist House In the State M Jobnaon sald # cholera epidemte in Lexington, and @ neat atone marks his grave # Deck’ will do all right.. He ts|® i the Lexington cometery. * sleepy. but I think this ts due to eat a * ~ nner ing loo much, Since he come here ®®® RR AAA RARER RRR RA eh married, At first a Hoe ; nee Wan re fured them, but “Deck” begged and RESCUES SOLDIER was thrown to th oldier, whe said he was going to marry and go FROM DROWNING. | caught it, but missed his footing to work on the farm. and fell into the fey water, With Kveryone about the ‘courthouse Jerry Flynn, chief officer of the|out a moment's hesitation Mate had taken Kind of a liking to the steamer Cottage City, has added! Fiynn jumped into a small boot and fellow, because he would not work another name to the Het of people|resened the drowning man, Cas and had managed to live without It he hae saved from watery graves.|sady was in the water about five fo # 1 long This time it was a soldier named | minutes. © pay for the li Cassady of Fort Wm. M. Seward io ry ried, and retur Alaska, Cassady was standing on}, Dr. Lee Baker, dentist, 206 Bitel ife'a parents y the dock at Haines when the Cot-| building. Phone Main ¢ og t hie life of eane tg tg . | — ii Gites the taherclasinw, an cone tage Gity_errived in port. A Mee! Oe. Heat, dentist, 390 Sethe going farmer, thought his new son Wear Brookw’ Hats, 1331 Second | Building, Phone, Ind. 692. Seattle, in-law would go to work as soon an ay, se ” honeymoon began to wane, after giving him plenty of time and meeting positive assertion that he did not have to work, he j kicked “Dock” out He had b away bethtown but with a from Bt th when he re place,” Lawyers here any law taken before the ce would likely be 4 Soe se am BRIGHT FUTURE take up the creased Inheritance tax, « law mak Ing lobbying Megat unless the job: byiet states hin purpose te the gov ernor and the stature, also a law limiting ele expenses, and asks for the prohibition of corpora. tlon Campaign contributions and for that were the} art PHILIPPINES HAVE of ap Reduced Prices on SCREENS This is a new line of Screens which we are selling for less than the regular price in order to call your at- anti-paae law a banking end « thera! ap lation for i m. Alaska» Yukon and tention to the town expositions are recom. Regular $9.50 Weathered Oak Screen, with hand- colored burnt wood panels, for $4.75. Handsome Screen with Weathered Oak frame and filled with green burlap—regular $10.00 Screen for $5.75. Screen with Weathered Oak frame, latticed over a background of green burlap—regular price $22.50— special price $15.00, Screens with Oak frames and filled with silkoline in all colors—regular price $1.;0—special price O5¢. Screens with Oak frames and filled with green -regular price $5.50—special price $3.75. 118 Pike ot dille. saves half your meat Try them and see lines will develop what is unques- tionably the finest tropteal agricul- tural o¢ Philippine } BY HAMILTON WRIGHT, (Seattle Star Special Service.) MANILA, P. L, Jan. 15—That the Philippines i» the great frontier of | T the United States today v7 ding $9,000.00 aimeost unlimited opportunities for | prove’ t work the Javertment of capital, is indt | pletion of thig work Mantia will be cated by the manner in which cap-| the only port in the Orient where j tel fer the thousand odd miles of | ocean going veseri# can tle directly railways and terminals that are be-|to docks, ali cargoes being ing bullt under government super | lightered to the docks. vision bas lumber, tobacco and Within the next three years over are on the # $46,006,000 will be spent in rat Niens of 4 roads alone Work on the ratiroade in the next two has already begun. On June § last $0 engineers arrived in Manila and | jare now supervising construction | OTRUST HSSAFE DEPOSIT C1 in harbor im: On the near com pomee denim 2—RUG SPECIALS=2 in the archipelag or three years ‘The opportunities for capital tn lumbering and in agricultural pur “The best way to coomeneats Gromay: ts SS lot 400 miles of lines on Negros, | suits, expecially sugar and tobacco, > “ on iain resolutely save . and Cebu and Panay ialands. This un. | can scarcely be over ated Regular $18.50 9x12 Tapestry Brussels Rugs for bank a fixed portion of dertaking, which is being financed | Hundreds of Americang are en- | $12.95. by the Interns 1 Ranking Cor- |tablishing themselves fm the archt. a i Sirtars rdeg ve ‘Saavew Carnegie | pors and the J. G. White com- | pelago, penetrating to even the | Regular $27.50 9x12 Velvet Rugs for $19.00. | pany, of New York, will cail for the | most remote districte. have ile ne Wedue and Dumsbiv tak Start a savings ac- jexpenditure of $20,000,000, Four| ‘The large investment of English Above prices f sday ursday y: count here and try be- |immense mogul locomotives were | capital ie regarded as proof that | recently turned out at the Baldwin 2 Works and will be used as con Japan will not contemplate the ac quisition of the Philippines, a step mnen re are | that would be impossible under the * of une 4 land | terme of the Angle-Japanese alli developed by eal om without Engiand’s consent ¢ $26,600,000 of b as | | IT ST n/jinen was, wrecty |Meat Priges That Please Srconp Avenve & Spring Srreet sbecribed tn London, where | At the City Hall Market, 509 Third rine was floated by the} Av, near Yesler, Rib at of beef, anch of the Syepers. Th: | 12 1-2¢; Sirloin and Porter House be rock ballasted with | Steaks, Ie; Pot Roast of Beef, €¢ to We have received a number of requests from persons who are desirous of purchasing lots in Laurelhurst at their present prices, but who, on account of the snow and extremely cold and stormy weather, were unable to view the property, asking that we extend the time of advancing our prices for a few days, thus giving them an opportunity to make their selections. We do not care to take advantage of the situation, and have accordingly decided to make the date for advance in prices JANUARY 25th This will give everyone an opportunity to buy one of the grand lots of LAURELHURST at the present prices.» But we ask you to kindly take advantage of the first pleasant day to view this property, so in case we have another spell of bad weather you would not be justified in asking us to further extend the time. :, _— - water front lots left, being very large, and facing upon paved street running to the water’s edge. All of which is by far the best re ssidence property in Seattle at the prc Take the Madison street car to Johnson’s boat house, at the end of Madison street, Lael Salesmen will take you to Laurelhurst free Frank F. Mead OWNERS We have a few very fine stated. Washington. Joseph R. MeLaughIin Main 2476, independent 2569 Paul C. Murphy 212 American Bank Building