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cipality, and serve! once as Chairman of this legisiative body; a faithful member of the Duteh Reformed Church, and cf the Harmonic uLodge. To the bereaved daughters and son, The Bulletin tenders its heartfelt sym- pathy in their sad bereavement. The funeral takes place at b o’clock this afternoon. —St. Thomas Bulletin, Sept. 16th MUNICIPAL TELEPHONE The new municipal telephone system is nearing completion. This work has been held up somewhat due to delays in the arrival of essential material arriv- i:g in .poor condition thereby necessi- {ating replacement. The new system entirely replaces the old. The only part of the old system that -could be used in tife aew in- stallation was the telephone instruments, some telephone poles, erossarms,’ insu- lators, and some of the line wire that will be salvaged {'he old system using one wire and a oround has been replaced by a system of complete metallic circuits. This eon- tails justtwice as muech wire in the sys- tem as in the old installation, but it elimi- nates the so-called ‘'Cross talk,”’ and gives better results in general. With th-. cables on the back sheet all telephone poles on the narrow part of Main Street between the Grand Hotel and the Market will be eliminated. The use of the cable also idoes away with the old wiring which was jcontinually being entangied and zrossed, especially after wviidy weather. A new switch board, especially manu- factured for tropical use, nas been secur- ed It has 3 capacity of three hundred lines. This, it is bz2lieved will take care of all present needs. The old board of two hundred lines capacity will be over- hauled and held ready for future expan- sion. This wiil give he new system an ultimate capacity of five hundred tele- phones, just itwo and one half times that on the old system. The present phones will be gradually transierred to the new system without any interruption of service. During this period of transition, however, there will probably be numerous crosses and errors in calling aumbers due to the in conveniences resulting from temporarily operating twe switech boards. The tele- phone service vequests the forbearance of the customers in these matters un- til the new system is entirely in opera- tion.—The Fomancipator, September 17th. TELEGR A MS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, September 18th.—Mr. Lloyd Georg? in a telegram sent today to Mr. De Valera says: ‘‘lhave received your telegram of last night and observe it does not modify your claim that your ST C 8 9313 A& ) | delegates should meet us as representa- tives of a sovereign and independent state. You made no such condition when you came to see me in July. [ invited you then to meet me, in the words of my letter, as the chosen leader of the great majority of Southern Ireland and you accepted that invitation. From the very outset of our conversations I told you that I looked to Ireland to own al legiance to the throne and to make her future as a member_ ot the British com- monwealth. That was ithe basis of our proposals and we cannot alter it, The status you now eclaim in advance for your delegates is in every way a repudiation of that basis. I am prepared to meet your delegates, asI met you in July in the capacity of the chosen spokesman for your people, to discuss the associa- tion of Ireland with the British com- monweaith. My colleagues and 1 can- not meet them as representatives of a sovereion and independent state with- out disloyalty on our part to the throne and the Empire. I must therefore re- peat that, until the second paragraph of your letter of the twelith instant be withdrawn, a conference between us is impossible.”’ Dublin, Sept. 18th. —Mr, De Valera in replving yesterday to Mr. Lloyd George, says: '‘ln reply to your last telegram, just received, I have only to say we have already accepted your in- vitaticn in the exact words which you requote from my letter of the 17th. instant. We have not asked you to abandon any prireiple, gven informally, but surely you must understand we can on- ly recognise ourselves tor what we are. If this seif-recognition be made the rea- son for the ecancellation of the confer- ence we regret, bat it seems incon- sistent. | have already had conferences with you and Lin these conferences and in my written communications I have never ceased to recognize myself for what I was and am. If these inv.lved recognition on vour part, then you have already recognized us, ard had it been our desire to add to the solid substance of lieland’s right the veneer of the technicalities of international usage which you now inirodnce, we might have claimed already the advantage of all these cousequences which you fear would flow from the rcception of our delegates now. Believé me we have but one ob- ject at heart, the setting up of. a con- ference on such a basis of trust and reality as would make it possible to se- cure, through it, the result which the peoples of these islands so ardently de- sire.”’ DEMANDS EX-KAISER’S SCURREN- DER In the House of Commons Horatio Bot- tomley, best known as an anti- American agitator, demanded the extradition from Holland of the former German kaiser, He said if the Duteh r2fused to surren- der him, and the British government found itself unable to deal with the mat- ter effectiveiy, then the government’ should m:ke way for men of sterner stuff.”” There was also in parliament a great deal sf criticism of the trials at Leipzig of the Germans accused of viola- ting the ‘rules of civilized warfare. Sir Earnest Pollock who .reprosented the government at those rials said that when the Italian cases came up the law- yvers of the various allied nations were goine to get together and decide as to the true view to be taken of the trials. He called attention to the ract that this is the first time in hi~icry that a deteated nation has been !called on to try her own men for violation of the rules of war. —- The Pathfinder. DOGS EAT LABORATORY GLANDS The collection of thyroid giands care- fully prepared by Dr. Voronoff of Paris for the purpose [of restoring youth were eaten by his dogs when the door was carelessly left open by an attendant. Most of the glands were taken from monkeys after long and painful prepara- tion while one had been secured frem a ram The doctors supply of monkeys had been exhausted and it will take six months o more thefore othe:s can be sec- ured and made readv Operations avhich were to have been periormcd on rich English and Americans have gone to the dogs: and they jmust have been success ful for there is not a dog gcne. Every dog has his day, but Di. Vorondfl’s dogs evicently felt, they should have their dog days indefinitely prclonged. - Ibid. CZAR’S COUSIN KILLSSELF - Paris was startled whep the dead body of Prince Nikato Il.etaneff Rostensky, second cousin tof the late czar of Russia, was found in the Bois de Boulogne. In the pocket of the prince was the follow- ing note: ‘''My czaris dead, My coun- try is ruined. Finding that grief cannot be drowned, I die.”” f[he young and bil- liant Romanoff left his military eommand and fled to Paris when the revolution broke out, and after selling his family jewels he tried to forget his sor.ows in the gay- eties of the Frerch city. At the time of his death he had spent all of his fortuns, a0 . OPTICAL AIDL. Send us your order, broken lens or prescription through the mails. F. M. COKNELIRG, St. Thomas, V. 1.