Summer Contest
For Boys
The Times is going to give away
to the two best hustlers
in Cordova
A Bicycle
AND
A Gold Watch
These two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at 6 o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
The contest is open to all boys of 16 years and under.
All who wish to enter the contest must first leave their
names at the Times office.
All that is necessary is for the contestants to see
their friends and acquaintances and get them to sub
scribe for the Times.
This will entitle them to a specified number of votes,
which will be credited to them. Mail subscribers count
the same as those in Cordova ,which is as follows:
New subscribers, one month.* 50 votes
New subscribers, six months. 500 votes
New subscribers, one year.2000 votes
Weekly subscriptions count one-fifth the number of
votes as the daily.
Present subscribers who pay in advance will be en
titled to one-half the number of votes as new subscribers.
All subscriptions must be paid in advance, and in order
to get the votes the money must accompany the order.
The subscription rates are:
One month.$ 1.00
Six months (in advance) . 5.00
One year (in advance) . 10.00
Circulation Manager, Times:
Enclosed please find $., advance pay
ment for the Cordova Daily (Weekly) Times for a
period of.
Please place . votes to which I am
entitled to the credit of.
ONE VOTE FREE.
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Please place this vote to the credit of.
ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
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The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
afternoon of July 20. Any boys who yet wish to enter
the lists for a try for the watch may do so up to that time,
but thereafter the contest will be confined to the boys in
the running at that time.
Get busy. All it needs is a little hustling.
None of the boys yet have much of a start, and a good
brisk campaign will put any hustler in the lead.
EGYPT IS QUIET
IN MIDST OE
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LONDON, July 11. — (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) — A
Reuter correspondent with the Egyp
tian expeditionary force writes: “Cer
tain it is that this country remains
marvellously untroubled In the midst
of the universal uproar, though its
peace Is constantly threatened, for
there can be no doubt that It was long
ago marked down by our enemies as
one of the prizes of successful war.
But the British line In the desert keeps
the active and watchful enemy on our
eastern frontier In check. The fanati
cal hordes of the Western Desert and
Darfour have received a lesson which
will probably last them at least until
the end of the war, and in the Interim
the real Egypt, the green strip of the
Nile valley and the Delta, the Egypt
of the peasant cultivator, of the teem
ing fields and the mud-butlt villages
have not been touched by war. It has
not heard a shot fired or paid a penny
of extra taxation.
“The European element In the coun
try has felt the near neighborhood of
war. The shortage of tonnage has af
fected businesses In many cases, al
though In others business men, In
spite of high freights and high prices,
i are doing better than they ever did
j before. Many Frenchmen and Ital
Ians have been called to tne colors in
Europe. The Germans, Austrians and
Turks have been removed or interned.
But the natives are hardly affected at
all. They are not asked to serve—
the merest handful of Egyptian reserv
ists have been called up to serve as
camel drivers. They have no inter
ests in the casualty lists. All that the
war means for them is higher prices
for their produce and their labor, and
a much larger amount of money in
circulation among the poorer classes
(than was ever before the case. In
these times of short tonnage and high
prices everywhere, it Is naturally the 1
policy of the army authorities In
Egypt to utilize, as far as possible,
the produce of the country and to Im
port only what Egypt does not supply j
or can only supply at excessive prices.
“There is a military Local Resour
ces Board at Cairo, which, with the;
aid of civilian advisers familiar with
the country, systematically collects,
transports and utilizes all Egyptian
produce, wherever obtainable, that can
serve the turn of the army. Natural
ly, foodstuffs and especially grain are
the first need. All the wheat, maize
and barley required is bought in
Egypt, and at prices which invariably
show a substantial increase on the
tpre-war prices. Purchases are made
in a wholesale fashion. The army, for
instance, took the whole of the last
maize crop at an abnormal price, and
has seen to it that this year there is
a larger acreage under cereals than
I_v. ^
“Egypt does not supply the troops
with meat—It cannot rival the frozen |
meat from Australia and New Zea-!
land, but all the fresh vegetables fori
the army are bought In Egypt and j
enormous quantities of fruit are.
bought by the soldiers on their own
account. Oranges, of which this coun
try is a large producer, fetched un
precedented prices last season. The
cultivator Is not slow to observe these
things, and is growing much more gar
den stuff than ever before. In par
ticular, the very high price of pota
toes last winter has encouraged him
to devote more land to growing this
Indispensable vegetable. There is, in
fact, nothing that he can grow that
does not pay him better than in ordi
nary timeB. The army is a mighty
purchaser of camels and needs vast
quantities of fodder, which it buys
from the Egyptian farmer. The army
haH resuscitated the moribund salt in
dustry at Pamtetta. It has created a
timber Industry which never existed
before in Egypt. The country is not
rich In timber, but large quantities are
needed, and the army buyers have
looked around till they found supplies
in various parts of the country.
The army is also a large employer
of labor. It is calculated that the
military authorities have some 18,000
native laborers on their payroll, and
these men, besides being fed, lodged
and clothed, earn higher wages than
they did in peace times, when they
had to live out of their wages. It
should be noted, too, that although
last year's cotton crop was small, it
was sold at a good price,, and this
year there Is more land under cotton
than ever before. Egypt this year will
be a bigger producer In all ways than
she has even been.
“The Egyptian peasant, therefore,
has done well these last eighteen
months. He buys little and la saving
money. The high prices for imported
goods affect him far leae than the
i.vh..—i ■»»»« w
ness of coal has been a difficulty, but
It has not offset the high prices of
all the country's products.
"In one respect Kgypt has been a
loser. There Is now no winter tour
ist traffic The tourists come no more.
But their place is taken by the large
numbers of officers who spend their
leave In Cairo or Alexandria, and the
vendors of costly curios find them
good customers. The men spend a
great deal of money with small shop
keepers, and the Australians are cus
tomers worth having even if they have
no more than an Australian private’s
pay to spend. Also the new military
season lasts all the year round, while
the tourist season at best was a mat
ter of two or three months. Hotels
In Cairo which formerly vegetated In
summer now do a thriving business
right through the hot season. Several
of the great hotels have been taken
over by the army as hospitals or for
other military purposes, and those
that remain have as much business as
they can cope with.
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J OKE S
Some Are Funny; Others
Are Not; But All Are
Nonsensical.
NOTHING FREE.
They were getting up a charity con
cert In the provincial town, and the
committee determined to work hard
to make a great success of It. The lo
cal magnates and tradesmen were
called on, and to one of the latter, a
coal merchant whose place was some
where In the north, an appeal was
duly mnde.
■‘Ah’m very sorry,'' was the coal
merchant's reply to the committee’s
representative, "but Ah's stopped sub
scribin' to a' these things.
“Well, you'll give us an order for
an advertisement on the program?"
suggested the caller.
The coal merchant shook his head.
Then a sudden inspiration seized him.
“Ah tell ye what Ah'll dae, though,"
he said. "Ah'll gettha dochter tae
sing for ye."
“Right you are," said the other.
"What will I put her down for?"
“ 'Keep the Home Fires Burning.' ”
“Can't be done,” declared the con
cert man emphatically, folding up his
papers. "If you won't subscribe I'll
take jolly good care you get no free
advertising on our program."
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SAFETY FIRST.
Mrs. Willis—Do you have a hard !
time getting money out of your hus
band?
Mrs. Gillls—Yes, indeed. He makes
it a rule never to retire without first
putting a couple of mice in his trous
ers pocket.—Judge.
HIS REASON.
Tommy (dictating letters to be sent
his wife)—The nurses here are a very
plain lot—
Nurse—Oh, come! I say, that not
very polite to us.
Tommy—Never mind, nurse, put it
down. It'll please her.
LUCKY.
Fat. like fate. Is no respecter of per
so*s, and a certain popular French
military man is getting distinctly
stout.
But for all that he remains a popu
lar hero. At an evening party in
Paris, when he was present, two la
dies began to talk about him.
“But isn't the dear man getting
plump?” said one presently, in hushed
tones.
“Yes,” replied the other, stanch to
her idol. “And isn't it fortunate?
Otherwise he'd never be able to wear
all his medals at once."
NOTHING NEW TO HER.
“I suppose, Eileen,” she remarked
to the new girl, who feigned indiffer
ence, “that you overheard my husband
and me conversing rather earnestly
this morning? I hope, however, that
you did not think anything unusual
was going on?”
“Nlver a bit. mum. Oi wasnst had
a husband meself, an’ niver a day
passed that th' neighbors didn't be
.lave one or t he other uv us would be
kilt entolrely.”
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