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his touch, but a sameness in the method
of his handling. Each canvas was indivlu-
ually worthy. but added nothing to those
which had gone before. All showed marked
individuality worthy but added nothing to
those which had gone before. All showed
marked individuality, but told virtually the
same story, and therefore was in most
instances as desirable a dozen. lie had
apparently but one message, but that he
delivered well. His pictures have been for
a number of years specially popular in
this country and almost no public or pri-
vate collection is without a 'Henner." The
Metropolitan Museum, New York, possess
beautiful Mary MagdaIen at the Tomb
of Our SAVIOR painted by HeIiner in 1880,
and the Corcoran Gallery of this city
counts as one of the treasures of its per-
manent collection his charming portrayal
of Joan of Arc in Infancy" The latter is
a small canvas, not as Characteristic as
some, but more sincere and convincing than
others. Only the head of the child Joan IS
pictured but the wistful little face is that
of real personality, and the liquid brown
eyes, which look up to the observer from
beneath strayfng brown hair may well be
thought to have seen visitors While low
in tone and simple in treatment, the work
is positive in expression, and shows on
the part of the painter definite knowledge
as well as genuine sentiment
Too much cannot be said in praise of the
work of renovation which Is now being
carried on In the rotunda of the Capitol,
under the direction of Mr.. Elliott Woods.
Though only half completed, the stripping
of the sandstone walls of their panty COW
ering has altered entirely the expression of
the spacious hall, and restoring 1t to It's
original state has bestowed upon it its orig
inal dignity. 1t is amazing what a change
has been wrought! The shabbiness of
temp orary structure has been entirely done
away WITH and appearance OF unob-
trusive permanence has taken it's place.
The heavy stone facing is in keeping with
the proportions of the structure, and the
color-a yellow gray-is delightfully."- har-
monous and inoffensve. The Brumidi
frieze appears to a better advantage than
formerly. and the stone floor now becomes
unit In the scheme of the whole. From
the artists standpoint well as the arehi-
tects this is very noteworthy improve
ment.
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Indeed, it overlaps this latter constellation,
some of the stars being common to both.
Alphabetically, this snow-white steed was
the son of Neptune and Medusa, and sprang
from the blood of the latter after her head
had been severed by Perseus. The figure is
OF very great antiquity, and indeed is said
to have been placed in the heavens by the
early Aryans. 1t is found on the coins of
Greece, 500 B. c., and also on a very an
Gent gem from the Euphrates.
The large diamond-shaped figure formed
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by the principal stars of Pegasus is known
as the Great Square of Pegasus within
which about thirty naked eye stars can be
counted although in countries where the
air is very clear there may be detected 100
or more. All of the stars marked (A), Gig.
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plantations the carts and cars are loaded
and unloaded by machinery, steam cranes
being sometimes used for this purpose.
Good sugar lands will yield as much as
from twenty to thirty tons of cane to the
acre, and not uncommon yield is two
tons of sugar per acre. The harvesting
goes on through all the months from De-
cember to May. and the mills are usually
supposed to grind about one hundred days
to the season.
The Worlds Sugar Crop.
Cuba has produced eleven or twelve hun
dred thousand IONS of sugar this year. This
is about one-tenth of the worlds total sugar
product, and fully one-fourth of the cane
sugar product. Beet sugar leads the cane
sugar in quantity by more than one mill
lion tons. The worlds product from beets
amounts altogether to five or six million
tons, whereas the cane sugar crop is usually
not more than four millions. Most of our
beet sugar comes from Europe, the United
States producing only about 100000 tons.
The great cane sugar countries are Cuba
and Java and the Sandwich Islands. Sew
eral hundred thousand tons of cane sugar
raised in Louisiana, 5000 tons in
Porto Rico and $1,000 tons in the Philip
pine Islands. Including our beet product,
we raise altogether just about one million
tons of sugar, which Is less than two-ffths
of what we consume, the balance being i'm
ported.
Uncle Sans Sweet Tooth.
The United States has, in fact, a sweeter
tooth than any other nation except Eng
land. We eat on the average more than
seventy pounds year for every man. wom-
an and child in the country, while Europe
averages only a little more than twenty
seven pounds. The English sugar con-
sumption is ninety-one pounds per capita.
That of the Swiss is sixty pounds, of the
Danes ffty-four, and of all the other ma
lions much less. The Germans each eat
thirty-four pounds of sugar every year the
Dutch thirty-two the Greeks and Bulga-
rians seven, and the Turks, although nota-
bly, fond of candy, only eight pounds. We
eat altogether about five billion pounds of
sugar annually, or d pound and a half per
week for every man, woman and child in
the country. We consume three times as
much now per capita as we did when An
drew Jackson was President, and we are
eating more and more from year to year.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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What It Costs to Raise Sugar.

Cuba can produce sugar cheaper than any
other country. The plantation at Jateboni-
CO. which l referred TO, will continue TO
produce cane for fifteen or twenty years
without replanting There are plantations
here which have produced for twenty-five
years from one setting out, and 1t is said
that cane has grown forty and even more
years on the same ground, being cut of
year after year and sprouting up again
from the old stalks. No one thinks of re-
planting cane here for five, ten or fifteen
years after the plantation has been first
set out, and on this new ground all that is
needed is to plant and keep out the weeds,
and the crop goes for years without
other cultivation.
In many other countries the cane has to
be planted every third year, and l know of
no place where 1t will last long In
this. l have made some inquiries to
what It costs to produce sugar in Cuba,
and the estimates are about cent
cent and quarter pound. Beet sugar
costs in most places two or three cents a
pound. and such sugar will have to be sold
a three and a half cents a pound to make
a fair profit Now, inasmuch as there is
more beet sugar In the world than cane
sugar, this means that the price must be
fixed by the former. and that 1t cannot be
less than the amount above mentioned. At
that rate Cuba can make sugar and pay
dividends on its plantations. At the pres
cnt prices Il is receiving more than ever
before The crop for 1905 Will be worth
thirty or forty million dollars more than
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ordinary and as a consequence the sugar
industry is booming and there is likely to
be an overproduction. The chief trouble
here is the lack of labor. This year they
have not had enough men to harvest the
crop, and in some places 1t has rotted on
the ground.
Labor on the Plantations.
The most of the labor On the sugar es-
tates is done by Cubans and Spaniards.
The Spaniards make excellent workmen
and a considerable immigration Is now
coming in from the Canary Islands and the
northern part of the Spanish peninsula.
These men are thrifty and Industrious. and
Cuba is doing all she can to encourage their
coming.
Wages are good. About Havana they are
dollar a day. or $50 and upward a month
with house rent, and sometimes with GER
tain amount of food. On many of the new
plantations the men work at piecework or
by contract A man will keep so many
acres clean at so much per month per
acre. and they will be paid by the day for
cutting cane or other work in addition. L
know of one plantation where the men
make $50 or $40 month In this way, ana
the plantation is one of the best Kept on
the island.
Every one of these big sugar estates is
little community of its own. 1t requires the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
Big Price Paid for Old Quarto.

The sum of 91,75o, paid at Sothby's on
Thursday for a quarto of Shakespeare's
Richard III has never been equaled for a
similar work. So far is known only
three copies of this quarto are in existence
This copy contains the autograph of
William Penn" which, it Is thought, is
that of Admiral Penn, the father of Will
liam Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
The quarto has the following description
of the play imprinted on the title:
THE tragedie of King Richard the Third,
containing his treacherous plots against
his brother Clarence, the pitiful murther Of
his innocent nephews. his tyranncal usur-
patton, with the whole course of his de-
tested life and most deserved death. AS
1t hath bin lately acted by the Right Hon
durable the Lord Chamberlain, his SER
wants newly augmented by William Shake
Speare.'
The first bid was for e625, and there fol-
lowed keen and exciting competition be-
tween Mr.. ]. Jackson and Messrs. Sotheran,
the latter firm retiring when the sum of
31, $50 was bid against them. Two years
ago the sum of G1,020 was paid for the
second quarto of Henry II, while five or
six hundred pounds is a general price for
Shakespearean quartos. In 1864 at the sale
of the Daniels library, first edition copy
of Richard III realized e351. The amount
secured today also exceeds by about three
or four hundred pounds the highest price
ever paid for first folio Shakespeare. a
volume generally looked upon one of the
greatest literary treasurers In the world.
1t is illustrative of the strange fuctua-
lions in value of the works of the great
painters that Van Dycks portraits of
Charles l and Queen Henrietta Maria We're
sold recently at Christfe's sale rooms for
only 1900 guineas the pair. When the
Charles I of Van Dyck, which is now in
the National Portrait Gallery in Landon.
was bought for the nation from the Duke
of Marlborough in 1885 it's price was e17,-
500. This is a great price even for mas
terpiece,. but much higher prices have been
paid for the works of the great masters.
1t was only last year that Titian's "Arios-
to" was bought for the National Gallery at
100000. which is still moderate compared
with the 10000 given by Mr.. Pierpont
Morgan for Raphael's "Ansidei Madonna"
The Titan and the Raphael were, however
acquired by private treaty, and the highest
price obtained for a portrait at a public
auction was the 100000 given by Mr.. Nor
gan for Gainsborough's Stolen Duchess"
The Berlin gallery gave the same price
for a pair of Van Dyck's portraits which,
at the dispersal of the Peel collection, were
sold for f24. $50 L. H. MOORE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
Fig. 5. Saturn and His Rings, as They
Appear Now in a Large Telescope.

II, are either double or multiple and Will
we'll repay observation with a small tele-
scope The bright star at has always
been regarded as belonging to both the con-
stellations Pegasus and Andromeda, though
In late years 1t is limited to the latter. Both
this star and the two stars at are beau
tiful doubles.
In a straight line with the two stars
marked c Is the wonderful Nebula Of An
dromeda, = great nebulous. central sun.
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labor of from 900 to 5000 men more
This means 1000 or 5000 families or
population all told of about 10000 souls.
These people live about the mill or scat
tered in little settlements here and there
over the estate. Every plantation has one
or more stores, and as rule, the workmen
are in debt to the stores. Announcements
are common, and there is scarcely man
who is not more or less behind.
In talking with Mr.. II. Dumois, who for
years was at the head of the United Fruit
Company estate al Bdnes. he told me of
plantation store there whose profits were
about $4,000 per year. In such stores the
prices as low as those in the neighbor-
ing towns, but the town stores require cash.
while at the company stores credit is freely
given. Indeed. this plantation store business
is one of the important departments on the
sugar mans ledger. l know some men here
who have several plantation who have big
| incomes from their stores alone. There is
one old Spanard at Cienfuegos who owns
half dozen plantations. He is one of the
richest men on the island He buys his
goods at wholesale in large quantities and
distributes them to his various stores,
where they sold "a d large profit These
stores have every variety of goods demand
ed by the Cuban peasant-from face pow
der and ribbons to gaudy millinery, and
from ordinary foodstuffs to fancy saddles.
machetes hardware, wines, and, in short,
everything that you will find in a coun-
try store of the United States.
Sugar Railroads.
Most of tie sugar estates bring their cane
from the fields to the factories rail-
roads. In passing through the sugar coun-
try one sees cars loaded with cane standing
at every depot. 1t has been brought in
from the smaller plantations to be ship
ped over the trunk line to the mills. The
plantation railroads bring the cane from
the fields to the mills. from fifteen to thirty
miles of such roads being often required
for one plantation. The United Fruit Com
pany, for instance has twenty-nne miles
of such road at Banes, and the Tacajo es-
tate, adjoining it. has twelve miles of track
which are connected with the lines of the
United Fruit Company. There are In Cuba
altogether more than eight hundred miles
of railroad track on the sugar plantations
alone and this has a value of more than
eleven million dollars. The most of these
roads are, equipped with rolling stock from
the United States. They use Baldwin loco
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
.London's Views on Terms of
Moroccan Settlement.
A SETBACK TO GERMANY
THE EFFECT OF PEACE NEGOTIA-
TIoNS ON BRITISH TRADE.
High Prices Paid for Early Edition
of Shakespeare's Rich
ard III.
Correspondence Of The Star.

LONDON, July 10, 1905.
If the writer of letter which l was
shown today may be relied upon-and he
holds high position in the German diplo-
matte service-the terms upon which the
Moroccan dispute with France has been set
tied are regarded as a serious rebuff to Ger
man policy. ut Is beyond contention" says
the writer of the letter, that Prince Won
Buelow set out to quash the Anglo-Frepch
convention. SO far as it concerned Morocco,
by way of bringing that convention within
the scope of discussion of the proposed Eu-
ropean conference. To this first NJ. Delcasse
and then NJ. Rouvier naturally objected
and 1t was a triumph for French diplo-
macy when the British government made
known It's intention to support France. All
the negotiations which have taken place
since then have been directed on Germany's
part to getting behind the Anglo-trench
convention, so that as 1t has now peen rec
ognized by Germany as outside the scope
of the conference, it is difficult to see what
is to be gained by this conference"
Thus far | have quoted word for WORD
from the letter, but in the further course
of it the writer enters into detailed rea-
sons why the result of the prolonged ne
gotiations is a rebuff to Germany. The
dispatch of the Tattenbach mission TO Fee
was" he says, "a mistake from the first.
1t would have been different had France
been standing alone, but it was impossible,
and 1t has been proved to be impossible. to
drive a wedge between France and Eng
land just now And the writer concludes
with the remark, The conference must
prove a farce, as France, England and
Spain are all severally interested in keep
ing German influence out of Morocco. And
none of the other powers-Russia Austria
or Italy-have any interests there at all"
Germany has, therefore, tried a main"
and lost, and is now Isolated with three
powers against her.
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There is something almost pathetic in the
persistence with which the italian sculptor
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-"SS'' TAH'"N'0" ~ %~

now devoted to sugar and land Whlch mas
the virtue of having never been larmeu.
In going over the road l saw numpef
of places where new sugar plantations We're
being cut out of the woods. The largest Is
at Jatebonico, where something like 3,eoo
acres have been cleared and planted in cane
and where a sugar mill is now building:
few months ago this was nothing put lot
est. The Cuba Company put in its men,
and cut down the trees. A couple of months
later the ground was burned over ana the
cane is now growing among the stumps ana
logs left from the fire. BY the time II is
ready for cutting the mill will have been
completed, and the cane will be carried on
little plantation railroads direct from the
fields 1t is the intention to put in ABOUT
COCO acres Of cane for this mill alone
Similar mills will be built at other places
along the road, and one especially Is soon
to be constructed to supply the sugar es-
tates of Michigan syndicate VIII Oh mas
bought a large tract Of land short as
lance from Camaguey along the line of the
railroad.
As it is now not half the lands fitted for
sugar have been reduced to cultivation,
and II has been estimated that the sugar
product of Cuba might be quadrupled ana
not use all the aVailab sugar lands.
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War Risk Rates Easier.


War Risk Rates Easier.
The appointment of peace plenipotenti-
aries, especially that of NJ. White, has had
an immediate effect on markets and ship
ping risks, giving evidence that business
interests regard the war practically at an
end though local disturbances strongly in
fuence prices and rates. War risk rates at
Lloyd's are now easier for ordinary east.
EN- voyages than those paid for several
weeks past. Non-contraband cargoes for
japan can be covered at less than half the
premiums paid before most of the Russian
auxiliary cruisers which did so much mis-
chief were accounted for. Some high rates,
however, have been offered to underwriters
since the disastrous riots in Odessa to pro-
tect merchants and shippers against further
loss at other Russian ports arriving from
riots and civil connections"
Notwithstanding the tempting price Of
fered underwriters show no disposition to
accept the risk. They recognize the danger
of such disturbances spreading in Russia
as not inconsiderab Perhaps the highest
war premium recently paid at Lloyd's Is
that of 80 guineas per cent on shipment OF
provisions to Nikolaevsk on the Amur
river for the civil population. Since the
japanese have completely blockaded Via
6ivostok the attention of shippers has been
Drawn to the more northerly town or
Nikolaievsk. Hence several steamers have
been chartered to that port with general
cargoes and provisions which are said to be
badly needed. Now that the Japanese have
occupied the Island of Saghalien, which is
situated at the mouth of the Amur river,
the war risk on these shipments is consid-
erabIy enhanced, and even 80 guineas per
cent is not regarded as excessive.
To Try New Experiment.
The small number of open ports in Asiatic
Russia available for oversee conSgn-
ments OF provisions and merchandise has
been serious factor for Russian con-
signees to face since the war. especially
during the later stages of the campaign
For this reason new experiment is on the
point of being materialized. Four impor-
tant steamers about to be dispatched
to the Yenesi river, northern Siberia, from
this country. The route taken is by way of
Norway to the Arctic ocean, which is open
to navigation during the summer months
These vessels are chartered to carry pro-
visions and will call al a Russian port in
the Baltic before finally proceeding. The
hulls and cargoes of these steamers were
offered for insurance yesterday. and part
of the business has already been placed.
The premium paid is considered adequate
to the risk, which, so far as the steamers
are concerned, Is against total loss only.
The valuable cargoes of provisions are in
sured on ordinary marine conditions, and
war risks are especially excluded from both
contracts. over 100000 has been invested
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Everett Warner, who has been abroad for
a couple of years, is occupying his old
studio at East Gloucester this summer.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-03-01
February Was Dull Monti Along
the Waterfront
GOOD PROSPECTS FOR MARCH
Many Vessels Have Been Chartered to
Take Grain careoes and Several
Regular Liners Are Due-ice No
Longer menaces Navigation in Bay.

Yesterday marked the close of 4
dull month in shipping circles at this
port the exports for February were
small compared to the figures OF Janu-
AIRY. Shipping men believe that the
bad weather conditions which prevailed
during the first part Of the month are
IN measure responsible for the small
amount of export trade.
The total value of exports for tho
month will aggregate about 81, 100000
or about one half Of January's total.
There were very few ships to load
grain cargoes during The past month
and The largest export cargoes were
taken from this port in the ships which
ply regularly between Europe and
Newport News
Tho Sark Pallanza and two or three
others were the only vessels taking
expert trade from this port durin.
February. with the exception q! tic
regular liners
The outlook for the mouth Of March
IS bright ard men who are in a posi-
ton to know say that the grain ex
ports will he the largest in man."
months. There are several steamships
chartered for the grain trada .lurin:
the early part Of March ard q number
Ct ships which will carry general ex.
polt car@oes from this port 70 Europe
have also been chartered. Beside;
!,
these there will be seSera; cf tic Hol.
!and-Amcrica and Chesapeake and Ohio
steamships 10 load expert cargces dur
ing this month
IT is expected that : number Of
steamships vii! also .or.a carGocs d
coal for Manila and Guantanamo. fer
We United States warslips nca: those
places
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-03-01

Ihc navy department has asked for
"!dS lcr the transportation Of 40 O0I
tons OF coal from Hampton Roads, BAL.
tlmore CT Philadelphia to tho coalinc
station at Cavite, Philippine Islands
owing TO the feet that all avaiIa bic
AlleF1can SLIPS are now either ua,.inc
col fer Manila CT are bound for tha,
pert with Coal ca:eoes both An aricar
and foreign vcsse, owners will submit
DIGS Tor the carrying Of tie new aj;o;
melt CT coal. \ preference is beinc
gwen American lotions ~ TIC navy
department but ii there are nc shins
available for the trade foreign vessels
vii have TO 30 put into use.
The present order calls for the de-
livery Ct $4,000 tens OF coal at Manila
bit owing ,r the fact ,hat there IS -.
'l'irS for tae delivery Of the amount
at The coalins station i, i; very pro;,a
lie that the bulk OF ii win he trans.
ported In American: ships.
The last two contracts let by M
navy department aggregated $1,000
tons, most Ct which was carried by for
clsn ships as there were but few avail
i'oie American vessels. There are sev.
efai vessels Of American register nov,
loading coal ar this pert. Baltimore and
Philadelphia
TIC American steamship Missouri
which was recently repaired here is
now at Chesapeake and Ohio coal pier
80. ~. loading. 1900 tens Of coal whicl.
she will take TO Cavitc.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-03-01
DIR. SIMMONS" GOES FREE.
CID Negro Told to Go His Way ana
Sin No Mere.

Rev. Dr. Simmons" the cid noero
VINO vas arrested several nights ago
on tie charge &C taking the sum Of
Ss.l4 from Mary Brown. also colorcd.
1or headache treatment which treat.
ment failed to have the desired ef-
fcct. was discharged BY Justice Brown
N the police court yesterday morning,
"i'i warning hat he mast pose as
"a healer" 10 longer.
The "healcr' Is SIXTY onc years cid
"nd CLAIMS TO be the father Of twenty
five children.