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THE BIG SENSATION OF THE YEAR NOW PLAYING Seattle. a wo we BH DISCUSS BOND THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 81, Y| ‘Theodoreg Letters to PLANS FRIDA Proposed Issues Are Before Council Committee of five subd Mareh \ bond tasues fon to the 1 be held by Dtveusston propawed for next Priday Drake r afte announced otert ett t r next oon, Chatr A tow man day The proposed bond issues tnolude $600,000 for the purchase and/ equipment of an airplane landing | site and buildings, $760,000 for the xtension and Improvement of the park and boulevard aystem, | 0,000 for extension and improve: | nent the elty"s pul markets, bond ise for the construction bridge across the Lake Waal meton canal at Montlake ave, and bonds for the construction of a wikiee over the West Waterway on Spokane ave, It certain that some of the proposed bend tauen will be cur. tailed or rejected altogether as the bonded Indebtedness of the city tn within $8,000,000 of the limit set by law, If all of the proposed bond twues should be submitted to | the voters next March, the limit of bonded indebtedness would” be » ar minor at tat he way ting « w nt inter f et in thy played. Adm ed from th dinnatintiod run. ais ecaune the Commer a with 7 the of the N Brownson him of “reprehens the t a “wounded vanity A letter of this sort would arouse mech anitnosity toward the president a# one of his spontane ous nots of friendliness had tn || spired support. But he acted |/often from the impulse of the mo ment.—The Edite ecaaimrtiahedie n to He re evel letter eretary Admiral aceused duct,” he personal pique ty $8 ay ca ta Hidishneéws ts Tear Rayou, Oct. 16, 1907 Darling Archie: We have had no lwek with the bear; but we have Killed as many deer we needed for m and the hounds caught « | wildcat. Our camp is as comfort lable ae possible, and we have great campti at night. : of the bearhunting planters me tol me he once raw a when overtaken by the Me down flat on its back FIVE. TEACHERS Say They Can’t Live on the! t ceded, | with bear, 1% “ Suddenly the bear sat up with a 1919, Shooting the Bear En Route to Washington, Ost. 22, 1907 DEAR TED: “Rad old father’ in coming back after a successful trip, It was a success in every way, including th bear hunt; but in Ure case of the bear hunt we only Just made it successful and no more, for it was not until the twelfth day of ateady hunting that I got my bear, Then I # it in the moet approved hunter's style, going up o# It In a canebrake as it made a walking bay before the dogs, I also| killed @ deer—tmore by tuck than anything else, as it was a difficult | not. | Quentin's “Exquisite Jest” | White House, Jan, 2, 1908. | DEAR ARCHIB Friday night Quentin had three friends, inclmding the little Taft boy, |to wpend the night with him, They passed an evening and night of de-| lirious rapture, it being a continuous roughhouse @ave when they would fall asleep for an hour or two from sheer exhaustion. I interfered but ones, and that was to stop an ex: je jest of Quentin's, which con in procuring sulphureted hy drogen to be used on the other bo: when they got into bed, They} played hard, and ft made me realize ow old I had grown and how very iy I had been these Inet few years, be I wan not needed In the paly. Do to find that they had grown #o that) races down the hall when brought in your fri Mother continu jto Beamp, who ts ¢ ‘ning Nttle dog. He ts very affection Ate, but #o exceedingly busy when we are out on the grounds, that we only eateh glimpees of him sever wing At full speed from one end of the place to the other, The kitchen eat and he have strained relations ‘but have not yet come to open hos tility White House, Jan. 27, 1908 DEAR ARCHIE. | Scamp is really a cunning Nettle, dog, but he takes #uch an extremely keen interest in bunting, and is #0, active, that when he is out on the) grounds with us we merely catch) glimpses of him as be flashes by, The | other night after the judicial recep-| tion when we went upstairs to sup, |per the kitchen cat suddenly ay | peared parading down the hall with | great friendliness, and was forthwit! exile’ to their proper home again. Tom Pinch White House, Feb, 23, DEAREST KERMIT: I quite agree with you about Tom | Pinch, He ts s denpicable kind of) character; just the kind of character | Dickens liked, becanse he had him-| self a thick etreak of maudlin #enti | mentality of the kind that, as some body phrased it, “made him wallow naked in the pathetic.” It always interests me about Dickens to think | 1908. Start the New Year right with the biggest laugh you will have in all 1920—at our NEW YEAR’S EVE SHOW and JINKS 11:15 P. M. to 1 A. M. Wed. Night Entirely different from the regular show—note these big features: The latest Arbuckle comedy The latest Sennett comedy The latest Chaplin comedy (Never shown before) Wages They Receive PORTLAND, Deo. 11.--Confronted you recollect how we ail of us used how much first-class work he did) to play hideandgoacck in the|@nd how slmost all of it wan mix White House? and have obstacle) UP with every kind of cheap, secon | Jump, 64 frightened all the dogs so at they nearly turned back somer- | saute “Qverseas Review” COME EAKLY AND ENJOY THE EXCITEMENT Christie Comedy read bargain advertise | Decause they teve there ia im store for them. bet “WILL PUNISH COURT LEAKS hi WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. — ‘the | \government today determined te | prosecute persons who may be re sponsible for “leaks” from the United States wopreme court. Annoohtement was made by Attor. General Palmer that evidence collected by the bureau of investiga tion of the department of justice, on Seattia [charges that important decisions | ‘nave been known tn Wail street be | | fore they were announced by the court, will be submitted to a grand , fury in the District of Columbia some ‘ume today. ‘The government, it was stated, has placed all the evidence in the hands of District Attorney I, Lawky, in “RUSS TORTURE eliminated by weartng Se Sters Kupture Sup! trial w prove ite Scherice- \ias LINDBERG Co, BBird Ave. ENWOOD _ THEATRE GStb and Urreawced Bg ertal Batinve on YRAN'S DAY AT 32 P.M. | charged with having obtained secret information and using ® for finan- clal purposes. It's — goed thing to avold people who think you are a good thing. a NOG earl 7 Pe Al iH) ui rae wi" ‘MIDNIGHT MATINEE The Usual Colonial Prices Prevail for This Big Screen Classic SPECIAL ul ed ie tin IT’S A "SCREEN EVENT! with what they declare to be the! At this camp there te a nice | practical impossibility of living com-| tame pussycat which Ives out here \fortably or even propertly on the/all the time, catehing birds, mice, | wages they reosive, five North Bend | Vearde; bot very friendly with lOre., school teachers yesterday bolt party of hunters which hap ed the 19th annual session of the | a slong. regon state teachers’ association, & od which ia being held tn Portland. ° ed they will not return One of the pedagoguen I already n her way to another state to a ept @ position paying $20 a month more than the salary she received! at North Bend. | Teachers of North Bend recently asked their board for a genera — of $29 a month, The > declared tMeelf to be without funds i referred the special election, poral was rejec or any Just killed a bear Kermit about it have and/tI } to — ‘Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root For many years druggists have Watched with much Interest the re markable ree Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, ne iver and bindder medicine. It te a phyw reseription. 8 } j me si It helps the kiineys. and biedder do the work nat tended they should do. Swamp ot has stood the test of | yeara. Tt is sold by all druggists on lite merit and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many proponit wh pre amp-Root if a ine. liver Cornish Players oo to Present Trio of One-Act Play: jother 3 Three one-act plays by distin |‘ ‘ea te toed guished modern dramatists will be} scart ccmiener om presented by the dramatic depart- | ment of the Cornish School of} Music Wednesday night. The piay- lets will be repeated tp both mati- nee and evening performances Net Year's day and on the evening of Janwary 2. All three playa “The by Strindberg; “King Lear's on We by Gordon Bottomley, and “The Constant Lover,” by Bt. Joba Hau- kin, have been produced under the Stiff Joints Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maroni Olsen. The latter will appear in| timber Up Quickly Under the Sooth. one of the principal roles. ing, Penetrating Application of Ve ay Hamiin's Wiard Ol In cases of rhettmatiem and Yame back i penetrates quickly, drives out soreness, and limbers up stiff Swamp-Root and once. However, if you wish firet to test thie great preparation send ten cents ta Dr, Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y., for & sample bettie, When @rit ing be sure and mention the Seattle Star. Judge Fines Two Restaurant Men aching joints and muscles For failure to keep thelr restau Wirard Ol t# an ab rants in @ sanitary condition, Nick! pie ants septic yon eon ae ut | | Matthews and Sam Drickas, Greek burns, bites, and stings, Sprains « Proprietors, were fined $10 each bY| bruises heal readily under ite ate | Police Judge John B. Gordon Tuesday. | ing, penetrating qualities ie “7 Cc agency a — stand own-{ Get it from druggixts for 20 cents Grow & fine of $3 for failure to) 1¢ not matisfied return the bottle and ‘keep his stock covered. | get your money back 33 ver constipated or have atck hend-| jee et Just try Wizard Liver Whips, pleasant Uttle pink pills, 30 cents. | Guaranteed PALACE HIP Extra Fertoy 1. | When « man falls in love he quits | Inoghing at the other victim of the! dincane. THEATRE Continuoas Dally 1 to 11 nee Tonight. Serve You roping im VAUT ROV RIDAY A OTHE GYPSY REVUE" Frolicking in a Romany Ca reppy N ® Bracin “In a Comedy Sketch, “Hetty's Mistake Whirtling and Imitations Feature Mhotopiny MILDRED HARRIS Mrs. Charlie Chaplin) in “WHEN A GIRL LOVES” A Convincing Story, Showing Nothing Really Matters “When a Girl Lov ? Matinee Dally Children 10 TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY It brings out a legal secret-—like a thunderbolt from a clear sky— a secret that hangs like a poisoned dagger over every man, woman and child! ARE YOU LEGALLY MARRIED “MOVING DAY” A comedy, with Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven Clemmer Music Liborious Hauptman Director SRkT NUMPER Ti May Wed Prince | ord maintained by Dr.| the great kid | strengthening | | ] iV wiping about the latest report—that the Prince of Wales is engaged to [marry Princess Marie of Rumania. She in in school tn England and is & constant visitor to the royal pal noe. ‘Look Out! Look Up! Madame Is ito Take the Flier | If the fog lifts Wednesday, Boattie | | will seo a Boeing seaplane Mying a mile above the city, carrying in it eddie Hubbard, the fearless pilot, and Mme. Luiza Tetraszsini, the world’s greatest coloratura. The diva, who arrived | in town Tuesday afternoon, with a song In| her heart and on her lips, glanced just onc@ at the sparkling bay and jat the 70 hills of Seattle, and there- | upon decided to seck the high places | 00 the panorama of lakes and moun- tains gn one god-like sweep of vision Incidentally Tetraszini is a special list on altitude, Her high notes are among the highest in the world, and| | the highest notes in the world nat- urally recelve the highest reward. |The celebrated singer ts anid never to make an appearance on the con- cert stage for leas than $5,000 a night. Which ti pretty high, Wednonday Seattio—and she i# an enthusiantic air fan—she will sing the highest notes of her brilliant career, for Pilot Hubbard has assured her that he will take her clear to the ceiling, But then, mebbe, the fox will stay down, and they won't be able to fly {after all | Madame Tetrazxint will appear in |recital at the Hippodrome Friday Jevening, singing for the 150th time | the mad scene from “Hamlet,” by] Ambrose Thomas 'NO RELIEF FOR Vv YORK, Dee. xpect no relief from Purope in the shortage of newaprint paper, tn | the belief of Philip T. Dodie, presi dent of the International Paper com pany, expressed to the Dow-Jones financial news agency today. Dodge as Just returned from an extensive tour of Burope, where he | Investian conditions, “Before the war the chief factor | which enabled European to ship newsprint to this country profitably was the cheap cost of labor,” Dodge said. “I believe theae Jare things of the pant. | “As a result of existing conditions, I do not look for any recession in {newsprint prices for two or three years, if then.” LONG, DRY YEAR SAN FRANCISCO, Dec “We're facing a long, dry | with nothing to do but wo |the New Year greeting to members of the San Franeteco chanrber of commerce today by Athall MeBea: presidep where a very transient visitor may | if Tetragaini flies over | PAPER FAMINE, 31-—America | rate matter. I am very fond of him ‘There are innumerable characters that be has created which symbolize vices, virtues, follies, and the like almost as well as the characters In Bunyan jand therefore I think the wine thing to do ix simply to «kp the bosh and twaddie and vulgarity and untruth, and get the benefit out! of the rest. Of course one funda-| mental difference between Thackeray | and Dickens is that Thackeray was @ gentleman and Dickens was not But a man might do some mighty good work and not be a gentleman In any sense. “Martin Chazzlewit” White House, Feb. 29, 1908 DEAREST KERMIT Of course I entirely agree with you jabout “Martin Chuzslewit.” But the | point » me that the prep \terous perversion of truth and t ienature and malice of the book « | lof consequence chiefly as Indicating | | Dickens’ own Character, about which | | 1 @are not a rap; whereas, the char. | |acters In American shortcomings and | | views and follies as typified are im mortal and, moreover, can be atudied with great profit by all of us today Dickens was an illnatured, selfish cad and boor, who had no under standing of what the word gentie- man meant, and no appreciation of hompitality or good treatment. He waa utterly incapable of seeing the high purpose and the real greatness which (in spite of the presence alxo of much that wae bad or vile) could have been visible all around him here in America to any man whore Vision wan both keen and lofty. He could not nee the qualities of the young men growing up here, though it was these qualities that enabled these men to conquer the west and to fight to a finish the great Civil War, and | though they were to produce leader rhip Uke that of Lincoln, Lee and Grant. Naturally he would think | there was no gentleman In New York, because by no poasibility could he have recognised a gentleman if he | ' “Tat's go buy Boldt’ French pas Uptown, 1414 Third ave.; Pome |town, 913 Second ave. ~ AMUSEMENTS MOORE Four Mertens: Master Gabriel) Marme: avid Schooler: Black & O'Donnell; Hudler, Btetn and Phillipa; Jamen button, TWICE DAILY, 2:30, 8115. This Week. Special Matinee New Yea Neary Miller and Ruth Chatterton’s “DADDY LONG LEG |] With Mary Thorne and the Wilk ayers Nighta, 1c to Mata, Wed. and Sat, om evILES Ny MeDermeott; Sisters; . 220 to Me. Nights (Sun.), 490; Mate, (except Mon.), 27c, Ladies’ Mata, (ex Matinoes, PALACE hiP THEATRE DROME VAUL Feature Photopiayt “LOVE Non ANDI” With Stua a i ILL This Week Special Matinee New Year's. Cohan @ Harris Present “A ‘TAILOR-MADE MAN* The Comedy Mit of the Year Nights, 50e to $2 ra and Saturday Mata. 606 to $t countries | 122 Third Ave ‘COR UNIVERSITY 30 Entertainers on the Stage Seats now selling at the box office. General admission, $1; loge seats, $1.50. Both prices plus tax. Ask at the box office at 9 o’clock tonight how to remain in your seat for both the regular and the mid- night shows. haa met one. Naturafty he would! condemn all America because he had not the soul to see what America was really doing, But be was in his element in deseribing with bitter truthfulness Scadder and Jefferson Brick, and Elijah Pograsn, and Han-! nibal Chollup, and Mrs. Hominy and the various other characters, great) and small, that have always made| me enjoy “Martin Chusslewit.” Most of these characters we still have with us. {To Be Contiuued) (Copyright, 1919, Charles Scribner's | Sona) i INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS The exemptions trom income tax, if you are a single person, is $1,000; Wiove if you are a marri Person and living with husbai or wife. An income tax return must be made if Pe he hee pro equal to or excecded tha: GRANT L. MILLER Income Tex Formerly Deputy Collector ef internal enue 735 N. a Ss Seattle Makes pinta, of edvising and assisting taxpayers in these matters. OORE THEATRE ORPHEUM | VAUDEVILLE| The Following Program All Week MAIN Z2Z2Z Second Edition of THE FOUR MORTONS “Then & Now” Black & 0’Donnell The Violinist and the Boob BILLY M’DERMOTT The Only Survivor of Coxey’s Army MASTER GABRIEL And Company in “LITTLE KICK” HUDLER, STEIN AND PHILLIPS JAMES DUTTON AND COMPANY DAVID SCHOOLER Revelation in Dance and Music MIDNIGHT MATINEE 11 P. M. NEW YEAR’S EVE Seats Now Selling Those desirous of participating in this gala event must act quickly—Seats are going very rapidy—OUR REGULAR PRICES

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