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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-11-12
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Office Telephone White 1892.
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Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1880
TO D. m. Residence Tel. Blue 1852.
DIR. JUDD.
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Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
1880 to p. m. Residence Tel. Blue 221
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Twenty-Five cents pays for i Wan
ad in the Star. A bargain.
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HEAD OFFICE. YOKOHAMA.

Honolulu Branch 81 King Street
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

been practically controlling Rhodesia. an
enormous territory in South-Central Afri-
ca. 1t has a capital Of s295 900. 900, and its
revenues are several million dollars a
year.
TIL British East African Company,
which has been operating in Zanzibar and
along the east coast Of the continent, has
acquired hundreds of thousands of square
miles of territory. and that added to the
Empire by the British South Africa Com
pany is ten times as big as Pennsylvania.
These companies nave surveyed more than
100000 acres OF land.
They have built towns and villages.
They have laid down railroads and tele-
graphs and are opening up commerce in
every direction.
Another colonizing company is operating
along the Niger.
1t began with a capital Of s5,0oo, 900, and
has made treaties with moro than 800
African Kings.
1t has a river feet and has established
trading stations.
Through it the British have gained a
territory ten times as big as the State of
New York, with a population of S0.o1o,Wo.
NOW IN POSSESSION
OF VERY BEST LANDS.
But this is by no means all that the
British are doing in Africa.
They rave already taken possession OF
the very best lands OF that continent, and
are making improvements in nearly every
territory.
Including Egypt. which they practically
own, they have about one-third of all the
land in Africa, or in all a territory larger
than the whole United States.
Cape Colony is bigger than Texas. Natal
and Zululand are larger than Maine.
Basutoland is bigger than Vermont and
~Bechuanaland is more than ten times as
big as Indiana
The Transvaal is about twice the size of
lltnois. the Orange River Colony Is as big
as New York, Rhodesia would make eight
States like Missouri. and East Africa. in
GLIDING the Nile basin. IS alone about one
sixth as large as the whole United States.
In the western part Of the continent, Nj
geria. is twice as big as California, Lagos
and Yoruba are just about three times as
big as New Jersey, and the Gold Coast
Province. on the q behind 1t, IS not
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29
Christmas on the Stage
with Richard Mansfield
Celebrated Actor Always Remem-
bers His Associates in a
Substantial Way.

Richard Mansfield Is one Of the most
prolific Santa Clauses of the stage. Last
year.. in Julius Caesar the boy Lucius.
the attendant on Brutus. was played most
charmingly by a girl. Mansfield Is a man
Of great versatility. and among his other
gifts is a talent for drawing. which often
expresses itself in fantastic sketches, Dor
dering on the odd or g%rotesque.
Whenever in Julius Caesar Brutus had
an entrance. he always found Lucius IN
the wings waiting for him. The girls
simple. unaffected manner charmed the
actor.
Often. as he passed her on his way to
the stage, he pressed into her hand little
sketches which he had drawn In his dress
ing-ruom to muse himself between waits.
On Christmas Eve. when she opened the
bit of paper, 1t turned out to be a picture
Of a castle on a rock.
1t was so cleverly carfcatured that the
turrets and chimneys represented various
kinds of h%ats-high silk hats. derbies.
tourists. Alpines. soldiers a and many
other kinds.
The light on the windows was managed
so that q funny face seemed peering out
Of each opening. And plum buildings were
marching over the ~hilP'-plum buildings
with legs, arms and faces. The sketch
was irresistibly funny: but the plum pud-
dings in the picture were only a hint of
what was In store, not only for Lucius.
but for the whole company.
Mr.. Mansfield held a celebration on
Christmas Eve. because it fell on Friday
and there would be a matinee and an
evening performance of the long and
arduous play the following day. But ut
the matinee all the principals found re-
membrance from him in their dressing
rooms.
These gifts all were in the best of taste.
There were unconventional rings. brooch
es and pins for the women. and for the
men, in two Instances, gold watches, with
articles like stick pins and cigarette cases
for the others.
At night, after the show. all the stage
hands sat down at his expense to a cham
payne supper at q hotel near the theater,
with all the men regularly attached to the
house as their guests.
The same night Mr.. and Mrs. Mansfield
(Beatrice Cameron entertained at their
W house all the principals and the exec
utive staff Of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Magazine.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES .ATs CAPE 7eWW

to go by steam on cars n boats from
one end Of Africa to the other
At present trains go from Cape Town
to Buluwayo. or just about as far as from
New York to New Orleans.
From there 1t is $50 miles to Lake Nyas-
sa. which is $40 miles long and is navi-
gable for steamers. Goods and passengers
can be transferred to the lake n car
ried to Its upper end. where a railroad
$50 miles long will bring them to Lake
Tanganyika, giving 400 miles more of a
igabie water communication on that lake.
From the top of Tanganyika 800 miles of
track will connect with Albert Nyanza
and Its 100 miles of water communication.
landing passengers at Dufile on the Nile.
On he Nile a hundred miles or so of
railroads will be necessary to pass some
of the uppe rapids and cataracts, and
then there will be LOCO miles Of navigation
to Khartoum. Indeed. I am told that an
additional 1890 miles OF railroad would fill
in all the breaks in steam transit from
the Mediterranean to the cape.
Cecil Rhodes estimated that s50,eoo. 900
would pay the actual cost OF completing
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

| sent away This is exclusive of specie.
and. nov that the gold mines of the
Transvaal are again producing heavily.
| the shipments of the precious metal will
be large.
The trade of kimberley is chiefly in dia-
monds. 1t exports millions of dollars
worth every, year, although the quantity
is now limited to the demand by the dia-
mond trust.
All diamonds Of value In Africa are con-
tro!led by the De Beers CONSOLIDATED
Mines. This company has a capital of
$40. O 0.00O.. and 1t declares. dividends of
from 40 to 80 per cent. It Is now produc-
ing something like 10000 worth OF 5dia-
monds every day. or from. $15,tC0,000 10
81. 0oo,0o0 worth a year. Since Its begin
ning 1t has handled about 100000 wbrth
of diamonds, and It has enough. in stock
to supply the world for some time to
come. y
The De Beers Trust employs about 5000
blacks and 1000 whites, paying out a quar-
ter of a million dollars every month III
wages alone.
The English are setting out a great
many experimental plantations in Africa.
They are establishing tea, coffee and
cotton estates in the different colonies.
In Natal there are g. number OF large
tea p~lattatfons. which annually produce
more than a million pounds Of tea.
The Clifton estate has 1900 acres, and
is worked almost entirely by native labor.
The tea Is picked by men and women and
carried. into the factories on their heads.
In Western Africa there are successful
cotton plantations. and experiments with
cotton are being made in Eastern Africa
as well.
Rhodesia has some Of the best grazing
lands and nan Englishmen are now go
ing there to rear cattle.
The land Is sold for 40 cents and upward
per acre; and 3,OOO-acre farms bring all the
way from $500 to $4,000 each. There are
many towns going up in that territory.
The buildings are made of brick. with
wooden cottages in the suburbs.
The people live comfortably. n It Is
not an uncommon thing to find a piano
or a billiard table in a private house.
In Natal more than 100000 acres are now
cultivated.
eral million acres Of farming and grazing
lands owned by Europeans, and the same
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

Its population at the last hearing was
about 2,Ge. and it had already a
race course. a turf club. good hotels, a
public library and daily and weekly news
papers.
NEW ROUTE FROM
CAIRO TO CAPE.
The great railroad development of the
next few years is to be in East Africa.
There are already extensive roads at
the northern and southern. ends of the
continent. and these will be connected by
the line from Cairo to the Cape.
About half of the way has already been
covered. and the total distance will be
only 5000 miles long, or not longer than
the Transsiberian Railroad, with its
Manchurian connections. OF this only
100 miles will pass through foreign terri
tory.
That will belong to the Germans, CUT
ting their lands in East Africa. The re-
mainder will be entirely British, or under
British control.
One-fourth of the new construction will
be along navigable waters, and it needs
only 1,50 miles more track to enable one
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

Rand and the wool products of Australia
You can buy stocks in enterprises of al
most any Of the colonies.
SECOND HALF WORSE.
There are coffee syndicxtes from Borneo,
tea syndicates of Ceylon and India. sheep
stocks from the Falkland Islands,, Glove
companies of Zanzibar. and, indeed, SO
many different trusts devoted to foreign
investments that a page Of this paper
would not hold them all.
Great Britain has now more thai four
billion dollars directly invested in the
colonies.
Much Of this is in loans at a low rate
OF interest, the Government substantially
guaranteeing the dividends. Some Of the
larger syndicates are under the patronage
Of the King.
n The British North Borneo Company.
Xshich is selling land and laying out coffee
: nd rubber plantations about S%andakan,
governs the country for England.
1t has built railroads and telegraph lines,
and Us selling lands under the guarantee
OF British protection.
The British South African Company has
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29
Keeping Cut Flowers
Fresh for Weeks
100 u.i
When Properly Washed and Fed
the Blossoms May Last Il
Month, Says Florist.

WRITTEN FoR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
said a St. Louis florist. can be made to
, look fresh for three or four weeks.
Every night take them out of the vases
and thoroughly rinse the stalks under a
faucet. removing with the fingers any de-
composed matter. Then put them to bed
for the night in a basin Of strong soap
studs. but be careful not to allow any water
TO touch the blossoms. The soapsuds sup
ply a certain amount of nourishment.
In the morning rinse the stalks under
the water again. and, as each blossom is
arranged for the day in the vase of fresh
water. snip off a tiny portion of the stalk
With a pair of scissors. Always carefully
trim away any faded part.
Food for the day is supplied by sui
plate of ammonia. u few drops of which
should be added to the water put into
the vase.
AT night put the flowers into some
dark, cool place-say IL pantry-as 1t IS not
good either for the flowers or the house
hold that they should emain all the time
in the living rooms.
ITO revive cut flowers put them into
warm salt water. to which has been added
a few drops OF sulphate of ammonia.
"Cut flowers are constantly sent by ex-
press and through the mails. but seldom
in such a fashion as to preserve their
bloom and freshness.
ITO effect this. pack them in a light
wooden box lined with cotton or wadding.
laying over this a sheet Of tissue paper.
Then lay the flowers. not on top of each
other, but in rows, side by side. the bios
SONS of each row on the stems OF their
n%eighbors.
'Pack closely. otherwise the flowers will
be displaced and injured in the journey.
Before packing they should stand in
water for several hours in order to absorb
moisture enough to keep them from with
ering.
.It is not good to sprinkle them too
heavily after they are in the box. for with
out air this is likely to produce mildew."
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

mile. and In Rhodesia at. an average cost
of S19, 900 per mile.
At 10000 a mile SIG. cOO,O 600 would com
plete the connections with the lakes and
the Nile. and $50. 100000 would build the
entire road, giving an iron track from one
end of Africa to the other.
Such a railroad will have connections
with all parts of Africa, east and west.
Short lines will be built to the Congo, and
also to the east coast at Zanzibar. Nom
hasa, Beira and Durham. i
CAPE TOWN. KIMBERLEY
AND DURHAM.
The metropolis of South Africa IS Cape
Town. 1t has with its suburbs about 3d.
600 people.
1t has fine public buildings, good resi-
dences, electric lights and street cars and
every sort of modern Improvement
Kimberley, the center OF. the diamond
industry. has 10000 I'M Durham, the cap
ital OF Natal. is doubly as large
These three towns are great commercial
ceuters. Something like 800, 900, 900 worth
of goods are annually landed at Cape
Town. and more than $1,000 600 worth are
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
London. Nov. John Bull is the modern
Sinbad the Sailor.
The hero of the Arabian Nights was
loaded down with the one Little Old Man
of the Sea.
John Bull has eight black, brown, yell
low or white Jumps Of humanity on his
shoulders to every man. woman and child
in Great Britain, and his colonies cover
the globe.
He is the boss colonizer OF the nations.
the boss land-grabber and people-grabber.
In one way or another he has gotten j
title to one-tifth of the land on the earth's
surface. and he governs more than one
fifth Of all the worlds people.
II costs John a pretty penny to keep up
his outside establishments.
He has an army of 1eo.0o men scattered
here and there through his various depen-
denotes: he has established the biggest
navy on the earth to defend them. and he
has piled up a national debt OF enormous
proportions.
= At the same time, the English believe
Ctheir colonies pay.
They say they could not exist as a
manufacturing nation without them.
They rely Upon them for their raw ma
terials. and they sell them a great part
Of the British home products.
THE English colonial trade is enormous.
In imports 1t gives Great Britain Si7, Geo.
coo worth of raw materials and foodstuffs
every year. and this is more than the
country gets from any place else outside
of the United States.
AS for us, we furnish JOIN Bull the cot
ton with which he is clothed and We
spoon-feed his %corpulent frame.
In exports he sells his colonies a full
half billion dollars worth annually, which
IS about one-third of his whole foreign
trade.
BRITISH TRUSTS AND
COLONIAL STOCKS.
The British invest to a large extent In
colonial securities.
A look at the stocks sold here on the
Exchange shows that the undertakings
represented are scattered over the globe.
The market goes wild over the diamonds
OF South Africa, the gold mines of the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

the all-raii route to the Mediterranean
Sea.
He figured that the road could be built
for $1,000 a mile, which was the cost of
a large part Of the roads he built in
Africa.
He said, however, that double that
amoun should be appropriated for IT. go
that the probability is that the average
cost would be 10000 or $4,000 a mile.
The Germans, who are building railroads
from the east coast of Africa westward
toward Lake T~ansanyika estimate that
their roads will cost them on the aver
age $4,000 a mile.
They have to climb hills to the high
plateau of the interior, n their country
Is very rough.
The Uganda Railroad, which runs from
Mombasa, above Zanzibar, to Lake Vic
toria, has cost something like 10000 a mile
and the Congo line, built by the Belgians,
cost $4,000 e. mile.
On h other hand. the roads in Bech-
uanaland have been made for $1,000 a
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29
AaZaka. NEM ZEa. f1AMTaToM "Z1ExaeansX 11E TEa,eN. fEaay2

quite so large as Minnesota. Sierra Leone
Is four times as large as Massachusetts,.
Gambia is as big as Porto Rico, and
Egypt. with the Soudan, governed by the
English. has 1.00o.e00 square miles. or one
third as much territory as the United
States proper.
These States are scattered throughout
the continent, and the English are plan-
ming railroads for nearly all of them.
The greatest enterprise is to extend the
railroad from Cairo to the Cape. but there
are also many minor lines.
In Lagos. of the west coast. a road 1e5
miles long has been constructed. 1t cost
$5.co0,0O0. or about $4,000 q mile.
Other roads are now being laid out on
the mainland just opposite. and also in the
Gold Coast near by.
In Nigeria roads are planned from the
coast to the interior.
This country is one-tenth the size Of
the United States. and has connection by
caravan with the Mediterranean through
the Desert of Sahara. and also by the
Niger with the sea. 1t has a large popu-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29
lation, and a railroad will open UP consid.

lation, and a railroad will epen UP consid-
cradle trade.
GERMANS. FRENCH AND
BELGIANS BUILDING RAILROADS.
The Germans, French and Belgians are
also building railroads inland from the
West African coast. The English are
making wagon roads, and are extending
their telegraph lines.
South Africa is rapidly growing. It has
had u boom since the close of the Boer
war.
A large number Of new settlers have
come in and new towns are going up in
the Transvaal. Orange Free State and in
Rhodesia.
New railroads sre under construction,
and there is a steedy growth in commerce
and trade. Tie imports from the United
States are increasing, and they now
amount to tens Of millions Of dollars u
year.
We are supplying many Of the locomo-
tives. cars and steel rails for the new
roads. Our steel dumping coal cars are
being used. and our wagons are doing the
trekinS over the high plains. American
plows are coming In, and a great deal of
the clearing is being done with American
axes.
The towns of South Africa have all
modern improvements.
We sold 5000 arc and incandescent lamps
to n city quite recently. and the larger
places offer q market for our street car
equipments.
The countries are new and many of
them are being settled by Europeans. who
have the same wants that We have, Gre
ating j demand for our goods.
Thu trade towns are rapidly growing.
and there will soon be substantial cities
in the south central part OF the CONT
nent- Take Buluwayo.
1t has now more than 5000 people, and
1t wakes like a green bay tree. 1t is al
most 1,40O miles from Cape Town, but 1t
has banks. clubs. public buildings and a
hospital.
1t has daily newspapers with Geographic
news from all over the world. n as the
capital of Matabeleland 1t promises to be
a good-sized city. 1t is the same with
Salisbury, the principal town In Mashona-
tnr
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

East Africa, between Lakes Victoria and
Albert Nyanza. is said to have gold. iron
and copper in paying quantities. The
State Is about as big as Kansas and Is
now reached by railroad from Mombasa.
The English capital 10 Entebbe. on the
northern shore Of Lake Victoria.
There Is gold in the British colonies of
West Africa new fields having been re-
Gently opened up at Ashanti. There are
said to be old mines In Rhodesia. which
are now to be reopened and the Transvaal
alone can produce $50. 00O.O 600 or s60.O0O.0Oc
worth OF gold per year.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Copyright. 1908. by F. @. Carpenter.
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is true of the T~ransvaal, about which 30
much has been written within the past
few years.
ENORMOUS MINERAL
WEALTH OF COLONIES.
The mineral wealth of the English pos
sessions in Africa is enormous.
There are big coal mines pack of Dur
ban. and the gold mines vie with Austria
liza and the United States as the greatest
producers of the world.
Many of the colonies nav not been pros
pected as yet. and there are already 5000
square miles Of gold fields being worked
by 800 different companies and syndicates.
r., Uganda, which lies north of German
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-12-26
RUGS.

We are showing a
splendid line OF
Rugs i'm wilton AZ
minister, and smy-
mia.
We will mention
but one, a genuine
welton Electra u !
o3 in beautiful shad-
ing al s2.75. We
have them all prices,
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sister, best girl or cousin young or old,
would be delighted with one OF those
genuine oriental silk money and
shopping Baos az IS CT, IS CT, s,l00
and SI.z5
A Chatelaine Bag at 10 n
A Purse from Is % 70 100
savs vns@.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-12-26
TOYS.

We have added TO our big line o.
Holiday Goods, a big assortment of
wooden Toys, Furniture dressed dolls
Toy "anos and Magic Lanterns. ami
mails regular warehouse for
Santa Clause
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-12-26
BLANKETS.

A full size light tan
or gray all WOODEN
Blanket at $3.50 or
a better one at So
or higher would
certainly make am
acceptable present
IL one OF your
friends need any
buy one for your
self.
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A SOROSIS PETTICOAT.

Our line OF Muslin
Underwear Conn
priSes Corset cover,
Night Gowns, Skirt
etc at lowest prices
imaginable.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-15
Property Transfers.

Richmond--Miss Grace E. Arents to ST.
Andrews Association. 234 2-l2 feet on
south side Grove Avenue. southeast cor
ner Lombardy. $40.
George Arents and wife to Grace E.
Arents, 234 2-12 feet on south side Grove
Avenue, southeast corner Lombardy Street
and personality SO.
NJ. Kelley to Thomas skipworth. inter-
est in 80 feet on north side Goddin street
between Calhoun and Roane, $780,
William johnson and wife to jeremiah
Bassett, 80 feet on west side of l7-foot
alley between Sixth and Seventh and
Preston and Bates Streets, 5000.
Lizzie and Theodore yorbrinck to Aman-
da Franklin. Is feet on north side Gather
inc Street 100 feet from Hancock, S225.
George Z. WiEe and wife U Annie r.
Jones, 80 feet on north side Main Street,
1874 feet west OF Laurel. $3.50.
Henrico-D. ], Martin to Waller NJ.
Lewis, trustee. interest in lots l6 and II
In square n. Highland Park, SS0i,60.
William H Peasants heirs to Frank NJ,
Sharpe, SO feet on north side OF a street
80 feet wide in Duval's addition, $3.50.
Mary H.. l., T. and H, Q, Sanders to
Bette NJ. T!nsley, 80 feet on north side
Floyd Street 90 feet west OF Cedar. sS25,
Peter w. Smith to Margaret E. Car
Tough, 173 acres near Elko Station on the
c, & o, Railway $500