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while playing poker at tie Hotel Powers
in Paris proclaim mis- own principal as
the mose lucky o. the happiess NAH
he has oUt 10 keep up his technique ana
ne enjoys J. He is the typical onr-rnan
entertainer. requires no support needs
no advertising or accessories: has no eN-
penses to eat into profits. and there is
nothing to prevent Paderewski from
drawing his 5000 per night as Tong as
he wants to play. You see? He has no
contract to make with any manager. He
just sells tickets
Kubelik The v.oliniSt who receives
$500 every time he plays depends upon
an orchestra and takes his money from
an impresario who shares the risks and
profits Apart from this, the one-nan
entertainer certainly has his luck sim
plified for him. Even the champion
pugilist must have pnS provided FOR
him to knock out; but think OF Fragson.
who just sits and sings al the piano Tor
81 aN per month,
These Music hall stars. surely, do very
little to attain much Gvette Guilbert.
who can still get $3.50 Per night AZ the
Scala in Paris. receives $500 for signing
a few songs III London Berlin and New
York. Mayol. the comic tenor. draws
500 per quarter of an hour in Paris and
$500 per month on tour in French
cities. Louise Balthy. Grotesqus comic
lady earns $500 per month: Gernane
Galliois the beauty escaped from comic
opera. 5000. and Mealy, another Ike
her. s2,Hsi-ail for short turns IN TIE
halls. They are the worlds faV"r'teS
They show themselves little quarter ~
an hour each highland all the year Is
Christmas for them,
They have but one lurking danger
loss OF popularity; because if the solitary
entertainer profits tremendously by the
independence of ms position. lie risks
greatly by lack Of support. once / heard
a great tragedi&n OF London mourning
that he was not Little Itch.
Little Itch is really independent.
happy. yes, for lfe" he said. 'The
frightfuI little dwarf discovered thai
shoes half his body's length permitted
him 10 make comic bow that the world
could not tire OF, That comic bow
brings Little Itch 500 pei night in Lon
don Par:s. New York-anyw where He has
d cinch for lie.
VINO does the least to get the most?
Probably Little Itch If not then Pad
erewski The great tenor and soprano
voices go The champion pugilist viii
some day find his master-and fall.
plump. into obscurity. The com cs OF
both theater and music hail. depending
on yiyacity and ma GnetiSm. lose draw
ing power with age. The queen % opera
bouffe sees her charms fade. But there
remain the srandmothers of the Paris
stage who own their theaterS. Sarah
Bernhard and Rejane have their popu-
Iarsty assured them by the forces that
hold all Partisan society together.
Rejane was petty. therefore. Ia be
jealous even for moment of the placid
American negro Hercules who had nearly
punched a hole through Ben TAYLOR.
When he shall have vanished from tho
ring Rejane will still be playing pa ssion,
love flowers. stars and little birds in her
own Paris theater.
STERLING HELLO.
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land which ply regularly up and down
the east and west coasts.
): X
The Saxon is one OF the fast mail ships
ard it is now loaded with treasures
Down in it's vaults there are packages OF
rough diamonds worth SI.OCOCN and
great yellow gold bricks whose value is
S.5,OOO0OO and more. In the hold there
are ostrich feathers marked for London
worth over 81 ,OCO, 600. and We have in ad
dit:on a cargo of sleeps wool. Angcra
mohair and great bales of cowskins and
Soatskins.
But this is only one ship and others
arc leaving every few days. The exports
of South Africa are now running at
something like $685. OO.COo a year and
the imports are over $50 oo0,o0 making
total carrying trade of more than
s6o5 LOCO. All of this goes in European
vessels. and the greater part Of the freight
is paid to the Germans and British. Tla,
goods are sent to Europe. and many are
then transshipped to the United States.
We are the best customers for the dia
ronds and the ostrich feathers. and
many of the skins find their way to our
tannerieS.
We should have steamships and banks OF
our own through which to do our business
without paying toll to London As it is
now the banks of South Africa are operat-
eG with British capital. and they are all
Welding big dividends. The Standard
Bank of South Africa pays II per cent
and the Natal Bank made clear profit
of 100000 last year on capital OF
s2:O0,CJO About the lowest interest in
Johannesburg is per cent. and one
eighth of per cent and more is charged
on rem;ttances abroad. There are several
thousand American citizens living and
doing business in South Africa and an
American Bank OF Johannesburg with
5000 900 capital ought to be able to pay
q dividend the first year
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-J.iNE had quit
her tnedter in time
to see sam Mac
Yea knock out Ben
Taylor at the Paris
Hippodrome.
What does he
get for that S.Ie
a sked, as the her
culean American
negro struck an
attitude of iusolent
and utter triumph
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LUCKY STARS ON WHOM TIL

awe Their Present High
~ Prices to America -
Value of Sarah's Tears and
Mounet Sully's Roars-Pat-
tbs Minute and Chaliapine's
Hour-Tommy Burns $780,
900 and American Pugilists
in Paris-Paderewski's Cinch
and Caruso's Photograph
Money-Who Does the Least
to Get the Most?
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Profit and Loss.

From Puck.
Mrs. Gramercy-So you find il hard e
make both ends meet?
Mrs Park-YeS. Tha money | won &C
bridge while away in the country scarce.
ly makes up what my husband lost u
town at poker.
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the Ei,uLe-. ems :l,r are 80 miles
of track laid with American rails and the
ties are of California redwood exported
from San Francisco. A great deal OF
Oregon pine comes to South Africa. and
al the water used in Cape Town flows
through iron pipes made in the United
States.
find Uncle Sam in evidence on the
African farms. His agricultural nipple
merts are in use from the Zambesi to
Cape Asulhas. and his farm wagons are
to be seen on the highlands of British
East Africa and Uganda. The first Wag-
ons were brou . into that region from
Wisconsin by an American millionaire
named Mcmillan, who has a 2O.OO0-acre
ranch near Nairobi. They worked so
vel! that other planters have imported
them and they are now the most com
mon wagon Of that part of the world.
In Rhodesia many Illinois plows are
used. and in Cape Colony l saw our
threshing machines and mowers and
reaDers The Canadians are competing
with us as to harvesting machinery. and
small farm, tools are being now shipped
to South Africa from England and Ger
many.
The American windmill is in use al
most everywhere. The most OF southern
Africa is high and dry. and pumps are
needed for irrigation and other things.
Nary of tie mills come from Chicago,
but some are from Indiana and else
where.
Caoe Colony is rapidly becoming a
fruit-growinG country. and it needs ma
chinery for spraying and handling its
crops Some OF the orchards are large
enough to have narrow-gauge electric
lines in them, and on many the fruit is
moved to the stations by means Of cars
drawn by mules.
South Africa is a land OF the bicycle,
and it is fast becoming a land Of auto
mobiles. Every town OF Rhodesia and
central Africa which l have visited has
its bicycle riders. / saw women on BIZ
cycles in Eampala above Victoria Ny
ANA: the government clerks use them in
Nairobi, and they are to be seen every
where in and about Zanzibar and Oar es
Salaam There are 5000 bicycles in X i'm
berley and several times that number in
Johannesburg. Many of the machines
are American. They sell for about the
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l believe that our trade with South Africa
could be greatly increased. At the time
OF the war ii ran up as high as thirty
eight million dollars per annum. and is
now something like eighteen million dol
lars more. In 1906 it was almost twenty
millions. and there is prospect Of a con-
sidera BILE increase. The country Is now
having hard times, bur there are signs Of
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THAT engine. said lie. las the big
sest wheel of the kind in the world. II
was designed by i well known American
engineer named Seymour. when he was in
Africa. and the plans and speci!ica tons
were sent to Simpson & Co. the celebrat-
ed engine builders of England. They
thought the job too big for them. and We
then forwarded the plans to Frazer &;
Chalmers OF the United States. They
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Copyright 1908. by Frank G. Carp ,ute-.1
apeclsl Correspondence of The Star.
EfEAMSHIP SAXON. Union Castle LIN
En- Route Cape Town to Southampton.
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improvement, and al present the various
colonies are purchasing quarter o a
billion dollars worth of foreign goods
every year. The Transvaal is taking
almost ninety millions. Natal buys forty
FIVE millions, Orange River Colonies eight
cen millions and Cape Colony ninety mill
lions and more.
American goods are popular in South
Africa. Our foodstuffs are found every
where. I saw California fruit. Alaska
salmon and Ohio oatmeal on sale in Sails
bury Rhodesia. I ate Chicago canned
beef at Victoria Falls on the Zambesi,
and rode in an American buggy about
Kimberley.
Mr.. Alpheus Williams, the manager of
the De Beers syndicate. showed me tele-
gram stating that 10 brood mares and
four asses lad just been shipped to him
from the United States. He says the
American mule is largely used in South
Africa. and that he has now about two
thousand of them. which came from Mis-
souri,. employed In the mines. American
mules are used in Johannesburg. l saw
them in Zanzibar. and they are gradually
tramping their way into Rhodesia. y
great many We're brought here a: the
time of the war. and they proved SO good
that more are wanted. Mr.. Williams
expects to breed mules on the diamond
company farms near Kimberley. His
asses by the time they arrive at Cape
Town. VIII cost MN a thousand uoIIaTS
apiece and the fifty brood mares vii!
cost altogether about forty thousand dol
lars.
/ find American machinery used in near
~ all the South African mines. Baldwin
Westinghouse electric locomotives drag
the blue ground containing the diamonds
out of the great pipes at Kimberley and
American pumps keep the mines dry.
While walking through the works one of
the American managers showed me all
engine used for pumping whic! had u
geared wheel thirty feet in diameter.
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beS ice his Frustrated adversary, NHllc
900 Parisians. paying from SO to 81. eN-
cept in the highest gallery. cheered them
selves hoars".
What. 5000 10 do nothing. to FISK
,g;Lin2. suffer nothing2' Rejane eX-
Gained, scandaliZcd That man gave
n.m no fight no hurt: whoa he got tired
Of slow ing OFF. be felIed him like an OK
Do YOU know. that American is better
paid than We"
Don't Crit!cise" said Sardou. later
il was a short time b fore his death. You
are all spoiled favo-ites of fortune at
this moment" Then he told her this tale
&c the gays: and most beautiful young
actress OF the second empire-Hor;ense
Schneider The Rejanc OF her day had
quit the Palais Royal in quarrel at re-
hearsal. She was packing her trunks for
Bordeaux when Offcnhach came offering
her the title role Of La Belle Helene
lust completed for the Varieties.
Seated on her trunk, Hortense heard
with delight The airs that We're 10 trans
form her 10 veritable queen of opera
huufYe bu, l-r mind was made up, and
she fled Paris.
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AT Bordeaux she got a telegram from
Ofenbach: Name your own terms.
And. almost as a joke. she wired an
answer that Sardou kept among the
financial curiosities OF his theatrical col
lection: LAS it's Christmas. j expect
present; I won't oudg for less than 500
per month"
Poor thing, It's Christmas every day
now laughed + jane, as Sardou went
ON telling low the famous actors or his
Younger days earned III a year what Co
o;lcIin has ceived for two nights IN
America Paulin Menier. the immortal
choppart of The Lyon Mail, al the
height of his success touched Sl.-'b per
wear and Frederick Lemaitre. who has bis
marble statue in the str cts of Paris. and
who went on European tours, never re
ceived over $40 pr night.
That's all very WELL said ReJane,
"but who does the least 10 get the most
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Special Correspondence of The S;ar-
PARIS, December - 1908
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12

THE Foreign Trade Over
i Six Hundred Millions
American Machinery in the
Gold and Diamond Mines
Demands for Bicycles and
Automobiles - New Electro
cal Lines and Their Possible
ties - American Meats and
How They Are Slandered-
Forty Million Dollars for
Focdstuffs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
EASTER.

Easter Sunday dswued clear and
bright aud mild, bot soon the skies be-
come overcast and CLOUDY. No rsiu fell,
however, and by the wlddle of the day
the cl ,uds dispersed and more beauti-
ful afternoon could not have been de-
sired. The cburchts OF all the services
we're largely attended and many people
we're on the streets while many enjoyed
walks 10 the surrounding country 10
the churches the glad anthems oil Ess'er
we're sung and the Lessons of the resurrec-
ton of the Saviour read and prescht d.
The musical programmes published 10 inc
Gazette llst week, we're admirably rem
dered and greatly enjoyed by the large
congregations, The afternoon wss
most pio,perous occasion for the display
of spring suits, spring hats &C., and was
taken Advantage OF by all fortunate
enough to be 10 possession of them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
AIJFGED FOR0ER.

Mr.. f. F. James. cashier Of the
Round Hill Bank, was in this city
Saturday looking for man who had
given bis name as ]. W. Bledsoe, IT,, OF
Alexandra, and Wh) is said TO have
passed forged check on the bank bear
log the name Of E V. Register of this
CITY. pres ding elder Of the Washington
district Of ,heMeihodislE Episcopal Church
South. The check WAS for $50 and
was drawn on the Citizens National
Bank of Alexandra. An examination
revealed that Rev. Mr.. Registers name
was improperly spelled and that the sig
nature va, a poor imitation. Chief Goods
secured description OF Bledsoe snc the
police are endeavoriug 10 locate him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
PERSONAL.

Memrs. Fl. K. Field aud Z. w.
Arnold, members of the grand lodge
of the Royal ArcsDum, and J. r.
Mansfield, representing Alexaudiis
Lodge. No. 627, and 7. d. Feean, OF
Gsofes Mason Council. No. 17lS, will
leave lo3ight for Ri'hmood, to attend
the annual grand meeting Of that organ
izstioD.
The engagement is announced oil
Mrs. Belen Gait Tally, Of Washington,
to M. George Garter MinDegerode,
formerly of this city, but now OF Wash
ington. The wedding will take place
June 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. smoot, j.,
are visiting relatives in New York.
The Easter dance of the AlexHHdria
German Club will be given Friday
evening, at McBurney's Hall.
Miss Alma Gray, who has been The
guest of her euuts, the Misses Hunter,
has returned to her home in Fiedericks-
burg.
Mics Besll Dsipger6eld Is visiting
friends in Charlottesville.
Miss Eliza Lippitt, who has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. @. William Wattle',
has returned to her home 10 BerryvilIe.
Mrs. J. NJ. Love and daughters, Misses
Harriet aud Elizabeth Love, who have
been the guests Of Mrs. Loves mother,
Mrs. William B. DAinger6sld, left last
week 10 join Capt. Love at Columbus
Barracks. Ohio.
Miss Katherine Dsinger6eld, who,
with her mother, Mrs. Henry Danger
field. has been visiting Mrs. danger
fields son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs.. Barbour Daingerheld, In
Washington, is now The guest OF her
cousins, Colonel and Mru. Raj PArr, al
Atlantic City.
Mr.. Frank W. Latham the popular
tuperintendsnt of the city gas works, and
Miss Minnie W. Phillips, daughter Of
Capt. Frank NJ. Phillips, we're married
ut st. PauPs Church this morning, Rev.
p. p. Phillips officiating. After the
ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Latham left on
the noon train for Atlantic City.
Mr.. Geo. +. Gorhsm, of Cleveland.
Ohio, is here on visit to his brother,
Mr. Thomas f. Gorhsm, who is serious
" i'll at his home on south Payne street.
Mr.. John NJ. Reed. of the Mount
Weather station, in Loudoun county,
is spending a short vacation with his
msuy friends in this city, his former
home.
Rev, J. P. Stump, formerly pastor OF
the M. E. Church South, in Alexandria,
was in the city today and was warmly
greeted by his many friends de Is SUI
fering with rheumatism.
Mrs. Eleanor w. Howard, who spent
the winter in the State of Washington
with her daughter, hiss returned to her
home 10 this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS

Easter Sunday, yesterday, was gala
day for the children Of several OF the
Sunday schools of this city aud right
happily did they enjoy the festivities.
The celebration at Grace Church WAS
held at $3.50 o'clock in the morning and
was largely attended. Mr.. Jameson, q
student at the Theological Seminary,
made an appropriate address and the
exercises By the children, including reel
tatiors and the singing OF the carols,
we're greatly enjoyed. A number oil
premiums were presented. The Easter
Offering amounted to $7S.
The celebration at Christ Church IVES
held at 1870 O'Clock in the evening. The
children gathered in the Parish Hall and
in classes. Each class bearing pretty
banner, marched TO the church and took
seats in the centre pews. The emblem
wss beautiful banner, each class pre-
senting a section, producing lovely ei-
feet. The exercises were very largely at
tended and we're greatly enjoyed. An
address wss made by Rev. W. j. Nor
ton and the children rendered the carols
in excellent manner. The distribution
of prizes was an interesting feature. Ihe
offertory for the year amounted to $2oo
which included the Lenten Offering oil
ST..
At St. Psuls Church the chill reh
formed 10 classes ia the chapel at b
O'Clock in the evening, aud with banners
waving marched into tho church. In
the church was - beautiful beacon tower
from which glowed an electric light
Across the tower there had been con-
nected an anchor and it was filled IN
with flowers By the classes, making a love
Il, floral piece. The exercises conslsted
of an address by Rev. P. P. Phillips
the singing OF carols and the distribution
of prizes. The Easter offering amount
ed to 1923. &c, including $l4 from the
class of Chinese who attended the Sun
day School.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The r1adWay on Alfred street, be-
tween Duke and Wilkes, needs repairs
in certain places.
Luther Garter has sold for Joseph
Weidermsn house and lot No. l4oO
Duke stree. 10 E. l.. Sinclair, OF Mar
shall.
The schooner Mary, from the lower
river, is discharging lumber at this port
The lumber will be forwarded to Ar
lington.
Mr.. J. D. knight has been awarded
the contract for making certain improve
ments at Luna Park before the opening
of that resort.
Mr.. Washington NsilOr, an old and
we'll known resident Of Washington,
died in that city Saturday. de wal
well known in Alexandris.
A young man (aewly-married) VEL
arrested this mOrnipg at the instance
of his wife, who alleged that ne va
guilty Of dlsorderly conduct toward her
Two hoss-one nsmtd Granny-rsn
away from their homes in CharloitesViil'
| few days ago, and it is believed thel
came 10 this city. The police have beef
requested to search f'r them.
Mr.. james Gund-, n brother OF Chic
Goods. ui he police force, uss kicked Of
the leg BY horse 10 Washington sslur
day stie ca And painfully injured
he Was brought TO his home in this city
The body Of the man found hosling II
the river Friday and taken TO Washing
ton has been identified as that OF Wslte
NJ. Miller. Miller formerly lived q
ll1S l. street, northwest, Washington
The remains Of Mary Vernon, VII
died at Newport News on Thursday
we're brought to this city, and the inners
took place from Ebenezer bsPtis
Church, Sunday, at O'Clock.
j A guard from the Laurel Reforn
School near Richmond, came here toas
and took charge of Frederick hick,
one of the youths Who held up 1. :
Schneider 90 Shooters Hill road seVerS
months ago.
A meeting to which graduates OF ;.
Msry's Academy have been invited
being held at the academy this even
ing, where st. MsrT's Alumnae AsS'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20

Post F, Travellers Protective Associa-
ton of this city, at it's annual meeting Sat
urday night in the rooms oithe Chsmcer
OF Commerce elected the following Off
GERS to serve for the ensuing wear: j..
Y. Williams, president; II. K. Field,
vice president; K. NJ. Grsham, secretary
snd treasurer; q. O. Osrlin, counsel; O.
G. Lesdbeater, r. s. Jones, F. T..
King, G d. Hopkins, J. P. Robinson
and J. NJ. Willis, board Of directors.
The following werp chosen chairmen
of committees: A. d. BrOckett, rail-
yosd; ]. II. TrImyer, legislative; o. II.
Kirk, press; Raymond HuI6sb, hotel;
w. A. Smoot, jr., employment; DR.. 5.
h. Moore, post surgeon sud physician;
Rev. J. r Sewer, chaplain.
The following we're elected delegates
10 the State convention In Roanoke, Va,
NAV % and %: Alfred Thomson, J.
w. May, r. E. Miller, j. L. Reid, Q.
n. Kirk, Walter g. Rogers. J. T..
johnson, w. w. Ballenger, W. II.
Lindsey, Herbert Wood, RAYMOND Hull
fish, J. E. Darling, ]. Fl. Trimyer, nj.
L. Price, A. D. Brockett. chairman Of
railroad committee; ]. Y. Williams,
member of the State board, and r. M.
Graham.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
VE.TRYMEN ELECTED.

The following v'strymen for CHRIST
Church we're elected today: Messis.
w. A. Smoot, L. NJ. Blackfo'd, Hubert
snowden, D. N. Rust, g. l.. Boothe,
G. O. Leadbeater, E. 8 Leadbeater,
Geo. s. French, G. II. Yohp, W. D.
Wood, H. r. Burke and II. +. Robert
son.
At. st. PAul's Church today the fol-
lowing vestrymeu we're elected Messrs.
John W. Green, J. W. HOof. d.
Bryant, ]. r. Zimmerman, R. F. Knox,
]. K. M. Norton, VIM. B. smoot, j.
@. Milburn, E. L. DsiDgeIfeld, q. l.
Klipstein, Julian T. Burke and l.. W.
Reid.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
EASTER OFFERINGS.

The Easter offering at Christ Church
Yesterday morniog was for missions and
amounted to $l3S 68.
In st. Psul's Church the Offering was
for the benefit of the improvement fund
and amounted to 1858.
The offering at Grace Church was Tor
the new altar fund and amounted to
$2S9.
Large offerings were made in many OF
the other churches yesterday for church
work generally.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
OFFERS TO WITHDRAW CHARGE

George w. Tyler, husband Of Mrs.
Rose Tyler, who is charged with COM
mittiug bigsmy in marrying james
Hudson in this city eight months ago,
has submitted proposition to her which
gives her chance to escape prosecution
90 the bigamy charges. He agrees to
withdraw the charge If she will pay the
cost of a divorce proceedings and take
the couples three youngest children and
care for them. Mrs. Tyler has given
no reply to this proposal, deferring her
decision until she can talk with her
lawyer and members Of her family, She
was visited 10 jail at Rockville, Nd,
Saturday, by james Hudson, husosnd
No. 2. who declared that he has made
up his mini to stand by the woman and
marry her just as soon as he can do so
legally. Commonwealth Attorney Brent
announced today that proceedings against
the woman for bigsmy would be sban-
,doued
Mr.. Brent today sent a telegram to
Gov. Swanson recommending the with
drawsl o. the requisitiOu papers, as the
Common wealth's Attorney is convinced
that Tyler is anxious to use the Oom'
monwealIh for his own purposes.