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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

OF our General Electric Company of New
York The cars are as good as ours. and
their rates are just half high. You can
ride all over the town for "a cents. and can
catch car any minute.
Our Norwegian Gateway.
Kristiania is our gate to Norway. The
most OF the American goods are brought
here and shipped to different parts of the
country. The city is situated at the head
of a wide and deep ford which winds its
way In and out from here to the North Sea.
At the head OF the ford many little
bays forming excellent harbors. These
bays are filed with shipping. and you may
See goods loading and unloading for and
from different parts of the world. The Nor
wegians are among the greatest shippers of
Europe. They are natural sailors. and their
boats go to all parts of the world. They
have an enormous carrying trade They
own more than a thousand steamships and
about six thousand sailing vessels. They
do general freghting business, and In
freight receipts alone they take In some
thing like s25 900 year.
Commercial Norway.
We are much interested in the commerce
OF Norway. 1t has imports and exports Of
considerably more than 500. 600, 900 q year.
and among its imports are many things
which we furnish. The country IL big. It
Is three times as large as the state Of Ohio,
and 1t has a population Of more than two
millions Nevertheless. 1t has very little
good farming land. Seventy-fve per cent
of it is unproductive. % per cent Is taken
up with forests. and only 3 per cent Is under
cultivation This means that only three
| acres In every hundred can be cultivated
and on those three the crops are small
! Only the hardest Of grains can be raised,
me chief products consisting Of wheat, bar
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Noteworthy Resem blance.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Il don't like your shore line here" COM
mented the visitor at the summer resort.
ITS high where 1t ought to be low. and
low where 1t ought to be high"
Then it's jest like the costumes of the
bathers, amt it?" said the owner of the
resort, refllling his cob pipe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Hum! hum! And the masked girls you
see walking? In the Bots and on the ave-
nue.? And on the terraces Of the cafes
around the Porte Maillot? And everywhere
and anywhere?
Different Types.
The ugliness of the new masks has not
caused the fair creatures to hold Off from
them a moment. Certain types are more
extreme than others. In the following order:
1. The heavy lace veil. one or two thick
nesses set with big goggle-eyes.
2. The thick gauze veil attached to
visored cap. with or without inset goggles.
8. The '1oup" or half-mask built around
the goggles.
4 The full mask built around the gog-
giles, but completely covering nose, mouth
and chin as well as cheeks and ears.
All the above. excepting now and then
the 'Ioup," are masks of yielding silk stuff
hanging from or built around the goggles.
But, now:
g. The stiff enameled mask comes to the
FORE 1t is OF some stinened gauze-like ma
tegial, nodded to the features. covering
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
A Pampered Ambition.

From. the Detroit Free Press.
''That boy says his only ambition Is to
make living without working"
What are his parents going to do for
him?"
MAKE politician out Of him"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
Really Necessary.

Really Necessary.
From the first, utomobilists-practical
sports though they were-perceived that
they must wear masks while scorching.
For time, 1t is true. 1t was thought that
great goggles to protect the eyes from fly
ing dust might prove sufficient, but as the
speed of the new vehicles increased,
burned faces. red and raw from the rude
stroke Of the wind only. when there was no
dust. made masks imperative. AT first they
surrounded the goggles with canvas-like
material. Then they set goggles in half
masks. Then came true masks, with aw-
full staring eyes.
1t seems like yesterday when it was said
that fair woman would not wear them. Is
a pretty girl to hide her face behind any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Tne 0UgB1es SGT III a DUuUI5 Lace VeII
thing so horrid? Is the plain girl to confess
by doing it that she Is plain? To ask the
question seemed to answer it.
See how we have been mistaken! Lovely
woman hides her face and revels in it!
Indeed I should put this hiding of the
female face behind outrageous automobile
masks as the peculiar mark of Paris at the
present hour. It Is not yet what 1t will
be-the practice will go very far; it is at
it's beginning still. but what a remarkable
beginning! You see thousands of masked
girls in automobiles. That is nothing. But
you also see a thousand masked girls rid
ing out in cabs. Doubtless. you say. they
are on their way to join the automobile?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

mortal Is Independence Hail. in which was
proclaimed the Argentine declaration OF
independence. That was on July 8, 1915.
It's existence Is reminder that most Of the
fighting which ended the Spanish power
took place a thousand miles back from the
seaboard
New structures are being erected around
1t for the use Of the government, but the
old building is preserved. It is a low
rectangular house. with sloping peaked roof
Of heavy tiles, heavy wood doors and the
exterior walls painted blue. The mortar is
falling off in places. The only memorial
kept within the hall Is the carved chair OF
the president Of the congress which de-
clared Argentine independence. 1t has been
timber pillars and Orders. On the walls
are oval shields of wood crudely painted
representing the shields of the fourteen
provinces There Is steel engraving OF
General San Martin, the liberator. and
prints of some of the ''prohombres'' or
signers of the declaration. There were
twenty-nine Of these. Tablets of bronze
and silver affixed to the walls are the me-
mortal offerings of schools and societies,
bearing patriotic inscriptions. found most
Of the wreathes which were offered on the
last anniversary of Independence day, only
a few weeks ago, intact.
Other historical memorials abound. In
the plaza there Is an equestrian statue OF
General BelgranO, who defeated the Span
ish troops at the battle Of Tucuman in 1872.
The inscription reads: ITO the immortal
glory Of General Manuel Belgrano. The
people and the government of Argentina
consecrate this monument"
The ArgenttneS are very patriotic pe0-
pie. CHARLES M. PEPPER.
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CITIES KEPT CLEAN
Municipal Reformers Might
Learn From Argentine.
CORDOBA OBSERVATORY
THE RAILWAYS COMPARED WITH
THOSE IN AMERICA.
Convenience Of the Restaurant Service
Sugar Cane Industry Now in
Depressed State.
CORDOBA OBSERVATORY
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
TUCUMAN, Argentine Republic.
September 2. 1903.
Rosario is a clean city. Cordoba IS q
clean city. Tucuman is trim little town
of 5000 inhabitants. And 1t is clean
have made these passing notes in travel
ing over good many hundred miles be-
cause it is the habit to assume that SAM
tatiOn and the English language go to-
gether. and that where they part company
sanitation lags so far behind that 1t is lost.
The Argentine cities, big and little, dis
prove this assumption l am beginning to
think that municipal reformers In the
United States should come to this republic
to study their hobby. There is less home
rule than with US. and the semi-military
bureaucracy would chafe u.s. but given the
environment and the local conditions the
Argentine municipalities make out very
well. AS to public cleanliness, that Is some
thing concerning which no disputing can be
had. The senses of sight and smell know
when they are hurt. They are not offended
in the municipalities Of this country, and
that argues a good system Of sanitary laws
and administration.
had meant to confine myself to observa-
lions on the country as distinct from the
towns. but after one days observation of
agriculture and the pastoral industry 1t be-
comes mOnotonouS travelling across land so
evenly fiat that it might be converted into
a billiard table. say, 1000 by 500 miles, and
the railway trains left to carom over 1t.
That is the pampa. and the central pampa
does not differ much from the great plain
which extends back from the rivers Plata
and Parana- When the crops are growing
the monotony Is less for waving fields Of
wheat and corn are reStful to the eye. But
ct this season the only thing green is the
alfalfa. 1t Is not the time for the wheat.
nd lirSa
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-26

The educational problem Is serious one
in Great Britain at this tHe and Lord
Balfours Views are OF exceptional In
terest,
have never been able to make the
DRY satisfactory to myself as to what is
or Is not the best kind OF education to be
given in those great public schools which
ara the glory Of every country, and which,
in their collective effect upon characer,
I think cannot be overrated but which
are subjected and perhaps rightly sub
jected to great deal of criticism as TO
that norton of their efforts which is en-
gagged on the scholastic and technical side
of education
I cannot profess myself to be satisfied
with the old classical ideal of secondary
education, and yet am not satisfied-per-
ha.ps ought to put it moro strongly and
say I am still less sattsfed-with any
! substitute have seen for 1t ] have heard
the old system defended on the ground
that the great classical languages con-
tain masterpieces OF human Imagination
| which have never been surpassed. and.
( OF course that is true. But ] do not
| think we can defend classical education
in the great public and secondary schools
! on that ground alone.
/ You have only got after all to make a
! simple statistical calculation, which per-
| haps we cannot put down IN tigures. hui
/ Which every man with the smallest expe
l,ience. perhaps with the smallest mem
DRY of what he was ard what his schoo
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S,roar Problem for Modern Chemists to Solve 70

learning to modern manufacturing pro-
cesses--m!lk sugar Is the final product
OF milk. mado from the whey remaining
after part OF the milk has been sold al
milk and the rest disposed OF as cream
or butter.
That sugar, at least grape sugar. ha.
been made from wood is due to the ac-
idon.Gwhich a sugar chemist would ex-
plain TO you nicely II you caught him
when he wasn't h,isy--of sulphuric acid
on celulose or woody fibre, found both in
wood and linen: Theoretically. therefore.
either an old house or an old suit or
clothes might be turned into sugar. AS
long ago as 1919 2 French chemist sur
prised the French Academy by An ex-
h!btion Of sugar made from old linen
commonly believed to have been his own
shirt. But nobody believes, or at least
very few, that, such process viii eyer ever
be anything but CURIOSITY. Other
sources. however such as the melons or
the South, or corn grown under GER
tain conditions, are believed to contain
actual commercial probabilities. especially
when one considers the difficulties that
were overcome before tho beet entered
the ordinary table sugar market as q
real competitor with tho longer establish-
ed sugar cane.
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classical VS. PRACTICAL EDUCATION

Ia that not simply Of teaching classes,
but OF influencing house and jmpresslns
moral and intellectual characteristics on
those committed to his charge.
think VIC have not yet arrived at the
ideal system of the ideal character OF sec
think we are on much more solid ground
when we come to the education with
which we have got 10 deal. and especially
and chiefly do ! say that we are on abs
solutely secure ground when we are deal
ms With post graduate education. We know
most graduate education, and II Is our bus
mess to see that the students who desire
ii have It. and that the opportunity OK
these who desire It is augmented SO far
as Influence VIII go.
daresay that many of us have looked
back with a certain regret, and certain
feeling of shame, 10 the medieval passion
for learning without fee and Without re-
ward--wth no desire to make the uniyer-
stiles steppng-stones TO good places or
to successful mercantile or industrial un-
dertakings--but with an ideal which made
thousands of students from every country
in Europe undergo hardships which would
bs regarded in these softer days as abb
solutely ntolerable. for the sole purpose
OF seeking and It might be finding, the
great secret OF knowledge
We despse. and we perhaps rightly de-
spse. their methods. We know mat they
We're not in touch with the actual reall-
Yet. after all, we have sSmething to
learn from them; and IL we In these days
could Initiate their DISTINGUISHED passion
for knowing and for extending the bounds
methods and our clearer appreciation OF
what we can know and what we cannot
know. might accomplish things as yet un-
dreamed Of
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number Of modern industrial processes.
Naturally the members of the medical
profession made that tho first scientiho
body to interest itself in studying sugar
and some very curious IDEAS they origin
ally evolved concerning It.
Coarse sugar" said DR.. Thomas snort,
who wrote his discourse on Sugar" to,
gether with some plain and Useful
Rules for Gouty People," only LEO years
ago, "affords much oil to the adiposee
vessels. In which with the adhesion OF
its fine earthly parts to the sides or tne
vessels, makes It's fitted for thin, meaEre,
unhealthy, or hectically disposed habits.
But fine sugar Is the opposite to
very choleric constitutions; for. being t too
stimulating, 1t increase the motion OF tho
fluids; It's salts wear the nsdes of the
vessels. and dry the body; for this reason
should meagre persons take care how
they make too free with It,
Little did Dr. Thomas Short realize tina
there would be found special kinds or
sugar especially adapted to ''meagre per-
sons" or that tho article In one form or
another, would be produced, not only from
sugar-cane. but from beets, parsnips, corn,
apples. carrots, chestnuts. dates. grapes
honey, maize. melons, maple palm, pine,
plum, potatoes, rhododendrons, MIX
and various other sources-to say MOTH
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cane and beet is generally admitted 70
present insuperable obstacles. 40
= Despite the general pessimism OF tn the
sugar chemists. however, the grape sueais
and of the problem Is consi one OF
the very interesting side inyestlgatIlo'lli,ss
Of the sugar laboratories. II we inclune
all these laboratories-the private WORK
shops OF Individual investigators, the
commercial laboratories Of the big manu-
Featuring plants and such student lapora-
tories as that OF the massachusetts IhsI-
tute of Technology, where student re.
search lis often conducted along lines
practically parallel with, those Of the he N, biS
manufac turers themselves--we snouiu
probably find some hundreds OF sugar
chemists pondering the problem OF making
grape sugar into table sugar. Nor IS
grape sugar the only popularity unfamiliar
Variety Of this very everyday substance
that receives the attention of the modern
sugar expert, for sugar Is almost hs
widely distributed as a well known poet
once declared sermons to be- But ordl,
nary sugar, ever since It was introduced
into into, Continental Europe by crusadlng'
Knights who thus returned sweetly II not
always triumphantly from their campaigns
In the East, has had the centre of the
table: the other varieties are known
chiefly to the chemists who have since
discovered them and the manufacturers
who use them IN an almost countless
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By LORD ARTHUR BALFOUR

fellows were at the age OF seventeen OF
eighteen can make 20 know that lhe
master of the dead languages OF klnd
which enables them to enjoy those great
works with their foot on the hearth,
which Is the only way to enjoy any WORK
of literature, the number Of boys who
leave the great public and secondary
schools with that amount of knowledge
is very. very small percentage
You cannot keep up a system OF educa-
ton for very, very small percentage;
and, IL that Is the only defense of CLASH
cal education. think it will have to be
abandoned except for the few who are
qualified to derive all the immense ad-
yantages which to the few they are cap
able OF imparting.
But when I turn to the other side and
ask what the substitute Is, then con-
a sss am the sye sls aR da man m not
quite sure, but ] think--you VIII never Yer
find science a good medium for conveying
education to classes of forty or MY
boys. who do not care farthing apou.
the world they live in except In SO far srd 9 $
1t concerns the cricket field, or the foot
ball field, or the riyer--you Will never
, make science "a good medium OF educa-
ton for those boys; for. only rev are
capable at that age; and psrha apn at lb anS'
| science is capable of teaching. ,,,a
so further never have been aple
t. see, so far as am concerned, how you
are going to get that supply OF scl Ia',e
| teachers for secondary schools VINO nase
| both the time to keep themselves apreast
| OF the ever-chanGing aspects q moaern
science md to do all the important W9Ik
| which the schoolmaster has TO 90. WnlcH
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I IT. COHEN co.

other bitter substance-made any sugar
apparently sweeter than before they were
added. HygienIcally considered, moreover,
sugar stands In the same relation to most
other food substances that dollar bill
stands to bank check; it Is ready cur
rency. so to speak. and goes into imme-
date circulation. The needs OF the body
Immediately absorb all, of it that they
require and anybody who has eaten too
much candy knows. the cloved sensation
which is the stomach's way OF saying that
It has all the sugar that 1t can use at
present.
Malt sugar and grape sugar-the chem.
lists cell them maltese and dextrose-are
therefore the most vital items In the
making Of health foods and In the pro-
duction Of malt liquors: and they ca. can
be used economically because they doyel;;
op naturally in the series OF chemical
operations that help produce the differ
ent substances In which they are used.
They don't have to be made separate,
" and put In with spoon. In common
glucose for example, a syrup. extracted
from corn and used very largely IN
the manufacture of confectionery. jellles
and soda fountain syrups. there is about
40 per cent. of maltese and the expense
Of extracting 1t would make 1t worth sew
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eral dollars pound. But It isn't e1-
tracted and therefore does Its work quite
as satisfactorily at a minimum of ex-
pense to tho consumer.
MIX sugar Is another sugar very little
known to the general public Its COM
mercial value lies In the fact that It
doesn't ferment nearly as readily as ord'-
nary sugar after 1t has been swallowed.
and Is therefore. tho sugar par excel
lence for infants. invalids and others
whose stomachs are not the most rel!a-
bio sections OF their inner clock-work
But even this fact would hardly lead 70
It's production II 1t were not m excellent
way of getting profit out OF surplus milk
that would otherwise go to waste. There
fore, It is now made in considerable
quantities both in this country and par
ticularly in Switzerland where tho num-
Der Of COWS Is altogether out or pro.
portion to tho milk-drinking ability or
the population. According to. one Of the
latest methods of producing TIA method
which originated In tho student labora..
tory of tho Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology at the mitigation of one or
the big eastern milk produfsetrbs . , ana H.
ant relations OF modern institutions OF
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Ing Of wood. sawdust and old linen.
OF all these sources comparatively few
can yet be utilized successfully. and for
commercial purposes ordinary sugar Is
made only from sugar-cane and beets;
milk sugar from milk; grape sugar and
malt sugar from potatoes and grains.
chiefly corn; maple sugar. of course. from
the maple; date sugar from the date
nalm, and 'jaggery." which was quite
largely imported from China until recent
~. from palm oil.
Ordinary sugar, as we all know. is used
CARS arc chiefly valuable for their food
properties as we'll as their varying power
TO make life sweeter than 1t would be
otherwise. Milk sugar. for example. Is
hardly sweet at all. while ordinary brown
sugar apparently tastes sweeter than any
other variety Not long ago, indeed, there
was little revolution in Germany, and
the German housewives, even declared
that the German scientists knew very
little about sugar, because. forsooth. did
they not say that white sugar was sweet
est, when anybody with tongue knew
that brown sugar was sweeter? Perfect
| idiots, these scentists! Whereupon the
| scientists proved that the presence Of
| impurities salt, or quinine, or any
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The Interrupted Sermon,

wen Jonah hit de- rock, en- made de
water ny" said Brother Dickey.
ut warn'I Jonah what hit de rock,
interrupted an old brother In tie amen
corner. "you way off 70 base dar, par
Brother Dickey paused. laid down his
brass-rirmed spectacles, and turning in
the direction OF the interrupting brother,
said:
de gospill fer 'em, or did II hive ,me2
nswer DAT question e irs y9na P pspIe5 ,be
<,tfending brother, "but you amt yo'sef
dis mawnin'-you got Jonah en- Moses 90
mixed dat dey wouldn't know deSseh
fun each other! 49,.
Didn't i say Jonah made dc water n.y.
asked Brother Dicltey,
Yes; but you lowed DAT he hit DC
rose yye III who said didn't? Wen dey
kotched holt er him en1hoswed nm 9y ll,
board 1 he mae d,s ae wafer ~ D'''' ~
"Hn s We = en- de whale got tired er his con
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fesnsc,a1 Correspondence to The Times

Especial Correspondence to The Times
Dispatch)
BOSTON. July c5.--Although science has
long ago given zip It's search for the mys-
tertous ""PhNosopher' Stone" with which
the medieval "alchemists" cheerfuily
Imagined that the baser metals could
DO changed to gold. there still remain
problems almost equally tempting to the
Imagination and probably quite as nope
less Of practical solution. 10 turn saw
dust into table sugar s one OF these prob
lems. In fact sawdust has already been
turned into sugar, only. this sugar IS not
Inc ordinary table variety that, coulo lt
only be produced economically and on a
large scale from the mountains or saw
dust that yearly accumulate In American
lumber yards. would make the fortune .S OF
" Whoever invented the process rs IN tne
case OF the Philosophers Stone there are
difficult!es; and even at Its best the pro
CESS has only proved that grape suRnr.-
a variety such as Is found In many trults
and may be seen and tasted crystall2ed
naturally on the surface OF dried grapes
oan be made from sawdust by process
altogether too costly TO have a practlcai
commercial value To transform TINS
grape sugar into the vastly more, profit
able table necessity now derived from
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En1broideries.

&c. to DC. yard, were 121ko. to 10
Embroid cred Gallons and Fancy
Beadings-whlte or ecru.
1Dc. a yard. were ESQ. to 42c.-Lot OF
Fine insertions. Edgings and Blounc-
mgs.
Sc. to soc. q yard, were $50. to $50
5000 yards Of Fine French Embrolde-
resin Nainsook, Swiss and Cambria
from narrow to widest flouncings.
Sc to 35c. for various styles OF
En1broideries that We're worth just
double.