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B s ' A ‘ argaini Bargain: From Now Until Saturday Night. Lard 44c. pr. Ib., Cow Br. Butter 50c. pr. lb., Table Butter 80c. pr. ib., 5 lbs. Tins Cooking Butte $2.00 pr. tin, Mess Pork 50c. pr. Ib., Clear Pork 40c. pr. lb., Family Beef 30c. pr. lb., Hams 52c. pr. Ib. White Flour 9¢. per Ib., Meal 2 Ibs. for 15¢. Rice 16¢. pr. Ib., Red Beans 18c. pr. lb., Garabansa 15c. pr. lb., Lima Beans 14c. pr. Ib., Split Peas 16¢. pr. tb., English Peas 12c. pr. Ib., Black Eyes i4c. pr. lb., Potted Meat 10c. pr. tin, Sar- dines 12c. per tin, Pink Salmon &oc. pr. tin, Sliced Becf 20¢. in glass pot, Corned Beef 48e¢. pr. tin, Roast Beef 45c¢. pr. tin, Fig Jams & Apricots 30c. pr. tin, Post Toasties 25¢. pr. pk., Grape Nuts 25c. pr. pk., Table Salt 7e. pr. pk., Pork & Beans 25c. pr. tin. Table Sauce 45¢. pr. bot., Slice Beans 25¢. pr. tin, Mustard 20c. pr. pot, Peanut Butter 20c. pr. pot., Sar- dines in Tomato Sauce 30c. pr. tin, Maca- roni & Vermieelli 25¢. pr. lb., Cornstarch s¢. pr. pk., Snad 12¢. pr. ib., Real Cod Fish 28¢. pr. Ib., Corn Te. pr. lb.. Green- field’s Chocoiates 60c. pr.. lb., Mixed Candyv 40c. pr. Ib., White Sugar 13c. pr. Ib , Table Sagar 12¢. pr. lb., Silver Paper Sausage 60c. pr. lb., Loose Ted 60 & 80c. pr, lb., Octagon Soap 12¢. a cake, Blue Soap 35c. pr. bar, Dark Flour 2 Ibs, for 17c. Mackerels 25¢. pr. lb., Swiss Cheese 80c. pr. lb. Blue Soap 2 for 9¢. Lunch Biscuits 40c¢. pr. 1b.., Lemon Biscui.s 25¢. pr. pk., Soda Biscuits 14c. pr. pk Crispo Biscuits 25¢. pr. k, Vienna Sausage 20c. pr. tin, r'resh Herrings 15 & 30e. pr. tin, Grape Juice 40¢. pr. ¢ bot. AT IHE DANISH AMERICAN GROCERY. Latest shipping news is to the effect that the Par ma for these islands is scheduled to leave New York on the 25th. instant; and the Korona from the Islanas on the way to New York may be iooked for in Frederiksted about the same date. The C eole arrived here last night with local mails. WEATHER REPORT. - San Juan, Rar.30.00, Ther. 74, S.E. Vel 4, clear. St. Thomas, Bar. 30.00 Ther. 76, E. Vel. 6, cloudy. 5t Kiits, Bar.. 29 98. lher. 76, E. Vel. 4, clear. Dominica, Bar. 29.96, Ther. 74, N. E. Vel. 2, partly ciloudy. : * St Lucia. Bar. 29.94 Ther. 74 E, Vel. 6, cloudy. / Barbados, Bar. 29.96, Ther. 78, E. Val. 6. clear. S RUIE A VIS Port of Spain, Bar. 29.92. Ther. 74, S. E. Vel. 1 coudy. Curacao, Bar. 29.84, Ther. 75, E. Vel 10 clear. St. Croix, Bar. 30.02, Ther. 85, E. partly eloudy. : Rainfall for past 24 hours, 0. ° % ’ Littie Johnny’s Slate. On the Est‘ate. Oect. 20, 1919. Dear Mr. Yohansen: We are glad to see that Mr. Svend- sen has not raised his price of his movies. Daddy thinks that if he lowered his price twenty three and a hart per centit would be just rite. Because he thinks that he has been ahead of the game all the time. Daddy says he hears that the employees of the Municipality of St. Thomas are paid off in American money. [ hope to see some of the eagles fly over here as the marines always axe to get their. change in American money, tiot - wishing to take any chances with ‘‘spick money’” Yesterday Krazy lost a button off -his pants; his mother makes him save them to sew on again, so he put it in his pocket; later on we went ir to Mr. Innis’s store to buy a top, and Krazy gave the button in a mistake for a five cents piece, and Mr. Innis axeg himif he wanted the percenrage, and you know Mr. [nnis is a good business man. Yours truly JONNIJE IGNATZ. SEL.FISHNESS. | Selfishness is an art of the mind te | hoard or to keep everything for oneself, ( regardless of the rights of others. Itis a scheming fox-like spirit. When car- | ried out to its limit will ruin any school or | communmy. F. HALL. | Pegtor. ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. | In an editorial under the caption of , ““Don’t pay it”’, the Pathfinder of Octo- | ber 11th. says: ‘‘Relief from the high | cost of living rests with the individuals; | the remedy is in their hands. - High | prices are largely due to the willingness | of the public to pay any price thatis ' asked. High prices have become almost | a joke. and people even brag about how | much they pay for things. Thus they | themselves keep bidding prices up. | “‘Much of the trouble is also due to the | fact that people are willing to pay about | 95 per cent for value and 75 per cent for | style. The shoe manufacturers are again l changing the styles on us. We say it in | all seriousness: Scme of them ought to ' | be hung. - n exsmple should be ‘made | of them. P | T j “‘lfyou are silly€nough to pay prices"" of this sort, don’t blame ‘‘the high cost ~ of living’’;blame the passion for style - and your own wiliingness to be imposed L upon. | ‘A committee of f.,ur farmers not - long ago came to Washington io give ~ their views on the high cost of living. - They went into the most high-toned res- ~ taurant in the city and they paid sll for their lunch. They figured that about 80 . cents represented the actual value of the - articles consumed, and they laid the other -~ $10.20 to the middlemen and profiteers. - Their experience has been published all ~over the country, as a proof of the way ~ the innocent public are gouged. | ““A Scotchman in New York the other ' day went intn a restaurant and on finding ! an order of roast beef would cost him 90 - cents he ejaculated: I’llno pay it!”’ He ~ bolted and went across the street and . filled up on crackers and milk for 25 i cents. | ““Now, if Americans would show the . independence and canny common sense ! that this Scotchman showed and would refuse to pay exhorbitan‘ prices they ' would soon bring things down to a sea ? sonable basis. Os course all prices are ' bound to be high now, but there is no l excuse for paying several times what a thing is worth. | “"Remember that Scotchman when - someone wants to charge you a price - which you know is outrageous. Simply | say: ‘I wont’t pay it!’’ Then, sing . some way to serve yourself at less cost; . or, if necessary go without. A lit:le de- | privation isn’t going to hurt you. Think .~ what the soldiers have suffered. Are ' you any better than they are? | **AKansas paper tells abouta farmer ~ who went into a siore a few days ago and | bought a school outfit for his nine-ye~r ~ old boy. '‘He paid $8 for his shoes and ~ then bought him a suit, overcoat and cap for a total of S6O a very moderate outlay . for these times, and nothing e¢xtra gwood at thet”’, says the account. : ““This is a good example of how people .~ allow themselves to be ‘‘done’’. And ~ then, instead of taking the blame them- ~ selves, they shift it onto others. Some- l body is profiteering, they complain, and they let it to go like that. It is they who make the profiteering possible. We say - here and now that any farmer who pays S6B for a suit, overcoat, cap and shoes for a boy of nine should go to school in place of the boy and let the boy run the farm and handle the money . *‘Such people need a guardian, if no a nurse. If they know enough to loof around and use a little judgment they need not pay over half as much. The . big mail-order houses are still furnishing goods at reasonable prices and if local ~ dealers do not do the fair thing by their patrons, their patrons should buy what ~ they need elsewhere, I*i:their monéy . that is being spent, and they are enti led ' to get value for it, : “And se we tell you now: Ifyou feel