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Show Fortunes Made In Fsw Minutes. If a song "catches on" It proves a gold mine to somebody, although not always to Uio author and composer. "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and "Her Golden Hair is Hanging Down Hor Hack" were moneymakers, for tho profits In each case fell little short of 20,000. In the same class must bo added such songs as "Tho Bogey Man," "In tho Shado of tho Old Apple Tree," and "After tho Ball." It Is said, too, that "My Pretty Jane," which Sims Beeves sang thousands of times, netted 2,000 a line. Yet porno of theso best sellers have been tho result of but a few minutes actual work. "Sing Mo to Sloop" was composed In ten minutes. Tostl's "Dear neart" was the work of two days, while Balfo wroto "Klllarnoy" in |