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TURKEYS TO ALL IN WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, De 3 @ent Wilson today person. ' ig Sented 12pound turkevs to aii t White House employ u Temembered his of tn Secutive offices with haudso Bits. As far as was possible, the presi t refrained from all active wor} ay, devoting most of b Preparing for a family r the White House The war is responsit changes in Christmas fm the diplomatic set Christmas gifts heretofore have been exchanged among diplomats Dut this practice will be abandoned this year and the money spent for Sifts will be used to ald war suf THREE DEAD IN ARIZONA FLOOD PHOENIX, Dec. 24.—Floods in| Southern Arizona were little im-| Proved today. A review of the sit-| Mation indicated property damage | fs heavier than at first reported and may aggregate $1,000,000. | Three persons were reported to have lost their lives, An Amert-| can cavalryman was said to have| been drowned at Naco, and two Mexicans at Amado | Hundreds of ranchers in the Santa Cruz river valley were res cued by a special train that pene trated the valley as far as {ts tracks were intact. | 8 time to union a observance s. &. President to have 18 feet clipped off funnel | Free Delivery Christma: New Player Pianos now being Sold for less than upright planos| without the player tion, same Quality, sell for at any other time. Read 3rd page, this paper. Remarkable Home Cure Giveo By One| Whe Had It—He Wante Every Sufferer to Benefit Sead No Money—Jus ‘Years of awful suffering and misery Dave taught this man. Mark H. Juckson ef Syracuse, New York. how terrible an enemy to human happiness rheumatiam | is, and have given him sympathy with tes who are within Its grasp. He wants every rheumatic victim to know how he was cured. Read what he says Your Address T suffered as it Know for over that cured me completely. and tt hae fever returned, I have given ft to's umber who were terrtbiy Titeted, and fren bedridden with Rh iam, and tt effected a cure in every “I want every sufferer from any form of rheumatic trouble to try this marvelous | healing power. Don’t send a cent: simply | 3 your name and 41 will it free to try. Afte © used ft and tt has proven itself to be that long leeked-for means of curing your [Rheum ‘tum may send the price of it. one| Gellar; but understand, I do not want Your money unless you are partectly sat- | fetid to wend it Ien't that fair? Why | YOU GO. | Coburg and so does Bavaria, believes today: | from the raffle This sunken road near Givet, in northern France, was used a trench, sod quickly cut being plied up on the side of the road as a gun rest. As | sketched, thousands of troops were passing with that long, jerky stride characteristic of them under march, and singing. On the hillside was a newly-made grave—the grave of a French soldier, On the rough cross was scribbled in chalk: Pour sa patrie (for his coun try), The Germans use machine-made wooden crosses, which they carry along as part of the company equipment. BERLIN CAFES JAMMED; CITY "SEEMS AS GAY AS BEFORE WAR (Continued From Page 1.) of the outcome of the war. Perhaps, | thought, a “kaffeehaus. would tell a different story! patronized by the “middle class,” 4 | Nine o'clock found me at the famous Piccadilly coffee house, now | fifteen minutes, and its capacity is 2,000 person Here were the young mep of Berlin with their sweethearts. Most of them were less than 30, and they were having a riotous time. The band was playing “The Blue D: and dark Manchner was going by in bucketfuls, Gaiety was © And 1 saw this scene not one night, but on six nights; n but in at least one hundred. And the restaurants at noon told the same story ube, erywh in one coffee house, On two days I could not even get a seat at the famous “Kempinski,” although i is| MARY FULLER SELLS almost impossible to lunch there for less than a dollar There was not any curtailment in food; every table d’hote meal in Germany still offers three or four meats and the portions are invart ably large. The government has seen to !t that the necessities are kept stationary in selling value. © places the people y believe that the they “hear the truth And that version, I am bound to » If Prussia believes in this wa: friends once Americans will be thetr IDENTICAL WHEREVER then so does Saxony, 60 does Here is what every German in Germany trian empire eo as to gather in the Slavs who live there and then absorb as much of Germany as she |e able to get. England le insanély jealous of Germany's growing power, of the superiority of her manufacturered wares which are fast monopolizing the world markets, and that th: two have en neered this war for the purpose of crushing Germany forev That, therefore, the Germans are now fighting for the! very existence as a nation, and that, since death is better than dissolution, the German kingdom MUST fight until the al are overthrown or until every man, woman and child in Ger- many Is killed! The feeling for thetr various foes ts this: Indifference for the Russians as an unaided power. Rusela, in her thiret for land, wants to break up the Aus- | | WILSON GIVES GERMAN TROOPS SING AS THEY MARCH PAST SOLITARY GRAVE AT WAYSIDE Fran Marching By. ridge. STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1914. Sketched Near Givet, In Northern as Gorman invaders Were) By C. Leroy Bald.| ARTIST TELLS STORY OF WAR | Emergency PAGE 3. CanAnythingBeNicerorMoreSen- and Surplus WITH HIS PEN Sale. If you expect to pur- b I i Sketch Artist chase a piano or player Haldridge was tune tight in the piano within the next ten rt of th Hy . rman line years, you owe an investi saw the German sol- gation to yourself now. dle before, Through the columns of thi during and . er some 6f the paper we have told you the biggest battles reasons for this great sale se they fought | . He talked, eral times, so suffice it to say ate, drank and that never again will such low killed — time” | with thank prices be made as are no ok Ndridy And he made © shin sketches, some of the best war]! + sketches the editor has seen any- J) P8008, for the “—— can never again He pen pictures the German soldier as he lives, plays and works BETWEEN BATTLES, Were all willing to tell me anything | star, donated a beautiful er NOT ALL MILK AND HONEY star, thinks he ts lucky, and all be cause of an incident that happened during the filming of “The of Fear,” directed by Stuart Paton. jat Brantwood, N. J. several days ago. latter made a sudden lunge for Hen | that lunge. t tar today prints the ee ond of his sketches. There are several to come instruments. | $200, $250 pianos can now styles for $145 PLAYS (220! | es, for $118 | used pianola pi jcannot be told f and eds donated to the| ® penny | Approximately $100 was realied Hobart Henley, Untversal-Imp House In a “fight” with the “heavy,” the y with a sharp-pointed dagger Pa a There was a lot of steam behind) Samara une S Autopiano Player included in this great sale. same « exist $x ore elab anos, rom the pirit,” nev | marked on thoroughly reliable Auses New pianos can now be had | for less than dealers have ever | before sold same grade used new be secured for vorate We still have id selection, in plair A great many whi h les America’ ° ayon pic} oldest and best; the beautiful] ture of herself, which was raffied| K balls off and the pro« | Kimballs, New York school childr lunch fund PORTRAIT FOR $100 |prices ranging from $ At the Motion Picture Exhibitors’| the $500 grades, to $488 for ball held several days ago in ithe $900 and $1,000 grac Grand Central Palace, New York,| Mary Fuller, Eastern Universal] The Chickering, genuine} Piano also Alhambra Until Sunday Night two-reel 7 “ _ |drama, with Murdock McQuarrie Contempt for the Belgians. The “heavy” wanted to make tt|“rve Champion Hear Slaven Selig Pity for the French. realistic. Tho blow never struck | omedy Hatred, the most intense conceivable, for the Englis | home, Had It done so Hobart would . eee I found the most profound respect for the kaiser, upon as THE SAVIOR OF THE NATIONAL EXISTENCE, and his con duct of the war and the state under war is accepted as marvelou German lite has been kept so normal everywhere—there {s not a sign of lack of employment, not a sign of distress, not a sign of a tight money market—that gratitude to the powers-<hat-be is seen on every hand. Write MARK Hf. JACKSON, No. 5484 Gutner Bide. Syracuse, N.Y" ‘The House of KEYSTONE } Say longer when positive rellet tol Sige ota yeu treat Dont delay Class <A” Theatre | | | | | We can save you money on your Coal Bills. Write | STEWART HOUSE 6 Stewart St. Near Fi tie Market Modern Single Rooms 2G@ Large, Modern Rooms ‘One or Two. DR. E. J. BROW HAS CUT PRIC! otter ‘# for « any MY office and Ket price Meme for an examination and consu fon without charge, and I wi bew oe @ doliar and 1 make « 4 our Dental Work oP rome will surely sult you work will surely you. ARE OF IMPOSTORS WHO {8 MY NAME AND SIONS JUST | ee MOOR TO MY OFFICES Edwin J. Brown, D. D. S. ities Leading Dentist Bo sure, to “305, und °. Open evenings nti] 4 for peopse w . | 7a and Sundays Sent to friends or business asso- ciates in the Kast would be a fine Christmas Present I deliver them to any railroad express office at a total cost to you of $1.25 J.P. TODD Room 16 Colman Dock | LOOKING! | nothing but ¢ Ta it not wonderful,” every German you meet asks you, “that we do not feel any effects of this terrible world-w You would not know there was a war, would you? And if you truthfully answer, you say you would not At least you would until, by chance some day, you pass the war - Abe office on Dorotheen-strasse just at the corner of the great Tlergarten AND THEN YOU KNOW! The war office is a great, gray building granite, granite on which has been put a high must be 500 feet long and certainly as wide. with a foundation of smooth polish. This building he granite base ma} an excellent place to paste lista of the “verwunde And “verwundet means “wounded,” And, as you will find, !f you study the lists closely, “wounded killed.” | ‘gefallen” after a name on these lists almost as often often means You can find as you can “verwundet.” A cynie in Berlin told me more often. And he had watched them for five weeks. You wonder what the crowd {s which chokes the road, You skirt the edges Periodically you watch some one—tt is ¢ iy @ woman—detach herself from {t and start toward the paper posters on the walls of the | war office, Sometimes she goes directly to it, but more often she stands stock-still when she is some three feet away Then she turns quickly and walks away, Walks away—WITHOUT | “She'll come again—in fifteen minutes,” said my cynical friend She'll KEEP coming until finally she forces herself to the list to see if HIS name !s there. And no doubt she'll faint if she reads " after it. She may, indeed, {f she reads only “Schwer verwun heavily wounded Many of them do. faint. Also I saw one woman go ™ I only went along Dorotneen-strasse For I myself saw three women ard an old man d there. All over Germany, with the above and one other exception, I found srageous hearts—hearts that bel Fatherland 1a stence, The one other place | mention was in the eved the fighting for actual e: socialist camp! I had 1 a group of the ding soctalists in Berlin, members of the Reichstag, 1 was having lunch with them, why THEY VOTED FOR THE We were told,” they replied, “by the government officials that the Russians had ALREADY crossed our eastern frontier. There was nothing to do in such a « but to vote for the war, And we had to accept, in such a crisis, the government's word as the truth! ‘But do you NOW think that it was true?” J asked. “After these} months? “My friend,” said one of the men to me, a socialist whose name is famous around the world, “we are not living in Ameri ca. WE CANNOT SAY WHAT WE THINK. Martial law pre vails in this land. But we believe that we, AS WELL AS THE SOCIALISTS OF EVERY OTHER COUNTRY, were not told ALL the truth about the reasoné leading up to this war “And we have not deserted our brothers in England and France. Nor have we lost faith in them. And we have learned things—A WAR WILL NEVER BE ENGINEERED IN EUR OPE THAT 18 NOT THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD AND THRASHED OUT FIRST BY THE SOCIALISTS!” That lunch conversation constitutes the ONE note Germany in regard to the great world-war It seemed only a fragment of a tone compared with the thundertag iapason that is going up in accord from all the other throats in the kaiser’s empire, but it may, in time, swell until it dominates the entire of dissent in | symphony It 1s too early to say, but, in a way, It was the most interesting thing I heard in Germany. For it is the first suggestion that the out side world has been given that the great host. of German socialists are not shoulder to shoulder in mind, if they are in body, with the tm-| perialists of “das deutsche Reich.” He ts looked | not be here to tell the tale. the blow w: knife scraped off considerable ep! He ducked; but, quick as he was, quicker, and the sharp RESIDENCE THEATRES At the Home Until Friday dermis from the back of his hand “The Perils of Pauline,” No However, as he says, “It's all in| two parts; “Whiffle's Double,” com the day's work for a movte actor.” ¢4y¥ “Kashmir,” scenic “Uncle's see Finish,” comedy. At the Class A Until Saturday | At the Pleasant Hour Until Friday Night Trey No, 10, two-part “Her Brave Hero,” Majestic|drama; “Who's Who,” comedy comedy; “Limping Into Happiness,” | “Shadowed Lives,” drama; “The comedy-dram Porest | Seat of the Trouble,” comedy. Master Key, Reliance drama; “Wild Keystone comedy a Keystone comedy HAVE TO EXPLAIN —FULL COURSE— Christmas Turkey Dinner Home Style—Served From 11 a, m. to 8 p. m. AT THE Nanking Cafe Only 75 Cents High-Class Music Fourth, ar Pike—Second Floor, At the Clemmer Until Saturday . Rion | MISS BESSIE’S SEX Julius Caesar,” fiveree! Kleine drama - o> % LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24,— |At the Liberty Until Saturday| Because the government, in its ; hs Indictment of Mra. Nora Har The Nightingale five-reel drama, featuring Ethel Barrymore rison on a charge of white The Fable of a Husband Whol slavery, failed to specify the Should Up and Do His Duty,” ©! gex of Miss Bessie Slocum, ee en ney i conte ""4| her alleged victim, the case Is . ee | halted today by the Interpos! At the Colonial All W. | tion of a demurrer by Mra. The Idler,” society drama | Harrison's attorneys. ds Bea | The indictment returned by At the Grand Untl! Saturday Night| the federal grand jury charges The Lucky Shot,” Reliance| that Mrs. Harrison brought drama; “Naldrain, the Dream| Miss Slocum to Los Angeles Woman,” Reliance drama; “The| from Chicago for immoral pur. A ke most any ™ in upright AFTER CHRISTMAS pianos. pIayer ‘Mayer pianos on terms as pianos. Damm low as $12 per month, some 4 for $10 per month, and some ny make ce oo The important. thing t o I wik 1 sale i f & : right he Seat- ele our piar w. Start « ' eo and can now wary or February, 1915, if you| Pianeta (and o had on vary ike, but you cert ly 10uld| Piano, 2 ( elect your | hile these fore the manufacturers’ repre tative—C. W. Houseman es Seattle y have a used piano, organ phe graph and records which you uld € to ex r, we will] be very gl t you a fair valuatic for it Many 1 ayer pianos] till left. The entire stock ca be seen tod Remember, | al thes new instruments than same quality uprights | (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper without the player mechanism nside are usuall $500, $550 and $600 new pianos are now marked $285] and $337 me of the smaller ize plain cases, $245 The $7 S800 and $85 values are now $377, $437 and| $488. The $1,000 and 250 See many $450 beauties | player pianos at.$588, $664,|/ , ly $216—-($6 @ month) and the largest sizes $776 aa All with free music rolls and} article purchased of Ellers been paid toward payment of one of ov < xchang onositic é House ts sold on a@ definite|our thirty different high ur tree exchange proposition. | money-back guarantee. It must be|makes. This exchange agreemeng ‘ found a# represented in every way even be extended for an addie S475 New Player |or money is cheerfully refun You canno Pinse | y Muste Rolls Free. | freat hale may be excranwed nt pare citeae’ }time wit one year from dat y purchase as safely as can smeary purchase. allowing all that the shrewdest shopper. Phone Us. We Will Send Our Automobile for You Eilers Building | Third and University Open Tonight Till 10 o’Clock LW. DAVID SUES: FOR A DIVORCE After 26 years since their mar for only I can tell how deso lly {8 and will be for a long Your Uncle John has been a year, but have not been time. gone able to lose that awful, unattached, unsettled feeling.” I went over and kissed her. “Yes, I know, dear, you have all been kind to me and you love me, and I have been more content with you and riage, Lester W. David, well-known Dick than with any one else, But) lumberman who recently failed for I am afraid that it will » $1,500,000, is seeking a divorce harder for Sally to adjust herself/ from Mrs. Allie N. David, who, he to her changed condition than It| says, had deserted him four years was for me. Perhaps if 1 stay with ago and is now living in Los An- her for a little I can make her un-| geles. derstand that we all must accept} They have one son, 18, with his our lot.” mother, "David alleges incompatl Dick looked at her with almost bility of temperament. Mrs. David, reverence expressed in his face. “I|in her answer, denied tncompath tell you, Aunt Mary, I hope Uncle) bility or desertion. David alleges |John appreciated you. I don't be-| the community property amounts ileve they make ‘em like you now-|to little, but that he will be in por dae : sition soon to pay Mra. David $100 “T a month, David has lived be e 'M GLAD I'M NOT CURIOUS | Enterprise Association.) “Mother wants Jack and Mary to come and live with her,” said Dick this morning. “She says that she know they don't,” I put in in Seattle for eannot stay alone, and that when | “With all my trying I cannot be as Mollie is out of an evening she| unselfish and sweet as she is, and, ¢!sht years, being president of t would be afraid to stay with only | besides, if I were I'd be wasted on| lester W. David Co., with offices the maid in the kitchen.” you, Dick.” to the Beary PeRess, a I confess I had a little selfish| “I guess that’s no Me, Margie,” thrill when I thought that I hadj answered Dick, with his wry smile BRISK FIGHTING started my own little apartment He never has mentioned the night |partly because I had thought this|that Dad died, and I shall not do very contin ney 9 ht oc I do|so. I believe he has by n filled with ON CHRISTMAS EVE not envy poor Mary if she has to! remorse over it. Bi ies, I cannot live with Mother Waverly It is| quarrel with Dick all the time. It | want to do.” | this?’ | PARIS, Dec. 24.—The British much nicer to have Aunt Mary live|is hard enough to suffer when he| transports laden with holiday gifts with me. goes out and comes home as he| for the troops in the field in Belgium “What do you think about ft,/did that night without going over| ana France reached this side of the Margie?” asked Dick the matter and getting angry again $ channel today. I don’t think we have any reason |and keeping myself stirred up all|“"hespite the approach of Christmas to think about it,” I answered, “It| the time about it | brisk fighting wes in progress AG is something to be decided by Mary! pick 1s old enough to know when; front. and Jack.’ he does wrong, and I don't believe ns I don't think elther of them | anything I would say would help| Sam Grant, accused of robbing wants to go very badly,” remarked | matters much section house, acquitted. Dick, after a short silence, “and I 7 gon: ponders Bethe et don't know as I blame them. No Gon’t want him to lle to me , 6 club, and so w not ask him unless he lives in her particular|‘ " | way, and her way will not be the sae Unie : te ie SURPRISES MANY way of either Jack or Mary, any am always thankful that I have sit * gongs Siete ae ; Seattle peop! no bought th more than it is Mollie's.” very little curiosity, for one of the} simp mlsture of bupkthowa: parke, “If T were Mary,” I sald, “I would| things I have learned since I mar-|giycerine, etc, Known as Adler-teke, certainly have conditions very | Ted ts that the devil baits most of Sre surprioed At tie Shots eftect sharply defined, If she could have | M8 temptations with curtosity when | Of SPY tee bowel olescaien the three rooms that used to be|When he goes fishing for men, and|% afully tn eppal yours and Jack's, and pay a certain | Fate usually has only heartache tn | dicitis ts on BOTH u price for her board, I think, perhaps | Store for the curious woman. ae ONE Telleven aie ae (To be continued tomorrow.) a livable pl n might be worked out.” | ur or gassy CASE of constipation, “Mother thought that she mig ——_ ene stomach, ONE. MINUTE after you renee one ouaht that she might! To Oure a Cold in One Day |taxe it the gases rumble and pass TY | Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druet it, Swift's Pharmactes, Second Av and Jack, and she and Mollie board & refund money if it fails to cure & Wland Pike and 285 Broadway N.—Ad- with the shop 4 nature te On each box. 25 vertine Roller Skating Christmas Afternoon and Evening KOLLER’S RINK FIRST AND SENECA. nt “Dek, I'm not going to tnterte in this, but I certainly think the would be asking too much of Mary In the first place, the house is too expensive for Mary and Jack to ren and the work of running it would be too hard for Mary in connection with shop. “If mother for company wants Mary and Jack she should take ther for a little more than thetr board for they will be certainly giving up a lot.” | “Let them walt a little,” spoke up Aunt Mary, “I'll go over and stay with Sally for a month, and by t time they will all know what they| WESTERN-GOODYEAR QUICK SHOE REPAIR COMPANY We Guarantee You the Best Work in Town—The Best of Materials Used, Bring Us Your Old Shoes—We'll Make Them Like New, 219 James St. John Cicchetti, Prop. “Dear Aunt Mary, would you real give up your privacy and do} T asked. “Certainly, Margie, I'll be glad te ly sible ThanaPianoorPlayer-Piano for Christmas; Something That EveryMemberoftheFamilyEnjoys for AllTimetoCome? 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