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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

Entered a' the Birmingham, Ala. post office as seeond-class matter, under act of Congress, March 5. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

The oyster cure is the latest on the list It is for nerves"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

There is danger of a rubber famine some day but the people with elastic necks show no diminution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

Suitable gift for all occasions A dozen eggs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

Kansas is waking up the Rockefelle family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

Contrary to accepted belief, "bundle taken on in a model saloon is not a model package" by any means. It is just a plain old drunk and is worth the same price in police court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

An Iowa man has been denied dlvorce from his wife because she smoked cigar cites in bed. He ought to thank his lucky stars that she does rot smoke them or the front veranda or on the street.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

Begin to get your habits ready for "Parsifal."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

The oldest living senator is David Wark, who is a member of the Canadian senate and is 101 years old. If he has never been indicted he is indeed nov city.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26

THE breeding plant does not furnish all Of the
food of this kind, however, for the beaver pond
is full of frogs. Many rats have been aIlured
into the park through the discovery of the pos
sibilities of the feed boxes the elk. buffalo
and sheep ranges, and some of the ponds have
been stocked with perch and carp. In the
course of a year or so it will be possible to
secure live fish by dipping them up with dip
per Many snakes born in the reptile house,
which are valueless for exhibition purposes, are
available as food for the cannibals of their kind
Even this does not supply all the food or
this sort desired, and men and boys, who enjoy
catching rats. mice and frogs find ready
market for them. Two men, Morris Pearsall
and Adam Dove, spend their vacations in
Sullivan County, n. Y, catching snakes. They
usually bring back about hundred and fifty,
which they turn over to the director. Some
of these which are not Of value for other
purposes conducted down the sinuous
throats of the large snakes. Sparrow traps
being imported in order to trap this bird
in the park for food purposes.
These viands are only small part of the
dietary Of the Geological Garden. Potatoes
and onions by the barrel, cabbage and lettuce
by the thousand heads, carrots, mangles par
ships and turnips by the ton, hay by the
barb, hard corn, peas, parsley. string beans.
spinach, leek. lima beans and mint by the
scores Of bushels. green corn by the thousands
of ears, cucumbers, eggplant summer squash
and muskmelons by the hundred, meat and
fish by the ton and crushed oats by the hun
dreds Of bushels are required to satisfy the
Large quantities OF the different vegetables
are raised on the Adee farm In Pelham Bay
Park which has been leased from the Park
Department but no fourteen acre farm could
supply the needs of the cosmopolitan COM
munity housed in The Bronx Park. Therefore
the officials obliged to spend about $4,000
a year for food for the thousands of animals
Long established customs of geological gar
dens not followed i'm The Bronx Park, just
because they are moss grown. 1t has generally
been considered an axiom that snakes would
not eat dead food and must have it served
alive. This has been disproved. and the snakes
have to worry along with food that is humanely
killed before IT TO them. Mr. Hornaday
does not believe I'm stuffed animals either dead
or alive, so he does not allow them TO overeat.
Too much fat is unhealthy, he says. and so
they are kept the verge of hunger. TheT
are always ready for the next meal and. like
Jack Sprat and his wife. they lick the platter
clean.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26

IF half as much attention was given 10 lhe
average boarding house table as Is palo ~ ~
food provided for the animals at 'iie -
Geological Gardens, the jokes ABOUT liio ~
and antiouated fowls would soon nave ii0 Po--.''
and there would be a reduction III Ihe Ioo'4PNN
of the makers of pellets for indigestion huAiNi
he,nps NAV eat vegetables and fruit thaI nave
been sprayed with poisonous mixtures eneS
,r,sb m but no animal at the Geological Gar
aars n,iu he permitted to have any which Is
5o,,b+fu1 in this respect. No sea lion Will ever
he invited to dine upon tainted hsh, LOT every
fish intended for food is examined Closely Inc
unroasted roast for the lions Is selected anu
trimmed as carefully as if it were for use IN a
first class hotel
Feeding the animals at the New-1ork Zoologi-
cal Gardens is as much of a tax upon the re-
sources of the director as supplying an army
with food is upon the commissary department
The latter is expected to furnish only certain
quantities of staple provisions. The former,
however has to provide decacies Of a kind that
can only be secured by special efforts. Some OF
these are the luxuries Of mans table. while
others probably no man would care for
Undoubtedly no one would enjoy the delicate
meal worms and maggots expected daily by
the beautiful small birds in the aviary Nor
would one include among his iuxuries the live
fish required by the polar and big brown bears
Of Alaska, the capacious-pouched pelican. the
spindle-shanked herons and storks, the vora-
cious cornorant and the sacred ibis Few,
except Cinnamon, would envy the hawks, the
owls the falcons. the unpleasantly suggestive
weasel the crafty ferret, the catlike genet, and
many OF the snakes their rats and mice. Some
would not object to rabbits and frogs which the
snakes call for. but they might draw the line
at guinea pigs and smaller snakes rabbit
the snakes look upon as choice morseI and
WI tbev
find guinea pigs their plates. One could.
however agree with the snow and clouded leop-
ards and the iyn1es that squab and pigeon
were passable eating, especially If they had been
boned carefully. One would enjoy the fish. per-
hans but the ''oId cox which the alligators
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
Europe Them Asesden
the Money to His of Discovery

creased from the perhaps fifty individuals OF
1866 to 10000 as it is to-day. For nearly 1fU
years the above mentioned congregation as
sumed sole charge of the poor of the jewish
community of this city, the sick and the Or
phans and those worthy old Hebrews were the
first to open a school for the religious and secu-
lar education of the poor There Is little doubt
that the sacrifices they had TO make were as
large in proportion to their means as the hugo
sums of money spent to-day are to the many
and large fortunes of the wealthy Hebrews OF
to-day.
To commemorate this 250th anniversary the
Hebrews in the whole country have begun a
movement which has already advanced SO far
that its success is assured It is to collect a
fund to present a suitable memorial to the
American people. In addition to this. special
services were held In every synagogue IN the
country yesterday, and on Thanksgiving Day a
representative meeting will be held at Carnegie
Hail. when ex-President Cleveland, Governor
Higgins. Mayor Mcclellan, Bishop Greer, Judge
SuIzberger and others will speak.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
LOANED MONEY Te THE GOVERNMENT,

The loans of Hahn Solomon to the United
States government reached over S35o.000. They
have not been repaid. Isaac Moses, merchant,
also lent a large sum- which also has not been
repaid In the War Of 1912 U. P. Levy, after
ward a commodore in the United States Navy,
distinguished himself. In the battle OF New
Orleans in 1915, Judah Touro was terribly
wounded Lieutenant J. B. Nones served with
distinction in Decaturs expedition against Trip
oil. In the War OF the Rebellion thousands Of
Hebrews enlisted on both sides, and their record
for bravery and fortitude cannot be surpassed.
The Hebrews were thus among the frstcomers
to America. They have helped TO build up
its prosperity They have shed their blood and
made sacrifices every occasion for the In
terests OF me United States. the country Of their
adoption. they here by right, not as an
act of tolerance. and General Washington's
letter stating his addressed to the Jews in
Newpo IN the possession Of member of
the Span d md Po- tuguese Congregation of this
city which was founded by those first Jewish
arrivals. Among its members descendants
of those first comers and notably Of the seixas,
Solomon, Lopez, Nones and Levy families al
ready quoted as Anerican-Jewish patriots. It
worshipped originally in private house near
the Battery then in a loft above hill vacated
by the first Dutch Reformed church. then In a
hired frame building IN Mill-st., a street no
longer in existence. They erected their first reg
ular building for a synagogue on the same street
South Willan-st It burned down in
1913 and rebuilt. In time they have removed to
Crosby-st., then to 19th-st- near 5th-ave. and
now the synagogue is at 70th-st and Central
Park West.
The Jewish population of the city has in
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
Squab. Broers White Mice, Nuts Guinea Pigs, Frogs
Legs Fat Worms Supplied for the Zoo Exhibits.

Barred Plymouth Rocks of fine stock furnish
their meat Thoroughbreds are more produc-
tive than nongreIs so they have been selected.
The eggs are Matched in incubators. This year
twelve thousand eggs were laid and three thou
sand chickens raised.
Then one expects to see cages filled with
gaunt wild-eyed rats large enough to give a
cat an active half hour engagement. One is
suddenly reminded that probably white rats and
mice are just as good eating as the wild ones.
when the pink eyes are seen peering out or the
soft nests prepared for them. There are no
reasons for raising wild rats, ana these are
much easier to handle.
ones sympathies are likely to be aroused. ALSO
Are those beautiful birds intended as food
for animals?" one exclaims when one sees all
the colors of the rainbow shimmering on the
.necks of the pigeons in. Kaleidoscope fashion
The rabbits contentedly make their nests In
their hutches, lining them with hair from their
own bodies with thought that the tiny,
naked blind creatures they bring into the world
are to be the food of snakes. The guinea pigs
watch for meal time with the same interest that
the animals a mile away do for some of theIr
flash They know their feeding hour The
sound of a step on the stairs leading to their
ouarters usually means to them food, and they
begin to whistle. One almost expects to see
,ool fnlI of peppers as his head rises through
the stair opening.
Perhaps meal worms and maggots have just
the same feelings about being eaten as the
rabbits but they do not appeal TO the SYM
pathies so much. The breeding OF the maggots
Is a simple matter. 1t is carried with ma
chinelike ease. The operation is almost auto
matte They are raised In a series of boxes is
inches square. From time to time these are
supplied with pieces of meat. In the course OF
time the boxes are opened and maggots
gentles. as the English call them. taken out
by the quart,
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
PERSECUTION OF JEWS.
In 4U Ages and Countries, SAGE
america and Turkey.

The recent massacres of Jews at Odessa
Tomsk, ETC.. in which thousands of helpless
men, women and children were slaughtered
by nlobs under the very eyes and protection OF
the Cars police and military, have justly
aroused the protests of every American Tne
world stands aghast at the horrors of these
massacres, and yet Russia might well apply to
all those who now express horror at her murder
GUS and atrocious deeds the well known words:
HE that is without sin among you, let him
first cast q stone at her" Indeed, with the ex-
ception of America and, curiously enough, the
realm ruled by the "unspeakable Turk, all
civilized countries are in a greater or less de-
gree guilty of similar crimes Jews have been
the victims of prosecutions by so-called Chris
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26

and crocodiles like would not appeal to the
palate of the connoisseur in capons. "Old cox
is the marketman'a label for the boarding house
roosters which he delivers to the society with
spurs cut off in order to spare the throats Of
the reptiles. The mouth waters when one thinks
of the 'broilers of fine stock which are given to
Of the animals whose stomachs are not
well adapted for absorbing old fowls as
those of the crocodile and alligator Perhaps
some will find connecting link between
man and monkeys In the fact that both like
crisp celery and zwieback. The bear likes eel
cry too, and no one claims relationship be-
tween man and the numbering animal which the
President has found so much satisfaction and
recreation in hunting. The side dish of acorns
which appeals to the slender Imbed deer and
the secretive squirrels will not be grudged by
human beings.
Some of these viands easy enough TO OBJ
tain, but choice rats, mice, frogs, snakes, meal
and maggots not found for sale in
large quantities in the city, although they are
numerous enough in some parts to make the in
habitants of those quarters fervently wish them
all under the noses of the animals in the Zoo
logical Park. The officers do not permit them
selves to be at the mercy of circumstances and
have established breeding places for these deli
cacies and chickens. rabbits guinea pigs and
live fish. Rats, mice. rabbits, frogs guinea
pigs and pigeons are raised by the hundred
and chickens by the thousand. meal worms by
the tens Of thousands. and maggots by the
quart.
There is nothing spectacular about the breed
ing house buried in the woods beyond the Bronx
River, about g. mile away from the ranges dens
and houses. It is just ordinary outbuilding
such as one could find on many farm. 1t pro-
vides a couple of surprises for the visitor, how
ever. For instance. one is astonished TO find
that the animals feed upon ordinary chick
ems. but thoroughbreds. White Leghorns and
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
689D JEWS IN AMERICA FOR BEING HERE gsSg51g

iilquisltion their fortunes confiscated and
lneir bodies were tortured. In the seventh CEN
tury again they were prosecuted and massacred
ana $4,000 of them converted by force to
the religion of love. In the year 1866 1000 were
killed. In the prosecutions of the thirteenth
century 1900 Jews were killed in various Span
ish cities. By the middle of the fourteenth CEN
tury the general hatred against the Jews had
spread alarmingly IN all countries Of Europe. In
consequence of the terror which the Black Death
caused throughout that portion of the globe.
The bloody persecution actually begun at
Seville in 1891. These were outbursts of priestly
and popular violence, and had no sooner started
in that city than Cordova, Valavera, Catalonia
and the island of Majorca followed in its train;
immense numbers of Jews being murdered and
wholesale thefts being perpetrated on their pos
sessions by the religious rabble. The number
of enforced baptisns is reckoned at no less than
100000, and the killed numbered more than
100000
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
proony EXPERIENCES IN FRANCE.

In France the persecution of the Jews began
s Aor,v as the sixth century with violent con-
,,orsion to Christianity, and was relentiessy car
r,ad on during the seventh and eighth cen
- - Tn tbe ninth century many Jews were
expelled from the country Many were kliieu
- .o,a,ers of the Crusades in the eleventh
Oy 49,, and in 1880 they were 'banished from
ao,,r+rv It is alleged against them tha'e
=. +ha celebration of the Passover at rHii'
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
AMERICA PROVED THE HAVEN.

We are not surprised that Columbus addressed
his first and second letters announcing his dis
covery to Santangel and Sanchez. The coinci-
dence Of the great discoverer's departure at the
very time when the Jews were expelled from
Spain is curiously enough alluded to by himself.
But how finely 1t is brought out by Castelar,.
Gpa.n's great statesman, historian and orator,
who writes: '1t chanced that one Of the last
vessels Transporting into exile the Jews expelled
from Spain by the religious intolerance of which
the recently created and odious Tribunal OF the
Faith was the embodiment passed by the little
feet bound I'm search of another world-a world
whose creation would be born, haven to
be afforded 20 the Quickening principle CT human
liberty e temple to be reared TO the God Of en-
franchised and redeemed consciences. As though
the sun were not to shine for all, though the
viii of heaven had not made equal, the ac-
cursed spirit OF reaction WAS wreaiing one OF its
stupendous and futile crimes IN that very hour
when the genius Of liberty was searching the
wave. for the land destined to arise TO offer an
unstained abode for the ideals of progress. Fol
lowing their narrow views, the powers Of the
Middle Ages denied even light and warmth to
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
mot JEWELS. BUT JEWS"

To ouote the late Professor Herbert B. Adams,
.,Jo+ Jewels hut Jews were the real financial
basis of the first expedition of Columbus rneah-
ing that the assistance of these two Jews, ana
not the alleged pawning of jewels by queen
Isabella fitted out Columbus's expedition.
It is said that at least five persons of jewish
blood accompanied Columbus upon his first Voy-
age Among them Luis De Torres, VINO
was to act in the capacity Of interpreter De
Torres is said to have been the first european
to tread the soil of America
In an essay called Los Hebreos en- ell descu-
brimiento de las Indias,'' by Cesareo Fernandes
Duro attention is drawn to the name published
in the bulletin of the Royal Academy Of Madrid
Vol. Xxx Cuaderno III, March, 1892. Of the
island Guanahani and 10 the statement of Don
Francisco Rivas Puigcerver. published in
Mexico que an las carabelas de Colon en-
barcaron marineros judios moriscos'-that
Jews and Moors embarked IN the caravels OF
Columbus.
quaint attempt is made to derive Guiana
hani from the Hebrew words Ana Hen. Y,
where" here or yes IAN island" and the
story is told in short poem or doggerel verse
written in mixed Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish
and Hebrew, thus:
AT o'clock in .he morning
"Y Can island! An islandD tsaid) Rodriguez
de FTians
The Portuguese-tQual contes-
From the deck Of the Pinta
81 see now that it is shadowy thing!"
He answered "Veana?" CWhereO
Look look-in that place-Hen iyes. an island)
Teana? (And whereof Hen. Z" Yes, It is an
island)
Then cried tn first,
Loud for he a mariner,
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26

-. 1exvs at the same time that they le''9a-
: now creation for new order Oh soo ~ in
destined by Providence to put an eiio ,+t-,ant
toIerance and to dedicate an iiiiiiA'
20 modern democracy
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
FIRST JEWS IN AMERICA.
Came Here as Refugees from Span
ish Persecution.
BY the Rev. Or. H Perefra aeiso

What a romancei On April 80 the decree iVA
he expulsion of the Jews from SPAN was p
lfshed. - 20
on the same day Columbus was oloei
equip a feet for his voyage
On August the Jewish exiles left SPAIN
On the very next day Columbus set SAIL
Can we not recognize the finger or Goo III aiA
these facts?
THE hand of man wrote the story or that cen
-t,ry with blood and tears, SO far as the HEBREWS
,cere corscerned But the finger Of COD reWroIe
che story of the century to mean geographicai
sc.,vttv snd discovery which would result IN
l,evens of refuge for the stricken people. The
hand OF man wrote the history to mean the as-
grandizement of Spain. The finger or Goo re-
wrote IL TO mean the aggrandizement Of human
fty by American ideals. American energy ana
American invention with Spain's Illumination IN
stead Of her ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. In this asgrah-
d,zement Of humanity Jews are destined TO play
an important part.
Was it the finger of God that SO wrote history
that the first American Jews were refugees from
that very Spain, or descendants Of refugees
Men talk of the irony Of history. Let US IN TINS
instance call it the justice of God.
If American Jews are to be identified with the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of humanity, under American
auspices it will be a fit sequel to the historic
fact that Jews were identified with the discovery
Of America by Columbus, for, thanks to Kay
serling we know now that the expedition Oh
Columbus owed its dispatch to two Jewish pa
irons. Sanchez, of Saragossa. and Leon de SAINT
angel controller general of the State OF AT
ragon.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-26
Sailors, Land. Land!'
HOW COLUMBUS SECURED MONEY.

DIR Kayserling in his Christopher Columbus
and the Participation of the Jews in the Span
ish and Portuguese Discoveries says: AT
that time neither Arragon nor CASTLE, nor Ferdi-
riand nor Isabella had at their disposal enough
money to equip the fleet Santangel. who was
always ready to oblige the crown, advanced
1900 crowns. nearly 100000 maravedis. The
Queens jewels were not demanded as security;
all of them were not, in fact. in her possession
at that time. for she had pledged her neck
lace during the late That he advanced
this money out of his own pocket is proved
beyond question by the original account books,
which were formerly in the archives of Simances,
and which are still preserved In the Archives de
Indias in Seville. In the account book Of Luis
de Santangel and the treasurer, Francisco
Piniio extending from 14SA to 1888, Santangel
is credited with an item of 100000 maravedis,
which he gave to the Bishop of Avila for Co
lumbus's expedition. In another account book.
that of Garcia Martinez and Fedro de Mont
mayor, there is the following item: Alfonso de
las Calezas, treasurer of in the bishopric
of Badajoz by order of the Archbishop OF
Granda. dated May g. 1892. paid to Alfonso de
Angelo for Luis de Santangel. the Kings escri-
bano de racion, whose authorization was pre-
sented with the aforesaid order, 100000 mara
vedis to-wit 100000 to Isaac Abravanel "a
Cor money which he had lent their majes-
ties IN the Moorish war, and the remaining l.
10000 maravedis in payment to the aforesaid
escribano de racon of money which he advanced
10 equip caravels ordered by their majesues for
the expedition TO the Indies and TO pay Chris
topher Columbus. the admiral of that fleet On
May 90 1893 on which day Ferdinand was par
ticularly occupied with Columbus and his ex-
petition the King ordered his treasurer. Gen
eral Gabriel Sanchez. to pay 10000 forins in
gold to his beloved councillor and escribano de
racion Luis de Santangel- This sum certainly
.rcl,,ded the rerainder of the loan