The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1914, Page 7

TODAY STYLE TODAY 1332-34 Second Ave. LARGEST CREDIT APPAREL H Holiday Buying With paying can come af Q (firist Coats ° For Children Specially Priced Christmas reductions in Children’s Coats, sizes 6 to 12 years. The very lat- est and up-to-the-minute styles. Shown in navy, red, brown, Copen and fancy mixtures. Special until Christmas, $5.00. AY Clever New Waists A special showing of new aftrivals in attractive Blouses. All the newest ideas are reflected in this splendid Christmas showing—$5.00 to $17.50 Furs Special \ Prices ~ Furs maxe an ideal Christmas gift, and We are now offering a very large assort- ment of Scarfs, Muifs and complete sets, in mink, lynx, fox and in fact, all of the ilar skims. The special prices in this Reractnicnt give you an opportunity to select a most acceptable gift at a great You will find our Modern Credit Plan very SEATTLE'S RELIABLI CREDIT HOUSE ng and 211 Union St. OUSEIN THE UNITED STATES Do Your Christmas Shopping at Seattle’s Reliable Credit House Credit Accommodations convenient. The ter the holidays. bulk of the as ‘ Sa 38 aly. Three Groups of Millinery Special at $5, $10, $12.50 We have selected from ’ our Millinery stock a / number very fine Hats to be featured for a Christmas Clearance at the above prices If you are in need of new Winter Millin- ery don’t overlook these values Attractions in Silk Petticoats We have just received for the Christmas trade a shipment of cleverly made Silk Petticoats All the new shades. One of these Silk Skirts makes an excel lent Christmas gift—$3.95 up Substantial Reductions Throughout Our Cloak and Suit Dep Coat or Suit makes Fe Christmas poate fomething that auy woman would greatly appreciate. Be sure and yi our extensive department and take advan. tage of the substantial reduc tions that we are offering on this seasonable merchandise. | | Speaking of Feet, See What t Ruth Says | BY CAROLINE SINGER The time is near when ; | “Don't get me ted on | shoes will be planned to fit | feet! Don't ask me what I the instead of the feet be- | think of shoes | St. Denis, the a dances, “unless hear me rave without sickeni by the sight of toes? | atrocity She held her able pair of | shoes, | The fit was | buttons at the a have tumbled off w she wisdom | wiggled her toes She laughed, for her recent “More than half the shoes Ted Shawn, noted make crooked feet, Lop-sided his beautiful figure and shoes make lop-sided people Greek dancing, has terminated with curved spines and lop that single-blessedness which ; sided dispositions,’ she an- has kept the theatrical world nounced. ‘WARRA That voted in Precinct a man name does not | tration books, ap: wa the beanty of her bare fi the authenticity of her Hindu “The Chinese who bound the shod hygie ally feet of their women have noth The on 1 have such ing on us,” she continued strong feet fs that | went bare “How many people do you | foot on # ranch until I was 15. | know who have feet that are | can be an asset. | straight and good to look at? ere there is a lack of “How many women cou money the fashiona do not | pear bare-footed In a ball r count. My clothing was always “The average up to view they had not been secured by ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL VOTING na in open court Monday by Attorney | Edgar C. Snyder, who ts handling me precinct, and who had been |the recount contest in behalf of | subpoe to appear in court Mon-! | David McKenzie and Dr. Walter T.| day morning, failed to show up, and | Christensen, defeated candidate for! Judge Albertson ordered bench warned Ruth encer famed for t and ing trained to fit the shoes. How | pity the average child with ite new shoes, Many irritable, bad children Id become paragons of vir- if they were clothed and you want t w ing their frie their deformed a combination of comfort and durability Sometimes I feel an it I shoe is an should like to climb upon a cracker box at the street cor- own, a fashion ner and tell young mothers black what 1 think Mischievously her blue eyes twinkled as she added “Out of the depths of spin- sterhood comes « great deal of cloth-top 80 large that if | nkle they would | guessing. NTS OUT FOR WOMEN Ed although bis amed Sheriff « 148 pear on the regis # the charge made punty commissioner, | Sheriff could not be located any-| where in the Snyder told the} court Two women who had voted in the CHECKS CROUP INSTANTLY You know croup is dangerous. And) should also know the sense of se that comes from always having » Honey and Tar Compound in the It cuts the thick mucus and] way the phi ing cough and give Jot sleep. Take it fo throat, hoarseness an nd ia ‘gripe coughs. Contains chial Sb eplates. Kvery user to a friend. Nar fall's Drug Stores A Marvelous ote player piano in lon display names as the Ki A Practical Present More than player | A an example dous value you r 54 ‘The Pen specialist Thrifty Seattle Buyers Keen to Profit by Such of others at $98, $115 and upwards. | one planos are also included tn | this remarkable sale of thoroughly | dependable instruments. Unusual Offerings | at House of Eilers Sacrifice by Factory Representatives in Charge | Albertson Monday STAR—MONDAY, DEC. 21, 194. PAGE % SHE W. BY NORMAN ROSE POTTSVILLE, Pa., Dec, 21.—"She is a witeh! Mrs. Michalina Zemanowski point ed a stub d shaking forefinger at Mrs. Katie Short. Her word came from her throat in a hoarse whisper, and the crowd that thronged Judge Koch's court gaped while the word ran from one to an other: “Her voleo is bewitched! The spell is on her that she cannot speak!” Mre. chair Short huddled down tn her a feeble, wrinkled, little old with crusted scars on her itches yet unhealed Zemanowski, charged with having attacked and clawed Mrs. Short, looked up at the judge before whom she was on trial Mra. Short, who earns a meager living by _maktin, tallow x tallow dips, ha had i warrants for thetr arrest issued. They are also charged with ille gal voting by Snyder. Four others accused of casting votes in thelr several precincts without having acquired sufficient legal residence, explained to Judge He ruled they were within their rights when they voted, Up to noon Monday these seven cases were the only ones consid- ered. The hearing now on is prelim!- nar to a decision by Judge Albert- son 4s to whether there is probable | cause for opening the ballot boxes and ordering a recount, Attorneys for Mike Carrigan and Krist Knudsen, who have been elect- ed by narrow margins on the face of the returns, claim that it was | only a clerical error which makes it This manufacturers’ emergency |$600 Kingsbury at $288, a $900) leale {s different from the ordinar Steck Pianola Piano at less than plano sale, for the reason that|D@lf price, and fine, latest-style metal tube players at 2, $486, | nearly every make of piano and|$550 and $675 and upwards. Even existence 1s here| at these greatly reduced prices, a liberal supply of music rolls ts} given free and #0 is a fine bench time-honored Chickering, | mball, Decker, Smith & Barnes, Strohber, | to match Marshall & Wendell, {$200 Baldwin make at $142, a Les-| as well 28 8! Don’t fail to see these and many others of equal quality and equally I sell the best makes. ter, regular $426, to go now at) > one | ee $180; Steinway upright. at $237, |f00d Values at thene little prices ‘ Hallet & Davin at $115, and scores |{t 1 not necessary to pay all cash MENDENHALL Any reasonable deposit made will |send a fine piano or player piano |home today or we'll hold and de liver Christmas Eve if you prefer. Outoftown customers should write for particulars, Any {netru: ment sent on our free trial offer to hundred finest of the tremen ecelve for dollars uy rice Near Second Ave. | invested during the emergency |#0y home in Washington i] (1918 Becond, Next to Savoy Hotel Vi vale, we quote a splendid $1,150| Eilers Music House, Third bal Weber Pianola Plano at $650, «| University, appear that Ed Sheriff voted, and | that no such vote was really cast. SWALLOWS CIGARET GLENDALE, , Dee, 21.—Jack Belmont, 25, was seriously injured when he swallowed his lighted cig- ‘aret. His stomach was badly burn- ed, according to the doctors at a Los Angeles hospital where he was taken The accident oceurred when Bel- mont told several companions he could hold a lighted cigaret inside his mouth and proceeded to dem- onstrate his ability to do so, One of hie friends playfully grab- bed him by the neck and shook him, causing him to swallow the cigaret. WOMAN CHARGED IN COURT WITH BEING WITCH; ECHOES OF EARLY SALEM DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA ‘AS IN THE POWER OP A WITCH- IN 1914. wold some, one day, nearly a year ago, to Mrs. Zemanowskt. She asked Mrs. Zemanowski to have @ drink of whisky The invitation was accepted. Soon Mrs. Zemanowski's voice began to fall, A bad cold? Some disease of the vocal organs? No. In this part of the state of Pennsylvania they know that when « thing like that happens IT'S WITCHCRAFT! Mra. Zemanowsk! brooded till she couldn't sleep she sald. By and by the very sight of Mra, Bhort made her hysterical Conferences were held, in which her husband and neighbors took) part The best authorities on witcheraft and {ts antidotes agreed that THE WAY TO BREAK THE “SPELL’ WAS FOR THE VICTIM TO DRAW THE WITCH'S BLOOD! 80, one Sunday morning, in the village of Turkey Run, where the Short and Zemanowski families live, Mra. Zemanowskt attacked Mra. Short on the street and scratched her until the blood ran down her wrinkled old cheeks. Mrs, Short had Mra, Zemanowsk! arrested, and Mfr, Zemanowsk! made her plea. Under the Pennsylvania law a wife is held to be coerced when ordered by her husband to commit ap unlawful act, so Mre. Zemanow ski was discharged, and the hus band, as the culpabl sailant, Was fined $1.00 Not long ago farmers of a neigh: borhood near here prowled about at night, each bearing a rifle, loaded with a golden bullet, to kill a black “hex cat” (witch cat), alleged to be four feet high, which had been set} upon the heels of a young woman by some malicious enemy In one town a poor seamstresr ‘was stoned out of town a witch because the baby of the family with whom she boarded cried a good deal of the time—was bewitc A woman who owned Hack cat and a white dog was accused of being a witch by a neighbor whose ohiid had died. Witnesses testified in court that the cat and dog had been seen pa rading the streets at night, thelr bodies glowing phosphorescently! Also that they had heard the ani mals converse with one another fn human speech, A father and mother of 20 chil dren, 17 of whom had died, made a public statement not long ago that these children HAD ALL BEEN KILLED BY WITCHCRAFT. Te save their three surviving children cuttings of their natls and hair were put In a newspaper and burned. All three had been failing in health, the parents announced, but after that they soon got well! But, alas, for the faith of Pennsy!. | vania witchcraft devotees! Mrs | Zemanowski's voice hasn't improvec the least bit since she scratched old Mrs, Short! Rev. Dr. Lucas Will appear in the Orcas Theatre Hillman City High-cl Movies,” Plano Concert, Lecture and Free Healing ADMISSION FREE N. B.-How to get there: Take any Fourth Ave. car, except Colum- bia City, going south, and mention She was in the power of a witch, | Wholesale Jewelry Stock to Be Sold at a Loss Solid Gold and Gold Filled Jewelry at Thirty to Fifty Cents on the Dollar creditors are pressing, and bec Company, wholesalers, is unable to sacrifice its entire stock Because ause t at less than wholesale cost. he Whitcomb Jewelry to sell to the local trade, it is compelled The disadvantages of location and the fact that the company is not known to the retail trade, all make it necessary to cut the prices from the wreck. The following sample the jewelry is to be sold: alues will Men’s L inks 25¢ § $1.00 Cuff | Rings | . | $2 2.00 Watch Fobs Men’ s $1. 00 Sat? PINS i. All $3.00 Brooches Real Pins $12.00 art $10.00 Soli $15.00 Solid Gold po eee Lockets Fi. faa $12. 00 and $15.00 “Gold $8. 00 and Solid Gold Links...... so as to Save as much as possible give an idea of the way $2.00 “Gold Filled Cameo Gold | Scart Pins . ade oe $10.00 $3.75 Lockets (% gold) |W atch Chair | $5.00 Waldemar $1.75 ns $3.00 Solid Gold Neck (¢ “hains ham $15.00 Bracelets, Gold Filled “SL 25 25.00 Solid La Vallieres a 00; $4.00 La Vallieres, | Rose Coral Setting $1.25 25 $8.00 Gold The Whitcomb Jewelry Company has been in the wholesale jewelry business in this city for the past six years, and can be relied upon to back up this advertisement to the letter. This sacrifice the creditors, who are insisting upon immediate ca continued from day to day up to Christmas. of the Company are in the Pacific Block, cable, fourth floor. Take the elevator. E. G. is made necessary by sh. The sale will be The stock rooms and offices just at the foot of the Yesler Bettys, Sales Manager. JOHN PERRY TO GIVE ATALK ON NEWSPAPER LAW John H. Perry of Seattle, on counsellor for the Scripps newspa pers, among them The Seattle Star, has accepted an invitation from the department of journalism of | SAY,FOLKS,WE ARE BADLY WORRIED BY THIS: SANTA THING | (Continued From Page One.) nough? We can’t have too muchy| Thus adroitly do we hint at a wey | for you to relieve us of our worry. | one Lawyer Crawford E. White has consented to be Santa Claus at The the Untyorsity of Washington to| Star Christm how for “little lecture “before the Washington | chimney ki White had the role Newspaper Institute, Jan. 14, on/at the show last year. Given white Newspaper Law.” | whiskers and Santa Claus clothes, Mr. Perry was prevailed on by| he's Saint Nicholas to the life. Dean John T. Condon of the law | ee school and Prof, Frank G. Kane of | Joe Schermer has ordered, not the journalism department, to han- one tree, but six—one whopper and} die this tople for the editors of the| five smaller ones to group around) state, assembled tn their annfal|it, He's rigging up some little mid-winter meeting. houses to set among the trees, Mr. Perry's audience will be made up of newspaper owners, pub- lishers and editors; the journalism faculties of the universities of Ore gon, Montana and Washington, and) the 150 students of journalism at| bed ee ye | Christmas storeroom, 1315 He will cover the genefal f0n60| cya Becatae naa tak of* newspaper jurisprudence, but| Cac; wrapped’ in will pay particular attention to the | ur) yrrappad in tasue and, tied right of privacy.” j with Sele Hibbos. Ons : “There 1s no more vital question | ce ae ue pe aig yt before the country now than the| 2°’. ‘ dolls attitude of the courts toward the | much as we used to when we were press, and for a general survey of youngsters. this attitude, we have obtained in (Signed) They will be brightly lighted and inhabited by dolls. They will look lke cottages in @ forest of ever- greens, Three girls called at The Star 10 dolls, tissue and tied “SOME GIRLS.” ee Mr. Perry one of the authorities a ‘a subject,” said Prof, Kane| The Standard Furniture Co. has Monday come through handsomely with 18 The institute will be in session | rubber-tired vans, 18 boxes of toys, Jan. 14, 16 and 16. 18 toy carpet sweepers, which are Robert A. Glen, night editor of| great for little girls who like to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, | play “house”; 24 dolls and 12 toy will handle the subject of “Corre-| iron kettles. spondence.” E. C. Tripp of Ken-| e @-2 newick, will speak on “Quality in The Star is indebted to the City Job Work.” Professor O, H. Rich-| Taxicab & Auto Co, 116 Stewart urdson of the university will lec-| st. for the use of taxis on the oo- ture on “The Causes and Probable|casion of the benefit dance at Effect of the European War.” Sen- | Dreamland Friday night. ator-elect A, A. Smith of Port An- “ee geles, editor of the Tribune-| The candy people are the “little Times, will submit a report on| chimney kids’” good friends. The ‘Needed Legislation.” Star has had generous offers from A smoker, a dinner, and a the-| H.R. Schmoyer Co., the Imperial atre party for the ladies will be| Candy Co. the Superior Candy & entertainment features of the! Cracker Co,, and the Queen Anne meeting sre probably will be] Gandy Co. The Nut House is send- from 60 to 75 editors in attend-| ing 300 packages of salted peanuts. ance. a a.) | The Koller roller rink, First ave. |and Seneca st., will give all of Tues- ay night's receipts to Christmas charity, dividing it between The Star and two other Seattle papers which are trying to make the day a cheerful one for less fortunate folks, Employes of the rink are donating their salaries for the entire day also. So, if you like to glide on rollers, spend the evening down at Koller’s, ry GOOD PROGRAM FOR BENEFIT AT TIVOLI TONIGHT é These contributions tothe Preparations have been made} Christmas fund for “little-chimney for handling a capacity audience at| kids" have not previously been ac yrs ‘ day night | knowlec the Tivoli theatre Monday et ee preva. as god when the most elaborate of the| yp, fireman Rod series of charity shows being held | Mrs. M. A. A. 1.00 at that theatre will be put on. Dreamland dence . 2. 150,00 Another high-class performance | A working man 1.00 is promised Tuesday night. A reader . 4.00 Monday “night's entertainment | pat Sulll 5.00 will open with an hour's concert} A working man . 1.00 by the Firemen's band. Sharing|c, M. 4.25 the program with the firemen, is|H, C. Henry | 15.00 Albert Germain’s Bijou Opera Co., in “Santella,” and Mrs, Mae Rad B E (H dogg prominent Seatte vocaist |STABS BENEFACTOR he entire proceeds go to assist! when J. B. DeBall, a Spokane needy families. traveling salesman, opened his purse {n answer to a “moocher's” request for a quarter, the man grab 5 Own your own home, It'ei Soi’ the purse. In. the: etrugale Fifth | § Councilman Goddard has prepar- ed for introduction at council Mon- day two bills, one providing that the city engineer's salary be raisea 0 $10,000 and the other providing th an appropriation of $5,000 be made to employ an expert engi- neer to determine the alleged trouble at the Cedar river dam. Goddard wants one or the other | bill passed, He declares if the city gets a $10,000 engineer, no experts need ever be employed. Beautiful Silverware For Star Readers A set of six beautifully decorat- ed French gray finish Rogers Sil- ver Teaspoons free to mail sub- scribers to The Star. They are of beautiful design and will last a life- time. A set of these spoons could not be duplicated at any store for less than $2.50. We have bought them in such large quantities that we are able to give them to our subscribers. All that is necessary for you to do is to pay your sub- ription to The Star one year in ‘ance ($3.25), and the spoons will be sent you, charges paid, If your subscription does not expire for some time, you can take ad- vantage of this offer now and re- new for a year from the time it ex- pires, or by interesting a friend. to take The Star a year at the regular price, you will receive the spoons just the same. They will make a fine Christmas present if you do not care for them yourself. This offer does not apply to agents. DR. L. R. CLARK, D. D. 8. Perfectly Satisfactory Teeth That's the kind A. D, Rutan says he got at the Regal Dentists, Read his statement: “To Whom It May Concern: “I have had several plates made by well-known dentists of Seattle, all of which have been a failure. “Lcould not eat with any of them, and talking without the plates slip- ping or dropping was out of the question. As a last desperate chance I accepted a recommenda- tion from a friend to visit the gal Dentists, They made me a set of teeth that is perfectly satisfac- tory in every way. I can talk and eat now the same as when I had my own teeth. So I naturally take great pleasure in recommending the Regal Dentists to any one in need of dental service. “Yours truly, “A. D, RUTAN, “919 N. 77th St., Seattle, Wash,” We can do just as well for you as we did for Mr. Rutan, Teeth pulled free each morning from 9 to 10. Guaranteed paintess, easy. Read the offerings in| wnich ensued, DeBall was stabbed Oreas Theatre to conductor. Tell everybody! STAR WANT ADS— then choose. in the breast with a penknife, The man got the purse, Regal Dental Offices . DR. L. R, CLARK, MGR, — 1405 Third Avenue N. W. Corner Third and Union ‘ ’ Cer TTT eee ee