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&> ¥ 7L S / \\t ’Li?J Y\ TN Sea !w /" Ll ‘@ \)\t“/l / \m i @X\ Q—%\\\\ ui@pa ‘ “ 75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED, V.I. U. S. AAWEDNESDAY. 17TH DECEMBER 1919. ger on a raft witi;’" a lot of half frozen unconseious saiors, whose warship had been sunk by the Germans off the coast of Holland. ‘As @ result, his distress siopals were heard aboard a destroyer abhut to relinquish the search, and the ten men were saved. Dog heroes of the war are numerous, and one likes to hear of Fend I’'Air, who helped dig his master out of a caved-in trench; or Judge, who swam the river with the ends of ropes in his mouth to draw the boa's over, tili the German snipers got him; or little Velse, who went everywhere with Ray- mond Corroll; or 'the noble Red Cross dogs who sought out the wounded and led the rescuers to them; or the messen- ger dogs who no temptation could seduce from duty. But inall these transactions the best of the four footed friends of man was merely running true to form. You cannot imagine men at war and dogs failing to come forward and join them in the struggle as devoted partisans. You never heard of a dog deserting or refus- ing o go over the top at the zero hour. Just as a dog would rush to the aid of his master in a battle with a burglar, he used his bark and bite to the last fibre of his being and the last breath in his shag- gy body in resistance to his master’s en- emy at the front. If you attacked his master, you assailed him; and if the dogs of war could have had their own way, they would have fought it out among chemselves.--Ibid. HIS PLAN WENT WRONG A noted miser, who feit obliged to make a present to a lady, entered a gro- cery shop for the purpose of making a purchase. Seeing a statuette broken into a doz- en pieces, he asked the price. The sales- man said it was worthless, but he could have it for the cost of placing it in a box, The miser directed it to be sent with his eard to the lady, congratulating himself that shé would imagine it was broken while on the way to her. He was at her house when the box arrived but the effect was hardly what he had expected. The tradesman had carefully wrapped each piece in a sep- arate scrap cf pa!?r! for New York, N Y., perS. S. Korona at 4 p. m. Vednesday, 17th. instant. ' THE ST. CROIX AVIS | is printed and published doily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Joh insen at the Avis Office. T RMS---50 cents monthly wn odvance, | 2 cents per single copy. kntered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- sted,'St. Croiz, V. L ofthe U. S. A., un- der the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- Ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s mame, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsible for the views of hiß correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. A NOSE REFITTED. An unusual story has recently come from the King Edward VII Hospital at Windsor in which a surgeon there per- formed an extraordinary feat. A man of 38 attached to a stable, William Rob- ertson by name of Broadway, Lam- | bourn, Berks, was preparing a horse to | run in a race when the skyiight feli and | cut his nose clean off. He was takento | King Edward VII Hospital without his | nose. The arteries were tied, and the surgeon then asked for the nose. !t | was stated that it was left behind in | the stable at the race course. A meos- | senger twas immediately despatched o the stables, where the nuse was found | in the straw. [t was taken to the hos- | pital. where an operation was perform- | ed and the nose was put on again. It had been off about an hour. When Robertson was discharged from hospi- | sal he said it was a miracle, and he could not speak too highly of the skill | of the surgeon and the attention of the | nurses at the hospital.—Barbados Globe, | Nov. 19th. | ik et iR S | REAL DOGS OF WAR. i HEROIC ACTS OF CANINE WARRIORS ARE | MANY. “ Bob—evidently one of the noble army | beasties named for the late Lord Rob- | erts of. Kandahar—has deservedly re- | ceived the silver medal of the British* | National Canine Defence League for an ! heroic rescue. Like most Simon Pure, | full blooded heroes, Bobs didn’t stop to | think whether he was playing the hero | or not—he merely did his duty as he i saw it, found himself a fellow passen- . = No. Zya LIST OF UNCLAIMED MA_I‘I. FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC/13. 1919. Mr. Elias Aaron, Christophina E. Filix, Hospital St:eet No. 8. Mrs. Isabel Franeis, S. D. A, Mr. Joseph Francis, Miss Edith Agatha Fredericks. Miss May Golgden, Miss Susanan Henry, Miss Sarah Huyghue, Mrs. Maria Jacobs, Mess Hill. Mis. Ella Jordon, : Miss Maria Lewis, ¢. 0. Mr. i’n-ihur Pretin. Mrs. Mathias Petersen, Orange Grove, Mrs. Lauisa Smith, Gallows Bay, Miss Brown Gine Smith, ¢. o. Rev. Pig- rott. Miss Gertrude Stridiron. . Mr. H. W. Thomas, Mr. A. Y. Zinerzk. United States Post Office, St. Croix, V. I. December 15, 1919. ' B. R. LARSEN. Postmaster. Call AtTh ° all At This Office AND SEE OUR STOCK OF Ghristmas and New Year Cards, NOTICE. UE to the reconstruction of some of D the Pit Privies and in order to make the fees more uniform, the follow- ing scale or charges for removal service of Privy Pits are effective from this date. All bills rendered for services previous to this date are payable at the former rate. Loads. Amount, :.. B All loads in excess of FOUR, 50¢. per load. St. Croix Nov , 21st, 1919. H. V. HUGHENS, Chief Sanitation Officer,