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Coamo of th» Porio Rico Line. She will carry both pa sengers and freight and will touch at both San Juaan and Ponce, Santo Domi ;go ports and ports ‘n Haiti, covering practically the same route as the old President of the Hamburg- Amer- ican Line. She is expected to mukea round trip of all these pertsin two waeks. Finlay, Waymouth & Lee are the agents ’for the Royal Mail in San Juan. lhe Royal Dutch West India Mail, operatipg from Amsterdam, announced a monthly service this week throuzin its agents Sucs. de L. Villamil & Co. It is understood that to begin with this com- pany will operate chiefly freight steam- ers although passenger service later may be established. Ships of the line are ex- pected to touch here once each month on the outward trip from Europe and if cargo is offered they will also tovch at Porco Rican ports on th2 return voyage. ~=Port: Hico Progress. BRYAN LEAGUE TO BOOM GERARD. Resurrected Te Baek W. J. B. It Swings to the For- mer Ambassador. “LAUNCHING”DINNER LACKING A SPONSOR. NEW YORK, Jan. 16th.—The Bryan league of New York, resurrected a few days ago for the ostensible purpose of booming William .fennings Bryan for the presidency, tcday announced it had swing around in support of Jamzas W. Gerard, rormer ambassador to Germany, who has filed in South Dakota bis formal notice for the Democratic nomination. prank H. Warder, one of the leading members of the league, declared today that **Mr. Gerard is the onlv avowed can- didate betore the presidential priinaries and the Biyan league believes that he oug t to receive the unanimous noniina- tion at the national convention.”’ Thomas Nenies Dinner. Warder added that Augustus Thomas a lifelong friend of Bryan, intended to give a dinner here on Jan. 15 to launch the boom ®and that the speakers would in- clude Secretary of the Navy Daniels &and Bishop Charles Summer DBurch. ' Mr. Thomas denied tonight that he had anything to de with sponsoring the new “*Gerard boom. ‘] have nothing to do,”” he said, “‘with the launching of a Gerard boom nor the bursting of a Bryan boom. Mr. Thomas said that he was to speak at a dinner of the Holland Society ac the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Jan. 15, the date was mentioned by Mr. Warder, but deelared he contemplated saying nothing of political significance either for or against Mr. Bryan or Mr. Gerard. The « Boston' Herald, Jan. 7th. . . ST CROUIT»E AN LIS BIL.I. FOR RETURN OF U. 8. DEAD FROM FRANCE Washineton, Jan. 6.—A biil directing the secretary of war to arrange for the return at government expense of the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines now buried in Europe where the removal has been requested by the next of Kin was introduced today by Senator Harris Democrat, Georgia. and referred to the military®committee.—lbid. ° ® s : ALL HUNGARY PREY TO TERROR Atrocities Compared with Worst in History —Wars of Religion Recalled More Than 500 Slain In The Provinces Berne, Jan. 6rh.—Trustworthy and in- dependent witnesses, both Swiss and Drit- -Ish, who have just returned from Buda- pest, give remarkable accounts of the barbarity oi the present Hungarian ru- lers, who, they all declare, are in no wise better than their Bolshevist predecessors. Whoever is suspected of the slightest sociaiistie leanings isimpri-oned. tortured and finally executed. Public executions have become a daily spectacle in “Buda- pest, for which tickets are sold at sever- al hundred Kronen each, and yet tickets are aiways 00 lew. Fearful Atrocities.® The National Zeitung of Basle says: ““The most fearful atrocities of history and of wars of religion are being repea- ted in the Hungavian Capital ”’ In the Hungarian provinces, says the National Zeitung, the terror is still worse tor there the 2ntente missions are absent and war on all cuiture and delight in ali brutality proceed unchecked. The num- ber of victims is impossible (o esiimate accurately, but an estimate considered moderate puts them at more than 5000, many <f whom have been cnildren, old men and women. Ina wood in one of the provinces more than 100 mutilated corpses were found. The opinion of itrpartial investigators on the spot is that tie allies must eon- trive to interfere immediately and vigor- ously so as to put an end to the oresent reign of terror in Hungary. [lbid. TON OF RUTTER A& MINUTE. The butter industry of the United States is so large that more than a ton of burter was made for every minute day and night, last year, according to the dairy specialists of the Unitec States Depar:ment of Agricuiture. Yet even this enormous pro uction <carcely meets domestic needs. - The output of factory butter has in- creas<d approximately 200,000,000 pounds each 10 years since 1880. Farm butter- making reached its maximum production about 1900. The present trend Indicates that it will become a less and less impor- tant {actor in the nation’s butter supply, being superseded by the factory produet. Produetion of the factory butter in the United States shows a more rapid gen- eral upward trend than is observed in any foreign countly from which depend- able butter figures have been obtained. The number of such countries, however, is relatively small. Production of rero- vated buter in the United States is de- clinlng. This condition evidently results from reduced supplies of low-quality farm butter, the chief produet from which renovated butter is made.— Everyday Lase. TRAINS WITHOUT WBEELS. The time may soon come when we shall all be travelling 10 and from our work in trains without wheels. This may seem a rather startling prephecy, but the idea is by no mecans new, and the present . troubles of railway transport have forced it to the front as a ponssib:e solution of our difficulties But thow can a train p ssibly travel without wheels?--one will naturaily ask. The answer is quite simzie. The reader has doubtless often noticed that when two pieces of wet glass are placed togeth- er thev slip about and glide over each other with perfect ease. This is explained by the f-¢&t that the: two pieces of glass are not really touch- ing each other, but are separated by a thin film of water, on which thev glide or float withourt the least {riction. Direectly the water is ail squeezed out, the pieces- of glass stick together and are not easily moved. This is the underlying principle of the wherl-less train. A French envineer has invented a method of veplacine the wheels by means of hyvdraulic skatss or shoes which glides over flat r ils, and between the skates and Ihe rails a film of water under pressure is interposed As the water escapes. it is recovered again by suction, and passes back into the water reservoir, The train really slides aiong on s film of water and magnets are used as g means of propulsion. Since there is po friction in this method. a speed of a Lun- dred miles an hour or more can be ob- tained without much effort. [Furthermore nc¢ brakes are required, for by shuttine off the water upply the tr in immediately comes to a standstill. Ibid ; T @ ' a% ; 0 ~ © v Bargain! Bargais! MEAL! MEAL!! MEAL!!! Fresh 2 ibs. 15 cis. PLOUR 2 L,BS. 19 cts: AT THE DANISH AMERICANGROCERY.