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INTIMATE WAR EXPERIENCES AND
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LONDON, Dec. 21—According to my
wife the entire London colony of
Americans today narrowly averted
quarantine. That is, if they quaran
tine for chicken-pox in London, 't
was like this:
The women of the American Wo
men’s club this afternoon had just
got all arrangements completed for
the club’s second annual special
Christmas celebration in behalf of
those American youngsters in London
who have no private Santa Claus of
their own. And Mrs. Keen, boss of
the job had just declared the job done.
And the telephone bell rang and it
was Mrs. ——, mother of six need
ful little ones. And she said that
they’d all be on hand tomorrow for
the party except Michael. Michael
couldn't come because he had the
chicken-pox! And Mrs. Keen had to
tell Michaels mother frantically but
tactfully that they mustn't any of
them come, that their Christmas would
be brought to them, chicken dinner
and all by Mr. Caldwell, colored mess
ager for the American embassy.
And that saved tomorrow’?! party.
It’s going to be some party, as they
<ay in London, same as they do in U.
S. Some of it will be at the clubhouse
in Mayfair and some of it in Glasgow
and other points, by mail.
Great care has been taken to pro
vide each small boy or girl with just
what he wants. The one point that
pronounced for “plenty to eat," will
get it, just as the boy who timidly sug
gested a book on induction coils will
get that.
Certain things none of them will
get. They include a collection of head
less dolls, snoutless bears and other
worn-out toys from the nursery of a
titled American woman, who seems to
have misunderstood the spirit in
which the women’s committee is pro
viding this Christmas for the young
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LONDON, Dec. 25.—Christmas day
is ending without any of the things
/happening that a large portion of the
Lonfrwn public has expected to happen.
For one thing peace hasn’t been de
'»dared. (
For another London does not lie in
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These have been principal items irt
P conglomeration of rumors that have t
surcharged the atmosphere in which
dwell those folk who do not read the 1
papers, or who read only to disbelieve. ■
How large this class is I’ve had occa- i
sion to note in the past several days
since the same thrilling information
has come to me from at least a dozer
different sources in that time. With
slight variations, according to the
wide-eyed susceptibilities of the differ
ent informants, the central fact ap
peared to be as follows:
Christmas eve the kaiser was to
make a final offer to England to quit.
If early Christmas morning he had not
revived a favorable response a fleet
of one thousand aeroplanes and a hun
dred Zeppelins would embark for Lon
don.
By Christmas night all London
would be lying in ruins, the combined
effect of bomb explosions and fire.
“Then there's to be peace.”
Most every teller of the tale con
cluded it thus. Asked how he—or she
—knew that then there'd be peace, he
or she was apt to become evasive or
sullenly suspicious. Sometimes, how
ever. confirmatory evidence was of
fered.
“My father was told by a man that
read about it on the bulletin board at
the Chelsea town hall,” said one, lead
ing another to chime In: “And it was
posted up in Victoria station!”
Unless the next hour brings-tremend
ous events, this particular rumor as
applied to this particular Christmas,
will be dead. Perhaps it will be re
vived for New' Year's day, though by
that time another equally exciting
doubtless will have been evolved.
On the Underground train this eve
ning was a boy from the U. S. S.
He was from New Haven, other pass
engers soon gathered: but not from
Yale, it was likewise easily gatherable.
He was regaling two friends, evident
ly from London’s East End, which cor
responds to New York's East Side,
ivith life in America.
“Of course," he said, “in New’ Ha
.en everything I do, everybody knows
t. And pretty soon my mutter, she
mows it. But ven I go up to New
fork—Oi-yoi! ”
The roar of the train drowmed his
liscourse for a moment, during which
ib talked eloquently with his hands,
shoulders and eyebrows. As the train
Irew into the station, he wras remark
ing. with his right forefinger held
ilongside his eye and nose:
“Rebeccy. she don’t say much, but
ihe listens—oi-yoi, she listens!”
His East End friends were leaning
orward drinking down every wurd. It
vas clear New Haven and New York
atrigued them tremendously.
RECALLS PREDICTION THAT
OCEANS WILL BE UNITED
(By Associated Press)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 22 (by
mail).—The Irazu volcano, the largest
and highest in Costa Rica, has awak
ened and begun a new period of vio
lent activity after nearly two cen
turies of quietness.
The previous remarkable eruption
of this volcano took place in 1723,
when Costa Rica was the poorest of
the colonies under the crown of Spain.
During that year the Irazu was in
activity throughout the whole year,
emitting huge quantities of ashes, cin
ders, smoke, vapor and gases, and the
manifestation was followed by an
earthquake Then came a period of
long rest. It fell into a deep slumber
tor nearly two hundred years.
Now it has awakened again and is
■pouring out, without interruption, tor
rents of vapor, sublimates and ashes,
•cinders and volcanic debris which,
■floating in the air and carried by the
air currents, have reached places
Twenty-five miles distant from the cra
ter.
At the foot of this volcano lies the
historical city of Cartago, three times
destroyed by the colossus and as often
rebuilt by her Inhabitants. During the
i.resent crisis Cartago has suffered no
harm, as her inhabitants, wisei
Through experience, have rebuilt th(
city earthquake-proof; and the emis
sions of the volcano have not yel
reached Cartago, owing to the heavj
winds prevailing, which have blowi
Them toward the valley of San Jose
Thousands of persons have visited the
summit of the mountain range to se*
the two oceans and the gigantic col
umn of smoke and gases aiming to th«
sky.
The Irazu volcano stands 11,000 fee
above the sea level'and about two hun
dred miles northwest of the Panama
canal. Back in the prehistoric ages
this volcano made formidable erup
tions, vomiting torrents of lava miles
in length, of which there are traces
to be seen yet. Perhaps nothing simi
lar will now' happen; but the Costa
Rican people always bear in mind the
prediction of Humboldt, who foretold
that the Central American and Panama
isthmuses were doomed to be swal
lowed by the waters of both oceans,
making a broader canal than the onej
that American genius built across the
Isthmus of Panama.
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UN» mu rams
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 19 (by mail).—Ger
many has produced 580 different war
m'^dals to commemorate various al
leged victories during the war. Copies
of about half of them have been ob
tained by the Victoria and Albert mu
seum, in London, and are now on ex
hibition there.
Before April, 1916, the German gov
ernment had issued more than a hun
dred popular-priced “victory medals"
of various kinds. These were struck
off in light silver and sold to the pub
lic for a small sum. They bore in
scriptions recording such exploits as
Zeppelin attacks on London, the bom
bardment of British coast towns anc
battles on the western front. Many o
the medals hear portraits of populai
heroes of a day or twro.
Some of the medals are intended ai
cartoons. Such is a rnedal depictinj
England as a skeleton torpedoing th<
Dutch steamer Tubantia—although tin
• Dutch government proved that the tor
pedo was of German manufacture.
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It is an absolute sin to waste food
■ Food has become sacred.
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The FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA j
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CONDENSED STATEMENT
Of the Financial Condition of the The First Bank of Cordova at the close I .
I of business February 14, 1918
RESOURCES y ta tjtt vm
T j j. LIABILITIES
Loans and discounts.$209,499.39 Capital stock $ 50 000 00
Bonds and warrants. 203,850.04 Undivided profits.1234 82
Banking house, furniture and fixtures... 22,987.13 Deposits . 513 58089
Cash pn hand and due from banks 131,104.54 Certified checks . 425.73
_ Cashiers’ checks. 2,199.66
'^ota^.$567,441.10 Total ITII
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RESERVE
Reserve required by law, $102,528.00
Actual reserve held by us
P (Cash on hand and due from banks) $131,104.54
Secondary reserve g§
(Liberty Bonds, bonds of govern
ments, county, municipal and high
grade industrial bonds). 199,459 57
Total Actual and Secondary Reserve $330,564.11
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(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Jan. 20 (by marilH—
The Bolsheviki town council in P’stro1
grad has voted the following new
taxes:
On private automobiles and motor
boats, $75 per horse power.
On private carriages, $250 a year,
plus $250 for each horse.
Sailing yachts, $500 a year.
Dogs, $25 yearly.
Auction sales, 20 per cent of all re^
ceipts.
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DUCHESS OF ABERC0RN
Few of England’s prominent women
are not enrolled and actively working
in the various service leagues assist
ing the government. The duchess of
Abercorn has two daughters in war
; service. One is working in a munition
factory and the other is in the Red
Cross service.
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For sale at a bargain, Walker’s Inn
at Alaganic. For terms apply to Cor
. dova Abstract & Realty Co., Adams
Building.
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NOTICE,
Owing ta* the danger rrom trams and
teams skiing and coasting, is prohibit
ed on all streets west of the east mar
gin line of First avenue.
J. H MURRAY,
Chief of Police.
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic leases replaced. See Os
borne.
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