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material rather than spiritual hsH.,
and for that they are looking to SYRIAN
The place Iies on the 1rawadi between
Raneoon and the sea and 1t Is the site
of the refineries of the Burma OH COM
pany.
Al present the oil trusts Of the world
are fighting for Asia. Our Standard vi
company has practically monopolzed
Japan, Korea and a large part OF emma.
II has it's stations on every river and its
agents in every large city. The RUSSIAN
netro,eum companies are furnishing the
illumination for Siberia and the LANDS
east and south of the Caspian sea. "hiie
the Dutch East Indies. Siam and large
part of China are supplied by the Oil
fields of Sumatra and Borneo. Down mere
in Burma the people are using OIL from
the wells along the Irawadi river. IheS
have nonopolizeG Burma, and are push
ing their trade among the millions OF
India.
These peop,e have crowded the Stand
ard Oil Company out of their market II
tried to come in and asked the govern
ment's permission to build its own tanks
at the mouth of the river. This was re-
fused, and as a result our oil must be
shipped here in tin cases. This makes II
too costly in competition with the natlVe
product, and it cannot inaugurate the
machinery of distribution such as 1t has
in other parts of the far east. All along
the west coast of the Pacific the storage
tanks of the Standard Oil Company are
10 be seen. They are among the big
features of every large port. and con-
nected with them are great factories
where tin cans are made and the petro-
leum is put up for shipment over the
country The oil Is pumped into tank
Co Fra MD
out into tanks which hold tens of thou
sands of barrels at Shanghai, Tient;in
and even at Hankow the Yangtse
Kiang, the latter port being six hundred
miles in the interior of China.
Here on the Irawadi there are similar
tanks, but they belong to the British and
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ter rubies than any other place upon
earth. At times it yields as much as a
year. and about ten years ago a single
stone was found weighing seventy-seven
carats, which sold for more than 500. 1000.
The fine ruby is more valuable than a
diamond of the same weight 1t is esti-
mated that one the color of pigeon S
blood weighing FIVE carats will sell for
ten times the value of a five-carat dia-
mond, and that the price will Increase
with the size. ruby which weighed
eleven carats was recently sold in Eng
land for $4,000, whereas diamond of
that size would not bring more than
5000. The largest ruby known is one
which came from Tibet. 1t weighed
1000 carats. but it was not of the first
this kind are owned by native Indian ra-
jahs, who consider them among the most
beautiful of jewels.
The demand for rubies is greatly affect
ed by the times. The panic Of 1907 caused
a slump in the market. All sorts of pre-
cious stones went down and for months
the London demand for Burman rubies
entirely ceased. The company then cur
tailed it's production by stopping night
work, and it cut the wages of the men
from 81 to - cents a day. In 1908 no
dividends were declared. The times are
now better and all the mines are again
working.
/ understand the output of the present
year Will De large. ne IuOHOpOiy las ia
PRODUCED modern methods. Its pumping
machinery is now worked by waterpower.
and the same power generates and stores
electricity. so that the mills work day
and night. Much Of the machinery is
similar to that used in the diamond mines
of South Africa. The stones are run
over pulsators, which separate the heay-
Ter gravel from the lighter. IN taking
out the rubies the sorting Is done by
foreigners. and the stones are classified
by them. The best go to London. which
is the chief ruby market. while those of
a lower grade are auctiOned of to the
local dealers about the mines. The lat
ter are great gamblers, and will run up
the prices if they think a stone may have
valuable center. Among the rubies are
found spinels, stones which look much
like the true ruby, but which are not.
The jewels are tested by a glass through
which the ruby shows two different colors
II viewed from different directions
whereas the spinel and garnet show but
one The rubies are found in a matrix
in the rocks, and also in the clay. Con-
nected with them are often sapphires.
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similar kind was that of Col. Sauvarow.
A tall MISUNDERSTANDING man with
blond mustache, dressed in the striking
ly elaborate uniform of a colonel of the
mounted guards Of Russia. alighted from
an automobile of the most luxurious de-
sign and entered the shop of a famous
jeweler in the Rue de la Paix. His
naughty bearing and stately manner i'm
mediately suggested an aristocrat. The
jeweler, who deemed himself a judge of
the upper classes waited on him per-
sonally with much Difference. The col
onel showed the attentive and eXpectant
jeweler his card. on which was engraved
col. Count SouvaroW,' explaining at the
same time that he was a descendant of
the famous Gen. Souvarow. who fought
against Napoleon. and volunteering fur
Their the information that he was in Paris
charged with a special mission to the
French council Of war
The Importance of this man of elegance
was now thoroughly impressed the
susceptible jeweler. and when the Russian
count asked to see his finest necklaces
the deferential proprietor promptly set be-
fore him some of his choicest strings. The
count seemed a connoisseur and after
careful examination selected beautiful
necklace worth nearly $4,000. The Or
der given. he instructed the jeWeler to
send il to his hotel. After he left the
jewelers. absolute trust wavered to the
extent that he directed the clerk not to
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Deadly.

G ENATOR OVERMAN said the other
~ day Of a defeated oil:
at deserved to be defeated. 1t was
as irregular as the Tin Can poker game.
"A man. describing the game, said:
One-eyed Bones. on my right, held
four kings and an ace. Two-fingered
Schermerhorn, on my left. held four aces
and king
land you-what did you hold?' some
one asked excitedly.
81. being the coroner. held the n
quest, was the reply
II have here a poem." exclaimed the
proud author. (which I should like to
have you publish at your usual terms
..All right" sid the editor OF the Punk
Vile Palladium. Ten dollars a line for
one insertion, or We will run 1t thirty
times for $6."-Louisville Courier-Journai.
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he was given unlimited credit and no set
tlement when asked for.
The dukes friends were rather ques-
tlOnable In type. F1ashily dressed women
and men with decidedly spor:ive tenden-
cies were the constant guests al Beaulieu.
Finally the duke came to Paris and to
the fatal Rue de la Paix, his chief object
being the purchase of jewels. He went
into the jewelry shop Of Boucheron, where
he bought magnificent diamonds. handing
the proprietor check for $4,000. Bour-
cheron accepted the check after he had
first telephoned to the Credit LyOnnais to
see If the duke had a deposit there. He
was informed that the duke had an ac-
count of $4,000. Satisfied with the an
swer, the jeweler turned over to him the
case containing the diamonds. little
later in the day Bourcheron sent his
clerk to the bank TO cash the check. and
he was told that the duke had withdrawn
his money just an hour previous The
false duke was person named Rosas and
he had been a servant to the real Duke
of Moedina-Coeli in Spain. How the
servant could play the master and keep
up the delusion for two months without
detection is one Of those facts that is
stranger than fiction. He was caught six
months afterward at Lyon and was sent
to prison for eight years and fined $1,000
A vertable shoal of these willy sharks
visited Paris last autumn. One was a
fake count. who succeeded i'm selling to
an artists daughter a false Troyon. This
man called himself the Count de Chabert
Another for audacity and boldness ex-
ceeded anything that has been described
in the criminal courts for many a day.
In September last a man named Bruno
went to live at Clamart, a suburban town,
giving his name Reyernoff and saying
that he was head of the police Office under
NJ. Lepine. Bruno rented a large house.
kept three servants and apparently led a
regular and quiet life with his always ele-
gantly dressed wife. They were much re-
spected by the townspeople, who were
greatly surprised one morning to see a
number of policemen descend on the house
of their neghbor and bring him forth
prisoner. Bruno was fugitive from jus
time, and 1t was not until after a long
and careful search that he was finally To-
Gated in the little village of Clamart, pass
ing as high police official. He was an
artist in crime, that man. for ii devel-
oped after his arrest that he had bor-
rowed considerable sums from the local
police commissioner.
Copyright in the United States and Great Britain
by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserved.D
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DUE de la Paix in Paris Is
IN One of the Best Guarded
Streets in the World, and Yet
1t Has Dazzled a Series of
Observation-Disclosures Folk
Into Trying Their Wits
Against 1t = Alleged Aus
TRAN Archduke and His
A merican "Archduchess,"
Who Managed to Get Away
With $4,000 w orth of
Treasures From This Store
house of Gems"-Paris Has
Lately Been a Paradise for
Aristocratic Scallywags Who
Were Clever Enough to Have
Earned an Honest Living If
They Had Not Been Be-
witched by the Sorceress of
the Avenue of Temptation"
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High-cfass Swindler Who SuccUmbed
to the Lure of the Rue de la PaiN
and Nearly Got Away With $4,000
Worth of Jewelry.
of pearls. the choicest offerings of the
sea, are attractively arranged to bewider
and delight the strolling pedestrian.
Then come the houses over which are
such magical names as Paquin, Doucet
etc. Modesty in exterior appearance
predominates here. The buildings gem
orally are agow the year round VITA
bright flowers and trailing vines in Their
rows of window boxes, making a contin-
uous gala effect from one end of the
street to the other.
IT is at the shrine of the jeweiry shop
windows. however that the passing pub
lie loiters and contemplates. The woman
in ermine stands side by side with the
poorly dressed little sewing girl, or the
man in patent feathers has at his elbow
the man with the patched shoe.
But 1t is the hish-class swindlers who
most of all succumb to the lure of the
little street, and elaborate precautions
are adopted by the shopkeepers and the
municipal authorities of Paris to Outwit
them.
Mngling with the crowds are dozens OF
quietly dressed alert looking men, mem
bers Of the staff of the famous NJ. Le-
pine, chief of the Paris police, whose
brains are veritable rogues' galleries
They can recognize on sight most of the
great international thieves. and almost
any day the careful observer may see
one OF them step up to a distinguished
looking man or a handsomely dressed
woman and whisper word or two, after
which the person accosted quickly leaves
the street.
Every great jeweler. too. maintains at
least one private detective, who makes
it his business to know the persons who
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blue. yellow and green. as well al gar
nets and spinels.
Next to the ruby the jade stones Of
Burma are Of great value. They are
mined in the northern part of the coun-
try and are brought to Bhamo, on the
Irawadi above Mandalay. and are
there sold to the Chinese. The Chinese
prize jade almost as highly as pearls.
rubies or diamonds. They look upon the
stone as embematic of most Of the viz
tues, and use ii much as we use the
term pure gold. fine girl is a jade
girl, beautiful hand a jade hand and
Jade foot is one which is always on
time. Nearly every well-to-do Chinese
girl has jade earrings and bracelets. and
many have jade hair pins and brooches.
In Burma jade is often used for ear
plugs as well as for rings and other jew
elry.
The jade found in northern Burma IL
of a beautiful green. which is greatly de-
sired. The stone has always been regard
ed as the property of tribe known as
the Kachins. and it's right to mining it
has never been called in question by the
native kings. The amount now produced
sells for several hundred thousand dol
lars a year. and in weight it aggregates
something like one hundred and fifty
TONS The mining is still done by natives.
but it is under a lessee, who collects the
government duty of 80 1-3 per cent on all
taken out.
Mining jade is more like quarrying than
anything else Some of the stones, and
often the best. are obtained as pebbles.
but there are mines where the jade rock
lies in open quarries. The stones here
are Of different grades, varying in quality.
Some of the smaller pieces are worth
their weight in gold. and little bits At
for ring setting will sell i'm China for
hundred dollars or more. On the other
hand. there are enormous blocks worth
nothing and tons which cannot ~ work
ed by the poor tools of the natives. The
mining is exceedingly primitive. The rocks
are cracked by building fires upon them.
They are then broken apart by crowbars
and wedges and >shaped up with hammers
into the sizes fit for transportation. The
average export value Of the stone Is about
GO cents pound, that which is annually
shipped down the Irawadi and by RAN
COON to China selling for something like
$4,000 FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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IHE'LAboR OF TT{E. OIL F11ELSIS EAST Ir4D1Ar1"

is turned into wax, and in the end there
is product which is made into coke
superior to that from coal The wax
is used chiefly for candles, which are
in the worship Of Buddha. Any one who
can burn a candle before a shrine &C
quires merit, and the bigger the candle
the greater the merit. For this reason.
the candles are of all sizes, from wax
matches to great, round tapering CYL
inders six and half feet tall and as
thick as an elephants leg. Such a can
die brings about SO, or 80 rupees. 1t
will burn fifteen hours, and If consumed
at shrine will add much to ones chance
Of reaching Nirvana
The machinery of Syrian is up to
date 1t is nearly all English. although
ployed. The institution has can-making
factories. and the oil is run into the
cans on the premises.
The labor of the mills Is almost alto
women and boys are employed, the chill
dren ranging in age from ten years up
ward. 1 saw little Hindus who should
have been in school packing candles,
Of work. They labored with all their
might. and their wages were a few cents
day. We rode about through the
works on trolley car pushed bv four
Hindus, and before leaving took a ride
on a big automobile in and out among
the great tanks where the Gil is stored.
There are something like forty or more
of these tanks, each marked 1000, 900
gallons.
This Oil trust has other ref1neries at
Dunneedaw. on the opposite bank Of the
Irawadi. and it is steadily adding to
its works. 1t makes it's own barges and
has almost as many departments as tho
Standard. understand that the oil prices
are rising and that the value of the field
has quadrupled in the last year or so.
The whole country is now being pros
pected, with view to finding new oil
territory.
Next to coal oil. the biggest monopoly
in Burma is i'm rubies. This country pro-
duces the finest of such stones and fur
nishes the most Of the worlds supply.
The industry is in the hands of the
Burma Ruby Mines Company, which is
ope' citing in the Mogok valley, about
nl,.>:y miles from Mandalay. There is a
region there 1000 feet above the sea, COW
ering from fifty to one hundred square
miles. which has produced more and bet
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claim that they are the largest of the
world saying that they surpass any
owned by the Standard Oil Company
which does its business in smaller insti-
tutions widely scattered throughout the
United States.
The works here at Syrian cover a
hundred acres or more. They are sit
uated on the banks of the Irawadi.
about sixteen miles from it's mouth. The
river is full of silt and it has built up a
great sand bank just opposite the land
ing SO that ships cannot come close ex-
cept at high tide. The silt is so great
that the little lake, inside the works. used
a water supply, has to be dug out to
l saw hundreds of coolies excavating this
now dry lake. They were taking out
dirt which looked like cement, and carry
ing it away in baskets on their heads.
The deposits of the Irawadi are SO
rapidly filling the bed Of the river that
jetties similar to those we have at the
mouth of the Mississippi will probably be
put In.
1 went through the works with the
superintendent. Scotchman named
he objected to my photographing the re-
fineries, although he allowed me to take
snapshots of the laborers and the scenes
outside the plant.
X
1 shall not attempt to describe the proc
esses, except to say that enormous fur
naces are kept hot with oil fires and that
the boilers above them have pipes to
catch the vapor as the oil boils. Rein
ing petroleum is much like dstilling
whisky. The crude oil Is heated to a
vapor which flows off into the cold pipes.
AS it strikes them this condenses and
runs off pure oil.
In the meantime, the residue Is carried
from boiler to boiler, until all the oil
has been won. A part of what is left
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Hlent that the count occupied for which
he paid 500 day The count was wait
ing for him. He took from his pocketbook
1900 francs i'm one-thousand-franc notes
and So ,0tU francs in paper rubles. saying
that ne had more French money on
him just at present. and taking his watch
out of his pocket, remarked carelessly
that it was past o'clock and the money
changers shops were closed
The unsuspecting employe took the
money and handed the count the precious
box of pearls. The next day when the
jeweler took the money TO the bank to
be deposited he was informed that the
money in rubles had been called in from
circulation in Russia a number of years
ago. That very night the bogus count
left the hotel-disappeared as silently and
effectually though he had evaporated
in cloud of smoke.
Perhaps one of the most theatrical Of
swindling cases prompted by the sorceress
of the Rue de la Paix had it's beginning
in Nice. the beautiful winter resort on
the Riviera. which attractive spot drew
the Duke of Moedina-Coeli' to its shores
with view to locating there. The duke
was a grandee of Spain of the first rank
and was, known to be the possessor of
large fortune. After a careful inspection
of the rentable mansions he finally con-
Guided to take the superb villa, Beaulieu.
which belonged to the widow Of the Ar
chitect GARNER. who designed the opera.
There he installed retinue of servants,
stocked the wine cellars with delicious
old wines. added a great deal of rich
furniture to that already in the villa, and
superintendent the buying of fine horses
and automobiles The shopkeepers and
merchants when looking up his credit
found he had deposited $4,000 in the
Credit Lyonnais. Secure in their knowi-
edge of his comfortable bank account
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PARIS. March 15. 1910.

CRELY there Is a
sOrceress who pre-
sides over that
cleaning, scintillat-
ing little street. the
Rue de Ia Paix.
whose windows are
filled with more
rare and wonderful
jewels than can be
seen in any other
t h oroug h fare in
the world, This
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l IA NAp Dun MAJ icAo'
promises to
become the real
light of Asia. The
Burmans are Bud
dhists and they
worship the proph-
ct whom Edwin
Arnold has called
the light of the
continent. In this
awakening of Asia
in the twentieth
century they want
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quickly catch the eye. and large plate
glass windows sheltering masses of COL
ored gems, reminding one of sparkling
beds of many-hued flowers, while strands
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deliver the pearls to the colonel without
receiving the money for them.
The clerk on arriving at the hotel was
shown up to a sumptuous private apart
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A VISIT to Its Great
"A Rehneries on the Ira
wadi River In the Oil
Fields - The Worlds First
Petroleum Trust - Making
Wax Candles for Buddha-
The Ruby Mines - Jewels
More Valuable Than Dia-
monds - Burmese Jade and
How 1t Is Quarried for the
Chinese Markets.
Copyright, 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
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Copyright, 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-19

5000. 00-New, eight-room, two-story mod
ern house; all street and sanitary i'm
provements complete and paid for; 200
feet of car line, in the best residence
portion of Woodlawn. Terms reason
able.
$500. 00-New, modern, five-room cottage;
all street and sanitary Improvements
paid for. Fronts south on Thirty-sixti
avenue at North Birmingham, near
, new park and mineral wells. Terms
reasonable
$3.50. -Five-room house and bath, prac-
ticaly new; street improvements paid
for: one-quarter cash. balance easy.
Well located at West End.
s1400. 90 Practically new, 4-room house,
and hall; large front and back porches,
800 cash. balance like rent Well located
at North Birmingham
$500. 00-S0- acre farm, with present crop
and farming tools included. Will give
4 immediate possession: II miles north of
Birmingham; on good road; 60 acres In
cultivation; good 5-room house; barn;
good orchard, good spring of freestone
water, and one of sulphur water; one
quarter cash. balance easy.
We have some nice residence lots, well
located on car line. price and terms
attractive.
RYAN REAL ESTATE CO.,
2O26 3rd ave Bell phone $685.
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Home and Investment Bargains
in Birmingham

62x125, nice broom cottage, In good con-
dition, now renting for $21 per month.
faces east; SO feet of ear, walking dis
lance of business center shade trees,
peaches, figs and small garden; best sec
ton of North Highlands; 500 cash and
$50 per month; price only, $500. This
is a bargain. see It,
S2100-Rea sonable terms modern broom
cottage, we'll located North Highlands;
close to weather bureau on this side
of the hill.
$2250-$100 cash, balance $50 per month,
nice modern Groom cottage, well To-
Gated on good lot, West End
s900-$5o cash and s12 30 per month will
secure nice little 4-room cottage, con-
venient to American Cast Iron and Pipe
company shops and other industries of
North Birmingham This is good for a
home or an investment
s600--$60 cash and $40 per month for a
beautiful lot 50x110; one block of ear
and station, West End.
s2500-Nice, new, 5-room cottage in West
End: large lot; has sidewalks, electric
lights, etc: only $3.50 cash. balance like
rent. This is a nice little home; see it
early.
Acreage bargain: acres of beautiful land
right on public road; in fee simple;
small but neyer-failing stream of water
running through it; no rocks; some nice
timber about 31a miles from business
center; tracks of new car line now laid
within about three-quarters of mile
of property; price, only 5000; reasonable
terms If required owner needs some
money here is a chance for you to
make some. See 1t.
Victor H. Smith Realty Co.
Sales Loans. 512-14 First National Bank
Bldg, Bell 5559 Main
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SACRIFICE SALE
7 BIG LOTS

1oox325 each, price less than
half of what other lots in
same vicinity now sell at.
Close to ear, ideal home site,
splendid investment. Account
i'll health, I must sell at, once
to go west. Can't afford to buy
space to explain further here.
For price and full particulars
call me, Bell Main $3.50, or adj
dress W-23, care Age-Herald.