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&= { /\\‘L | I\ a % @: \\i—/,/ m;jg » /s/ (N \\\ . /; \ 4 \ R \\\\ U N )P Q‘ | \/Sl‘ 01H YL AR 11E 31, CRIIX ANVIS is printed «ad published daily (Sundays and Holidoys cxcepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly in advance, 2 cents ner singl2 eoni. yntered as second-class atter May 26th 1917 ot the Post Oifice at Christian- wtal, St Crowx, Vel o/the U. S. 4., un= ler the A% or Mareh 3. 1879 Tont *thution to this paper will te glad- ly received vhen the same deals with mat- ters of gen il interest, and is accompa- nicd with tw author’s name, as a quar- vateeo;” goo l farth. The editor cannot be responsible or the views of his correspon- de s r ehe necessarily enaorse them. “The prile of life 1s not of the Fath- &¥, bul s 0 the gljjr'!d_” 7 Jg]gn 14 18 CHRISIANITY AND PRIDE, ‘““The mat wvho has formed an extrava- oent es imace ol his own capability will prhbabi; uncerrate the effort necessary to suces ss, «.r.d, instead ot profiting by tha repov’s which his {ailures may -call focch, vili reneraliy become indignant, w.itped in e future excreise or hic judg- m:>nt, and v edded to his mistakes, how ever prepos ¢rous I'he aisicrs of every people, is preg- nent wich ti'e 11l effeets of systvms and epcerpr.ses vhien have owed their origin chiefly ‘o th's passion either in its pal- m. sta:?: wi:n swoliep by conceptions of sunerier povzer, or in its state of resent- m :at, when wounded by oppositinn In al, maiiars 1 opinion it has been the pa- reat of inn. merable errors, and in social lite it his proluced all possible disorder ard su:feriig. Whatever presumption has don, it has done as the first-born of pride; aad ‘/hat-ever tyranny has done, 1t aas done ws the favoured offspring of tha sama pzrent, Viewed iv 1:s influence on Christianity it must oe apparent that the tendeney of vride w.l b: to give plausibleness and efiiciency to everything that may lavour those elatec conceptions as to the pres- ent concition of human nature which per- sons of his character are ever disposed to enter cain When a man of this class ig also 2 man of some benevolence, the fartering jucgment whi h he has form- ed of himse.{ may be the effecis, in par, of 1 similar miscoreeptiion with regard to the ictellctual or the moral power of the mind i ggneral; and his persuasion will perhaps be that his plea is notgrged “HRISTIANSTED, V. I.U. 5. A.. WEDNESDAY. 3rD MARCH 1920 s T e so much in his own behalf asin behair of the species’’.—Vauzhan. —Contridu- ted. TELEGRAMS St CROIX STA(ION. Chicago, Feb 24ih.—'the opinion that the United States +.ill ever experience anotiier epidemic as sericus as the last, was expressed ‘by many physicians from all parts of the con inent, who gathered in Chicazo yesierday 1o: the Americzn Congress of International Medicine re- ports on the Congress made by Medical Science in treating infiuenza, and data on the isolation of the germ, will be pre- sented durinz the six days of the session. Rome Feby. 24th.—Deputy Lombardi yesterday presented a Bill in Parljament caliing for the abolition of life imprison- ment and al:o of solitarv confinement, Agricultural or industrial work w.uid be substituted itcr impidsorment. This would be cownpulsory arc the earniugs of tha m=n would b: used to sudpport themselves and to tudemnity such pédr- sons as they had injured in the commis- sion of their cerimes. Frisons would be used only. ftor persons uncer arrest and aw dting trial. Triais would be compul- sory not later than six morths after the perscns iad been arrested and even in these prisons wo.k would be compuisory. Under the Lill separate establishments would be provided for women and chil- dren and in all establishments schools wouid be rnaintained. Beriin, Feb. 24th —Burgzlars rifled inhe Mausoleu of Charlottenburg Castie on Sunday. They forced the lid and remov- ed ihe jewels from Queen {.ouisa’s coffin, but railed o open ottier coifins, and they removed the gold. silver and gilded crowns lying on the cotfins of the Emper- or Williams. Empress Augusta, Prince Albrecht and others. Barbados, Feb. 28th.——The final sitting of ihe Asscciated Chambers of Com- merce was held today. Special regret was expressed at tae absence of Lhe dele- gates irom Jamaica who had not arrived as expectedin time 1o take part in the proceedings, but resolution stating ia the names of the Jamaica Imperial Association advoeating closer union of the West In- dies was fully discussed and placei on record and adopted in prineiple in amend- ed form. ‘ The Association expressed its grateful recognition oI the superdand imverish- able record established by the Army and Navy and auxiliary forees during the war, and weicomed the renewal ol vis- No. 50 its by His Majesty's warships. and the prospect of once more establishing gar- risons of lmperial troops in the West Indian Colonies with the object of fur- ther comenting the ties which have been renewed and strengthened by the mutual saerifices ot the war. A special and enthusiasue vote of ap- preciaiion aceorded by acclamation to Mr. Aspinall, Secretary of the West India Committee, and Miss Moseley, who was present, for their unselfish devotion to cutv and the great work pericrmed by them during the war in- connection with the West Indian Contun- gents. (Cordigl thanks were given 1o Sir Edward Davson for his past services in the position of President to which he was re elected Mr. Gordon-Gordon and Mr. V. Haunscheii were appointed Honoi- ary vice presidents and Mr. G. F. Hug- gins viee President for the ensuing tern., The conterence, which had been most successful lin every way, closed with votes of thanks to the Governor of Hai- bados, the Barbados Chamber ¢i Con- nierce, for the hospitality extended to the delegates, to Mr. rrank H. Keefer Canadian Parliamentary Under Secre- tary of State ior External Affairs, for valuable assistance and advice on Cana- dian West Indian matters, to Sir Fran cis Watts, tor the interest he had evine- ed in the proceedings and to Mr. A. J. Pavitt Imperial Tiade Commissioner, also o the Royal Meii Steam Facket Co. tor arranging passages ifor the delegates at reduced rates, to the West India and FPanama Telegraph Company and the Direct West india Cable Company for transm.tting vreporis of the meetings as news, to the press {or tull and excel- lent reports of the speeches, and to the honorary Secretary lor gernera, services renuer<ad, The delegates ill veturn by the Cana- dian Steamers leaving nexit week tor the Northern and Southern Colonies. Paris, Feb. 24th- Premier Miilerand, according -0 the Tempts has written a letter 10 Senator Berenger of Guade- loupe deciaring that the Government has never contemplated ceding the islands ot Martinique and Guadeloupe to any couniry for a.y reason what ever; M Millerand’s letter is in re- ply to one from M. Berenger quoting a newspaper as stat'ng that not only had the French Tobacco and Mateh Monopoiies to be farmed out 10 Ameri- cans, but that Martinique and Guade loupe were to be ceded 1o the United Staces in recurn for a loan.