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THURSDAY Febrvary
21st,
1924,
AS REVIEWED BY BUMBLE BEE EN ROUTE
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(Continued from yesterday’s
Avis.)
Just
as
we reach
the top of King’s Hill, we
find
ocurselves
part
of
a target
which
soma
hiz 2un could
hive hit from Stony Ground Corner,
some
seven
miles
west,
As
we
continu:
down
the
hiil we arrive
at
a sharp
turn
to the right
where
the
road
muakes
a
curve around
a
smail
hill and brings
us
to
the next hill on our
journey north and
east.
Here
bafore
mounting
La Reine
hill we
have
on our
left
the
entrance
to estate
'‘La
Rsine’’ with a sohd
old ‘'Great
Housa’’ built of massive
s
one
where
lives
a
young
man
ald his wife.
Ho 2 has been
cured
of New York
winters
and
prefers
the
baliny
skies
0. St. Croix thouzh
the road has
been
stony and
steep
the past
four lean
years.
Passing
over
the hill and
with a
sharp
turn to the right
we
see
estate
‘‘Strawberry
Hill”’,anotnher
reminder
of English
influence
in plantation life, forit, too,
was
named
after
a suburb
of London
town of
those days.
It might be added
that
no
strawbeiries
have
ever been
seen
on
this estate
except
thios2
in glass jars.
On the right
we pass
es-
tate
‘‘Barren Spol’’ until we
arrvive
at the villars denoting the entranc:
to that
estate,
This plantation,
years
ago,
in the middle
and
until the latter
part of
the
18th
century
balonged
to the
Markoe family, who resiled
as
well in Pailadelphia
in pre-revolutionary
days.
To
conform
with the neuirality
proclamation
of the King of Denmark
they
re-
turned
to 3t. Croix to avoid having their
estate
confiscated.
Tha
estate
was
then
eall-
“Mbirs’’anllat>r
was acquired
oy the
M svoy family who haid
it until
abyat
1830 an i
disposed
of it ‘o new owners.
Tle esiate
took its
name
from
a small plantation
to
the
west
end, with
1.5 two wind
mi'ls
and
two ¢himuoeys,
becans
on 2 of the largest
set
of
works
on theisiand,
Upon the
estate
is si
uated
a Romaa
Catholic Chapel
dorated
to
the Redemptorist
Fathers
by the
owners of the estate
some
years
aback
and ty th
‘m has
been
brought
from= p a:ticaliv empty building
to a real liv: and
bzaeficial
caarch.
Tue
chapel
was erected
by
the
Me Evoy family as
a private cnap:l.
(7o be contnued.)
SERVIONETTZE
;
Unfolding of an
Eternal
Principle.
““The plan for our redemption
was
not
|
an
after-thought,
a plan
formulated
as-
|
ter the fall of
man.
It was
a
revelation
of ‘the
mystery
w'ich
had
been
kept
in
|
silence
through
times
eternal.”
It
was
|
an unfolding of the prineiples
that
from
‘
eternal
ages
have
been
the
foundution
|
of God’s throne.
From
the begianinz.
..
‘
God
did not
ordain
sin
that
sia
should
exist, but
He foresaw
its existence,
and
made
provision
to
meet
ihe
(erribie
|
emergency.
So
great
was
his
love
for
’
the
world
that
He
covenanted
to
give
|
His only
begotten
Son,
‘tuhat
W hossever
believeth
in Him should
vot
perish.
but
|
have
everlasting
life.””” The Desire
of
|
Ages, p. 22
;
Seeing
such
great provision
made
for
|
the
human
race
in
Christ
Jesus,
we
5
should fear
to sin against
our
Redee
ner
|
and friend.
To fight against
God is use-
|
less,
and
to accep.
Christis priceless
‘
F. HALL,
i
Pastor.
|
Zinovieff says
the
Communistic
revola-
tionary
theories
are making
great
prog-
ress,
even
in
America
and
Japan,
he
says.
‘l'he movement
has
full right
to
expect
welcome
surprises
from the
Am-
erican
labecur
movement,
Great
Britain
was
extremely
imuportant
M. Zincvieff
said and when
a majority of the
Knylish
wotrkers
became
conmunised
the
people
of the suppressed
east
will agise
and
the
preletarian
reveluticn
be
successful
throughout
Europe and
the aim
»f
the
Communistic
internationale
is
to
wok
unceasingly
to
this end”’.
Constantinople,
March Ist—The
news-
papers
here
say
a
fierce
encounter
has
occurred
1n Hadjiler, a village on
the Sy:-
ian {rontier, between
French
troops
and
the
Kratfakiil Iribe,
with
many
Kkilled
and
wounded
on
both
sides.,
It is
said
the French
had thirty casual
ies,
Kiel
Germany,
March Ist-- I'he
ship-
yard
ow ers here
have locked
out
their
entire staff of 13,
000 men.
This
action
was
laken
because
the
men
refus-
ed
to increase
their working hours from
eight
to
nine.
Lendon,
March 2nd--The unique
spec-
tacle of a father
being introduced
in
the
House of Commons
by his two cons will be
witnessed
tomorrow,
when
Mr. Aithur
Hendersen
takes
his seat
as the
miember
irom Burnley
to which
he was
elected
on
Friday.
London,
March
2nd.—The
people
of
it L
{
-
|
ists, after
our first decisive
vietery
over
the
European
Bourgeoisie
is
acvocated
by M.
Zioovieff Cheirman
cf iis Execa-
|
tive Ccmmittee.
1r aieview
ot
the
or
ganization’s
accompliskments
ard
wims,
pricted
in
the
newspeper
Pravda,
M.
Persia
are
severely
censuring
the Shah
for
his
repeated
lengthy
azbsences
in
Europe
and
are
talking
of founding
a
Republie,
says
the
Teheran
Correspon-
dent
of
the
‘'‘DailyMail.””
The
entire
Persian
Press,
he
declares
is
strongly
in favour of the
change.
The
Shah
has
been
in
Europe
since
early
November.
Westhartlepocl,
March
Ist, —Address-
ing
delegates
representing
the
anited
foreces
of
Liberalism
in
the
Northern
countiries
of England
today,
Mr.
Lloyd
George
said
that it
was
just
like
Great
Britain’s
luek that
*"the flrst
experiment
in Socialist
ad ninistration
had
come
un-
der
conditions
where
it could
do
the
least
harm,
even urder
conditions
which
could
do a great
d
al of gocd,””
and
the
experienee
was having
a
salutary
effect
on
the
impetu~us
souls
of
the
Socialist
Pariy.
lam
ail for
leaving
them
for
some
time behind
(he
plough
handies,”’
he continued,
'‘they will soon
have
ach-
ing
backs
and
weary
hearts,
but
very
much
wiser
keads
and
in the future
they
will realize
you cannot
plough
from
the
clouds.””
He likened
Mr. MacDonald
to
an air squadron
leader
¢f socialism,
who
spent
most
of
his
time
in
the
white
clouds
of sccialistic
Idealism, but
now
he
was
a changed
man
since
he
had
joined
the infantry and
had
to
trudge
on
mo
ther earth,
carrying
a krapsack.
In Mr.
MacDonaid’s
first
speech
as
Premier,
contirued
Mr.
Lloyed
Georg 2,
‘‘all the
restraint,
reservations
and
compromises
which
mundane
statesmen
hitherto
have
indulged
1n
were
repeated
in
every
pariicular-
WhanI heard
Mr. MaeDo-
nald,
who
had
indulged
in
the
shrill-
est
rotes,
piiching
hkis
tune
so
low
and
imitating
the
very
modest
notes
from
less
pretentious
singers,
it
reealled
the
memory
cf
many
a
cracked
tenor
who had
been
forced
to
beeome
a
bari-
tone.””
He
said
the
last
government
was
a spectacie
of
pathetie
fatuity
and
it was
not
a
very
high
compliment
to
pay
the
existinog
ministers
to
say
that
whatever
wvere
their
defects
or
short-
con:ings
they
were
infinitely better
than
the
men
they
bad
supplanted.
if
the
present
government
in
a moment of folly
proposes
a capital
levy or any
measure
lor
the overthrow
of
private enterprise, the
whole
of
the
Liberal
Pariy
will
voce
against i, without
regard
10
the
effect
on the foriunes
ot
the Government.”’
Washington.
Marcen
2ad--One
hundred
thousand
cases
of liquor per
month
are
smuggled
into the
United
States
by
rum
runners off the
Atiantic and
Gulf
ecoasts
according
to
Coast
Guard
Officials
1n
charge
of preventing
the
traffic.
This
estimate
was given
to
the
House Apprro-
priations
sub Committee
which
drafted
the deficiency
bill recorted
yesterday
al-
lowing.an additionai $13,853,989
for
the
Coast
Guard
Service.
Brusse!s,
March
2ood.—Princess
Louise
of
Belgium
died
today
at
Wiesbaden,
according
to
despaiches
just
received
here.