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ALL FROM A GLUE POT
A Sunday Afternoon Fire Destroys q
Stair Factory
The Coal Oil Lamp Exploded and Ignited
Shavings-L. w. Burnham's Shop
and Home Wiped Out.

A two-story frame building on the
east side of Main street, between Sew
enth and Eighth, occupied as factory
by l.. w. Burnham, the stair builder,
was burned yesterday afternoon. with
total loss amounting to about $4,000. 1t
was all on account of a glue pot, an ar
ticle not usually considered dangerous.
except where it is found in connection
with a coal oil stove, as this one was.
At about 2:50 p. m. the coal oil stove,
upon which was stewing a mess of glue
in Mr.. Burnham shop exploded, setting
fire to the shavings and other infiamma-
BILE material scattered about.
Mr. Burnham, who was in his shop 1t
the time, seeing that he was powerless
to cope with the flames, gave the alarm
and rushed up stairs to his living rooms
to try to save some of his furniture.
He, with his wife, lived in the rooms of
the second floor, and the flames came
upon them so suddenly they could save
none of their effects.
The department responded promptly
to the alarm, but it's efforts resulted only
in saving a blackened skeleton of the
building, which must be now wholly de-
mOlished.
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suits. but of necessity give birth to their
effects, which effects fall upon us
through incarnations until their vitality
is expended and ends.
But there are further truths which this
great philosophy elucidates. We men
are not mere machines, puppets through
which the forces of nature resistlessly
work. We are endowed with free WILL
the prerogatiVe of choice, and the char
acter of the evolution each makes is de-
termined by himself alone. The thou
sand incidents of every day are not acci-
dental nor are they meaningless. They
have not come about without cause, as
IL mere fOrtuitous events which had no
antecedent and may have no results. but
are the consequents of forces we our
selves set in motion.
Thus TheosOphy says to us: You are
and you shall be what you make your
selves. But it is better for we'll being and
happiness that you make OF yourselves
the finest possible future, and this you
can do if you honestly take to heart the
lesson of each event Detailing you in
life. Incline your free will to prefer what
all reason and all experience commend,
and then you will surmount not only
doubt, but disaster and suffering as
wel.'
Theosophy shows just what a code of
ethics can produce when fully carried out
highly evolved men who have harmon
ized themselves with the whole divine
plan and have steadily emerged, incar-
nation after incarnation, from the weak
nesses and evils of ordinary humanity.
In long, orderly process, each stage
expressing some advance in self-controi
or added power, every incident of life
receiving its just Interpretation and
bearing its proper fruit The very es-
sence of Him was utter identification
with nature and her designs.
While TheOSophy is very real thing,
1t is possible for it to receive a most un-
real presentation. This would naturally
be the case with any system including
an array of unfamiliar doctrines and
claiming the existence of unfamiliar
powers And so we do not infrequently
see Theosophy depicted as an eastern va
gary imported as Stimulant to a blase
western palate, or as a slightly changed
form of the exploded notion of metaphys-
les. Sometimes we hear of it as wild
prescription whereby men may travel
about in astral body; sometimes as ar
ingenious invention of outlandish fan
cies, the crowning absurdity being Ma
hatmas. These depictions are quite often
the unintentional errors of people know
ing no better. But we also encounter
representations of Theosophy, having
no God, no heaven, no provision for PEN
itent sinners, no eVl0ential support, no
impulse to individual or social reform
and violently hostile to everything bear
ing the name of Christian. Attacks upon
it are usually by those who have not
studied it, and yet at times it suffers
from the well-meaning expositions of its
own friends.
A very excellent method of testing
the reality of any religious philosophy
is to study it's results in those who ac-
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SELECTIONS OF SERMONS
Continued from page So

Christians have only to cry as did Bun
yan's pilgrim, that they walk in the
strength of the Lord God. and the enemy
will be thrust out from before them.
(2) God says. Destroy" Here is ex-
pressed the final destiny of the enemies
of Gods children. Sometimes the ene-
my seems to have the better of the fight,
but God can afford to wait. David says
that God turns them to destruction.
John In Revelations says they shall be
cast into the lake of fire. Even
death and hades shall be ca 1T
into the lake of fire. Paul, IN
First Cor, .,xv:26 declares THE last en-
emy that he destroyed is death" Bless
ed truth is this. Death for the Christian
shall be destroyed. when this corrupt
ible shall have put on interruption, and
this mortal shall have put on immortal
ity. then shall be brought to pass the
saying, death is swallowed up in victory.
o death, where Is thy sting? o grave,
where Is thy victory? Therefore my be-
loved brethren. be ye steadfast, immov-
able, always abounding in the works of
the Lord, for as much as ye know that
.-our labor Is not in vain in the Lord"
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the sharp shot, and few seconds after &.
shower of little seeds fall on the ground
or the leaves of the larger plants. II
is the bursting of seed-pods in the sun.
The casket containing these seeds Is
composed of four or five long narrow
slaves, Joined like cooper work. The
glued edges hold and protect the seed
till ripe. But when this Is matured the
action of the machinery is reversed;
the pods open with spring and fling
the seed as from the sewers hand. So
1t was with the Mosaic Institutes. They
were fitted to retain the word of God
at Jerusalem till the time was ripe. But
the same provision that confined the
ordinances to Israel until Christ came
became the means of spreading them
over the world.
This gives q mighty significance to
PentecoSt. The hearts of the disciples
as the spirit filed them, poured forth IL h
glad tidings in the tongues of Greece
and Rome, of Persia and Africa.
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CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
DR.. Fowler on the Gifts of the Holy
Ghost at Pentecost.

AT the morning service of this church
in y. M. G. A. hall Rev. DR.. Fowler
spoke on The Lesson of the Grain Pods.
taking for his text Acts lille: What
meareth this?" He said it was the
question asked on the birthday of the
Christian church, the day of Pentecost.
Here were unlettered men suddenly
clothed with power of speech greater
than II they had spent lifetime in
mastering the tongues of the world.
Mockers ascribed it to new wine. but
strong, clear address is far from new
wines incoherent gibberish. Peter ac-
counts for all the marvels of that day
by ascribing them to the outpoured spirit
of God. But the devout question. "What
meaneth this?" may fairly 20 deeper
than this. To what does this strange
tongue-power tend?
To answer it fully we must gaze on
the scene from heavens standpoint
ing the grand results which followed
that historic day. The one thing ~
evidently meant was the rapid spread
Of Christianity. A change is at once to
be wrought in the genius of Judaism.
1t is now to spread over the earth the
truth 1t has so long conserved at Je-
rusalem. The very law which confined
the sacrifices to one spot and so brought
Jews and proselytes from all the sur
rounding countries to Jerusalem at Pen
tecost is now to throw the seed of the
word broadcast over the neighboring
nations.
Here is where the lesson from the
grain pods helps us. Go through the
fields In some places in a hot day in
autumn and tiny sound strikes the
lear like miniature explosion. You hear
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SIMPSON TABERNACLE.
Rev. r. W. Bland Of the Rock River
Conference in the Pulpit.

Rev. r. w. Bland of the Rock River,
Ills, conference filled the pulpit of Simp-
sontabernacle yesterday for Rev. c. c.
Mclean, who is seriously ill. The
speaker chose for his theme Rev. ii.17
There is peculiar blessing promised
to them who read and believe this book,
said the speaker There are seven prom
ises made to those who overcome
One says he shall be given to. eat of the
tree of life, and finally he shall sit on
my throne. We are not seeking bless
Ing that is far away, but one that we
can enjoy in the present life; that here
on this earth we shall dwell in the tab
ernacle of our God. 1t is interesting
to note the indefiniteness of this text,
for IN none of these promises Is it stated
what we are to overcome, but every
heart knoweth it's own temptations and
Its own battles. There is a great strug-
sle before every Christian, and in this
Gcss spirit Is with man to help him
to overcome and come off more than con-
Queror.
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UNIvERsAL1sT CHURCH.
Christianity Considered as Power for
Civilization.

The subject of Pastor Rice's discourse
at Caledonia hall was Christianity as a
Power for Civilization, the text being
Rom. v:2O. Moreover, the law entered
that the offense might abound; but
where sin abounded grace did much
more abound"
He said: Wrong doing is q most dis
tressfur fea ture of our civilization. From
the gigantic oppression exercised over
the poor and needy by the intelligent
instigators of monopoles and trusts
to the weighty burden laid upon the
nation because of its low and depraved
portion, wrong is "A most lamentable
factor. On such organized and stupen-
dous scale does it confront us that we
are led to question the advantage of the
civilization to which it belongs and of
which we boast. Back of this. We doubt
the good even of Christianity, which we
believe to be the chief cause of civili-
cation. That a Christian nation should
exhibit more evil than the heather
might seem to speak i'll for Christianity.
Would 1t not be better that Christian
law had not entered humanity? AL,
that we have and all that we are, above
what the heather have and are, we are
wont to ascribe to the power OF Chris
tiarity. What then, is that law or
the phenomena of both good and
evil, of blessing and cursing?
Nothing more than pure benevolence,
coupled with a positive morality. Many
other ideas both subsidiary and adverse
to the above have been put forth by the
different sects of the Christian religion,
but the law of berevolerce and morality.
Christ's greatest legacy, has outlived
and Outshone them all. So firmly has
it entered the world that it acts as ..
developer of intelligence. 1t finds it's
way into the constitution of the United
States and into secular law, even giving
patents to induce useful invention and
copyrights for the development of ideas
To that conscience which naturally fol-
lows enlightenment in proportionate de-
gree 1t adds keener discrimination.
Thus. on the entrance of Christianity
We have a new world of action opened
10 US and corresponding sense OF duty
and responsibility. Man will try his
power in this new world, and not always
In way that duty dictates. Civiliza-
tion gives not only opportunity but temp
tation. that the offense may abound
Except for our enlightenment and cum
ming we should never have entrapped
the black man and brought him to our
shores as a slave; except for our intelli-
gence we had not manufactured rum
and sent 1t on its burning mission to all
parts OF the world except for our supe-
. rior reasoning we should not oppress
the poor and weak to the very verge of
despair.
The desire for material prosperity,
which is at the bottom of all these
things, Is incidental and not necessarily
permanent in race advancement
The final result is abounding in
grace. No man or race ever
attained perfection without a
struggle. Slavery Is already abolished;
next shall be the rum traffic; then mo-
nopoly, and again the slums. Chris
tianity is able to wipe out the darkest
spot of which it has been the occasion
God intends us not to vegetate, but to
grow.
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CHuRCH NOTES.

Arcdeacon Webber, who has been
conducting ten days mission at ST.
PauFs church, Is man of extraordi-
nary energy. All last week he gave five
addresses each day.
The crowd at st. Paul's last night to
listen to the earnest eloquence of the
mission preacher taxed the utmost cap
acity of the edifice. even the porch be-
ing filled with standing listeners.
The Rev. Father M'Auliffe was the
preacher at evensong in the Cathedral
last night.
Rev. C. c. Mclean, who returned
from San Francisco Friday night, is
seriously i'll at his home, 814 South Hope
street The doctor is suffering from a
severe attack of infiammatory rheuma-
tism.
The regular annual meeting of MEM
bers Of the Church Of the Unity of Los
Angeles will be held in the church at
8 o'clock p. m. tonight for the purpose Of
electing a board of trustees for the en-
suing year. and of transacting such
other business as may regularly come
before it,
The subject of Dr. Thomsons sermon
at Unity church next Sunday will be
'The Worship and Symbolism of Solo
mons Temple
The Right Rev. Bishop Montgomery
occupied the pulpit at the Church of
the Lady Of the Angels, opposite the
Plaza, yesterday morning, and preached
an eloquent sermon on the Epiphany.
Prof. Bowman at Music hall yesterday
discussed the subject of religion, inquir-
ing philosophically into it's nature, origin
and destiny.
Dean Peck of Colorado, the founder of
the Haymarket mission and now field
secretary of the Christian and Mission
ary Alliance, spoke last night in the
rooms of the Y. M. C. "A. He will ad-
dress meetings today and tomorrow in
the First Congregational church-today
at 2:30 pm. and 7:30 pm
The herald., 1897-01-11
A STREET PREACHERS TROUBLE
In Frenzy He Undertakes to Do Him
self Injury

Barton Meshler is the name Of long
haired, long-bearded man whose face
and hirsute adprnments are familiar
decorations of Central park, where the
individual has been wont to hold forth
as street preacher.
AS crazy as he may have been before,
his mania got away with him yesterday,
for in the presence of a number of peo-
pie he tried to do himself to death or
injury. At a lodging house on Sixth
street near Grand avenue Meshler ran
amuck yesterday afternoon, and, after
breaking a window, rushed upon bal
cony and undertook to throw himself
thence to the ground below.
He was caught by fellow lodger who
restrained him from making his crazy
leap, and later the street preacher was
taken first to the city Jail and then to
the county Jail, where he Is now locked
up on the charge Of insanity.
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READ THIS LETTER

LOS ANGELES, January /, 1896
TO the public: | was seriously afflicted
for about ten years with lung, liver and
kidney troubles. Tongue could never ev
press the misery | endured during those
years. L was reduced in flesh until | was
a mere skeleton. My sight and hearing
were badly impaired; was constantly
troubled with constipation and piles, and
lad a severe chronic cough. In short life
was burden and death would have been
welcome. 1 was treated by various spec
alists with out avail 1 finally resolved to
give DIR. Wong Him. of No. $50 Upper Main
street, trial OF course, like many others.
| had no faith i'll a Chinese doctor hut it
took only a few doses of his life-giving
herbs to knock all the skepticsm out of
me. In just five weeks the doctor prom oun-
ced me cured, and now can truthfuly say
that L was never healthier and never felt
better in my life. My sight and hearing
are both fully restored; that obnoxious
cough, constipation and piles are entirely
cured. and am rapidly gaiking in flesh,
having gained forty pounds in two months.
earnestly recommend all sufferers and
skeptics to give the doctor trial and be
convinced of his superior skill as a ply
sician.
JOHN M. STEVENSON.
$40 Bellevue avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.
To the Public: ] take pleasure in tes-
tifyng to my marvellous recovery under
Upper Main ST., Los Angeles, from a num-
ber OF stubborn ailments, among which
were chr1nic sick headaches, dyspepsia
and kindred stomach troubles, heart affec-
tion and kidney disease. But what I con-
slider this physician execled in, so far as
my case is concerned. was in the restora-
ton of my eye service. Astigmat;sm.
coupled with other disorders, was my af-
Fiction in this respect and, although a
number of well known skilled oculsts in
some of the larger cities of this country
advised me l should always have to de-
pend upon glasses, and receive but poor
cpryica then DR. WOOp ir,,,c
edies have enabled me to abandon totally
the use of any artificial help to sight and
my eyes continue to give such service,
both for near work and distant. as is truly
wonderful. To the skill and remedies Of
the physician named can alone be attrib-
uted a revolution in my physical condition
throughout that puzzles those who knrw
Of the 'incurable" character of my ar
fiictions. Respectfully,
G. L. PLOWMAN,
Pico Heights P. O., Cal. Sept s. 1896.
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THE DEADLY BANANA PEEL
Causes Painful Accident to Fred
Talbert.

A lurking banana peel played a bad
trick on Fred Talbert, 15-year-oldlb boy,
last evening on Main street, near Reque-
ma. While the boy was walking with
his father he stepped upon banana
skin and fell in such manner as to
dislocate his left elbow. The father
took the SON to the receiving hospital,
where the police surgeon attended the
injured limb.
Fred Talbert, whose home is at No. 944
Buena Vista street, has had a number of
experiences nearly like the one of last
evening. Not long ago he tripped on a
bunch of wire, and, broke an arm, and
his father says the boy has had quite a
series of breaks and Sprains.
The herald., 1897-01-11
PINCER THIEF PINCHED

A dope fiend, delirious for the want OF
his accustomed poison and without the
wherewithal to purchase it, succeeded
in getting himself lodged in the city jail
yesterday. Tom Tate Is the name given
by the man whose appetite for epiate
was so strong that he was led to burg
larize blacksmith shop near the /. x. L.
stables, steal pair of new pincers and
undertake to sell them. He was caught
and locked up, charged with petty lar
ppny
The herald., 1897-01-11
IN OLDEN TIMES

People overlooked the Importance of per-
manently beneficial effects and were
satisfied with transient action; but now
that it is generally known that Syrup of
Figs will permanently overcome habit
ual constipation, well-informed people
will not buy other laxatives, which act
for time, but finally injure the sys-
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REALITY OF THEOsOPHY

Mrs. s. p. Halsith of Chicago lectured
before the Harmony branch of Theoso-
phists last night, and among other
things said: Two Of the laws most con-
spicuous in the cosnic order take WIS.,
ible shape in human affairs as reincar-
nation and karma. Reincarnation ex-
presses the truth that we cannot ad-
vance TO mode of existence apart from
flesh till we have used up all the multi
form lessons which a fieshly embodiment
ensures, but must continue on and on in
a succession of incarnations upon earth
until the soul has extracted therefrom
every element of value.
Karma expresses the truth that the
forces we have aroused by thought,
word and deed cannot die without re-
The herald., 1897-01-11

To Cure Cold In Ono Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II 1t
fails to cure. 25c.
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SANTA FEE TRAINS

For Riverside, San Bernardino and Red
lands leave Los Angeles a. M, $3.50 u.
M, 10:15 a. M, p. m. For San Diego
S:17 a. M, p. m. For Santa Ana, S:17
a. m, p. M. p. m.
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My prices for wallpaper beat all the city.
A. A. Eckstrom, ga South Spring street.
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LINES OF VEL

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
TIME TABLE-DEC. 80, 1896
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DACIri1 COAST STEAMSHIP co.
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Steamers leave Redondo at II am. ana
Port Los Angeles at 2:20 pm. for San Fran
CISCO via Santa Barbara and Port Hartford
(San Luis Obispo)
Santa Rosa...,4, 4, 7 7, %, 2s 5. j.. q.
Corona ............IS, 1d. "a. / 10. II, 3.
steamers leave San Pedro and East San
Pedro for San Francisco, via Ventura, Car.
Hartford (San Luis Obispo), Cayucos, San
Simeon, Monterey and Santa Cruz:
Jan. Feb.
Eureka, $50 pm...n, 9, Il, 25, 2. 10, IS. n
Coos Bay, $3.50 pm 3, 13, 2l, 20, s, IA, %,
Steamers leave Port Los Angeles at ara
and Redondo at IL I'm. for San Diego, Stmr.
Corona will also call at Newport (Sants
Ana.) y
Corona on .......a. L. p. S. So Is. Is ss, ss, 50
The company reserves the right to change
without previous notice steamers sailing
dates and hours of sailing.
Cars connect with steamers via San Pc.
dro leave $. p. r. r. (Arcade depoD at 5:0g
p. m. and Terminal Ry. depot at sos pm.
Cars connect via Redondo leave Santa
Fe depot at 1000 am, or from Redondo Ry.
depot at $3.50 am.
Cars connect via Port Los Angeles leave
s. P. R. r. depot at 1855 pm. for steamers
northbound. ffi n
w. PARIS, Agent, 124 West Second st..
Los Angeles.
GOODALL. PERKINS g. CO., Gen Agts..
San Francisco.
MOUNT LOWE RAILWAY.
TIME CARD
.
In Effect November 8. 1896.
| Cars for Echo Mountain and Alpine Tkv.
ern leave Los Angeles via Pasadena and
Los Angeles Electric Railway as follows:
500 am. 10:40 am. 300 pm.
Returning, arrive at Los Angeles:
10:R am. 400 pm. $50 pm
| Via Los Angeles Terminal Railway, leavU
| Los Angeles at:
- $50 am. s:2o pm.
ills am. SEQ IN
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OVERLAND EXPREss-Daily

OVERLAND EXPRESS-Daiy
Pullman palace sleeping cars to Kansas
City and Chicago. Pullman tourist sleep
ing cars to Kansas City and Chicago daily.
Mondays to Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Wednesdays to Boston, This train makes
twenty-four hours quicker time to Chicago
and the east than trains of any competing
line. Meals at Harveys dining rooms.
Leaves at 10:15 a.m.; arrives at 80 pm.
SAN DIEGO TRAINS
Lv. 1917 am. 2 pm. Ar. 1901 pm, 6:05 p. m.
Tuesdays and Saturdays only, ". 6:1O 7. m.
SAN BERNARDiNO TRAINS
Ply. am. 10:15 am, pm
O-l.v. S:17 am, 1913 am, a pm
P-Ar. 9;4o am, 80 pm, 629 pm
REDLANDS TRAINS
Ply. am. 1915 am, pm.
DIV. S:17 am, *9:55 am.
P-Ar. $40 am, 10 pm. G2S pm
RIVERSIDE TRAINS
Ply. am. *1O:15 ain.
O-Iv. S17 am, %9:55 am, a pm.
PAR 1880 pm, 6:25 pm.
MONRoVIA AND AzUSA TRAINS
Lv: 8 am, 1o:15 am, *12:05 pm, pm,
1910 pm.
Ar 'S:l5 am, 94o am. 1:SO pm, "S pm,
PASADENA TRAINS
Lv; am, 1915 am, *l2:o5 pm, PM,
1910 pm.
Ar. 's:l5 am. $40 am, 80 pm, 20 pm,
6:25 pm.
SANTA ANA TRAINS
Lv. SIT am, pm, pm.
Ar. $50 am, 1901 pm, $3.50 p M. sos pm.
Tuesdays and Saturdays only, leave 6:10
SANTA MONICA TRAINS
Lv. 10 am. Ar 1852 pm.
REDONDO BEACH TRAINS
Lv. 10 am. 4:45 pm. Ar. $3.50 a. M. 1862 pm.
SAN JAC1NTO, ELSINORE AND TE-
MECULA TRAINS
Lv.-P *10:15 am. o @9:55 am.
Arp 1880 pm. Ar.-O *6:05 pm.
ESCONDIDO TRAINS
Lv. *2 pm. Ar. *605 pm.
FALLBROOK TRAINS
Lv. *8:17 am. AR. *6:05 pm
Trains via Pasadena line arrive al Dow
ney avenue station minutes earlier west
bound, and depart minutes later east
bound.
Trains depart from and arrive at La
Grande station, cor. First street and Santa
Fe avenue, Los Angeles
Notice-The time tables herein show the
time at which trains may be expected to
arrive at and depart from Los Angeles, but
their departure or arrival at the time stated
is not guaranteed. and the Southern Cali
fornia railway reserves the right to vary
from same at pleasure.
P-via Pasadena: O-via Orange; *-Daily
except Sunday; %*Sundays only. All other
trains daily.
For rates. sleeping car reservations; etc,
City Passenger and Ticket Agt.
200 Spring ST., cor. Second ST. and La Grande
station.
LOS ANGELES AND REDONDO RAIL-
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CALIFORNIA RAILWAY

CALIFORNIA LIMITED
Monday and Thursday. First-class pas
sengers only. Palace sleeping cars, dining
car, composite buffet and smoking car to
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City end Den
yer.
Lv Los Angeles pm. Monday and Thurs
day.
Ar. Denver II 10 a. IN. Thursday and Sunday
Ar. Kansas City $40 pm. Thursday and
Sunday.
Ar. st. Louis am. Friday and Monday.
Ar. Chicago 9:43 am. Friday and Monday.
Nv. Chicago pm. Wednesday and Satur-
day.
Lv. st. Louis 9:15 pm. Wednesday and
Saturday.
Lv. Kansas City $40 am. Thursday and
Sunday.
Lv Denver $50 p m. Thursday and Sunday.
Ar. Los Angeles pm. Saturday and Tues
day.
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M II I n i'I1I1- Il I1N. uOi IoVV'
Leave for Destination Ar. from