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“The
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Gift”
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Lilt
FIVE REEL
UNIVERSAL SUBJECT
TELLS STORY OF
TWO GENERATIONS
Story by
GEORGE
¢
HULL
i
Directed
by HARRY L. FRANKLIN
The Story:
Jan
Sexe and Peter Harlingen,
t'vo young
men from Holland, in *'Th2 Secret (oft
arrive
as
immigrants
in New York
in the
year
1890.
On the
same
ship
with
them
comes
a pretty orphan girl, Bertha
Krueger,
who is
going to live wit~
her aunt.
Both
Jan
and
Peter
love Bertha and
Jan
secretly
puts
up SSOO.
for an
operation
to save
her
';t
from blindness.
Bertha,
thinking Peter
made
the gift, marries
him.
Twenty years
elapse and both Jan and Peter
are successful
in their own way, Petgr
in worldly goods and
Jan in contentment
with
his work
as
a watch
repairer.
Peter's
danghter,
Winnie,
comes
often
to
see
‘‘llncle Jan’’ as she
calls
him, and
once
In
the
shop
she meets
Larry,
a young
man Jan has helped
from boyhood.
The day previously
Larry had saved
Winnie and
a companion from drowning.
-
Peter
desires
Winnie
to marry
Sydney
(Jllman,
the soi
of a
business
friend
to
whom
he is under obligations.
The girl does
not care
for Sydney,
having learned
to love
Larry.
Uncle
Jan
is anxious
to have her
marry
for
true
love and
stands
out for
his
protege,
who is now assistant
district Attorney.
Peter
at
first proves
obdurate,
but
after
a quarrel with Ullman....
Show
concludes
with
1 Reel
Screen
Magazine.
Book your seats
early for this fine Drama.
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EDITORIAL.
The
West
End
News appeared
yester-
day
under
the managing
editorship
of
Rev.
R.
G. Barrow.
The owner’s
name,
however,
does not appear and it is under-
stood
that
Mr. Ovesen
is again
in
the
newspaper
world.
We
are
glad
that
it
has
been
found
possible
to continue
the
paper
the
absence
of which would
have
put
the
town
of Frederiksted
a peg
be-
hind hand.
|
LOCAL.
?
Creole not yet here today.
She
is
pro-
|
bably held over at St. Thomas
to
connect
|
with the Mystery.
|
TELEGRAMS.
|
ST. CROIX STATION.
|
Washington,
July 29th.—United
States
|
exports
to Europe fell off nearly $1,500,-
|
000,000,
while those
to South
Ameriea
in-
|
creased
more
than S3O 000,000
during
the
fiscal
year
ending
June §Both last,
as
compared
with
the
previous
year,
Commerce
department
figures
disclosed
today.
In June
there
was
a
sharp
de-
cline
in
both
directions,
compared
to
the
same
mont¢h
a year
ago.
Ryde Isle Os Wight,
July 29th. —Great
Britain
won
the
first
race
sailed
today
in the International
six-metre
yacht
race
for
the
British-American
Cup,
at
the
British yachts outscoring
those
from the
United
States
on points.
The
race
was
sailed
in squally weather,
Smyrna,
Asia,
Minor, July 29th.—The
retreat
of
the
Turkish
nationalists
open
wing
on
the Ismid
Peninsula
is
reported
to
have been
cut
off by
Greek
columns,
which
have appeared
some
90
miles
north
of Eski-Shehr,
according
to advices
received
here today.
:
Dublin,
July 30th.—A
long
argumen-
tative article,
maintaining
that
an
In-
dependent
Ireland
would
not
be
a
mili-
tary or strategic
danger
to
England,
is
published
today by the
“‘lrish Bulletin,”’
the danger
it
says,
would
be
less
than
at present.
The
Irish
army
could
not
threaten
Ergiand and
submarines
would
be powerless,
because,
the
paper
con-
tends,
her
command
of
the
sea
would
enable
England
to
throw
into
Ireland
armies
capable
of destroying
submarine
bases’”
A free
lreland
would fight
to
the death against
foreign
control’’,
the
paper
adds,
‘‘and
her
safest
roll
would
be strict fneutrality.”’
Paris,
July
30th.—An
agreement
on
the method of dealing
with
the
Silesian
problem
is
expected
today
as
a
result
of
the note
which
M Briand
handed
to
the British Ambassador
last
night,
says
the
‘‘Petit Parisien.””
British
accept-
ance of the plan embodied
in the French
note is looked for, according
to-thz paper.
‘“‘Great Rritain
and
Italy probably will
join France
in
her
req iest
for
the safe
passage
through
Germany
of
reiaforce-
ments
for
the Silesian
area,
‘‘adds the
paper,”’
while
the
quection
of sending
the
reinforcements
will
be
decided
by
the
Supreme
Council
-t
its
Boulogne
session
on August 4th.
"It is considered
probably,
by
the
paper.
that
the
Pre-
mier
will
attend
the
session
of
the
Council.
Halifax, N.
S..
July 30th.—The
Canew
dian
naval
ships
Aurora,
Patriot
an.
Patrician
arrived
in
port
this
morning
from
the
PMacific
coast
via
the Pan
ama
Canal
and
DBritish
West
Indies.
London, July
30th,—The
seasational
and
unprecedented
incident
of a
British
sovereign
repudiating
to
Parliament,
through
the Premier,
a
statement
attri-
buted
to him in
a newspaper
interview,
is
given
the
great
prominence
in
the
entire press
this morning
Polirical
cir
cles
have
been
able
to
talk of little
etse
since
Mr. Lloyd
George
apreal
in
the
House of Commons
yesterday
and read
a
statement
authorized by King George,
in
whi-h
the King declared
that words
at-
tributed
to him concerning
the
Govt’s.
Irish policy, i1a reported
interview in the
United States
by
Lord Northeliffe, werea
“‘complete fabrication’’. Mr. Lloyd Georze
in the House
said ‘'lhope
this staremen
will
do something
to sterilize
the
effects
of the criminal malignity whieh,
for
ner-
sonal
erds,
is
endeavouriasg
to stir
mischief
between
the
British
Empire
and
the United States,
and
to
frustrate
the
hope of peace
in Ireland.””
The
in-
tarview
to
which
the
Prime
Ministe
as
saying
to
Mr.
Lloyd
George
re-
terred
quoted
King George
just before
His Majesty left for
Ireland.
'"Are you
going to shoot
all the people
in Ireland”’.
to which
the Prime
Minister
was quoted
as reolying.
‘‘No, your Majesty.
"‘Well
then,
you
must
come
to some
agreement
with
them’’, said
the King’’, according
to
the interview.
‘‘This thing can’t
go
on.
I can’t
have
my
people
killed
in
this
manner’’.
Lord
Northeliffe
has
sent
the
following
cablegram
to
Lord
Stamfordham,
Private
Secretary
to
the
King.
‘'‘Please
convey
to
His
Majesty,
with my humble daty.
ruy d:nial
of ever
having ascribed
to H's
Majesty
the word
or
words
as stated
by
the Priine
Minis-
ter yesterday.
I got no such
interviews’™.
Newspapers
displayed
the
entire
affair
at
great length,
and
under
large
head-
lines,
this
morning.
The
powers
con-
trolled
by Lord§Northeiiffe contain
brief