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making Aux is an essential factor, and no company has a better article than the Sloss company possess. But necessary as Aux is, yet it is not
 A Heat Producer.
 It will not burn. Carbon must be added. The Sloss company seeks its coal supply along either side of F'ive-Mile creek. Be- ginning at Coalburg, eight miles from the furnaces, we find sixteen openings or drifts; at Brookside three more; at Brazil there are eighteen openings; at Cardiff two, and at Blossburg there are two more. The maximum output of these mines is close to 1000 tons day; but at present the output stands at $500 to 4,000 tons.
 These mines are all in the Pratt seam the top workable vein of coal in the imme- diate neighborhood of Birmingham. It crops out at convenient levels, near the surface, and it affords good roofs in the mine. The haulage in the mines is in Ia vor of the loaded cars there is no fire damp to contend with and the drainage is that of gravity And the official tests Of the United States government show that Sloss coal is the best steam making coal in the southern states. It is really the best steam coal in the country, and is in this re- spect superior to British coals.
 All the mines are worked in the room and pillar system; and when mine is worked back to the line of economic haulage the pillars are taken out, and there is very lit-
 
 But down below are other seams, and some day shafts will be sunk to them, and coal drawn therefrom. The great Newcastle seam is down there-a seam that will yet be the chief source of supply for Birmfng- ham industries. But at present the Sloss company confines it's coal mining to the Pratt seam.
 At Blossburg the seam averages four feet in thickness, and the company has fine plant there. MT. Priesly Toulmin. mining ,f 1re.t6 ar,6 fhn n+E is done under his eye. It was he who erected the washers at the city furnace, at Coalburg, Brookside and Blossburg, and they work so satisfactorily that no un- washed coal is now used by the company for coking purposes. One hundred and fifty Bee Hive ovens are in operation at Bossburg. At Brookside there are 100 more ovens. At Brazil and Cardiff are numero us drift mines, fifty feet above the railroad, and ventilated by fans twelve feet in di- ameter. We are now back at
 The Coalburg Mines.
 These are not by any means the most productive of the company,s numerous mines; but they serve to show how coal is handled at all of them. The tail rope haulage system is used, bringing out from twenty to forty cars each trip. As the car comes to the tipple, it is automatically dumped, the coal falling on a screen, and it is then and there separated into two grades-lump and slack. The lump falls directly into cars of the Southern railroad. and is soon on its way to a market, which may be near, or 1t may be in Mexico. The slack is at once seized by elevating buckets and carried to
 A Washer.
 A coal mine without washer would be a very wasteful mine, and it's slack coal would not be considered very desirable, at least for coking purposes. The elevator carries the slack as it falls from the screen to a Robinson washer where it is churned
The age-herald., 1898-01-23
 SLOSS FURNACES
 AND COAL MINES.

BY W. P. r. FINCH

an Alabama furnace in prime working con dition, let him go to North Birmingham.
 The four great stacks-two in the city and two at North Birfningham-have joint daily capacity of about 750 tons. It Is plain that some very active work is going on somewhere for the feeding of the four in satiate monsters that disregard the night, and Sundays and all holidays The North Birmingham stacks are built on
 Bed of Dolomite
 two hundred feet thick. Perhaps hundred rods away, in the valley, the company has opened a quarry having twenty-foot face. The soft stone is loaded into small cars, which are drawn up a slope by steam power to point over the railroad, where they are automatically dumped into an ore car, which is pulled by the company's own To- comotive to the stock house of the North Birmingham furnaces, or else is sent to the city furnaces. This dolomite consists of about equal parts of carbonate of lime and magnesia, and the two combined consu- ute a Aux that through some strange chemical process causes the foreign and un- desirable clements in the ore to smelt at a reasonable temperature, and to flow Tn good easy liquid condition into the cal drons on the tracks that lead up to the stack. Its action in the stack is superior to that of limestone, and it is quarried at a low cost on the company's own ground and it's transportation to the stock house is scarcely an appreciable item. In iron
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sble. When it is remembered that these same stacks once produced only 80 or S5 tons a day, and that they now send out twice that quantity and more day, 1t is difficult to name limit.
 Each stack has four furnace stoves, and cinder separator, and all the other huge equipment that goes with one of the great modern smelting pots. And although there is coal and coke on every hand, yet none is consumed in either the great furnace stoves in which the air to be driven into the stack is heated, or in the boilers that supply the steam power All these are heated by the waste gas taken from the top of the stacks.
 Great hoists carry the charging buggies speedily to the top of the stacks. Urged by Assistant Superintendent Edwards, an Age-Herald reporter took an aerial ride to the top. First was brought up a buggy containing 5000 pounds of coke, and this was dumped into the hopper at the top of the stack. Then came up buggies con- taining the exact proportions of dolomite or limestone, of brown ores, of hard red ore, and of soft red ore. When the "charge" is complete, the "belP' in the center of the hopper is dropped down, and down goes the charge into the fiery depths of the stack. Who can adequately describe the outburst of flame and swirling gas and furious heat that springs out of the open top! But it is speedily closed and the awe-stricken beholder is left helpless to gaze down on the hissing steam of multi tudnous pipes and valves, and engines-on the flowing metal or roaring cinders flowing from the stack-out on the coke ovens that may for aught one can see be a mundane place of torment. The eye cannot pene- trate the secrets of the ovens, hid as they are in smoke-choked fires; but the entire scene has much of glamous generally at tributed to the lower world
 The Stock House
 Is a marvel of convenience. The ore laden cars enter 1t on a trestle, and then the turn of a wheel plunges tons upon tons of ore or Aux into great bins, from which it is loaded into the buggies that pass over scales and are then hoisted in a jiffy to the top of the stack, two going up and two coming down in the double hoists.
 And this process of filling the stacks goes on hour after hour from morn to morn again, year in and year out When one enlarge" is dumped by the sinking of the bell, another is gathering at the foot of the hoists. The net result is pig iron and slas, both as liquid as water itself. The solids of the top of the stack are drawn out as liquids at the bottom. One flows gently into pigs in the sand floor and becomes an article of commerce known and sought in all nations, and the other is turned into great caldrons on wheels, and a locomo- tive carries it to the nearby slag moun- tain, where the turn of a wheel creates a. miniature Vesuvius, with real lava flowing down the mountain side.
 The North Birmingham Furnaces
  have daily output of 1S0 tons of the best pig made in this country, or any other
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When the traveller, staying in Birming- ham over night, turns towards the east he sees the clouds all luminous, and if he inquire the cause, he is told, "Oh. that is a Sloss furnace;' and if he turn toward the north, he sees like play of light in cloud land-it is another Sloss furnace. One of these is known as
 The City Furnaces.
 It Is located less than a mile from the heart of Birmingham, with First avenue in front, and the Southern railroad in the rear. This, of course, means all railroads, for all can place their cars in the furnace yard. The city furnace has two stacks, each of which can burn out 1SO tons a day, with a prospect that the maximum output of each will be raised to 200 tons a day. It Is merely a matter of wind pressure. The boilers exert a force equivalent to 2,600 horse power, about two-thirds of which is used to drive the engines that drive heated wind into the stacks. An addition of boiler or two would raise the capacity of the stacks to 200 tons of high-grade iron a day. Nor is it certain that the output is thus limited for these stacks are thor oughly up-to-date; and an increase in wind capacity, and larger use of brown ores, may lead to an output not now deemed pos
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Of the highest possible qualities. To this end every thing that goes into a stack is closely studied and watched, and the bur- dening at each stack is conducted under the watchful eyes of experts. The stacks are Kept full. The oxygen in the ore is carried off at the proper time, the dissolu- ton and softening of the silicon and alum mum in the ore and of the magnesia and carbonate of lime in the Aux is gradually accomplished, and then at last the iron itself, separated from the ore begins to take up carbon, and finally by gravity it sinks to the bottom of the hearth, from which it is drawn several times a day. Just above 1t lies the lighter slag or cinders, liquid as water It Is silicon, aluminium, magnesia and limestone inexpicably min gied. The secret of good iron making lies in the composition and condition of the siag that lies above the liquid iron at the top or the hearth, ready to escape at the first opportunity.
 The Sloss Iron and Steel Company
 was organized in 1887. From the start it mas been managed in conservative busi- ness-like manner When iron would not sell at a profit, coal would, and the com pany has thus had a lucrative trade If the brown ores at Leeds turn out well. the iron markets of the world whether in Eng land or Japan, in Russia or Argentina will become familiar with Sloss iron and steel It's first president was Capt. Joseph F. ooihStoD, WHo WdS soon succeeded by Thomas Sedden, a man of great capacity and unswerving honor. Upon his death MT. Sol. Haas became his successor. He is now in office, after long service at the head of the traffic department of the Richmond and Danville and Southern Rail- road companies The other leading officers are D. W. Fucker, vice-president; J. w. Mcqueen, secretary and auditor: A. H. Me- Cormick, treasurer and R. S. Mcknight sale agent. l, The directors are Joseph Bryan and E D. Christian. of Richmond, Va; J. c. Maben. w. H. Goadby. William E. Strong. Richard Mortimer and John A. Rutherford. of New York: Sol Haas and E. w. Fucker of Birmingham.
 Employment is given to 3,500 men twelve months in the year The people of Br- mingham may not enjoy the smoke of Sloss stacks and coke ovens, but they could not well do without the Sloss money that goes each month into their pockets. The solidity and steady business strength of the com pany is the pride, as its new enterprise at Leeds is the hope of this district
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HIS PASSION FOR TOMBSTONES.
Hobby of a Queer Character Who Has Lot
 Filled With Grave Stones of Queer Designs.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Henry G. Woodbridge an old resident of Mayfield, is one of the most interesting characters in Kentucky He has passion for tombstones. Uncle Henry as he is familiarity known to everyone, was born in Middle Tennessee, Nov 29, 1922, and was the youngest of family of eight children. His father died when he was but two years old and his mother died fifteen years later. His four brothers and three sisters are all dead now, leaving him the sole survivor of that large family and the Hast of his race:'
 When he was 21 years old he moved to Kentucky and has resided in Mayfield ever since. About five years ago he pur- chased a lot in the Mayfleld cemetery and had a marble shaft erected to mark his grave when he should be buried there. On this shaft he had the date of his birth, a
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Mexican International Railroad Eagle Pass Route

The shortest standard gauge line and the fastest time between principal cities in the United States and Mexico.
 No change of cars at the frontier. Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping cars daily between San Antonio, Tex, and the City of Mexico. Direct line to Monterey, Du- rango Zacatecas, Aguas. Calicntes, San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara and City of Mex ico All trains met at the frontier by rep- resentative of this department to attend to inspection of baggage, exchange of money, etc.
 For further information call on ad- dress any agent on the Southern Pacific company, or c. K. DUNLAP, Gen'l Freight and Passenger Agt., Eagle
 Pass, Tex. '
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let us direct our thoughts to another sub- ject. Think of the famous J. Martin Rye. guaranteed six years old, that is sold by William Wise of 299-2l1 Nineteenth street, at 75 cents for full quart Try it.
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country. The two stacks were built by the Sloss people themselves. and no effort was spared to equip them for the very best furnace practice. The grounds at North
 Birmingham contain many acres, and ev- erything that expert skill could devise in the way of convenience and economy can there be seen. If a visitor desire to see
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Fresh bread and candy made daily at c. w. Cody's, 1920 to 1928 3d avenue.
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To Make Change. Now that the police commissioners have been appointed and the chairman selected,
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by revolving arms and more particularly
 by powerful jets of water that pulsometers
 force from the bottom of the washer and through the coal The result is that the slate and dirt and some of the sulphur set tie by gravity to the bottom of the washer and are periodically washed out, the thor oughly clensed slack coal passing steadily
The record-union., 1898-07-24

It Is supposed that Mrs. Craigie's
novel, 1.-The ambassador, will be pub
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as long as it was considered safe for
him to remain there His chair in the
sweating-room was placed in a shallow
basin Of zinc, SO that the perspiration
that poured down from his body would
all be retained. He was afterward
rushed through the remaining features
awoke from a dreamless sleep he was
found to have entirely recovered from
the hitherto unaccountable stiffness Of
his limbs, his flesh being soft and plia-
BILE as an infants. This was a great
step toward the demonstration of DR..
Harris theory, notwithstanding Boyle's
mind was still affected.
The next thing done was to examine
the contents of the zinc basin in the
sweating room. An assay Of it's con-
tents showed that the mercury admin
istered in the form of pills had passed
off through the open pores of the skin,
carrying with it the flour gold with
which Boyle's body had been saturated.
An assay by Superintendent NJ A.
Grant of the Keystone mine showed
that the value of the flour gold drawn
from Boyle's body by means Of the
mercury approximated $27O.
1t was evident that the treatment
had been pre- -eminently successful, SO
far as Boyle's malady was purely ply
sical. It's effects upon the mind were
something with which his physicians
did not choose to experiment, and SO he
was sent to Asylum No. 2, in this city.
He is now apparently in the best of
health, physically, and Superintendent
Woodson believes that he will be able
in short time to restore his reason
and make him a sound man.-Chicago
Tribune
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Hshed simultaneously with the produc-
tlon of her play bearing the same name
and embodying the same story.
The present Baron Tauchnitz is said
10 be like his father, a man of letters
hrst and man of business afterward.
1t is not every so-called successful"
novel that finds a place in the famous
library. The firm now employs 1000
Workmen, and, although Leipsic is a
center of socialism, no strike or disturb
ance has ever occurred in this great
publishing house
The delightful little editions of the
Temple classics, published by Dent, are
to be reinforced by ten volumes con-
tanning reprint of North's "Plutarch." !"
This is good news, for Temple Classic
is book of most lovable size and
shape and print for frequent handling.
The record-union., 1898-07-24
COMMANDER WAINWRIGHT.
Cervera's Defeat Gave Opportunity
to SECT at the Spanish"

When the American ships destroyed
the Cervera feet, no boat in the whole
of the strong American navy did more
persistent, determined fighting than the
little Gloucester, a small craft carry
ing little armament and no armOr. 1t
was especially appropriate that when
Admiral Cervera surrendered he should
have surrendered to the commander of
the Gloucester. Captain Wainwright.
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No officer in front of Santiago fought
with greater bravery than did VAIN
wright. He is a fearless and determin-
ed man, and showed the excellent quail
tiles he possesses. He was junior Off
Ger of the Maine at the time that ves-
sci was blown up in Havana harbor,
and has been anxious to get at the
Spanish" ever since. During the in
vestigation of the Maine disaster he
was tireless in his efforts and his tes-
timony was very damaging.
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FINE RUBBER TIRES.

II you want to rest easy, get BROWN
BHOS., at Eleventh and X streets, to put
1nelr new rubber tires on your buggy
Ihey are the boss. Ask them to show YOU
their SIS business buggy.
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COMPETENT BUSINESS, LADIES; light
work, good pay. Mrs. Ray Jones, Sac
ramento Postotfice.
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WANTED-BOARDER at 421h ST.
good home cooking; rea sonable rates
MRS. DILLMAN
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TED-SECOND-HAND FCRNIT-
ure. 1921 Fourth street. Cap. phone $50.
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WANTED TO RENT-MODERN HOUSE
OF to rooms completely furnished. Ad-
dress J.. this office
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72S SEVENTH-2 OR COMPLETELY
furnished housekeeping rooms
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WANTED-THREE GOOD SOLICITORS
Liberal inducements to active men or
women. HARVEY, RODONI & CO, No
10ll Ninth street, district managers 81
deity Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Philadelphia jy23-3t
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$9-DWELLING OF ROOMS. 1928 L
street. S10-Dwelling of 4 rooms, 1914
Third street. II. j. GOETHE, 101
Fourth street jyl6-2W
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60915 / STA NICE SUITE OF HOUSE.
keeping rooms, furnished.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

LOST MANHOOD RESTORED BY Prof.
Burdens new electric system. 727lb X.
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STORES, ROOMS AND LODGE HALLS
to rent in Odd Fellows Temple, Ninth
and * streets. Apply to janitor in the
building
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FOR RENT-A GOOD CAMPING Wagon.
Apply 1904 j street. jy20-7t
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GIL K, ECKHARDT BLD'G.-UNFUR-
nished front suite and housekeeping
rooms
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423 TENTH-5-ROOM COTTAGE, SO. AP.
ply j. Riley, Tenth and E.
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STOLL BL'DG+NEW OFFICE SUITES
at reasonable rent. An elevator, lights
water and janitorship free
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800 TENTH-ROOMS AT S150 AND UP
wards; also housekeeping rooms.
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9o7 LA LARGE FURNISHED ROOM;
electric light, bath; reasonable.
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A GOOD HOUSE TO LET AT s1s G
street iy2O-7t*
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$500 A MONTH-A COOL, NEATLY
furnished front room. 402 l. street
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l1191a / STA NICE FLAT OF SEVEN
rooms. Inquire at 1117 /.
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ROOMS FOR HOUSE,
keeping at 40S n street. Inquire Diers-
sens, Twelfth and j streets
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CHEAPEST SOLING ON EARTH.
Gents, 45c; ladies, 35c, at 1011 street.
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1919 TENTH ST-FOUR NICE UNFUR
nished housekeeping rooms.
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JAPANESE BOY WANTS SITUATION
as a cook or any other work. Address
p. 0. Box 100, city, jy24-2t*
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1416 FOURTH-NICE FRONT SINGLE
rooms, or in suites, with bath privilege
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WANTED - SOME PURE STRAIN
honey in 5-gal tins; also small picking
onions, by Pioneer Picking Works, 1920
l. street
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WANTED.

ECTIVE-SHREWD, RELIABLE
man wanted in every locality for pro-
htable secret service; experience unnec-
eSsary. Write American Detective AS
sociation, Indianapolis, Ind. 1t
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A LADY OF 25, A POSI-
ton to do general housework; waiting
on table; an excellent cook. Address
MRS. VIM. WOODS, Western Hotel
iy23-3t*
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TO LET-FIVE-ROOM COTTAGE: mod
ern improvements, 113l . street In
quire 12l6 p street. jy24-7t%
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RAG CARPET WEAVING; OLD Carpets
made into rugs. Mrs. Johnson 1914 Sth.

TO SEE A MOST MODERN FISH
market. call at American Fish Co., 724
j street. They have thoroughly reno
waited their entire store, and can now
take proper care of their trade.
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$12-DWELLING OF ROOMS, S15 21ST
street. II. j. GOETHE, 1011 Fourth ST.
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TO LET OR RENT.

OLD POSTOFFICE BLDG-Furnished
rooms, single and suites; offices MIR.
MAYHEM, Fourth and h.
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1915 IA FINE LOWER FLAT OF 5
rooms. Apply r. Philip 62S1a ] st.
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ARCHITECTS.

HOEN, ARCHITECT, 71S STREET.
Telephones, Sun. blk s.: Cap. 75
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1206 X STA PLEASANT, WELL FUR
nished ROOM
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PASTURAGE-16O ACRES MILES
east Of Folsom. Mrs. Lyman, 70l
street, Sacramento.
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SIG L-PLEASANT FURNISHED Rooms
electric lights, bath, etc.
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SPIRITUALISM.

S11 H ST-NICE FURNISHED ROOMS.
with or without board. Mrs. H. Barber
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ALBION HOUSE, 519 K-CIIANGED
hands. Rooms by day, week or month.
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Miss Caroline Kane Mills, who Will
soon marry Leo Everett, grandson OF
the late Edward Everett of Boston, Is
one Of the best known portrait paint
ers in New York, and she will not give
up her studio after her marriage.
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500 MEN TO TRY OUR SQUARE 1Oc
meal. Ham and eggs, 10c. Mint Res
taurant. S. w. cor. Second and X.
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DR. w. o. GIRARDY, DENTIST-OF-
flee and residence. 922 Fifth street. Capt.
tai phone 437; next to Sacramento Bank.
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FRENCH DYEING AND CLEANING
best and quickest. ]. Duchez. S23 L.
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W. A. ROOT, DENTIST-OFFICE. s14 X
street, opposite Hale Bros. Phones,
Sunset red 901 Capital 297.
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JAPANESE INFORMATION AGENCY
Office SIT Sixth street, Sacramento. Tel.
red SAG.
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MRS. J. H. COPPERSMITH, TEACHER
Of vocal music. GA Seventh.
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DENTISTRY.

DR. F. NJ SHIELDS, DENTIST-Ofice
and residence, 2122 NJ street.
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MEETING NOTICES.
BUSINESS CARDS.

MRS. A. REAM, LADY UNDERTAKES.
at her home. Ills stpeet. Tel. GIG red
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BOARD AND LODGING.

1907 L-WELL FURNISHED ROOMS
with board. Opp. the Park. Reasonable
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FINANCIAL.

MONEY TO LOAN AT REASONABLE
rates on undivided interests and estates
In probate. Apply to ]. A. WESTON, 513
California street, San Francisco.
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PLENTY OF MONEY TO LOAN.
WRIGHT & KIMBROUGH. 402 ].
MONEY TO LoAN-H. J. GOETHE, 1o1l
Fourth street.
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FOR SALE-5,OOO FEET OF AND g
inch pipe al low figure. Inquire Sac
ramento Pipe Works, SIS Second street.
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One Of the popular attractions OF the
Paris Exposition of 1900 will be a CO.
lossal picture of The Coronation OF
the Czar." by Gervex, which will seem
asmost as big as the original scene, Tor
the chapel in Moscow. where the coro-
nation took place is uncomfortably
small. The picture will contain no less
than 300 figures, all of them portraits.
The Car and CZarina and severai
Grand Duchesses have already given
several sittings.