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BT Adm eee ce ccerae ny yenes Wey ebb dae i a The Star said last Monday it was going to tell, the truth about Seattle’s business condition. The truth} @Actual construction is to begin in a few weeks on the government’s Alaska railway. That alone @ Eight new business buildings of various kinds Tecently started are to cost $4,070,000, With the dozens of others under way, $5,000,000 is an ex- Each will take a costly outfit and the government will spend here a considerable sum for equipment. the planting of 125,000 acres more than usual in this state, which will greatly enhance this year’s reaping a harvest. | @ The Lake Washington canal project, nearing frui- tion, will within a few months add 100 miles of T LOOKS LIKE PROSPEROUS YEAR FOR SEATTLE } ‘9 ED GEES GEESE GEES GEES GEE GEER GSS GE CED GREETS GREED GRICE D GIGS THREAD GHEIIRE CZANENT “ ASO is that taking steps to market their output on a ba will bring prosperity back to each of them. iS that conditions are sound ang the prospect surpass-| will call for the employment of 5,000 men, and at} crop. ' @ The lumbering industry, which has been stagnant ingly fine. The Star has proved it this wee Here} least 10,000 others will go North to prospect @ An unprecedented activity has resulted in the for some time past, is growing active. Logging are some of the facts shown: and to locate on lands along the right-of-way, ship charter market, and owners of bottoms are camps are opening, we hear of reported orders from railroads and other large buyer are expected to stiffen shortly. We might have gathered similar facts in duzens and prices @ The war demand for wheat dropped $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 of cold, hard cash into the hands of Washington farmers and grain dealers, in ad- dition to the large amount they normally would have received. Furthermore, it has stimulated ATTLE STAR Great-Grandniece of Man Who Invented Submarines Comes === —|to Seattle to Christen United States Tender Bushnell 2,000) it weren't for David Miss Bushnell | cumstances than to any defect injof the steam-propelled vessels. His might not have been visiting Se-| his plans was propelled Wy hand attle at this time, And David-lived) Sir William White, the great con ready for service when | waterfront to Seattle’s already extensive maritime facilities. @ The fruit growers of the entire Northwest have been brought into a close organization and are aaa of other large industries. For they are there to gather. TIMES ARE GOOD 1N SPITE OF THE WAR, AND ARE GROWING BETTER. NINETEEN FIFi EEN 'IS GOING TO BE A GREAT YEAR, Ceedingly conservative estimate of the work ac- tually going on. The building inspector says 1915 will see an increase of at least 20 per cent in construction over the far-from-bad year of 1914. tered at Seatt! BY mail, out of city, 3c per month up By carri jtary of the navy to travel miles away from home to christe' an engine of battle, would you do Half an hour, later it exploded eral feet away from the Ba Victim of Ridicule ev submarine and was Uncle Sam Pays Trav- : itt way back In the days of the Revo-|structor of the British navy, paid he was graduated in 1775, soon i E. f | eling xpenses oO Miss Esculine W Manner, of} lution, too. | this tribute to Bushnell in 1906 after the outbreak of the Revolu The failure discouraged Bushnell. Y. La Grange, Ml., did Submarine Idea 144 Years Old. “It cannot be claimed that any tlonary war The Turtle was the subject of ridi- Secretary Tumulty is kicking because his work is hard. oung Peace Advo- She's now tn Seattle visiting with} It was in 1771 when David, then|new principle of devign has been Attempt Uneuccessful, cule for some time, and Bushnell ntly it's too tumultyous for him. cate on Trip tO relatites at the home of E.G, An-)a freshman at Yale, concelved the! dix ed or applied since Bush It was named the Turtle. Bush | disappeared. His family lost track Evide Borin hi Cc derson of the Western] idea that ve puld be built) nell showed the way in the par- nell had made several successful of him until years afterward they 2 H h f Ji B M Launc ing @€ Pr @- Dry Goods, Co, 608 West Lee st] that would travel under water, ticulars of buoyancy, stability and) trips with it before the war. Soon learned of his death in Georgia. ‘or ¢t ttne ‘us en | : $ February 9 she will christen the} David did more than merely think) contro! of the depth reached by the A Hunc he y monies of Engine! tics vs minmarine canser] ir cis pocuie. Hla eat to worn coteinrions ITNEY BUS MEN: So far as your equipment and your} of Battle. Bushnell, constructed by the Se-)on the invention, and it is David) “Although alternative methods bien isati ee ited, you have given Se- : : Construction & Dry Dock Co.| Bushnell whom the world recog-|have been introduced and prac- Sh ena Reggae y 8 | repare for war and insure| nizes as the inventor of the firn| tically tested, in the end Bushnell’s good transportation service thus far. pose you were an advocate {se Miss Bushnell’s idea,| submarine plans have in substance been found of peace and you received a nice History doesn’t record what David invitation from the president Bushnell, great-granduncle of Mins the United States and the secre-' Bushnell, thought about it, but if Bushnell didn't have much suc: the best.” cess with his invention, but that Remember, too, that Bushnell was due rather to unfortunate cir-| built his submarine before the day | | MISHAPS OF DIANA DILLPICKLES | You have shown a spirit of accommodation. This has manifested itself, for instance, in a willingness to carry a passenger two or three or half a dozen beyond the ends of your lines. You have really prac- of the slogan or your trademark, “Public Service.” OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE On the whole you have driven carefully and lived up to) other motto, “Safety Always.” i a HER GOLFER BEA Despite the studied effort of corporation-dominated pa-| ree nO ice U fs to make it appear otherwise, your machines have figured | ~—— ie seran: “Sl. MP wican sc Tt ~~ , accidents, fewer of them serious, and none of them JOHNSON HAD LEFT Cpe AR pnd ON The TABLE TEMPORARILY. MR. NIBLICK He SNeakend Pack INTO TORN ano — In the time you have been operating, the street care) one boy and severely injured other persons. Soitara Perce cngonses _ But you should be on the lookout for ways of improving Abo. RGOTTGN service. One of the easiest of these to effect, it occurs) UT IT, He — fhe Star, would be for some of you to lay out new routes) Streets where the railway lines do not grant service. This ; Save patrons long walks, would relieve traffic con-| and open profitable fields for many more of you to 13 COMING, AND 1 DON'T WANT ANY MORE ACCIDENTS, HES —~—~) 30 RECKLESS! . YW twee y “THINK IT OVER! Attorney Addison of the Feds lost contro! in the second and grew He was taken out of the box and Judge er, using terrific prevented O. B. B. from scoring heavily. Th he way they re- ft the trial in Chicago. or High Hypocrisy | A CRATCH one of the rhinoceros-hided congressmen who Ka are roaring against the ship-purchase bill as a subsidy ‘ll find a life-long promoter of subsidies of every sort. The ship-purchase measure may be a subsidy, if there's h a thing as a nation subsidizing itself. But it is not the] subsidy of private monopoly. It is an infant offspring} ihe’ nation which it is proposed to foster with national BAD HABIT OF BEATING | fants’ food. PEOPLE To THe POINT (It has another remarkable feature in that its parents pro-| IN THEIR Story! to sell it or leave it on some private doorstep as soon as t ‘ows infancy. Its fate is to be a decided exception in history of fostered infant industries. But it is not this osed diabolical treatment to which the erstwhile habitual ters of susidies object. They object to the very birth WHO'S TOLING THIS $ You've Got THAT "TT WAS aT THe GIGHTGENTH HOLE, MIS® DiccPicKces, 1 CARCFUWLY CaLCcU- | Lareb Tee pittance, AND THEN — ° | mere nthe | Miss Esculine W. Bushnell. afterward a squadron of Britishy | vessels, under command of Admit Today, after 140 years, the Bush- 1) nell principles are still applied in the infant, on the ground that the accouchement will be Lord Howe, blockaded the New| the construction of submarines, for the constitutional health of the parents, but they’ll| York harbor. Israe! Putnam, the| and in the present war the sub- y American commander, sent for) marine ts regarded, at least by the je on deck with eager outstretched hands, if the child amounts ‘anything. Once Uncle Sam's tens of millions are invested Meveloping the child, he'll have no trouble finding “in- s,” at any time, who will help him knock it in the head, The statesmen at Washington most vociferous against The statesmen at Washington most vociferous against awful subsidy are the very ones with long’ records as moters of subsidy, privilege and “pork,” and the president ould be excused if he doubts their patriotism in the present Bushnell and it was decided to at-| British navy, which it has most en- tack Howe's flagship, the Eagle.| dangered, as the most powerful de- Becatse Bushnell did not possess! structor afloat. the physical strength just at th Disheartened, friendless, alone, time to propel the vesse! himself,| Bushnell died, but the government a man named Ezra Lee was chosen./of the United States, a century Lee was able to reach the Eagle| later, remembered him and honored and secure a satisfactory position.| his memory. The latest submarine He was supposed then to detach| is named the Bushnell, and his the single torpedo which he carried) great-grandniece will christen it at and fix it in the hull of the Eagle.| the special request of President He was then to back away to safe-| Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of ty, while the torpedo, which was|the Navy Josephus Daniels. regulated by a time-clock, was to aa do its work in 30 minutes. | The hull of the Eagle, however,| was sheathed with copper, and Lee| EXPECT 250 NEW Horpedo, ‘Ar daylight approche | STUDENTS AT‘U’ Pi “Moneyed men who have grown gray In the service of the sport @ themselves branded as pirates robbing the players,” writes one D. B. press agent. What does he mean, service? ee ——| } | "MOST ANYTHING. | | the correctcion, The} toast was eaten in silence.” scrawled For Posterity An orator who had been boring Judge Landis must have envied the umpires the powers vested In ‘them; he'd have benched a bunch of bush lawyers in the first inning. his audie a ime wound Cee his nervousness grew and he sailed! up with: ‘I am speaking for the Couldn* | o> scat nelaan te away, leaving the torpedo afloat.| The recarder’s off! benefit of posterity.” ouldn't Stand the Shock THE GoLDrisH esi es corder's office at the state university 1s expecting an increase Ye houted some one in the Confound th eluck! } > NA SAPS, ; When You're Well, Keep Well”|| vx: 23e0 "oe" SS pine" yon pow 3 ‘TP Topp | Serene tiers etaeet © f done soon, they'll be here I sent ® poem to a magazine, and abc” second semester next week. : 1 hac —? {done soon, they " be her iterate 4-90 hagazine, and| ) SENDS Of this number a large portion Another article in The Star’s health campaign being conducted DISMAYED Too bad! But, cheer up; may-| , ; Be cone Sar ee et schools of oe : ‘ - Py Seu ‘aduate large 5 with co-operation of American Medical Association Bee URL MO 709 foe dam ; S A L M 0 N {| year classes, tbat gps ————_—————— oe ’ j { THE CARE OF THE MOUTH Discovered EAST {| suspenps TEMPORARILY Mabel—I know noe thing about 5 $1.25} ——! their team—they've got a speedy |) For which he delivers it, expr ||, CENTRALIA, Jan. 30.—Friction It is generally believed that the) the rousing of activity of germs in fullback paid, to any express offic pt (| between officials of the Consum- microbes of spinal meningitis find|the nose and mouth. Flora—Oh, did he come to see Fe ae on ge enper bas prov: (lers’ Manufacturing & Supply Co. their way into the Can oné trust to antiseptic mouth you, too? | 1) rived i SRE. * (| has caused a temporary suspension system through | washes, gargles, nasal sprays and J. P. TODD, 16 Colman Dock, Seattle of business. douches to keep the nose and 2 throat free from disease germs and thus to prevent colds and infec tions? No doubt they help in cer. |tain circumstances and when judi clously used, but to rely upon such measures absolutely is faulty hy giene. "the nose and ‘Mouth and that the germs of measles, scarlet fever and whoop- ing cough may originate in the same way Spinning’s Specials 45c Ib. |x! Bar Solder, Ib. .. 25¢ In Thousands of Homes | early and certain relief is found | It has been estimated that 14-| 000 bacteria pass through them in| every 24 hours! Is ft not rather @ source of wonderment that | for the ailments to which all are subject—ailments due to defective or irregular action of the stomach, Antiseptic solutions may destroy the most superficially "lying bac teria, but they do not reach those in-| which have penetrated the deeper feetion is not more usual than it) jayers, and they fall especially be. | liver, kidneys or bowels—in the is? cause they do not correct the ac. | most famous family remedy, As careful teriological €X-| tual alterations in the membranes |; the world has ever known aminations frequently have shown the interior of the mouth and throat, even of healthy persons, Pegularly contains numerous bac teria of disease. Most of them, it is true, are harmless, but some are| csnecially the delicate montanes oe ® malignant typ lof the nose, interfering with the ‘They will remain inactive as long| natural processes of protection and 98 healthy loca! conditions prevail! repair. and the patient's general resistance themselves, There {# indeed harm, rather than good, if the antiseptics used are of such character and concen tration as to irritate the membrane PILL ara justly famous because they have proved to be so reliable as correctives Kept at par, but let one be exposed; if you are “always catching! or preventives of the sufferings, dull to some unfavorable weather con-|cold” look to your general health, Why are you looking so blue 2¢¢lingsand danger due to indigestion nga such as An br nd to jan. Scareteen your resistance against | and gad, my dear? or biliousness, If you will try them luce a congestion of the nose and| cold sess 4 ‘ Throat, and let the individual be| Do not overeat. Keep the or- ¢, Oreihan tk ochtine Cat rte ro fasieltinathaapinh det ist the same time in a general “run-| gans of elimination normal, Take ‘2° catalogue this morning and , tone your stomach, stimulate down” condition, how quickly a|frequent baths; sleep in a cold,| 1U"4 2750 accessories that our mo-| your liver and regulate your cold develops and these bacteria! well ventilated room; avold crowds |'" Cat hasn't got | bowels, you will know why 80 become active and virulent. and overheated rooms; keep the 0.4.0 many rely on Beecham's Pills to Many of the infectious diseases,'teeth, tonsils, nose, and throat Pitile both of adult life and childhood, un- clean and breathe nothing but) Improved Grammar | foubtedly have their beginning in clean air * | The teacher had written on the hnsure ea t blackboard the sentence, “The toast | was drank in silence,” and turned to her clasa for them to discover in cleaniiness, comfort and court the mistake. 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