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a stage, but the plot is sometimes epolled by bad actors, And , all the bad actors are not found on th Hen AMUSEMENTS FUNNY SIGHTS I N FOREIGN SITES MOORE THEATRE/natiIves OF BURMA EARN FIVE RUPEES ‘Tonteht and All Week, Bargain Matinee Saturday “Meat Seats, $1.00. THR DEEP PURPLE Liebler & Co. Management Evening, 0c to $1.60; Mat- ti SEATTLE THEATRE Both Phones 4% Rargain Matinee Today TONIGHT--ALL WERK “GRAUSTARK” Nights—26e, 0c, The, $1.00, he Original TEXAS Tommie ‘DANcens ALL « 6—Ouner Ble 8. & C. Acte—6 Matinee Daily. PANTAGES THEAT Matinee Daily, Twice Ni WEEXAS TOMMY" DANCE “= Dene by Rangoon, Burmah. Dear Bill: The native of Barmah has the most distorted notion of the value of labor, and a story told in Mouimein {lustrates the fact very well. HENRY MOUTONX Information W: lave (31.000) wi H ‘er, Renriet jungle of upper Burma, stumbled shouts of ieniing fe. Where: flonto a large cave. Before he de ¥i of in Beattie, Wash. July, [cided to explore it a tigress walked Jeet, L ov. Bout, and, apparently not seetug \him, disappeared into the bush. | Did the Burmese gentleman fg- jure that he could save time and a great amount of wear and team on his anatomy by swallowing a little cyanide of potassium? No; he and removed two of the SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE BY TRIFLING WITH AN ANGRY TIGRESS EARNING 57 RUPEES: cubs, “Then it happened!” Mra. Tiger came back in anything but an amiable mood. The would be suicide had barely time to get to a tree and shin up it. He tucked | the cubs in his loin cloth and set | ed down for a good long rest. The fond mother nat at the foot of the tree afl night and the following day | Then she left. In the meantime one of the cubs died, and was dropped to the ground. When the old cat was out of sight the peasant slid down and ran to the village aw fast as he could go. |The next day he sold the cub for \§ rupees (about $1.66). ae "i STAR. Independence Is - Beckoning to You Western ‘Washington Chi ken Farm. Junius said; “Let all your views of life be directed to a solid, however moderate, inde- pendence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.” ” Why should a man in this wonderful new country of ours continue to be dependent ?( Why not make the right start towards independence by securing a parcel of land? WHY NOT TRY TO OWN SOMETHING? Why work and strive, and toil and slave and build up this wonderful state and refuse to profit by its upbuilding? The man who owns the earth profits by every improvement that you make, every dollar that you spend, everything that you do. GET A PIECE OF LAND GET IT NOW! No man ever lost a dollar buying acreage north of Seattle. Buy land with a good view of Lake Washington. aie WE ARE OFFERING Buy land away from the city taxes, Buy land outside of the city limits. Buy land where the special assessments can't get at you. \ 5 300 Acres of Land at $400 Per Acre Terms $10 Per Acre Cash, Balance Small Monthly Payments This land lies north and east of the University on this side of Lake Washington. Some of the soil is rich and black and fertile. Easily cle: ared and will grow anything. Free Community use of 300 feet of Beach to every purchaser. Come in at once and see this land. It has good roads and good soil, planning and living. Folks are Po WHY NOT YOU? OLE HANSON & CO., Third Floor, clearing and building and New York Block | He takes up the beautiful thought of the poet And promptly makes ha He takes all bis wisdom (it's And quickly makes trash of And the point of a tale or a a! Ho pute in like this: “Knibgh smif hekimn eqpre!” of it. well you should know it) it. tory, 1 wis, He shifts and transposes and butchers the copy, Does HE get the shame tor it? But no! If the verse or the The Author's to blame for story be sloppy, ut Though the Writer has written, “He gave her a kiss,” And tt comes out like th “He shaved her amiss.” The joste or the lines that aro bitter and tragic He asks not the why of-them. He touches the key: He simply makes He'll make “builder’ Or do things like this: “Reginald, you are my sifpom nd Avy: linotype magic “of them, ally} change “blister” to “bit xetqhdg! ‘The price of butter in the local marketmis higher this week.” So whenever you find in your favorite journal Some item displeasing you, ey story that's dull or some “nonsense infernal @ passion 1¢ welzing y DON'T jump on the author, he isn't amiss, But do just lke thie: Blame the Compositor! iiecegeeieannins YOU'LL FIND NEWS GF THE DAY COND Native Gone will give an enter talnment and dance at Evergreen hall tonight, J. L. Charbneau of the Washing ton State Art association gave a lecture at the West Side which was filustrated by stereopticon views, last night. Object was to encour: age the movement for the proposed art museum in Seattle, Justice of the Peace Brown yes vor of Chas. Jackson, charged with gambling, and the case Was dis minsed. gerry Celebration of the 10th anniver ing observed today, which ts the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Representatives of various King county Catholic churches met at the St. James cathedral yesterday and made arrangements for s tag day for the benefit of the Edwin Briseoe Memorial Orphan Boys’ home at Orillia on St. Patrick's day. Kansas colebrated by the Kansas Sunflower ‘club with a dinner at Allen Dale | Cafeteria, A reception committee will be organized at the dinner to jrecelve exGovernor Hoch of Kan | sas, who lectures here February 2, jae the ¥. M.C. A. | Suit has been started by Alex Tonn for $600 against Albert Sweeney. Tonn claims, while he: | was a student in the school of rail roading conducted by Sweeney, bought # one-half interest in. ane other school to be established | Sweeney, and haa been unable tay | secure the interest in the school or }get his money back. SERS HERES * * |* E. L. Brown, general super © ® intendent of the Great Northy © ® ern railway west of Cut Bank © * has resigned from that posh * ® thon to become vice president ® and general manager of the * *® Denver & Rio Grande, with © *® headquarters in Denver. Low |* H. O'Neil has been méhtioned * | * as Brown's successor. * * Clee eee eee reer Loule Schreiner wae yesterday jacquitted of a murder charge in jthe first degree, the outgrowth of jthe killing of Wm. Raymond at Green River Hot Springs Decem- ber 28. A suit has been started by Jo- hanna Ewald against the Se Taxicab company damages, Mrs. B personal injuries sustained when & taxicab crashed into the wagon on which the plaintiff was riding December 25, 1911. b, 1866, Gen. W. T. Sher- man made a demonstration against the Combahee fer- ry and the rail road bridge over the Salkehatchie, to amuse, as he sald, the Confed- erate army, which river as a line for the defenso of Charleston, which it thought Sher. man was after, But Sherman says he was really after Savannah, and really he afterward went there, which makes it hard to under- stand why he fussed around Com- bahee for two weeks If it was only for the amusement of a Confeder- ate army which really had a whole lot of other things to oceupy it at the time. QUESTION CLUB TOMORROW Questions concerning the welfare of the city In the proposed legtela- tion on March 5, and concerning: [candidates will be asked at thej reguiar meeting of the Question club at noon Friday in committee: room at 110 Cherry st. Overruling the objection of a few property owners in the Duwamish waterway district, Judge Main the Duwamish condemnation to public us take the matter up to the supreme: court, and the condemnation cases ga eae terday sustained a demurrer in fa- | sary of Rt. Rey, F. W, Keator, bish-| ‘op of the diocese of Olympla, is be) January 28, will be.’ had adopted the/ granted an order which adjudged}; will not be heard pending the: ap-}, Er IT H 0 FOR BUSY PEOPLE Franklin Murphy, former gov: ernor of New Jersey, has an- nounced hitnself | ane 8. candidate for the nomina- 4 tion for vice president on the republican tick. et. He in a vet eran of the civil war; a moult millionaire man-| ufacturer of var- nish; coworker with the traction-in- surance gang which long bors ed = republican conventions in New Jersey From 1902 to 1905 he was gov- ernor of the state, He has been chairman of the state re- publican commit- F. MURPHY. tee for 20 years, and # national committeeman for 12 years. In 1898 he received 77 votes for vico president in the Chieago convention. eee A New York baker is trying to collect $2,000 for the Baron Decies- Vivien Gould wedding cake. E, C, BUSKIRK, a Kansas City carpenter, paid his last $1.60 for a license for the dog that saved hiv child's life, 100 TO GO TO OLYMPI. About 100 Seattle men and wo- men will attend the conventions to be held in Olympia tomorrow and Saturday by the Southwest Wash ington Development association, the Olympic Peninsula Development league, the Woman's Good Roads congress and the Farmers’ Institute. M. J. Carrigan will address the Olympic Peninsula league. A special train will take morrow morning. ENDORSE PUBLIC DOCKS A public meeting in the offices of the port commission, in the Cen- }tral butiding, yesterday afternoon, jemdorsed the movement for public |docka and the improvement of the Seattle port as planned by the port commission, at an outlay of $3,101 000, under present plans. Only one vote was registered against the breaking up of the water front mo- | nopoly. RRAERHKHEARARKKARH * * AT THE THEATRES % Moore—'The Deep Purple.” ® Metropolitan—Anna Held in * “Miss Innocence.” & Pantages—Vaudeville. % Emprese—Vaudeville. *® Grand—Vaudeville and Mo- *® ton pictures. Seeeeeeeeeeee * RARER AT MOTION PICTURE SHOWS Night Out" “Roped In"; “The Old “The Outlaw and the Circuit—"A Woman's Wrath"; “Her Dad's Watch"; “For His Son. City—“Paid in His Own Coin”; “Widow Jones’ Admirers”; “The Russian Peasant.” Class A—"The Stolen Nickel”; “Bill's Bills"; “The Secret Wed- ding.” 3 Times Widowed by Mine Horrors|j ™%, ‘United Press Leased Wire) RINIDAD, Col., Jan, 25.— ‘Three husbands, father, step- father and two brothers killed In bi Animas county coal mines has been the terrible rec- ord of grief heaped upon Mrs. Julia Oliver, of Starkville, who was made a widow for the fourth time when J. W: Oliver ) was crushed to death by a fall of rock in the Rugby mine of the Rapson, Fuel Company, thirty miles north of here. The objectors will}; monia contracted in the mines, all met violent a friendly | Development | the Seattle delegation at 7:45 to- THE SEATTLE STAR | | | | “Seeing | Gtage scenery is lke that of every-day life. occasionally co get better resuite " FREDERICK & NELSON, Inc. ‘g Store Closes Daily at 6:90, FUANITURE ORY GOODS FUR DRY | : Children’s Rain Cay Re-priced for Final Clearanes. 4 $1.50 | and two excellent qualities, usually selling for considerably: than the clearance prices quoted. The material is rubberized sateen, serviceable, water-proof; the Capes are full-length, giving ample pig from the rain, and are completed with a close-fitting shi prettily lined in plaid silk. The sizes range from 6 to 16 years. Colors, red, b blue. ; Very evident savings are afforded at these two clear 7 $1.59 and $1.95. New Shadow Lae HADOW Laces are to claim a large share of fashionable favor in a season ff pre-eminently,a season of laces. F The new designs in these Laces are exquisitely wrought; the fabrics firm amt though delicate in appearance, and they launder excellently. We are showing: ~ Shadow Lace Edges in straight-edge and| Shadow Lace Bands, 2 to 12 scalloped effects, from 214 to 9 inches wide, 20¢ to $2.50 yard. 50c 225 yy, Double-width Shadow Dress to $2.25 yard. cream and black, in medium, smal} black. designs, $1.75 to $5.50 yard. * Colors, white, eream and New Arrivals in Lingerie Waists, A typically pleasing model embraced in this new The Spring Number Quarterly Style Book Now on Sale Price 20¢, including a 1Sc Pattern of your own selection. ~-Firet Floor. is made of sheer batiste, has kimono sleeves and is: with pointed yoke fashioned of Valenciennes lace’ and Swiss embroidery motifs. Clusters of pin tucks lef shoulder seam and the cuffs are trimmed with pin lace edge. Price $2.95. Another pretty Lingerie Waist is in Dutch-neck af short set-in kimono sleeves, yoke of hand-crocheted I and front trimmed with cluster pin tucks and Irish F lion; $2.95. English Bs ag Saucersi“Star” Ena Set of Six —of lightweight English china, in the plain ovide shape, with edge decora- tion in three gold pin lines, as _ illustrated; dainty, yet serviceable. Set of six, $1.00. —Chinaware Section. Half-pint ¢ broken colors. Sp ———The “Direct Acti A Successful Gas Ranj -—sticcessful because of its practical de ig eS ae ing appearance, compactness and uneq omy of operation. The oven of the “Direct Action” heats inal bakes biscuits in from 5 to 8 minut IS five feet of gas in the process. | Full or 3-4 Size Metal Bed | y, H Special $4.85 hh § I WELL - BUILT, continuous post Iron Bed in the pattern in | white, blue i} enamel with gilt trim- Head stands 60 high, 42 inches; posts 1% inches in diameter, Spe- j cially priced at $4.85. [Fumed Oak Rocker Special $5.95 LEASINGLY-DESIGNED Rocker of solid oak, finished fumed. Has deep saddle-shape seat and broad, comfortable back. Specially priced at $5.95. Furniture Headquarters, Third Floor, Frederick & Nelson INCORPORATED pictured, finished green or } mings. inches foot are