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According
to advices
of the
S.
S.
Ko-
-
rona expected
here
homeward
bound,
it
is not calculated
that
she
¢an
arrive
be-
fore Wednesday
morning.
The closing of
the
mail
for New
York has,
therefore,
been
extended
to 4 p.
m. tomorrow,
2nd.
Fine showers
fell here yesterday
after-
noon and again
in the evening.
The guage
at the fort records
this morning 5% lines.
The
Secret
of
the Submarine
will be
continued
this evening
when
the theatre
will as usual
be
the center
of
attraction
for an eager
and interested
audience.
It
should be remembered
that
tue show
is
now starting
at 8 o’clock.
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The Vifginia arrived
at
Frederiksted
late yesterday
evening.
The
mails were
landed
this morning and
those for Chris-
tiansted
will
be
forwarded
by
noon.
There
were sme
80 bags,
packages
. etc.
There
was
a popular
concert
by
the
Navy
Band
last night.
)wing
to
the
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weather
only
a
few
persons
were
I
Zround.
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A refrigerating
plant received
by Mr.
R.
L. Merwin
per
the
S.
S.
Parima
last week
is ‘being erected
in
Frederik-
sted
which will thus be rendered
toler-
-
ably
well provided
‘or in
the
line of
ice, its present
source
of supply
being“
this
town <where
the
coosumption
of
ice is alleged
to be
three
times
as
much
as in Frederiksted.
An electric plant has
arrived for Law--
yer
A. B.
Stakemann
for- hghting his
residence
and place of business.
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Today is the
-fifth anniversary
of the
opening of the ‘‘Herald’’and the founding
of the St. Croix Labour Union, on
which
oecasion
a rural string band
paraded
the
town
this
morning
playing
lively airs.-
~-A-gala day for
which an
elaborate
pro-
gramme
has
been
arranged
is
planned
to
come
off at Frederiksted.
St. Thomas
By Cyril Creque
.
SYNOPSIS
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Within
the
town limits of St.
Thomas
ave
-centred
three
hills,
presenting
one
of
the
most beautiful sceneries
to
the
| onlooker;*When
it rains,
they
are
cov-
“ered wit%.,v"ery
lovely green
carpets’” na-
ture’s apparel.
The harbor
is
landlock-
ed
and
ihe entire
island’is well envelop-
Xlby bilis which stand
like grim fortress-
es'
against
any
possible
attacks
from
hostile
forces.
These
hills
in
stormy
weather
break
theviolence of
the ~ngry
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oy
Advertisement.
A LIMITED quantity
of CHAR-
COAL
can
be supplied
from
_the “Club’ Yard’’on the wharf be-
tween
2and
4 P.
M. dur'in%
this
week.
Secure
your
bags
before
the rain season
sets in
e
~oc2an
that
would ruthlessly
degtroy the
land.
Her days of wealth and happiness
should* ne’er
be forgotten,
as
there is
hope
that with
the present
change
of
government,
the“island’s
development
will be but
a matter of time.
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St.. Thomas,
built upon: three hills,
. The harbor: with its land-locked
arms,
The balmy atmosphere
that fills
The visitor with its soothing
charms,
The scenery
fair, the tropical growth,
The moonlit waters
which by-aight -
Surround
its rockbound shoresand
both
Sweet:mirth and-pleasure
doth
invite;
May not these sights,
these
beauties
rare
Among ths grandest
scenes
compars?
Phough
but a dot the map doth show
To represent
this sunlizht
land,
Sofar from plains of fte and snow,
And southern shores by zephyrsfanned:
When eooled
by sweet, refreshing
show-
ora,
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N
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And nature
dons her.garments
green,:
What sights
amid
this land of ours
Morefair or beautiful,
are seen?
,
‘Or'where
the sand
upon this globe
9
-
That boasts
a more respléndent
robe ?
The lofty-hills that well surround
This humble land of ‘peace and rest,
As if with outstretched
arms
were bound
The-precepts
lodged within her breast
'l'o keep and ‘guard from dire ill,
:
:
And so resist
the ocean’s
rage,
When driven by a supreme. will
.
That fain the land would endamage;
They
seem eternal
barricades
Against all daring,
hostile
raids..
.
Though yet within 3eejining years,
There
now stands forth a ray of
hope
That bids
us banish
all our fears,
The chaos
now in which
we grope
Shall vanish,
and
new life shall spread
As sheds
the sun her gentle rays,
Diftusing light aßpve. each head,-
And brightening
dull and dreary days.
"
Why darken then reminiscenee
Os past
days’ bliss and afflupnce?
The feeble author’s
efforts here,
Cannot her merits
true describe
Or with unerring vision clear,
True forecasts of her fate
inscribe;
"T'wére better left to minds
that will
With wider foresight
yet perceive,
And deruonstrate
with greater skill
The Jestiny that time will weave.
This tribute then,
so richly paid,
Is but a patriot’s geal displayed.
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ST. CROIX STATION.
Marion,
Ohio,
Oct.
26th, ~Direct
.e-
--nial was
made
by Senator Hardin%etoday
of reports
reaching
the
State
part-
ment,
that Mr. Vanderlip
was acting
as
his
agent
in
Russia.
‘I
have
never
heard of Mr. Vanderlip’’, said the
sena-
tor, ‘‘he is not my agent
and
I have
no
agent.
1 know absolutely
nothing about-
-a
matter-as
is discussed
in
these.
despatches
and
have
no interest
in
it
whatever.
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London, Oct.
26th.
- Miss Sylvia Pank-
hurst
in
a letter which
she
wrote to
Ni-
kolai Lenine and
which
is in the
hands
of-the
Govt., is said
to have made
this
interesting
comment..
‘I
expeet
six
months’
imprisonment.
I'have consider-
ed the hunger-strike
but lam afraid that
weapon
has
been
destioyed
-since
the
Govt.
is letting the Irish nunger-strikers
die’”’.
Miss Pankhurst
was arrested last
week charged
wit:
publishing
seditiovs
literature
and
was
committed
to
jail
«
pending
trial.
e
.
London,
Oect.
27th.—A- member of
the miners’ executive body informed the
conference
of
Trades
Union delegates:
here
today
that there was
every
pros-
-
pect
of
terms
for
a settlement
of the
-
coal strike being reached tonight.
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London,
Oct. 27th.—The
United States
°
shipping authorities
here “said this morn-
ing they
esxpectea
-that' the embarge
imposed,
with the
inccption of the
coal-
strike,
would
be removéd
today.
The
embargo
which
prevented
coasting
ves-
sels
from discharging
coal cargoes,
has
..
been
removed
and
_tt,)_is “was
interpre-
ted
as
meaning
that
the
strike
ne-
gotiations had taken .a favourable
trend.
London,
Oct.
27th.—A jury of 12med
after
ten minutes
deliberation
this morn-
ing
returned
an
open
verdict
at
the
inquest
over
the
body
of Lord "Mayor
MacSweeney.
The
verdict
was
that
the deceased
had died from heart failure
due to
dilated heart
and acute
delirium
following seurvey
which
was due to
ex-
}flaugtion
fromi prolonged
refusal
to
take
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__San
Juan, Porto
Rieo,
October
28th,—
The
Spanish’
cruiser
‘‘Espana’’
arrived
here
today for coal.
Shehas
on board™
Prince
Fernando
de Baviera
ysßourbon,
a
brother-in-law
of the King
of Spain,
the Duke of*Arces, Generals
Alansis
and
Arrgiz
and
Minister
Pia,
forming a
royal
commission
whieh -will repvesent
Spain
in the celebrations
to be
held
in
Chili
in
November
on
the
occasin
of
‘;’he discovery
of the Straits by
Magel-
an.
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London,
Oct.
27th.—A
new
difficulty
has arisen,
delaying the complete settle-
mert
of the coal strike, whieh this after-
noon was
believed to have been
attained
-
on the basis
of an inérease
in the miners”
wages,
set forth in the earlier announge-
ment
this afternoon,
That the
difficulty
is serious
is indieated by the fact that the
cabinet
has
been summoned
to
meet’ear-