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garthguakes casn year. This is shown by reports sent to the weather bureau, United States department of agrieniiare, from the large number oi stations wiich it maintains in various parts of the coun- try, and from its voluntary cooperators who send in notices of earthguakes ob- served in their respective localities, The nuthber of diSturbances last year was 87, and the number reported the previous year was 127. A very large proportion of these, of coursg, are so slight as to be entively unnoticed by the pubiic. O . the Pacific Coast slight earth tremeors are of sufficient frequenecy to cause no comment whatever. The majority of quakes re- ported are {rom tnat region. One surprising fact, however, shown by the smmmary of earthquake reports for 1919, which has recently been pre- pared, is that more than a score of these disturbances occurred in tne Mississlppl Vaiiey. The region comprising Southern IHinois, Western Kentucky and Western Tennessee experienced 20 quakes, whiie one was recorded in-Northeastern Mis- souri, two immediately south of Wichita, Kansas, and one in Washington, . C. Many disturbances'un the total number reported would have wholly escaped attention but for the seismographs, which are so delicate that they usually wili deteet a violent shock, no matter in what part of the world it occurs.—Barbu- dos Globe, Jnly 14th. UITLIZATION OF LOWER GRADE SUGARS. one result of the prevailing shortage of sugar, according to Facts About Sugar, May 22, 1920, is that many manufactiur- ers using sugar in the producti n of various commodities are discovering that they ,can utiiize lower standard grades without appreciably affecting the quality ot the goods they put out. Candy manu- facturers are reported to be using practi- cally ali grades ol sugar, with the excep- tion of raw ccnirifugals: Biscuit makers have discovered that washed sugars are suit: ble to their purposes. The tobacco trade, which isa larger user of sugar than 1s generally supposed, is able to abscrb praciically any grade. Several ‘soft drink’ manufacturers have been experimenting, and have succeeded in producing clear syrups from low-grade sug®s. It appears that the sugars are melted and put through a simple clarifica- tion process before being used for syrup making. and that excelient results have been ootained. —Agricultural News, July 10th. COTTON CULTIVATION IN PORTO RICO. in the editoriai of Rewsta de Agricul-. tura dé Puerto Rico April 1920, the Sub- Commissioner of Agriculture and Indus- try for that island, Senor Ramon Gandia ook LR Ul X N VR This Evening! This Eveainy! . _ e 1 his Evening! IS Lveainy! §.30. 8.30. “CHRISTIANSTED THEATKE o 6 % 3 : ’ Paid In Advance”, ; y REELS. “Priscilla Dean” 13l 1 1Y §= 1 4 3 P, . . Well-known in Christiansted from “THE FIRK-FLINGERS” AND “THE SILK-LINED BUHGLAR' 1s showing her best acting in *‘Paid in Advance”’ CAST: JOAN, THE GIRL. ... ... .. DOQROTHY PHILLIPS SRR ERAY . o ..JOSEPH GERARI BATEESE LE BLANC. ... L ..LON CHANEY AR . ee P T TR AN I 8 BEOOD ....... iraense oWILELRM STOWE]] GOLD DUST BARKER. G ...FRANK BROWNI|.EE BN ... : ..BILL BURESS. EEAP JACK ... e HARRY DE MORE A Spiendid Dramatic story of Canadz and Alaska by the Producer ol “ihe Hearth of Humanity”’. :The Story: In ““Paid In Advance’”” JOAN GRAY, Daughter of a Canadian Furtrader. finds herself the subject of malicicus talk, and deeides to go with her father. t: Diw-on (i M esTeSRS Ao el bs sot B ' Joan’s tather dies on the long trip to the gold fields, and sho arrives alone at the pleasure palace of Gold Dust Barker, her father’s supposed friend. The giri finds hen seif a virtual prisoner among Rough Men and Fast Women She learns that Barker's offer to her father had been a lure to bring her to his place. Barker offers Joan the ‘‘choice’” o giving herself o him or to *“The Crowd’ Joan rebels and fight for a month to retain her virtue, but Barker persist and shes finaliy con fronts ‘‘the crowd’’ in the wine room and offers to mafy the highest bhidder. Un man, a drunken miner known as The Cur’’, still retaing his respect for womankind. and he bids A HUNDKED THOUSAND DOLLARS for her, and wins Bu: in nis efforts to hold hec he finds it necessary to kill Barker and others, A Picture in which Tense Situations are Raised to Extreme Dramatie Heivhts by the Wonderful of a Cast Composed of Scereen Favorites. : A Wonderfully Dramatic Stqry ofa Good Woman Amid Evil Surroundines who Takes a Degenerate Miner to Avoid a Worse Fate. . ADMISSION Raewtoe Seae. ... .. ... . : 40¢ Twno first and two last rows of leserved scats 300 (Genera! Entrance. e : )¢ Children 20 and 19¢ : Cordova, strongly advoeates the ¢xten- sion of cotton growing in Portc Ricc. He draws attention to the fact that the cultivation of Sea Island cotton secms _almost to be =n the point of extincrion in the South eastern States of America, but that this type of cotton is becoming more and more in demand for special industrial uses, and that consequently its production will - robably be remunerative for many years to come. . He gzoes on to state that the soil and climate of a large part of Porto Rico are well suited to the produetion of this superior type of cotton, and he considers that the planters of Porto Rico would be well advised to extend the cuitivation of this crop. He evendooks forward to the possibility of Pocto Rico being enabied 1 possess Its own cotton mills, where i} colton locaily grown ecould be manufuc tured in suffictent guantities to suppn most of the requirements of the pouul tion, The cotton growess 'in the smalies Eritish West Indianrislands should take notice of this possible development in Porto Rieo, and should.remember tha: the positicn they have attained in t(his line eannot reasonably be expected to persist, except- by continued effort in al! directions affecting the industry.— [h/d