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,.J.,gicher than Rhodes. _ in many respects Rhodes’ successor,l ' ways ._____________________________________________________ -. ,.____ O The clerks in his 9 0.... O of; oz»?.z..;..:«:»:«:u:u:.{upognznzuzuydupe..S.tovVV‘o‘V8”???'t'3”?‘3”:":°’:“:"I“:”I°'2‘? lan llltl‘OflUCllOll. . ‘ 3‘3 it?” 321313;? Sil.3“..£i$“"?ii 3i 0.. 2' . g I [Iris 0 1X ", n v. ‘ _ L ‘2' The RICheSl Mall :3: them are Oxford or Cambridge men; ’ ? 5. Even the office boy is cultured. :3: . I z I .f. Although this South African potenâ€" oi, ,, n e ..; tate is not as lavish in his gifts as g. - ,3. Andrew Carnegie and Pierpont Mor: ‘1‘ W a: g .3 gap and has even got the credit 01 a? g or c .E. being rather cold tOWard charity, I 00 9 so . v "- :903‘6"???'3"3"2“:"I“1”1”3“:t1~v>3"?':°'I"3'?3“3°'1'°:"1"3":“3”3"34”???'3”3":"3":°':”:”:’ ‘ifitéflidyhfs 13315130113? cliff: til: Now that Cecil Rhodes is dead thel richest millionaire in Europe, andil perhaps, in the World, is coming out fromv under cover. scarcely known to the general reader and his remarkable personality has been quite overshadowed by that of the Colossus, although he was far But he will be, and the fierce light that beats upon! a. throne will soon make him one of themost talked-about men of the time, writes a London correspondent. His name is Alfred Belt. Short and’ugly as it is, that name could make an otherwise Worthless bit of paper into a. check that might be used to shake Wall Street and Lomâ€" bard Btreet to their foundations. Whether he is really richer than John D. Rockefeller, is a question Beit himself probably couldn’t answer. Two men who have been closely asâ€" sociated with him in widely different, have told me in the last few .days that this financier probably could not scrape together more than' a hundred million dollars or so just now, although it has been stated in print that he has that many poundsâ€"- 7 or, half a billion of dollars. Both of these authorities agreed however, that the end of the war in South Af< rica where this vast fortune has its roots, would assuredly bring a pro- digious increase in the Beit wealth. TO BE A BILLIONAIRE. If he keeps on at the rate of the last ten years the world will not have to wait much longer before get- ting its first sight of a billionaire. Heretofore he has been content to worship Rhodes and to pick up .mil- lions, but an Englishman who has been conspicuous in the operations of the Chartered Company ever since the first, Matabele war said to the writer: “I venture to predict that Belt, who has been known only as a financier up to now, will be found beâ€" fore long taking up and carrying to completion some of' the empire-buildâ€" ing work Rhodes left well begun but only half done. I have reason to be- lieve" that Beit caught seine of Rhodes’ enthusiasm for Imperialism to such an extent that he will even- tually put money into it without thought of getting it back, just as Rhodes did. So far as investments in the De Beers company, Johannesâ€" burg, and in Rhodesia go, Beit is the big man in Africa already, and if he: Shows administrative power equal to his financial ability his future is go- ing to hold the world’s attention. I-Iis friendship for Rhodes was some- thing more than an alliance for busiâ€" ness purposes. IIe fairly worshipped the man." LIKE RHODES IN MANY WAYS. This mysterious multiâ€"millionairc was born in the same year, 1853, as the man into whose shoes he'is exâ€" pected to step. Like Rhodes, he is a bachelor, and for the ,same reason' that Rhodes and Kitchener got the credit of being womanâ€"hatersâ€"be- cause they were too much engrossed in their ambitions to have time to give attention to domestic affairs. Like both of these men, he cares lit- tle for society, although there is a plenty of exclusive peers Who seem glad to accept an invitation to dine with him at his beautiful house in Park Lane, England, and although many a titled mamma is said to have tried to capture him for a son- inâ€"law. Like Rhodes, again, he gave no in- dication in youth of being anything unusual. He was born in Hamburg fortyâ€"nine years ago, coming of an old, solid Hebrew family, not vastly wealthyhbut rich enough to give him a good education in the German schools and get him a good place in .a. bankingâ€"house. His luck began when he was 22 and was drawn to South Africa by news of the diamond discoveries. He got there a little before Cecil Rhodes arrived in the hope of keeping out of the early grave to which his physicians had surrendered him. Beit made money as a diamond merchant at Kimberley and invested it in diamond “wines, which brought him in touch with young Rhodes, who was laying the foundations of his portion by his scheme for consolâ€" idating the diamond interestsâ€"â€"a scheme that proved to be a’ lucky one to Beit. In fact, Beit seems to have been Rhodes’ chief helper in the business. LEADER IN SOUTH AFRICAN MINES. Beit branched out into the bankâ€" ing business, becoming a partner in the firm of Juies Porgcs &. Co., pre- decessors of the present great firm of Wernher, Beit & Co. When gold was discovered in the Transvaal Belt was on the ground floor again, and with his Johannesburg partner, Hermann Eckstein, soon became one of the great captains of the South African gold industry. He is credited with having transformed South African gold mining from a speculation into a steady, well organized, conservaâ€" tive business. He had the wit to import the highest quality of machâ€" fnery and to pay prodigious salaries to such mining engineers as John Hays Hammond, Holman Jennings. and Louis Seymour to advise and superlntend this huge enterprise, Which before the war was putting out cannot even 890,590,000 worth of precious metal secretary’s private secretary withoutl i000,000 a year of profit over to its His name is shareholders. 'came from the gold of Johannesburg lagaln, he doesn’t speculate, and the name of his firm have exceeded those of the Rothschilds in the last ten years. An intimate associate credits him with having given half a million dollars to broken down South Afri- can friends since the war began. It is also said that he pays the best salaries of any employer in London. Almost the only unusual thing about this plutocrat is his passion- ate fondness for the theatre. He has no country house and never leaves London except on business trips. a year, and which, besides paying heavy taxes to Kruger, turned $20,- This lucky son of Hamburg was grubbing along with only a meagre two or three millions in 1900. Most of the stream of wealth that has poured into his coffers ever since and the diamonds of Kimberley. Some of the diamond fortune was pure luck. When Rhodes, Beit, and poor Barney Barnato became life ,____+._____ governors under the original De ' Beers charter they stipulated, withâ€" A TRAGEDY OF WAR. out dreaming that much would come â€"â€" ° Dramatic Incident of the Penin- of it beyond making an impression on the shareholders, that they should have a fourth part of the profits after the company had paid 30 per cent to the shareholders. But the diamonds were so astoundineg plenâ€" tiful that this fourth of the surplus turned out for the ten years before the war about a million dollars a year. When it is considered that Rhodes and Bcit were likewise the chief shareholders, with their 30 per cent. and their threeâ€"fourths of the surplus profit, one can understand how it is that they didn’t run short of pin money. SUFFERED BY AFRICAN WAR. Of course the war cut off most of this income and Mr. Bcit doubtless feels the pinch of poverty severely. It is hard to have to live on the in- terest of $100,000,000 or so when you have formerly had an additiona, income of maybe a million or tWO a year for current expenses. The ~Beit interests are not limited, however to Johannesburg and Kimâ€" berley. »I-Ie helped to originate the British South Africa Company, and has huge interests in the Chartered Company, paying his share of the company’s annual deficits with a steady confidence that showed his loyalty to Rhodes. The De Beers Company got a grant of 400 square miles in Rhodesia, too, in return for their help at the time of the Mat-aâ€" belc war. Beit is a director in the Rhodesia railways, limited, and was so much in sympathy with Rhodes that he had a hand in the Jameson raid. Through his firms he controls companies having a nominal capital of $100,000,000, and as most of the stock is listed at high premiums it may be imagined how great is the influence he exercises. Like Rhodes sular War. After Sir Charles James Napier had been wounded in the jaw at Busaco, during the Peninsular War, in 1810, he seems to have been a patient most difficult to be suppresâ€" sed. ,When the shot. took effect on him he was carried into the convent of Busaco, and finally, tiring of in- action, he got up from the pallet where he had been laid, and with blood flowing freely from his wound, went to the door to look for his horse. One of his comrades seized him and led him back, saying : “Are you mad, Napier, to think you can go back to fighting in this state ? Be quiet l" So he yielded and was carried away to Lisbon, where he rested some months in great suffering from his wound. ' “It is said that my sight may be lost," he wrote. “But if it goes, why, Hannibal had but one eye l" But when his division began to pursue Massena. and one combat followed another, he could no longer bear to remain inactive. With his wound still bandaged, he rode ninety miles to rejoin the army. He found his corps, and pushed ferward to support the Light Division. Then occurred one of those tragic hap- penings which are the commonplaces of war. He knew that fighting-was going on in front, and hourly he asked for news of his two brothers: He did not then even know that they were living. Thus advancing. he met a litter of branches borne by soldiers and covered by a blanket. “What wounded officer is that ?” he asked. “Captain Napier of the Fifty-sec- ond. A broken arm." Another litter followed. “Who is that ‘2” “Captain Napier of the Forty- third, mortally wounded." Charles Napier looked after the litters, and passed on to the fight in front. Captain Napier of the Forty-third was seriously wounded, but he lived until 1860. A SMART YOUTH. A bright youth of fourteen or thereabouts walked into a certain grocer's shop bne morning. “Do you want a smart boy, sir ‘2" he asked. ' The tradesman, who z.asn't exactly in need_ of a boy, smiled at the youngster’s busine-SSâ€"like air. “So,” he remarked,f‘you consider yourself a smart boy, do you ‘? Do you think you could run this 'busi- ness as well as myself ‘2” The youngster glanced round the shop and calmly replied : “I think I could do some things a little better than you, sir 2" "Indeed !" gasped the grocer. “ch. Now look at that butter. for instance. Don't you think it confidence in his judgment and finan- cial integrity are so great that there is a, whole swarm of little fellows with only $10,000,000 or $20,000,- 000 apiece ready to put as much as he asks for into any scheme he has on hand. ONE OF THE QUIET KIND. What manner of man is it who has the grip on more power over human fortunes than even the Autocrat of all the Russias? He seems to be chiefly remarkable for negafive qualities. He has none of the slap-dash, devilâ€"mayâ€"care ways that distinguished Barney Barnato, none of the taste for bluf'ling that made lfoolcy celebrated, none of Rhodes" commanding individuality, no fads, no taste for ostentation, and no niggardliness. You could not find a better example at polished, courteous, reticent, wellâ€"balanced man in the world. A man who has dined occasionally in Beit’s Park Lane house says he is an admirable host; not effusive, cer- tainly but simple and cordial and genuine. The house itself has been furnished with an eye to the avoid- ance 0f display Perhaps its moSt would be better to label it ‘Can’t be striking feature is a rockery just off beaten r instead of ‘Clan'f 1),) 119. the dining-room, which, with thelproach'ed” as you have it 1-) ‘Some pressure or a button, becomes “- folks'll think it's scarcely fresh you beautiful series of waterfalls, delightâ€" know 1” ' ' mg the eye and 000111]?! the {W'- That voungster wasn't long out of Choice dinners are given there occaâ€" a berth: sionally, and high and mighty folk are often among the guests but most of them are business connections of the host in one way or another, and women are rarely included. Alfred Beit. It is dramatic to picture a multiâ€" millionaire as working harder than any of his employcs, and as being obliged to live like Rockefeller on crackers and milkâ€"providing one can’t go to the other extreme and have him light his cigars with thous- and dollar bills and have his pet poodle’s teeth filled with goldâ€"which last manifestation is a matter of FL“, cord in the history of IIooley. But,l unfortunately, this quiet, courteousl little German Jew does not come up to any of these requirements. lle does not even work hard nowadays, and spends a good deal of time rid- ing, a recreation of which he is as fond as Sir Charles Dilke. He has succumbed to the fascinations of golf, too, and although by no means a bon vivant, he seems to get a good deal of quiet enjoyment out of life. CAN'T GET NEAR HIM. Reticcnce seems to be the Belt motâ€" . to. It is harder to get into his bus- '- ‘ incss offices in Bishopgate Streetâ€" fhe finest business offices in the cityâ€" than it is to get into the sanctum .~ sanctorum of the Bank of England; and as for seeing the man himself on any business short of a million or so for some personal reason, you '= is the eldest sister of Lard Carnarâ€" von. They have one other daughter besides the two who have been hon- QUEEN'S TRAIN BEARERS. â€"â€" Part of Two Pretty Children in the Coronation. All conversation here ultimately turns to the King’s coronation. One of the latest and most interesting de- tails of that royal spectacle is the seâ€" lection of the two little daughters of Lord Burghclere, pronounced “Bur- clair,” to attend Queen Alexandra at the ceremony. They will serve in the capacity of train bearers, and two prettier children for the distinguished task could not be found in all Eng- land, says a London despatch. The Ladies Juliet and Althea Gard- her, for their father is better known as Mr. Herbert Gardner than as Lord Burghclere, are especial favor- ites of the Queen. She is fond of having them around her, and it was this desire together with her eager- ness to delight the childish mind, that dictated their selection for posts of honor in the coronation proces- sion. . As Herbert Gardner, Lord Burgh- clere, sat in the House of Commons as Liberal member for Saffron- Wal- den for many years. He was presi- dent of the Board of Agriculture dur- ing the whole tenure of office of the last Liberal Government. His wife ored by the Queen. loronation echoes are heard from all directions. We read of children who have, been born in these early days .of coronation year being named Coronius and Corona. And, refer- ring to this subject of names, a. daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, private secretary to the King, bears the name of Louvima, which is form- ed from the letters of the .names of the Princesses Louisa, Victoria and Maude. Sir Francis' sister, the Hon. Char- lotte Knollys, has been Queen Alex- andra’s companion for twenty years and will act in an important capa- city at the coronation. __.__+_..__ CURES FOR RHEUMATISM. There Are 1,437 Remedies for It Up to Date. The latest computation of the numâ€" rheumatism cures of the her of distinctly puts it at 1,437. It is one peCullarities of rheumatism that the Every day His Royal Highness could cures prescribed for it are more num- erous than the varieties of the ail- ment itself. A brief enumeration of remedies in- cludes horsechestnuts, Wintergreen tablets, electric rings, magnetic watch charms, red flannel bandages â€"â€"-white flannel is considered of no edicacyâ€"goats' milk, calis-aya, horse hair poulticcs, raw onions carried in coat pockets, and ice cream soda. These are only a few of the best known remedies. and do not include several which owe their fame to com- binations of sundry ingredients. One oldâ€"fashioned cure is made up of i a pint of old ale and a small measure of grated horseradish put in a jar or demijohn and allowed to stand over night, after which a glass is drunk before each meal. In favor of manyr of the establish- ed whimsical rheumatism remedies, it is to he said that they are usually palatable, can be bought cheaply and are generally harznlcss, recalling in this particular the case of the patient for whom rockâ€"andâ€"rye was prescribed and who declared that, it did him great benefitâ€"even with the rock candy left out. Rheumatism appears in so many forms. it affects or afflicts so many persons, if. is» so readily connected with weather conditions and the knowledge of its causes is so inde- finite and on some points so much disputed, that the provocation to give remedies for rheumatism is readily understood, though this fact: RUYALTY’S LOVE AFFAIRS HOW AND WHERE SOME 03 THEM PROPOSE. _â€" Interesting Gossip About King: ‘ and Queens of Euâ€" rope. Many people are possessed of the idea that, as royal marriages haw generally to be arranged as affairs of State, the prospective bridegroom has no occasion to woo his bride a: the average man would do. This, however, is a totally erroneous idea, as will be found on reading the fol. lowing authentic accounts of how and where some royalties proposed to those who ultimately becaim their wives, says Titâ€"Bits. It was at Rosenberg, the palace of the Danish royal family, that King EdWard VII. proposed to and wax accepted by our gracious Queen. H1: Majestyâ€"then, of course, Prince of Walesâ€"first saw his wife in thf cathedral of a Continental town, and was so impressed with he: beauty that he determined to secure an introduction on learning who tht Princess was. ,The result of that in- troduction was that a short time afterwards the Prince Went over ta Denmark and made a formal claim for the hand of the Princess. A charming story is that told re- garding the manner in which the latt Emperor Frederick of Germany, then Crown Prince, proposed to the Prin- cess Royal (the late Empress Fre- derick). The txvo became separated from the rest of a royal party, who were taking a. walk over a Scotch moor in 'the vicinity of Balmoral. Suddenly the Crown Prince spied a bit of white heather, and picking it up gave it to the young girl beside himâ€"for the Princess was barely eighteen years of age at the time. She knew, however, the meaning ..of the simple gift, and whispered “Yes” loud enough for her companion to hear. During the remainder of their lives Balmoral attractions for the EMPEROR AND EMPRESS. White Lodge, Richmond Park, was the place where our present Prince of Wales wooed and won the heart of Princess May. The Prince went on a visit for a. few weeks to his sister, the Duchess of Fife, who lived at Sheen House, near the Park gates. be seen strolling down Sheen Lane, leading to White Lodge, and it Was in the gardens round that mansion that he put the all-important ques tion. In describing how the Marquis of Lorne, now, of course, the Duke of Argyll, proposed to Princess Louise, one cannot do better than quote the record madeof the event by Queen Victoria in her “Leaves from the Journal of Life in the Highlands." Our late Queen wrote : "This was an eventful day. Om deaf-,Louise became engaged to Lord Lorne; The event took place during a walk from the Glassalt Shiel ta Loch Dhu. We got home by seven Louise, who returned some film after, told me that Lorne had spok. en of his devotion to her and propos ed to her, and that she had acceptel him, knowing that I should ap prove.” It Was at the same place, i.e. Rosenberg, the seat of the Danisi royal family, where our King pro posed to the “Daughter of the So Kings,” that the present Czar asket Princess Alix of Hesse in 18.94- to b his wife. He had made up his Inillf long before that if he married i would be to whom he pleased rathe than one commended to him by hi counsellors for State reasons. -Hi choice fell upon Princess Alix, and f party was arranged at Rosenberg 1;: allow Nicholas to meet this roya lady. Accounts differ regarding th- actual spot where the proposal tool does not moderate the general conâ€" Place. some SEW the 0281‘ Dl‘ODOSO‘ viction of acute sufferers from rheu- during an evening party ; other. matism that the remedies so freely that he did so in the garden romu offered them constitute an aggrava- tion of the disease. . H“ The chronomelers warships of the US. navy cost $400 . apicCe. ‘ < y ,i‘.u.ar.‘x'.'gw:.r.~. .v..., .- n.,-'r:«.‘.‘1} approach his private THE MEGAN ‘ OKG FOR EIS HIS » BURO .9 melon. the palace whilst out for a wall with the Princess. The latter ac count, however, is generally regard made for the ed as correct. ____...._+.._...__.. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. A doctor, who was somewhat of f wag, met one day in the street i sexton with whom he was well ac quainted. As the usual salutations were pass ed the doctor happened to cough. “Why, doctor," said the sexton “you have get a bad cold. 110“ long have you had that ?” “Look here, Mr. Sexton," said tln doctor, with a show of indignation, “what is your charge for inter- ments ‘3” ‘ “Three dollars," was the reply. “Well,” contin'ucd he, “just coma into my surgery and I will pa: it. I don't want to have you calling round and so anxious about my health.” The sexton him, however. “Ah, doctor,” he replied, “I can- not afford to bury you yet. Business has never been so good as it has since you began to pfac'tise.“ Since the above conversation neither party has ventured to joke at the expense of the other. ..+________ FAR'I‘HING BANK NOTES. Bank notes for about a fan-thing each circulate freely in Paraguay. 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