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day gave a formal approval to the ap- | pointment of Colonel George Harvey, as United States Ambassador to Great Britain, to succeed John Davis, who | resigned. ; Yondon, March 16th. —Sugar in stock | on the 12th. inst. was 171,000 tons. | Last year 46,000. | London, March 16th.-—The agreement | under jwhich commercial relations will | be resumed by Great Britain and Rus- sia was signed here this morning by | representatives of the Governments of | the two countries. The principle that ! Russia wiil cease all propaganda outside | of that country and that Great Britain | will fobserve neutrality regarding Rus- | sian internal affairs, was given due re- cognition in the agreement. The fact ¢ that the trade agreement was about to | be signed, revived in some of the news- | papers this morning controversy regard- ing the expediency of such a meve. The Morning Post in an editorial eaptioned, | “'The unclean thing’’, vehemently in- | veighed against the agreement and ar- | gued that its signature would inevitable | involve recowmnition of the Soviet regime, i JWhich, the newspaper continued, would | mean the British traders eventually will | become receivers of stolen goods. The | Chronicle on the other hand approved of the agreement on the ground that the world cannot longer afford to leave | Russia outside the pale of commercial | interconrse. The Daily News de-lared . | it expected trade with Soviet Russia | would relieve unempioyment in Great 4, Britain, saying, talk about blood stained | gold is the meaningless rhetoric of blind | hatred. | NEW YORK, March 17th 1921. [ wiour, Blendad Clears St. Lawrence Isrand | x pr. brl. $8.60: Meal, Kilndried per 100 ibs $2.10 | New Season’s Pork per bri. $37.00 | Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $29.00 | Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 lbs. | $6.02 | Molasses sugar 89° test, maximum 8% | Cotton, Middling Upiand, at Liverpool | per ib. 736-100 d. 5 wxchange, New York and London, 60 | S days’ sight $3.85 | “xchange New York and London, sight i $3.90% ; LONDON, March 17th 1921. | Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- | ed price, duty paid 1295. 9d. | ‘“ Demerara Crystals free of con- | trol, duty paid, 595. 625. ! ‘“ Moscovado Govt. co trolled price, ! duty paid, 1245. 9d. § " - free o1 control duty paid ! A 40s.-50s. ! . fine 58, | (zerman Beet 88°¢ f.o.b. no sales | White Java sugar cif United Kingdom | ; 395. 6d. I Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. ; Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red no- minal per ewt 60s. 625. nominal. ] Cotton, good Medium West Indian Sea 37. CRU Il X KA. 8 Island per |b. 28d. nominal. Bank of England rate of Discount per cent. 7. Consols 47. Three per cent rents in Paris Fes. 58.25 , AN OPEN SHOP | sk ey | The labor unions of Chicago have § purchased a cemetery, where only mem- ! bers of the union may be buried. —News | item. | All his life in union shop | He’d daily earned his bread; | They buried him in a union grave When the union man was dead. | He had a union doctor, | And he had a union nurse: a He had a union coffin. And he had a union hearse. They put him 1n a union grave When he was good and dead: | They put a union monument Just above his head. ; And then he went to heaven, But to stay he didn’t care: | He kicked because he said that some i Non-union men were there. | He went down to the other place, . And there produced his card, | Then Satan drew an earnest face And studied good and hard. | And then he laughed, his hands did rub, | Till he thought he’d never stop, | “Lord bless my soul,”” said Beelzebub, | ““Why. this is an open shop’’. | —Exchange. g MILK MAIN DIET OF AFRICAN TRIBE ! Rev John Roscoe'ethnologist, who has | spent much time studying the life and | habits of savage tribes said in an address | in London iast week that in one country in East Africa milk is the principal diet; also that no woman of that section is considered really beautiful until she has become so fat that it is difficult for her to get about on the hoof. Men in one tribe consider that thev are poor and cannot marry if they do not have more th. n 100 cows =lf such a man wants to marry he finds a couple of others in the same fix and all three form a ‘‘syndi- cate,”’ taking unto themselves a common wife whom they jointly provide with sufficient milk to make her ‘‘beautiful.’’ Rev. Roscoe said that the first princess he met was so fat that she couldn’t get through her own doorway to greet him. The people, however , thirst for know- ledge as well as milk, he says, and they will send their children many miles to re ceive an education. Another investiga- tor found in his travels that the price of wives in some sections of Afriea had gone up, for, he said, ‘‘whereas a good strong, upstanding 16-hands wife form- erly cost four spearheads, the price had now risen toeight.”’— Pathfinder, Morch sth. ! . BLAMES CRIME ON PROHIBITION. f Declaring that the way to reduce ' crimeis through educgtion and Christian- - ization and not through penalties, Gov. ~ Cornwell of West Virginia declared at a ~ church gathering that in his belief the ~ prevalence of erime in the United States - is due to the prohibition law and attempts ~ toenforce it. ‘‘Men have not accus- ~ tomed themselves to the new law, he - said,”” and the number of violations and arrests is ast®nishing.”” He says that ~ some houses have been unable to operate ~ on account of the number of their em- ~ ployees, in jail. —lbid. NEAR BEER RAISES RIOT Sailors on the Italian steamer Vindbon- na, homeward bound from New York raised an awful how! when they discov- ered that their supply of wine had given, ~ out in mid ocean and that there was no- thing but near-beer and water to quench ~ their thirst. The indignant crew sent back an expression of their opinion of ~ America’s aleoholie aridity, via wireless. “Never again,’’ they said. ‘‘We will ne- ver retutn to the United States while its pcohibition laws are in force.”’ The ship’s agents said they hoped they wouldn’t re- turn for when the ship was docked the crew demanded long shore leave, theater tickets, newspapers in* ‘hree lanciacac 8 TSR Ree Me e eoS el e (@R gRS ELC A delivered to them each morning and new clothes to wear on Fifth Avenue.-_—lbid. For Sale. A Mahogany Bedstead With New Mattresses. For particulars please apply at his office. NOTICE. HE Motor Sech. Mystery will leave T Frederiksted on Sunday morning at 9 o’clock sharp for San Juan, P. . via St. Thomas, admitting passengers for both places All passages must be booked not later than 4 o’clock p. tn. the previous day. THOS. RAMSAY, Agent.