The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1914, Page 8

a THE MEMTLE STAR 3 ISTORY ABOUT THE KAISER AS HE IS His Personal Friend, Poultney Bigelow, American Author, Tells Readers of the Real William. day his people acclaim him with genuine warmth | Another reason ts that William f} 1. is PHYSICALLY BRAVE as well as morally One day—he had been then but three years emperor—he asked me Mail Orders Carefully Filled Clothing, Second Floor American Lady Corsets $1.35 and $1.75 HE Corset pictured at left (Style 6C) the a sae wen PF (STEKOR SRS | THE GREATEST SILK SALE WE EVER HELD Greatest in point of yardage—there were over 20,000 yards on the counters the Opening day—and since then many more thousands of yards have joined in the event Greatest in point of values offered—for the New York silk market is standing on its head nowadays—and the store that can pay “cash-on-the-nail” can get some won derful bargains for its patrons. has no boning across front with the exception of the front stay, a feature that assures comfort and freedom for the wearer. It is made of figured cotton brocade, is designed especially for the small or average and has below front HANDSOME $2.50 40-INCH PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE =$1.49 Yd= Here's a Silk offer well worth your time and money silk printed Crepe de Chines, 40 inches wide, in small, Dresden and spray de- signs; very rich in color, on soild grounds. Very stylish silk for present wear, besides being so serviceable for waists and dresses. $1.49 a yard. a big lot of heavy, all- Beautiful Brocaded Satins Worth $3.00, 40 Inches Wide =§1.29 Yd.= When have you seen a bargain that can begin to compare with this one? We think never. We have taken our lovely $3.00 Brocaded Satins and changed the price to $1.29 a yard. They're so lus trous, heavy and clinging—the kind worn so extensively this season—and, of course, in beautiful colors as well as black. to walk with him all the way from figure, lacing 1 NTA * TO YHINT MA W's STORY.) By Poultney Bigelow | “/the Neuve Palais to the Marmory Palais, a distance of several miles, | rae of which we had to e length of Potsdam. is F “ | market The rain wan falling. We were constant! pushed from the | tloulating peasants ¢ | bargain Sometimes we were in the mud | (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper| of the road and sometimes crowd Enterprise Association.) Wilhelm of Germany te] great Puro knows the men | deeply the machinery of war at his Kaiser the only one of pean rulers who the | disposal, at the field operations I have peen his personal gueat| shot, led amidet hand wagons The emperor was dressed tn | plain officer's uniform and was} orbed in conversation Two aldes followed, but so far behind as to be well out of ear and, so far as the public was of every | concerned, th officers y might have pasned | stay and double-edge embroidery trim ming at top. Price $1.75 Style 1207, a very low-bust model, with top extending only two inches above the waist-line, is shown at Designed for the average figure firm batiste, Hook bel and three sets of hose supporters $1.35 right and made of with fancy tape trimming »w front stay Price Beoond Floor “Sure Seal’’ Fruit Jars Specially Priced HE Sanitary Sure-Seal Jar is made unusually wide mouth, enabling one to put Fruit with an up the larger fruits with- out slicing or crushing. It one of his great army corps from|for couple of Prossian the Rhine to the Russian frontier) taking a stroll Independently and from Kiel to Strasburg, and if} We talked much of Russian af |my testimony is worth anything | fairs, for | had just come from PATTERNS r war | LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL | | SIMPLE is filled, emptied and cleaned more quickly than others and has no rough edges Pints, special 70¢ dozen; Quarts, special 80¢ dozen; Two-quart Jars, special $1.00 dozen. —Housefurnishings Section. 65e Silk Poplins 38c a Yard | $1.25 Black Messaline 79¢ Yd. Pretty Printed Poplins at 38¢ a yard—beautiful, Make {t a point to attend this oneday sale of you may rest assured that a Ger-| Kieff and Warsaw, and Incidentally | rich silks, 27 inches wide, in a big line of the | Biack Satin Moessaline Wednesday. The $1.26 |f/man regiment 1 1 regi the subject was newest colors and designs, both conventional and | value, full 36 inches wide, will go at only - — Moral. yard; very lustrous, heavy quality, Pretty $1.25 Wash Silks 65¢ a Yd. For another day you can get these dur- able, pretty Wash Silks, worth $1.25, for 6Se a yard. Take your pick from Pekin, Cluster and Novelty stripes, on white or colored grounds; full 33 inches wide $1.25 Silk Crepes 89% a Yard Heavy Silk Canton Crepes, also Charmeuse Sat ins, at 890 a yard. Lovely evening and street shades, but the color lines are not complete, 38 inches wide. —Upper Main Floor. ACCURATE | UP-TO-THE-MINUTE IN STYLE | of assassination “1: ’ . Children’s Crib Hammocks 5 : Special $6.45 HILD’S Crib Hammock of heavy khaki, size 24x48 made reversible cotton mattress, double woven wire spring and two wind shields. Legs fold under, permitting use as a swing or bed. Special, $6.45. 8 Section. S cottage sleeping-chamber or summer camp. very moderate prices: Japanese Matting Rugs, 36x72 inches, 65¢. Japanese Matting Rugs, 9x12 feet, $3.50. Japanese Matting Rugs, 6x9 feet, $1.75. China Matting Rugs, 6x9 feet, $2.00 each. BASEMENT SALESROOM Dainty New White Waists to Sell at $1.25 NE model is of good quality India linon, designed with pin-tucked front with Gibson plait at side, high pin-tucked tab collar and long, set-in sleeves fin- inches, with Jelly Tumblers Special 20e Dozen Tin-top Jelly Glasses of clear, white glass, with fluted bottom. One-third pint sizes, special 20¢ dozen. —Housefurnishings Section. —Houserurnie: Matting Rugs Low-Priced IGHTLY, cool and taken up in an instant for airing or sweeping, these Matting Rugs are ideal for the Note the HERE'S A SALE OF $1.50 AND | $1.98 LINENE DUSTER COATS AT © Wednesday all our $1.50 and $1.98 Linene Duster Coats will go on the racks at an even dollar apiece. Even if you only took a single motor trip, it’s worth a dollar to keep your clothes free from dust These Dusters have high or lay-down collars, side pockets and deep cuffs, and once this lot is all sold you'll not get an- other chance to get linene dusters for a dollar apiece. $2.50 and $3.98 Irish and | $8.00 and $10 Summer Dresses, Heavy Seamless Gray En- ame! Dish Pans, in 14-quart size, special 45¢; 17-quart size, special 55¢. French Linen Waists $1.69 We are going to have a general clean-up in our Idnen Waist De- partment tomorrow,.when we will | sell $2.50 to $3.98 models for only as Long as We Have Any, $5.00 To make room for the new Autumn goods that are arriving every day, we are offering these $8.00. and $10.00 ished with three pearl buttons. Price $1.25 A strictly - tailored Sport Shirtwaist of linette has long, tallored sleeves, mannish fold An especially dainty Waist of organdy or plisse crepe has $1.69. Odd lots and broken lines, | Dresses for only $5.00. Votles, ratines, but all sizes are represented in one plain crepes and lingerie, all neatly style or another. Strictly pure | trimmed with laces or embroidertes, ine | in such pretty styles. —Second Floor. ——TWO $1.95 LINES—AT $1.29—— Thirty-five of them are for boys of 6 to 16 years. They are made in the Norfolk or double-breasted style. They are not all wool—by a long shot—but they are mighty good every-day suits for the price. Forty-two of these Suits are for little lads of 2% to 7 years old. They are made in the Russian style with sailor collars, in nice tan and brown and gray mixtures. COW-GIRL SUITS AT | Boys’ 35¢ Blouse Waists —25c— | —35c— | | Sizes from 6 to 14 years, in Boys’ | $1.00 and $1.25 Play Suits for giris— | broken suits in both cowgirl and squaw | 25¢ pha ne made up in the tan | and blue chambray. Also lots of neat meee part Of each suit missing. Made | jc t5eg in black and white percales of tan drilling, in sizes 2 to 14 years | Special at 25c each . | —Upper Main Floor, Men’s $1.50 ‘Manhattan Shirts’ Are Only $1.15 During the Semi-Annual Sale of Manhattan Shirts And remember, there, are no $1.50 Shirts quite so good as “Manhattans.” Lots of nice patterns here, broad and narrow stripes, pin lines and dots in good colors. Made of splendid plain or corded madras or percales, with plain or pleated fronts, and some short, stiff bosoms, and stiff or French cuffs Other “Manhattans” are selling this way: Men’s $2.00 Manhattan Shirts $1.38 Ea. $2.50 Manhattans $1.88 | $4 Manhattans $2.85 $3.00 Manhattans $2.25 | $5 Manhattans $3.55 BOYS’ 50c WASH SUITS AT 29¢ From 9 to 12 Wednesday we are going to offer 175 at 2%c instead of 60c. Russian style, with sallor or military 1% to 7, On the Upper Main Floor. Window Shades 30c | 25¢ Rompers 19c | Cleanser, 4 for 25c Heavy quality opaque | Rompers made of Old Dutch Cleanser, Window Shades, worth | ee up to 50 tin 12 | &ingham and perecale; | spectal at 4 cans for 260 Wednesday, 30¢ each, | also Creepers, buttoned | till 12 Wednesday. Not 36 inches wide, 6 and 7 across the bottom; sizes | over 4 cans to a cus feet long, mounted on | 1 to 4 years, at 19 till tomer and no telephone patent spring rollers. | 12 Wednesday orders, —Third Floor, —Second Floor. | —On the Fourth Floor, Boys’ Wash Suits collar, Sizes On Sale From 9 A.M. Until 12 Only these morning specials. LATEST WAR BULLETINS—LADIES’ REST ROOM—THIRD FLOOR sosMARCHE Union 8t., Second Ave., Pike St. Telephone Main 6825. NCE a An unusual picture of Em | peror William of Germany, showing his famous smile. | Ps * |ment of really well-drilled men, with all their equipment complete, also their transport wagons and |horses for the same, their forage nd extra ammunition A Master of Detail Old Emperor Franz Josef of Ans tria has been a diligent inspector at field operations, ut the Ger man emperor is in a class by bim self—A NAPOLEON FOR DETAIL IN MATTERS MILITARY He may not be a Napoleon tn battle or a Moltke tn strategy. | Of these things no man can tell juntil the troops clash on a front }30 miles in length. | But the lessons of Napoleon and Moltke are the A, B, © of all Ger man officers, and FOR 30 YEARS | William II. has been experiment- jing with his big national war ma- |chine so that he unde ds its | parts down to its every detail Expects Good Showing Personally, my bellef is that Ger. |many will make such a campaign as will recall HER GRANDEST ACHIEVEMENTS under Frederick the t, Blucher, William 1 I know that prophecy is costly, |but no one who has studied the past should hesitate to say some- thing of the future Such fri with the menced in 1871 in the midst of the great Franco-German war which made an emperor of his {llustrious grandfather. That friendship persists to the present moment so far as my sim ple self is concerned, but our po: litical paths went wide apart in 1896—the fear of the Jameson raid when I published much that could not be pardoned by a Hohen 4 zollern Has Never Told a Lie So much by way of preface, It sounds egotistical—perhaps it is! William II,, so far as I have been privileged to see him at close quar ters, has never told a 1 nor ever publely called others Mars in. or- der to shield himself. He has frequently, to my knowl- edge, accepted the responsibility for questionable words and acts of agents whom he might readily have disowned or sacrificed to the pub- ie wrath, And that is one reason why to- broached and I referred to the un- protec nature of his person in case anyone chose to do him harm. | No Time for Such Thoughts He asked what I meant. Said I ‘If you were the Russian czar you would imagine there was a bomb under that next sewer plate!” | The emperor laughed and slam med his foot down loudly on the sewer plate and then, turning full upon me, he said seriously “If | had to think of such things || could not get through my day's work.” Here you have a key to his com- | plex racter, | In these days of self-advertiae ment and pandering to political parties the German emperor is woefully misunderstood merely be- cause he tells the’ truth without | hintergedanke (hind thought) He has honorably sought to main- tain peace, even when he knew that he was strong enough to crush | the antagonist that was so foolish as to Insult him Russia “Eggs Him On” Russia for 20 years and more| has treated William II. and his government with marked disre spect The firat visit of the present czar to Germany was made tn a manner that would have been fol- low by war had the host been a Frenchman. William II, has submitted to many affronts from Russia because on his death bed the venerable William I, enjoined upon his grand- son the importance of close alli- ance with the court of St. Peters burg. In the early ‘90s Russia sys. tematically attacked the German schools, the German language and | the Lutheran religion in Russia's | old German Baltic provinces Refused to Go to War The Germans appealed to Wil- Ham for protection. The Poles were ready to rise at his orders | and expand German territory to the eastward, The German ready. German public sentiment was at his b “No,” sald the emperor, “I can- not break the word I gave to my grandfather!” geheral staff was new pointed, flaring collar, set- in sleeves and pin-tucking at front and back, and is finished with elastic blouse bottom. Price $1.25. collar fastening with pearl but- tons, French fold ouffs and small patch pocket. Excep- tionally trim and smart. Price $1.25. ~ Basement Salesroom. Autumn Arrivals in Untrimmed Hats and Trimmings LACK Velvet Shapes in the new sea- son’s effects, $2.95 and $3.95. Black and $2.45 Gold and Silver Flowers, which are extensively used in the new Fall Hats, 95c and $1.95, Velvet Poppies in colors, $1.45, Silk — Dress Shields 15¢ Silk-covered Dress Shields, lined with rubber- ized material, at 15¢ pair. —Basement Salesroom. Plush Shapes, $1.95 natural White and Silver Camellias, 45e to 95e. Small White Mereury Wings, 65 and 7c. Large White Wings, 95c to $3.95, Fancy Feathers, Coque Feathers, Hackle Feathers, Hackle Brea: and Birds, 65¢ to $3.95, —maeement Saiesroom ‘ Twine Shopping Bags 15c Twine Shopping Bags in black and brown, with wire frame and good handle. Size 15x20 inches. Unusual value at Te aeeet wor gars! Mixing Spoons, Special 12c— Large Mixing Spoons of re tinned steel, 18-inch size, spe cial 12¢. Quart Measures, Special 18c— Quart Measures of gray en- ameled steelware, graduated into pints and gills, special 18¢. Preserving Kettles Specially Priced— Large-size Kettles of extra- food quality gray enameled steelware, with lip and bail; 9%-quart size, special 40¢; 13- quart size, special 50¢, Tate’s Jelly Bag and Fruit Strainer, Special 20c— —gives better results than the old method of squeezing by hand. Prevents burning and staining of fingers. Special 20¢. Long Silk Gloves, 85c Pair Women's 16- button -l ength Milanese Silk Gloves in black and white, with Paris-point embroidered backs and double finger tips. Price Sic pair. —Basement Salesroom. Use the Celebrated ‘‘Ohio” Steel Range Three family sizes, 16-, 18- and 20-Inch ovens, priced at $44.50, $48.50 and $52.50, fitted respectively. Any size HERE is no “hit or m about the satis- faction Ohio Ranges are giving to so many thousands of housekeepers Efficiency, which means the best possible results for the least labor and expense, has been secured in every detail of the design and construction of this celebrated Range It is a foregone conclusion that the “Ohio” will meet the most exacting requirements. The picture shows the clean-cut design of the Ohio, with its perfectly plain and easily- kept-clean nickeled fittings and polished top This isthe ‘‘Ohio” Hot-Blast Fire- Box. Keeps down with water coll and connected for $6.00 extra, fuel consumption