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Members: Blackwood, Noll, Ahramsen, Robt. W. Skeoch, Thos. Ramsay, ' Robt. L. Merwin, M. M. Skeoch and G. Nord- by, whe had all formerly been members of the Counell. = = - o 2nd Member for Frederiksted Country District (Nordby) remarked: Mr. Vice- Chairman. I received more votes at the olection than Member M. M. Skeoch, and therefore should be 2nd Member for Frederiksted Country District instead of 3rd Member as the honorable Acting Vice- Chairman has read. The Acting Vice-Chairman in answer to the last Speaker said,—That’s a mat- ter you will have to take up with the Chairman of the Council and with the Government. The Acting Vice-Chairman remarked : The n:xt item on the Order of the Day is election of officials of the Council. I will ask members to prepare their voting tickets for the election of a Chairman. 17 voting tickets were handed in. Elected was 2nd Member for Freder- iksted Town (Merwin) with 15 votes. 2nd Member for Christiansted Town (Canegata) received 2 votes. (To be continued.) I.OCAL. The ‘Creole’’ has not yet put in an appearance and the post office is without information as to her movements, but it is assumed that she is detained to con- nect with the Mystery. It is requested mentioned that as soon as advice is re- ceived notice will be posted at the post office. _ : To CORRESPONDENT:——Revd. H. Pigott your letter received, but too late for this issue, will be published tO-mMOrrow. Agricultural Extention Notes PyBLISHED BY THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION . St. Crolx. May 28th, 1921. " (Continued from yesterday’s Avis.) Beans. For String DBeauns the best to use are varicus pole beans such as Kentucky. Wonder, Hastings Cornfield or Me. Casian Pole Bean. The writer favours the latter, as the pods keep soft until the beans are quite large. Poles should be driven .into the gronnd for the vines to run on. Black Venezuelan bean grows -and bears well. This is a bushy type of bean. When the pods are quite young this makes a good string bean and when older the seed is excellent to use as a vegetable side dish or to cook in soup. Another good hean, the pods of which csn be cooked when young, or the beans alone when older is the Longfellow Six Weeks. Carrots. Good varieties to plant are Sl. RO+2 A NILS the ‘‘Chantenay’’, and the '‘Ox Heart’’. The seed should always be pl: nted direct in the %d_round. - Prepare the land very finely. ake shallow drills one foot apart and in these scatter the seed very thinly. Cover lightly with very fine sifted earth and water, if necessary, until the plants appear. Once the seed has germinated no water except the rainfall will as a rule be necessary. This is one of the easiest and most profitable vegetables to grow.and likewise one of the healthiest to eat. Radishes. These are very easy to raise. The seeds can be sown in rows and transplantedor it may be placed direet in the ground. The plants should be spaced 6 ins. x 2 or 3 ins. apart, and should be pulled while small before they become woody. A erop of Radish ma- tures in 4or 5 weeks. The seed should ltherefore be planted in successive small ors.. .. Parsley. The seed -of this may be sown in the open. ground. It resists drought well and staysa long time on the land without spoiling. = Pumpkins. This vegetable is well known. Bvery old rubbish heap where there is soil and vegetable matter mingled with rubbisp, will grow a hand- some pumpkin vine, and the rubbish heap will. be made an object of beau- ty instead-of offending the eye. There are many varieties, and seed is as a rule readily obtainable from the .neigh- bours. - ; THE VALUE OF INDUSTRY, There is only one real road to wealth and that is industry. By industry an: industry alone can we raise enough food to keep ourselves in good physical con- dition, enough clothes to keep ourselves warm and enough luxuries to keep our- gelves happy. Nowadays people are los- ing sight of the basic fact that wealth is ereated not by ~ages but by work and work alone. Those who obtain wealth in any other way are parasites upon those who work. There are all sorts of ways of working—some work with brawn and others with brain. Each is essential to the ot er—We cannot get along ‘with either alone. Idleness is a crime. Let us get to work and make this world a worth while place to live in. To raise vegetables where formerly we raised none in one way to increase our wealth. Let us then be up and doing. TELEGRA MS. ST. CROIX STATION. Washington, May 27th.—The emergen- cy tariff bill was signed late today by the president. Thenew law will become effective tomorrow. It will affect for a glx months period most farm products and carries a provisicn designed to pre- vent the dumping of foreign goods in the United States, in the event of the passage by Congress of the Long- worth resolution under which the new import duties would become &ective immediately upon introduction of the per- manent tariff Bill, the House leaders said it would natucally supersede the emergen- cy measure which carries only a few items, compared with thousands in the Gen- eral ‘Bill. . The House Republicans plan to meet on Wednesday night to decide whether the resolutions shall be made aparty issue. Brussels, May 27th.- Germany needs evolution, not revolution, said General Ludendorff, former firsf quartermaster general of the German army, and once field marshal Von Hindenburg’s chief of staff, to a correspondent of the ‘‘lnde- pendence Belge’’. ‘‘lt is' madness to think of war against France’’, the gen- eral continued ~we must submit and ex- ecute the peace treaty. After her pros- perity, Germany must know poverty. [t is the best remed’, Work, at home is our need. Work abroad is of secondary importance. Union, or at least coopera- tion by all parties, is needed to give new life to Germany. The press must be or- ganized. The danger of bolshevism still exists. For the moment the bolshevists propaganda is turned towards Asia, but it will return to the charge. Germany will have to support the shock, for Pol- and is in no condition to resist it. Hoylake, May 27th.—W. 1. Hunter of Walmer and Kingsdown, wou the Brit- ish Amateur Golf Championship here today, In the 36 hole final, Hunter de- feated Allan Graham, Royal Liverpool. New York, May 27th.—The break in foreign remittance extends to six eents in sterling bills, and from 10 to 60 points in continental rates especially DutcH French, Belgian, Italian, Swiss, Spanish, and Scandinavian. For parts of a more plausible explanation, dealers here as- cribe reaction in British Bill to heavy selling by German commercial interests in London, and from which centre large transactions in dollars or U. S. exchanrge were reported. Belfast, May 27th. - The unofficial counts cf the votes cast in Tuesday’s elections in the six northern counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone shows that the Unionists received 341,389 votes, the Cinn Feiners 103,£16, the Nationalists 60,762 and the Independent Labour 4,001. There is to be added to :he Unionists vote 3,000 University votes whose bal- lots will be counted Saturday. Victoria, May £7th. —Admiral Edward Martin, C. M. G, R. N. Superintenden: at the Esquimalt Naval Dockyard dur- ing the last year of the war, has died at Yokeham, according to word received here today. New York, May 28th.—Today is a holiday ob the stock, cotton, metal, producing coffee and sugar exchanges here. All local markets will be closed Monday, which is Decoration Day in the United States and a legal holiday.