raa
b UR
B K %s
Bank
of
England
rate
of Discount
per
cént.
7.
:
Censols
46,
Three per
ecent
rents
in Paris
Fes.
57.55.
All prices subjecet
to correction.
VICENTE
BALBASY AGAIN
WORKS
FOR INDE®*NDENCE.
Vicene
Balhas
Capo
former
editor
ol the Heraldo
Espanol,
and
now
editor
of La Gaceta,
published
in
New
York,
1s azain
in San
Juan
where
he
hopes
to
arouse
interest
in the support of
che
La-
bour-Farmer
party
in the
United
States
which
has
promised
independence
for
Porto
& Rico
when
it
wins.
*Domin-
go Callazo
was
a candidate
for
Congress
in one of the New
York City
distriets
on
the
ticket of this party.
One
way
that
Don
Vicente
proposes
to get support
for his party
in the United
States
is to have everybody
ip Porto
Rico
write
to those Porto
Ricans
in the United
States
urging
them
to
support.
the
La-
bor-Farmer party.
Once
the party
gets
in power,
which won’t be for four
years
more.
2t least,
then
Porio
Rico
will
be
given
independence,
according
to
Don
Vicente.
s
Don Vicente
was
am.ng
the
288
na-
tives of
tne Island
who declined
Ameri-
can citizenship in'l9l7.
During the
war
he
was
tried in
the
Federal
Court
for
pubiishing
articles
in
Heraldo
Espanol
against
the
draft
in
Porto
Rieo.
The
Court of Appeals
set
aside
the verdiet
of
guilty of
the
-Feleral
Distriet
Court.
Porto
Rico
Progres,
Dec.
10th.
B
-
VAKING EDUCATION INTEREST-
ING
It seems
to
be the conviction of
those
responsible
for
the
eduecation
of
the
youth of the United
States
that,
in order
to improve
the
results
being
obtained.
it is necessary
to
take such
steps
in
the
system
of imparting knowledge
as
will
make
education
interesting
to
the
pu-
pils.
With this
object
in view
we
read
somewhere
that,
as
a part of
the
perma-
nent school system
motion pictures
have
been
jadopted
by
the
New York
Board
of
Eduecation
The
‘‘movies’”’ will
be
used -to teach
biology,
geography,
Eng-
lish ard
other
subjects
suited for
this
new form of
presentation.
Offieial New
York is
intensively conservative
in
edu-
cational
matters.
This
innovation
is
therefore,
most significant
as
a trend
of
the
times.
.
Describing
the teaching
of
lessons
be-
forea
class
in
school
by
the
films,
the
New York Times
says
: .
:
Under
the general
title of *‘The Adup-
tation of Animals
to '‘Environment’’ the
praying mantis wereshown
among
grass-
es,
the insects
hardly distinguishable
un-
til they
sat
up
and
folded
their
front
legs
in
the
attitude
which
has
gained
them
their
names.
Scorpions,
earwigs
and sgiders
followed in succession
on the
Loondon,
<Jan.
4th.—Sugar
in stock.on
.
the
Ist inst.
was
123,000 .tons
without
iverpool
Last
year 58,000
tons.
Londor,
Jan.
3rd. —Pussyfoot
Johnson,
the American
"‘Dry’”’Campaigner,
stated
|
to an
interviewer
at Bradford the
other
day that he
was very
well satisfied
with
the
Seottish
results,
which
meant
the
closing-down
of 293
saloons
in
Secetland.-
Asked
how
long it
would take
to make
Britain "‘Dry’’, Mr. Johnson
said
he
be-
lieved
England.
Ireland,
Scotland
and
Wales
would
be
bone-dry
.in
fen years.
ihe
Cambridge Union,
the
well-known
University Society,
neld
a debate
recent
lv.on prohibition and
voted
against
't 211
to 204.
New York, Jan.
3rd.—A match
for the’
ciiess
championship
of
the
world and
a
hurse
of $20,000 will be
held
at
Havuna
51 March
10th between
a Capablanca
of-
- and
Dr. Emanuel
Lasker of Berlin,
(*cor Ing
to
announcement
made
here
today.
[To2
two graatest
axperts
of
the
came
have
agreed
to
all
arrancements
made
for the
contesi
which
will
consist
of 8 to 24 games.
New York,
Jan. 4th.—Raw
sugar
was
|
firmer
today and prices
advanced
1/8
io
|
the
basis
of 4% ets.
for Cuba’s
cost
snd
|
reight,
equal
to.
5.52
for centfifugal.
|
"here
were
sales
of 3,000
bags
of
San
Uomingo’s
@
44e. cif., equal
to 5.52
for
|
centrifugal.
A little better
enquiry
was
|
noted
for refired.
Prices
were steady
at
7.90
to
8.00
for
fine
granulated.
The
twmuess
in
raws
led
to quite active
cov-
eiing
in sugar
futares
and prices
at
noon
|
were b
.o 18 points higher.
NEW
YORK.,
-Jan.
sth
1920
|
“lour, Blended Clears St. Lawrence
I<rand
pr. brl.
SB.OO.
|
Meal, Kilndried per
100 s
$2.40
-
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $37.00
f
tieavy Mess Pork
per bbl. $29.00
§
sugar---Orystals
maximum
per
100
lbs
|
,
.52,
Molasses
Sugar
89°
tesi,
no
quotation.
|
Cotton,
Middling Upiand,
at
iiverpoo!
|
per
lb.
9 53-100 d.
t’xchange,
New -York
and
London,
60
|
e
" days’
sight $3.56
|
i’xchange
New
York
and
London,
sight
|
$3.59f
|
»
LONDON,
Jan.
sth
1920.
|
Sugar, Demerara
Crystals,
Govt. controll-
l
.ed price,
duty paid 1295. 9d.
|
"
Demerara
Crystals
free
of
con-
|
trol, duty paid,
60s.
655.
3
"
Moscovado
Govt.
coatrolled price,
|
duty paid,
1245. 9d.
i
-
**
free
o1 control duty paid
|
-
818
= dle.
o
g
£
fine 755.
i
;erman
Beet 88°/¢ f.o.b.
no
sales
';
White
Java
sugar.
cif United
Kingdom
|
-
nominal 425. od.
’
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
-
‘lrinidad Cocoa,
Good Middling Red no-
|
minal
per cwt
725,
‘7ss.
!
Cotto
Medium Finé
Sea
Island, at
Liv-
erpool per lb. nominal
-
screen,
the owl -blinkgd rapidly
to
show
°
his third eyelid and-the
children,
warned
by the eaption
that Mr. Owl was
so equip-
ped,
murmured
: ““Where ?’’ “Where ?’,
.
Oh,I seeit!”
in
small
voices
which
indicated
that they
were
hardly
consci-
ous
that they
had
spoken.
The
sereen
showed
the
owl ‘with extended
wings
and
the
caption
slid into
the
receptive
small
minds the-fact
of
the
absolutely
~
silent
,flight 'of
the
owl’s
wings.
The
lightning like dart of
the toad’s
tcngue
on
which
it
depends
for
insects
and
worms,
flashed -on
the screen.
= The cad-
dis
worm
whipped out
and
nipped
his
prey and
then
appeared
to
dissolve
into
his protective
background.
:
,
Remarkable
views
were shown
also of
plant life, Nature’s
work
of days
being
reproduced
in
a. few
minutes.
For
in-
~
stance,
roses
were
seen
opening
from
buds
to full bloom.
The school ipupils crush
enthusiastical-
:
ly to see
the educa'ional
films. being last
acted
to
follow
details
closely.
Their
delight
at
this
form
of
education
will
shock
those
who
believe
that.
all
good
medicine
for
yeungsters
is bitter.- *‘But
.
the day
must
come,”
says
the
Montreal
.
Star,
‘‘when
sanity will
prevail
in
the
.
schools
and
thechildren
will
be
enconur-
~aged
.in
the view
that
.intellectual
im-
provement
is
not
necessarily
dull
and
|
dreary.”” —Barbados
Globe,
Dec.
6th.
COLORS
AND BODILY CONDITIONS.
A certain
doctor
in America
is respon-
.
sible
for
the
statement
that
our
bodies
are
a compound
of colors,
and
that
dis-
ease
is an unbalanced
condition
cf eolor,
says
Answers.
When
a person
is ill, medicines
are
used
to restore
them
to normal
health.
These
medicines
or drugs disengage
some
hues
from others, and
thus effect
a cure.
|
In health
the hodily conditiors
are
pro-
portionately
balanced,
whereas
distur-
bance
of this
balance
produces
disease.
.
To establish
this balance
the
lacking col-
or must
be administered,
or the inereased
-
one
reduced.
Thus
a
person
suffering
from
bpmla“ia
takes
quinine,
¢nd
the
|
blue
wave
>f which
the quinine is com--
'
posed
drives
the
fever
out
;
Emotions
and
mental
conditions
are
|
also
represented
hy
colours.
Sone
of
'
these
are—orange,
denoting
jeualousy:
|
magents,
lové;
blue, intuition: and red,
.
anger.
The
last
probably
accounts
for
'
the expression
seeing '‘red’’ a term
used
-
so
frequently
in describing
the
feelings
.
of
an
angry person.—
Ibid.
~
For Sale.
-~
House Plants.
Cdll and see
them.
-
!
MRS. CHAL. OLIPHANT.