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CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. Von Sehovnhoven and nep- hew, through this medium bey lo thank all kind friends for the many merks of sympathy and attention chown them, during the illness and death of the lute Wiliam Lee Pen- theny. ISN Bisewhere ig this issue we reprint from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle an arti- cle relating to the birth and growth of a two-pound baby. It will doubt- less bhe read with considerable in- terest. However, when our editor visited Coney Island N. Y. gin 191 he saw in the ncibaior there a haby weighing but 14 ounces which the drciors told him they were endeavour- ing to save by the help of science. The infant in that case was not longer than the average hai d and its head about the size of a tiny medallion. Qur news item concerning the Bolivar as pubiished yesterday was based on a misunderstanding. The boat arrived at Frederkisted only this morning and will call here today. Mails close in this town atloa m. 5 Two navy hydroplanes, the AGOOUL and A6HY2 arrived here vesterday afternoon having encireled the island, and are now anckbored in this harbour. Our people 4 e having their first look at a real flyinz ma- chine and crowds are attracted to inspoct these. The '‘Contdcook,”” U. 53 N., a sort of tug, arrived at this port this morning. We have been asked to mention that the Native Brass Band will givea con- cert on the wharf this evening, 2-Pourd Miracle Baby, Alier Months in incubator, Is on Road to Healthy Wemanhood The smallest baby who ever lived in this city is claimed by the Long Island Collegae Hospital. Aftera four months fight, physicians declare, the tiny scrap of humanity now has every chance of growing to Healthy wemanhood. The little garl, who is regarded as a miracle baby, was born at six and a half months and weighed 960 grammes, alittle less than two pounds Her. head was the size of an egg, her feet the size of a woman’s thumb, and she measured less than 12 inches in length. This baby is Theresa Schuster, daught- ST CROIX .AVIS er of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schuster, of 325 Henry St. Today sbhe-tips thascales- at five paunds eizht ou-c:s. Born on Septembér 8. ‘it was touch anl go with death for the first twn months “while. the physicians used every means [if: their power to- keep the -tiny flame of life ‘burning. The baby was piaced in a specially designed incubator such as is used at the hospital with a svonge in the bottom to keep -the baby from "'dry- ing out” on the same principle as a humidor. ileat was suppiied by electric light bulhs. ) The baby was so tiny that her dizes- tive organs had not tully matured and she con!d not tell the difference be- tween breathing and swallowing. Her natural tood was too rish for her and had to be diluted with 50 percent of wa- ter. The doctors tried har with a meadi- cine dropper, but the baby breathed the milk into her iuogs and turned biue. She was turnel upside down and the milk shaken qut after which she was said throuzh a tub 2 of soft rabher direet- ly iho the sthomach It was fed through the tube every two bhoars, but 15 days after birth her life was still despaired of and the little mite hhd a tempera- ture of 10! degreas, when 13 tempera- ture should have been 93, - Fourteen days after the baby was born —slie was one of twins. ber little sister dying at hirth-—-the mother left the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster have been married eight years and were eager to have a .child. Mrs. Schuster is 29 her husband 23. The mother’s hope and anxiety moved the physicians to take an even-greater. interest .in the case, and when Mrs. Schusier took her Jittle girl home on Christmas Eve, it was the hapoiest day of her life. On that date the weight of the baby was 44 pounds, : ¢ : Acceording to medical authorities babies weighing less than three pounds are not considered to have a fighiing chance for life which makes Theresa’s case one of profound interest to the medical pro-. session. The Long Island College H)spi- tal bas broken a record. It established one last year when out 500 babies born only 24 died. A great mary of these had something abnormal about them yet the infant mortality was neverthe- less very low. Theresa lay in her pink quilt basket yesterday her blue eyes looking at life rat!'er quizzically, Mrs. Schuster took the baby back to the hospital on- Wednesday when her weight was five pounds eight ounces. On Tuesday the little mite was exactly four months old, the physicians said that all danger is ever. She must be carefuly- ly guarded and fed but she has the same chance [or life and health -now as aay other little baby despite the tremendous handicap with whieh she faced the world.—Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan 6th. - TELEGRAMS:: . . :-. ST.- CROIX-STATION. "~ Londoii, Jan. 18:h.~Perhaps. the sen- sation of teday is ihe Wiiston Church- ill .manifesto, which eonstitutes him the pivot of 2 movéement (hat has<been lang fomenting to “keep iabour.out.”- His enslaught probably comes too lote to effect its object, but-it willfocus a large body of opinion in the country and bring him into line with Lord Birkenhead and other adlierents of that- movement who are working actively to bring about a new centre pariy, made up of both Con- servatives “and liberals. disagreeing with tike present official Liberal poliey of helping Labour into office. 1t is consid- ered exceedingly improbabie that the Commors will adopt the course Mr. Churebill recommends. Mr. Churchill’s manifesto begins by stating. “'The cur- rents of party weliar2 are carrying us ail inro Ydangerous witers. Ihe eothrone- ment in ofiice of a Soeialist Goveroment will ne a seriou: national misfpriune, such as has usualiy befallen great states only on the morrow of defeat and war, It will place both (he Liberais vnd Labour parties in a thoroughly unfaviurable position. The Likeral Party will be led into supporiing the Sociaiists, whom they have just been fighting in the bundreds of constituencies’’. Puiniing out that the Labour leaders must be weil awvare tnat if they have recourse to the rem dies in which they believe they will b 2 irame- diately disinissed. Mr. Churchill says “ifthey are eager for cffice under these unfair conditions, it can only be because they see in the prestiee of office and in tie assunption of administraitve power the means of preparing and shapiag issues in the near future for a far greater political convulsion thaw we have yet experi: enced’”’. Declaring that it would b 2 to jay too heavy and too invidious a _burden on the sovereign tp expect that the King should refuse dispensatin to a Labour Government, Mr. Churehill continues “‘general election issues fundamental to the existing state ol society” and pre- sided over by a sociaiist Governmen’ ac- tually holding the reins of othee wili be a formidable event. But it is the conclu- sion and eclimax towards which, at the present moment, the oflicials of all par- ties are obstinately marching’’. Warn ing that sirife and tumult, deepening ana darkening, can only be the consiquence of a minority Steialist rule, Me Churchiil contends that such a developinent is not inevitable, and that i is the business of the House of Commons, now electad, 10 express its whole inind and to relieve the Crown by every po-sible means trown the difficulty of controversy. The House, he pcints out, is the c¢ntire master of its procedure in this matter, and can readily give effect to its wishes whatever they may be.” He then uhfolds his proposed plan, which is that after the Ciynes :mwendment has bzen adopted the Com- mons should resume its debate on-oiher