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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-04-25
SUGAR ACTIVITY
IN PHILIPPINES
Manila Reports Increased Acreage
of Cane, Due to Provisions
of the Payne Bill.

MANILA, March 21.-Owing to the |
admission of Philippine sugar to Ameri- |
can markets and the shortage in the
beet sugar crop of the world, which
largely controls the price of all raw
sugars, the planters Of cane sugar in
the Philippines are using every avail
able space for the purpose or planting
the cane. Prices have advanced over
thirty per cent in the last six months;
last year Iloilo assorted first, second
and third grades were Pc a picul, while
this year prices have advanced to PS.50
for the same grades.
Pampanga province is fast coming to
the front as sugar producing district,
as viii he seen from the following par
tial estimates of the output for this
year. Pampanga, 1000 plculs; Batan
and Taal, 100 900 piculs; Laguna, $4,000
picuIs; Bulacan, 10000 piculs: Mari
duina and San MateO, 5000 piculs; Ba-
tangas. 5000 piculs.
Owing to the efforts of the planters
in Pampangas to increase their planting
area, although lacking sufficient tops
for replanting, novel and picturesque
method was pursued.
Parts Of the old cane were made into
bundles and placed in the rivers AMI
small streams to sprout, IN many cases
seeming to bridge the streams solld'y.
Although every effort has been made
to increase the output this year, it is
estimated that only about one seventh
as much will be produced as in the
banner wear 1896. when the output from
the different districts in the Philippines
was over 100000 piculs.
High Price Stimulating.
DUMAGUETE, March 15.-Signs of
prosperity are seen on every hand IN
this section, and the inhabitants appear
contented and happy. Great activity IS
manif asted by the planters, and a large
area of land that has lain idle for many
wears is being cultivated this season.
This activity is due to the results of
the Payne bill and the present price of
sugar. The sugar planters are enthusi-
astic and believe their lean years have
at last ended and that they are now
! about to enjoy their years of plenty.
| Hundreds Of acres are being put into
| cultivation, improved farming machln-
| erv is being imported. the sugar mills
/ are being repaired, and whore rust and
/ ruin have held sway in the past there
. IS to Lp activity in the future.
\ feature OF the present prosperity
among he planters is that the political
. agitator is without a weapon and IS
/ unable 10 carry on his campaign of agi-
. tation against the government and an
i able to cry hard times. With goo
crop this wear, and crops are usually
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
Back to the Soil.

From the Farmers and Drovers' Journal.
Population and the food supply are
now commanding special attention by
economists Of all nations So close to the
possibilities of agricultural production
have grown India, China and japan that
any considerable decline in production
from normal seasons precipitates a fam
inc and widespread want among the in
ha bitants Of these overcrOwded nations.
At near intervals famines in these far
eastern countries, which represent the
oldest civilization, cause the death OF
millions OF people.
Not only in the orient, but also in Flu
rope. the problem Of feeding the people
Is annually assuming greater gravity
among the heads of governments Eu-
forced to draw on the surplus of North
America and South America and Aus
tralia for wheat, corn and meat supplies.
The burden OF high prices for the neces-
saries of life Is no longer restricted to
Asia and Europe. but the people of the
United States are beginning to feel the
pressure of increased cost of living.
The primary cause of increased living
expenses is the lack OF an equitable bal
ance in the worlds population. The
massing OF the people in cities at the ex-
pense Of rural population is one of the
causes that have advanced the cost OF
living. The high wages offered by man
ufacturers. railroads and other graf in
dustrial corporations allure the young
men from the farms to fill clerical posi-
lions and to become integers in the great
industrial expansion of the age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
Spanish Feeling Toward U. S.
rom the North American Review.

Naturally, there are many homes
where loved ones lost in the war are
still mourned; but nowhere in the land.
from the Basque provinces southwark
to the Mediterranean, does the tour
ist discover any dislike OF the sons
and daughters of the great republic
Undoubtedly more Spanish homes ara
stricken with grief in the years of
Cuba and the Philippines. before hu-
name duty compelled America to be
the instrument for severing forever
from Spanish rule the peoples OF Porto
Rico. of Cuba and OF the struggling
archipelago of the Philippines. In out
spoken Catalonia Americans are dis
tinctly popular, and the people of Bar
celona, Saragossa and other trading
towns blame Madrid's statesmen and
self sufficient officials for the fiasco of
the war.
travelling Americans fearing incivility
in the peninsula promptly discover the
lack Of foundation for their apprehen
sion. However strange it may seem to
think of Spain as trading nation. that
Is today the best description of her. 1t
used to be shouted from the political
rostrum that while the United States
had caused the Stars and Stripes to
float over the Philippines. American
trade was not going to follow the dag
sympathies in the archipelago being
Spanish, so would their commerce re-
main. And, whenever there was ma
tive resistance to American arms. 1t
used to be said with tinge of plaus-
Utility that Uncle Sam could never con-
troll the Filipinos. could never hope
even to command their trade. and that
apart from supplies for governmental
works the imports OF the archipelago
would remain preponderatingly Span
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21

made just the least hit sticky II would
be apt TO crumble 10 a very fine powder
that would choke up your pipe. espe-
cially in winter. when tobacco gets eS-
tremely dry. When they add little mo-
lasses to the cut leaf they make a thin.
sticky film over IL. This keeps the tohac-
co in good shape and the molasses locks
the nicotine in the body OF the leaf.
Nicotine. YOU know. will evaporate
and be lost If the tobacco is exposed
long enough. Then when the nicotine
Is gone you might as well smoke the
cabbage leaf the comic papers talk so
much about for all the satisfaction YOU
get. Plug tobacco is simply leaf glued to-
gether with molasses and then pressed
into block. III You'll take a plug ~
smoking and put IL in a damp place out
side somewhere and then come back after
a week or two 10 look at IL you'll see Q
or six inches high. This IL because the
will have lost its molasses glue.
not from the moiasses having been
washed of the leaf. but from its having
fermented into vinegar.
The finn OF molasses keeps the leaf
moist and pilable. This is because Of the
sugar crystals in IT, II you've ever
noticed salt in wet weather you'll often
have seen how IL gathered the wet The
sugar crystals act exactly like the crys-
tails of salt. but TO a less degree. When
YOU fellows that smoke pipes say that
tobacco burns your tongue you're away
of. The tobacco hasn't a thing TO do
with IL. and your tongue isn't being
burnt. it's being scalded."
From the moisture in the tobacco
asked the customer.
Partly said the tobacconist. hut
mostly from moisture you'd not think
was In the tobacco. There's a great deal
OF water in the little sugar crystals over
and above what you'd expect they might
collect from the air. When you melt this
sugar in your pipe each crystal dissolNes
first in a little pool OF water. and makes
material for steam. in addition 10 the
free water In the tobacco that Won can
feel with your fingers. This hot steam
makes q regular steam heating system
between the bowl OF your pipe and yocr
tongue. and while you think your tongue
is being burnt you're actually getting it
parboiled.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
RING 5000 YEARS OLD.
Worn by Court Beauty-Fine Elk
ample Of Ancient Carving.

From the London Globe.
The Musee Giimet of Paris has just
acquired a priceless treasure. provided
that it will bear investigation better than
did the notorious tiara of the Louvre q
few years ago. NJ. Guimet, whose name
the museum bears, is an antiquarian and
a voluminouS writer on antiquities. He
seems quite satisfied that he has added to
his collection a ring Of the time of
Rameses II. who flourished about 300
years before our era.
The ring was acquired from family
of GrenobIe in whose possession 1t had
been for long years. and the former own
ers produced documents which satisfied
NJ. Gumet as to the authenticity of his
acquisition, The ring bears hieroglyphic
inscriptions showing that it graced the
hand of Nefritarimeri Mout. one of the
wives of the once powerful monarch OF
Egypt
The ring is OF thick gold carrying a
carnelian stone rectangular. large and
fiat. The stone is Enclosed in gold and
the ring itself is ornamented with
fillet of gold. The stone tells the story
in hieroglyphics said to represent the
king and NefritarimeH. The perfection
Of the entaillure Is considered proof of
the genuineness OF the ring, for the mod
sureness Of cut which is the wonder and
admiration Of all who are familiar with
the engraving of the ancients.
The ring we are further told. although
eracing the hand OF a court beauty OF
Egypt in the depths of past ages. would
not be much sought after by fashion
able lady today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
Smoker In Honor Of Visitors.

"A very merry. laughing. auaffing and
unthinking time is the way the Marine
Engineers Beneficial Association described
the smoker given in their honor last night
in the small ballroom Of the New Will
lard by the supply men who are attending
the annual convention of the association
here. Over 500 members and their friends
were assembled.
Plantation songs. stage stories and
songs. modern musicalities. ragtime rhap-
sodies and march melodies were given by
selected group Of entertainers, which
included Billy Murray. Bert Self. Jim
Devins, Joe Mckenna. Carl Engel, john
ME Forsman. Jack Wilson, Frank Cor
bett Bob Webb. Jack Armour and Henry
Frantzen.
The program was brought to an end by
a chorus by the congregation, with a
thought OF the programs inJumctions.
''Oh, why has happiness so short a day?"
and Don't try to build castles with the
stuff that comes out OF a pipe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
The Roller Towel.
From the Baltimore Sun.

They have cut their wiliskers out In
Kansas and put colytic shower baths into
their houses they have ceased wearing
their boots to bed and have made the
public drinking cup a felon. but still their
passion for militant bacteriology remains
insatiate. Its latest victim is the roller
towel-that dropping but romantic relic
OF simpler days and Drawer men. Kansas
calls the roller towel pathogenic. ana
sees in it's mysterious folds the Garden
Of Eden of all germs. II is the father
and mother, says Kansas. of eczema
ophthalmia and dandruf. Ii abrades and
inoculates the human hide II spreads
pestilences and offends the eye. IL Is
immortal. and. being immortal. Kansas
has made II Illegal.
A triumph for asepsis. but Waterloo
for romance Who will forget the noble
uses of the roller towel in other and hap
pier years? 1t. was an essential orna-
ment, an integral part. OF all ancient
INNS taverns and ordnaries: IL adorned
all old time printing offices; II was known
and loved by judges. juries and learned
counsel in country towns. The passing
stranger employed il to remove the clay
of travel from his boots. the dust of The
road from his face: II had its regular
customers. it's loving clients. It's DIVORCES
That was before the day of shoesh ming
pa riors, Turkish baths and other such
degenerating luxuries. The roller towel
served all purifying purposes. II was
the one cleansing angel or froWsy
world.
Eugene Field and Bill Nye were full Of
anecdotes OF famous roller towels. Field
used 10 tell of one in a printing Office in
Chicago which grew SO hard with ink and
silicates that II gave out musical note.
Nye claimed for one that he loved that II
had been used by a printer Of his ac-
quaintance to stab a copychopper. Mark
Twain, i'm his palmy days. had similar
tales to tell.
But enough OF all that. The roller towel
is done for. Printers now mop their
brows with aSceptic gauze. even lawyers
fear bacteria. In a few years. perhans.
the roller towels will be a rare thing.
curious antique. to be gaped at BY
loafers and honeymooners in museums.
People will speak OF IL as they speak to-
day of the rabbit foot, camomile tea, the
puise-warmer. nledicated lingerie, the
haircloth sofa, populism. and all the other
dear things that were, but are not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
DISCUSSES MANY REFORMS.
Beard of Trade Committee Favors
Curfew Law.

An adequate curfew law. public baths,
censorship Of cheap-grade theaters and
the closing OF places Of amusement on
Sunday were some Of the things favored
at a meeting of the committee on chart
ties and corrections Of the Washington
Board of Trade held late yesterday after
noon G. w F. Swartzell. chairman. pre-
sided and the committee elected Eugene
E. Stephens secretary.
After the recommendation of curfew
law is submitted to the full Board OF
Trade it will, if approved. be forwarded
to the Commissioners Of the District. The
committee recommended also that upon
the completion Of the new workhouse the
present jail be used as q house OF de-
tention temporarily until = new house or
correction can be erected.
Proposed bills regarding rescue homes
for children regulation OF the conduct
of minors and the employment of Jail
and workhouse inmates were referred for
report to various subcommittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
AUTO VICTIM DIES.
Jury Exonerates Woman Whose Ma
chine Ran Over Little Girl.

An inquest was held at the morg1Ie to-
day over the remains of Mary Louise
Hopkins twelve wears old daughter of
John \. Hopkins of No. PIG r street
northwest The child was, knocked down
and run over Wednesday afternoon by
an automobile, while at 18th and IL
streets northwest, and so seriously injur-
ed that she died yesterday morning at
the George Washington Hospital
Witnesses described to tie jury just
how the accident happened Miss Char
iotte Buford of No. 211S lie Roy place
was operating the automobile, and IL was
while she was trying to avoid an acct
dent that her machine struck against a
brick wagon. Two girls We're holding
10 the rear end of the wagon
Mary Louise Hopkins was the only one
hurt. however. The automobile passing
over her and infiicting injuries which
caused her death. The Jury rendered a
verdict Of death due to accident. eXoner-
ating Miss Buford.
The frt~e II win axe place Tomorrow
from Speare's undertaking establish
ment. No. 40 F street northwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
MUIR GLACIER IN VIEW.
For First Time in Nine Years Can
Be Approached From Sea.

From the Vancouver Providence
Something wonderful he recently taken
place in Alaska. This is the drilling
away of icebergs from the front OF Muir
glacier. in Glacier bay. SO that for the
first time in nine years this famous gla-
cier. the most noted on this continent.
has been visited. In 1899 subterranean
earthquake took place at Yakutat. and
ever since the approach to the glacier
has been so choked with Ice that boats
have turned away with their passengers
disappointed. Now, through some pecul-
lar drifting of the ice, steamboats, can
enter the channel. and. after cautiously
pushing their way. get glimpse OF the
left face.
In the nine years away from the sight
Of man this glacier has shown remark
able changes When Prof. John Muir.
after whom 1t was named. visited IT. II
had solid face two miles long and
about go feet above the water line. 1t
was a live glacier, and great masses of
Ice toppled into the sea with reverbera-
tions like thunder. Water would splas..
fifty feet high, and the sight was fear
some and fascinating.
Today the glacier assumes a different
aspect Erosion has worked out a new
bay. which will soon be charted. and
the glacier itself seems to have two
parts, the live part. from which icebergs
break and fall with a tremendous noise.
and a dead arm. OF one with land form
ing between it and the sea. This change
is due to hill which projected through
the top Of the ice when Prof. Muir was
there. Now that hilltop is a large noun
tain, dividing the Ice fields. The ice has
also receded in the nine years.
This is without doubt the most remark
able known glacier on this continent.
though Alaska has other wonderful gla-
ciers, which occupy clefts high up in the
mountains, and some which have an ele-
walton of 5000 feet. Among these are
the Taku. Davidson. Window and lie
Conte. But Muir glacier has 354 square
miles of ice and presents such an i'm
possible sight that 1t is considered the
crownrng glory of Alaskas stupendous
scenery-the sight Of lifetime. No one
knows how it happens that Glacier bay
can be entered now where 1T could not
be before. but 1t is thought that ia
vorable winds and mild weather caused
the ice to drift away.
An interesting fact about Alaskan gla-
ciers Is that some are dead" and 9TH
ers are alive. Davidson glacier. which
is really a tongue of the Muir glacier.
has been assembled by travellers for a
number Of years II IS a dead glacier,
having a moraine OF several miles be-
tween 1t and the sea. Looking at II
from the boat. it represents a kaleido-
scopic appearance as the sun shines upon
It, and the surface seems scr ~ he'd with
tiny pin lines. These are IL -cility deep
crevices, which must he app cached eau
tiously, for they are lurking pitfalls for
the unwary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
Idleness and Girls.
From the Newark News.

There are certain laws that apply TO
mental processes with which every one
is familiar. One OF them relates to the
danger of idleness and its use by an in
dividual whose name is not mentioned In
polite society.
There is no class Of people so apt to DO
foolish and imprudent things as the girls
who have nothing to occupy their minds.
The girl that has to work for living Is
really safer than the one who is under
no such compulsion. Where a girl has
no serious interests her future is largely
dependent upon the discretion and dis
cernment of her parents or guardians.
The Philadelphia girl who ran away
with a hotel waiter, according TO reports.
has been forgiven. FE-n what Is known
to the public concerning the case, she
should have been. But has she forgiven
her guardians? She is not as much TO
blame as those who neglected TO take
care Of her. II her life had been normal
she would not have been seized by the no
tions that have drawn q cloud over her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
EcL|PSES FOR 1910
Two of Moon and Two of Sun
Are Scheduled.
SOME ARE VISIBLE HERE
Two Sets Of Constants for Use on
Occasions.
DUE PARIS DECISION IN 1896
Mars Satellites to Be Invisible Be-
cause Planet Will Not Be
in Opposition.
SOME ARE VISIBLE HERE
DUE PARIS DECISION IN 1896

During the present ysar there will be
four eciipses. two OF the sun and two
OF the moon-a total eclipse of the sun
May 8. invisible in North America: q
total eclipse OF the moon May %. visible
at Washington. the beginning visible
generally in central and western portions
OF Africa. southwest Europe. South Amer
lea, North America. excepting Alaska
and the southern Pacific ocean. the end
ing visible generally in South America.
North America. excepting Alaska. and
the central and southern Pacific ocean.
There will be a partial eclipse of the
sun November I, invisible at Washington;
total eclipse of the moon November
IL. 1910. visible at " ashington. the be-
ginning to be generally visible In Africa.
Europe, central and western Asia. South
American and eastern North America.
and the ending visible generally In Africa.
Europe. western Asia, North and South
America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
GREENHOUSE ROSES.
Two Acres of American Beauties
Under Glass.

EoiH tne new 1Ofk Sun-
Two acres of American beauty rose
bushes all under one roof OF glass IN the
little town of North Wales. Pa. are now
beginning to produce their crop OF blooms
This greenhouse is the largest in the
world, and so great is the demand for
American beauty roses that another
greenhouse even larger is now in course
OF erection beside IL.
At the mention OF roses the average
city dweier thinks OF the bushes which
grow on the lawns OF country places
bushes that produce masses OF p.nl, bios
SONS eevry June and have done SO in
many instances from generation To gen
Grafton. But the greenhouse rose bush
differs in various respects from the June
rose bush OF the lawns.
The greenhouse rose push lives but a
single season. for the forcing process To
which IL is subjected is such a strain upon
it's vitality that blooms OF subsequent
years would be Of little commercial value.
Cuttings are planted in January and care
fully nurtured during the ensuing sum-
mer. BY the following Christmas the first
buds appear.
The plants are six to eight feet tall and
are supported on wires stretched hor-
zontally through the greenhouse. Until
Easter the cutting continues, each plant
yielding five or more flowers. The choic-
est blossoms sell for $1.J0 each, the price
ranging from that down to So a dozen.
The high prices readily obtained for
American beauty roses induced Phila-
delphian to undertake the erection OF a
greenhouse of new type at North Wales.
He believed that instead of building half
dozen greenhouses OF the ordinary kind
money could be saved I'm the first cost OF
material as well as in the subsequent cost
OF heating by erecting one huge green
house.
Mechanics were reluctant to undertake
to put up a glass roof of the dimensions
required, but finally a man was found who
erected q greenhouse $50 feetebroad. % feet
high in the center, AS feet long on the
north side and $50 feet on the south, the
irregular shape giving the benefit of am
pie sunshine. Almost 5000 panes OF
glass were used. The foundations ard
sides are of concrete and the framework
pipes for steam heat and for a water sup
ply runs through the structure and
heating plant consuming 700 tons of coal
a year keeps the temperature at n de-
grees through the winter. Frequnt spray
ing with water is necessary. and 30 spig-
OTIS are placed at convenient intervals
throughout the greenhouse.
In this house 5000 plants. all Amer
lean beauties, grow every year. produc-
ing more than 200.OO0. blooms. The
benches on which the beds are arranged
IL placed in a row would be two and
three-quarters miles long.
The new greenhouse. which IL now
about ,lalf finished, will be the same
height and width as the older house. but
will be zoo feet long, In the part Of the
structure that has been completed 5000
tomato plants are growing this winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
FOREST SERVICE CHANGES.
Bringing Affairs Into Closer Rela-
tons With the Department.

Solicitor McCabe of the Agricultural
Department will hereafter direct the
twenty lawyers in the employ of the
forest service This decision has been
reached by Secretary Wilson. aud as
time passes lie will make a number of
changes in an efor, TO benefit the serv-
Ice. He has also transferred all financial
transactions Of the forest service to the
4aSoursing officer or the Agriculture, De-
oartment. Thus the accounts of those
engaged IN publicity work for the forest
service Will come under the surveillance
of the department A lar"e amount has
been spent for publicity each year under
the direction of Mr.. Pnchot