J. L. GRAEF
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VIRGIN ISLANDS TO
HELP THEMSELVES
"GARDEN OF WEST INDIES” IS
TAKING ON NEW AND VIG
OROUS LIFE
CHRISTENED, St. Croix, V. I., Jan.
9.—St. Croix, the “Garden of the
West Indies” and gem of the Virgin
island, purchased by Uncle Sain from
Denmark in 1917, is taking on new
and vigorous.
For seven years this beautiful is
land has suffered from heavy tax
ation, a change of government and
drought which has reduced its sugar
production from a normal crop of
12,000 tons in 1920 to 1,800 tons last
year and compelled a third of the
population to leave. The island
which once had a population of 26,
COO, now only supports about 8,000
people.
But the long, long lane is turning,
and heavens have sent down their
showers of blessings and the sugar
cane is coming up so fast you can
almost see it grow. With the pros
pect of returning prosperity, the
leading planters, cattlemen and
merchants have united in a broad
and general representative organ
ization, such as was never known
here in all the centuries that St.
Croix was occupied by the Dutch,
* the French, the Spanish,^ British
and Danes, “to advance the agri
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I cultural and commercial interests
| and to promote the general wel
I fare” of the islanders.
| A meeting of about 100 of the
! most active citizens of St. Croix
j was held in Christiansted recently,
! and the St. Croix Chamber of Com
merce was the result.
The St. Croix Tribune calls the
organization “the greatest move
ment yet launched by the people of
this island,” and says: “Now, for
the first time in our history a so
ciety has been organized in * the
! spirit of fraternity, and to be con
j ducted along liberal lines. It is a
great attempt on the part of our
| people to help themselves. Almost
| without exception we have been
waiting upon the government to im
prove our declining condition. The
government has done nothing and
we blame the government for doing
nothing. But we also have done
nothing. In due course of time the
| people of this community will fully
j realize, even as they have now' be
|gun to realize, that they must take
! the initiative in their own affairs.”
| The islanders are seeking markets
'■ in the states for toys, fancy needle
work and bead work, cigar boxes,
1 cigarette and tobacco boxes, jew’el
; cases and mahogany furniture man
ufactured by the people here.
The Hawaiian Pineapple company
is now negotiating With land owmers
| here with a view to extending their
i production of pineapples, which has
! proved profitable as an enterprise
in Hawaii and the Phlippines, to
this island.
j The federal agricultural experi
ment station here has developed a
standard variety or caaster bens
that can be grown here to supply
the American market, which se
cures supplies chiefly from India.
There are about 50,000 acres of
fertile land on this island alone, of
| which only about 12,000 acres are
I now’ occupied.
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MARF^AGE BUREAU REPORTS A
BIG BUSINESS—THE DOWRY
SYSTEM RETURNING
BERLIN, Jan. 9.—German marriage
bureaus report that their- buisness is
again blooming.
The disinclination against mar
riage, a concoinmitant of the infla
tion and the credit shortage period,
is slowly but surely disappearing.
The two biggest marriage bureaus
in Berlin told the United Press to
day that they are simply swarmed
with orders for “first cla^s mar
riages.”
The bureau of Baroness von Co
burg, the most noted of these Cupid
bargain counters, declared that,
V. nile business had slackened during
the credit shortage season in the
winter of 1923-24, folks were now
coming ir. more than ever before
Baroness Coburg’s “customers” are
chiefly from the nobility, but she
also deals in “first class bourgeois”
marriages.
Although she does not say it, part
of the rush of the nobility to wed
can be attributed to a desire to get
more fluid capital. Noblemen wTith
big estates find themselves short of
w'orking funds. They can offer
brides “of equal rank,” splendid cas
tles as abodes, but they look with
envy on the dowry that the noble
woman can bring.
Incidentally, the dowry system is
coming back with the return of good
times. For awhile after the war folks
got married here without dowries.
But now the girl who desires to wred
must bring with her a certain
amount of furniture, clothing and
“Bargeld,” or cash money. Indeed
one paragraph of the German legal
code provides that a daughter can
sue her father for a dowry corre
sponding to his financial situation.
At the marriage agency of Frau
Marguerite Bornstein, it was said,
that this institute had just com
pleted its anniversary of 3,000 suc
cessful marriages.
! Besides the marriage bureaus, the
columns of the Sunday papers show
: that marriage is again becoming a
popular institution.
Take the Sunday Lokalanzeiger,
for instance. There a man can pick
out blondines and brunnettes from 20
years of age up to “the early six
ties” with and without dowries, all
of them, however, “sehr Schoen,”
meaning very beautiful, and many
of them with imposing figures.’
Generally the candidates want tc
narry for marriage’s sake, but some
of them admit that more material
motives lead them to “pursue this
method of obtaining marriage, which
is no more an uncomon way.”
On the other hand, lonely women
will find in the columns t
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help them on in their business or
their profession.
In these marriage advertisements
may be found all classes of folk,
from carpenter apprentences to pro
fessors, from butchers to noblemen.
The greatest drawback to mar
riage in Germany has hitherto been
the dwelling shortage. This is be
ing, in a very slight degree, reme
died, much to the assistance of the
matrimonial bureaus. However, one
of the most attractive inducements
is “finely furnished dwelling of five
rooms goes with the bride or bride
groom,” as the case may be.
REQUIREMENTS OF
MARKING TOOLS
FOR FOX FARMER
_
In a recent issue of the Fur Far
mer, V. R. Cline, V.M.D., B.Sc., in an
able article tells of how foxes should
be marked. He says: Several forms of
marking outfits have been devised
and adopted for foxes. I have had oc
sasion to check up on the results of
some of them, and up to the present
time I have not seen one that is sat
isfactory.
“One association has adopted a tat
tooing outfit, for which they charge
and collect from the farmers the sum
of $10. I am sure the farmers would
not object to the price, but it does
not work satisfactorily. It was quite
a task to get the farmers interested in
such an outfit, but after having paid
for it they find that it does not work,
j Consequently the co-operation and
loyalty of the farmers towards their
association has been weakened.
“No apparatus which just pierces
the ear will do, the needles should be
of hollow tubes, so that a portion of
the flesh is removed. I have tried
to discern tattoo marks on a live fox
six months after the work had been
accomplished and could not discern
the letters. The scar had formed en
tirely over the mark. The machine, if
lever style, must have jaws which
when open will clear at least one-half
inch. The reason for this is that in
inserting the ear between the jaw’s if
there is not the necessary space, the
ink will be rubbed off by the hair on
the ear, and also the task of removing
the ear from the jaws is tedious as
the needles or points stick quite tight
in the ear, and when pulling the ear
from the jaws the teeth on the other
side stick, thus tearing the hole larg
er and separating the cartilage from
the skin. I have had an occasion in
several instances to observe the pres
ence of abscesses as large as an egg,
which had formed from an infection
due to septic conditions and difficulty
| in removing the tattooing outfit from
| the ear.
1
r If a marker whicn makes a form
of wound in one manner or another is
i used it should produce as little blood
I as possible, have a tendency to pro
duce no infection, these qualities be
ing obtained by an outfit which does
inot tear or injure the ear in any man
ner, and above all it should work
to a fair degree of satisfaction.
An outfit \yhich marks by heat pro
duced by direct flame or electricity,
would be excellent as no blood would
be produced, the wound would be
clean, and would heal up readily; An
ear tagger might be advised, which
inserts metal tags with numbers in
the ear.
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