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OPTICAL AID. Y()UR prescription filled same day as received, repairs dispatched by return of mails. F. M. CORNEIRO. ot. Thomas. 11 5. V. L We acknowledge w.th thalks the re- ceipt of a small book entitled ""The Coun try we Forgot’” by Daniel Henderson, a representative of McClure’s Magazine, who visited these islands for the purpose of obtaining advance informat_iqn incon- nection with the expected visit of the Ccngressional Committee recently spoken of. The pamphlet is interesting and so far as noted, accurate in its data ete. The Native Brass Band regaled the town with music at daybreak yesterday morning, serenading the Dispatching Secretary ard afterwards = marching through the streets. The Dreadnought Football Club won the match played yesterday afternoon on the Holger Dankse Ground against the - Athletic team. The Cregle sailed for S¢. Thomas at [ eight o’clock this morning with mails and passengers. : 14 lines of rain was measured at the Fort yesterday morning and 2 iines this morning. : In keeping with an old custom, Mr. R. ¢ H. Amphlett Leader has kindly contri- % buted a New Year articie in the form of % what may be termed a lay-sermon. The @® same will be found elsewhere in this is- L .sue. British 4 masted schooner Harry A. McLennan, 643 tons, Capt. Wm. Chape mann, arrived nere Dec. 3llst. last with . coal for the St. Croix Sugar Factory. i e " YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD TO LEARN. i (A NEW YEAR LESSON) ’ By R. H. Amphlett Leader. ‘ I overheard part of a conversation the i other day between two men. One of the ‘ principals is, from all apppearances, in I his fifties. the other in the hey-day of his ' youth. ‘““Men my age cannot learn that,’’ said lder of the two. aps not,”’ replied his companion, itisa far better system thar Wln general use, it is m ’’ was the rejoinder, ‘‘lshould rlepd, young men like your- n'that. {am too old.”’ 19 CRUOIK 4 8 F 8 [ heard no more. /The men passed on. What was the su[?j‘e‘ct matter 1 do not know: but I am certain that it was not gymnasties for there is no system of gymnastics in generalause in St. Croix, and even gymnasties could be learned in the fifties. What I heard worrie? me. 1 felt like running after the go\ I gentlemen and explaining o 0 them that they w-re miis- taker® I had a desire to ery out in pro- test against this bogey that is so clothed as t. pvear rather presentable at first blush.* I wan.ed to say: ''Excuse me; gentlemen, I overheard your remarks and would like to tell you that while it is true that we all get older paysicaliy day by day. some of us grow older men- tally hour by hour.”” Butl did not say anything. Are you too old tolearn? Andrew Jackson, seventeenth president of the United States was not'too oid for he learned to read and write after he was married—his wlfe taught him. M. F'rmin of Hayti wrote oooks wkhich were acclaimed classie shortly after they were published when he was au old? man.. Wireless experts tell ns that to shut out all conflicting currents—to make their instruments immune to everything except what vibrate with the message which they want to send or receize is one of rhe probiems of wireiess jieie- graphy. Tais ‘‘too old to learn’’ theory is a conflicting current. Get your mind immuned to it—SHUT IT OUT. An- o conflicting current is the “‘too young t. .carn’’ theory but that is noc¢ within the purview of this article. You are never too old to learn. Handel was nearly fifty before he published the first of those musical comrpositions which have made him famcus. Cato learned Greek after he was seventy, and Cowper was advanced in years hefore he wrote a line. I knowa man wnlu keeps abreast with the times, is no. too old to learn something new, and is a young man in his fifty-seventh y2ar. When a man or woman gets to the TOO-01.D-TO-LEARN-STATION, his or her usefulness in life may well be ques- tioned. True, certain afflictions may ren- cer us useless even in youth; and the vigour and energy of ‘uvenility should not be expected in advanced years, still, “tOO old to iearn’’ is only another bug- bear of the hnuman mind. HFRE IS A NEW YEAR LESSON FOR THOSZ WHO WANT IT: Just re- member that there is ONLY ONE TIME when you are too old to learn and that is when people [usually dressed in their best clothes] are walking slowly, two by two. behind you and whispering what a good, or bad person you were. TELEGRAMS. ST. CRQIX STALION. St. Thomas, Dec¢. 30th.—Communica- tion with Jamaica and all points be- @ yond interrupted by ourown lines. Traili: must be routed and charged via Frenci Company, Porio Ricc. : Pavis, Dee. 27th. —The Supreme Coun- cil went in.o <ession this morning under the Presider cy of Premier Clemenceau, and received information as to the re- sults of the first meeting between Ger- man .nd Allied military cxperts regard- ing arrangements for execution of the Treaty of Versailles. 1t appeared on the first exchange of views that the railway mat2ria’ offered by the Germansfor the transportation of Allied troops to districts which are to be held, was considered in- sufficient ;by the Allied represeutatives. The Council aiso considered the nature of the reply to the Swiss memorandum con- cerning the entry ot Switzerland into the League oi Nations. e Council will re- ply to thre Swiss suggession that its entry into the League be subject to certain con- ditions. : ~London, Dee, 27th —f'rederick William, Ex-German Crowa Prince, will beincluded in the list of persons whose surrencer for trial is demanded by the French, ac- cording to an official reporc of a recent meeting between British law officials and Mr. Ignace, French Under Secretary for Military Justice. The Ex-Crown Prince, it is said, will be charged with criminal offences, includi.iz looting ar.d robbery with violence commii‘ed in France. There appears to have been no further decision reached at the Conference with regard to the case of ffwmer Emperor Wilham. A full list of those waose surrender will be demanded has been completed, it was stated, and the steps which are to be taken to ensure their surrender, have been decided upon. One or two ques- tions still outstanding, will be submitted to Mr. Lloyd George and M. Clemenceau when they meet in Paris next month. Rheims, Dee. 27th.—Lady Rithian’s wine cellars beneath the cities of Rheims and Epernay, are being rapidly put in or- der by the big champagne firms of the two cities. These cellars which wouid form a subterranean galiery sixty miles in length, holds hundreds of millions of bottles of precious vintages and notwith- standing the fact g§that this region was, for four years under fire from German ¢ or Allied guns, they suffered compara- tively little damage. Losses incurred by- - wine industry while they will place a heavy burden of firms for a while, will be reconped in a short time, according to statements made to the Associated Press ccrrespondent who is visiting the former battle zone under special permission from tne Government. Madrid; Dee. 27tl.—Madrid is ex- periencing an epidemic ol typhus fever. The civil hospital is full of cases and a camp has been established on the grounds of the San Juan Hospital. Paris, December £7th.—[ Havas]. Mar- shal Foch has informed the Republic Committee of Finisterre that he will de- cline the offer of a candidacy to the Sen-