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LIST OF UNCLAIMED MAILFOR THE WEEK ENTED JULY 28, 1923. Mr. Charles Fredericks; No. 12 Wgtetr Gt Mr. Benjamen Ryan, May William. Post Gifice, Christiansted, Virgin Is- lands, July 30, 1923. B. R. LARSEN, Postmaster. LOCA®, 1% lire of rain was measured at the Fort this moruing. The s.s. Guiana £ om New York via St. Thoiras arrived at Frederiksted yes- terdav at 3p. m. landed mail, passen- vers and cargo and proceeded to St.Kitts. ““Ninetv Three’’, the screen master- piece from Victor Hugo’s Peasaunts of Vandea, exhibi'ed at the Christian- sted Theatre last night was a great suc- cess; too much cannor ‘be said in praise of this picrure. It eill be repeated in Frederiksted this evenirg. , s —‘ll”': s ; We understa d the ‘‘Grebe’’ is expect- | ed here today. | SN S e i e | PRESIDENT WILL VISIT ST.THOMAS. : To Ed. Mail Notes: Myr. ditor.—Just another eclipping of [ in‘erest from the Porto Rico Times for l your paper. | Yours truly | ALTON ADAMS, | 1 “*Anchorage, A'azka, July 14—Presi- | dent Harding let it be known, today that he intends to stop at St. Thomas, Virgin | [slands, en route (rom Panama to New | York.” | We hope that the coming of the Presi- | dent will do our poor izland much goed. % —Ed.—St. Thomas Mail Notes, July 21. ! Seeming Miracle Cures Per- iormed By Sister Harrell | Before Throng | Blind Apparent See and Dumb Speak at Touzh of Her Hands. | While hundreds of Negroes packed the | hall of the Commonwealth Sporting Club | at No. 14 East 135th Street and jammed the balcony to the sizzling tin roof, sob- | b'ng hysterically as they peered down on an endless line of crippled, twisted, hesitating figures, winding its slow way | past the fightring, now an altar of the | Lord, Sister Mabel Harrell, a calm, | sweet-faced, heavy-sot white woman, | performed sceming miracies yesterday. | Grouped around a platform was a | strange collection of maimed anl miser- Sy 81 3V 3 able humanity, A twisted paralytic Negro girl, streteched in a wheel chair, with an ecstatic look in her deformed face, beat feebie time to the long drawn shaky strains of ‘‘The healing of qus seamless dress is by our beds of pain.”’ Dr. Joe Mudden, 2 bulky perspiring Negro preacher, exhorted the crowd. A comely Negro woman walked to the front of the platform and sang a slow, plain- tive bymn in a voice which ro%e to heights of startling sweetness and then broke and flatted on a low note. She said she was Rose Grant of N, 15 East 134th Street, For twelvgp veurs, she told a reporter, she had b.ea biinl. Yester- day after Sister Harveil laid bands on her eyes she saw for the first time, 'l can s2e to write my name now,’”’ she said, Then Sister -Harrell deseended the steps aad began to lay hands on the crowd. Those in the front ;ow leaned forward to fan her and the seeckers alter heal:h, and to utter fervent ‘‘Amens”’ 1o her prayers. Jewish Mute Speaks. A pretty little Jewish «irl, Lena Pat- man of No. 122 Orchard Sireet, was led to the healer by a Negro girl, who said the former was deaf and dumb. Sister Harrell laid hands on the giri’s ears a d Ifps and prayed. Then she clapped bher hands close to the girl’s ears. With a sudden Q‘mile the child nodded that she had heafNi. Standing a tew feet away, Sister Harr~ll ordered the girl to repeat the words, "Praise t e Lord.”” Ard in a high, halting voice the dumb girl a:- swered her. “Tht Lord has cured a Jewess!” shouted Dr. Madden, and the erowd jumped on the enairs and yelied *'Glory "’ A Necro girl in heavy mourning flo herself at Sister Harreli’s feet., She said she was sufferinz with a tumor of the stomaeh As Sister Harrell prayed over her she suddenly jumved te her feet. flung her hat and long craye veile out over the erov.l. anisrreaming 'l'm cured,”’” danced down the aisle, jumping into the air with both feet and tlinging her arms over her head. A fine looking little Jewish boy, Philip Jehwartz, twelve. of No. 638 Kast 138 b Street, was brought to the platform. He had been prayed for Sunday night. Now at Sister Hareli’s direction and prayer, he spoke after her and answered her quesdons. Upon hearing his deaf and dumb son speak, his tfarher seized him in his arms and sobbed into the chiid’s curly hair. Discard His Crutches. A white-haired Negro discarded his crutches and walked unaided to a seat in the rear of the hali. le said he was D. W. Onley of No. 225 West 137th Street and had been lame ten years, When Alfred Hodge, a sixteen-year old Negro of No 656 W. 138th Street whose legs hunz limply in iron braces left his crutehes and finally walked by himsalf, women near hin became hysteas rical with religirus fervour. Margaret Woodley of No. 50 E. 132 d Stregt was celebrating her 55ih birthday. She "said sne had been sick sinze her teens. After Sister Harrell bal laid hands on her ears, she heard and an- swered guestions. Sadie Wilson of No. 101 W. 110 Street declared she had regained her sizht after having had cataraects {or six vears. As a reporter for The World finally puzhed out of the erowded hsll, a hatiess flictle man in his shirtsleeves ran up ana begeed, '‘Do you believe it ? Is it true? I do not know what to think,”” hc said. “"They have come out cured, it scems. My wife, she is dying. She cannct come here. But they say Sister Harrel: cures by blessing a handkerchief. I have seut a -handkerchief with a doilar. Ido not know what will happen. but wio can tell? Do you thinki will kelp? ' The N.w York World. TELEGR AMS. ST. CROIX S'ATION. London, July 26th. —The Goverament has decided to resume its efforts to- wards the development of airsuips, Siv Samuel Hoare toid the House o C:n mons this afternoosn, and will prozoc! if possible, by means of encouragingz commercial services, rather than throuzn gtate operations. The scheme submitted by Commander Burnev for a bi-weekly servize to India, usinyg six large a: ships, has been accepted in principle, be an- nounced, subject to decails of tie con- tract beinz satistactorily settled by the treasury. The dominions will be inform- ed of the decision and the scheme dis- cussed at the forthecoming imperial con- ference. Sir Samuel ad led that rhe air- ships woald revert to ‘he government forces in time of war, London, July 26-h.—The report of the committes, headed by Ml, Clynes. which was appoiated to consider the question of fur.i.e accommnodation in the House of Commons for visiting dominion Pariia- mentarians, hizh commissioners a~d oth- ers has been iaid on the table of the House. It is understood that in the opin- ion of th» co:nmittee a strip of the mem- bers gallery on the oppnsition side should be reserved as a dominion gZallery anu the diplomatic gallery extended. London, July 26th. —Before a smali gathering of members of the Lords and of the Communs W, A. Hewins, M P. of the tarifft commission, spoke of the development of the Empire and painted the gloomiest picture of the results that would acerue unless imperial preferenc: was extended and generally adopted as an empire policy at the fort'ncomir.g&on- ference in Ocotober. He stated that ghe new treaty-making poviers of the domin- ions necessitate an immeadiate eo or- dination of tae various trade policies of