sth involvin
>
the arrest
by
Cossacks
of
an American
oficer
and
an enliste
1
man
and
the flogging of the latter.
Rome.
Uecc.
sk,
Despitehea
from
Belgrade
statz
that
Jugo-Slav
Military
cireles,
in
discassing
the
possibility
of
war
wiih lgaly, expresseda
the hope
that
this
vould e
the
means
of diverting the
coures
of
the internal
situation
in Jugo-
Slav.a
whizh
is
still serious
and
cc
apel
aluet™
intervention.
Thus
it
was
ex-
piaini2d by
‘hem that a solution of the
Ad-
riatic prob
>m would be brought
about.
lLondon,
Oect.
Ist.—Mr.
Adamson,
Chairman
« f the Labour
Party
in Parlia-
ment
and
eader
of the opposition
there,
has
telegg.-phed
to
the
Prime
Minister
asking L%
Parliament
should
b 2 sum-
moned
imi ediaely.
Iondon,
Oet.
Ist.—--Mr. Lloyd
George
and
.he rejresentatives
of the
transport
workers
and railwaymen
did
not reach
a
defirite
co
clusion
ai
their
conference
this
~v.ni
t
was anncunced
that
the
conferene:
weuid
restme
on
Thursday.
The
iaiprs.sion
gained
from
the
little
fh\_‘ celegais
vere
Wililing o
say,
was
that
the
si
uation
was
more
hopeful.
After
thea
Journment
of tne conference,
Mr.
[homa:,
Secretary
-f the
National
Union of R
ilwavmen,
said:
‘ The Public
will
get
scme
satisfaction
in
knowing
that
we
are
come
together again.
Hav-
ing
eome
te recher,
it is the duty
of both
sides
to
see
t
at
we do
not break
away
azain
aatil
72
r2azn
a s2itlemant.
That
is
cae
spiv.t
in
walch
w 2 are
her2’’.
Mr
[aomas
r:fis=2d
tv
answer
questions
re-
oarding
ta-
prospeet
of
work being
re-
samed
or
to ¢iva any
other
information.
Nanx
Yoad
Oct.
Ist
1919
Flour.
Blen
=d Clear
St. Lawrence
[-rand
’
pr.
brl. $10.25,
Meal,
Kilnc
sied
per
100 ibs $4.10
New
Seasol
s Pork
per brl. $48.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$51.00
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
;
per
100 ibs.
$7.28.
Volasses39' test
pr
140 lbs.
no quotation.
Cotton,
Mid:liing Upiand, at i.iverpool per
Ib. 18 94-100 d.
i'xchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sight $4.16
xchange
M ew
York and
London,
sight
$4.184
1.0 l DON, Oet: Ist
1919,
Sugar-ueii
cara Orystals duly paid price.
ixed by
tle Royal Commission
per cwts
b7s.
9d.
-91 s. od.
Muscovada,
397/~ basis,
floating rerms
in
bond, Diti» duty paid.
555.
6d.
TBs. 6d.
German
Bee. 88°/¢ f.o.b.
no further
sales
during
tie
war
Java 96°/
G braltaror Channel for Orders
floating trms,
no quotations.
Demerara
R.im,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Co-oa,
Good
Middling Red per
ewt.
1235.
6d.
1275. 6d.
Cotton, Med.am
Fine Sea
Island, at Liv
erpool non:inal per lb.
.
Banx
of
£n2land
rate
of
Discount
per
cent.
o.
Consols
£O3
& 1.
L Bal
ilX
A NViES
Three per cent
rentes
in Pavis
Fes.
60.95
21l
prices
subject
to correction.
STAMPS.
By KENT
B. STILES.
Unele
Sam
is again
practicing
2eonomy
in connection
with his
postal
st:tionery,
and
his thrift means
more
new
varieties
for collectors.
When
the war-time
rate
of thr2e
cents
for an ordinary letter
was red
iced
to two
cents
on Jul’ 1, there
were
in post
offices
throughout,the
country
excess
stocks of
the
three-cent
envelopes.
th2
Post-
master-General
has sent
notice
to
ail
pos-
tal sub-agencies
authorizii.g
the
imprint-
ing of the insecription
''2
cents’
in
red
on each
¢nvelope just below
the
ecireular
die.
Ipasmnech
as this imprintiny
is
not
being
done
at
the
Bureau
of
Engrav-
ing
and Printing at
Washingtor,
but
at
sub-agengei>s
indevend
:nily,
there
is
prospee.
of
many
varieties
of
jvpe
be-
cotuing avauable
to
collectors,
and
it
is
not unlikely that
such
errors
as
inverts,
brokan
and
missing
and
misplaced
let-
ters,
ece.,
will appear.
The
eonst
of an ordinary rosral
card
was
lowered
to the
normal
one
cent,
and
the
sub-agen=zies
have
been
authorized
to sur-
charge
‘1 ¢.”” across
the circular
die
on
each
card,
although
ihis
situaticn
is
of
jess
interest,
as
philatelists
do
not
collect
pos-al
cards.
“EEST]I' FRAUDS
:
A
German
citizen,
who
knows
how
eager
the
world’s
collectors
are
tHy
obtain
the
stamps
of
the
countries
of the
new
Europe,
has
succeeded
in
pulling
the
wool
over the eyes
o/ pnilatzlist,,
many
of
whom
have paid as
high
as
$:0 for
a
set
of
Esthonian
stamps
whiea
have
proven
to be
‘‘fakes.”’
When
the
Esths
proclaimed
their
lond
an
independent
republi*
on
the day
on
which
the
armistice
was
signel,
last
Nov.-mber,
th> German
citizen
was living
at
Reval,
where
the
prociamatin
was
issued.
He
hurried
to a
post
off ce
and
purchased
stocks
of the
stamips
which
the
German
occupation
authorit'es
had
forced
the people
of this former
section
of old
Russia
to
use
during the days
of
the
invasion
by
the
German
troops.
‘These
stamps
are
Germany’s
own
“*women in
armor’’ designed
labels,
but
with
the
surcharge
'‘Postbegiet
Ob.
Ost.”” upon
them.
:
These
ocupation
stamps
the
German
citizen
took with him into Germany,
and
upon
them
he
had
overprinted
‘he
in-
scription ‘‘Eesti,”” meaning
‘'lsthonia.”’
These
were
then
aliowed
(o
eirculate
among
stamp
dealers.
[t
was
supposed
that they had been
legitimately
issued
by
the
Esthonian
Government,
and
they
were
considered
among
the
valuable
stamps
of Europe’s
Reconstruction
Pe-
riod.
VOLKSTAAT
“Volkstaat
Wurtternberg,’’
meaning
“‘the
people’s
State
of
Wurtemberg,
has
been
sur-charged
~n
twenty-one
varieties
of Wurtemberg’s
official
series
of 1916-1917.
Some
months
ago
Pavaria
overprinted
her stamps
with
a somewhat
similar inseription.
Significant
of politi-
cal developments
within
what
was
once
the Imperial German
Fmpire,
these
ad-
hesives
reflect
the peopl’es
dislike for the
labels
put forth
during
William
Hohen-
zollern’s
reign
as emperor
the
stamps
4
with the militaristic
figure of
a
woman
wearing
armor.—"‘Boys’ Life,
Oct.
1919.
SUGAR
NOTES.
The
stupendous
accun.ulaticn
of
vn-
certainties
relative
(¢
lalsirg
a
sugar
beet
erop
are
evicenced
(rce
ncre
in
reading
reports
cf Fcw
the
Creat
West-
ery,
Bugars
(cmiavy
¢
(uierice
8-
pended
9825000
¢n
tle
Hist:
glive
against
the web wain,
$8(,0(C
¢t wkich
was
expended
fcr
Faris
greer
a.cre
in
advance
of
the
appuearing
c¢i
tke
woim
and
$200.000
bhad
to
ke
spent
(n
EX-
@ress
alone
to
hurry
the
shipments
at
a time when,they
were
absclutely
need-
ed.
Passenger
trains
wele
comman-
deered
and
the first brood
of
worms
con-
sumed
650, 000 pounds,
but
the
crop
was
saved.
1t is now
believed
that
a similar
amount
will hc ve
tc
be
spent
to
get
a
new idea
irto these
Frussian
plant
des-
troyer.— Lowisiana
Planter.
The first fine
imposed
upon
any
pro-
fiteer
on sugar
was
levied
on'a
Bingh-
ampton,
New,
York,
grocer
under
the
new
arive against
food
profiteers.
This
grocer sold
sugar
at
15
cents
a
pound,
which
is
way beyond
the
market
price.
—lbid.
BIG CAVE IN MINE.
One
of
the
largest
caves
known:
in
Mexico
was found
a
short
time ago in
a
mine
near
San
Luis Potosi.
The
cave,
lying 300
feet
below
the
level
of
the
mine,
is 15
feet
wide.
As it has
never
been
completely
explored,
its length
is
not
known.
In
it
is
a
fountain
from
which
issues
continuously
a
stream
of
blue sulphurous
water.— Pathfinder.
FOR SALE.
ONE LADIES BiCYCLE
with
a
Three-speed
attachment
in
perfect
order.
~
Apply
to
:
Dr.
J.
R. MAYHEW,
(hristiansted.