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raa b UR B K %s Bank of England rate of Discount per cént. 7. : Censols 46, Three per ecent rents in Paris Fes. 57.55. All prices subjecet to correction. VICENTE BALBASY AGAIN WORKS FOR INDE®*NDENCE. Vicene Balhas Capo former editor ol the Heraldo Espanol, and now editor of La Gaceta, published in New York, 1s azain in San Juan where he hopes to arouse interest in the support of che La- bour-Farmer party in the United States which has promised independence for Porto & Rico when it wins. *Domin- go Callazo was a candidate for Congress in one of the New York City distriets on the ticket of this party. One way that Don Vicente proposes to get support for his party in the United States is to have everybody ip Porto Rico write to those Porto Ricans in the United States urging them to support. the La- bor-Farmer party. Once the party gets in power, which won’t be for four years more. 2t least, then Porio Rico will be given independence, according to Don Vicente. s Don Vicente was am.ng the 288 na- tives of tne Island who declined Ameri- can citizenship in'l9l7. During the war he was tried in the Federal Court for pubiishing articles in Heraldo Espanol against the draft in Porto Rieo. The Court of Appeals set aside the verdiet of guilty of the -Feleral Distriet Court. Porto Rico Progres, Dec. 10th. B - VAKING EDUCATION INTEREST- ING It seems to be the conviction of those responsible for the eduecation of the youth of the United States that, in order to improve the results being obtained. it is necessary to take such steps in the system of imparting knowledge as will make education interesting to the pu- pils. With this object in view we read somewhere that, as a part of the perma- nent school system motion pictures have been jadopted by the New York Board of Eduecation The ‘‘movies’”’ will be used -to teach biology, geography, Eng- lish ard other subjects suited for this new form of presentation. Offieial New York is intensively conservative in edu- cational matters. This innovation is therefore, most significant as a trend of the times. . Describing the teaching of lessons be- forea class in school by the films, the New York Times says : . : Under the general title of *‘The Adup- tation of Animals to '‘Environment’’ the praying mantis wereshown among grass- es, the insects hardly distinguishable un- til they sat up and folded their front legs in the attitude which has gained them their names. Scorpions, earwigs and sgiders followed in succession on the Loondon, <Jan. 4th.—Sugar in stock.on . the Ist inst. was 123,000 .tons without iverpool Last year 58,000 tons. Londor, Jan. 3rd. —Pussyfoot Johnson, the American "‘Dry’”’Campaigner, stated | to an interviewer at Bradford the other day that he was very well satisfied with the Seottish results, which meant the closing-down of 293 saloons in Secetland.- Asked how long it would take to make Britain "‘Dry’’, Mr. Johnson said he be- lieved England. Ireland, Scotland and Wales would be bone-dry .in fen years. ihe Cambridge Union, the well-known University Society, neld a debate recent lv.on prohibition and voted against 't 211 to 204. New York, Jan. 3rd.—A match for the’ ciiess championship of the world and a hurse of $20,000 will be held at Havuna 51 March 10th between a Capablanca of- - and Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Berlin, (*cor Ing to announcement made here today. [To2 two graatest axperts of the came have agreed to all arrancements made for the contesi which will consist of 8 to 24 games. New York, Jan. 4th.—Raw sugar was | firmer today and prices advanced 1/8 io | the basis of 4% ets. for Cuba’s cost snd | reight, equal to. 5.52 for centfifugal. | "here were sales of 3,000 bags of San Uomingo’s @ 44e. cif., equal to 5.52 for | centrifugal. A little better enquiry was | noted for refired. Prices were steady at 7.90 to 8.00 for fine granulated. The twmuess in raws led to quite active cov- eiing in sugar futares and prices at noon | were b .o 18 points higher. NEW YORK., -Jan. sth 1920 | “lour, Blended Clears St. Lawrence I<rand pr. brl. SB.OO. | Meal, Kilndried per 100 s $2.40 - New Season’s Pork per brl. $37.00 f tieavy Mess Pork per bbl. $29.00 § sugar---Orystals maximum per 100 lbs | , .52, Molasses Sugar 89° tesi, no quotation. | Cotton, Middling Upiand, at iiverpoo! | per lb. 9 53-100 d. t’xchange, New -York and London, 60 | e " days’ sight $3.56 | i’xchange New York and London, sight | $3.59f | » LONDON, Jan. sth 1920. | Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- l .ed price, duty paid 1295. 9d. | " Demerara Crystals free of con- | trol, duty paid, 60s. 655. 3 " Moscovado Govt. coatrolled price, | duty paid, 1245. 9d. i - ** free o1 control duty paid | - 818 = dle. o g £ fine 755. i ;erman Beet 88°/¢ f.o.b. no sales '; White Java sugar. cif United Kingdom | - nominal 425. od. ’ Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. - ‘lrinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red no- | minal per cwt 725, ‘7ss. ! Cotto Medium Finé Sea Island, at Liv- erpool per lb. nominal - screen, the owl -blinkgd rapidly to show ° his third eyelid and-the children, warned by the eaption that Mr. Owl was so equip- ped, murmured : ““Where ?’’ “Where ?’, . Oh,I seeit!” in small voices which indicated that they were hardly consci- ous that they had spoken. The sereen showed the owl ‘with extended wings and the caption slid into the receptive small minds the-fact of the absolutely ~ silent ,flight 'of the owl’s wings. The lightning like dart of the toad’s tcngue on which it depends for insects and worms, flashed -on the screen. = The cad- dis worm whipped out and nipped his prey and then appeared to dissolve into his protective background. : , Remarkable views were shown also of plant life, Nature’s work of days being reproduced in a. few minutes. For in- ~ stance, roses were seen opening from buds to full bloom. The school ipupils crush enthusiastical- : ly to see the educa'ional films. being last acted to follow details closely. Their delight at this form of education will shock those who believe that. all good medicine for yeungsters is bitter.- *‘But . the day must come,” says the Montreal . Star, ‘‘when sanity will prevail in the . schools and thechildren will be enconur- ~aged .in the view that .intellectual im- provement is not necessarily dull and | dreary.”” —Barbados Globe, Dec. 6th. COLORS AND BODILY CONDITIONS. A certain doctor in America is respon- . sible for the statement that our bodies are a compound of colors, and that dis- ease is an unbalanced condition cf eolor, says Answers. When a person is ill, medicines are used to restore them to normal health. These medicines or drugs disengage some hues from others, and thus effect a cure. | In health the hodily conditiors are pro- portionately balanced, whereas distur- bance of this balance produces disease. . To establish this balance the lacking col- or must be administered, or the inereased - one reduced. Thus a person suffering from bpmla“ia takes quinine, ¢nd the | blue wave >f which the quinine is com-- ' posed drives the fever out ; Emotions and mental conditions are | also represented hy colours. Sone of ' these are—orange, denoting jeualousy: | magents, lové; blue, intuition: and red, . anger. The last probably accounts for ' the expression seeing '‘red’’ a term used - so frequently in describing the feelings . of an angry person.— Ibid. ~ For Sale. -~ House Plants. Cdll and see them. - ! MRS. CHAL. OLIPHANT.