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kP £B 1x & VIS CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE 8.00. THURSDAY EVENING 8.00. JAMES J. CORBETT FOR (HE LAST TIME : IN _ “THE MIDNIGHT MAN” Extra! Extra! - 4 $ y Lock Lips”. DEALING WITH THE INTER-MARRIAGE OF DIFFERENT RARES. «“TSURU AOKI” Hayakawa’s Wilfe. Goming, Goming. Goming. ~ “THE RED LANE”. ADMISSION: R N s e 30 and 40c. (Gene al Entrance.... Ghlldren 3 and 1()c e L e LOCAL. The Creole arrived here this morning fromn St. Thomas with local mails. Sunday at three p. m. in the Gospel Tabernacle the ordination service of Charles Stanley Mayhew was c~nducted after the following program: The opening bymn was “‘Onward Christian soldiers.”’ Rev. George W. Critchlow offered the opening praver and Mr..Christian Jacobs read the first seripture lesson from Jere- miah 1:1-19. Then followed the hymn ‘‘Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross:’”’ and the second scripture lesson was read by the Rev. Critchlow, frcm 1 Timothy 3:1-16 and ‘‘See the fight is on in its power today’’ was sung. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev. John R. Mayhew, field superin- tendent of the Mission work and only brother to the candidate for ordination: Mr. Mayhew’s theme being ‘A good minister of Jesus Christ,”” the text found in 1 Timothy 4:6. The leading points he gave in sermon were:— 1. Chosen of God. 2 Whom God chooses He :zalls. 3. Whom He calls He qualifies. 4. Some characteristics of a good minister. 5. How the churen should regard God’s minis-er. After the sermon the coragr2gation again sang, '‘Savour, t’is a full surre:- der’’. Then. the Candidate standing. while Supt. Mavhew read to to him from 1 Tim..3:l-7 then follow:2] the silam ad- monition and questions, to which the candidate replied; afrerward kneeling, while the ministers present gathered round him with the laying on of hands : after which the candidate was given a Bible by the Supt. say ng, ‘‘l'ake thou authority to preach the word of God, and to administer the holy sacraments in the congregation,”” then read 2Tim. 4:1-5 and the right hand of fellowship was extended by the ministers. ““A charge to keep I have, a God to glorify’’, was then sung and a short address, ‘‘Charge given to the Church” was deiivered by Rev. Belle B. Burns. The Doxology followed, after which Rev. C. S. Mavhew pronounced the bene- diction. The house was well filled and excel- lent attention was given, this interest- ing service. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. ~Baltimore, March 38rd. President Harding today definitely agmounced the selection of I. Davis of Pitsburg to be Secretagy of Labour and of G. G. Chris- tian jr.,‘to be Secretary t-“the President. Washing ‘~n. Marcel® _rd.—Mr. Wilson formally annou.. ” oday that he would resume the practice of law in partner- ship with Mr. Bainbridge Colby, the re- tiring Secretary of State. The firm will maintain office in New York and Washingtnon. Washington, Mareh 4th.—Efforts to overrule the President’s vote of the Fordney Tariff Bill failed in the House early this morning and the measure originally designed to aid the farmers, thereby met its death. The vote on the motion to pass the measure over the President’s vote, was 201 for and 132 against. s New York, March 4th.—The New York World this morning gives Presi- dent Wilson a warm send off after eight years of administrative service at Wash- ington by publishing messages of praise from eminent statesmen of affairs in all parts of the world including Great Brit- ain, France, Italy, Belgium. Japan, Brazil, and Spain. The comment of political “serman is particularly bitter.. Prince Max of Baden says President Wilson has played false to his own ideal. The cry of those who once loved Wilson must be ‘‘Long live the cause he be- trayed’’. Count Von Bernstorff, ex- German Ambassador at Washington, says he is the last man in the world to write about Wilson bug thank the news- paper for the request. Beriin, March 4th.-The Germar Conr mu nist Party made the ultimatum delivered by the Allies to the German delegation in. London on the ocecasion fora revolution: ary proclamation in which the German working men are caMed on to overthrow the Govt., erect a Soviet State and effect a‘political and economical alliance with Russia. The Communist announced that demonstrations will be held on Sunday. The (CGerman newspapers in their com ment on the Allied ultimatum ‘to Ger- many on reparations are unan.mous in demanding that the Govt. oppose the ultimatum with a ‘‘determined no’’. The ‘‘Tageblatt’’ says it sees no purpose in waiting until Monday, as the amount demanded in the proposals is wholly out of the question. A smaller question is very often more advantageous than a huge one, especially if the latter is some- where on paper or somewhere up in the clouds the Liberal Organ adds: Boersen Zeiting is of the opininn that the decision now rests with the Govt. and the Reichstag assuming that the situa- tion in London precludes fresh negotia- tions. Paris, March 4th. Messages have been sent by the League of Nations Council to Panama and Costa Rica call ng the‘) at- tentiop to the fact that the two Republies are members of the League of Nations