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Rust. DR.
Ruben & Sons NJ
Rammel, A & Sons
Reardon, w m, residence
Rucker, Geo II (St Elmo)j
Robinson. Thos w
schliehti1g, Henry, residence
Smoot, w Ajr, residence
Smith, Mrs. Francis
Smoot, CC& Sons
Smost, w A 4 Co
smoot, w A Co, Office King Sta eel
st. Mary's Academy
Smith, G II Hampton
Smoot, J r Il c,
Smith, DR. w NJ, Office
Smith, DIR w NJ, residence
Smoot, Mrs Susan, residence
Smoot, J c, residence
Schwartz, / & Son
Southern Belt & T Co, operator
Southern Railway Co, freight yard
Southern Railway Co, W&0
Southern Express Co
So Rwy, Eng Office
Standard Oil Company
Stump, Rev JP
Stevens, Moses
Stuart, Douglass, Office
Summers, CT W, residence
Smoot, jr, WA
Shuinan. l.
Smoot, w B, residence
Schaffer, CA& &c. florist
Smith, f L
Strauss, II, residence
Swan Bros
Snowden, DR. Arthur
Southern Bell T&TCo
Smoot, w A 4 Cs, King St, office
Simpson, Geo l.
Timbermsn, etc, residence
The Old Dominion Glass Co
Telephone Exchange chief operator
theological Seminary
Virginia Glass Works
w, A & Mt Vernon Ry Co
W, A & Mt v Ry Co, Payne street
Watkins, ] B
Wattles, r II
Warfield, jr. E
Washington outhernRailway
Wash'n-Sou Ry. Engineer
Warfeld, ST Edgar
Washington Steamboat Co
Mheatley, B, residence
We'll Bros
Wells. q w
Western Union Telegraph Company
White, Wythe
Wheatley, B
Wildt, ii
Williamson, MI
wilkins, Captain Jno
Wingield, ST, residence
Wolford, Lorenzo, residence
Wise, Mrs Peter
Woolls, WP
Zimmerman, ] R, residence
Zimmerman, ] r, Office
Zimmerman. Chas
&C Leachman
Bailey's Cross Roads
Va, b B Utterbach
Fairfax, w Oliver
Falls Church, Va N f Church
Va. Sisson, r Z
Manassas, Va, Shannon'sdru store
Wellington, C C Leachman
Haymarket, Va, G ii Hulfish
Waverly, Va, E II Janney
Maple Grove, Va, DR. Chas II Janney
For rates apply to Central office
A STATIONS.
Central Office
Fleischmann Hotel
Market House
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STEAMERS.
Weems Steamboat Co..
Spring Schedule.

The Steamers POTOMAC and CALVERT.
viii Leave Alexandria
EVERY SUNDAY, TUESDAY and THURS
DAY AT 4:30 p. NJ.
FOR BALTIMORE AND ALL THE USUAL
RIVER LANDINGS.
Cuisine and appointments nnexcelled.
Freight for Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York solicited and handled with care.
Through rates and bills of lading issued.
Single fare to Baltimore, A.; round trip, 50
Staterooms, one way, 81. Meals, SOC.
WIN. NJ. REARDON, Agent,
je1 Strand.
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1.-THE incest and %pleasantest medicine
I have used for indigestion and constiPa.
ton is Cbamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets" says Melard f. Craig,
of Middlegrove, n. Y. "They work
like a charm and do not grippe or have
any unpleasant effect" For sale by
Richard Gibson.
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OTTERBURN LITHIA WATER.-This
" water is indicated in all affections due to
Uric Acid. Diathesis, Gout, rheumatism,
stone in the Bladder, Kidneys or Liver
Bright's Disease and Kidney Diseases Of
every form For sale by
WAKEFIELD & HALL,
Sole Agents Cor. Prince & Fairfax SITS
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LEGAL NOTICES.


VIRGINIA: In the Clerks Office of the
' Corporation Court Of the city of Alexan-
dria, on the Odd day of January, 1904.
Bette Baum and Henry Baum, her husband,
complainants, VS.. Julius Dreifus and Hattie
Dreifns, his wife Abraham Dreifus and
Matilda Dreifus, his wife Jennie Bern
heimer, Rachel Ullman and Morris Ull-
man, her husband, and Joseph Dreifus
and Meta Dreifus, his wife. In chancery.
Memo. The object Of this suit is TO obtain
a partition Of the real estate Of (which Caroline
Dreifus died seized and possessed in the city
of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded and de-
scribed as follows, to wit: Beginning on the
east side Of Payne street at a point equi-dis-
tant from King and Prince streets, that is to
say 176 feet Z inches from the said streets, and
running thence south on Payne street 60 feet
to q ~ feet alley thence east on said alley
and parallel TO King street 1913 feet 5 inches to
the middle Of the square thence north and
parallel to Payne street 60 feet thence west
in a straight line to the beginning, with all
rights and appurtenances TO the same belong
ing, and 10 procure an accounting from the
defendant. Julius D%reifns, of the rents and
profits Of the said real estate, and an account
ing from the said Julius Dreifus of the per-
sonal property of Caroline Dreifus, deceased,
which came into his possession.
IL appearing by an affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendants, Abraham Dreifus
and Matilda Dreifus, his wife; Joseph Dreifns
and Meta Dreifus, his wife, and Rachel I'LL
man and Morris Ullman, her husband, are
MOI -residents ofthis State: 1t is ordered, That
said defendants appear here within fifteen
days after due publication of this order, and
do what is necessary to protect their interests
in this suit, and that a copy Of this order be
forthwith inserted in the Alexandria Gazette,a
newspaper published in the city of Alexan-
dria, once a week for four successive weeks,
and posted at the front door Of the Court
House Of this city. A c~opy-Teste.
JOHN 5. BEACH, Clerk.
By NEWELL S. GREKNAwAY, d. C.
Norton & Boothe, p. q. j2n22 w4w
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HOLIDAY COAL

fills a most important place in the essentials
Of fine Christmas dinner, as your cook will
fail if the fire is not right. 1t will be right,
however, if you buy the coal of us. Our coal
is the best for any kind of cooking. 1t gives
lust the right fire always.
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FIVE CENTS-The best fine grain AMER
ICAN GRADUATED SUGAR, for sale by
J. 6. MiLBURN,
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
/ stockholders Of the ALEXANDRIA IN
SURANCE COMPANY will be held at the
company's Office, No. 1O2 south Fairfax street,
Alexandria, Va. on MONDAY, February /.
1904, at II o'clock a. m.
LAURENCE STABLER, Secretary.
ION u III
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THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEET
L ING of the BIG SANDY COMPANY at
the office of James r. Cation at Alexandria,
Virginia, on TUESDAY, February 16, at II
o'clock noon, to consider the matter of the re-
duction of the capital stock of the company to
) 5000, 900. By order of the
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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AUCTION SALES.

DUBLIC SALE OF 1890 ACRESO VAL
I LIABLE LAND AT MANASSAS, VA.
Under and by virtue of a decree entered by
the Corporation Court of the city of Alexan-
dria, Virginia, on the 9TH day of December,
1903, in the chancery cause of Lansburgh et
al. vs.. Lansburgh ct ais, the undersigned,
special commissioners of sale therein named
will offer for sale at public bidding,
MONDAY, February 10, 1904,
at 1890 o'clock p. m, at the front door of the
courthouse, at Manassas, Prince William
county, Virginia, the following real estate, to
wit
All that certain tract of land in Prince Will
liam county, lying between Chappawsamsie
and Quantico creeks and the Telegraph road,
containing about 1900 acres, which was ON
veyed by Max L%ansburgh ct uX. to c. +.
Nicol, trustee. by deed bearing date the 14th
day of July, 1883, and recorded in Liber A,
ps,s 397, in the land records of said county.
except two lotsi Potomac City, known as
lots No. % and No. q in block 80. This land
is situate at Potomac City aud can be reach
ed by WashingtOn-Southern Railway and has
on il an enormous quantity Of ties, cordwOod,
and timber of all kinds, and is situate immed.
lately on the Washington Southern Railway
and has a splendid water front (the Potomac
river, and besides has on il a number of
NAiANAAEEF
Terms Of sale: One-third cash and the
balance in one and two years time, secured by
interest bearing notes, with privilege of antic-
ipatiug the preferred payments. For further
information apply to any Of the undersigned
commissioners.
CHAS. BENpHEIM,
472 Louisiana ave. NV Washington, DC.
JAS. r. CATION,
Alexandria, Va.
ROBT. A. HUTCHINSON,
Manassas, Va.
Commissioners
I, John S. Beach, Clerk of the Corporation
Court for Alexandria city, do certify that
Bobert A. Hutchinson, one Of the commission
ers in the above entitled cause, has given the
required bond.
Teste: JOHN S. BEACH, Clerk,
By NEVILLE GREENAwAY, ID. c.
janl5 w4w
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jan2Otd

THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEET
L ING of the ELKHORN COAL AND
COKE COMPANY at rhe Office of James r.
Cation, at Alexandria, Virginia, on TUES
DAY, February 10, at - o'clock noon, to con-
slider the matter of the reduction of the capital
stock of the company to 81, $1,000.
BY order of the
jqn2O I'd BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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THE ANNUAL MEETING or THE
4 stockholders of the WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS APARTMENT HOUSE COM
PANY will be held in the eompany's office,
1913 south Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va, on
TUESDAY, February the 9th, 1904, at 2
o'clock p. IN.
CHARLES II. WEAVER, Secretary.
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK.
- holders of the INDEPENDENT STEAM
BOAT AND BARGE COMPANY on MON
DAY, February 8. 1904, at 3 o'clock p, m, at
the company's office, No. Ill south Fairfax
street. Alexandria, Va, for the purpose of
electing directors for the ensuing year. Trans,
fer books close on Feb. 3 and remain closed
until Feb. g., 1904. JULIUS HUGLE,
ian2S I'd Secretary
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
| stockholders of the MOUNT VERNON
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY will be held
at 1870 o'clock p. NJ, on the sTH DAY OF.
FEBRUARY. 1904, at the principal Office Of
the said company, 2l6 south Fairfax street,
Alexandria, Virginia.
ian23 I'd ALFRED p. PALMER, Sec'y.
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MEETINGS.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
l stockholders Of the GRAND OPERA
HOUSE COMPANY will be held on SAT
URDAY, January 80, 1904, at 2:3O p. m, at
128 south Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va.
HENRY i. WOODARD, Secretary.
ian11 Id
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JOHN AHERN 4 CO.,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS
And Dealers IN
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS.
Country Produce received daily. Our stock
of Plain and Fancy Groceries embraces every
thing TO be bad in this line.
We hold largely in United States bonded
warehouse and carry in stock various brands
of the best
PURE RYE AND MALT WHISTLES
made. Have also in store superior grades Of
Foreign and American
WINES, ALES, BROWN STOUT, &c.
Mzs~Satisfaction Guaranteed as to Price and
Quality 81
Corner Prince and Commerce Streets.
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GROCERIES.
w. A. JOHNSON & CO.,

WHOLESALE GROCERS.
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
And Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS,
Have on hand Gibson's Xxx, XXX, XXX,
and Pure Old Rye, Old Cabinet and Mono
gram WHISTLES also Baker'sand T~hompson's
Pure Rye Whistles, to which they invite the
attention of the trade.
Orders from the country for merchandise
shall receive prompt attention.
C~OnsignmentS of Flour, Grain and Country
Produce solicited, for which they guarantee
he highest market prices and prompt returns
n. Z corner Cameron and Rnyal Streets.
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We have removed our office to 31b
KING STREET Jour former loca-
tom, where all orders received for
COAL AND WOOD will have our
prompt attention.
W. A, SHOOT q co.
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
l stockholders of the LAND AND RIVER
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, Of New Alex
andria, Va, will be held ct 12:39 o'clock p.
M. on the STH DAY OF FEBRUARY,
1904, at 216 south Fairfax street, Alexandria,
Virginia. FRANK h. HIPPLh
ion22 I'd Secretary.
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NIRGINIA.-In the Clerks Office Of the
V Corporation Court Of the City of Alexan-
dria, on the 22nd day of January, 1904.
Mary f. Essex
VS.. In Chancery.
Edwin +. Essex.
Memo. The object of this suit is TO obtain a
decree diyorcing plaintiff, Mary Z. Essex, a
)vinculo nlatromonii from the defendant, Ed
win +. Essex.
It appearing by an affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendant, Edwin F. Essex, Is
not a resident Of this State IL is ordered,
That said defendant appear here within
fifteen days after due publication Ofthis order,
and do h Is necessary to protect his interest
in this suit, and that a copy Of this order be
forthwith inserted in the Alexandria Gazette,
a newspaper published in the City of Alexan-
dria, once q week for four successive weeks,
and posted at the front door Of the Court
House ofthis city. A eopy-Teste
JOHN $. BEACH, Clerk,
by NEWELL 5. GRRENAwAY, ID. c.
Norton x BoOthe, p. q. jan22 w4w
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
jap Soldiers Postcard Home.

The Japanese Government has found
q novel and excellent use for post
cards. Realizing that, for various rea-
sons, the soldier on campaign may not
have leisure or opportunity to write
home to his family, the military au-
thorities have supplied TO each army
a sufficient number of postcards, ready
printed, to which the soldier has only
to aff1x his name, or more exactly, his
seal, each Japanese soldier carrying
one with him as part of his outfit.
On all the cards the same message is
printed: This is to let you know that
1 am alive and we'll; 1 cannot give you
my address, not knowing where 1 shall
be tomorrow; but your letters will
reach me some time or other if you
reply to the place the name of which
is printed in the postmark. Greetings
to my family and friends This is an
idea which might well be copied by
other nations. At once practical and
humane, it would cost little and save
many thousands of people from unnec-
essary anxiety and pain.-Mancheste
Guardian.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
New Method of Decreasing wool.

During the past month the last Of a
series of patents has been granted to a
German company covering new meth
DDS and machinery for the Decreasing
Of wool by dry process. The degreas-
ing is successfully performed by the
use of infusorial earth. used as an alb
sorbent, which is applied to the wood
with great force by a current of air
by specially constructed but inexpen-
sive machinery, the wool being cleaned
and DECREASED evenly throughout 1t
has many advantages in the treatment
Of skin wools-now cleaned by strong
alkalis-as the dyes take better, which
is an important point In the manufac-
ture of fine military cloth and other
fine cloths in delicate colors.-New
York Commercial
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
Steel Ship Building in Canada.

Recent reports from the United
States Consul General at Halifax say
that there are four yards in Canada
for the construction Of steel vessels.
One yard is building a canal boat that
is to carry 1900 bushels Of wheat, or
$4,000 tons of dead weight. Her cost
will be $4,000. This yard has sew
eral other contracts nearing compile
ton. The steel plates used are now
imported free of duty from the United
States, as they are not made in Can
ada. As British-built steel vessels
come into Canada duty free, it is i'm
possible to develop the industry in
Canada successfully. except for vessels
ot a small size or of a design necessi-
tated by local requirements. 1t is
stated that a Nova Scotia steel COM
pany intends to manufacture plates; if
so, the duty of % per cent will attach
and the price likely advance. This
would probably cause the suspension
OF steel ship building in Canada unless
sustained by duty or bounty.-New
York Commercial.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
Coke Ovens in ENGLAND.

The inhabitants of the coke districts
in the United States will tell the
stranger that they realize as fully as
he does the shamefulness Of IL waste
which accompanies the use of the ira
ditional type of coke oven and regret
equally the defilement of a naturally
pure atmosphere and the DETACHMENT
of a beautiful country, but they will
add that they know that experiments
have been made by the operators with
different kinds of coke ovens and that
there has not been with any type tried
sufficient success in recovery and in
the saving of by-product to make the
general introduction of new ovens COM
mercially possible. At the annual
meeting last month Of the British Iron
and Steel Institute. G. Lowthian Bell
of the Clarence Works, Middlesboro,
read a paper reciting the success his
firm has had with a German type of
coke oven-the Hussener-which he in
trUduced in 1902. and from the discus
sion which followed 1t seems evident
that not only has the oven he uses
given splendid results, but that there
is another type Of coke oven in England
the Otto-giving equally successful
returns for the investment.-New York
Commercial.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
FLAMES CREEP
UPON SLEEPERS
San Francisco Merchant and
His Wife Have Narrow Es-
cape From Death at MenlO
MOORE HOME DESTROYED
Clad Only in Night Clothes
Owner and Spouse Leave
House Just as Walls Fall
Special Dispatch to The Call.

MENLO PARK, Sept. 21.-One of the
most disastrous fires that San Mateo
County has had for many years, and
one that nearly cost two wen-known
members of San Francisco society their
lives, occurred here this morning when
the magnificent residence of ]. ].
Moore, president of the shipping firm
of J. ]. Moore & Co. of San Francisco,
was completely destroyed.
Shortly after o'clock this morning
J. j. Moore, who occupied an apart
ment in the front of the house, was
suddenly aroused from a sound sleep
by a terrific crash, which it was later
learned was caused by the falling in of
the skylights on the roof of his home.
Jumping out of his bed, he was startled
by the discovery that almost the entire
portion of his home had already been
burned and that the flames were rap
idly surrounding his sleeping apart
ment.
He was not slow in realizing that his
chances of escape were quickly dimin-
ishing. The ceiling of his room was
cracking with the heat and flames
were coming through the floor, beneath
which there was raging a furnace of
fire. Dragging his sleeping wife from
the bed, the husband hurrieCly carried
her out into the hall and down the
stairway to the front entrance. through
which he made his escape to the lawn.
He and his badly frightened wife had
barely reached a place of safety before
the ceiling of their own room fell, and
a moment later the front portion of
their home was filed with fierce
flames.
Not an article was saved from the
home, and the only clothing that shell
tered Mr.. and Mrs. Moore from the
chilly atmosphere of the early morning
were their night robes. When the re-
lief party arrived and was made TO
appreciate the predicament of the
Moores the latter were hurried into
adjacent homes, where sufficient ap-
pareI was given them to enable them
to go to San Francisco, where they
telegraphed for apartments at the ST
Francis.
Moore estimates his loss at about
5000, of which $4,000 represents fur
niture bric-a-brac and the valuabl
wardrobe of his wife
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
The Doom of the EIenbant

The recent landing in Brooklyn of IA
tusks Of ivory from an Italian shin
IS held to signify the death of
seventy-two elephants-at least that
number, for others, wounded, may
have crawled into the jungle and died.
out Of sight Of the hunters. 1t would
seem that the elephant is as surely
doomed as his ancestor, or cousin. the
great mammoth, was doomed by cli-
matte and geologic change, and. not
impossibly. by the prosecutions of the
man Of the stone age. In our country
we have seen within a few years the
practical extinction Of the buffalo-the
last of the Yellowstone herd was shot
a few days ago by pot hunters, who
succeeded in escaping from the park
without interference by the troops-
and the antelope, that used to range
the plains and foothills in thousands.
have also disappeared from most of the
Western States. AS every one knows.
the game laws in thinly settled coun-
tries are mere bluff" and violation OF
them is daily practiced. In civilized
New Jersey the attempt to stop the
disgusting and brutalizing slaughter of
harmless and helpless pigeons, released
from traps. has failed, because of the
pernicious activity Of gun manufacture
ers and shooting clubs.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-22
VAST AGE ESTIMATED
FOR THE SEQUOIAS
Many of the big Trees Were Very
Old When Christian
Era Began.

We speak about a persons being as
old as Methuselah. Yet the poor boy
lived but a brief hour compared with
some of the great sequoia trees which
are being sacrificed to short-sighted
greed in California.
A late PROSTATE monarch of the
woods that was fifteen feet in diameter
several feet from the ground, began its
existence in 271 B. c. By 254 A. D.,
when it was sic years of age, a forest
feet in width. Then it enjoyed 1886
years Of placid life.
But in 1441 A D. the tree, then aged
1712, was injured in another fire and it
took the scar fifty-siX years to heal.
The worst attack of all occurred in
1897, when the tree, then 2068 years old,
was attacked by a fire which left a scar
which it took 103 years to heal.
Who would have thought that such
a witness to ages of change, after hav-
ing stood for over twenty centuries,
must have to be brought to earth by
the unfeeling woodman's ak some three
years ago, victim to the mere love of
money?
But IL there is no romance in a
Western woodchopper there ought to
be some sense in Congress. Only ten
of the great isolated groves remain.
When these lone landmarks are gone
what monarch shall then ask that its
life be spared on the plea that it has
reigncd supreme for thirty centuries?