The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1914, Page 8

LESSENED PRICES Dressing Sacques of special at 65¢ Broken lines in varto' of a Kind, both stl pretty styles, to b at $2.95 instead of $5.0) Separate Dress Skirt in serges and of all the best material out In a day $12.50 TO $29.50 Dancing and Party what mussed, the kind sold for $12.50 to $29. and chiffon, for $7.50. Warm Winter Coats pony skin; only a few We will close them ou $29.50 instead of $60.00 Corsets of net 50c to $1.00, for Floor. Handkerchiefs, 1 broidered corners, Main Floor. 25e AND Ste ODD ——10c ea. ing brooches, bar pins, ing jabots, stocks. Du linen “ Main Floor. — 5c yd. cream and white. Upper Silk and Chiffon A with 2-inch hemstitched der, 2 yards long. Ste AND 59¢ NIGH ——39e ea. Gowns tn French sty! with linen lace, at 3 Floor. 39c ea. trimmed with lace or Floor. ——39c ea. Drawers, made of a of musiin, in circular lines, lace or embroide Second Fioor. ——39c ea. Corset Covers, made Floor. Book: colo: Free Best to ¢ “spring. ” tebe. rk Eyes.” Mex “Spring 10—“Anot row: March. “Ln Guapn, THE BON K AND WOOL DRESSES FOR | ives | $12.50 AND $14.50 SILK DRESSES | $5.00 SEPARATE DRESS SKIRTS mixtures, stripes and $60.00 AND $75.00 PONY COATS AT 50c TO $1 CORSETS, at 25c-——— Odds and ends of slightly soiled and coutil, ¢ each. i Handkerchiefs Worth to 50c —— 1-2 Price —— Women’s Cotton, Lawn and Linen n and with em % price. Odds and enda of Jewelry, inctud- links, fobs. Upper Main Floor. —— ——at_ 5c_—__—— Neckwear, slightly soiled, includ- and Buster Brown collars. 25¢ RUFFLING 1 TO 3 IN. Shadow Lace, open and blind pat- terns, plain net, 1 to 3 inches wide, $1.50 AUTO SCARFS, ——at $1.00 Upper neck and kimono sleeves, finished Ste AND 59c COMBINATIONS Combination Drawers of muslin, with drawstring at waist 45c and 59¢ Muslin Drawers 50c AND 59¢c CORSET COVERS trimmed in dainty edges of lace or embroidery and ribbon run. AND RECEIVE FREE—one FOR THEIR GENEROUS OFFER—of one Gobbler's ma li“Hebeeen of Sunnybrook Farm,” i neat Figured Cot $6.00 and $7.00 Wash Dresses, and us models, one nr yi $2. 95 | Here's a Friday bargain for women . acta id e who want new silk Dresges: $1 and $14.50 models of messaline, feta and poplins, in stripes and sold colors, $7.95 8, worth $5.00, $3.98 $3.98 PARTY DRESSES | a, to be closed We have gone over our stock 50, of silk, net FOR ONE DAY ONLY SMALL PRICES ON SMALL LOTS OF WEARABLES Winding Up the After-Inventory Sales in the Garment Section —With a One-Day Disposal of All Limited Quantities— 98c AND $1.25 DRESSING SACQUES | $6.00 AND $7.00 WASH DRESSES ton Crepes, all desirable colors and higher priced, of stylish dainty patterns, in neat, desirable styles, ce fab neatly made and but only one of a kind, at e $12.50 TO $50.00 TAILORED SUITS | checks; all colors and black, In all sizes. Special Friday at $3.98 Tatlor-made Suits of splen did quality Berke, mannish 1 & $10.00 AND $12.50 TOP COATS | mixtures and fancy sultings, tn /2 Price sue) ne th Just $8.98 Friday for $10.00 and a os al cate $12.50 Top Coats, tn the late styles $1.59 TO $3.98 LINGERIE WAISTS | MULES ARE CHEAP: THEREFORE BESS By Fred L. Boalt FRANKLIN, Feb. 19.—"There {9 no room in business for sentimental nonsense | if you are to show a@ balance on the right side of the ledger, you | cannot be over-careful of the lives of men or the comfort of mules | Being a practical man, 1 am led to make these observations after | visiting the Cannon mine, | Mike Vabeoanick, experten Viewed sen itally, the dinanst | One may feel sorry for men and mulos not find that the Pacific Coast Coal Co. for the tragedy e Its business Is to GET OUT THE COAL yut how Andrew Churneck and was lamentable that work in mines. But | can to be blamed was in any wa | When I reached the mouth of the mine I met Toby, the Slay mule |ekinner, and Hews, hin mule | Never have | seen stich a ramshackle animal as this rack of bones Her wobbly legs are swollen and bleeding. Her emaciated body Is « mass of harness sores hide, stretched tight as a m head, shows every bone n bones are deep cavities where flesh ought to be © had just strength enough left to drag the cars ne mule,” | observed Toby, the tow-head regarded his beast without pride | Hees he dam’ tired. he wald We talked, It seemed Hess was once a fine and prideful mule Good mules cont money. Mule experts di ax to which of two poll cles brings the best r urns on an in veste t in mules. ¢ say the better polley is to 1a mule well, and work it rea ure, for then it will live But the Pacific Coast Coal Co. ha sona long found that mules are tough and hard to kill, and that if you work a mule 24 hours a day, it will, while it laste do the work of three mules working eight-hour shifts. Hess, Toby told me, had worked four months, 24-hour shifts! It's $1.59 to $3.98 Lingerie 1 ve that even a mule could stand ft. And on a diet of hay Dresses, some: sts and taken those tbat /2 ice, that previously are mussed and slightly sofled Toby said Bess snatched ten-minute naps, STANDING UP, between and offer them at half price cond Floor. trips! 98c LINGERIE WAISTS FOR hat sotled Lingerte sold at 98¢ Mussed and some of Russian Waists that were formerly remain, #0 $29 50 in neat atyles and sheer materials, spe t Friday at aver sae and $75 00 ' —Upper Main Floor, Bargain Square 25¢ BATH ROOM SLIPPERS 10c pr. SPECIAL | 300 Pairs Women’s $3.50 Pingree-Made Main Floor. =-$1.00 pr.= Smal! sizes only—2'2 to 4)4—that Is why the price is so low—for they are the $3.50 grade of “Pingree made shoes for women and growing girls. 29c Ib. Vietora © hocolates with axsorted flay d0e | AT Japanese Bathroom Slippers of Second as long as we have any Upper 50c VICTORIA CHOCOLATES | rich | Upper Lace styles, made with J cream centers, tn ors, welt soles and patent J special at pound. Fourth Floor. leather tips; made on V . — JEWELRY | F008 Shain F $1.50 PILLOW SLIPS, SPECIAL Upper Main Floor of The Bon Marche. ——9J8c ea. hains, cuff gate Slips, already embrotdered, tn ored corded designs, $8¢ T Floor. $1.00 KID GLOVES ON SALE FRIDAY AT —79c pr.— $1.00 Kid Gloves, with 2 clasps and oversewn seams and 3 rows of plain Or contrast ing stitching on the back —all sizes, in black, white, tan, brown and gray—-and 1 clasp cape gloves with P. X. M. seams—all 79¢ a pair tomorrow. Lower Main Floor of The Bon Marche. Neckwear tch collars, Women's stamped with stork designs to broider, and floss to complete. T Floor. at 19c Main Floor. SPECIAL thread for working. Third Fi Tinted Centers Worth to at 19¢ 24 and 27-inch Center tinted on Manhattan crash and linene, in colors, 18¢ each, T Floor. Women’s 25¢ Silk Boot Hi 19c pr. Women's Silk SLIGHTLY MAGED DINNERWARE AT —5c ea.— A dig collection of slightly damaged Dinner ware goes on the tables at Se aplece Friday Many of them are slightly chipped—amongst them you'll find plates. bowls, a few platters, veg: | }, etable dishes, cups and saucers, and many other useful pleces Upper Main Floor of The Bon Marche uto Scarfs, hem or bor- Main T GOWNS jes with low 9c. Second Hoot Hone, lens, sizes 814 to 10. Floor, Lower 35c been cracking and groaning like a live thing in pain It is known, too, that the chute's face was perilously near the embrotdery, ea POD 5 Hi be wp hat there - ich tainers tear ae the Second Good quality Outing Flanne! Night potash: Ace, cro there was gravel, which miners fear as they Shirts, 52 inches to hile ig} fear quite bad Rockingham Teapots, | Shir". 62 inches long. While we | The didn’t know that just above the chute was a boe—a Worth Up to 50c, for ower Main Floor. natura h-basin which drained the hills all about. The company * Ih | could ve known this if it had cared to survey, But surveys cost : Men's 10c money ——29¢ ea..—_ Handkerchiefs at The flow of water increased until one stream was the size of al m arm. The force of the flow over the inclined floor of the chut good grade Real Old English Rock- Se ea. soggy 1 ene ma straight ingharm i oe, es 100 dozen Men's White Campric |t|T™ suftictent to fluah the coal as fast as it was dug down to the gang ry trimmed, rate: dk » 17 inch ¥ pet hes : pretty raised enameled | uandkerchiets, 17 inches square, |]) «This, incidentally, saved the cost of a “bucker,” whose duty It le to flowers—all sizes, in good | Main Floor. any left, 5e, Lower | _— the coal down the incline to where it can be picked up by the practical shapes an - . di gg i ay ARR So Churneck and Vabcaneck approached the chute in fear. But a ck, with double lisle tops, se: Aberdeen and Art Crash Pillow col hird 50c Stamped Kimonos Priced at 25¢————. Children’s White Rep Kimonos, om hird 25¢ Ready Made Bibs, Special Baby's Bibs, made up and stamped for embrotdering on fine lawn, with oor. %e Pieces, Art hird tant am. Main | MEN’S 59c NIGHT SHIRTS FOR Boys’ 35¢ Soft Collar Shirts | each for Bargain Friday None delivered at this mame tae te a “te 25c ea. bard to ‘carry. Boys’ Shirts, with soft military Second | Lower Main Floor of The | collars, in four colors, «izes 12% to Bon Marche. Mu“ Lower Main Floor. of Father Tuck's unique Paiating s for children, with enough patent paint in each book to r the pletures. FRIDAY—THE CENTENNIAL PEOPLE 10-pound of one 49-pound sack orders can be accepted REPEAT sack of Flour of Cente A tack * s with every purchase No telephone ach and only 1 FRIDAY SPECIALS IN THE PURE FOOD Kippered Salm Shaker Salt, guaranteed Benatital lumbia river fan ‘15¢ ake. Acar Jenn. Moret Kastern Cove ors Veanut Mutter, tent qua CADE . Runranteed pure Gambet,” — me ‘ 3% oa 1 hb Breakfast Ten. or * Wie 6c Minced Fourth Ploor of 1 Macaront, best ang Marche This Store Opens al 9 A. M. amd Closes at 6 P. M.—Not Open Saturday Evenings MARCHE Union & eet, Second Avenue, Vike Street. 5c ‘5c Ron “4c When Bess dies, the company will buy another mule a ey So much for Bess, who isn't worth bothering about, anyhow Men are different. For one thing, men are pot property for wages. If they don’t like the job and the attendant risk» t Mberty to quit i ari it be th They they any t t out as much coal right of a coal com eee) ¥ as possible, as cheaply as possible, and to sell ft for as much money as possible } Therefore 11 chute, was to go the and dig it Tt in true that No. 11 chute was known month the water had been pouring through knowing there was coal at the face of No Vabeanick the company justified in telling Andrew Churneck and Mike be dangerous Fo! ra and the earth above had job's a job. And $3.80 A DAY WAS ALL THAT STOOD BETWEEN THEIR FAMILIES AND STARVATION oe If you had beenson a certain forest trail a mile distant from the mine mouth at 9 o'clock Monday mornt at a point where the road overlooks a natural basin, you could have witnessed what appeared to be a strange and awful phenomenon. The bottom fell out of the basin. Huge trees tottered and crashed down, and were sucked into the abyss. There was a roar of rushing waters, a crushing, crunching, grinding chorus, and then silence. At that instant two lives were blotted out in the unseen warren below From the still forest trail you could not guess what was happening in the bowels of the earth beneath your feet Thousands of t of water and gravel and bowlders and quicksand rushed down into the chute, 1 think old Earth tried to warn the min ers. For this morning the rescue party found the crushed and mangled body of a man, not in No. 11, but In No, 12 He had run for hin life The flood caught him and his comrade before they had gotten far and made short work of them. It awept over them. It roared through the The m fled before it, snatching at their heels as they fled from cross-cut to cross-cut, from chute to chute, dodging and twisting in that underground labyrinth, seeking an avenue of escape Only the bulkheads at the bottom of the chutes held the flood out of the gangway long enough for the miners to get away No coal is coming ont of the mine toda Only gravel and muck But, coal or muck, there is no rest for Bess. eee “Hard lnek, It tk not my | Inspector Hagley If,” sald an old said Superintendent of Mines William Hands, business to fix the responsibility,” miner, “the company had obeyed the law made test borings, the water and gravel would have been discovered and Mike and Andy would be alty y . : The state will pay the widows $4,000 each and wash its hands of | the whole business. The company may do something handsome in the way of funeral expenses LADY BARBERS of Akron, O., declare that men like gossip tremendously. A fellow with cute little lady fingtrs a-hgid of his nose and a lady razgr gliding over his throat will stand for anything | ' = a CENSUS SHOWS that there are 5,000,000 males of mar riageable age in the United States, and 12,000,000 unmarried fe- | males. Surround ‘em, girls, surround 'em! said State Mine | and; KEEPS ON TOILING ..:,, sinc dre | “| i | i} | 1 i | | | EREDERICK & NELSON Store opens at 630 and closes at FIO ses Charmingly Styled HE crisp newness of these Dresses, exemplified in the novel drapings, dainty f | Springlike. They illustrate some of the cleverest and | for immediate wear, embodied in hecoming models for women and qf misses. fabrics and lovely colorings, is ence est ideas AT $17.50 r all me tractive st the ne } erskirt prettily trimmed with . tan, green and rose And at this same price ff Chiffon wn or striped Taffeta ii bre blue with (in white chalkline stripe), designed in smart semi- and excel- tailored style, lent values AT $25.00 are charming new Dresses of Silk Crepes and Plain or Changeable Taffeta Silks, in | light and nfedium shadings for afternoon wear; also black and white effects with } hadow lace bodice, A pretty Dress of crinkle crepe combined with Persian-figured jf repe is offered in a range of afternoon colorings 1 Many other attractive Dresses at $30.00 and up to $125.00 i MISSES’ WOOL CREPE DRESSES Pretty and practical for afternoon or school wear Several new models just re- Copenhagen or brown wool in light and ceived tailored effects, of plain navy-blue, in dressy 1 crepe o some very becoming Dresses in the new printed crepes, dark col Moderately pri rings Second Floor. ed at $15.00 and $16.50 Washington’s Birthday Novelties ECORATED Crepe Paper for drap- ing, 15c bolt of 10 feet ‘aster Lily” . Neckwear HE Nov- elty we il- lustrate is an Streamers in red, white and blue, 50 Easter Lily feet long, 4 inches wide, 20c bolt. Collar of very Streamers in Patriotic designs, 25¢ sheer material, each. daintily —_lace- Lunch Sets, containing Table Cloth, trimmed on one 12 Plates, 12 Napkins and 12 Doilies, [} ¢ edge, and hem- SOc set f a stitched on the Patriotic Table Cloth, 63x84, 25c. other, and so Paper Plates, 8-inch size, 45c dozen. : designed that Napkins, 5¢ dozen either the lace or the hemstitching may be worn uppermost. The graceful roll effect from which it takes its achieved without the aid of boning Moderately priced at $1.00 Other Easter Lily Novelties, includ- ing Collars, Fichus and Guimpes, at $1.75 and up to $15.00. —Firet Floor Inlaid Gintigites at Special Prices ie ) direct attention to our new Spring lines of Inlaid Linoleums (compris- Tally and Place Cards in many de- signs, 25¢ to $1.00 dozen. Nut and Bonbon Cups in Patriotic designs, 50c and 65c dozen, Flags, 10c to $1.50. Washington Card Hatchets, 10c pack- age Postal Cards, name is —Firm Fioor. le each. Boys’ Corduroy Knickerbockers, 85c (G' JOD yalue in Boys’ full-cut Knick- fi erbockers of heavy corduroy, made y 35 patterns at prices ranging from 1 : < ing 35 patte ' at pric ; ging ; with -flat taped seams, belt loops and We o $1 square ya ) we quote to $1.60 the square yare i buttons; elastic waist-band Choice of brown and Sizes 6 to 17 years. suspender special prices four desirable patterns a and three pockets gray as follows 2 Patterns in Inlaid Linoleum, special 7O@ square yard i 2 Patterns in Inlaid Linoleum, speci ss a 80¢ square yard Silver-Plated Fruit On Sale Friday, Rug Section, Second Knives Reduced to $1.15 Set of Six Price 85 —second Floor, Floor : N RUIT KNIVES with silver-plated Mail Orders Carefully blade and handle, in two very at Filled tractive patterns, reduced to $1.15 for ff 4 : . the set of six Goods free by Parcel Alaska, Idaho, We prepay trans- We deliver Dry Post, in Oregon and Montana portation charges on Furniture and other bulky to $5.00 or over to any Warning tag: SILVER CREAM POLISH, 25¢ BOTTLE— This preparation polishes and cleans gold, glass, fine china, marble and porcelain. Eight- bottle, 25c. —Third Floor. merchandise when order amounts Railroad Station articles in silver and cut or Steamboat Landing in the State of Washington ounce THIS POPULAR MODEL OF THE Direct-Action Gas Range Price $35, Connected Four-burner, cabinet 1&x18-inch bake installation, dust style Direct insulation. oven, famous Action asbestos and burner Porcelain dray broiler pan Parcelain panels in broiler and oven doors Spring tension, porcelain-handled valves + Split-top burners, eagily removed and cleaned. 4914 Equipped with automatic spit-fire lighter The installation of a Direct-Action Gas Range in your kitchgn means greater convenience and better cooking results upon a smaller outlay for fuel. —Third For. Extreme width, inches, including end shelf