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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
OR SALE-Sa. 900 BELOW VALUE
Brick house and brick stable.
Near i4th At. NV.
REDUCED TO SO. 500

FOR SALE-s3 900 BELOW VALUE
Brick house and brick stable
Near i4th at NV
REDUCED TO So 500
stories, cellar; furnace heat; a well planned
house; rooms deep: bed rooms; lot 2oxl 20
TUE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD CoST MORE
STONE & FAIRFAX. 1912 New York ave adj
Joining corner OF i4th.
FOR SALE = USMATCHABLE VALUES. PER
Lect gems OF bones that are offered at an ex-
eepttoaally low price; IS, $50: unauestionably
tsese are the best located tro-storJ houses In
nc CITY. ana II ron value location and appre-
clHte good construction aud arreneement vou.Ii
he quick TO buy one of these houses-NOS lila
lIi5, III. fIlo AND lT25 NEWTON STREET
Lormeriy Howard avenae): Just few steps
from me cars. In a section built up with beauti-
ini residences valued at from $40 600 10 Scs o00.
THREE OF THESE HOUSES SOLD BEFf,RE
COMPLETION; beautiful fronts-cement Cellar
nnder entire h3use-gusrsnteed heating plants
innehse closets large enough for two trunks}
beautiful tiled baths with porcelain tubs. nfckai
plumbing all natural wood finish; double rear
porches See these houses, and IL you take an
architect or builder with you. you will find that
the experts advice will tend to recommend these
properties to you. STONE & FAIRFAX ista
New York ave. adjoining corner of I4th.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

FUH SALE-
Beautiful new home in select section of Colum-
bia Heights; 3-story ay-window brick and brown
stone; 10 finely finished rooms and spacious bath,
with latest improved plumbing; handsome man
tells and mirrors; house Is beautifully decorated
and finished: hot-water heat; good lot to paved
alley. Special price for week.
n. L. SANSBURY
1921 18th St NV,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

Price. $40.
On street near 14th northwest; rooms ant
bath. brick: house IN excellent condition. Thii
house Ia easily worth $1,000. Must be Sold t.
close an estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

4141-2S acres at Great Falls: short walk troll
.ey; 81. house. stable chicken house some fruit;
make beautiful summer house; drst-class cunning
and bass fishing; 81 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

FOR SALE
Nice six-room ay-window brick house, south
west In excellent condition; beautiful front and
rear yards, ornamented with flowers and shrub
berry. Very low price. N. L. SALISBURY,
1921 18th ct. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

FoH aALR-
500 cash. balance SIS per MONTH buys ma
blocks from South Drookland car lie; lot box130
Price e. 100.
oHAs. s. MUIR s CO.. Inc.
1y21-zt 1zOS NJ Y. ave.
THREE LADIES WANT 10 RENT FURNISHED
or unfurnished house, with good shade. for the
summer. within one hour Of the city on either
lars Address &C. B. H. etar ofaee.
F0R RENT BRIGHTWOOD AVE, NEAR
Brghtwood Hotel two new houses; rooms snd
lar and large back yard Rent, 122.50 per mo.
tyz1-0t L0UB r. SH0EAAKER. 61z 18th
FOR aALR-H4fTY ACRK6 MORE on Less on
8 sllk 19Ab 81 FAEK6 AND ANB0N s. TAY~s
i LON onmm1ttees 10 - NV 1s1e9t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

A CHARMING HOME IN TAKoMA
PARK; frame: two stories and attic;
eight rooms; cellar under entire house.
Lot 80 feet front by 28o. Very cheap at
PRICE. 81. 75o. 90.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
ALL FOND OF MINNoWs.
Great Number Required as One Item
 of Aquarium's Food Supply.

From the New York Sun.
 In nature everywhere large fishes feed on small ones and on other forms of an nimal life which they may find in the wa ter and for their well being it is always sought as far as possible to supply such natural food to fishes in captivity
 In the case of a great aquarium like that in New York, with many captive fishes, this involves the supplying for food purposes, among other things, of a great number of minnows. The larger fishes in the New York aquarium consum- ed last year about 1000 quarts of min nows, or about eight barrels.
 The mnnows thus fed range from half an inch to five inches in length and av- craze about 2500 to the quart, so that it takes about 2500,0O0 mnnows annually to furnish this item of the aquarium's food supplies, which includes also clans and shrimps and cut up fresh fish and various other things.
 The largest of the striped bass a fish close to three feet in length and weighing probably twenty-five pounds, will eat from POO to 250 minnows in a day. If 1t should eat 200 a day for 300 days in the year 1t would in that period consume 6O,- GOO minnows.
 But whether like the big striped bass they eat 200 minnows in a day, or like some of the smaller fishes only dozen or half a dozen. all fishes like minnows, and this fondness for them is not con- fined to fishes alone, but is shared by seals, which like minnows very much. If a handful of minnows are thrown into a pool of seals the seals will dive and swim about after them with great swift ness until they have swallowed every one.
 So it takes quite a lot of minnows to satisfy the natural appetites of the aqua rium's larger fishes, but the two and half millions or thereabouts thus annual ly taken don't cut much of a figure as compared with the number left. The min nows for the aquarium are all gathered within a comparatively small area. neigh boring to Gravesend Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Union Stations Wanted.

The Railway Age calls attention to the fact that conveniently located, handsomely designed and comnnodi- ously constructed union passenger sta tions are desired at present ill all parts of the country. This demand is fea- ture of recent growth. Birmingham is simply in the general swim
 The Railway Age calls attention also to the fact that while a slightly union station benefits a city, no city for a moment offers to bear any of the ex- pense. The drift of opinion, adds the Railway Age. is that railway corpora tions should stand the expense of all public improvements having to do with tracks or facilities And yet the union station will not add dollar to railway revenue. Even the most fruitful sea- sons do not rain down enough money or enough credit to do all these things at once. Only a few cities can be taken care of at a time. adds the Age. Birmingham is one of the number to be taken care of in 1906, and it awaits with interest the beginning of the work that is to give it one of the best union stations in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Comoulsive Chivalry.

We have come to accept the decad- ence of chivalry as fact and largely ceased to deplore It," said an old citizen. Occasionally, how ever. the brazen dis regard for the co oirtesles of life which some people exhibit awakes in our mind a regret that it should have to pass
 q was forcibly reminded of this while returning from town in the late afternoon a few days since. The cars at that hour are always crowded, but when some la dies got on at crossing two gentlemen who were seated got up and walked to the rear platform, leaving the seat for the ladies' Some boor who was standing in the aisle immediately appropriated the seat, However, and the ladies were com pelled to stand.
 "The gentlemen who had kindly vacated the seat only spoke jokingly about the colossal nerve of some people. but if ever l felt like compulsive chivalry would be a good thing, 1t was then. Do you know there is no excuse for such rude ness It is bad enough for a man to re- main seated while women are swinging onso straps and seat-backs. but the cad who would do such a thing ought to be taken in hand by a delegation from the cooler when he alights."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
In the Congressional Districts.

SIX of the congressional districts in tLis S. te are uudistdrbed by contests pr ioiil cal strife of any so't, but ill the remaining three districts-,he Sec ond, the Third and the Sixth-there are to be races between democrats at the primaries.
 In the Second district Colonel Wiley, who is serving his third term, is op- posed by Thomas J. Hall of Montgom- cry. member of the present legisla- ture of the state. Thus far MT Hall has presented no platform except op- position to the setting of the primary for March 19. He asks that later
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Stumpage Flinders Development.

A Mississippi correspondent of the Memphis CommercialAppeal says the large syndicates have bought stump age in that state on immense areas, and are holding it indefinitely, thus keeping the owners of the land from getting their acres In farming condi- tion The purchasers of the timber rights were shrewd enough to insist that no time limit should be specified in the contract for the removal of the timber. and several of the heavily tim bered counties are thus locked up in definitely The land owner cannot compel the timber purchaser to gather the crop he has bought, and the timber purchaser is making money yearly by holding his timber. The timber coun- ties are thus kept in a state of nature, much against the will of the owners of the soil.
 But there is limit to such practices in all cases in which the contract does not expressly and specifically give the purchaser of the timber all the time he desires. If nothing is said on that point in the contract, a court of equity would require the removal of the tim Der in a reasonable time.
 It is incredible that timber contracts will be permitted to dwarf a county or a section unless indeed the landowners have been so shortsighted as to give timber purchasers full freedom in so important a matter. The situation in some Mississippi counties is said to be distressing, and no doubt the prob lem will be brought before the courts of that state, and possibly before the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

day be named so that he may canvass the district.
 The opponent of Henry D. Clayton in the Third district is Editor Martin of Ozark, who is also a preacher. Mir. Clayton has served his district accept ably in five Congresses, and there seems to be no reason why he should be defeated this year except that MT. Martin wants his seat. No trouble over the date ofNhe congressional prl- mary has arisen in the Third district.
 h the Sixth district Captain Hobson is again combating Mr Bankhead, who has served continuously in ten Congresses. He is the dean of the dele gation. Captain Hobson not only chal- 1enges his record, but he objects to q primary on April 23. He. sems to pre- fer August 27
 No one has proposed to contest the seats filled by Messrs. Underwood Bur nett, Bowie Richardson, Taylor and Hefiin, and the presumption now is that no one will No doubt the pri- maries in the six uncontested districts will be held on the general primary day in August.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
VuIcan's Location.

The men who are to decide where Vulcan is to be placed for good and for all should not forget that distance in that case would lend enchantment to the view A near view is too realistic, and an ancient god, even of fire and metals, does not loom up acceptably close at hand He needs to be ideal ized, so to speak, and this could not be done if he confront the hurrying passengers at the door of the union station, or the passerby in a small park.
 The question is difficult one, and the solution seems to be distant. So should the statue be, but where? There's the rub, and the rub bids fair to finger with us a good while to come, unless the subscribers to the Vulcan fund in the pending vote give the sub ject careful attention.
 Distance should enter into every vote in some form. Without it no solu- ton will be feasible, and the voters should never lose sight of this neces- sity to Vulcan in the matter of his permanent location.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Baseball Crowds.

'rhe size of baseball crowds said Bozeman C. Bulger yesterday, eare often exaggerated. The Polo Ground of the Giants in New York hold seats for l8'OOO people, and this is the largest baseball place in this or any other country
 "A gathering 25,OOO strong could be and has been admitted to the Polo grounds, but in order to do that q good part of the field was given over to those who could not be seated
 Spectators to the number of 2500O or even 20000 constitute an impressive sight. Three or four thousand spectators at West End park look numerous, but when a West End attendance is magnlfied i've or six times the man who looks at it for the first time is impressed.
 'rhe average seating capacity of the two big leagues does not exceed lO,OOO and any one of the teams in those leagues is glad to have that number present."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Pure Foods and Drugs.

The pure food bill is not a stranger in Congress. It has been there off and on seventeen years, and the House of the Fifty-eighth Congress passed it, when it was known as the Hepburn bill The Senate refused to pass the bill Tn this Congress the Senate has the initiative, and the bill now bears the name of Idaho's Senator, MT. Hey burn.
 The Heyburn bill will go through the House unless the strong interests it assails induce the republican party as a party to defeat it. If the House machine desires the passage of the bill it will be put through speedily and readily, for the republican majority is large in the House, and the Cannon machinery is in good working order. Ali depends upon what the party chiefs in the House say.
 The object of the bill is to stop the sale of misbranded and impure foods, drugs, medicines and liquors. The eX- tent to which adulteration has been carried in pepper, preserves, jellies, flour, condiments and a thousand other articles is imperfectly understood. The evil is widespread. It is national evil and grave one at that. If the bill becomes law no article of food, no drug, no patent medicine, no liquor can enter into interstate or international commerce unless the brand on it cor rectly sets forth it's component parts. The German-Americans are organiz- ing to fight the Hepburn bill in the House on the ground that an American citizen has right to order whatever he may want in one state and have it delivered in another state without in. reference. So he may if he will take 1t correctly branded, but not even an American citizen has a right to pro- mote the manufacture and sale of a misbranded article. It should be q cardinal principle of the American citi- zen to take his goods, even his liquors. on the square. The German-Americans have no grounds for opposing the bill. No doubt it will lessen at first the con- sumption of cotton seed oil, but the south will sand up to it if it can get through it's operations pure foods, pure drugs, pure medicines and pure liquors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
old-Fashion Dinners.

Birmingham may have her fine cafes and good hotels" said a New York news paper man last night, but there is one thing here that can't be eNeelled and rarely equaled in America. That is the Hill Billy dinner laid in the cafe of the Alabama club every night at 6 o'clock. To a person accustomed to course din ners' this old fashioned way of serving meals at first seems strange but 1t takes but short time to get used to 1t.
 "As everybody in Birmingham knows this idea could originate in the mind of Tom Hewlett only. Mr. Hewlett has al- ways maintained that Reuben must be allowed to come to town, and he carries out his idea In his Alabama club dinners. And their fame is fast spreading, too.
 AS l looked across the table last night 1 saw two judges, a senator. a New York drummer and an Englishman who is here to close contract for 150,OOO tons of steam coal for export.
 "The chief chef at the Alabama club is an old black woman who, according to true Hill Billy principles, carries her nutmegs, keys and ginger in her apron pocket with snuff box not far away She arranges all the dinners and will take no suggestions from anybody-not even Mr Hewlett. For dinner last night she had boiled snap beans and bacon, caullfower. fried corn. roast fresh pig, ham, biscuit, corn bread in pones, black berry Jam and rice custard.
 Ut makes no difference how many guests drop in there Is always enough and some to spare."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
A VALUABLE BOOK.
"Twenty Years In the Press Gallery
 Issued.

MT O. O. stealey, the veteran corre- snondent of the Louisville Courler-Journal, is the author of a most valuable book, and I may say indispensable to every American citizen who expects to be a. public man and hopes to be a congress- man. The title of the work Is Twenty Years in the Press Gallery" and it is a history of congressional legislation from the forty-eighth to the fifty-eighth con- sress, both inclusive. Thus the man who is curious to learn the history of con gressional politics for twenty-two years will find it here. One of the lame places in the American Congress is the dense ignorance many of our great men discover of and concerning American political his- tory. It is a rare congressman who could tell you in eo6 what were the political issues of 1886. It was the strength of John Quincy Adams that he knew all American history. That Is what made him the old bruser that he was in Congress the last eighteen years of his life. And so l would say to every am- bilious young man who expects some day to thunder in Congress, read Ameri- can politics. and MT. Stealey's book Is a very important and a very valuable con- tribution to that history.
 MT. Henry Waterson, the accomplished editor of the Courier-Journal, wrote the introduction to MT. Stealeys book, and did if in his characteristic and inimitable style, and supplemental 200 pages are sketches of some four score of the lead ing public men who have appeared in Congress the past twenty years. These sketches were written by Washington cor respondents-all but one. Senator Car mack. himself a newspaper man, sec ond to none, wrote the chapter on the late Isham G. Harris. It is in his bril- liant vein and a labor of love- a tri- bute to his friend and monitor. All the other sketches are by MT. Stealey's fell low correspondents and friends. Some Of the public men thus picture are Nelson w. Aldrich, William B. Allison Joseph w. Barrey, Thomas F. Bayard, J. C. 5. Blackburn, W. J. Bryan, Joseph G. Can non. E. w. Carmack, Champ Clark Charles F.. Crisp. Vice President Fair hanks A P. German, Benjamin Harrl- son. Thomas A. Hendricks David B. Hill w. S. Holman, J. J. Ingalls,, L. A. Nor gan. William R. Morrison, Samuel J. Randall Thomas B. Reed, John sherman, Allen G. Thurman, John Randolph, Tuck CT, George G. Vest. D. w. Voorhees, William l.. Wilson, John Sharp Williams and many others.
 It is not only valuable history, but it is full of interesting personal gos- sip. It is the congressional history of twenty years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
HUGE APPETTES.
Food Big Items of Expense in Wild
 Beast Trade.

"A very lucrative if somewhat specula- lative industry is the traffic in wild ami mals,' says w. G. Fitz-Gerald in the Technical World Magazine. ''The stock is most difficult and expensive to procure and equally so to maintain. Its mere ex- istence calls. not for square feet, but for whole acres of space; and when one con siders that a single elephant will make away with 75O pounds of green stuff in a day, he begins to realize what serious matter it is to keep "a stock of wild beasts on hand at all.
 Gall at Hagenbecks business office and you will be shown accounts dealing with the food bfll of the animals on hand You will notice among the years items 460 tons of horse-fiesh; tens of thousand of chicken heads; hundreds of tons of fish: whole train-loads of hay vegetables. fruit. sugar. bread, milk and crackers hundreds of thousands of eggs; besides wines, medicines, and many other items,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

the principal owner of the securities of the Tennessee and Republic companies. that those companies expected 10 make expenditures amounting to S12000.O00 in this district within the next few years. Of course only a small proportion Of this amount, namely, sS000,0O0 is to be ex- pended at present, but provision is made for expenditures amounting to the above sum within a reasonable time.
 Further than this, the commencement of the construction of the Brown-M Marx fifteen story office building, means that Birmingham Is the substantial town of the south. Besides this, I am told that on merely a ten-year lease of the old Florence hotel property. the lessee is ex- pending s5ooOo in improving the same.
 It is also announced that the new Jeff ferson hotel, a twelve story structure on a lot 125 by 40 feet. is to be commenced at once and that Birmingham is to have a hotel conducted on planes to rival the ''NNiNSA @19eoA ia oi ally Ol lHe OlHeT great modern hotels of New York.
 The new union passenger station, to cost nearly s1.5O00Oo. Is to be built on lines sufficiently broad to meet the re- quirements of a city five times the present size of Birmingham. The railroads in their farsightedness, have acquired sui ficient property to extend the same to even greater proportions if necessary. They have acquired practically all the real estate in the depot section of the city and have plans which will improve the same and make it an exceedingly att tractive portion. of the city.
 = In the meantime. Mayor Ward and the Board of Aldermen are keeping pace with the growth of Birmingham and are paw ing and beautifying the city, and every indication is that Birmingham will in a short time become the real hub of the south.
 At least such is the opinion of
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Tennessee Politics.

Up in my state we are having plenty of politics." said citizen of Chattanooga last night "The recent announcement of Gen H. Clay Evans as a candidate for governor, has put the politicians to think ing. General Evans was urged, it is said, by President Roosevelt and the entire admiristraton, to enter the political field in Tennessee.
 At a recent meeting of the cabinet it was unanimously decided, so political gossip goes. that Congressman Brownlow should retire from the arena of Tennes- see politics and make room for Evans. Postmaster General Cortelyou was desig- mated by Mir. Roosevelt as the man to wait upon Congressman Brownlow and tell him that the administration pre- ferred General Evans as the leader in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
chattanooaa Progressing.

chattanooga is to have it's first sky seraper in the next few months,' said a Chattanooga man who is spending a few days in Birmingham Tt has been announced that an up-to-date office build ing, ten stories in height, will be start ed on one of the prominent business cor ners at once Eastern capital is to erect the building.
 "Chattanooga is now experiencing substantial growth in all lines of business The new furnace being constructed by the Chattanooga Coal and Iron company will soon be ready to blow in. The company is composed of several well known iron men, prominent among whom Is C. E. Buck of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
KNEW THE DIFFERENCE,

Mrs Gaswell-Everybody says we ought to give Lottie a European tour. and think so too. We want her to shine in society, don't we2
 Gaswell-Shine? Huhl You know well enough we can afford to give her real polish if we want to, and that costs twice as much.