The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1914, Page 6

Vietrota XIV. 50 % Mahogany or Oak ANSWER THIS QUESTION NOW Will there be a Talking Machine in your home this Christmas? We're open nights for your convenience. Our Parlors are on the Ground Floor. Christmas Talking Machin At Bush & Lane’s 1519 Third Avenue Where They Have the Terms Largest Stock The Diamond Disc Phonograph The new Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph is the culmination of years of effort and experiment instrument has a diamond point which never requires changing, and which brings out all the beauties of the wonde come in and hear this new musical instrument—it will make Christmas last all year. From $60.00 up. ul Edison Disc Recor The Columbia Here shown is a beauty. In either fumed oak or ma- hogany. A mag nificent table, combined with a superb grapho- phone. It would make a splendid Other The A world-famed, never failing weathered, Flemish or fume to $250.00. Victrola in red mahogany, English brown mahogany, golden, This ds. We want you to source of delight. Built d.oak. From $15.00 Gush s Jone Pian @o. Third, Between Pike and Pine. VICTOR, EDISON AND COLUMBIA DEALERS. - $2.00 Kalsomine, enough for a highest | ne Mate 1101. Price 50 Rousé Trip| Featuring this week are the Me! SPECTACLES |sonasters. Very good | = Ten musicians in “The Bower of | oe | Melody". Good | _—s With spherical Jack Princeton and Agnes Yale,| ey Lanees, 08.50. comedy, new jokes, Good | P~ | Nipp and Tuck, pjack artists, Dr. Binyow. ) dancing grade per gal. room + 25e without | a ae LE FARE THE EMPRESS notte Twins, clever dancers and tumbling act. Goo Warner and Corbett, singing and | Take well | The Aerial La Vails, trapeze. Good. panes THE ORPHEUM ° —@ The Orpheum ts not overburden ed with any big feature. The bill is well balanced Avon Comedy Four. Good. Hell Family, xylophones and| elis. Good | George McKa and Ottie Ardine, | Hal and Frances, sketch, “The Farm.” Fair Florence Kolb and Adelaide Har-| land, song and dance. | Leo Zarreil and company, hand| balancing. TRYING TO MAKE A | JOB FOR HIMSELF | | | | Mandamus proceedings may be n by R. B. Brown, recent can SUNSET PAINT & VARNISH {)aidate for justice of the peace co. compel the county commissioner to appoint two additional justice ——————_———| Brown claims the 1913 law gives Seattle seven justices, instead of RAW SORE A tive. The law imposes a maxim ’ of five justices for cities under 300, é ‘ania 000 Ea 4 It otherwise provides for two ju ses Quickly When You tices for cities of 50,000 and an ad ® Apply a Little Musterole | ational justice for every 50,000 por nd strereRot. niation. The United States census pial Tid oti given Seattle a population of 304, Just spread | 26 It penetrates His application, Monday, for one eth a ing of c ointments was turned estion and draws out all soreness tag srg a Mes git Bhd pain down, Prosecutor Murphy holdi = MUSTEROLE is 2 clean, white|the law was too vague mintment made with of] of mustard . Where's nothing like it for quick re Nef for Sore Throat, Bronchitis. Tor Bilitis. Croup, k, Asthma E Neurnigia, Headache. Congest Plourisy, | Rheumati«m, Lumbago Pains and Aches * Back or veclal large he iKKist's, In 25 on, Bruinen ison the for and pital #ize| PARIS, Dec. 15.—A French shell |set fire to a Taube at Bar-le-Duc and by the time the aeroplane reached the ground there was little left of the three German aviators except their helmets. The incident disclosed the fact that Taubes car ‘ry a crew of three, instead of two, as had previousiy been believed Own your own home. It's jeasy. Read the offerings ir| STAR WANT ADS—then! choose. ° ‘ THE PANTAGES and Walmsley, comedians. crowd the American Whirlwind Beauties, singing and dancing re lew, with eleven pretty gtris, for wt place. O'Netl and Walmsley, rapid-fire conversation and jokes. Very good Cora Simpson compan sketch, “We Want Our Rights Good Mme. Remi and Sig. Pallingeri grand opera selections Baker Troupe, riders, Good DR. L. R. CLARK, D. D, 8. Here’s One of the Best! ; Testimonials We Have Ever Received I was tn eed of dental work and a friend recommended a local fentiet The dentist started the work, and I thought he would kill me before I got out of the chair After I left his office I suffered tort s. Mr. Holt, one of th a in the store, told me that he and iis ft had some dental work Jone at the Regal Dentists and were very well pleased advised m to go up and see you. I took his vice, nd in five min. utes after got Into one of your comfortable chairs you had the toothache stopped. After that I had two gold crowns made and an ulcerated tooth p every bit without any pain to me. When I asked for th found that ft was one-half what the other den tist was going to charge, and all the work had been done with ab nolutely no pain. Sol take great pleasure in recommending your of. fice to any one In need of dental work “CHARLES TREMBLE, Norman Hotel.” After reading this testimonial, can you doubt any longer that this is the proper place to come for your dental work? Regal Dental Offices OR. L. R, CLARK, MGR. 1405 Third Avenue N. W. Corner Third and Union [ STAR—TUESDAY, DECLARE TRUCE TO LET SOL | tomporary and contain little In the way of comforts, In niches cut tn the side the soldiers reat, play lcarda or even sleep on damp ledges between fights The trenches also serve as a cometery When the enemy's fire ts eo hot that it is impossible to stick your head out take the dead out to bury them, the grave ts made in « (Continued From Page 1.) DEC IN FIGHTING DIER MILK A COW 15, |bardment of which has, for some) unknown reason, Boon the occ & stray bullet w dismounted. | A dozen German soldiers were | buried where we left our hor Major Witte and Major Men, both “ploneers,” as the sappers are lcalled tn Germany, greeted us and j took us to Gen, von M » oom been postponed Jonal “sing-zing” of yticed, We then | niche or a ledge cut Into the side of | manding the division in this vicin | | ‘Souther Pacific) the trench. Just in front of me there is such « Krave on @ little ledge made by widening the trench A card fastened to the tiny twig cross at the he has written on ti in indelible pencil, “Muskiteer Christ.” The name suggests other things than the killing of men. Just above tt, outside of the trench, and very close by, Hes a dead Frenchman The firing from the enemy's trenches at this point ts so flerce th t the Germans have not yet been to take the body away That there are others between | the two nes ts Indicated by the odor. BLEW UP TRENCH AND THEN MADE CHARGE Around « sharp angie in the trench he hand and arm of «# French soldier sticks out of the dirt where the Germans tunneled within 10 feet of the French trench There they pln ited 88 pounds of explosive, blew up the trench and took {t by storm a few moments later At that time the two trenches Were within 43 feet of each other. The Germans and French had fought from these positions for one week, chiefly with hand grenades neither being able to drive out the other When I was prose crown prince yesterday a quarters, he sald 1 would lke very much to have > operations the Ar rest and the work of my I would like to have you con vince yourself that I am not retreat ing, as has been repeatedly report ed, | cannot guarantee your safety however, and the visit will have tc be made on your responsibility.” Later the crown prince sald his personal phyastetan would accony pany me “to render first ald if neo nted to the hin head rmy I will attempt to put the press together If the French hit It, remarked the surgeon general, Prof w (Elimination by censor.) Le Wahl of the general steff, who speaks perfect English, was detailed to accompany me. It was a clear, bright, but cold morning We traveled by automobile for 20 miles to where horses awaited us near Germany As we rode away a French aero | plane appeared hich tn the little to the south of us. German guns from uneuspected places opened a slow fire, but the aerial scout made his eecape BUILD CORDUROY RO. THROUGH THE wooDs ky a We entered the Argonne by a broad avenue Itke corduroy road which the Germans had cut and bullt through the woods. Heavy raine and the column of Wagons bringing supplies and am ——— | munition to the front had left an/ AMUSEMENTS(/= indescribable condition Under the mud and water the round saplings forming the base of the road were more silppery and treacherous than Ice. We were over an hour riding three We passed a column of smoking coulnsh cannons.” an the field kitchens are called, filled with aming coffee, soup and stews ch was drawn by three horses. The column was moving toward the front The rifle fire deeper In the woods became louder. From the left came the thunder ing of guns around Verdan, the bom Holiday ates California —VIA— Southern Pacific $26.70 ‘ortland to San Francisco and Return Other California Point Proportion San Francisco’s New Year Celebration is where. On in famous account every of the ith it, so/ Opening of the big Exposition| & six will weeks later be added Sale Dates Dec. 21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 1914; Jan new Return Limit, Jan. 4, 1915. Spend the Holidays in Sunny California ‘The Exposition Line Cc. G, CHISHOLM District Freight & Agent 720 Second Ave. Phone Elliott 1256, Seattle, 1915.” lories | Passenger | | tty The general came out of his un derground headquarters. Numerous holes tn the ground led to quite comfortable habitations | They resemble the Nebraska | “dug-outs” of ploneer days, but are |far more substantially built, being | thoroughly timbered to make them shell-splinter proot fome had fireplaces and even rugs or pleces of carpets for floor coverings. SEES 165 FRENCH PRISONERS | MARCHING THROUGH | Moving forward we met a number jof wounded coming back They sald a French trench had just been stormed and taken | Confirming their statement |stugle file of 165 prisoners, includ {ng « teutenant, followed | The trenches were half full of yellow clayiah water Capt. von Prittwits of the artillery had joined us, and waded in, I fol | lowed The | knees Capt. von Prittwitz's battery war firing point blank at the French, 45¢ yards away. He sald they were sometimer | “most tenactous and very hard tc get out.” | Moving on we met soldiers carry ing a dead comrade—a youth of in a canvas slung from a pole. “Stuck his head above the trench and got a bullet through it,” war the laconic explanation. An we advanced a sharp lookout was kept for “windy corners polnts where the bullets were flying partioularly thick Over our heads shell nel shieked The French were shelling the |road by which we entered the wood | In the trenches rifles peared over |the edge every fow foot |. They were thrust through a loop. |hole in steel plates’ large enough to protect the head and shoulders. German and French sharpshoot ers spend hours daily trying to | “dull'seye” each other through the | little sight hole above the rifle bar | ret There wan a heavy roar just ahoad. Major Witte sald {t was a hand grenade. These ugly looking missiles c death were plentiful in the German trenches. Many of them are hand-made, and THIS SOLVES THE CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEM |The Greatest Distribution of Pianos and Player Pianos | Ever Witnessed Now on in Full Blast. | When dozens of instruments are jrold by Eilers Music House daily, | when Instruments to the value of tens of thousands of dollare are be- |ing taken each week, what does it mean? | Doesn't it mean that hundreds of shrewd and farsighted business men and women of = this jclty and state are recognizing the great opportunity which most un- jusual conditions have made pos- | sible? | Doesn't it mean that these peo |ple are going out of the way now |to get a plano because so much o! actual intrinsic worth is sow ob. muddy water came to my | and shrap tainable for so little money? Would all these people—and there are hundreds upon hundreds of them, aa you can readily verify -would all these people, we say, |bny pianos now {f they did not find instruments obtainable for less that ever heretofore, and un- |doubtedly for less than ever here- after? That's it fn a nutshell, The low prices on the nation's finest makes, coupled with the most extraordt {nary easy terms of payment, mal this great piano-selling. The Man- ufacturers’ Emergency and Surplus Sale, in charge of the jufactur- ore’ direct representati t Eilers Music House, solves the Christmas |gift problem thin year {n a sensible, | worthwhile way | | | The reasons and the peculiar conditions that have made this sale possible have been stated heretofore. Whether it's an old-style piano | for $35 or $40 or one of the nation’s | most costly $1,600 Chickerings, at the reduced sale prices, now {s the time to arrange for one, It does |not take much money. Payments | may be started after Christmas. The main thing is to select your |plano or player piano with free music rolls, now, while these low Emergency Sale prices are still in effect. We arrange payments as best sults the convenience of any home. | An old piano, or an organ, or a phonograph and records, may be |turned in as part payment for one jof these elegant new instruments at these extraordinary low prices If you cannot call in person, | write for actual photographs, But |do it at once BHILERS MUSIC HOUSE Third and University One lot of Fancy Calendars and Beautiful Pictures, Also some Statues, For sale ch 709 Fourth Ave. Made Now for Xmas JACOBS PHOTO SHOPS Today's Styles Today Pay after Holidays GIFTS FOR WOMEN Suits Coats Skirts Plush Coats Blouses Petticoats Sweater Coats Millinery Make your Christmas selections now Credit terms made to suit your income. (0) ng Largest Credit Apparel House in the United States CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Take advantage of our Liberal Credit Plan. Seattle's Reliable Credit House GIFTS FOR MEN Smoking Jackets Sweater Coats Fancy Hosiery Bath Robes Fancy Vests Hate Shoes Bulte Overcoats , SILK PETTICOATS or MEniT Tasty assortment of colors. $3.60 and up. WAISTS OF ere HMBAUTY it tendencies tn fons. $6.00 up in sets and sepa Furs make a very appropriate Christmas gift complete line of the best of skins at prices that are bound to appeal. ate scarfs and muffs in all the latest fashions. and pay at your convenience FURS! The Christmas Gift We are now offering a very large and Oy com- plete SMOKING JACKETS Beautiful color com- binations in com- fortable smoking coats. of Elegance These furs come Make your selection now around the explosives are wire nails bound by heavy wire. | SOLolER RUNS OUT AND MILKS A COW Amonr all these conditions— damp, cold, increasing chill at night and ceaseless fighting-—the men in the trenches were in excellent spirits. | While the fighting has been des perate at times, it has been carried on with a certain chivalry between the two aides lying #0 close together for weeks. Like the bo: his hand to © and French have agreed one signal when a man wants to leave the trench, and he ie not fired on. Recently a cow wandered between the sputtering lines of steel-jacket jed bullet. | A Bavarian pot, ran in school who raises spized his cooking to the cow outside the the ordinance to extend service to the Duwamish valley The veto must be advertised in the official manner. tles and finance committees and council before Monday, Dec. 28, | message, Mayor Gill d ordinance as socialistic He declared that before the coun- ight service to other communities, | ferr ple. No Assurance of Future The mayors tone {ts pessimistic throughout. He admits that city ght plant has thus far been fully able to pay the Interest on | the bonds and that the rates to the | consumers have been considerably | reduced, but he adds the following ‘There is no assurance that auch earnings will continue to do so,” Throughout the veto message, | Mayor Gill harps upon what | calls financial mismanagement dur |ing the three years between his recall In 1911 and his re-election in 1914. The mayor sees no good whatever in city affairs in those three years. Says It’s Hiegal Departing from his subject, the mayor takes a fling at the high tax rate, charging the same, by innuendo, to municipal | ownership, without showinggefinite connection, however. The mayor concludes with statement that the extension service outside thé city limits | {ilegal, and he will prevent it | long as he is mayor. There are two views which may be taken of the uses of a munictpal- ly-owned public utility,” he says. ‘The first is that it is maintained to furnish reasonable rates for the taxpayers and residents of the city | solely Says Plant Saved Money | ‘It is not designed to be an in strament for harassing of capital or an outlet for the corporate hatred of individuals. To say that the Seattle lighting plant is a money-making concern, the of is rom its inception, our light plant has controlled the light rates | of the city, It has saved our bust jess men, taxpayers and residents. many millions of dollars and will éontinue to do so unless it is | brought into disrepute and made a | politieal plaything.” The other theory, the | points out, ts to make the public utility a commercial investment for |profit; to extend service wherever profits will result Says It's Pure Socialism “Under this theory,” he says, “there is no reason why the city should not engage in any other com- (GERMANS TURNING GOIN INTO BULLETS COPENHAGEN, Dec, 15.—Ger many is #0 badly in need of metal, school children are encouraged to ys old coins, gold and silver ar ticles, pieces of tin, lead, copper ind brass, to be used by industries suffering from the war, the! he| immediate; mayor) profitable; to withhold it where no| 7 MAYOR'S VETO OF LIGHTING EXTENSION UP DECEMBER 28 No action will be taken for about} mercial business. two weeks on Mayor Gill's veto of | belleve, 1 would advocate the con- lighting duct of grocery stores, dry goods | It then will go to the city utill-| pure and simple. j will not come up for a vote of the | particular bill ts pure socialism. Accompanying his veto with al ouned the| which is being erected at a cost of ' cll considers the plan of furnishing) constructed | | the matter should at least be re-/| have increased with to a direct vote of the peo-| show for the same but a useless! Jin the sense that it earns money | for the purpose of reducing taxa | | tlon, Is wrong. | trench and hastily began milking. Heads appeared above the trench on the French side in utter amaze ment, and not @ shot was fired. North of the Argonne forest the lines run through potato patches. 1 was told that the Germans and the French agreed that at certain| times a certain number of men from each side might dig potatoes and not be fired on. “Donnerwetter! Where is my coffee?” shouted a German soldier in the trench the other day. | Twenty minutes later there came | a hail in perfect German from a French trench 30 yards away. | Deutscher, have you go’| nd you some?” | other will swing the “no hit" or “missed” target signal after an un jecensful shot. | If I were so to storet ©, and I believe I should have the céurage of my convictions and announce myself a socialist, | “All there is embodied in th! Finds Fault With Dam Referring to the Cedar river dam, | $1 900, the mayor finds fault be- cause a third penstock had not been | The mayor seys the tax rates nothing to street car line. GLOVE and FUR DEPARTMENT Special Inducement Short Gloves, white Long Gloves, white Large Set of Furs, muff $1.00 lar No delivery under 50 cents on gloves. Plant and Office 10th Ave. & E. Union PHONES East 1164-——East 849 Wholesale and Retail Customers bring shoes here from every part of the city, be- cause our work is different. It’s a bit better. REGAL SHOE REPAIR SHOP Firet and Senece, Main 4196. The Salvation Army Christmas Dinners and Christmas Tree Contributions of Cash, Produce and Clothing URGENTLY NEEDED! Address: LIEUT. COL. C. W.’SCOTT Phone: Elliott 3665. 322 Globe Bldg. All Steel Train to Portland, Friday, pec. 18 AT 5 P. M. VIA THE O-W. R. & N. $7.5 Your only chance to at a reduced fare. BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW For full information call at City Ticket Office, 716 Second Ave. Main 932. H. L. Hudson, D. F. & P. A. ‘Train leaves from Fourth Ave ’ Oregon-Wash- ington Station, Jackson St, and FOR THE ROUND TRIP Tickets OW. R. & N. train up"to and in- cluding Jan. 5, 1915, go to Portland for the Holidays good for return on any casas