OPTICAL AID.
Y()UR prescription
filled same
day
as
received,
repairs
dispatched
by return of mails.
F. M. CORNEIRO.
ot.
Thomas.
11 5. V. L
We
acknowledge
w.th thalks the
re-
ceipt of a small
book entitled
""The Coun
try we Forgot’” by
Daniel Henderson,
a
representative
of
McClure’s
Magazine,
who
visited
these
islands
for the purpose
of obtaining advance
informat_iqn
incon-
nection
with
the
expected
visit
of
the
Ccngressional
Committee recently spoken
of.
The pamphlet
is
interesting
and
so
far as
noted,
accurate
in its data
ete.
The
Native
Brass Band
regaled
the
town with music
at
daybreak
yesterday
morning,
serenading
the
Dispatching
Secretary
ard
afterwards = marching
through
the
streets.
The
Dreadnought
Football
Club
won
the match played yesterday
afternoon
on
the
Holger Dankse
Ground
against
the
- Athletic team.
The
Cregle
sailed
for S¢.
Thomas
at
[
eight o’clock this morning
with mails and
passengers.
:
14
lines
of
rain
was
measured
at
the
Fort yesterday
morning
and 2 iines
this
morning.
:
In keeping
with an old custom,
Mr. R.
¢
H. Amphlett
Leader
has
kindly
contri-
%
buted
a New Year articie
in the
form of
%
what
may be
termed
a lay-sermon.
The
@®
same
will
be found elsewhere
in
this is-
L
.sue.
British
4
masted
schooner
Harry
A.
McLennan,
643 tons,
Capt.
Wm.
Chape
mann, arrived nere
Dec.
3llst.
last
with
.
coal for the St.
Croix Sugar Factory.
i
e
"
YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD TO
LEARN.
i
(A NEW
YEAR LESSON)
’
By R.
H. Amphlett
Leader.
‘
I overheard
part of a
conversation
the
i other day between
two
men.
One of the
‘ principals
is, from
all
apppearances,
in
I his fifties. the other
in the hey-day
of his
' youth.
‘““Men my age
cannot
learn
that,’’ said
lder of the two.
aps not,”’ replied his companion,
itisa
far
better
system
thar
Wln
general
use,
it
is
m
’’
was the rejoinder, ‘‘lshould
rlepd,
young men like your-
n'that.
{am too
old.”’
19
CRUOIK
4
8 F
8
[ heard
no
more.
/The
men
passed
on.
What
was
the su[?j‘e‘ct
matter
1
do
not know:
but I am
certain
that
it
was
not gymnasties
for there
is
no system
of
gymnastics
in generalause
in
St.
Croix,
and
even gymnasties
could
be learned
in
the fifties.
What I heard
worrie?
me.
1
felt
like
running after
the
go\ I gentlemen
and
explaining o 0 them
that
they
w-re miis-
taker®
I had
a desire
to ery out
in
pro-
test against
this bogey
that is
so clothed
as
t.
pvear
rather
presentable
at first
blush.* I wan.ed
to
say:
''Excuse
me;
gentlemen,
I overheard
your
remarks
and
would
like
to tell you
that
while
it
is true that
we
all
get
older
paysicaliy
day by day.
some
of us grow older
men-
tally hour by
hour.””
Butl
did not
say
anything.
Are you too old tolearn? Andrew Jackson,
seventeenth
president
of the United States
was not'too oid for he learned
to read and
write
after
he
was
married—his
wlfe
taught him.
M. F'rmin
of
Hayti
wrote
oooks
wkhich
were
acclaimed
classie
shortly after they
were
published
when
he
was au old? man..
Wireless experts
tell
ns
that
to
shut
out
all
conflicting
currents—to
make
their instruments
immune
to everything
except
what
vibrate
with
the
message
which they
want
to
send
or
receize
is
one
of
rhe
probiems
of
wireiess
jieie-
graphy.
Tais
‘‘too old to
learn’’ theory
is
a conflicting current.
Get
your
mind
immuned
to
it—SHUT
IT
OUT.
An-
o
conflicting current
is the “‘too young
t. .carn’’ theory
but
that
is
noc¢
within
the purview of this article.
You are
never
too old to
learn.
Handel
was nearly fifty before
he published
the
first of those
musical comrpositions
which
have
made
him
famcus.
Cato
learned
Greek after he was seventy,
and
Cowper
was advanced
in years
hefore
he
wrote a
line.
I knowa
man
wnlu keeps
abreast
with
the
times,
is
no.
too
old to learn
something
new,
and
is
a young
man in
his
fifty-seventh
y2ar.
When
a
man
or
woman
gets
to the
TOO-01.D-TO-LEARN-STATION,
his
or
her usefulness
in life may
well
be
ques-
tioned.
True,
certain
afflictions may
ren-
cer
us
useless
even
in
youth;
and
the
vigour and
energy
of ‘uvenility should
not be expected
in advanced
years,
still,
“tOO old to iearn’’
is
only
another
bug-
bear of the hnuman
mind.
HFRE
IS
A
NEW
YEAR
LESSON
FOR THOSZ WHO WANT IT:
Just
re-
member
that there
is ONLY ONE
TIME
when you are
too old to learn and
that
is
when
people
[usually
dressed
in
their
best clothes]
are walking slowly,
two
by
two. behind you
and
whispering
what
a
good,
or bad person
you
were.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CRQIX
STALION.
St.
Thomas,
Dec¢.
30th.—Communica-
tion
with
Jamaica
and
all points
be-
@
yond interrupted by ourown lines.
Traili:
must
be
routed
and charged
via Frenci
Company,
Porio
Ricc.
:
Pavis,
Dee.
27th. —The
Supreme
Coun-
cil went in.o <ession
this
morning
under
the Presider
cy
of Premier
Clemenceau,
and received
information
as
to
the
re-
sults of the
first
meeting
between
Ger-
man
.nd
Allied military cxperts
regard-
ing arrangements
for
execution
of
the
Treaty of Versailles.
1t appeared
on
the
first exchange
of views that
the
railway
mat2ria’ offered by the
Germansfor
the
transportation
of Allied troops to districts
which
are
to be held,
was considered
in-
sufficient ;by the
Allied represeutatives.
The Council
aiso
considered
the nature of
the reply
to the Swiss
memorandum
con-
cerning the entry ot Switzerland into
the
League
oi Nations.
e
Council will
re-
ply to thre Swiss
suggession
that its entry
into the League
be subject
to certain
con-
ditions.
:
~London,
Dee,
27th —f'rederick William,
Ex-German Crowa Prince, will beincluded
in the
list
of
persons
whose
surrencer
for trial is demanded
by the
French,
ac-
cording to an official
reporc
of
a
recent
meeting between British
law officials and
Mr. Ignace,
French
Under Secretary
for
Military Justice.
The Ex-Crown
Prince,
it is said,
will
be charged
with criminal
offences,
includi.iz
looting
ar.d
robbery
with violence commii‘ed
in France.
There
appears
to have been
no further
decision
reached
at the Conference
with regard
to
the
case
of ffwmer Emperor
Wilham.
A
full list of those
waose
surrender
will
be
demanded
has
been
completed,
it
was
stated,
and
the
steps
which
are
to
be
taken
to
ensure
their
surrender,
have
been
decided
upon.
One
or
two
ques-
tions still outstanding,
will be
submitted
to Mr. Lloyd George
and
M.
Clemenceau
when they meet
in Paris
next month.
Rheims,
Dee.
27th.—Lady
Rithian’s
wine cellars
beneath
the cities of Rheims
and Epernay,
are being rapidly put in or-
der by the big champagne
firms
of
the
two cities.
These
cellars
which
wouid
form
a subterranean
galiery sixty
miles
in length,
holds hundreds
of
millions
of
bottles of precious
vintages
and
notwith-
standing
the fact g§that
this
region
was,
for four years
under
fire from
German
¢
or Allied
guns,
they
suffered
compara-
tively little damage.
Losses
incurred
by-
- wine industry
while they will place
a
heavy burden
of firms for
a
while,
will
be reconped
in a short time, according
to
statements
made
to the Associated
Press
ccrrespondent
who is visiting the former
battle
zone under special permission from
tne Government.
Madrid;
Dee.
27tl.—Madrid
is
ex-
periencing
an epidemic ol typhus
fever.
The civil hospital is full
of
cases
and
a
camp
has been
established
on the grounds
of the
San Juan
Hospital.
Paris,
December
£7th.—[ Havas].
Mar-
shal
Foch
has
informed
the
Republic
Committee
of Finisterre
that he
will
de-
cline the offer of a candidacy
to
the
Sen-