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cargo of flour and lumber. which put
in at Valparaiso, chile. A Chilean lady
claimed him. and he married and en-
gagged in the flour business and in other
commercial ventures During Presi-
dent Harrison'S administration Julio
Foster was the representative in Wash
ington of the Chilean congressional
party in the civil war with President
Ba Ina ceda. one of his sons served for
several years in the Chilean foreign Of
fee. and his family always has taken
a prominent part in the public affairs
of the country. A few years ago he
brought several of his grandsons to
the United States and placed them in
one of the colleges near Washington.
He has advocated closer commercial
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and when Peru was rioting in the
wealth that came from the guanos he
was able to convince tile government
that railway could he built through
the mountain wall
No government or capitalist today
would build that railway from Callao
through the Galera tunnel as Meigss
built it, but railway construction has
advanced in the last forty years. The
road is still the most wonderful rail-
way in the world. Whether it cost
$500. 900 a mile, was estimated, is not
important. The Spanish phrase more
or less would be applicable to the cost.
The chief thing was tnat the Peru
Wan government got the railway, and
the guano did not ny for it, since
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relations between Chile and the United
States for nearly three e-quarters of a
century, long before it had become the
custom to hold panAmerican confer
ences.
Another link between Chile and the
United States may be brought out if
the Chilean delegates submit to the
present conference their plan for
joint subsidy between Chile and the
United States of a steamship line
through the Panama canal.
Any measure which promotes steam
navigation is a tribute to one of the
greatest of the North American pio-
neers in South America. This was
William Wheelwright. the New Eng
lander, who, in the face of dishearten-
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cation of the agricultural area as the
great prospective source of develop
ment to Peru.
The moLest plan of the present gov
ernment of Peru. which involves an
initial expenditure of only $4,000. 900.
would have been too small for Meiggs.
He would have started in on the basis
of s100.000.000. Yet had he lived the
probability is that large section of
the country which is still barren would
have been turned into one of the most
productive regions of the world.
More recent pioneers of railway con-
struction whose history teens with ro-
nance were two Virginians, the Har-
man brothers.
more dissimilar pair of men than
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Who Attend
SouRawy and Steam Navigation Pioneering by Two
the aman Brothers Vm
Ecuado-Other Entense-lhe
PnsBueno the Commercial
Center Many North Americans
Careers Were Marked Out
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thing very different from the present
Argentine Republic. with its centralized
and efficient government.
WheelWright obtained his funds in
London. and in intervals. when his pres
ence was not required in the South
American countries. he spent much of
his time there. coaxing more money
from the doubling English capitalists
This may have been the reason why two
or three years ago a London newspaper
boldly appropriated him and described
him as the typical English captain of
industry in foreign lands
There never was more thorough
American than Wheelwright. but at the
time of his great projects for South
American development England was the
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drawn.
one of Wheelwrishi's projects is not
vet realized This was the extension nf
the northern Argentine railway system
a"roSS the Andes 10 port in the north
of Chile The realization, however. Will
come in time
Recent dispa tches from Peru have told
of the prospect of irrigation there by
the government giving its tnancial sup
port This recalls another American
pioneer. in the person of Henry MelggS
Meigss was the hoIdest American cap
tain of industry who ever ventured into
South America The financial difficult
ties which caused him to leave cali
fornia did not cloud his career in Chile
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.c,al cor-es,ondence q, The star.

Special Correspondence of The star.
PARIS, May Is. 1915.
7T is frst-class human interest
story.
The poor old man who had
* only one suit of clothes, who
looked SO unhappy that no one dared
speak to him." who had to eat lunch at
one friends and dinner at another's-he
was the feted young captain-poet. i'm
mortal author Of THE Marseillaise."
They are going to put him in the
Pantheon, beside Zola. Victor Hugo.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Noltaire.
Also, for the first time in history,
mere song has the scene OF its COM
position honored by solemn lyric
function. 1t Is "A Night of Rouget de
Lisle'' at the Theater Antoine, with
stars from opera. opera -comique. The
a,re F'rancais vaudeville and Athenee.
Its scene is the birth Of THE Ma rseti
lsise" al an evening party in the house
Of the mayor of Strasburg.
Surely. when Young Rouget de Lisle
wrote words and music ofhand. in an
hour of fevered enthusiasm, he little
imagined that his war hymn would
70 round the world, be forbidden by
kings and emperors and become the
song of the republic against coalized
kings in three wars.
Or that he would become the poor
old man
Now for the scene. II is Strasburg.
in 1892 solid bulwark of the young
republic with the coalized kings at its
gates. Strasburg was a boiling center
of war, youth. Joy and death. where
the noise of fighting and fetes mingled
necessarily. Strasburg received the
volunteers. trained them and passed
them out the opposite gate, to fight for
the soil. All this to the voice of can
mons and church bells, sounding to
heaven for mercy and Justice. amid
friends greeting, sisters weeping.
mothers praying. and fathers saying
Co
To celebrate such a departure, the
mayor of Strasburg. Dietrich, invited
the volunteer officers to fraternize with
the officers of the garrison. And his
two lovely young daughters asked ALI
their girl acquaintances. blond and
noble maidens OF Alsace. says Alex
andre Dumas. to grace and perfume the
banquet Among them was fiutterins
curiosity to meet young poet become
captain-Rouget de Lisle. ardent repub-
Mcan. though Of ancient and noble
Franche-comte family. Poets were
respected In thoSe days
Alexandra Dumas knew him in his old
age, and Rouget de Lisie wrote out
for him. in his own hand. the story OF
the composition Of The Marse!llaise" at
that banquet. Rougtt de Lisle was
then only twenty years old. a captain of
engineers in the Strasburg garrison
They sough, something TO sing The
old revolutionary Ca ira" was a song
of anger and civil war what Was
needed. they said. was patriotic cry.
fraternal. republican and Yet a mena ce
to the invader. Then. all ewes fixed
on Rouget de Lisle. The Young fellow
grew red in the face. gulped glass
of water and hastily left the room
In small library room adjoining
was a piano. Between piano and writ :
ing table Rouget de Lisie worked half
an hour-and all was accomplished
words and music-that is to say.
the words Of the FIRST two stanzas
founded at single pouring, Du-
mas SAYS run into the mold complete g
like the statue OF god And Rou-
get de Lisle. returning to the ban
quet. came on Mayor Dietrich and a
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Some of the pioneer American mer-
chants settled in the different South
American countries through deliberate
intention. but romance caused others to
remain and identify themselves with
their surroundings.
When Col. Roosevelt was in Santi-
ago. Chile. the cable dispatches chron-
icled that visit to Julio Foster, aged
ninety-one, was one of the incidents
of his visit.
julio Foster comes from little town
in Pennsylvania Some seventy years
ago he was on a sailing ship with a
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where she was noticed by Choron. who
took her into his school of religious
music. At the age of thirteen. how
ever, she suddenly lost her singing
voice and never got it back Where
another would have been discoura ged,
little Rachel quilted Choran for ST.
Aulaire, an actor-teacher, in whose
classes she was discovered by Nedel.
cashier of the Theater Francois. and
her grand career was assured. In 1S4S
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.THE MARsEILLAIsE..

the voice of the people. for the first
time, in 1880, is due to the fact that
the restoration suppressed it. The first
act of the Legitimate" kings of France,
on returning. was to cut it out. Such.
equally, was the policy of Louis Phil
ippe, though King of the French" by
title. and of Napoleon III. 'the peoples
choice by plebiscite."
His other reference to dying and re-
born liberty dates from the revolution
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An AMERICAN RANCH IN COSTA RIGA.

Meiggs induced London capitalists to
take the bonds at 10 to % cents on the
dollar.
Meiggs himself was not an engineer.
hut he knew how to utilize the con-
ceptions of those who We're engineers,
and his railways in Chile and Peru were
the result.
Tales are still told of his princely
hospitality and of his frequently sit
ting down to table with forty or fifty
guests, some of whom were unknown
to him.
At the time of his death Meiggs had
a grand scheme of agricultural devel-
opment for the coast region tributary
70 the fine port of Chimhote. After
railway construction he looked on irri-
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erty. my left dashes a tear from my
cheek? 1t Is from this. that the holy
'Marseillaise' is not only cry of war,
but an elan of fraternity-the royal
and puissant hand of France held out
to all generous peoples. The Marseil-
laise' will always be the last cry of
dying liberty. the first cry of liberty re-
born"
The reference of Dumas to his hav
ing heard The Marseil!aise' sung by
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How, all the same, could Rachel
sing THE Marsellaise"? 1t was in
all the theaters-as now again. The
Theater Francais must get in line, and
the actor Brindeau, favorite romantic
hero of Alfred de Musset's pieces, had
tackled it, in national guard costume,
swinging flag and saber, to typify the
citizen soldier" Rachel, after playing
"Andromaque" one evening. waited to
hear Brindeau, and, struck by the eff
feet produced by the hymn of liberty.
even when badly interpreted, saw, as
she said, that there was something to
be done"
DO you know. my little Lockroy,"
she said to the father of the present
deputy. II have a crazy desire TO sing
The Marseilaise'
Where" asked Lockroy.
But here, on the stage of the
Comedie."
You sing? Now. there's an idea.
You wouldn't dream of it,"
Il do, absolutely
do you know how to sing, now"
NO. but l have found trick. ] shall
say The Marseillaise' in melopea,
sustained by the music of the orchestra
playing the air in sourdine. very low
follow the rhythm. You'll see, it will
be beautiful. There's an orchestra
leader here who is very capable, a
friend of mine.
Evidently he was capa BILE. It was
Jacques Offenbach as a young man.
Lockroy asked:
when shall we hear it?'
Tonight. said Rachel, "after the
have asked some friends and my fam
lily, with jacques at the piano..
Alfred de Musset was among the
guests. He seated them in the shape
of a fan and put the pianist" behind
a screen. Rachel came out in white
tunic and Greek cap. with laces of red
wool in her hair and holding the tri-
color flag in her left hand Her hot
voice gave the war song its just accent.
line by line, to make 1T seem sublime
as it came from her lips-each grand
effect brought out. moved, anguished.
terrible. Thus sang tt-for their hearts
were in it-those implacable volun-
teers of the south. who, coming up
from MarseilIe in 1892. made 1t their
hymn and gave it their name. A veri-
table shudder ran through the audience
as, taking a step forward. her eyes
flaming, she threw out the cry:
ITO arms, citiZens.
Her power of expression was such.
said Lockroy. her mimic so really
striking. her voice so took hold OF the
heart strings. that with the last cou,
artists and critics burst out In emo
ton that surprised themselves. Then
Rachel. swaying forward, her fists on
her hips, said, guying:
"En bien. my little Lockroy, are you
convinced?"
Lockroy banged his fist upon his
breast.
Zone must have nothing there" he
said. ito be not convinced. 1t is su-
perb.''
Then come to supper" replied Ra-
chel. alfred will carve the chicken"
Musset passed for a wonderful cary
er. and he received SO much praise for
his skill and drank SO much cliquot
ON the strength of it that Arsene Hous-
save and Lockroy had to lead him to
his fiat, in the Rue Mont-Thab Der. de-
claiming The Marseillaise" at the top
of his voice.
Three days later the posters an
nounced '"The Marsella Use" by Rachel
at the Theater-Francaise, where she
was still singing II when Louis Napo-
leon profted by the liberty which it
represented to get himself elected pres
ident in four departments. I'VE shant
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of 1S4S and its short-lived republic.
whose first enthusiasm was to put 1.-The
Marseillaise" all the stages of
Paris. During the past six months the
remarkable success of Mile. Chenai
with it, at the Opera Comique, recalls
the triumph of Rachel, who had no
voice, vet made furore nearly a year
Rachel had begun her career as
ten-year-old child with beautiful
voice. singing in the streets OF Lyon,
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be long now" said the future emperor,
having already conspired with the roy
alists to squelch the republic.
Whence Dumas saying of The Mar
seillaise": First song of liberty new
born, last cry of dying liberty, first
shout again of reborn liberty"
STERLING HELLO.
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Midst War; Prepares Honor Immortal Authorize Will Be Faoed
Rousseau and Voae How the
and Forbidden by Kings and EmperGaIantY Young
Words de e Died Poor and Obscure an Aged
Man. n l836-When the Poem Was Set Music
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Wheelwrisht also was a pioneer rail
way builder for Chile. but his greatest
work of this character was in pioneering
the railway system of the Argentine Re
public. His indomitabl bic will overcalne
innrmera obstacles. the greatest of
which was in getting money, for at that
period the Argentine confederation, with
its loosely bound provinces, was some
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ing difficulties established steam com
munication between Valparaiso and
Panama. and i'll numerous other ways
contributed to the progress of the west
coast countries.
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and PERU After building railway lines
in Chile and getting premiums by clauses
in the contract for payment of certain
sections were completed within a given
time, he transferred his held of opera
tions to Peru
The Southern railway. which MeiGsS
built across the travelling sandhills of
southern Peru toward Lake Titicaca, has
some remarkable engineering features.
but fertility Of resource in building that
line was shown chiefly in the provision
he made for securing fresh water in the
desert wastes.
The Andes had no terrors for Meiggs,
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neers Of Pan-America From the United State

these two brothers are rarely found.
Yet il was the qualities which each
possessed which. when combined,
enabled the Guayaquil and Quito rai
road to be built
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small group of guests. who had alread
quit the table.
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HOME MADE CANDY

How many of us would enjoy
eating some good homemade candy
if we only knew where to get the
right kind. Residents Of BoeaIusa'
will be able to obtain the fln'
est Of homemade candy at any
hour Of the day,
F.O DuBOse, a man who has
been connected with some OF the
]arees tcandy Manufactures in Birm
ineham, and who conducts an up-to
date candy kitchen in Frankllnton
has leased quarters in the Head
" Building, and in a day or two
will be able to furnish Bogalusa
with pure, fresh homemade can
les. He will also serve the mos
delicious ice cream and cake. botl
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ROGALUSA'S ANNIVERSARY

On next Sunday July 18th, the City of Bosa0sa Vii e uAe 'a
Aud this one wear old the wonder Of AmeEcas "uAe's
posasa city of which its founders and citizens oo oe
,tep not better city With population Of lVoo III a A'e''a
While the success and growth of the city Of boasa cue III III
measures to the Goodyear interests still It's cze sNo1o NC
with much for they have co-opaed with aese Progressive pe ~.
eorv move for the welfare and improvement o. nc way" wy "
como stuff that has made BoGausa what loda VIII 40 even
IN the next few Years Boeasa is destined 1o oe one o e
ee Of the South No city the SAFE better sno" 'a O0S'u'
Wv ~ ~ nhued with the ; that does things and that couteo
with mnrovna conditions will make Boasa gro" by leaps ana 'oaS
Th edition Of the Enterprise all Of which was printed Eeh ID Dosa
m published in honor the cy first birthday and we nave 1'eo
ao, h naner one that would DO justice to the Magic CITY, no"
have aconphed our end will let the good OF the L
,ss doodle We have received the hearty cooperation Of the bushes
ara professional men Of the city Of Boeasa and Washington Fah 10
which we are deeply grateful
Nav Roaa grow and prosper the future as STE mas 'e pas.
m NJ Sullivan the father Of Boeausa and his family snare
II rho ,s and pleasures of this world for many years to come anu Hid
a m tn which he has devoted much be forever monument 70 m
and his defendants are the oHde wishes the Lntee anu oil 10y
al BoGaIuslans
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We are aurthorlzed to announce that
|. A. GROWN
of FrankEnton will be candidate for the
democratic nomination for Sheriff, sub
;ect to the action Of the primary.
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Special Epworth Meeting

There will be special meeting
Of the Senior Epworth League at
the NJ E Church Sunday evening
at 7;3O. Mr.. Griffith will make a
short address; his subject being
Gods Care OF All Nations The
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public is extended a most co'ta
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tally the young people.

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heine served for ten cents.

being served for ten cents.
His establishment will be a moo.
81 of cleanliness, and sanitation and
will be right up to the minute in
every respect,
Mr., DuBose comes here from
Franklinton. with the recon-
mendations Of being a man VINO
knows his business, and if he runs
his place in the same manner that
he conducts the one in the parish
seat, his success is assured.
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Mr., and Mrs, Thos. Chesterman
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