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of the Fedeira! 2oard for Vocational au- cation Poultry raising has been tested and proved to be a jucrative vocation for bliid men. With the assistance of memners of their families these blinded soldiers are making good at it. Osteopathy and mes- sagoe are attraciing others as oceupations desirable for the hlind. The policy of the Board in building upoa the past experiences of disabled sol- diers in fitiing them for future employ- mert is ada-red to in its deaiings with the blinded. In {following this polic’, an insurance nian and a druggist are train- ing in their old iines of working, learning to ‘‘car y on’’ in their old way in spite of their handicaps. These men haje icst their sight, bu% rthey still retain their ambitions and their grit -Ibid. ' TEE WEEK OF TRAGEDIES. [he past week might ficly be calied the week of tragedies in Portp Rico. Thurs- day night. Uctober 23rd, mu«rked (he stabbing of cne Manuel Sanchez by a Matine of the Wireless Station who was aided by seven of his fellow Marines. On Saiurday nizn: the aged Pedro Rainosa wa: almost staboed v deatn, and Euripides Rojas, a youngz mau wao attempted te save the older vieii.a vas kiil- ed. Arturo S aiffront bzpg ta2 aitnor of hoih erimes. From Aisraitco comes the news of slauzhter and fire. Areadio Rodriquez, furious baciase his lady-love repulsed him set five o the little shack where the girl’s family ived, and t” en shot at each m: n her of ¢ e family as they ided from the barning house. . The father. José Doicres Melendez, was instantly Kkilled, Fraveisea. h:s dauzhier and the murde:- er’s sweetheart, is not expected to live. Two more brothers were shot and left in a serious concition. The mother with the youngest son were able to escape by thro ving the iselves into a well behind the house. When the frenzied man foun 1 that no had done all the harm he could he went home and Killed himself. From Are:bo comes the news tha: Niconedes rodriquez took the life of Melo siades Santiago at a gambling fray in ke barrio cf viiraflores, Tvo of these tragedies are caused by into: ication, another the result cf a Sat- urday night dance o1 brawi, another the resuit ol gambiing. Av: anv of these crimes due to the in- aciiv.ty of the police or are they the re- cult of the uneasiness and unrest which eisewher: . have resulted in lyoachings, strikes and g2cnera! lawlessness?—Porto Rico Progress, Oct, 31st. PROHIBITION AND KANSAS. Those who arcue that prohibition of aleoholic liquors promotes the use of narcotie drugs probably wouldn’t listen SoL £U] X Mmooy e anyway, but those wno lend their ears to such arguments may do weil to con- sider some new facts from Kausas, the driest Srate 1n the Union. Recent inves- tigations by the State Board of Health show that the use of habit-torming drugs in Kansas is decreasing, says the Kansas City Star. The people don’: need stimu- lants. ‘‘What has happenc«d in Kansas was this’’, explains the Emporia Gazette. “Suordy after the prohibitory law be- came genulnely effective there was an increase in the number of drug addiefs. L'Fe ajcohol addicts became druyg addicts. Bur no new aleohol addiets were coning on, hence no new drug addiets arrived and the old addiets eicher cured tliem- selves and quit, or died of the hanit, And no one is raking up the habit to re- place them. In Kansas forty years of prohibition have rvemovec liquor from the environment. And bheing out of sight it is out of nitnd. The Kansas man away from home takes wine if it 18 on the table be ore him much as he rakes (o mato catsup, but he does ¢t miss either the castup or the wine if ¢ ils not on the table. Liguor is gone from his taste, from his emotions, from his heart, and he doesn’t think of takinz to drugs for the lzck of liquor any more than [rom the lack of corn beef hash.’’ —lbid. e SUGAR NOTES. Molasses as fertilizer has been receiv- ing a try-out in the West Irdies, erperi- ments having bheen made between ‘he yvears 1908 and 1913 with liicle, if any, catsfactory benefits. In 1914 these ex- periments were resumed, and the time of apnolying molasses up to harvesting of cane ..as lengthened because of the be- lief tha: good results would show up af- ter a longer lapse of time. The excess nitrogen would then become availalble. Two plots were particuiavized, one with 200 gallons of molasses per acre and the other 400 gallons per acre. lhese plots vere selecred 1n St. Ki s and Anatigua. Ta five plots of the 200-gallon treatment the cane yielded 31 5 tons, an increase of 8.6 tons, and in 4 plots oi the 400-gal- lon treatment they vielded 32.5 tons of cane, oran increase of 4.6 .ons. It bas been observed, however, that using ro- lasses as fetilizer is not at a.l economical and that the manufacture of aleohol is by far more profitable as alcohol will some day become a fuel and iight, where- as to-day it is still inits infancv.—Louisi- ana Planter. Interesiing news comes from the Phil- ippine llslands where The [Mao Sugar Central Company is erecting a large sugar central that will grind upy 1,500 tons of cane a day and eventually 3,000. The whole factory is goine ¢ be equipped with eleciric devices and will be the most up-to-date sugar house in the Far East. The Isabelle Sugar Company 1s another concern erecting a 500-tons sac tory in Negros. lbid. Sugar men in France are re-enforcing their courage this vear with a reported area o. 89,915 hectares in contrast to 54- 696 hectares the year before. This ils an increase of 8.8 per cent. Fifty six fac- tories will furn out sugar. Last vear only ol were in operation. It is believed thar the tonnage es sugar will be unprece- dented. The department of the Qi<e has the largest number of faectories- name ly. 15—and maintained somewhat the record during the war. making it possible for the French to bave at least some need- ed supphes. —lbid. St. Catherine Plains, Jamaica, will have a new sugar factory that will turn out 1,260 tons -of cane day. It will procauce somewh<re in the neighborhood of 20,000 tons of sugar a season. The factory 1s 11 miles rrom Kingston. Six thousand acres of cane have been planted in the neighborhood of the mill. Lindo Bros. and Company own the factory. Ihid. iditional M ; Additional Moneybili To the Budaet for the Muwicipality of St. Crowx jor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. To Item XI. MISCELLANEOUS ADD: 8. For the purchase of the building known as the Frederiksted High School, No. 30. 30a. 30, and 31 Strand Sireet, Frederikated... ... ... . Fres 25000 Thus duly passed at the 3rd Ordinary Meeting of the Colonial Council held Monday, Oet. 20, 1919, Christiansted. St. Croix. October 22, 1919, D. C. CANEGATA RUBT. MERWIN . Secre.ary. C'hairman. The above Additionai Moneybill is hereby sanctioned and approved. Witness my Hand and the Seal of the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States at St. Thomas, the 27th day of October, ir the year 1919. (SEAL) . J: W. OMAN, Governor. FOR SALLE. One Pi Horning and Muller make. Cheap for cash. For further information apply at this office.