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BUSINESS CHANCES.

/ PAY more than companies themselves
for old line life insurance policies. W.
II Ferguson. Ill Title building. Bir-
mingham. 2-21-lMo
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WANTED-Men to learn barber trade.
Special offer for April. including board
and tools; best opportunity ever given.
Few weeks completes. Write today.
Moler Barber College. New Orleans, La.
4-5-6t
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FOR RENT.

STORES AND OFFICES.
Thompson Hotel. 81 rooms.
303 Goth street.
2Dl5 Sd ave. North
One store. Cd ave. and 18th street
20l4 Avenue A.
Ground floor office LIST Nat. Bank Bldg.
1913 Sd avenue.
goth street and alley c..
Ills LIST avenue
21s 8. Goth street.
We have both business and residence
property for sale.
UNDERWATER REAL ESTATE
AND RENTAL CO.
Both phones. 6la 2ol7 First Ave-
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Mention cooking with Gas
to him.
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LOST, sTR6YeD Or STOLEN.

STRAYED or stolen from Avondale Sum
day last one dark brown horse mule.
weight about 400. split in right ear
about half inch long. and one black
mare mule, weight about 1900. white
nose. wart on left shoulder. Return to
c. B. Dunn at Avondale and get re-
ward. 4-I-2t
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MONEY TO LEND.

MONEY loaned OF real estate: 800 up
City Loan and Banking Co.. LOG N. 21st
street 1-29- IT
WE BUY life insurance policies and will
pay more than the companies. II issued
on the 10. Is or 20 year dividend plan.
and paid for 61a. 9I4 or 121a years. re-
spectvely. Traders Investment Co..
sl6-17 Empire building. Atlanta. Ga.
3-l0-tf
PRIVATE party will advance money on
salaries or diamonds to responsible men.
Address p. o. Box S5S. 4-5-31t
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JACOBS G BROS.
FURNITURE
STORE

Round trip to ST. Louis Exposition
May I. One chance with every dollar
purchase.
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NEW LIST-FOR SALE.

NEW LIST-FOR SALE.
ss5oo-1oo feet. corner Charles avenue and
Georgia street.
$40 0O0-3-story brick; I'd ave.
s6OoO-Large block ground on railroad:
$500 cash.
s45O0-25 feet on Second ave.
seOCO-Negro houses; pays 20 per cent.
s3Ooo-Ave. c, between 18th and 18th: Inn
proved.
s45Oo-sd ave. between oath and 18th; pays
Is per cent
s7GOO-Brick stores: ave. d.
s6OOo-4th ave. and 18th ST.. 150x141
s105O-Lot 50x190. ave e.
s7750-Beautiful 9Th ave. residence.
s11 0O0-Hghland ave. residence.
$1,000 Highland ave. cottage.
s3s5o-Residence. Humboldt ave.
5000 Residence, Juniper ave-; 100 feet
w. 3. LEEDY G. CO.
Phones e. ll2 North 21st St
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WANTED-For u. S. army-Able bodied,
unmarried men between ages of p
and 80; citizens of United States; of
good character and temperate habits;
who can speak read and write English,
For information apply TO Recruiting Of
ficer, I've North 10Th street, Birming-
ham, Ala 4-1-fri mon-wed- BIN
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Vote for III. w. Crook of
Bessemer for Board of Rev
enue.
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MIscetlAk Eous

NJ lSC cN CAiN EOOS.
SHAVING ioc at los North 10th street
S-16-tf.
FOR 81 CENTS | will mail to any adj
dress an absolutely guaranteed recipe
to prevent the Irish potato bugs John
f. Adams Horse Creek. Ala.
ShEDlf to ssils bic pai ;ieH Via uiuf.u-
and Watches Jsvetry. stiver~are and
CLOCKS. on small weekly or monthly pay
ments: lowest prices: best quality: goods
guaranteed; viii call II desired. J.
Lowinsohn 1871 md everue '-i2-u
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Rooms eOR REN1

FOR RENT-Front room furnished. 203O
9Th ave. 4-6-3t
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms. 61s North
18th street. 4-56t
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WANTED-Trustworth persons, each
county, to manage local business for
wholesale house. so paid weekly, ex-
pense money advanced, position perm
anent, experience not essential. Man
ager, Como Block, Chicago 4-S-3t
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- - - -
WAITED.
HEIP WANTEp-MALE.

WANTED-Experience canvasser to ham
die rapid seller for use in stores and
residences. Call alS1a LIST ave. 4-7-3t
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WANTED-1 salesfan, l cook firemen to
leave city, 70 per day. boys 16 years
old. Good positions open for competent
help. Call at once. H6Ha N. goth st.
Room 5.
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REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE.
si00O-rwo good business lots, 25x100 each;
well located on west side south goth st:
half cash.
Si750$i75Oi cash; balance l. 2 and 3 years;
business lot 20x100 with brick store
south 10Th st.
SG5O-s1O0 cash. balance SIS per month;
good new Broom cottage and lot near
4ad street. Avonddle sss
/ SIPS Lot 50x100 and 1Ox40 feet to alley
with two old houses, worth about $780,
and renting for $40; avenue C, near 18th
ST.; lot alone worth the mo-o--
s500--s50 cash. balance $40 per month;
pretty lot 50x1S5 feet; 18th St. North
Highlands.
$500 cash, balance SIS per month: neat T.
room cottage; lot 50x140 feet; Compton,
Bessemer car line. Price. $1100.
$4000-Good Groom residence and lot. 9.
18th ST.; call
FOR RENT.
Four, five. six and seven-room houses
cheap.
SMITH G. ST1LLMAN,
o0041k First Ayenre
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birmingham. April /. 1904.
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CHARM ANY MECHANIC
Splendid Labor Savers in
Government Printery.
MEET GROWINGDEMAND
SOMETHING ABOUT THE TIME
SAVERS AND THEIR WORK.
How Important Work is Dispatched
Quickly in Uncle Sans Printing
Office-Special Manufacture.
MEET GROWINGDEMAN

The bindery division is most interesting
branch of the work in the printing office
While its employees may often grow weary
of the everlasting plodding, day after day,
and week after week, yet the speed with
which the needles move back and forward
by the active workers gives no intimation
to the observing visitor that fingers ever
get weary or the mind flag from sheer eX-
haustion. Here there are many labor-sav-
ing machines despite the presence of a
room full of busy hand sewers. There are
twelve Martini and thirty Smythe power
sewing machines or stitchers. Each ma
chine is operated by two young women. All
the books containing maps and plates are
sewed by hand. BY judcous increase of
the working force the congressional mem
berS' work has been brought Fight I'D to
date.
There are COS bookbinders in the union,
and it is one of the strongest and best or
ganiZed forces in the ranks of union labor.
During the past year it's membership has
increased so. and it has lost Il members
by death. 1t has many bright minds in the
working force, whose wise counsel is con-
Stantly striving to reduce friction or any
Internal dissension.
The hindery is not tagging in the march
of improvements. Indeed, it has set a
mark for conceiving and Inducing ma
chine to facilitate work as well to secure
the best results at minimum expenditure
of time and labor The division has recent
ly had set up a machine that has neither
name, patent nor a record. 1t is an ex-
perimentaI machine and it is more than
meeting the expectations of it's originators.
Machine Specially Made.
1t is the joint product of Mr.. P. J. Byrne,
foreman of the b:ndery, and Mr.. Thomas
B. Penicks, assistant foreman, and was
manufactured especially for the printing
Office by the Seybold Machine Company of
Dayton. Ohio Mr.. Seybold is one of the
leading mechanical geniuses of this coun-
try. and when these gentlemen explained
to him just what kind of machine certain
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all of the congressional work. excepting
the Record and the private printing OF
speeches, and they have never yet shown
any contrariness disloyalty to duty by
reason of the superstition attaching to
their number.
1t is a matter worthy of mention, and it
is testimonial to the efficiency of the
press room to state that the entire edition
of the Presidents annual message was
printed without spelling sheet Another
Item and big one at that, is the fact
that the large edition of the agricultural
report, numbering about 10000 copies was
issued by the first of the year This job
used to run along until summer and many
times merge with the succeeding ISSUE Tn
auestionably Uncle Sam has the best
equipped and most competently manage!
printing Office in the world
Some Valuable Reports.
The bindery has delivered recently ten
thousand copies of the annual report OF the
controller of the currency for 1903. IN two
volumes. 1t is very valuable computation
of facts and figures. showing the deposits Of
all the national banks of the United States
and territories. and is also another iidex OF
the splendid efficiency of the printing Office
and the wonderful resources of the country.
Foreman Penicks also announces that 10000
copies in two volumes of the annual report
of the commissioner of education 4 900
copies of the annual report CT the director
of the mint. on the precious metals Of the
United States for 1863. and 4, 600 copies OF
the annual report of the Secretary OF th=
Treasury have been delivered by the bind
cry recently. These are only samples OF
the big grist that go through the bindery
hopper every week in the year.
Notes
There is a pronounced movement amOrs
some of the friends of Mr. W. r Hastings
to push him as a candidate for president
of Columbia Typographical Union. He IL
the foreman of the War Department
branch.
Doc Radley of the first division IL Z
candidate for delegate to st. Louis
1t is noted that Sergeant-at-Arms Frank
Bates of the fourth division has also an
nounced himself a candidate for delegate.
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particular work in their division needed,
accompanied by some plans, he set to work
and has made a machine that not only over
comes the pounding noise of hundred
men, but does better work, more rapidly
and occupies but very little space for its
work. 1t is built to set low the floor
and is what might be called squeezing or
smashing machine. 1t has a squeezing
pressure of about twenty-eight tons and
will handle about 400 1.500 books an
hour. The pressing is done by drop
crank movement of heavy steel bars. 1t is
a very solid and compact machine, and
does it's work very effectively. 1t removes
the swell from the back of the books which
is formed in the sewing of the signatures
or what an outsider would call folios of
printed pages.
For years this part of the binding work
has been done by a squad of workmen call
ed cowboys, who work on the cloth
forwarding. Some will ask how the name
of cowboy came to be associated with
the bindery. 1t all came about by reason
of the fact that years ago the agricultural
year book contained the picture of a cow
on the cover and the squad was busy pretty
much all the year forwarding these books
in their course through the bindery to the
department.
Neat Volume on Geological Survey.
The bindery division has just delivered
Is coo copies of the twenty-fourth annual
report of the geological survey for 1923.
The report contains 1903 pages and % maps,
the latter showing mostly the typographical
surveying in the states and territories. 1t
also includes fine portrait of the late
Major John w. Powell who was the di-
rector of the geological survey for thirteen
years The biographical sketch of Major
Powell is very interesting, his life being
very closely associated with the important
work of the bureau. This year the reports
are issued in one volume which was adopt
ed by Congress and the survey Office last
year. 1t meets general satisfaction and
quite naturally sfmplifies the work of its
publication and distribution. In previous
years the reports have appeared In six and
seven volumes OF 49, 600 copies EACH BY the
way it is not likely that the name of Pow
ell will be disassociated very soon from the
work of publishing the survey reports. For
instance, the style and color of the brown
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was gone, and the heart mournfully darted
a glance back into the mistS of the past,
counting the stabs it had received-from
various hands.
Although the Bonapartists themselves
were newcomers. some with ancestry and
some without, regularly dating from a
bloody revolution, the older members of the
party and family never forgot that Eugene
was yet newer than themselves, a poor girl,
married by Napoleon III-for love. Even
recently. during the last illness of Ma
thilde, they had thrown it up to Eugene
that she was the granddaughter of a Brit
ish subject who had failed in business at
CadZ.
In reality. the story is more interesting.
The mother of the Empress Eugene was
also poor girl without a dot. married for
love by a Spanish grandee, the Count de
Montijo. Eugenie's mother was. indeed, the
daughter of a British subject whose world
ly affairs did not exactly prosper at Cadiz;
bu: he had perfectly honorable situation,
and that situation-it is generally not
known-he held from the United Safes of
America.
His name was Kirkpatrick, and he was
related to honorable Scotch families like
the Gordons and the Munroes. For years
and years his occupation in the lovely
Spanish city by the was that of Amer
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lean vice consul; that is to say, he did all
the work, had the confidence of the ma
tives, whose language he spoke and whose
days he understood. 1t was in the days
when the clipper trade of American mer-
chants with Mediterranean ports was
great, when, bringing home oranges, raj
sins, white grapes, wines, silks. spices,
velvets and even wooden goods, the white
wings spread again for Spain in ballast
with barrels of silver dollars.
A Small World.
Kirkpatrick. the Scotchman. had married
a Miss Powers, who had no Spanish blood
either, and who was the daughter of an
other British subject 10 Spain, also vague
ly connected with consulate. To show
how small the world is, it is by this Pow
ers ancestry that Eugene is some kind of
distant cousin of the De Lesseps family
of Suez and Panama canal fame, and now
as completely eclipsed by the failure of
great projects as the empire of Napoleon.
Present-day PariSians, who are incredi-
bly, llght-minded and inaccurate, not to say
unjust, glibly declare the fall of the en-
pire to be due to Eugene. l even heard
lady of some position, the wife of an army
officer, declare the other day that had Ma
poleon III married his cousin Mathilde in
stead of that Spanish girl all would have
been different
What she did not seem to consider is
that Napoleon III could never have mar
ried Mathilde. Herself born In exile in
Trieste While her llluStrlOuS uncle, the
great Napoleon, was at ST. Helena, Ma
thilde, daughter of bigamous desertion
and Wurtembourg princess. was married
in 1910. while still a young girl. to the &C.
centric and immensely rich Prince Anatole
Demidoff. He who was to become Napo-
leon III was at the time needy adven-
turer, living as a policeman In London or
lodging his boarding house bill at Borden
town, N. where he was not able to pay
the value of a farmers pig. shot by him
in error when out cunning for rabbits
When Mathilde was not yet twenty years
old she thus became Demidoff. but the
marriage with a Catholic offended the Tsar
Nicholas, who cut off Demidoff from all
connection with the empire. He and Ma
thilde managed to live together for FIVE
years, after which time there was sepa-
ration of persons and property, but no d.
vorce.
Her Paris Salon.
Mathilde was now free in a sense. She
had already fortune of her own from the
Wurtembourg princess, her mother. and
Demidoff allowed her a handsome alimony.
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THE ONLY ONE LEFT
Ex-Empress Eugene Last OF
Her Circle.
IN DAYS GONE BY
SHE WAS THE HEART OF THE
NAPoLEoNIC PARTY.
Her Sad Reflections at the Deathbed of
the Old Princess
Mathilde.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, January 10, 1904.
AT the deathbed of an ancient lady-Ml-
tfilde, princess of the Napoleonic empire
stood another, beautiful in profile yet with
snowwhite hair and leaning on a gold
headed ebony cane
Mathilde, at the age of eighty-four, had
passed away, and this other, in her
seventy-eighth year, let her beautiful dark
eyes wander from one young face to an
other. in the midst of all the sympathy and
sadness round her. murmuring:
I'm the only one left!'
1t was Eugene, eX-empress of the en-
pire. once the triumphant, beautiful young
wife of Napoleon III, who said this of her
ancient enemy and rival, Mathilde, the
cousin of the emperor. There never had
been any open rupture: and ever since the
empires fall the interests of the party had
held them together. If Eugene might be
called the heart of the Napoleonic party,
Mathilde was certainly its brain. Now she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Confederate Lieutenant Generals.

The death of General Longstreet followed
closely by that of General Gordon has
called for the question as to the remaining
lieutenant generals of the confederate
army. Some have spoken of Longstreet
and Gordon as the last of the lieutenant
generals. There four still living and
we give them, for the information of our
readers, with their ages and post office
addresses: General S. 3. Buckner, Rio
KY, age eighty; General A. p, Stewart.
Chattanooga, Tenn. age eighty-two; Gen.
Stephen D. Lee, Columbus Miss age sew
enty-one; General Joe Wheeler, Wheeler,
Ala, age sixty-seyen.
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cloth used in the covers of the report Is
designated and known in the bndery a.
Powell brown" cloth.
Machines for Mechanical Eyes
The pressroom is also a delight to the
visitor of mechanical turn of mind. Here
one can see some very fine specimens of the
printing press line. one of the finest
pieces of labor saving mechanism is the
card press. 1t is a beauty, and was built
especially for the big printery. 1t has a
capacity Tor 800 900 daily output registered
letter cards. which are printed mainly for
the PoSt once Department and the United
states weather bureau. 1t is the only one
OF its kind in existence and operates with
nicely and smoothness that never fails to
the cards. but it cuts them any size de
sired. 1t will print nine million from one
set of plates. The press carries a double
cylinder. which holds thirty-two plates
each 1t is made of nickel and steel
Ihese post office cards go to all the post
offices in the country. Every post office
has its style and color of cards
A Wonderful Printing Machine.
One hardly loses the impressions from The
clever rapid work of the card presses whom
he passes next to the printing machine
which provokes another exclamation Of
surprise. 1t is machine that prints folds
and stitches and turns out ready for de-
livery speeches of members of Congress.
1t is a wonder Just think of printing
folding and stitching $4,000 copies an hour
OF an efght-page speech! Or 14G00 copies
an hour of sixteen page speech. 1t is one
OF the pride inventions of the Hoe Printing
Press Company. 1t will take in a thirty
two-page form speech, and is used to print
all the speeches in Congress A man feels
like taking his hat off to such human
like machine!
There two big Hoe Webb presses that
mn a 1n hon trn,
made and built to operate that way. They
are there for business and when they get
on form of thirty-two pages. eight pages
to a signature. and throw off 10000 copies
hour-well. you can imagine they are
doing business. They will delight a press
mans heart.
Print $4,000 16-Page Books an Hour
Right alongside of these two big. rapid
presses one sees in line three large Potter
presses. They loom up like leviathans com
pared with the small, compact hurryups
hereinbefore referred to for printing cards
and speeches. But they have their part
to play in the days work. and not a squeak
or grunt do you hear from them. They
will take a form of SiXty-four pages and
will print "a, 900 sixteen-page signatures an
hour. These presses are used largely for
printing the agricultural year book and de-
pGrtmental reports.
Nearly all the presses are fed by young
women, who earn 50 per day for their
work. The pressman who looks after the
presses and superintends the printing gets
81 per day. but he generally superintends
the work of more than one press. Where
the press has an automatic feeder only the
attention of the pressman is necessary
There are fifteen automatic feed presses,
five of them being the very latest and most
improved in their mechanism.
Thirteen No Hoodoo to the G. P. o.
In the press room there are thirteen-un-
lucky thirteen, mark you-that print about
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A Desperate Case.
From Life.

From Life.
First Man-"Yes. I'll do any work at all
that's honorable"
Second Man-"Gracious Have you got
so low as that?"
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The Ref son.
From Puck .

From Puck.
Northerner--'T understand that there was
light vote in the recent election"
Colored Arkansan-"Yassah, OATS de
| troof, sab. De dark vote done reorganized
de fact dat 1t was safest to stay at home %
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'How Is Jagway holding out on his total
abstinence pledge this timer
Total abstinence nothing! He eats mince
pie and sauerkraut three times day
Chicago Tribune.
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stubb-"No. I haven't an umbrella to my
name"
Penn-"How is that?''
Stubb-"Why. didn't have my name to
my umbrella. Chicago News.
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cloth used in the covers of the report Is
designated and known in the bindery az
Powell brown" cloth.
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Her Paris Salon.

Mathilde was now free. in senses She
had already a fortune of her own from the
Wurtembourg princess, her mother. and
Demidoff allowed her a handsome alimony.
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LINCOLN.
WiSCASSET.

Mr.. Washburn was the guest of Capt
Henry Roberts and daughter. over Sun
day
A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs J. W.
Downing died, last week, of cholera in
| fantum.
George II. Evans and friends. who have
Deen camping at the stone house, return
ed to Boston, Friday.
Mrs. c. A. Peaslee recently made a
shopping trip to Bath in the interest of
Huntoon Hill Grange fair.
Mrs. Harry Quinnam who was so Sc
| riously i'll. last week, was thought to be
better at last accounts.
Alfred Patterson of Winslow. was visit
| ing friends in town. last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. p. knight have return
| ed from trip to Peaks Island
Miss Nettie Knigh of Rockland is the
| guest of her grandparent. c. p. Knight
Miss knight is a teacher in the Rockland
| city schools.
Thursday evening at a meeting of the
school committee the following teachers
were appointed: First Grammar Jessie
Jackson; Birch Point Rena Albee: South
| Daisy jackson; second Grammar. Hattie
Pushard; West, Lillian Dickinson; inter-
mediate, Grace Merrill; primary, Mary
| Wright; North Winnie Gorham.
A large party from Gardiner dined at
| The Albee, last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Farley Merry attended the
funeral of Mr.. Merry's father at Booth
| bay, last week. &-
| Mrs. w. s. Peaslee and children have
| gone to Halifax to visit Mrs. Peaslees
early home.
| A large excursion from Bath was in the
| harbor, last week
Quite extensive repairs are being made