as
distances
on
the whole are
not
great,
the people preter
walking to having their
peace
distu: b=d by noisy
motor
cars.
A
bili
which
would
have
permitted
the
running
of
automobiles
on
the
island,
was
defeated
in
the house
of assembly
recently
by
a vote of 17 to 15. —lbid.
An
American
and
international
wire-
less operating system
that
is designed
to
link
the
countries
of the
world
in
ex-
changing
commercial
messages,
which
is
announced
to begin
business
ia
the
United States and throughout thg Ameri-
cas,
Hawaii, Britain,
France,
th2
Scan-
dinavian countries,
and China and Japan,
has
been
effected under
the
name
of the
Radio Corporation ~f America.
The date
of
beginning
the operation
depends
on
the returr
by the Governmett
of stations
taken
over for war purposes.—lbid.
Just
one
hundred
years
ago,
<hris-
topher
Latham
Sholes,
the
'‘father
of
the
typewriter,”
was
born in Pex:nsyi
vania.
Wkile serving
as collector
of cu
toms,
he,
with
two other
inventors,
be-
came
interested
in
the problem
of
mak-
ing
a machine
that
would
write
letters
and
w:rds.
A letter
written
on
one of
early
machines
attracted
the
attention
of a eapitalist,
who provided funds,
and,
the other inventors
having dropped
out,
Mr. Sholes
continued
improving
the
model ,until
-at
last
the
first
practical
typewriter
was put on
the market.— Ibid
Poiand,
and
what is
more,
the
whole
of Europe,
is threatened
by
an
epidemic
of infectious diseases,
which are sweering
westward
from Russia.
Typhus
is raging
over
the
whole
of
eastern
Galicia,
and
has alreadyireached
the degree
of an
epidemic in Cracow.
The Rumanian
au-
thoriries
have be2ennotified of the appear-
ance
of the plague
at Chotin,
on the Dni-,
ster, close
to he
3aliciantborder,
and
have
closed
the
frontier.
Itis r-ported
that
Sovdepia,
as
the
Bolshevists
call
cheir
dominions,
is full of typhus and other
in-
fectious
discases.
Smallpox
and
infiuen-
za are epidemic
in Poland. —bid.
SUGAR NOTES.
-
e
=
A reportis
current
in
Denmark
that
the
Danish zovernment
will propose
rhe
taking over of all
sugar
factories
in
the
country
and
pay
22,540,000
crowns.
This
would
gzive
the
government
com-
plete
monopuly
of the
sugar
industry
which Cas
been
the
situation
somewhat
during the
war pariod.
The Danish
peo-
ple
are considered
the
most
thrifty of
many
of
the
Europ2an
p2ople
is and
by
common
con:ent
the Danish
peasant
and
farmer,
with all
the
modern
converien-
ces and the
tremendous
co-operafive
or-
ganizations
they
have
for
buying
and
selling
are c¢onsidered
the most
contant-
ed individuals of all
of the Europeans.—
Louisiana Planter.
ook DR
AN
LS
That every
man, woman
and child in Christiansted
cannot
get
a
chance
TO-NIGHT
to
enjoy one of the most remarkable
film productions
that ] have
ever
witnessed.
1
have seen
it myself (several
times)
and [ am not exaggerating
when I say
that
“Priscilla Dean”
‘
(WELL-KNOWN FROM THE SILKLINED BURGLAR)
IN
“PRETTY SMOOTH"
is one of the
most
gorgeous
spectacles
that
has
ever
been
produced.
[am
so
anxious
to have al'
see
it that if you cannot
afford to spend
the
money,
tell the doorman:
"‘lt’s
on Joe’’, and
he’ll pass
you free.
‘
PRISCILLA DEAN
as
GERTIE JONES.
To
know her
was
to love her,
to embrace
her
was
to lose
your watch;
skilled
as
she
was
in
the
delicate
artifices
of
crime,
she
was
getting
on
so
beautitully
as
"‘Maria’’, the Freach
maid,
in the home
of Mrs. Harper.
Gertie
Jones,
known
to
the
craft as
the ‘‘Cha:ter Box’’, had got herself
hired
in the home
ot
Mrs. Harper,
just
to
“lift’’a diamond
necklace
valued
at $40,0Q0.
Gertie
Jones,
you little fool! Queen
of
the empty
bean.
lam
going
to count
to
five, and if you haven’t
told
me where
the money
is,
I am going
to kill you.
Be your own best
friend and
see
her
.
in
CHRISTIANSTED
THEATRE
'
JADMISSION:
¢
Rl BN
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e
o
General Entrance..........
iy g
:
The
jury disagreed
in the
saccharine
|
case
in
which
the
Monsanto
Chemical
|
\Works of
St.
Louis
was charged
by the
|
United
Stat=s
Government
for violating
the
Federal
Food
and
Drug
Act.
The
|
Government
cortended
that
saccnarine
|
is
a
harmful
substance
and
should
be
so
labeled.
.The case
has
been pending
since
1916.
The Government
will re-try
|
the
ease
at tae
next term
of Court.
The
|
evidence
was
incomplete
and
no
verdict
|
could be reached. —lbid.
The productive
area
of sugar
beets
in
|
Germany
has
been
reduced
by
250,000
|
acres
and
it
is
estimated
that
500,000
|
qeres wili have
to be
lestor:d
to <et the
|
former production
of the German empire.
|
It is estimated
that 600
pounds
of
nitro-
|
gan
fertilizer will bave
to be
used
for
‘
every acre,
an.
the
fact that sugar
beets
|
in
Germany
showed
the
lowest
sugar
|
content
of
beets it
years
points
to
the
|
fzct that what Germany
needs
more than
|
anything else
is enough
fartilizer
to raise
l
the
quality of her
beets
as
well
as
the
|
German
spirits.
—lbid.
|
In a certain town in German\the
food
|
commissions
advertised
"‘foreign sugar”’
at 7.20
marks
per pound and
stated
that
they
had
enough
to give
each
inhabi-
tant
250
grams
of
it.
German-made
sugar
could
be
bought
for
one
mark
per
pound,
but
was
not
to
he
had
in
every
place
and
some
of
this
foreign
sugar
was
bought,
paid
for
and
de-
voured
The
German
sugar
manufac
turers
are
not
at
all
happy
over
this
condition
and
are
arguing
that
it pays
to buy
‘‘made in Germany
sugar.— Ibid.
"
Embroiderers
Wanted,
wRITE
to
us for particulars
for
doing fine
embreidery
in your
own home.
Work
is to be sent
di-
rect to you by mail.
You to return
the
finished
work. to
us by
mail
We
pay
good
prices
and
remit
promptly.
H. C. ROWSE.
Home Nezdlework
Co.
4910
Washington
Park
Court. Chicago,
.t 5 A