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REE PRIZE A Piano and many other Beautiful Premiums free in a most liberal MANUFACTURERS’ PUBLICITY DISTRIBUTION AND “15 PUZZLE” CONTEST to celebrate the Great Victory (15 highest awards). at the Panama-Pacific c International Exposition No one is asked to buy anything to win one of these prizes. Every one sending answers will receive ome Songs’ tree t he collection of “National (containing words and music of 66 songs), also an elegant “15” Exposition Souvenir Spoon, as well as having an equal chance with all the other contestants to win the First Grand Prize, valuable Grand Prizes. First Grand Prize Superb, latest 1916 Studio Model, Brand New Upright Piano. cate good for $99.00. All contestants will also receive from our Advertising Department, besides the Premiums mentioned above, a bona fide cash value Pur- chaser’s Credit Check, good toward the pur- chase of any new piano or player piano in the Eilers Music House, Seattle, Washington. Contest closes at 6 p. m., Western Union time, Wednesday, March §, 1916. All answers received or mailed after that me will not be accepted. Don't delay answering. CAUTION—Write name and address very carefully and Plainly, and send in the solution just as soon aa possible. Awards will be made immodiately after contest closes, and all contestants will be notified. An Interesting Puzzle Can you arrange these numbers (use only 1 and $ inclusive) so they will total 15 up and down and side ways, and, perhaps, diagonally? As soon as you solve it, send your answer. Also fill out the blank below. Do not delay. You cannot be late. Important—Each number If unsuccessful at first, try Say it can be done. For the best arranged, neatest, artistic answer we will give the prizes in order of merit All prize winners will be notified and all prizes not called for within fifteen days after closing of contest are forfeited. This paper, or any other way may be used. When more than one person it a family is found as contestant, awards will be void All prizes in this great publicity event are given absolutely free. Neatness and arrangement, as wel! as accuracy, will be considered. All answers must be the contestant’s individual work. In case of tre exact duplicates of every prize in this contest tt be awarded. The decision of the three judges will be final. All answers must be sent at once to Desk H, Eilers Music House, Eilers Bldg., Seattle, Wash Second Grand Prize Latest model, brand new, $50.00 Talking Machine, and a Purchase Certifi- statistic afford to used but once mathematicians to be again correct and most wi CAN IT BE DONE? If you can arrange these figures so they total 15 In every direction, up and down and sideways, and perhaps diagonally, send your an swer at once. night, has been lost BANDITS GET AWAY! up and robbed the North Coast/ Limited, on the Northern Pacific, tory at Flagstaff, Ariz., near Covington, last Thursday| posed spring frost on Mars Oo | plano |aition | | magazine | know. player plano do r some of the other very Third Grand Prize Beautiful Chest of Guar- anteed Silverware, and a Purchase Certificate good ‘Why the “15 Puzzle’? This pated distribution in by seven of the great manufacturers of the na representing the finest valuabje pianos and os mado. This gre » to emphasize the great vic at the Panama-Pacific Expe (fifteen highest award and also to reduce the cost jselling pianos. The old methods of paying solicitors and age and program advertising, or engaging great artists to play thelr pianos public are costly, and do not ade to the intrinsic worth of the in stroment. By distributing a 1 tion of such advertiving ap priation to the actual retatl al the gr porsible t ya a liberal portion of the srera’ advertising mon profit - sharing mp making this most unusually attrac offer direct to every one. is particl tion, most pla tory atre ranufac t tm this ve | Statistic and Information Blank | Mall this blank, or one #imilar,| with your address. We want to Which make of plano or| ou consider the} eat? > { iano Player Piano Name Street No ch | | | | } | | | | Northern Pa-| cific special agents believe the the ory that the robbers escaped tn an All trace of two Dandits who held| auto {s an imposible explanation Astronomers of Lowell observa detect sup | Should | Piano, It You Keow of Anyone Who have write a name no or and Play add r here. Name Street No City +. Address all replies Third at University, Seattle. HEAVY DAMAGE IN NIGHT BLAZE Coming Soon “Kick In” Metropolitan Theatre Fire that started in the pressing | | | in| rooms of Singerman & Sons’ cloth ing store did $105,000 dama the Lumb Exchange bu Second ave. and Seneca st., day night The cause of the fire has not been learned. Flames were shoot ing out of the rear windows before the fire department could reach the scene. The biggest loss was in the cloth ing store, The stock was fully tn sured. Piper & Taft suffered $5,000 damage, partially insured, and it] will cost about $10,000 to repair |the building ‘OPEN NEW COURSE IN CITY GOVERNMENT A university extension course in munielpal government will be start ed Friday evening, March 2, at 8 Pp. m., {n rooma 630-32 Henry build ing, of the extension division | downtown class rooms This is the second extension clans in this subject to be started thi year Sixteen two-h Frida evening sessions will be held, and| two university credits may be] earned by those who wish them, ‘URGES HIS PLAN FOR HIGH SCHOOL DRILL “member of <a urges that train ding, | Satur | one wo-hour Victor Zednick, state educational survey is plan of enforced military ing in high schools should be ended even by pacificts, It would include not only military drill, for mation and tactics, but also courses in sanitation, chemistry, hyglene and physics, | | Mis ett st jout of the bowe | good |know a teaspoonful today on the STAR—MONDAY, FEB. 28, 1916. PAGE 7. 1COUPLE PICKED FOR LEAP YEAR WEDDING ON STAGE AT STRAND Vesta Ludington and Alpha Omega Ward, Whom She Wiil Marry Tuesday Noon on the Stage at the Strand Theatre The happ is Miss Vesta Ludington, 466 Blew girl in Seattle today | good fellow bout she interrupted, him. Limten Alph; we've b ing o con ong with me office tomorrow morning. 1 think ought to get married RIGHT This is a good chan pr and mother heard the young couple of ® lifetime,” talk been Av rid is Blewett et Readers troduced the fellow in Ward happlent a to 7 Alpha Omega we consider you in to ‘em—they p year couple son they will step out of the Strand theartre ca st, and volunteer ¢ fatherin-law going to print what or how the moon Second be married You are all invited to at fay the picture # M to charge Alph said. that night But the girl was radiant and t eager when they office, enrly ooked nd, and to stay ward, ly Sm it you boy The morn he fen't ‘ fasion nd her bubb . x Star o it eve to Bi has writ for them Star announced last Monday it was going to foot the bill for a leap year wedding. The girls were told go ahead and propo. A bunch of ‘em did. Vesta topk the dare about ours after she read the plan. She had liked the looks of Ward ever since she met him, Christmas day He came up to see ber last Mon day night “Seen 1 and any thusias Vesta was born In Seattle 18 ye ago. Young Ward came from N h Yakima a few aro T Sire. He age ts to » parents Ladington. Recause the wedding t« to cele! brate leap year day, it will come on February 29. an anniversary for four ye The festivities have all ranged, from pouring gasoll the Hudson Super-Six that w them to the theatre to frosting ‘the cake made under the di Superintendent Titus of dining car department of the Northern Pa cifie. The flower# will come from the Hollywood gardens The wedding breakfast t# to be prepared by Manager A. Cheshire Mitchell's chefs, at the Butler cafe. And the Tiffany ring—well from Burnett Pros., 999 Second ave. Remember, you are invited. TUESDAY NOON, AT STRAND | STUDENT STRIKE IS NOW IN FULL SWING PORTLAND, rl two e Star she asked sitting In the kitchen » ans there is no sense tn « any longer Clayton CROSS, FEVERISH CHILD IS BILIOUS OR CONSTIPATED, Look, Mother! If tongue coated give “California Syrup of Figs.” werad your Anderson, is >of | | Feb. 28.—Freshmen mother realizes, after giv ing her children “California Syrap of Wigs that this is their ideml laxative, because they love its and ft thoroughly the tender little stomach and bowels without griping When cross, irritable, feverish or bad, stomach sour, look mother! If cc¢ poonful of this harmless “fruit laxa * and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and food pi playful ch w hen its little system is of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, Indigestion, collo—remember, a inside cleansing” should al-/ the first treatment given. “Call they paver a sick child tomorrow Ask your! druggist fora 60-cent bottle of} California Syrup of Figs,” which | has directions for babies, children | of all ages and grown-ups printed |!¥,”" proclaims the United States de- bottle, Beware of counter.|partment of agriculture, which elts sold here, so don't be fooled. |shows that the United States de et the genuine, made by “Califor |partment of agriculture never tried yrup Company to catch a pullet TESS fimpre CORNER” SULLIVAN + CONSIDINE “THE Rotee wit exits” Evers colle today still refused to attend the classes of Dr. John D. Mac-! |Laren. Furthermore, the entire letudent body has endorsed | freshman strike taste, comparing the gray matter of Archi bald N. McDonald, a student, to that of the frog which studying. Trouble had tween Macl for months KNIGHTS HAVE FUN Knights of Pythias on both sides of the footlights of the Metropol itan theatre 1 a lot of fun Sat- urday night They staged their | musical review, “A (K)Night in al Cabaret the class was been brewing be. ren and the students ways be Millions of mothers keep fornia Syrup of Figs” handy; “Never handle chickens rough-| MATINER DAILY CONTIN ANCE § Features Each Week BEST VAUDEVILLE AMERICA "rrr 10°206 :: rece r our plans right along. Now,/| and they won't wid tion of | it's) THE | Jat the University of Obregon medical |! feel terri the! MacLaren refused to apologize for! yoo S POHL | ANNOY NOH. B NONE | HY | PRY W Nowe WELLL ALLELE LUD LL, THE Dumbest Oyster can make the brightest man. The oyster uses Nature’s methods. NNN RNA BV QLD’ VAAN AAV MMW BROW VOI WA ° Por T rn ria rin eet ie ee ee ee TLL TELUGU LE AEE wm HEN I’m matunin’ from old Mother Nature its full, hearty maturity until after maturin . We can do it quicker.” What do you say? Well, fill a pipe with VELVET, an’ draw in the, cool, mild smoke that's so ng 1 an’ rich that—but what's the use of trying to describe a my word for bi gtd long enough to try a pipeful, and to take anybody's word after that. to Seattle! montis | 10c Tins One Pound Glese Bumiders | TOERECHDETIVEGD ODS TECIPOUBLUTATTNTERTE Confessions of a Wife THE WAIL OF A PAIN-RACKED, Love, you have blessed me and led BODY me; the lips that have kissed you, you smite I stopped reading Mary's letter | pe Sous /have VU chat ied mad right where she said she was) me—but left is the joy of the afraid, for Dick came for his daily | fight? visit to me. | He bent over my bed and kissed! \ ever was 1 a coward! Now must my cheek lightly and said, “Well,| aoa jmy di |straightened out at the book con-| World, I will give you my cour and, Margie, we are almost| age; not tears but a hard- bought mirth, »n't you,| Work of my hands I grant you, labor and toil of brain, But heart and soul shall be want- ing—for they are dead of pain! r, I have at last got things | I prove my cern j rick | “But you do feel well, do Dick?” 1 said somewhat apprehen-| looked very worn well feeling | rgie? feeling, ve Forward! A_ fight to the death, then! Life is a sorry jest Ahead! To the thick of tumult! Fate is a fool at the best Courage! The war gods are great est! Love a false, Nght that, my!To arms! For Dreams are frail dear,” said Dick quietly. “All yout bubbles, and Hope but a song |have got to think about is about in the night peping your courage and getting sia are |How is the leg? | “I guess it is all ly while you hard. Iam not « let alone a wife We won't discuss right. Dick, but/ be a stick lying] re working so| ‘en a good chum, World, I cast down the gauntlet, for you w made to defy! me a foe your mettle! Ah, fighting let me die! Love, Hope and Dreams I give you; Life I fling at your feet will drink to the dregs of the bitter—for once I had tasted of sweet! te be a terrible thing if I did not get well? "Margie, why do you torture yourself and me? 1 don't know, Dick, but | would much rather die bedridden for a long ‘ hen can I go home I don't know that, must be patient Do you want me home, Dick? Dick was silent. for a moment and then he sald, “I am not stay- ing there | I was so astonished that T gave | my bad leg a terrible wrench and | |nearly fainted 1 am staying with Jim, simply could not stay without you “Then you do love me, Dick?" You dear woman, can't I ever again make you believe that I only loVe you, that I have never loved any one but you, and never will love any one but you? All my foolishness has nothing to do with Jloving. Such things have nothing |to do with any man’s loving.” | 1 locked at Dick closely. ‘Then } you think that no married, man | loves the other woman with whom | he has a liason? | “IL would not say that, for some | men don't love their wives, It ey sometimes the wife and sometimes the other woman a man 1 but | | Would it Own like to truly I than time. } now I | | | you | Of one last taunt I shall rob you stern, I will claim my due One recompense you i give me, A balm I will snatch from you "Tis neither Fame nor Glory—toys to break and regret; Margie; | Margie, | at home | eS Soe WESTER Sets the Mil whichever it is, he will keep her Jin his heart always.” And you love me, Dick?" H | Always, dear heart io much |that I have not ceased cursing my self that I have made you suffer. | He took me up in his arms and kissed me, but it was not with the old fervor, I was not sure that he was afraid to show me or if his ardor had burned itself out, 1 wish I knew, little book, I wish IT knew. I let Dick leave me with a weary good night and tried to sleep, but all the while I kept | thinking of a poem I read the oth Jer day in a newspaper. Life, you Night Le only a co THE WESTERN UNI and | have | bruised me chilled me; Fate, you jeered at my pain; Dreams, have mocked while you thrilled me—so 1 turn to the battle again, | Nature says smokin’ tobacco don’ Some folks may say: “Why wait on Nature? gto P* Se Metal-lined Bago ofipgalte Mgors Tbacee Ge, fair} WAAAY Wee @ PARATAN SUN PHI OTN <—S > TON ON BIT ANNAN. AMAIA AALS HACE ii Sk Os tobacco for VELVET, I take a page "s Book. t arrive at two years’ CO Vesrtriietieseeetreey I'm strong for Nature’s way—the VELVET way—two years mellowing in big, wooden hogsheads—“ageing in the wood.” taste? Take you won't need eGiesERDGny GUTveGUUDUITIGTIIITUDIDODPED OTTO OD EDOTEOTOTTRNTORTID Copyright 1918 TO DODDTLEFTEREUELOLEDEUENEY 1 demand to conquer M demand that I—forg _(te be continued) CONFIDENCE |Is a large factor in success. |The world has confidence in the man who saves. Save _ with us—begin now. Interest 4% UNION SAVINGS & TRUST CO. OF SEATTLE Capital and Surplus $800,000 JAMES D. HOGE, President. N. B. SOLNER, Vice President and Trust Officer, HOGE BUILDING In the Heart of the Financial District N UNION es at Naught A business campaign of Day Letters and tters will quickly prove dis- tance an imaginary barrier and clock time mparison. ON TELEGRAPH CO.