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* Prince,-says a despatch from Athens: today.- s : ‘ 1 : . NEw YORK..Tth. Nov. 1920, Flour, Blencad Clears St. Lawrence ['ran-i ! pr. brl. SB.OO Meal, Kilndried per 100 bs $2.60 : New Season’s Pork per brl. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $30.00 | Sugar---Crystals maximum. per 100 lbs. v $5.76. Molasses ‘ugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upiand, at i.verpool A s ler ~ih,10°92.100d, * - Wxehang2, New York and London, 60 : davs’ sight $3.383 Exchange New York. and London, sight £3.42% : LONDON, Nov. 7th 1920. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt.-controll- - ed price, duty paid 1295. 9d. ‘* Demerara Crystals free of con- + trol. duty paid, 665. -70s. ‘“ Moscovado Govt. costrolled price, _ : duty paid, 1245. 9d. ji & free oi contro) duty paid % 358. -50s. e *5 e eB, : : German Beet 887/ f.o:b. no sales. White Java sugar cif United Kingdom nominal 80s. od. Demerara-Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cecoa, Good Middling Red no- ~ minal per cwt 80s.0d. Cotte Medium Fine Sea Island, at lL.i:- erpool per lb. nominal Bank of England rate of Discount per 7 neentis T, . : Consols. 43§: - ‘ Three per cent rents in Paris Fes. 56.97. All prices subjecet to correction. WHY YOUU ARE WATERPROOF. The human skin. which formsa pro- tective covering over the whole of the ‘body, consists of two layers, an outer one and an inner one. I'he epidermis, or outer skin, is sc constructed that no moisture from out- side can penetrate it so long as the skin itself is not torn or cut. At the same time the pores of the . skin are so formed that the swea' is freely discharged through the skin, thus ventilaiing the bedy and Kkeeping it at an even temperature. If someone could invent a material possessing the properties of the human skin, a material which would keep out all moisture, however heavy the down- pour of rain, and yet allow for the free escape of the heat and moisture of the body, his fortune would be made. —FEv- -eway Lase. : ' i BOIL FOOD THOROUGHLY. An Italian scientist has been making experiments in the domestic laborato.y, that is to say the kitchen. He has been testing the efficacy of boiling and baking as a means of cooking, and he has made ST. CR®LU 1L X A VIS the somewhat startling discovery that it takes two or three times as iong thoroughly to cook a jrint than is zZen- erally supposed. ~ ; A large jeini of salt beef had been three and a half hours in the pot. He took it out, tried its temperature, and found that the center had not yet come anywhere near to bniling point. Then he tried a 10g®und ham and dis- covered that, after it had been boiling steadily for an hour, the temperature in the middle had not reached 140 degrees Fahrenheit. : The importance of this discovery lies in the fact that it takes a temperature of at least 140 degrees to kill disease germs, and as we aw,know meat may, and some- time does, ‘contain a variety of danger- ous germs. —lbid. A CUP OF TEA. The cup of tea with which you re- fresh yourself after your work, has been handed down to you through many generations, and its story is one of the romances of beverages. The Chinese drank' tea in the fourth cerntury, valuing it for ‘‘relievingfatigue delighting the soul, strengthening the - will, and repairing the eyesight.”” It was drunk by the Taoists as an ingre- dient in the elixir of immortality. The Buddhists used it during their long period of meditation to prevent drow- siness. An?eit. must effectively have done so, since their particular concoc- tion was boiled with rice, ginger, salt, orange or lemon peel, spices, and some times onions. In Japan, tea is practically a religion. There are special ceremonies in con- nection with it and special buildings in which it is drunk. Tea has been praised and condemned, and history records that it was even denounced as ‘‘a filthy custom.’’ But it has survived for sixXteen hundred years !|—lbid. ‘ FREE RADIUM TREATMENT FOR CANCER. As one means of conserving the pub- lic health the state of New York has bought $225,000 worth of radium which wili be used in one of the state’s .insti- tutions for treating cancer sufferers free of charge As even the tiniest unable speck of this rare element costs $12,000, the average doctor cannot afford to use it in treating his patients.—The Pathfinder. : JAPAN WILL NEVER FIGHT U S. In a special article in a Japanes newspapef Viscount Kanekn, president of the American-Japanese society, declared there would never be a war. between the. United States and Japan. .for- the reason that neither could accenpi®eh snytbirg. Fist, he asserfs that the United States coculd nev- er land a single man on the soil of Nip- pon, which has never been invaded in all history, though two unsuccessful at- tempts were made by the Mongclians long before Japan had develciecd the na- tional strength she has today. If Japan succeeded in landing maiines in San Francisco, he said, it would ke impessible to transpoirt the milicns of men that would be necessary to suprort them or the supplies to suppert the men. The writer pointea cut that even ii Ja- pan tecok San Francisco and part of the Western (Coast, the United States weuld not be greatly hurt ard ‘‘quite pcssibly New York and Waghingten would pay lit- tle attention to such a trivial incident” The viscount deciared that the .lapan- ese are grateful for shat the Americans did in the time of Commodore Perry who torced the opening of Japap to the world, and that they have nc grudge against Americans in spite of the fact that an anti-Japanese agitation has grown up in Californja and has termi- nated in taking away from the Japanese leasehold and land-owner-ship rights. The heavy majorities in Colifornia in favor ol the restricting measures in -the recent election caused little comment in Japan for reason that the" result was foreseen ana discounted, The questicn is the subject of prolonged disc#ssions between the ambassador of Japan and the United States.- [bid. CONCRETE FREIGIIT CARS Because of the scarcity of steel and iron the Germans have been building ships and freight cars of reinforced concrete as cement, sard, giravel srd iron for reinforcing ecan ke (bigired with con rsratively little c¢iffculty cr expense. Concrete vessels. of 3,000 to 5,000 tons capacity has ginen satisfac- tory service. Concrete freight csrs, it is said, bave withstcod 'rigid tests and it is heped that they will prove of great help in restoring railroad service and overcomingjtransportation difficulties. DR S IS BTR es e NORTEERN Lo ° p: y imited OF LONDON - GEO. L. MARKOE Agent for Frederiksted’s District M. K. ARMSTRONG. Agent for Christiansted’s District Policies are not subject to average