The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1914, Page 2

is a bargain day at this store for read Those of you who have attending our Tuesday Star Bar Sales realize the splendid advantage: your every-day wants. “Get it at Panton’s, the Truth.” We want to a your irix sulte Leow Cost Just for Tuesday we offer one immense table loaded with misses’ and cht! @ren's Wash Dresses, made of a} large assortment of wash mate attractively trimmed wit! lace and embroidery and combi fation trimming In colors mpecial Tuesday, SOe Sines 1 to 34 years, Basement Napkins, Dozen $1.39 Good quality, finely mercer teed Napkins, Permnanent fin- ish, in a number of good pat- terns. Size 22x22, Special price, $1.39 a dozen $1.50 Table Linen $1.17 Pure Irish Table Linen, inches wide, grass bleached, in a variety of very desirable pat- terns. Worth $1.50 yard. Spe dal price, $1.17 per yard. Collars 25¢ Organdie and Lawn Collars in ait the new wired and atand- ing effects Spe- clay priced at Ihe. From Our Economy 25c White Plisse 1314c 500 yards of short lengths of White Plisse Crepes in a num- ber of stripes in different widths. Worth 20¢ and 2c a yard. Special price, 13%c per yard 12léc Percale 8 1-3c 1,000 yards short lengths of 86-inch Percales in all styles. ‘These are worth i2\c yard in the bolt, In lengths of 2 10 yards. Special price, yard, 8 1-30. Linoleum Bargains FOURTH FLOOR 75¢ to 98c Sets 50 cents Also a potty assortment of Lace Collar and Cuff Seta, or oe) wood designs. value $1.65. — price, per square yard. Floor Oil Cloths 29c } | tse! vaiues 18. bh Fh ote Bpectal. / eet tn, four “eced pat. f] S00 & Set. oF fhe per square [| eech collar or outta, Seattie’s Popular-Priced Department Store SECOND AVENUE, BETWEEN SPRING ANO SENECA A ra Why Empress JAYS 10% 20¢ Wi NEW POLICY Ppa VAUDEVILLE AND PHOTOPLAYS AYS to a dispatch received 1:30 to. 6:80 | 1. K. Friedman's Great Hit, ‘Night Hawks her Big Features 10¢ and 20¢ Fifth Av. “TODAY :":.*: im” TOMORROW French Report War Successes PARIS, Aug. 17.—-Important | French successes in Lorraine were bulletined by the war office here today. | and lic troops, it Is stated, contro! | Abresweller, six miles southeast of Saarburg; Aguodange, 17 miles west of the same place, and they captured Lutzenhausen and the vil ages in {ts vicinity today. The French also control the up per Vosges mountains. They were in force, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. The fighting has been severe, and losses on both sides heavy. German Armies’ Advance Ceases T | BRUSSELS, Aug. 17—The Ger- ourna- | man advance westward was report: ment of jed here today to have ceased all All Time along the line. Some experts be-| lieve the kaiser's troops are await-| ZOO jing reinforcements Others are of| the opinion that the general staff , M.—TWICE DAILY—8 P.M. is considering shifting its main at- 2 P. M.—TWICE DAILY tack from Northern Belgium to Admission Children !™"°m™r# Every- | a Drery ia! | Kaiser Writes thing Pri | Tickets for all performances Note to Wilson “on sale all day tuday and to- By Karl H. Von Wiegant thorrow by a circus Copyright, 1914, by the United Press Tepresentative at regu'ar show ajger's ack special : THE HAGUE, Aug. 17.—The owledgement of Preal- ' ground prices at Sherman, Spikes offer of mediation in F “ the European war was written in _ Clay & Co. s Music Store, nix majesty's own hand, and deltv- | Third and Pine. ered by him personally to Am- bassador Gerard. It was a courteous acknowledge ment of the offer, but it made no promises. William received Ambassador Gerard in the palace garden Wed- nesday. He shook hands with his visitor, and offered him a chair under a tree at a table covered with war maps and dispatches from the front. DANCING HIPPODROME and University. Pr al Unter Orchestra Dancing Taught br Competent Teachers. Every Tuesday offer to make this YOUR STORE for Home of MUSEMENTS|Belgians Fire on Germans; — TAS aa Troops Burn Whole City LONDON, Aug. 17.—Residents of the Belgian town of Vise, having fired on the German troops, Rotterdam. The men were mad eee neers te STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1914. PAGE 2. Star been gain Ss we “STAR TUESDAY on war by T 4 other Keripps papers, is today aboard a transcontinental train, where present Juggling ng mach toward Increne ing. Boalt telle you fwheat pit tn prices te di ing the cost what It looks tke. By Fred L. Boalt Staff Special. Intemational Sale Austrian— HICAGO, Th, Aug. 1T—The white and gold Dinnerware farmer plants the wheat in the popular Derby shape God makes it grow and ripen You eat tt But the job of getting the wheat from the farm to you is heavy decoration bo with value. § $i Regular jal Tuesday left to a wild man in shirt Belgian— sleeves who perspires profu fusely, utters strange guttur Jothes Baskets right from cries and makes weird signals the world’s greatest basket J, Ogden Armour. | 1 works, Meaium size, S5¢ ataeescatign <8 Biggest meat speculator In the value, Special, 49 world. HE Chieago Hoard of Trade te IT h the largest food market tn the | ~~ Frenc ane wi world, I sat in the visitors'|change, His face turned red, then | Haviland China. Your |i} gallery and saw directly beneath | purple. The muscles of his neck choice of 2 Waihe SoS = me a man tn a telephone booth| stood out in cords, He threw back, designs; 2 floral decorations or the popular Ransom shape in plain white, All at 13 off Tuesday German-China— White Cups and Saucefs with neat gold band and hair line stripe, 15¢ value, Spe cial Tuesday, 10¢, # head and screamed And he held up FOUR FINGERS rt of a panic?” | asked sald my guide, a veteran hand a slip of paper to a boy The boy folded the paper in the middle so that no one might read ite mee and dashed with it to 0, the wheat pit | operator. He gave It to a dapper, elderly | da: |man, whose hair and pointed beard jhe NE finger in the wheat means 5,000 bushels. The elder ly man was informing were snow white, He was such an immaculate, cultured-appearing old) man that I could not associate him) with the roughand-t ussian— pit. {well R Bowls made of wood and Rut when the elderly man- x attractively decorated by “floor man” for a big firm of brok- ere-—-bad scanned the monsage, hel Special, 1H cnderwent an Instant and curious! waved. Thumba were tucked und Russian peasants. bo and 15¢ each, lish— ‘innerwere; handsome quality mat gold decoration S0-plece set. Service for six persons; $12.00 value, Special Tuesday, $7.98. You will observe that in apite of the trouble fn these different countries, and although the Importation of these articles is practically stopped, OUR RICES GO DOWN Instdad of uP. Carpet Bargains Hrussele Stair and Hall Carpet. T inches wide, in tans, greens and Regular value Bic « Hall R ol 18¢ Hemp Statr and Hall Runners, H+} inches wide, Spwotal, a yard, ie. SLAUGHTER HOUSE”-NO. 5 ino Burepens contignat when thie boot, Bee heared thous copie weve weld German CHAPTER V. (Master of a large public echoo) In Germany.) i (Copyright, 1913, by the Frederic A. Stokes Co.) | The whole of that morning we had heen marching in | the eye of the sun without coming across a drop of water, for) the country was not well watered and there had been no/ lrain for weeks, Our tongues were parched; our throats were burning This is fust for Tuesday -— we found a last remaining drop of dirty liquid, it seemed as if the water evaporated on the tongue before it ever reached our throats was almost with a sense of relief that we heard the first sound of the guns rolling up to meet us. The firing grew hotter, and we soon left the main road and turned down a blue lane. We were pushed on at a smart pace. Our faces were glowing from thirst and heat. more, the inhabi- The their homes, according by the Daily News from| column was enveloped in a thick cloud of dust. y 5 and th The taste of dust instead of water was on our tongues. rah eeotarviges ©) The dust was lying thick as a layer of flour on our cheeks. And we hurried on without a word barred the view on either side. Nothing but heavy footfalls, walking packs, black, clattering pannikins, rifles at the slo -hustle and dust. * ®© © Weare pushing on almost at double—at times, when a gap in the hedge slips past, we can catch glimpses of our line of skirmishers advancing over open country—now at length comes a check. * * * Halt! Order arms! * * * and I am scrabling through a gap in the hedge on to the open fields * * * open order at five jpeces distance. * * * In front, of us nothing but green | fields in sight. In the heart of them gleams the crude yellow lof a field of mustard. Ahead of us, just opposite our front, ja dark wood * * * not a trace of the enemy in sight. (Continued on Page 7.) Several Battles ‘lat Sea Reported By Ed L. Keen thie with the announcement that the “French fleet has swept LONDON, Aug. 17-—Several the Adriatic as far nort the sea fights, with the sinking of Gulf of Cattaro, the best Adriat- a number of warships, were re- le sea harbor, which the French ported from various sources and now dominate. They eank a at widely distant places, today. email Austrian cruleer of the According to a Nish dispatch Aspern type. a French naval squadron had - encountered Austrian fighting Cavalry on Raid vessels off Budu: Adriatic port, enga: an hour, sunk two Austrian Iron- BRUSSELS, Aug. 17.—German clads, set a third on fire, and jcavalry raided Wavre, only 13 forced a fourth to take refuge | miles from Brussels, it is admitted here today. The Belgians repulsed them, however, after an unimport- earnest and confident. He was in 4 field marshal’s uniform. After hearing the ambassador out he finally seized a pen and person-| ally wrote an answer to President Wilson's message. In it he repeated that he had al ways sought peace. He blamed Ruesia for the war. The president he thanked; saying his offer would be carefully consid. ered TO BUILD APARTMENT We should worry about war. We're going to have a mag-ni-f! cent new apartment house. Claude C. Ramsay, Seattle real estate man, will build it at Eastlake and Mercer. POLE ETE LTT OE, MEAT PRICES CUT TOMORROW, TUESDAY, AT FRYE & CO.’ MARKETS AS FOLLOWS: in Cattaro harbor. The British official military jon bureau supplements Choice Rib and Loin Mutton Chops, Ib Choice Steer Shoulder . Steak, Ib. Choice Steer Bolling Beef, ib. wr Baling 106 V'd be tempted to laugh, I’m thinking Choice Veal to the International peace powwow stranded 18e in Europe by the world’s biggest war. Chopa, Ib, cs cereeeeeeee Talk about Irony of fate! Here's a case that wine the biue ribbon. Cholce Spare 1 Yet there's a sunbeam, even In thie pickle. Ribs, Ib. a. Those kindly ministers of peace have hitherto been simply theor- Pork Liver, iste and idealists. Their fight wi ct, like 0 much of the world’s Biba. fOr esesvecseses TOG ff Professional ol is, born of se experience. academic fashion, hit- but It will be a great deal more interesting to Look for U. 8, Purpl 5 | ple Stamp. Bi sing only lady-like tay _ A STAR WANT AD will eall it quickly The two were in conference for an hour. The kaiser was solemn, It aignifies purity and quality. Shops open until 6:20 p. m. have Old Nick’ doubt the enemies go to him with hammer and tongs, as no peace brethren will now feel like doing. When about midday we passed through a farm-yard where} Then we had been marched on interminably so that it} A quickset hedge} “The market is dull to W | pit hold {t as long se you can, And the pit went mad—or seemed That 20,000 bushels inatantly arma were raised and | day was done. That wi | Gerard have been working 18 bours | war demonstration anywhere in Ger- fingers, Fingers were twisted about} |thumbs, For the men in the wheat ‘pit have a sign language, T were bidding for the 20,000 bush The elderly man sold his wheat and yawned, He wasn't as mad an he seemed. A boy on a platform handed a yellow slip to a telegraph operator behind bim and, as the key clicked, the finanelal world knew that so much wheat of such and-such a grade, and for delivery | |at a certain item, had changed | hands In Chicago. HE elderly man never rained « ¥ grain of wheat tn his life. He didn't know where the 20,000 bushels came from or where it was| going. The boy from the telephone booth hand him another message-—and he went mad Others we joing th holding up one fing ers, whole fistfuls of fh Buppose a farmer plants 200 acres of wheat. Suppose the crop averages 15 bushels to the same thing two fing up the combined wh an entire farming community when he wiggled his four fin- gers! HEAT—or corn or oats, or provisions—ts like a hot po tato In the pit. You cateh it, | tons it; | it in caught, beld and tossed again. the | And the man who is holding the hot |to Burope? ble of the! world that he had 20,000 ushels to| potato when the market closes owns | it | wan tossed | ‘and caught many times before the) peculation. And every broker who handled it UNITED PRESS MAN IN BERLIN ESCAPES TO HOLLAND: SENDS FIRST NEWS OF GERMAN SIDE NEW YORK, Aug. 17-—The firet com: plete story af events tn Berita following the outbreak of the war wa) here ‘today from Kart Vou Wieent United Press Bertin dispatches gmt from the weet to Hotland and the situat from The Hague. tranemitted via London, and the text indicated that the | Miritioh censor held I for two days. By Kari H. Von Von Wiegand. (Copyright. 1914, by United Press.) | THE HAGUE, Aug. 17.—Ger- many ie isolated. As a result of thie many false reports of conditions there have gained currency. The completness of the isola- tion may be judged from the fact that Mrs. Woodrow Wii- son's death was not known dn Berlin when | left there Thurs day. The story that 100 socialists were shot, that Dr. Liebknech was exe-) cuted for refusing to do military | duty, and that Rose Luxemburg, the | socialist writer, were put to death) is absolutely false. | Socialists at Front. Not a single socialist has been} shot or arrested. Dr. Liebknecht! and hundreds of thousands of oth-| er socialists are fighting for the fatherland. Even socialist members of the reichstag are st the front. One socialist leader released from prison after serving a year for an anti-military epeech, appealed to all socialists to rush to the colors. All Solid for War. There has not been a single anti- many since war was firat de- clared. Since the socialists have realized that war was inevitable, they have loyally supported the gov- ernment. U. 8. Ambassador Gerard and Mrs. a day caring for Americans, Brit- ish, French and Russians in Ger- many. Chief Burgomaster Wamuth of the Berlin municipal office aided him so effectively thet Thruraday Gerard personally thanked him in the name of the United States. Gerard's cables to Washington by way of Stockholm were interfered with outside of Germany. The am- bassador made vigorous representa- tions to Secretary Bryan concerning the matter, American Mobbed. The only mistreatment of Amert- cans was on the night of August 4 when there were anti-British riote, and some Americans, mistaken for British. were mobbed. I was caught’ in one of these demonstrations, mauled and arrest- ed as a British spy. The United States embassy was advised and Secretaries Grew and Harvey de- manded explanations from the for- eign office. Apologize to Correspondents. Assistant Foreign Secretary Zim- merman was dumfounded at my ar rest, called the police to account, had me released and an opology made. How to Save Husbands or Sons Who Drink For years the Neal Drink Habit Treatment has been relieving men and women of the awful craving for drink, at sixty Neal Institutes in the principal cities of the world, It} is a safe, sure, internal, vegetable treatment — hypodermic injections are never used—that removes the craving and recessity for drink in three days. It will make your drinking husbands and sons sober, useful men, It can be administered at home by the wife, mother or sister. If your husband, or son, has a craving for drink he cannot resist, it is your duty to see that he has the benefit of the Neal Treatment. Call today at the Seattle Neal Institute, 1735 16th Ave., and investigate, or write or phone for full information. To- morrow may be too late. Phone Hast 4381. City office, 802 North- ern Bank building, All drug hab- its treated. | sot his commission. . men were due to the victims’ own A DAY ON THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE Where They Toss Your Food About and Scream-~-Fred Boalt Visits “Wheat Pit” on His Way Home From Mexico -__-- —<!] James A. Patten. st Wheat Plunger. Gre EPTEMBER wheat, said the S board on the day 1 was there Was 97 and a fraction. Novem ber wheat was about the same. But MAY WHEAT May wheat was 107! May, 1915 next May You get ft, don't you? The! operators are ail up in the afr about the war in Europe Does Europe want our wheat? And how is the wheat to be got And what about paying for it? But next spring, maybe, Hurope) will be starving, Europe will agtg to have our wheat, Perhaps the British fleet will sink| ithe German Or the other way Later other Americans and Brit- ish were released. Most of the arrests of English-| indiscretions. Six thousand Americans in Ber- lin wear small American flags. After the declaration of war be- tween Great Britain and Germany {enormous crowds of Americans and \British swarmed to the United | States embassy to register. German Cities Unexcited. Berlin and other bys mage cities are unexcited. There signs of patriotic sentiment everywhere, but the people realize the task before them. Thetr air ts one of quiet deter- mination. Everywhere smell flags are worn News from the front is meager | and consists only of the briefest bulletins issued by the army gen- eral staff, Crowds besiege public build- Ings waiting for news. The number of Women mourning is rapidly increasing. It has been suggested that the wearing of biack as a sign of mourning be discontinued. The general staff is in constant jtouch with the front and is undis- couraged, though the resistance Beigium was expected to make was underestimated. Kaiser's Sons at Front. Lists of the dead and wounded are first posted at the war informa- tion bureau, the saddest place in Berlin. Most of the women, however, re- ceive the news of the death of rela tt like Spartans. The first casnalty was published Tuesday. ‘sels in Oriental waters, the ulti-~ |matum demands that Germa about, A way will be found to get our wheat into the stomachs of starving Europe—perhaps So May wheat in “up And because Kurope stands a good chance of starvation next spring we at home will pay just that much more for our bread and butter The Chicago Board of Trade jnst elved 283,494,000 bushels of ngrown wheat. It sold 274, 286,000 bushels But a bumper crop 1s looked for ie year. Nine hundred million bushels is the guess of the experts. Fine for the farmers Fine for the madmen in the who will tors the yellow grain in 100,000 lote But, business being busin and the jaw of supply and de mand being an immutable law, you will pay not less, but more for your bread and butter so long as Europe starves. th’ pt JAPAN GIVES KAISER ONE WEEK T0 ACT TOKIO, Aug. 17.—German acquiescence to Japan's uiti- matum, calling for the sur render to the mikado of Kiao- chau, ite China coast posses sion, and withdrawing of the kaiser’s armed vessels from Oriental waters, wi consid- ered today extremely unlikely. The unofficial supposition is that the German ships will take refuge in Kiaochau bay, that the entrance will be mined, and the garrison of Tsing Tchau will settle down to Defenses Strong The town’s defenses being very strong, it is deemed likely that considerable time will be needed to reduce them. The popular supposition is that the Japanese troops will attack the on the land side of their well as from the Yellow Demands Withdrawal By the ultimatum sent by Japan to Germany, giving the kaiser until Sunday, August 23, to withdraw all her war vessels from Japanese and Chinese waters, and to immedi- ately disarm such vessels as it is impossible to withdraw, Japan has virtually declared war on Ger- many. Want Land Given Up In addition to the withdrawal or disarmament of all German ves- ny turn over to the imperial Japanese authorities, not later than Septem- ber 15, without condition or com- pensation of any character, the en- tire leased Chinese territory of Kiauchau, which Japan declares will _be restored to China. To Safeguard U. 8. Interests Geo. F. Guthrie, United States ambassador to Japan, held a con- ference with Takaaki Kato, for- eign minister, immediately follow- ing the dispatch of the ultimatum, and was given repeated assurances that all American interests in the far East would be safeguarded ab- solutely, and that the integrity of China would be upheld. Japan is injected into the world war through her alliance with Great Britain, under the pact signed at London, July 13, 1911, which provides for a consolidation The kaiser's sons are at the front. Crown Prince Frederick William is at the French frontier and Prince Adelbert is with the fleet. London Claims *Nother Victory LONDON, Aug. 1 The French are driving the Germans back from the Gallic defenses south of Mul- hausen, in Alsace, the war office information bureau announces, The fighting is desperate, it is stated, and the superiority of the French artillery becomes constantly “in- creasingly evident.” “Everywhere the trenches from which the Ger- mans have been driven were found full of dead and wounded,” the an- nouncementtoncluded. Cossacks Are on German Ground ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 17. —Cossacks, light artillery and mounted infantry, having en- tered Prussia, were reported ap- proaching Insterburg today. The Germans, though oppos- Ing the Invaders, were retiring Many were made pris- n column, howev- er, is merely reconnoitering. The czar’s main army was at Kovno and Vilna, Leipsic Takes on Coal in Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—The German cruiser Leipsic, which has been picketing the Golden Gate in jthe hope of capturing English or French merchant vessels as war prizes, slipped into this harbor at 1:15 this morning and lay off Black point until 6 o'clock, when she moved up and cast anchor off the Folsom st. wharf. Ship's stores were sent out to her on tugs, and at 8 a, m. barges began to put aboard 500 tons of coal, the limit allowed under the neutrality laws. It was expected the Leipsic would be ready to steam out to s gain by 2 p. m, Under the neutrality laws the to preserve the peace of Eastern Asia and India, the preservation of the common interests of all powers in China, the integrity of China and the maintenance of ter- ritorial rights of the contracting nations. The Japanese fleet is manned, coaled and provie- loned today in readiness for immediate service in the event of a German rejection of the ultimatum on the onset a British Fleet to Bombard Pola ROME, Aug. 17.—The British Mediterranean fleet is off Pola, Austria’s naval base, today, and it is expected a bombardment will be begun soon. ! HATS CLEANED AND REBLOCKED Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Bowler Hat Co. We Call for and Deliver Ph 808s. one 517 Union st Qut-of-town. BROWN’S Optical Department CUT RATES Dr. C. 'T. Knowlton in Charge, BEST IN THE WORLD 6 Bela 3 this double vis- fon invisible lens? Tt is a perfect lens for distant as well as reading or near vision These lenses usually sell for from $15 to i $20, but until | Oct. Ist 1 will . sell them for ‘ $10. { My Optical Department du- piookes | fennee INVISIBLE ines ‘eves, tits Double Vision BEST IN THE. WORLD glasses, accor ing to the r quirementa the case, It is to your advan- of Leipsic will have to leave this port within 24 hours or remain here until the war fs over. Do not think you can. “prosper whether Seattie does or not. tage to consult this tometriat About “your eyes: he Rtesetivane grinds and fit mi lenses. 1 will save you money and i intactton. y gBuarantee sat » EDWIN J. BROWN, im 3040 feat Departments 705 Fire ashington Bidg. Offices 101 Ito Ate: by