The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1916, Page 4

SEAT OF ScHIPes Nontaw Telegraph News Service by itself. It hts school is a 8, offices, rest rooms, all There is a door opening building is fireproof A visitor's principal impre d by the abundance of dark corner. is light all comes from make the building into o light and modern construction give an air of coziness| school, somewhat like the coziness of a modern bunga By The assembly hall may t sium at a moment's not | There are rest rooms: fo in every school, by the way, and each cloakroom ipped with foot warmers for the children. the center of the building are two well-lighted, well tilated toilet rooms. Six sh rble slabs agjoin the swimming pool, which automatical- itself. And there isn’t a sharp corner inside the building ion of the floors and the walls has been rounded off dust-catchers avoided. This school is said to surpass the famous one-story s of Rochester, N. Y., cost $100,000. A Wonderful New School Building Sy T. PAUL has just completed a school building in a class one-story There are eight classrooms, y, kindergarten, swimming pool, toilet and shower bath-| tilda? TLE STAR! | ust o United Press Assoctation oF NEWSPAPERS » Matter, year $2.50 Private this building, Randolph} an auditorium,| on one floor outward from each room, and ssion is LIGHT daylight, which has banished) one over: | is overhead skylights, which al ne huge photographer's studio »¢ turned into a playroom or ice. | r teachers, something greatly/ hower baths inclosed in beauti- The} hool where the idea originated. Our inequality materializes our upper classes, vul- our middle classes, Arnold. It’s Due To brutalizes our lower classes. . Editor—I see that world series baseball tickets will be higher. It can’t be due to the war. Why is i? , it isn’t due to the war, or to a short crop, or to a low tariff, or to Wilson’s foreign policy, or to germs of any We'll tell you, Mr. Fan First, you get hold of a t dly, you work up a popular craze for it. on as high a price as the My average crowd are composed of folks who will stand game and those who can afford to stand for it mind the other third. ming your way, in any game, and your gate receipts will y ase you, as most any self-made man will testify A FAN.- . how it is done. hing that is exclusively yours. Then you crowd will stand. Two-thirds| Get two-thirds of the crowd | more Biiitiitisste A Novel “MR. | A Week Bssistisereverrrstsy wheeled about M “Hello, Matilda, Thought you'd gone down to the kitehen,” “Why--why—tf it fan't) Mr Jack!" stammered Matilda Mra, De Peyster trembled likely than that her amazement, shoud house's secret? Bui of the room was a ally against such her son's Of course, {t's But say, what's Week tetestetsst ATILDA stopped short Jack | What Matilda, in reveal the the half-light very obliging unsuspicion as Jack, the he Ma said matter, You, tilda’ cern Ma’‘am at Mary “What, rotten Mary!" “Ma blankly. | Where have you put your head, | Matilda? Yes-—Mary! Mary! Mary! Mary De Peyster—Mra. Jack De Peyster—my wedded wife whom {t cost me four thirty-nine to make my own. Understand” “Poper-perfectiy, Mr. Jack Jack moved to the wall near the door, where were several buttons. | Mary, I'm going to ring for William—-we'd better take him tato this thing straight off, or ho iay stumble on the fact that extra peo-| ple are in the house and call in the police.” | At her crack In the pantry door, Mrs. De Poyster grew even more) apprehensive | Jack and Mary what's the asked Mary matter with great con ma'am” staring wildly ‘I—1 don't know, ma'am." have you already for what [ told you about Mary?” gasped Matilda] cooed; Matilda) nat all of a heap; and presently! William walked in, He came in with a haughty glower, for he had supposed the ring to be Matlida’s. But at sight of Jack and Mary his face went blank with amazoment “Why, why, Mr. Jack!” Hello, William! This is Mrs. . Wiliam, Just married. We've! come to spend the summer with| you.” You, sir.” ' “But on the quiet, William. Un. derstand? If you leak a word about our being here—well, | know about the heart-throb business between you and Matilda. If you drop one word, I put mother next to what's doing between you two. That's all.) Good-night.” | Jack turned his back, and Mary, whose heart went out to all lovers, delicately turned hers. “William,” fluttered Matilda, taking an eager, hesitating step to- ward him He stared at her haughtily Willtam,” she cried bewildered, “what ts it?” | “1 believe you know what it t#,/ Miss Simpson,” he replied wither ingly, and stalked out ander full only real reason for raising the prices of admission world series ball games is that the pyblic will stand}you got supper things started yet in| pay tn advance.” “All that the traffic will bear” may sound porcine|the kitchen™ it. ft goes as financial policy, here and there. _ Life in Greece these days is just one darned crisis another. the rate the “green car: Breaking ’Em Up are being sent to the scrap » heap by inexperienced strike-breakers in New York, 1f| i! railway men and their employes don't get together , they will both lose out on the strike. F ' ihe ii i} | i ' ! i $ F | i i if F i j iff H A | i Ht a tt z i j : i € H } i f *-. EXPLAINED Cramer was attacked at ie Saturday night and in the head with a hammer. Cramer was in the McComb ‘The Findlay Republican. oe FOUNDING A CAREER “That was a great speech you ” said the enthusiastic fe ’ "Do you think it will help me?” Senator Sorghum. tionably. It may not much influence in public af- but it ought to get you an ment with any lecture bu- SAFETY IN NUMBERS “T have here,” said the agent, “a utensil that no housekeeper can afford to be without.” “What is {t?” asked the woman at the door, “It's a combined corkscrew, can- open pocket knife, screwdriver, tack hammer, glass cutter and~- “Hold on a minute. I don't want) one of those things.” not” “By keeping those tools separ- ate, it is impossible for my husband to lose more than one at a time.” eee “When Jones bought his new house, it wae with the express un. derstanding that he should have room all of his own—a den or study.” “Yes, I know what you mean Thd he get it?” “Yes, and his wife furnished it.” “How?” “With a sewing machine, a cut- ting table, two dressmakers’ dum- | mies, three sewing chairs and a full- |length mirror.” . . THE PLEASING CHAP “Why do you turn, O summer girl, The end of the novel to see?” “Why, don’t you know,” she gently sald, “It's the last chap pleases me?” oe She was from Boston; he from Oklahoma. “You have traveled a great deal in the West, have you not, Miss Bacon?” “Oh, yes, indeed—in California and Arizona and even in New Mex- feo.” “And did you ever see the Cher- okee strip?” There was a painful silence, but finally she looked over her glasses at him and said: “Sir, | deem your question exceedingly rude.” WE ARE DANGEROUS PESTS a ee (ae We destroy annually millions Liars worth of property ana are barnacios and parasites on the & menace to soriety and serve no use it annoyance to the housewife of OUR DOOM 18 SPEEDY AND CERTAIN WHERE Stearns’ Electric Rat and Roach Paste | The Metional Kixterminator te used ae it been for ever 37 years Feady for ues Directions in 16 languages. U, S. GOVERNMENT BUYS IT. Hold everywhere the and $1.00 STRARNS' ELECTRIC PASTE CO., CHICAGO, ILL. 1 RB OPTERON ORI SPSS “| ergy. an neta majesty, “Matiida,” spoke up Jack, “have, “Er—er—what?" stammered poor Matilda. “Bay, seo here—what the dickens is the matter with you?” Jack ex. ploded in exasperation Promised to start supper in the) kitchen, and now-~" “Of course—of course.” gulped| Matilda, “I forgot. I'll do it right} away” Matilda was reeling. But she started for the door of the butler’s pantry. In the darkness of the pantry a hand fell upon her arm. “Matilda.” breathed her mistress’ voice, and! Matilda had enough centro! not to cry out, or was too far gone Clutching hands, they went down) the winding stairs that led from the butler’s pantry to the kitchen “Oh, ma’am, ma’am'” moaned) Matilda in the darkness “Matilda, there Is only one thing to do! We must leave the house!” “Oh, ma’ yes! This minute! But where | “There's no time to think of any. thing now but getting out,” cried Mrs. De Peyster with frantic en “Slip up the front stairway Matilda, and get your hat. And here are my keys. Lock my sitting: | You can manage| And been Hiving tn ft. it without them seeing you for heaven's sake, hurry! Two minutes later thease things were done, and Matilda, bonneted, was hurrying forward hand In hand| with Mra. De Peyster thru the black | hallway of the basement CHAPTER VI The two dark figures, with vetls the other, slipped out of the rer. vants’ entrance, thru the gate of the low fron fence, and arm clutch ing arm, hastened eastward to Unt versity Place At the head of Union Square they caught a roving taxicab, Their next thought, after bare escap., w necessarily concerned with shelter. “1 only Just now thought about It ~hut—but please, ma’am, did you happen to bring your purse?” “My purse!” Mrs. De Peyster gasped, “Matildat"—in a voice chilled with dismay—" never thought of my purse until this mo- ment! There wasn't time! I haven't a cent!” “And after paying for the cab, | ma‘am, I will have only @ little over fifteen dollars.” “Matilda!” There was now renl| tragedy in Mra, De Peyster’s voice. | “What are we going to do?” | ‘It seems to me, ma’am,” ven-| tured Matilda ‘that a rooming. PMBLititiiigeiiiittttsteattees PRATT” 8 y JOSEPH LINCOLN pegrettagissrs room, #0 they can't see any one’s| { down, each looking a plagiartsm of | M [$1.85] house or % boarding-house would be cheapest.” | “A boarding-house!” exe! Mrs. De Peyster, “But wh Matilda rememoered and reached into her slit pocket. “Yesterday I happened to pick up the card of a Loarding-house in the library—I've no idea how it came there, I saved it because my sister Angelica, who lives in Syracuse, wrote me to look up a place where she might stay. They examined the address upon the card, and twenty minutes later, | now close upon midnight, Matilda | was pressing the bell of a house on the West Side | The door opened slightly, A | voice, female, interrogated Matilda. | Then they were admitted into a small hall, From this hall a stair. way ascended, and from it was a | view into a small rear parlor, where | vat a clergyman, The lady who had admitted them was the mistress ‘To her Matilda made known their desire. “Bxeuse me, Mr. Pyecroft,” she | i ete STAR—WEDNESDAY, SEETEDIEATITELNTTAT ITT TTT kT T aes seas sets OCT. 4, 1916. PAGE 4 Prrtrisetterisiiteassettssiiieseetesesetitieeestisieseettesteeeereee ites eeT eS ese eT i ete eee eek “No. 13 Washington Square” euueuntnenenecaascganasestisgsasanesasanease | Gausdstezsssdsdsqetesssesesceeseststste Outbursts of EverettTrue THAT PeCLOW Seens To THINK PeoPce CAN SES RIGHT THROUGH called to the clergyman. and your friend want board and room,” the landlady repeated in a drawling tone, yet studytne them sharply. When would you want to come int “Now “Tonight! brows lifted in surprise. baggage?” “We came to New York without any, atilda led desperately “We're-—we're going to buy some things here. Naturally, The penciled eve “And your then, you expect to “Ah—er—at least a deposit.” “One room or two?” “One.” One would come cheaper “This way.” And she swished up two flights of stairs and Into a bed- on the light. “A very comfortable lroom,” she went on. “Ded and | solely thru the kitchen. easy chairs; running hot and cold water, And for it I'm mak ing a special summer rate, with board of only twenty-five dollars a week for two.” We'll take Jt,” said Matilda. Very well. Now the deposit— how much can you pay?” "Ab—er—ney fifteen dollars?” Thank you. Goodnight.” And with that her large pink-tinted lady- ehip made a rustiing exit Mra. De Peyster sank overcome A DAGGER IN THE BACK the woman's dread when up in the morning to start the Gay * work nh! how my b LD MEDAL taken today eases tomorrow-—~tak © backache for all time t delay. What's the use of suf- ng? 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De Peysters re maining in her room might rouse suspicion. The dining-room fit “Rut was low-cell “You jnst| room at the back, where she turned| inged and occupied the front base ment and seemed to be ventilated Mra, De | Peyster hazily saw perhaps a dozen people Mra, Gilbert did not give Mra. De Peyster a second glance. The other boarders, after their first scrutiny, hardly looked at her again. The effect wos as if all had turned their backs upon her, Then, in a flesh, she understood. ‘They were enubbing her as a @octal | inferior! Mrs. De Peyster was beginning to flame when the clergyman they |had glimpsed the night before entered. He seated himself at a small table just beyond Mra. De Peyster’s and was unfolding his napkin when his eyes fell upon Mrs, De Peyster. And then Mrs De Peyster saw one of the oddest A Simple Way to Remove Dandruff There te one sure way that has never failed to remove dandruff at once, and that is to dissolve it, then you destroy {t entirely. 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M, $5 $8 to B15 With All (this ts all} FREE | rable her rey | changes in a man’s face im That instantlong look ma hiver, What waa in thin ¢ “an's mind’ He charge, as was understood ing an almont church in Kansa An Mra, De Pe room that time, the without later was from in " walt wis at present learned that certain call Cit at at emerged from om in front of hers*the Rev erend Mr. Pyecroft He held out hie hand, and smiled p srochiall “Ah, Miss Thompson,"—that was the name she had given the Jand lady,-""since we are neighbors we should also be friend > |” Somehow Mrs, De Poynter got away from him But thereafter he spoke to her whenever he could waylay ber in the hallway or upon the sta Mrs Poyater and Matilda did not speak of money at first but Matilde saw eviction in their land lady's pelled eyes d without a word as to her tention Mre. De Peyster, she siipped out on the third day turned minus her two rings, and handed Mre. Gilbert ten dollars They were secure to the week's After that-—? But on Thursday, locked tn their th of the matter to room spoke open! An they left the dining room, Mrs. iIbert stopped them on the stairs. She notified Mra. De Peyster that she would thank them for another week's pay tn advance the folle ing day, or their room Here was a crisin that had to be faced at once. Up in their room discussed finance, going over and over their predicament, for two hours. There seemed no practical solution ey they Mra. De Peyater looked fide, 1 think I have it.” What fs it, ma‘am?"—with faint | ly reviving hope. You have the keys to my house./ You slip back there tonight, find my purse, or bring something that you might sell.” But, ma’am!" quaveringly tested Matilda, “Suppose a police man should see me!” Nonsense, Matilda! We simply got to have money!” Matilda was beginning to whim- per yieldingly, when a knock sounded at thelr door “It's the landlady, come to throw us ont,” quaked Matilda. Open the door,” ordered Mrs. De Peyster, “and tell her she shall have ber money in the morning“ Mattida unlocked the door. There entered the Reverend Mr. Pyecroft “Please leave this instant!” com manded Mrs, De Peyster. It is not my nature,” | turned, “to go and leave behin | fellow creatures in distress.” Fellow creatures in distress repeated Mrs. De Peyster. | “T was passing,” said he, “and | chanced to overhear you say a mo- | ment since that you simply had to | have money.” Mra. De Peyster’s face filled with suspicion. “You have been listen- ling all the while?” | “Possibly,” said Mr. Pyecroft, |with a bland smile. "I suppose Miss Thompson, you are not aware how much you look like a certain great lady, a famous social leader? |To be explicit, like Mrs. De Pey: ster?” She sank back, mere jelly with a human contour. So she was dis overed! Sho rolled her eyes wildly toward Matiida; Matilda rolled wild | eyes toward her. | “It is really a remarkable like. went on the low voice of lthe Reverend Mr. Pyecroft. “I've seen Mrs. De Peyster, not more | than six yards away; and the like- | ness struck me th ry moment I saw you. You could pass any where as Mrs. De Peyster, That likeness is the foundation of my proposition.” Mrs. De Peyster stared at him, and began t@ clutch at conscious ness, After all, was it possible that he hadn't recognized her as Mrs. De Peyster? But if he hadn't recognized her, then what was he driving at? Friend,” croft remarked, ladies’ game?” “Our game?” Mrs peated blankly “Now, don't try to come Miss In nocence over me,” he said easily “| gized you two up from the first minute, and I've been watching you ever since. What are the bulls Jafter you for?” | “The-—the what?” Oh, come—you're police, or why the queried pleasantly, “What are you? Housebreakers — sneak thieves | confidence game?” | Mrs. De Peyster gaped at him 1 don’t understand.” It’s really a pretty fair front you're putting up,” he commented with a dry, indulgent smile. “But you might as well drop {t, for you see I'm on, But [ think I under stand.” He nodded. “You don't want to admit anything until you feel you can trust me. ters, you're not the onl) police are after. That’s why I am temporarily in the ministry,” “Who are you?” demanded Mrs. De Peyster. “Well, you don't hesitate to ask, do you He laughed, lightly “Ever heard of the American His torical Soctety’s collection of re- cently discovered letters of a gentle- man named Thomas Jefferson?” Mrs, De Peyster started. “Yes.” “And perhaps you have heard that authorities ow agree that said |‘Thomas Jefferson was dead almost a hundred years when said letters have | he re 4 me j | the Reverend Mr, Pye- “what's you two De Peyster re. dodging the disguise he being of to the case, one be | were penne and that he must \have been favored with the assist. jance of an amanuensis of, so to | say, the present generation?” pon yes." “That you may have heard Thomas Pres ton, alleged said amanuen- | sis? “Yes.” He put his hand across his cler ical vest, and bowed first to Mrs De Peyster, then to Matilda. “It gives Mr, Preston very grent pleasure to meet vou, ladies. Only for the present he humbly petitions | lto be known as Mr, Pyecroft.” Mrs, De Peyster was quite unable to speak. So this was the man Judge Harvey was trying to hunt down! Mr. Pyecroft leaned forward, Leroy pro-} Well, sis-| People the} Drititiiiiitiistitstssitteteeest eee eed By Scott A Novel| A Week — | Perrrstittisisissrosg Hut this isn't getting down to our 1 kot a plan that’s jore fun than the Jefferson letters and that will m us a lot of ' Miss ‘Thompson. It de pends, as 1 waid, upon the able coincidence of your to Mra, De Peyster Ye Mrs, De to ma You've right Leroy f remark | likeness Pey i er manag read of her, atiffest swell of the | the young yntleman She's in Europe now papers say she won't be the very end of summer money, | heard you say stake till Mra. De come of course went on rapidly and the until You need Weil, ll Peyster you back * me Mra. breathed ye Give you, both of | what money you need.” | “And—and when—Mre ster comes back?” | Young Mr, Pyecroft chortled with | delight Say, thin scheme's the best ever! ay we learn Mrs, De Peyster landed, we dress you up as a top-notcher—gad, but we can make you look the part!~—we put you in 4 swell carriage, with her coat of jarme painted on it-and you go around ‘Tiffany’s and all the! other swell shops whe: / mean time I'll have De Peyeter has charge accounts. You select the most valuable ar. ticles in the shop, and then in the most casual, dignified manner—I can coach you on how to put on the dignity—you remark, ‘Charge to my | account, and I'll just take it along with me.” And off you go, with a diamond necklace under your arm. And same thing at all the shops. Then we duck before the thing/ breaks, and divid» the fruits of our| industry and superior intelligence, as the economists say. Isn't that one great little game? Mrs. De Peyster stared at fac grinning like an elated gar- goyle; herself utterly- limp, her every nerve a filament of icy hor-| ror | Tr has to | bis Well, what do you say?” prompt- ed Mr. Pyecroft I—can't—can't do It,” she gulped | out ’ “Can't do it!” He stared at her, amazed, “Say, do you realize what you're passing up?” “I can’t do ft,” repeated Mrs. De! Peyater. | He stood up, smiling again. “I | Won't argue with you. You'll come }in, all right,” he continued confi-| dently, “for you need money, and) I'm the party that can supply you. Now, think the matter over, girls. [1 be back in half an hour. So liong for the present.” | The door closed behind him. Mrs De Peyster gazed wildly after him. “Matilda, we've got to lenve!! | And leave before he comes back!") “Of course, ma'am,” cried Ma-! | And then: “But—but the ! Matlida had handled Mra.| | De Peyster’s petty cash account for) twenty years, and her business it | bad been to think of petty practi- lcalities, “We've only got twenty- three cents left, and we can't pos- sibly get any more soon, and no one will take us in without money or baggage. Don't you see? We jecan't stay here, and we can’t go any place else.” The two gazed at each other. Then suddenly Mrs. De Poyeter | leaned forward, with desperate de- | cision, | | | 1 | Buyers Completely Astounded ments of Their Choice. of the Ellers it has ex- rienced many able events, but! none of them approaches the present Retiring Sale in magnitude of busi- ness done or in the extreme reduc t in all prices, but In the long history Piano Houre tn Seattle * the most able feature of ail Is the genu- good nature of the big crowds| that are to be found dally at this big sto: Nothing like it has ever] happened in Seattle, or, as one vet-| jeran piano man stated, “Nothing like it has ever happened anywhere be- fore. This going-out-of-business| sale of Eilers is not only rocking| Seattle and a great part of the state |put it's rocking the entire pla trade of the "had, tr enough, it is creatin commotion, No wonder, consider such smashing these, } when you values as NTED LOW PRICES eat, big, full size, mot- mahogany player piano transposing key - |board, 88 music, and you must hear the powerful tone, Ellers is selling it for only $254, And that’s not all, for they are giving away, Free, with that trifling price, a Hberal supply of music rolls. Only 826@ for the entire outfit, player piano, lbrary and all, And here's another gift price: A good practice piano for 836, and another tor @@8, and an- other at 89, and for 876, 88 and 802 more, there are splendid pianos of the worth and quality which have commanded many, many times more than the present Bilera knocked down prices, GRAND PIANO PRICES ALL UP: sn look at this Kimball grand. will sell it now for 8286. Yos a200, There's no misprint about it, Of course, It's a stagger ing reduction, and it's hard to be- Heve. Only come in, that’s all, and the stern reality is there—a Kimball grand for €206, Look at this Stein- way now for $165, Yes, sir i ulne Steinway, and we repeat, th price is only #165, But, better still here's an Emerson, spick and span, looks Hike Just out'of the box. Wu ou believe it? We're selling this amer for just $®—no more and no leas. within the memory man hav an Emerson for $95 1 sell this Eme Come in today and see Here's a gr tled figured with a modern Bile absolutely f. Bush & Lane, &@ mammot that nf the very big We're told this aize one at gest styles if tt has, but we do will sell_this one for repeat it, 8235, because ¥ yw'll think’ there is some mistake ut it, but there isn’t any mistake at all,. We'll sell this Bush & Lane for only 8335. And, what's more, We will also sell this Victor plano, another monster, and, we be- that and ¥ | break in the doors. jis a sure sign ite ‘hours all the foul a tremendous |" we shall go “Go home, ma'am?’ erlod Ma tilda. There's nothing elee we can do, slip into my sitling-room, lock the door, and live there quietly and will never know I'm the house.” Five minutes later the two twin figures of somberness, their veils down, stole stealthily down the stairs and out into the night vu Jack in CHAPTER VII Home again! Cautiously they cement hallway. One then peace, security And then, suddenly, the servants’ bell into ringing. at's that?” er. the the more crept thru burst Matilda Mra. De Pe M—1n come in,” br Matti Discarding caution, they plunged franticall and nolsily the sire; until from out of the over- head blackness descended a voice: Stop! Or I'll shoot!’ It was Jack's voice, They clung to each other, word: They heard his feet begin de- terminedly to descend. Mra. De Peyster loosed her grip on Ma- tilda’s arm and vanished noiseless- ly breathed police saw us up downward “It's only bled Matilda But where the deuce have you been?” exclaimed Jack, coming to her side. Mary had also hurried down to her. “Matilda, the way you ran away from ue!” 1 got a—er—sudden message. There was no time “Never mind about explaining now,” interrupted Jack, jo down and stop that racket before they You're just the o it; housekeeper, care me, Mr. Jack,” trem- person t taker.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) EVEN CROSS, SICK CHILDREN LOVE SYRUP OF FIGS If Feverish, Bilious, Consti- pated, Give Fruit Laxa- tive at Once. Don't scold your fretful, peevish child. See if tongue is coated; this’ little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomachache, indigestion, diar- rhoea, give a teaspoonful of “Call- fornia Syrup of Figs,” and in a few aste, the sour bile and fermenting food passes out of the bowels and you well and playful child again. dren Ibve this harmless ative,” and mothers can after giving it, because fails to make their little clean and sweet. Keep it handy, Mother! given today saves a morrow, but get the your druggist for a 50-cent bottle | “California Syrup of Figs,” has directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plain- ly on the bottle. Remember, there are counterfeits sold here, so ly look and see that yours is by the “California Fig Syrup Com- pany.” Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. i. bre? bE ali Hr Whatls the World Coming Tol Lady Makes This Exclamation at Eilers Store Yesterday When Purchasing a Magnificent Piano for Only $146 at Extraordinary Reductions’ | in the Big Piano Store, Their Wonderment Eliciting Many Quaint and Original Remarks of Appreciation as They Eagerly and With Fine Good Nature Snap Up the Instru- lieve, made by the same compan: although that doesn't amount anything, who made or makes it ing about it now ts th: y it from us at th ng-out sale for only ®18%—o1 eighty-five dollars, on time, if you Uke, for the balance. Do you wonder that people aay, What's the world coming to?” when they come Into Etlers store and se for themselves what is being done here every day for the short time remaining before the Eilers Music House of Seattle goes out of busi ness, and {t's only a matter of da now, so you must hur: f you want to Ket in on the rock-bottom floor in buying a piano, a grand piane ae player piano. Here's a Cable piano and player which goes for and we'll give you free music rolls besides. Or, if you itke a Fischer plano best, here's a Fischer piano in fine brand new walnut, player and 50 rolls of music, for S378—a payment down for good faith and the balance on time, and the price only TIME IS SHORT Now There are here now exclusive de~ sign fine art grands for first time at cut prices. The play Piano re- fons are a positive sensation 5 and it's even modest to say that the cuts on upright pianos and superb § and pianos are simply star ering. Seeing Is believing. Not c uw part of this great told in @ space like this or in any per, for that matter, You must in and get the peculiar situa- for yourself. The Eilers Musi must vacate this building at once, because the Montelius @ Son, Ltd., of Vancouver, B.C. have boukht the lease, fixtures and other interests In. Seattle, and will fm- mediately take possession. We haven't an hour to lose. Neither have you If you want to take ad- Come in House vantage of this condition, at once, pick out the plano or player plano or grand piano of your chole pay down a reasonable amount. of ash, and you can pay the balance. in easy monthly payments, but t thing Is po tT Now, Third Ay Ss je, Wash, NOTICE—The Hopper-Kel} our esteemed tenants, with aa ae of Talking Machines, and th Music Company, with a sw Sheet Music and small oon continue to occupy their quarters,