home
in
the Condado
on
Tuesday.
He
saw
a colored
boy using
a bathing
suit
suspiciously
like the
one he
had
missed
and accused
the other of theft.
A crowd
of ‘‘titeres’’ gathered
and
rough-housed
Todd,
who finally took
a
revolver
and
fired in the midst of his assailants,
wound-
ing one in the leg.
Todd
is held
on SSOO
bail —lhd.
RE EDUCATING PORTO
RICANS.
The foderal
board
of
vocationai
edu-
cation
is leaving
no
stone
unturned
in
its efforts
to find
every
disabled
soldier
who may,
if he
so desires,
receive
re-edu-
cation
from
the
government.
In Porto
Rico
there
are
at
present
110
soldiers
disabled
in t:e
service
who
should
be
beneficiaries'of
the
rehabilitation
law
The special
agent
of
the
board
in
the
island
is
interviewing
these
men
wish
a view to their
future
vocations.
Porto
Rico has
no trade
schoois,
but
{raining
and
placement
may
be
made
in
shops
and industrial
establishments
for
those
who desire
it, and the
government
agri-
cultural
college
at
Mayaguez
provides
trairing
for
those
who
wish
to go
on
the land.— Augusta
(Me) Journal.— Por-
to Rico Progress
July 9th.
FRUIT
¥IRM
SCORES
WITH
MAR-
MALADE
In one
of the northern
valleys of
Por-
to
Rico,
where
under
the
tropical
sun
the
elimate
and
soil combine
to
produce
the
finest
grapefruitin the ®world,
the
Spanish-American
Fruit Company,
which
has
odfices
at 149
Broadway® has
recent-
ly ierected
on
one
of
its
plantations
a
modern,
up-to-date
plant for
the
manu-
facture
of
grapefruit
marmalade
and
the canning
of the
grapefruit
as
a
ready
to-serve
article.
Severai
years
were
spent
in
the
per-
fection
jof the
marmalade,
as
the
com-
pany
was
unwilling
tc
offer it
to
the
public
until
certain
that
its
product
was
one of the finest
on the
market.
Far ioff i
that
tropical
valley,
nes-
tied
close
io the foothills and away
from
the
dust
and
dirt
of civilization,
the
marmalade
which
the
Spanish- American
Fruit
Cofipany
has recently
put on
the
market
under
the registered
trade
mark
of 'S
A.”" brand is prepared
and packed
from
the
most
delicious
sun-ripened
grapefruit.
~Jt
is
a
recognized
fact
that
specially
soleeted
2s
is
this
fresh,
sun-ripened
fruit,
the marmalade
is
truer
to
nature
and
retains
the
delicate
arom=
and
fine
flavor
over others put
up from
ordinary
fruit
purchased
in the
general
market.
['he modern plant is no small fact orin the
perfection
of the
marmalade.
'The plant
is
an immaculately clean
place,
surround-
ed
by blooming flowers
the year
round,
the
workers
in
freshly
laundered
uni-
=0
.
RO X
AV 1S
forms
and
caps,
the
sterilizing
appli-
ances
6f the
most
modern
kind
procur-
able.
Since
its introduction
the
marmalade
has
been greatly
enjoyed,
and
al hough
not
advertised
to the
extent
of many
of
the
well-known
brands,
it
has
become
80
popular
that
jeven
at
this
early
period
in its
manufacture
the
company
has
under
way plans for
increasing
the
outrut
to enable
it to meet
the increasing
demand
which
is
taxing
the
present
plant
to capacity.
-N. Y. Mail.—bid.
PRUSPERITY
IN SUGAR.
Seno
Pablo
de
la
Llama,
president
of
the Bancc
Espanol,
the oldest
and
most
important
banking
institution
in
Cuba,
in a recent
interview
with the
represen-
tative ofa New York
journai gave
out
the subjoined
view of the present
sitaa-
tion
in Cuba,
which
will be found
very
interesting
to
our readers,
and
coming
from the source
that
it does it must
ne-
cessarily
be considered
a fair and honest
expression
of
financial
opinion,
as
free
from
bias
as
can
any
financier be
free
from bias under
the conditions
that
sur-
round
him.
The statement
that he made
18 as follows :
"“When
the estimate
of
the
sugar
erop
was
made,
six
months
ago,
the
econo-
mists
of
the
world
stood
amazed
at
the
extraordinary
balance
of trade
in
favor
of Cuba.
At the
time the
sugar
crop
Was
estimated
at 4,500,000
tons at from 7
to
8 cents
per
pound,
and
these
estimates
were
considered
as
tqo optimistic.
But
the truth
in this
case
went beyond
the
dreams
of the most
imaginative
person.
When
the
world
shortage
of
sugar
oec-
curred buyers
were sent
to Cuba from all
Kuropean
countries,
even
from Asia: the
demand
for this commodity started
a rise
in price which_by leaps
and
bounds
sent
sugar
to 10, 11,
12 and
up
to 18 cents
per
pound,
there
being
cases
lately
when
sugar
has
been
sold
as high
as
20 cents
per pound.
Ii you take into consideration
that this
happened
before
the end
of the
grinding
of the
crop and
that in
Cuba
everybody
is interested
in
agriculture,
particularly
sugar
cane
growing,
you
will
realize
what
a blessing
it has
been
for
all
the
people.
We
have there
some
very big
sugar
esiates,
owned
by
American
com-
panies,
but
the system
of centrals
distri-
butes
the
profits on
eqguitable
basis
be-
tween
the mill and
the colonos,
of whorn
the majority are Cuban,
thus the profits
made
in sugar
benefit the whole
nopula-
tion.
At
presen’
we may
say
that
there
is
no poor ciass
in Cuba,
and
the prosperity
brought
to the country
by the sale
of
its
main product
is
reflected
everywhere
in
the
great pumber
of enierprises
being
started
all over
the island.” What
this
spirit means
for
the
commercial
and
fi-
nancial
development
of the
countrv
is
something
beyond
the
power of words
to
describe.
It must be
seen
to be
under-
stood,
and
then it leaves
a feeling
of ap-
palling wonder
which
is
difficult
to
ex-
plain.
;
And the best
symptom
of this unheard-
of prosperity
is the general
trend
among
the
Cubans
to invest
the money
ecarned
in remunerative
business.
Although
na-
turally
inclined
to
enjoy all
the
good
things
of
life,
there
is.none
of
the
thoughtless
prodigality found in the
new-
ly rich.
The
Cubans
will pay high
pri-
ces
for things that in
this country
would
be considered
as luxuries,
but when
they
do it you
may
be
sure
there is something
substantial
left
behind
tc provide for the
morrow,
The innumerable
buildings
being
con-
structed
everywhere
and
the many
en-
terprises
and
industries
established
within
the
last six months
are eloquent
witnesses
of the trend of thought
in the
isiand,
where
everybody
is
convinced
that the only real
scurce
of wealth is hon-
est work and
is acting accordingly.
As a Spaniard
I am proud of the record
of Cuba
as
a hard-working
nation: it
is
the best
trait of our
race
which
the
Cu-
bans
have inherited,
and the Spanish
ele-
ment of the island is the one
co operating
most
with
the natives
in developing
the
resources
of
the
country.—Louisiana
Planter,
July 17th.
MOZAMBIQUE.
A few
years
ago when
Portugal
was
the queen
of ghe
maritime
world she
had
her colonies
in many
places.
The largest
gift
that she
gave
to
the
sugar
world
was
probably
what
is
now
the
great
republiec
of Brazil.
Her
colonies,
how-
ever,
were
spread
all
over
the
waorld
from
the Island
of
Madeira
on the
east
coast
of Afriea, to
Goa
in British
India,
including
Mozambique
in
South
Africa
and
other
minor
possessions.
Mozam-
bigue
has
'built
up
a
moderate
sugar
industry
during
recent
years,
Lying
as
it
does
just
north
of
Natal
of
RBritish
South
Africa,
and
behind
the
present
Island
of Madagascar,
Mozambigue
pro-
duces
about
50,600
tons
of sugar
per
an-
num and ha:
not of
late given any parti-
cular
evidence
of
a
stimulation
in
the
sugar
industry by
the
higher pric.s
for
sugar
now prevailing.
Natal
has brought
its sugar
industry
up to 150,000
tons
per
annun,
and
now
expeets
200,000,
and
there
would seem
to be
no
reason
why
Mozambique
should
not show equa!
pre
gress.
The
British
shipping
interests
preacminate
in the leading
.port.
Louren
co Marques.
Sagar-is
the principal item
exported
from the port of Beira,
15,239
metrical
tons
being shipped
from
there
in 1918,
and
20,408
metrical
tons in
1917.
The
success
of Natal
in sugar
preduction
would
seem
to indicate
greater
possibili-
ties
in Mozambique
that
may
be
realized
later
on. —lsid.