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Ryan's Bargains
B. F. EBORN.

f2300-6-room, hall, bath and large porch;
also good barn and fruit trees; lot look
200; corner, near car line, North Bir-
mingham; terms.
E21OO-5-room house, lot 1OOx14O, well
located on car line Terms. North Biz
mingham.
|2OO0-5-room house, l acre land, barn,
good well, fronts on pike road North
Birmingham. Terms easy.
bl250-6-room house, small store; will rent
for $3.50 per month; North Birming
ham.
Bl65O-T wo-story, 7-room house, lot 50x140,
good barn, good well of water, two
blocks from car line; street improve
ments; AVondale.
s19OO-5-rooms, hall and bath. front and
back porch, nice lot 50x15O, fronts on
car line, West End. Easy terms.
s75O-5-room house at East Lake. Terms
easy.
$2J0-Two lots, nice and high, Rugby
Highlands, East Lake.
-Three-room house, nice corner lot
fronting on pike road near Lewisburs.
e110O Each-Two nice cottages at East
Brighton, on North Bessemer car line;
500 cash balance like rent.
S1700-TWo business lots on 9TH avenue, IL
block car line; improved; renting for $40
per month; North birmingham.
We have other houses and vacant lots in
all parts of the district. If in the mar
ket for anything In realty line or have
anything in this line for sale, it will
be to your interest to see
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FOR SALE

A nicely located lot on 18th street, north;
eastern frontage.
Pretty. nicely arranged COTTAGE: conven-
iently located. South Highlands.
Cottage of six rooms, hall. bath, electric
lights. half block of car, South High
lands; $500.
Neat, new cottage of five rooms, with
electric lights and city water; near Fair
view.
Large lot in splendid location; about a
block from Highland avenue.
One of the handsomest and most conven-
lent summer homes on Shades noun
tain.
Pretty grounds; young orchard; high al
titude; good neighborhood, and within
driving distance of city.
1873 acres in valley above Irondale has
three railroads and a creek through it.
Very comfortable 2-story, modern. South
Highland home; about two blocks of ear
line.
Woodlawn cottgae on large lot facing car
line; nice location.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
s1ooo-Lot % st. bet IL & II ayes.
$780, story res. II ave: near "a st.
$500 story res % St; / blk. u Ave.
s10,5Oo-Large. handsome Norwood home
s175O-Norwood lot; east front.
$40 Pr. Ft-Belt Line property; 240 deep.
SsO0O-Large n. side cor; rents $12O.
s515o-Sixth Ave. p & % SITS 80 ft
s17, 50o-Choice Fifth Ave. cor; impvd.
E14O00-Fourth Ave. cor; depot district.
S26, 000--Third Ave. bargain.
$50, 0O0-2 story brick rents $500
s5OO0-Iot Ave. IA & 10 SITS.
s625O-50 #, alley, IA ST.; impvd.
s12, 5000 1T l Ave, near "a St: impvd.
s525O--Lot 25x140; Ave-, near % st.
s25,O0O-S. 20 st store; rents $75,
s20O0-Lot Highland Ave, near 80 st.
s60O0-2 story res. " blk. S. 20 St
s5OO0-Ave. II near q St stores.
s6OO0-Elegant s. Highland home; fur
mace.
NO.OOO-w. Goth St., bargain; houses;
rents $500
r. MCCONNELL & CO.,
Phones So 2101 Third Ave.
Opposite court house.
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Ryan Real Estate Co.,
1854 WoOdW'd Bldg, Bell Phone 1886
For Sale.

VALUABLE COTTON MILL IN GOOD
NORTH CAROLINA TOWN, PAYS
OVER % PER CENT. Two-story brick.
60x1S0, complete working order and
machinery outfit operated by water
power; II tenant houses; also 10 acres
with 10-room residence, barns. orchard,
tenant house and all necessary out
buildings. Has stone storage house,
packing house, a complete paying out
At and cotton mill business. Prise
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SIS PER ACRE.

600 acres, fee simple, coal,
timber, mineral and farm land,
jackson county, Ala. Perfect
title.
B. F. EBORN.
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B. F. EBORN,
J04-7 Brown-Marx Bldg.

FOR SALE.
$e250-Lovely S-room furnace heated home,
corner Avenue / and 10th street strict
ly modern and high class. A ready
made home at a bargain
s2250-The very prettiest corner in the
Glen Iris section; faces south and east
$lOOO0-Business lot on LIST ave, near 18th
street Runs back to railroad.
e6500-Furnace heated. oak trimmed resi-
dence close in on South Highlands and
two blocks from 10Th street.
M'DAVlD G. CO.,
2109 First Avenue.
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Manager First.


"The first thing to do is to get man.
ager to run your venture. This Isn't the
easiest thing in the world to do. You
need man who understands the smallest
details of the show business and who
knows the work of one department as
well as another. A man that had worked
his way up from the ranks, II would
probably be.
Such a person, as you can guess, Is
rather hard to lay your hands on right at
once. Besides that he is in all probable
ity an old man, and apt to come high
Suppose you are lucky, however, and
within a week find a man that Is willing
to tie up to you for the consideration OF
$4,000 year. In the meantime you have
hired an office somewhere and have got
ten a stenographer and clerk. Now
you're started.
THE next thing to do would be to wire
to agencies in Hamburg and Liverpool to
have them look out for you in the way
OF animals Also 1t is best to send two
agents of your own to Europe and let
them scour the country on their own
hook to find out what they can do for
you.
Immediately after this is through you
will probably have week or more before
YOU hear from either one of these doings.
In that time 1t would be best to consider
plans for the building of winter quarters
~
winter quarters before you get the
show?' asked a bystander.
."You have to have a place to callect
vour show. don't you?" was Colonel Daw-
sons counter question Then explana-
| torily to the others:
winter quarters is just another sort
of term for headquarters you see. 1t is
the home of the show. Well, good arch
| itect will have to be called in and COM
missioned and ground will have to be
| bought. All sorts of contracts Will have
IN be made In fact, it would take me a
dav in itself to tell about building the
winter quarters If ! went into details.
'IIl Just sum it all up for brevity The
| buildings and ground needed for housing
a show of the size you contempiate-one
! Ia rival Barnum' s-will cost you $200,OO0.
! This does not count certain peculiar in
terior fittings that will have to be IN
| stalled for the shows purposes, out only
| the cost of the shell of the building itself
and its division into rooms.
Caring for Animals.
"While all this is going on preparations
will also have to be made to receive what
animals may be sent you. And right at
this point another high-Salarled empioye
must be engaged. He is the head amman
keeper who must understand all about
the making of cages, how the animals
must be kept and all the variety or detail
that goes into an animal trainer pro-
fession. His salary we will put at SS000.
suppose you give your order for the
cages all at once You will probably need
about fifty cages forty or more for the
animals themselves, the rest for tableau
pieces and the like
"rableau pieces?' broke in some one In
a puzzled tone.
Eyes, one of those pretty wagons, Win
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Still Champion.

From the Detroit Free Press
1t Is now asserted that Frederick Wey-
erhauser of st. Paul is not richer than
Rockefeller either in money or indict-
mentS.
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Large Norwood cottage; facing east; nice
location and pretty lot
An alley corner in Norwood; fronts east
and has all street improvements
One of the handsomest modern homes on
the North Highlands.
Large broom cottage; neat in appear
ance and new; on a corner lot; North
Highlands.
A large tract of land near Trussville very
cheap: lies nicely and has nice springs
and young fruit trees.
Large cottage. North Highlands, about
a block of Norwood car
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Rinoceros VIII Cost $4,000.

RinoceroS VIII Cost 9oUUU.
your rhinoceros will cost you about
$4,000, and you will have to have three
men to attend to him alone.
"And now comes the giraffe. Mr.. Gil
raffe is the dude of the circus Do you
know why he has such long neck?'
asked the Colonel" turning to tho
crowd.
something to do with collars, I guess"
said some one. II don't know, though.
bite What's the answer"
A glance of unutterable scorn was the
answer Its to bite the young buds Off
the trees, that's what" said Mr.. Dawson.
OBI with the tone of one heavily let
down. "But the trees-do they keep them
in the cage, too?
mo, YOU fool, He does that before he's
captured" said Mr.. Dawson, now giving
the mterrupter full attention. That $
the point He has to have the same sort
of food after he is captured as before
and that makes him bother He Is fed
on carrots and herbs, and all his victuals
have to be cut up in small sizes for him
before he can get them into his mouth
He requires more attention than any
other animal in the menagerie. Also he
is the only one that has a mattress to
sleep on He is so delicate that extraord-
mary care has to be taken of him. The
sides of his car have to be padded
THAT always comes of vegetarian
diet" broke in some one.
"Well, am no authority on that said
Mr. Dawson but that is neither here
nor there. Your giraffe will require the
most ceaseless care. and will cost you
about as much as the 'rhino.'
There will be whole lot more OF small
animals-monkeys, birds. snakes, and so
on-but there is nothing especially inter-
esting about them, and l can't go into de-
tails. anyhow. 1t is safe to say however
that, all in all, the animals you buy for
this show will cost you about 100000.
ALSO with every animal that is added
to the collection new care comes, and
this means more employees. 1t is about
right to assign thirty or forty attendants
to fifty or sixty cages You see, we are
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COSTS A PILE TO
START A CIRCUS
Can Spend 100000 Pre-
pairing for the Road
AN OLD SHOW MAN TALKS
1t Is Hard to Get a Good Manager and
the Animals Are costly-spe-
ciaI Features Come
High.
AN OLD SHOW MAN TALKS
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
Now, suppose that by some stupendous
catastrophe the Barnum show should be
destroyed" get forth Colonel Sam" Daw-
son, manager of the Monumental theatre
and ex-clrcus man. the other day. How
would the great loss be repaired? How
long would 1t take to build a new show
from the ground up? Or put it this way
suppose you or 1 had 100000 that we
didn't know what to do with"
well. we'll let it go for the SUPPOSE
ton" said one of his audience. 1.-The first
part of it we'll try to imagine, at any
rate"
Yes with Impotence, as If passing
over triAes, Suppose we had 100000 to
spare and We wanted to start a show as
big as the biggest" A pause. Its a
monumental task"
Put it in figures,' said another of the
audience.
The Colonel" who has himself shown
unusual architectural powers in restoring
to its ancient glory the theatre over
which he presdes, paused as if to gather
himself together. Then, 1.-TWO million dol
lars spot cash, unlimited credit and a
year and half of time" he said, leap
ing to the attack.
The incredulous expressions of those
who were listening stirred him afresh.
Yes, yes, and III prove it," The crowd
edged closer. It's ten years since / have
been in the show business, you know
mo hedging broke in somebody.
but as | was about to say. my men,
DRY is good, and though l may not re-
member all the details, you can depend
on all my estimates as fair. If any of
you capitalists go into the show business
on the strength of what l say, however,
I'm not responsible for the consequences,
you understand" with a glance around
the circle. ut takes brains as well as
money to run a show business, nowadays,
if you want returns"
Fright, all right" from the crowd, and
he was off on his story
''Well, now you suppose you are all
ready to start a show business. You
have got million and a quarter dollars
in cash where you can put your hands
on it, you've got unlimited ambitions,
high hopes and mighty little else. You've
got to build right from the ground floor
up, you see.
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Sack Suits and Overcoats.
These consist of the best $3.50
and $15 values you ever saw
for $9.75. All the correct styles
in fabric noted for their fine
wearing quality. You should
get one. Marley & Bauman,
1924 First ave.
If you can't walk, take the
L evator to 1.-The Sub Way"
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House and lot West End,
Tuscaloosa Ave and Wal
nut ST., cement walks, all
improvements, now rented,
terms, for $3.50
] lot East Lake, n. E. cor.
srd Ave and 9Th ST., terms
one half cash, two days
only ...... 49,. -. 1896
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~ ~ ~ ment has been carrying out a definite plan of
street Improvement which places certain proportion of the
cost abuttng property Like all schemes for the
good which must necessarily exclude consideration of the in
dvdual this plan has sometimes borne previously upon
tain of propertywdows and workingmen for In
stanceto whom the assessments meant rigorous sedena If
not deprivation Happily however, these have been
paratively few
On the other hand graded Streets sidewalks and sewers
have converted the Stun spots into respectable residence
TONS and not only has the general health of the city
nc beeled but the decrease the ratio of must be
attributed largely to the Of seldom into
public horoughares Birmingham is least years ahead
of where she would have been had the municipal
lacked courage to carry out its plan.
And now, taking the of the average prop
er we have no hestancy declaring that he has BN
FITTED IN THE PROPORTION OF AT LEAST THREE
DOLLARS FOR EVERY DOLLAR HE HAS HAD TO PAY
property In other words street improvement has
excellent investment for him.
There has been steady opposition on the part
OF property to these improvements because the bene
fits which they their train but there
yet remains number Of property ownersmost of them
abundanty able to meet these hostile
street improvements principally because they look
handed proceeding by the city and unable recognize
the value OF it to Themselves In spirit of good WILL
ask these to careful consideration to the statements in
this article loosely made by the company which has paid
out street than group
atoms individuals in this city.
We hope the and board Of aldermen and the CITY
engineer will be hmpered any whatever this year
the great work which they concienousy carrying
with due regard for the rights of citizens Instead Of petogn
opposition the municipal government should the
thuastc support of the people of Birmingham Street improve
ment is good thing and it should be kept until there is
not single thoroughfare in Birmingham which the
destran may pass with comfort safety worst
weather Yours for progress
Rirrn:nNh am Roa1tx1 90
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FOR RENT

Four-room cottage near car line, East
Birmingham; $12 80
SeVen-room, 2-story dwelling. 1923 14th
avenue, south.
New 2-story S-room. furnished home;
blocks of Highland avenue; for six
months only; splendid location.
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$4,000.

1900 acres, fronts railroad,
convenient to Birmingham
$4,000 worth Improvements
easy terms. Price good for few
DAYS only. B. F. EBORN.
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As to Street improvements

We note with interest and satisfaction that
City Engineer Kendrick estimates that more
than 100000 OF street improvements will be
made this year We would be more gratifed
if he felt justified in announcing that the
amount would reach round half million.
For number of years the municipal govern
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CITY

60x240, 12-room modern home; 18th ave,
south, between 18th and 18th; price,
$11 900; terms reasonable.
61x150. 2-story. beautiful S-room new
home; South Highlands; too small for
occupant price, $5O00 terms, $500 cash.
balance not to exceed rental, without in
terest
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9 lots West End. cor. 3rd
Ave. and Elyton SITS.
1O0x190, really worth $500
each, can be had for
each $3.50
10 acres over Red mountain
on public road, fine 2-story
house, s rooms, $500 cash,
balance easy. $4,000
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Compiled from the Uaits9 states
postal laws and court decisions
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press notice 10 she contrary are con.
sidered a. wlshlng ~ continue their
subscriptions
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Usher mAY e0utlnus 10 sesid them ga.
tll all affeafages are paid
J. II Subscribers neglect or refuse
% take usslr periodicals from TIE
postodios % uhlch they are directed.
uaey arc responsible untll ttay have
settled their bills and ordered them
disooutlnued
II the subscriber moves % an.
other piAcs wlthout informing ire
publishers. aud the papers are @ns Ia
former location, they ar held re-.
sponaible
o Tta courts hAye decided ltlat
ule refusing 70 take periodicals from
the pcstofiee. o. leaving them uneall.
ed fof, is pfima fAeia evldeuce Of IN
tentionAl fraud
q II subscribers pay 10 adsAuoe
they are bound u Rise notice 10 TIE
publishers Al TIE end of their tine II
they % uoi visn 10 continue taxing
a othsr<isa tie publishef Is author
irrd 20 send it. and The subscriber elll
h. responsible until an sxnrA=s uaflee.
with payments q Afrvafsa Is sent
90 publikief
Tie sAfssi pf~tai ISIS meh
that newspaper pulNisi.ta r4 sst
anyone faf fraud Ntgo tAxws : sef
and refuses q raY fof a. Undsf tlls
~ tisr axn vfio allows hls sul@efip
iva 20 run along fuf some time. "a.
tAid And then Br.iefs tho postmaster
70 marx i refused and has q card
sent notifying tie publisher. lafs nlm
ssif liable % arrest and ane tie same
"A theft.
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ROBBERS FOILED
Aged wstchmAn prevent ROBBERY
That Would Have Startled
the World

Nea YORK Uel in An AGED wAfehs
mans iaitnfal performances of h.s da.
q even pl.en death wAs Threatened
pFsFented Z rotl,sry early today which
u L had been successful. those famli
iar elth tie aAse. say would iase
cansed aensAfioa almost q great Is
that ehieh fulloseii the looting q tie
Manhattan hans. nsAny sears ago
Richard II araY. a Wntchman IN tie
CMntuY building, A. seventy fourth
ard broadway neAr Elia rs1iat af tgae
EinanciAl dlsgriegs aas TIE hero Ils
IS n0s IA lile hospital, suiIeflnK ffum
wounds whieh ha resolved Ia doapeF.
ate single handed aFlig 4gasfst ten
robbers Who atfAeke5 him Niiie he
Sas masiuR hn rounds ou the 18th
floor of the balsalng after midnight.
Although slxtf Yeaa oid Gray lnsde
. deiefmlned hgit against hls asali.
ants and u was Dot untillhs bad leen
battered Until almost unconscious
T. tnAt be Nas overcome. kgfn.ihen 0e
refused % reveal 20 the robbers tie
/ hiding place u the keyx "a hundfuas
~ Offices Ia tlsa gFaaf building in
tiieir desperation, glle robherA chlorc.
/ formed the msn - tie LAY bleeding un
the fooF then began a systematic
search % Tie lower portions of tie
building fof tie keFs- Apparently
thsy we're unsuccessful In tiielf ssAFch.
for when Graz rsslvetsAnd staggered
down ninesseu flights Of Stain 70 the
basement, the men had disappeared.
Cray gave a good description OF hls
AssAllAnta A deiscsise who had tais
ed with GAy IS OF the opinion thar a
clerk a. one time employed 10 tie
building twas the lnstigatof Of the
attempted rohbern, and that his com
panlon wAa = expert bank thief
IN these men iad gotten tile keys
from the wAtehman said The detect
lYe 'thsy would have done q lob taat
would have made The Manhattan bank
ROBBERY look Ike = cheap AFFAIR They
sere after one safe IA that building
and that was 81 they wanted Tier
kDss that.secafillss ia thar safe we're
sJrth untold thousands - -
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IkIHllISR EXISTS IN
NORTHWEST CANADA

chicago oct y Aspcclal % TIE
Record Herald from winnspeg Aan.
itobA. sAys
lAles q eAnnlhallsm ard famlaa
among tie natives o. northeastern
Canada letseen TIE eastern shore u
James Has sad Labrador are brought
bAcs BY J A osborns, editor q tie
Fort Francis Times. sho las Just eam-
pletci trip q exploration Ia tllat
country Willie a. Moss. the expIaf.
- met a g0uag man ebo aci thighaf
iu terror q ha uncle who, be saId.
Dad killed aad eaten eight human lhs
lngs There fao, De Sas so1an
lAst winter alakil'sd ana ats hst feo
children, - sfaat vas tte fanlue
The Acs q food ptmafiy eas
bfoueht ata4l b thg fan that Tie
soois ned almost eniirely slthoat
The usual namhcf 50 deer and rabbits
These occurrences asa net seem q
cause ans stir in that rogi0u and -
borne has come % the conclusion that
cannihalism Is practioed openly ou
mAny occasions among the Indians
and hAlfnFeets
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Ll1ksIthe pfole.sar

nwsru Atue + r urt There
lsaIkAys meting iolng % thls clfs
Last Wednesday Afternoon Lie smith
aud Wss faseg. faa school s es
severely baat professor Williams s.
tie p4H school aaeaase he fflet q
slect u.ou from tie girissplaygrua8
Like si schools the Hfoscu A.
fow seho0I las tie boi ana glfs
playground divided br fence smith
and Gnuey sent eeef info the girls
section and tried q break up a game
of basket daIl Prof Williams veHt
after them ard askea them % get o.
tie ground Ties replied vlth some
impuienoo. uheFeupon Prof Williams
hit them ~ith piece uf:iho@ rne
two bfys then Jumped upon Williams
and beat linn nearly % lnseuabIifF
Tie boys esre arrested and sil u
prosecuted Tie CITIZENS ~ hmkeH
Affus are serf maeh exercised ever
ths affair as tie e9fdaci " TIE lofs
ell tend be bfeas 90 1s schoa
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FREDERICK nemlagsnn. tbe nrsistaas
thor. has bad ahoSs ~ strenuous e.
feeF as anr man inst ever touched
pen o. pencil = paper ia has spent
4 great deai 81 time among the Ind
lans III the West o. one ~ his visits
BE- ran into 9 storY shieh he is fond
u telling
Der aoms years there had been =
Presbyterian mission 81 the Winne
baxo reservation Ia Nebraska. hut
there eere few oonxeffs Tho mission
asy hii eH . brilliant plan There wefe
some hueke an he reservation who
had besn At fhe Carlisle school, where
they had studied aimginK he orEAnsE
esi awaFs@a I'he haeka fked s0 aasa@
oH ghsir hymns 0ne ~ them had :
yeiiew dug that aswaya accompanies
hla master q church
A. ffst tie Indians liked the sing
tng Then they gFes tired q a. kFea
lhe choir lost its religion Il became a
trio. thea q duet finaiiy the solo GAIT
A Hea missionary came tate the fiesa
One day he asesaded The pulpit sna
looked around TIE oriy fign - ilfe
Ia the pevs ess : yellow dog CAliinE
b thn serian. - said. PVT thai aaG
sutip
HEHeuse me replied che ee2tun
mildly IA rather rot The fael Is. be
Is TIE only convert Saturday hFen
tng Post