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\"/ N 74T / oy | : /7 ; ! AA . 1 ’ 7 = n ‘ !\t « \‘i‘;/EE \IT A\WY G ) ‘ i R | | T:m || \ SR i\ L 1\) | gy, iL® .\\\\\_/1,//’ N AN, N\ @\\/ ,@ \Y AR </\ s 75TH YEAR. THE ST. CROIX AVIS | is printed and published daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. .Johansen | at the Avis Office. i TERMS---50 cents monthly wm advance, | 2 cents per single copy. 1 o MR ntered as second-class matter May | 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- | whed, St . Cyrore, V. L ofthe U5. A, un | der the Act of March 3. 1879 I | Contridution to this paper will be glud- | Ly recoivd whon th: same d2als with mat- ? ters of yeneral interest, and s accompa- i nied with the author’s name, as ¢« quar- | antee of good faith. The editor cannot be | responsible for the views of his correspon- | dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. E SUGAR NOTES. l - The latest report has it that the Danish government will take over the sugar factories for 22,540.000 kronen. Rumours have been aflot for some time that the government would take over the indus- try because ilt has exercised a very high | control of the situation for a number of | years. The Danish people do things, however, very much on the communal order and have the finest system of co- | operation of any Kuropean country and | 1t is believed that there will be distinet | advan:ages when this. monopoly so to speak’shall come into power. —Loutstana Planter. | The leaders in the beet industry in | (lzecho-Siovakia are planning to pay 30 kronen per quinial for sugar beets of | which 4 kronen shall be retained to be | used as fertilizer to be returned to the | soil. This is a rew wrinkle in the econo- | mic way of handling a situation'and has | not come to our attention before, This | , blan preven's robbing the soil and has in ' it the old element of the tithe practiced | by the Hebrew peopie who after a given | period of years had to fallow their land | to insure better crops.—lbid. | | PALM SUGAR IN BRAZIL. % —_——— | In jcommon with many other palms, | writes the United States Consul at Rio | de Janeiro, Nipak fructificans contains | sugar in quantity sufficient to .make its | exlraction a commercial success. It is | estimated that at least 12 per cent of su- | gar could be recovered from the sap, and that an average annual yield of 4,000 | pallons of sap per acre would yield 4,000 CHRISI'ANSERD. V. LIB A.. THURSDAY, 10tH JUNE 1920, lbs of sugar. This palm is found in great nuftbers in Borned. In Brazil, in the Amazon basin, the Indians prepare for their feasts and powwows a beverage from the sap of a great number of palms but it is not known to what species these palms belong, or if any experiments were made to determine their sugar content. Rubber cutters and travelers agree that “palm wine’’ is very refreshing as long as too strons a fermentation has not set in. -~ rom The Journal of the Royal So- ciety of Arts.e g NOBODY WANTS KAISER’S AUTO. LONDON THEATRICAL PRODUCER CAN’T SELL ORNATE ‘VEHICLE ABROAD. LLONDON. —DBallet girls of London’s big- oest musical success are riding home on cushions mean. for the ex-imperial limbs of the ex-Kaiser., The most sumptuous car in the world, seized as Hohenzollern property by the British Government at the outbreak of the war is now owned by Gladys Dillon, revue producer. Miss Dillon has owned the car for a year, but wouldn’t hive had it a week if she could have scld it. It came to her trom a Norwegian, together with a yacht once raced by the Emperor Wil- heim. Both were bought by the Nor- wegian at public 'auction. After trying to pay their unkeep for three years he presented them to Miss Dilion. NOBODY WILL BUY IT The ear is so nfagnificent that nobody will buy It. it sgats 10 people and can hold 15. It has combined dinner and card table in the rear, with seats for seven arranged around it. In tae back is a cellerette and an installation where- by lunches ecan be cooked at a short order. The carriage, including the dri- ver’s seat, whiek accommodates three, is in mahogany four inches thick, inlaid with silver in oienta! design. Sunken opaque lights supply the illumination. The floor is parquet oak. Silken cur- tains conceal the windows, which are protected by sheit glass an inch thick. The engine of4tle car is 70 horse- power. IS MOST LUXURIOUS On armist:ce aight Miss Dillon ven- tured to appear in the car at the Criteri- on restaurant. - Hooligans from the east end surroanded it and made such a dis- turbance that a policeman turned ina riot call, and an armed squad had to escort the car back to its garage. Since then the onlv use to which it has been NoO. 132, put has been to convey members of Dil- lon’s theatre to their homes at night.-- Barbados Globe, 10th May. xecutlvg r Br 011 1. Executive Order No. 14-1918 lis hereby revoked. 2. In the future all prisoners dis- charged irom Richmond Penitentary, who have served for a period of six months or more shall be furnished with: 1 plain suit of clothes. 1 shirt and one ecap or hat. 1 pair of socks and one pair of shoes. 3. Prisoners discharged from Rich- mond Penitentiary who have served therein one year or more shall hereafter also receive twenty five francs in cash for each year or portion of a year over six months that they were incarcerated in said penitentiary. 4. Prisoners discharged from Rich- mond Pe itentiary who have served therein for a period of less than one year shall hereafter also receive such sum in cash as may be ordered by the Diector of Police, but not to exceed francs twenty five. 5. The expenses incurred by virtue of paragraphs 2,3, and 4, hereof shall be paid from ‘‘Maintenance ot Police De- partment’’. 6. Such cash payment shall be made by eheck from the Despatching Secre- tary’s office upon voucher signed Ly the prisoner being discharged, and approved hy the Director of Polic:. J. W. OMAN, Governor. St Phomas ¥ 1. L. 8 May 28, 1920 PART&ES indebted to W. L. Hor- ton for books purchased arc requested to pay the instalments due to the undersizned without delay, as otherwise legal steps will be taken for enforcing payment. A. k. STAKEMANN, Lawyer. ' 2B 1920).