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BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

John Belle, the eleven months old
child of Mr.. f. G. Womble, died after
brief illness at the home of its parents
on Wednesday morning at $50 o'clock.
1t was taken sick Tuesday, and it is
said the sickness was caused by the
use of milk from a sick COW. The
milk was purchased, and it was used
before it was known that the COW was
sick. There is nothing more danger
Gus than impure milk. The funeral
was conducted from the residence
yesterday morning at o'clock by Rev.
w. G. Tyree, after which the remains
were taken to Raleigh for interment.
The suit of 4. NJ. Green VS.. the Nor
folk and Western Railroad has been
settled by a compromise judgment.
The costs were equally divided be-
tween them. The suit grew out of
the train on which the wife of Mr..
Green was a passenger running by the
station of her destination and putting
her off i'm the woods. 1T was bad
rainy day, and Mrs. Green was forced
10 walk some distance back TO the
depot. The exposure gave her a cold,
from which she never recovered. Since
the suit was begun, Mrs Green has
died. The damages claimed were
$1,000.
The sale Of revenue stamps in Dur
ham from the 1st TO the 23d Of January
amounted to $34,315.86.
Interesting memorial services were
held in the chapel out at Trinity Park
Wednesday night in honor Of Bishop
Uaygood. Or. John G. Kilgo, Prof. w.
I'll
State Secretary Brockmdn spoke.
Bishop Iiaygood WAS one Of the great
est divines the South ever produced,
and the tributes paid to his memory
on this occasion were Of high order.
The loss to the church viii be keenly
felt, and his position viii hardly be
filed.
The entertainment in the court
house for the benefit of the fire boys
is to be the 18th of February instead
Of the 18th.
Breaks of tobacco at all the ware
houses have been large this week, and
prices high. The feeling among the
buyers is good, bidding spirited, and
farmers wore happy faces. Not a
farmer has been seen who was not
joyous and happy. 1t is wonderful
what an effect the prices of the weed
will have upon the farmer. One who
is accustomed to watch their move
ments can tell how the weed is selling
without saying word.
The recent very changeable weather
has produced an abundant crop of bad
colds. number have been housed up
from severe colds, though there have
not been many case of pneumonia.
Aside from colds, the health of the
town is remarkably good.
There was very heavy rainfall here
Wednesday night.
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Two Year Old Forms.

TUxEDO-Chstnu foaled Pamico,
Very promising showing speed Price.
VIRGINIA ebay F sire Temple
Price $685.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. F1y, Pamico Gladys
Acantara promising,
speed Price $500
PALMETTO bay Fy sre,s Paml s1o
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Admin isirat0r's Notice

Having qualified az administrator b n
of the estate OF VIM. T. Forest, deceased
late of Wake county, ~ G.. this IL 20 notify
estate to present them 10 the undersigned
on or before the 5th day e January. 1897. or
this notice will he plead ia DaF oI their
coVery, and ali persons indebted to the -, a
estate are hereby notified to make inllaeai.
ate payment.
) C. MAROON, Admir-,
b n of the estate of VIM. T.. Forest
j. III. FLEMING, Attorney.
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YEARLINGS.
WEANLINGS.

Santa Ciau Colt foad May 1895, Sire lSamantace
Dearest Price $1o0
Centre Colt
Price
Touch Don-Chestnut Colt 1885, sre EAeous Dam
Daniel De-Bay Colt foaled Imported Order
Bay FLY oed March 81 1891 Sire BarOn
MIX Fy foad 1895 s Barone DAM skyark
Price $125.
Gladys $780,
Fly foad in 1895 Sire
Major Backna-Bay Apr6 Sire Onward Vash
Price $780,
Meneaus Colt oed April Baronet DAM
Price $500
Also FRANK "A perfect saddler gray
sh all the gaits
but guaratee
every represented, refund
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Hot weather proves depressing to
those whose blood is poor Such peo-
pie should enrich their blood with
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
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Brood Mares.

MIRA Pattnn Bay Mare, foed Sire Albert DAM
Noi q oaeOil Rita. End Dam MoIie Sire Geo Patchen
227. Bred to Baronet $500
KanIo WiLnc Brown Mare foaed
Na"f" ~ "NoS Dam, Irene End DAM Erica Sire Editor
1926 H. Price
EIsn%U Chestnut Mare n Sire W. DAM Silica
y 2nd Dam, Daughter of Nutwood sire Agna Price
Caduc Mare in Sire Acantara Dam May Bee
0es"y 233, Dam of Wilkes Bee 227 Bred Bells
Price 81 000
(lr&avn Mare, sire Princeton a. Dam
OOe"s0 Myrtela Dam, Cuyer, Sire, Genvew Bred to
Acantara Price $780,
SkvIavk Roao Mare oaled 1888 Sire, Jay Bird Nymph
Wilkes Price $780,
V2shfj cBrown Mare foaed in 1890 Sire, Pamico May
- Bee End DAM Sunshine Sire Kentucky Prince. Bred
to simmons Price $780,
No icIa Mare sre Norva DAM Intel End
@o ~aS'o Dam, Madrid
Price $780,
c0ne0Ia4ion Chestnut Mare sire Norfolk DAM
OohooioaOh Collins. Dam Rebecca Sire WOODBURY.
Hambletonian Bred to Boronet, gil H. Price $500
Magnolia o Mare 1d s s R 1890 Sire s E@ Dam Beck
onan Bred to Onward Price $780,
TrnuhIe si Eide DAM Nelly D.
''oD'o 2nd DAM Kate Taylor, Sire Dakey o
promising Noryal Price $780,
Fsnaracf Bay Mare, ed Sire Madrid
~~N~' va Bred to Acanara.
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Thoroughbreds.

MISS WALTONBay Mare, foaed in Enquirer Mary
Walton by John Morgan 2nd DAM Ee Cheaham by Bill Chham Bred
WENDABay Mare oaed 1881 Sire Ben Hmyar Dam Miss Walton
Enquirer End DAM Mary Walton by John Cavalier
Price $400
WALTOONA Chestnut Mare, ed Se Miss
Walton by Enquirer End DAM Mary Walton John Morgan Bred Charax
Price $3.50
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OCCONEECHEE FARM.

DURHAM, N c.
OOCONEECHEE FARM,
Durham, N. O.
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XNTANTED.-Man to take an efsce sand
NM represent q manufactures; $5oJ per
week; small capital required Address.
with stamp, Manufacturer, Box 21a, Concord
Junction, Mass
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DR.. Frank Heartt is again suffering
with an attack Of rheumatism.
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WHY NOT Yon2

When thousands of people are taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla to overcome the
weakness and languor which are so
common at this season, Why are you
not doing the same? When you know
that Hoods Sarsaparilla has power to
cure rhuematism, dyspepsia and all
diseases caused by impure blood, why
10 you continue to suffer? Hoods
cures others, why not you?
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
PIEDMONT AIR-LNE.l
CONDENSED SCHEDUA Z
TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH, n c.
IN EFFECT, Dec, 5. / aos.

TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH, n. G.
fDAMY, ex 7ept Sunday Connects
At Greensboro, Tor ali pos.
for North and South. ars
Winston-Salem and point
o.oo the Northwestern North C173.
lima Railroad. AT Salishlry !s.
- all points in Western North Csg
DINA, Knoxville, Tenn, C.aaiy
natl and western points; AZ ITEPs
lotte, for Spartanpurg,
Vile, Athens, Atlantis anc a..
ooints South.
Connects at Durham for OxfnYs
GAINESVILLE and keysyille sScFp,
Sundays. st Greensboro, VIII
the Washington and 5uuta
western Vestibuled Qdmitat}
and the New York and Fio...@.s
Short Line Qinitedl tgSta
FOR al points North, aut.
with main line train Nc = .2s
Danville, Richmond and ,ztc-.a
date local stations; also has sen
A:05 nection for Winston-Salem, an
Pm with main line train No SIS ifsbt
Daily mail for Charlotte, Spartanburs,
Greenville, Atlanta and sill points
South; also Columbia, Augheta
Charleston, Savannah, Jsck
sonville, and all points In Elogiie,
Sleeping Car for Atlanta. Jack.
SOuNltlc duu db OQdTlODGG Wills
sleeping car for Augusta sr&
Jacksonville.
Connects at Selma for Fsyests.
vile and intermediate stations ON
the Wilson q Fayetteville Short
Cut, daily; Goidsboro for New.
1880 perm ana Morenesd CITY, daily sx
A M 0SRS ouuuaysi TOT MlLnlnstos
Daily M ., iV M 3 s1aOions on "ss
Connects at Selma for WilscE
Rocky Mount, Tarboro and lcY4
stations on Norfolk & CarQltns
Railroad, arrives at GGldsbcsr
1905 p m
900: Connects at Durham for Oxford
A M Keysville, Richmond; at Greerls
DAILY I boro for Washington and al
3:I4 points north.
Daily
$500
Pm. For Goldsboro
Daily
x Sun.
RAINS ARRIVE AT RALEIGH, N. O.
3:I4
p M From Atlanta, Charlotte,
Daily Greensboro and all points south.
7:20 From Greensboro and all poiuSs
A M north and south. Sleepius So
Daily Greensboro to Raleigh.
K IA rrOm OOluSDOrO, WllJn1nTr.
4:O5 Fayetteville and all points ms
tern Carolina.
1925 From New York, WashinSts
A M Lynchburg, Danville, Gree
boro.
900
Pm
aad
300 From Goidsboro and sn ssG,e,s
A M east
Daily
* Sun
Local freight trains also carry Dassso
ers
Pullman cars on night train fScN
saleigh TO Greensboro, and on TnGr0irs
rain from Greensboro.
Double daily trains between ysiar
'harlotte and Atlanta. Quick time: Tnsr
elled accommodation
@ l. Hopkins T r A, Charlotte, NO
M CULP, w A TURF,
Trat11c Mgr Gen Pasg Age
ID GREEN, Washington q
Generl Sup't.
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Hoods Pills are prompt and efficient
25 cents.s
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Stylish Gensman's Driving Horses Years Old.
PEACOCK Gedng Medium
Sire Melville Chief
hmas road horse the U2ed States He absolutely fau
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OOCONEEOHEE FARM,
Dur
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Cleveland, Sutherland and Bedford-are
regular contributors To magazines. Lady
Greville Is in receipt Of u steady income
from several ne wspapers, for which she
rites regularly. The brilliant Lady
Conn Campbell. was for Il long time chief
eGitor OF LCndon paper. Lady Con
stance Howard, sister of the Earl OF
Wtnchelsea, is almost equally industrious.
employing her pen exclusively with sport
ing subjects. The Countess Of Cork gOer.
i'll regularly for Journalistic work. Much
OF the news in the new London paper, the
Daily Courier, is Contributed by the aris-
tocracy.
The following story is told of the court
ship OF MIR. Dlsracli, afterward Lord Bea-
consfieId, and Mrs. Wyndham Lewis: Mrs
Lewis wasllylne near CdrdlfT, W hen through
the window she saw Mr. Dlsrael approach
ing, and ordered the servant to say she was
not a home. W ben the servant descended
To the hall Mt. Dlsraeil was hanging his
light overcoat ton peg. Mrs. Lewis. Sir,
IS not at home SAID the Hurried maid, Il
did not ask for Mrs. LIE Wis was the calm,
statesmanlike reply. But / don't know
When she Will be back urged the maid.
"Ne!ttier do L. pbilOsophIcally replied he;
but am gong TO wait I'LL she does come
back; SO MAKE me some tea He did wait,
he got bis tea and he ma rried the widow.
The late Marquis of Bath, who died at
Venice recently, was the original OF Lord
FarutoSa in The Ncwcomes.' Thackeray
ackuo wledgcd the portrait shortly after
the publicaIiOn OF the book He was " ak
a friend, when they net Lord Bath, VITO
stopped and spoke to them. When he had
gone Tbackeray turned TO the friend and
said: "I'n wager you don't know who
that was" ''N hat 60 you mean" cXClaIm-
ell the other bath and | were at Christ
Church together. Didn't you hear him Just
no W refer 10 those days." ''I'llrepeat " hat
| say. You don't know who he is, so I'll
tell you. He's FanntOsh." Lord Bath
learned this 1act from old Lady Moles worth
years after and was very angry with
ThaCkeray.
All bail 10 DR.. Chauvet OF Fordham. Dr.
Chauvet is the owner of Poe Cottage, iu
that suburb, and, not being able or willing
TO keep 1t as a shrine, he rented it to a
tenant. When the tenant got possession he
nailed up q sign on which was painted
Poe Laundry" aud perched above the
sign was wooden raven. This was 100
much for Dr. Chauvet To bear, and he al
once refunded To his tenant the month
rent that had been paid in advance, and
turned him out. The doctor may be thrifty,
but he has his feelings, and he is not going to
let any soulless lauDdrynan make capital
out OF his literary property. And he is right.
Fancy the poets sensations If he could see
his raven a q laundry sign, The next thing
il would have been called "A h Pos laundry
DR. Chauyet did not act a mOmenttoo soon.
Exchange.
Shakespeare has often been credited
spearian enthusiast once stated in company
a quotation could be found suitable for
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every subject, and for every condition and
circumstance OF life, aud further chal-
lenged anyone present To name any two
subjects for which an appropriate quo
taLon could not he met with. One or his
hearers, thinking that probably Shake
speaFe had never had his photograph AIKEN
or sent a slXpeuny wire named phOtOg-
rpahy and the electric telegraph, both es-
sentldlly children OF the nineteenth century
The challenger replied for photography,
The glorious sun stays in his course and
plays the alCheniSt' C'king Johu,' act
III, scene -, and FOR the electric telegraph
II II put girdle round the earth IN forty
minutes" midsummer Nights Dream act
II, scene II
Walter Bcsant may never rival Mark
Twain pathetic appearance as he stood
at the grave OF AGam OF A dam and wept,
but the English novelist calls attention
TO the alleged fact that he has il in his
power to go 10 HomeT'S tomb and pay the
homage OF tears to the great poet Besaut
asserts that he recently learned that HO-
OF Mo, and that the grave was discovered
in the year ITO by Count De Grimm Il
Dutch officer. HcrOdOtuS states that Homer
was buried on the Island OF Mo. formerly
called los. De Grimm visited the island
aud found tomb that looked as If it
might contain the remains OF Homer A
skeleton was found inside that cTumbled To
dust when exposed to the air A knife and
an lnkstanl were held in the bOny hands
of the skeleton. The fnkStand seems to
prove COuClusively that the remains were
really those OF Homer The knife is not
easily accounted for. 1t is Just possible
that Homer was looking for a too pre-
sumptuOus critic when he met with Sud-
den dcath.-EX-
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LITERARY NOTES.

Ernest Hart is a rev hypnotic writer.
Good critics are becoming rare in Eng
land.
Dickens began ''Dombey s Son. in Loui-
Siana.
Shirley was a nom de plume of DR..
Shelton. n
Gardening is the favorite weakness of
many authors.
Luke Sharpe was famous before the
real Robert Barr
Andrew Carnegie gave a public library
to DuqueSne, Pa.
Hornady's 1.-TWO Years in Jungle is
in its fifth edition.
William Archer translated Nansen's book
on the ESquinauN.
James Whitcomb Riley has succumbed
TO the bicycle craze.
FeliS Gras is exceptionally successful in
fluent French description.
Tolstu believes in the educational value
of the theater and writes plays.
Gilbert Parker has arrived in London
and numerous fetes greeted him.
Harry Stnlwell Edwards is a faithful
student of his Southern brethren.
The Overland Monthly is twenty-eight
years old. Bret Harte once edited it.
Stevenson knew the poets intimate tely, but
was stranger to classic literature.
Dickens has portrayed more wicked wo-
men than any other writer of fiction
steady autograph for one OF her years
Nine. Burnet is great admirer of Ethel
Turner, the youthful Australian writer
Thomas Hughes was a judge socialistic
student and politician, as well as author.
Owen Wister has gone to England to
recupeTate from too confirming desk work.
The expected output of Spanish articles
has begun by Hobart C. Chatfed- TAYLOR
Paul Maurice edits the forthcoming un-
published letter Of Victor Hugo. He is
Hugo executor.
The Marquis of Durferin and Ava is a
great grandson of Richard Brinsley Sheri-
dan.
oliver Wendell Ho lines was on his
fathers side English, by his mothers
Dutch.
William 7. Hornady, the author OF 1.-THE
Man Who Became Savage" is an Indian
by birth.
Blackmore writes that 1.-The Fate of
Franklin" was not his first, but his last bit
of verse.
'sMurder will OUT is first. found in
Chaucer. Through thick and thin is
Spencer's.
'The MaSter-Knot and Another Story
is spoken of as neat little book to go 10
sleep over.
Laureate Austin never reads the papers
and knows nothing OF the criticism heapeC
upon him.
Spencer's Epithalmium is spoken of as
the most beautiful bridal hymn in all
literature.
Argument has beea defined: With fools
passion, vociferauons or violence; with min
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| ON. CARL SCHURZ is writing his me-
- moirs. They ought to be of great in
terest and extensive Importance If he
reveals much of the inner political
secrets of private and public affairs
thirty years ago. Presumably lis Will not
delve deep into the subject. There is
plenty else 10 make a story Well worth
reading in career such as were his forty
seven years OF active life. DR.. Schurz has
been all things at once and by turns. He
knows politics intimately, he has seen
military service, his pen has been active,
and his social life has brought him in con-
tact With the most congenial spirits of
his day. 1t is said that he is no haste
to publish this work, but will build it
into two large volumes and give it to the
publisher late in the year. He is not an
old man TO have retired permanently from
active life. He lacks three years OF three
score ten. But nothing Will induce him to
come back into the public arena. He even
leads life OF personal seclusion. Only
occasionally he walks from his house,
near Central Park, New York, down to
the editorial rooms OF Harpers Weekly,
for which he frequently contributes a
leading editorial.
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ABOUT THINGS LITERARY
Unique Publication of the
"United States Red Book"
NEW SPANISH DRAMATIST
Famous Summer House of C0wper
Sold for $2,400 Some Lines
From a Partisan Journal.

WAS intended at the time of the
Columbian Exposition to bring To
America for exhibition an ancient
hUUe ramsnackle snanty from Olncy,
BuckInghamsnIre, England, being
no other tl.>.II tue Famous ''suIiiInef-house
OF the poet, Cowper. This httle box was
sold a lew weeks ago, with ''al thaJ IaT-
famed garden and orcnard known,as Cow
per garden and the Guinea orchard. '
The property sold for EzS0. about 81, 400.
The summer-house was not Il refuge from
heat, tut a little work room, my bou-
doir,' as the poet called ii, where he
used 10 repair from the noise OF the dwell
ins mouse. aid tie invasion of his famous
hares by name BeSs, PuSs and Tiny.
Here ne wrote all OF John Gilpin,' and
a large part OF The Task The house
only had one room, and was barely ten
feet square, and The steep gable hung low
over the doorway. In winter time the
boudoir was deserted of it's poet-tenant,
and the flowers from the garden were dug
up and housed away from the nipping
frost Then, when smiling spring came
to warm The earth again, Cowper routed
the intruders the walls were lined with
mats, and the building again became a
summer-house A 8 all shrines, the walls
are covered with the names of countless
visitors, though on the table there has
for long been a book which has received
the autographs OF many famous men and
women.
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Prosecuted

''WOt's feller TO do? Mother won't let
me smoke in the house; she says il spolIs
her curtains and makes her whites taste
after terbacker. Then my best girl OBJ
jects to the smell of smoke on my breat
and dad whales the stuffin' out o. me ey'ry
time he catches me with a pipe 1 tell
you, it's pretty tough on a feller, that's
wot il isr'-Truth.
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which he diyests history of its historical
character and draws the reader into u
tale OF wonderful things and even makes
him for thenouce a participant therein. The
story is told in line pictures as well as
word pictures. The book is profusely Illus
trated, there being almost as many pictures
a s pages of text,
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n MOTHER book published by this same
= house is that of Il no less experienced
writer, Beneath Old Roof Trees" by
Abram English Brown. Mr.. Brown
has done much, if not more. than am.
other New England writer to embalm for
future generations of youths and men the
history of the coast colonies. His latest
work is delightful review of the OMEN
ing of the Revolution. He has heard much
nf the history at the door posts of MANY
Did New England homes from the Iins of
fuse who received it transmitted from
Bly one generation. A glowing charm
Boout his narrative is the facility with
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Real EStnte Trustees

Who are forced to advertise property
for sale at auction. can save the entire
cost OF advertising to their clients by
consulting The Times Real Estate Bureau
Free advertising of property for sale or
rent. See full page advertisements in this
issue.
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h | OF the first original publication to
M SprOut frOmtle fertile Solof the West
wasthe Chap Book. There is another
which Eastern enterprise has not left
to flourish in its native heath, butha
transpianted 10 ALLEGED productive orchard
land adjacent to Cape CCd, in the shadow
of Bunker Hill, within the rumble of the
busy Riverside Press. -Four years and odd
months ago "A young man in Indianapolis
who devoted his bread-w inning energies
to commercial enterprises, filled in his
leisure hours with tie study of art With
the natural inspiration OF the artist lie has
proved himself he arranged to publish an
ideal art magazine. His idea was TO present
not only well-conSidered and wellwritten
topics, but to reproduce the teXtin the most
artistic form, accompanying it with illus
tratiouS which were mol Lurlesgues, but
had a distinct art value for their intrinsic
and reproductive eXccllencies. He named
hls magazine Modern Art and the first
number was n revelation, though to a
hopelcssy limited audience. The young
man with the persistence of foresight
plunged ahead. by day engaged at his
hated aud Slavish commercial pursuits, at
night burning holy oil at tie shrine of his
desire. Another and several numbers ap-
peared Local pride helped him with adver-
tising TO SCme limited extent and helpful
letters came 10 lid encGura cement, with
out substance.
Nearly three years he spent on his ma ga
zine almost single handed. Then one day
what he hoped for and what comes to all
worthless who are patient, came. Pang,
the art publisher of Boston, sent for the
roung man. The end OF the tale is that he
gave up his commercial pursuits at In
dianapolis, and sold his magazine TO the
Boston publisher, with Il saving clause that
he was to bc retained as editor. His maga-
zine which wa from the beginning one of
the most perfect art periodicals in the
world. was not improved upon: but il has
become power in the art world. 1t is an
education, not many, in the abstract of
precept and commentary. butin the concrete
OF eXquisitely reproduced examples OF
fine art subjects. The young man is Joseph
NJ. BOwleS.
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Sl.25 to Baltimore and Return via
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad

Tickets will be sold Saturday and Sunday.
May % and "a, anG Will be valid for re-
turn passage until Monday, May 25. Good
on any rdlh- my20-5t
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- z prolific Rev. Charles Beecher. he
begins to grow prolific again chal-
lenges attention. and admiration. by
a new work Of spiritual investigation.
Heisbccomng as distinguished for his
reiigiousand pOlCmcal writings as the other
Bcccher was famous in the spoken word
This new work is called ''Patmos. or the
TnveiiinG." and comes from the Lee &
Shepard presses. which gave forth the other
Beecher books. ''Patmos" is an exposi-
tion OF the Apocalypse of st. John. This
difficult book of Revelation has continually
been an enigma TO prOfessed theologians az
well as laymen and this unveilng of its
difficulties is accomplished with skill. The
early portions of the book set forth the
environment of the Apostle, the nature OF
the vision, and the literalneSs Of the Apos-
tolc descriptions. The author supple
menis these with n specific Interpretation
of the symbolism the light ofhistory. Withal
there is the paternal atmosphere about the
DOCK that makes il read like the lovab!e
tale of father 10 child and a clear and de-
hshtful memory.