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'Good News! e .| 5 : : : : THE FAMOUS , SEN-SEN CHEWING GUM Throat-Ease and Breath Perfume to be had at CHRISTIANSTED & FREDFERIK- i bl STED APOTHECARY HALLS. % 8 > Better Times Is Coming, Better times IS surely coming, and 1 am going to prove that it is correct. ; . EDITORIAL. - Under official news published in yes- terday’s issue, announcement was made of ar. order providing for the detachment from the Virgin Islands of Major William M. Small, Commanding Officer U. S. M. C. in St. Croix, and we feel it our duty to express the greatest regret with which this news .vas received. During his re- sidence in this Island, Major Smali has ShoWii hiliseis 100 & Tidta GiSClpHDß- rian, and one who could -enforce dicipline around him; his exclusive and keen attention to duty, his careful and judicious methods of dealing with ‘the public wherever he was called upon to act, as well as personal kifidness have won for him popular admiration and re- spect. In discharging the duties of his important office Major Smadl has always maintained the proper dignity so much admired and which reflects gratifying cre- dit, not alone upon himself but upon the great Governmenthe serves. As a man of imposing, soldiery personality, and courtcous mien his familiar figure will be missed by those who met.him on- ly casually, and on our own and on behalf of & large circle of the respecta- ble inhabitanis of rthis” community, we beg to convey to Major Small the sincere appreciation of those who, reposing con- fidence in him at the time of his arrtval in St. Croix, have had only reason to justify that confidence. Our best wishes for a happy and pros- percus career foillow the Major and Mrs. Small in their future life. e LOCAAL. - : The schur. ‘‘Vigilant’’ lgeft‘lasr night for Porto Rico with a shipment of pat. tle. ‘ e The mail-schooner '‘Creole’’ arrived from St. Thomas this morning with mails and passengers. s EXx ayla | To Bagchus (in *'St. Croix Avis”'—Friday July 30th.) | cio. Editor ""Ans’. ; So you have come back, you old heath- | en-god, to pay this world a visit and of | all places yonu have selected little St Croix for yeur re-incarnation. ; N-w, .Bacchus, you will find.this world a very fupny affair compared to how you l knew it in the long ago when you used to flourish. We are'regulated all over and all along from birth to death and it will not be possible even for you todo . just as you like. There are police-regu- lations, there afe sanitary regulations. (Don’t spit on the floor, Bacchus!), there are cemetry regulations, there are postal | regula ions, there are school regulations, there are regulations governing offieials, | there are even regulations for the Coloni- al Council and lots of other regulations. You can hardly stretch your leg without | knocking against some regulation. : So don’t you expect, old Bacchus, that you can do as you like, not evenin St.= Croix. Remember, you ran’t walk a- | broad with only your skin on as you used to do in the long, long ago. You can not wake up the town at night, as once you did, when you came home from your | sprees with your Satyrs and Bacchautes. | Should you plan to ride abouat on a Clifton | Hill or Hogensburg rum-puncheon, iike | you used to ride on the wine-barrels away back in Greece, it would have to be an | . empty one and ifyou do it at night. you | would have to carry a lantern. People | can’t have free fights as they used to | have =in Greece, and Agia M nor and Rome in your days. You remember the | Greeks and Trojans, Bacchus, have their champions—Achilles and Hector—first had it out with their tongues, how they | bragged and cracked up themselves, they | abused each other for hours and hours and then went for. each other with | swords and spears. And all this in pub- | lic, just outside of Troas. You can’t | do things that way now-a-days. ' But yon may fight with your pen, and . | you can even fight in suchaway, that | nobody knows it is you that is fighting. | See -how far we have advanced ! There | are newspapels. See a newspaper, you | can put out your tongue at your father. and he~wouldn’t know itis you whois doing it. It isa wonderful thing this, which we call writing ananymously or | under a pseudonym. You can praise ¢r abuse, you can flatter or slander, you can speak the truth or tell lies, make all kind of statements and insinuations, even | that sweet honey (don’t you like honey, ! Bacchus? and nobody knows it is you | who is doing it, except the man whois | caned the '‘editor’’ and he locks away | his knowledge in bis sStiong biain of | hides it in his secret files. G 5 ol But I am glad to see you are different, you are not like the others, you do not | belong to the bunch that squirts. per- fume or fling stones or mud tfrom behind the editor’s broad sheltering back. You are different, you® have signed your name ‘‘Bacchus’’, and even make your bow in.doing so—''Re- spectfully Bacchus’’. But let me tell youa thing or two. Yeu are behind the times and as you have been away suck a long time you get yourself all tangled up when you write about present day affairs. .You say, icr instarce -that ‘‘the legally expressed will of the Colonial (ouncil is the supreme law’’. Not by a long shot. Bacchus! There is ajGoverner, who hgs to sarction or who can veto what you call '‘the supreme law’’. There is the Uinited States Senate, there lis the Supreme Court, there is what}is called ‘‘The Constitution of the United States’’, all of| them supremer than the Colonial Coungil. But we must excuse you old-timer for not knowing this—How could you! And then you seem to think that ‘‘Prohibi- tion’’ is a thing hatched out by what you call the ‘‘“UltraTheologians’’, whether by Ultra Theologians in St. Croix or else- where you do not seem to have quite de- cided yet. But there you are wrong again. Os course, you can’t be expected to know that Prohibition has become and is now a part of the Constitution of the United States, made so by the expressed will of a large majority of the people. "And itben as o ihe clergy, religious societies, theologians, supernatual be- ings, blessed ones, how could we ever hope that you, old heathen-gud that you are, will understand.or appreciate them and much less ®ove them. It is to be ex- pected that you will pour out bitterness and gall upon them, although you do it in a most confuged manner and mix up your metaphors terrifically. One more thing, Bacchus. Remember you are a foreigner. You originated ages ago somewherein the Near East’and this in the '‘Far West’’ which it took old man Columbus a leng time to reach, and before he could reaeh it he had to make the egg stand on end, a trick you surely never would have been able to turn. Now listen, Bacchus. Beware of those whom you probably consi ier your friends those who are; fighting from behind the . editor’s back and don’t show themselves. They all, Abstainer, The few Modérates and others, are down on the foreigner and of all the foreigners you are the “furreignest’’. Before you know it, they may be down on you and say ‘‘go you foreigner’’! This is what I fadvise you too .‘Git”’. Take a hedd long plupge down to the place you came from, by whatevar name they call it, and we will put on the iid- tight* so that you can .never come up again, : : aAnd now, that yoi may not-feel lopely as a ‘name-signer’’ in the ‘Avis’' I am going to sign my name toor Bye, bye, Bacchus. -~ P-BARTELS.