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. OCAL I i 1} line of rain was measured at the | Fort this morning. | ~ The funeral of Mrs. A, J. Blackwood . is advised as taking place in Frederiksted | and up to now has been fixed for 8.30 on | Sunday, 3rd instant. ; The 6 reel drama ‘‘The Flapper’” | screened at the Christiansted Theatre | last nivht was indeed a very pretty pic- | ture and deserved a larger audience than | the one present. | ee e e e | CORRECTION i In yesterday’s Avis, second page sec- ond column, twelfth line from top please | yead: ‘lt is understood’” instead of ‘‘un- : derstand’’ g e | Fostball. | BELUE BIRDF. B. C. TO MEET MER- | RY JUVENILE ON SUNDAY AFTER- | NOON ON THE HOLGER DANSKE S | After many months from playing,'| the Blue Bird Football Club, captained | by Raiph Dennis, will again have the | pleasure to meet against the Merry Juve- | nile Football Ciub, captained by James | Bough on®Sunday afternoon on the Hol- ! ger Danske Ground. Game commences at 4.30 o’clock. Both ! Clubs being strong we are sure to keep | the spectators spellbonnd. The Mervy ' Jueniie is sure of victory, but the Blue | Bird takes things easy.—-Com. “The C-at Came Back.” | By R. H. AMPHLEIT LEEADER. | | Judging from the caption of this arti- | cle one would, naturally, expect to read | something about cats; or at least, a par- | ticular cat that strayed or was stolen but | eventually ‘‘came back’. But be not | deceived (‘‘evil commuvications corrupt | good manners’’ and this communication | is NOT evil); be not deceived I say, | pothing about the feline species is within the purview of this article. What this | article treats on is the Hon. FKrancis | Loulter, Member of tke Colonial Council. | Not an account of what Mr. Coulter has | or has not done during his twentyone ! years in the Council—not a dissertation on how it was worth one’s while to | attend the Council in the ‘‘days of | old”’ when the fcarless Stakemann and | his twelve apostles shaped legislation and the role played Ly Coulter who was Peter | —npot an analysis of Coulter’s major | speeches which Coulterites describe as be- ing delivered with a voice ale Me. Cum- | ber and Anti Coulterites as being falsefto but waoich impartial minds koow to be ' £y 12 A VIS tremulous but prectly natural—got a Character SketeM by any means—but simply a ‘‘talk’’on this gentleman’s sue- cess in beine his onn sueecessor for the seat of Member for Frederiksted Town and Suburbs and after succeeding him- self five times and failing at the sixth, he nevertheless, ‘‘came back’’. Understand then at the outset that were it not for the return of the Hon. Francis Coulter to the Colonial Council T had not written this article. HIS OWN SUCCESSOR. Os course you are wondering why 1 have chosen such a caption when all the “‘talk’’ is about Coulter. Weli, you see, it is this way:— ° Once upon a time (so the story goes) a man owned a cat which he tried to get rid of many times without success. inal- ly he ygot a boat; rowed far out to s2a; tied a large stone to the cat’s neck with the strongest rope ohtEinabiv; tossed the poor creature into the deep bYlue sea; rowed back to the shore and walking homeward fecling trat wkat he had dene last he shiould have done first, upon arriv- e home the man found the cat on the doorsteps drying its fur. SIMILARLYIT IS WITH COULTER. Bvery four years, sine 2 1902, nuge stones have been tied around his neck; time and again he has been tossed into the deep biue sea of defeat before election, but at the first meeting of the Council after electinn Coulteris the first man to take his seat when the Chalrman rings the bell—he ‘‘came back’’. This reminds me of a conversation be- tween a commercial agzent and myself whieh took place in the Council Hall four vears ago when Mr. Coulter last succeed- ed himself:-- ““Who is that Sherlock-Holmes-like in- dividual?'’ enquired the agent. “*That’s Coulrer”’, I replied. “What! T'he man who was to die from the recent election returns?’”’ “The same’’., [ answatred. “You see stranger, Coulter is our political cat; politically speaking, be bhas nineteen lves.”’ Sy there you have the analogy:—The (- came back, C-, one time cat; one time Coulter—see ~ WHAT’SIN AC? Fleetion is the oldest form of choesing. C. the initial letter of eondemno, I con- demn, was the letter inseribed on the ballots by which tne HEoman jurors voted to condemn an accused party. Here we have the letter "¢’ in voting. Athenian voters used to cast oyster sheil bahots and there was a peculiar mannper in which the ballot had to be CAST. *'C’’ again. To this day certain African tribes select a Chief by spinninga cocoanut. Again **¢’”’. 'l'nen there 1s ¢in Coulter. Speak- ing abonut things lucky and uniucky! Certain'y, there must be something in the letter ¢ in selecting and electing. Coulter has been a m;.;mcr' i lhe { ‘ Solonial Couneil so long that that Body | would look odd without him. He used to l be a mere member, but he has been more | than that for some time now flcis a . sort of Uncle Joe Cannon or Henry Cabot | Lodge--a fixture——something like the | Chairman’s gavel, the Cnlonial Law, the Rules of Business, or the Order of the Day. It is about time that the Council pass a Draft of Ordinance (a . model of diction and literary polish) " making Francis Coulter a member of the ~ Colonial Council for life. It was my opinion during the recent election thot Mr. Coulter was missing an . opportunity of attracting the Muse of ' History by running for the Council again. . Mr. Coulter held trat he could attract . the Muse at the erd of his twenty-five . year term. (He was thinking of election ' not selection). Whether he can four years from vow as well as he could have . recently is disputable; but what is indis- . putable is that, although not represent | ing the same constituency, he ‘‘came back.’’ TELEGR 4 MS. i ST. CROIX STATION. | Berlin, May 28th.—Two million miners ' and tens of thousards of metal workers | are now on strike in the Rubr, according | to a special despateh to the "Vos:ische | Zeitung’’. Although these figures are | probably grossly overestimated, it is be- i lieved that every min- centre in the Ruhr is idle, 2= 1 result of the tactics of the i Comuadunists, who are visiting the pits ' and forcibly ejecting the workers. | Londen., May 28th.—Reuter’s learns | that the Ministry of Agriculture has re- . moved the embargo on the admission to . the United Kingdom of South African . slaughter cattle. ‘ Washington, May 28th.—Efforts will . be inaugurated today by the United | States Treasury: officials to reconcile the | propos2d prohibition regulations with | the posidon taken by the five foreign . powers whirk have expressed their views . to the State Departiment in connection | with the Supreme Court decision barring ' liquor fromai United States territorial | waters. i Lendon, May 28th.—Mr. Stanley Bald- - Wwin was chesen leader of the Conserva- | tive’s Party at a party meoeting today. ' The meeting was attended by the Con- ~ servative Members of both the House of Lords and tie House of Commons, who are supporting the Government. It was ~ presided over by Lord Curzon, who moved the election of Me. Baldwin as leader of the pariy in suceessicn 19 Qlr. Bonar law. The Foreign Secretary’s speech felicited both the party and the Prime Minister, on the .choice. Prime Minister Ealdwin, meets Parliament for the iirst time as head of the Ministry today, when the House of Commons re- assembles atter the Whitzuntide holidays Mr. Austen Chamberiaiu’s iet.er o his