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open Ne. HIGHEST. LOWEST. CLOSING
CASH y. .a1lons were as lonows

Cash ~ +atlonS were AS lollows.
Flour Was dull: winter patents e3. 60QI3 50; do
St. lights 81 20a3.55; clears 2. 20a3 80; sprne
spe ,ials S.2uG143J; SPRING patents s3e9Q3.80
TO- straights -. lDa.3 40: bakers 81. 20a26 co. Rye
Hour -. Wheat-No. spring -; No. 8.
6e0731s; No, 9, red. 74a@76 Cotn-No
3e1 NO. yellow 1874. Oats-No ?. 259s No.
Write 27%N2S~ NO. g. white 27127@ Rye
NO 2, 81. Barley good feeding a. fall
No | northwestern l. g. Prime timothy sepc
M.5r. Ms PORK per bill, si4. 12%aI Is.
Lard pei 100 lbs, E.4' 1fQ173H Short ribs sides
Qoose) ST. Q730 Dry saited shoulders Cbos ed)
64U6". Short ear aides (boxed) e7.55Gl7 25
VIII key ~.
ME- YORh
New York, Feb i4.-Flour firmly held; Mia
nesota patents. 81 00al25: Minnesota bakers s. co
a3 IS; winter patents t3.6la4.o0; do. straights
s34593.5o, dc. extras 82. 55a2. 30; do low grade,
e. 45Q>2.G0.
Rye four steady; fair 70 gooc g. 5000 Is; choice
TO fsusy s3. l5a3.6u.
Buckwheat flour quiet at - l00l3 70
Buckwheat dull al 60G162.
Corn meal tirn; yellow western 80; city o ;
bra ndywne S2.4Ua245.
Pc hrm: State rye 5la52 No. 2, western Sc
I. o. D. atioat.
Barley quiet feeding 4sGt5c mating 6O6l65
Barey malt dull: westero 5a7!
Wbeat-spct easy: No. 2, r 1871 Options March
-; ,iay 800; ia y 79A
C'orn--spOt stroug; Ne. 2, 4B,s Optiona- Feb
rua v March May 4e; July 45
Osts--spoi steady; NO 2, 30tt Options dull
but rather firm.
Beef steady; family slIoonlg00; extra mess
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INAUGURAL EXCURSION.

seaboard Air Line Railway to Washing
ton. D. c., March /, and 8, 1901
On account of the inaugural ceremonies
of the President and Vice President, at
Washington. March 4th the Seaboard AIR
Line Railway viii sell excursion tickets
from all stations at rate of one frst-class
fare for the round trip. Tickets Will ne
good going on all trains of March Ist'
md and 3rd. and valid for return March
9th. 1901. inclusive
For fine trains and fast schedules take
the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Inelr
famous Florida and Metropolitan Lem
tied" and FLORIDA and Atlanta Fast
Mail" run direct to Washington.
For tickets, schedules and sleeping car
accommodation, call on or address any
agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway
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NOTICE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
an application will be made to the
present General Assembly for a char
ter for a banking institution at Louis
burg, the specific name thereof to be
adopted when the charter Is granted.
Feb. /. 1901. mo.
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COTTON.
(By the Associated Press.)


New York. Feb. 1.-THE course of
the cotton market was not so favorable
to the bear interest as of late, and
whereas forenoon events on change APP
peared to greatly favor shorts. the later
developments put the oversold faction
To flight, at the same time creating a
feeling of friendliness towards the
market investment circles. The cables
We're rather better than expected and
the receipts at the ports We're smaller
than estimated. On these influences the
market opened steady with prices UNI
changed to three points higher. Shorts
were inclined to follow up the agrees
sive methods pursued during the past
few days and soon after the call forced
prices slowly downward until March
touched 904 and May 905, but soon after
midday the market changed over from
bear domination to bull supremacy ana
with leap prices advanced ten points
March reaching 914 and May 915 before
the demands of frightened pit shorts
We're anywhere near appeased. Rumors
that Neil was shortly to issue BULL
ish circular. and small estimates for to-
morroW's New Orleans and Houston's
receipts. were the real cause for the
buying. On the upturn conservative
buying by commission account came to
light, and the export interests support
ed March and May With a fair show OF
confidence At the close the market
ruled steady with prices net four to
eleven points higher.
NEW YORK.
NYw YORK, Feb IA Go ton futures opeued
gfA tAN
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that application
will be made to the present session of
the General Assembly for charter for
railroad to begin at some point on
the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
and to extend to some point on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad in the State
of Virginia. Jan. so, 1901.
JAMES a. BRYAN.
2-2---1-mO
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OTHER COTTON MARKETS.
NEW Y.KK MONEY

New IonS, Feb Ill P. M.-Money on call
steady at 2Gg2M per cent; last loan pee cent.
hing eX nange was he Wy, With actual business
ia oauhers bills At 4.o7Kl4.s7as for demand
aud st 4.s3as Tor 10 days. Posted rates Sls5'4
and 4.SsHU489; Commercial oils S4.S3M01l 81.
SILVER eerth Gates 64G1e3 Bar silver O. =. Mex,
caI loars AK Government bonds strong: State
CondS inactive; railroad bonds Irregular
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OLD SOLDIERS EXPERIENCE.

NJ. NJ. Austin, a civil war veteran, of
Winchester Ind. writes: My wife was
sick long time in spite of good doc
tors treatment, but was wholly cured
by Or. Kings New Life Pills, which
worked wonders for her health" They
To- Try them. Only 25e at all
drug stores.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago, Ills, Feb. 14.-Wheat ruled
nervous and irregular today and closed
Csc lower Corn established another
new high market for the option, closing
= to &c over yesterday. Oats closed
1sc up and provisions 21ac to zoe i'm
proved.
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NoRFoI,K pRANUT MARKET.

NoRrc.=, Va, Feb. II Peanuts new crop
was steady. fancy, 8; strictly prime "a prime
2lA02ss: common. lN03; machine picked z1SQ
29s Susnish. new. S2hc. par hushtl
PEAS-Blat keye 81 Sd per bag
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|. |, O'OUINN & Co.,
Florist,
RALEIGH, N. c.

Gu; flowers a specially Bouquets and
Floral Decorations arranged in best
stvlc at short notice. Palms, Ferns aud
al lnot PLANTS for house and window dec
orationa Shade trees. shrubbery and
vegetable plants Of all kinds in season.
Phone 49,
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sEABoARD STOCKS AND BONDS.

: Ia 'timore Feb II Seahnard Air Liue common
ia%Mi2ss preferred 29O2als
cuds As 72M.
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Dcn's buv too much ice cream for your
best girl. 1t may cause her love TO grow
cold.
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GOOD CABLES AND
SMALL RECEIPTS
Cotton Closes With the Prices
Advancing.
SMALL GAINS IN STOCKS
Owing to Market Relaxation in Pres
sure to Sell.
SMALL GAINS IN STOCKS
USUALLY OBSCURE STOCKS STRONG
Sharp Recovery in the Steel Issues. Genera
Electric Conspicuous For an Ex'reme
Advance Of i6 Points Followed
BY Reaction of 3 10.

New York. FEB. H. Business shows an
increase today in most departments but
no change in general tone. Brown cottons
are easy and irregular in both heavy
and light weights. Bleached cottons SELL
ing more fully in small quantities. Lead
ing ticks, all steady No change in coarse
colored goods. Prints in fair demand.
Ginghams quiet Nothing reported in
regular print cloths 3Slb inch 64-squares
sold at 4 1-Sc. Cotton Innings market
quiet, previous prices
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0o0 IL
| ia n. city extra India mess SlI.0Oal650
~ c nj meals steady; picked bellies 7asaoI5: .
| pic led shoulders @0s4; picked hams $685.
Lard m western ste 60 ne 7s5, refined
| frmer; to the contlnehl V'VJ South America
$3.50 COMPOUND 5HUo7s
porl Arm. family Hl5000155O; short GEAR
| / l'f55Al5. 90: cess S13 750l450.
Rutter firm. western creamery extra l66l221S
factory LINN. imitation creamery =: State and
penDsylvaYia 49, State dairy l402O
CHEESE firm; large fan made lI4aIlX; small
IlA0l2: large, late made, io9tWl0A; small, fall
made, ll$MllM So
Eggs were weak oChIe anu pennsylvania 20;
Po,stoeS ste DIV: Jerseys g. 250l. IS: New York
o.. 50G1i IS; Long Island 81 5O1L87h Jersey
'~ Tsilo% wss dull; city s2oO per PACKAGE "A
country (packages free) 5054
Petr6leMnm ,teady: refined New York 81. Is; Phil
adelphia and Baltimore a. In bulk ass.
Posin ouies: strained. cotntn' n IN gooI eI.65.
TurpenCp. duh and asy 1t 3e&0i0.
Rice steady domestic, fair To extra 3%0ql(;
Japan 4AQL4B,
Peanuts steady; fancy hand-picked 4z05; de-
Cabbage steady; Florida per crate g.; Long
Islands per 100 &3.O0G400
FreigLLs to Liverpool dull; cotton by steam
Co off, Rio steady NO. 7invoise ia: mild
quiet. Cordova 8O12M. Options--Fe ru4ry % :;
March $50; April -; May 1865: July - !;
Suynt~r W, steady fair refining, 81; centrifu
gal 96-test, 414; molasses sugar 31S renne1
Quiet; No s, 4.95; No Z, 400; No. 8, 45,;
40. 9, 4.50; No. 10, 4.45; No II 4.4o; No II,
con fectioner's A, 530; cut Ioal 900; crushe''
500; powdered $50 qranulated $685. cubes 51f
Colt IN seed oil closed steady. Prime c. de
SINNER yellow 80; prime winter vel ow S51s0
36. urime white 3lGl35; prim9 meal S25.0 90
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NYw YORK, Feb IA Go ton futures opeued

70 ca LJn closed dull: midd1nK nplands
1915 mlddung gulf 1916; sales LOG bales
LIVERPOOL
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 4--i M.-Sro. cotton,
fair deman3 prices cd lower American mid
ding far FAd; good middling sgd: mid
ding Ii-S2d; low middn2 5-32d good -ordi-
Maya 0-32d: ordinary. . SD.
ne sats Oh tie day 70, ~ bales, OF which
$40 Tor speculation and expur' and inclu l.
ed 10, American Recei JS $4,000 bales, in
Guiding II 200 Am 4rican.
,i1,i IA alnanA f,Ii
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For LaGrippe and Influenza
use CHENEY'S EXPECTO-
RANT.
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.41.E1cu ST,uyp MARKET

hALEIGH nTUUk NJ Rk EFT
corrected Daily by Grimas VaSs.
RaleigD, N. c., Neb. Ia, t9
HUkDS
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BALTIMORE PROVISIONS

BALrIMoRE February H-Flour was quic' :;
western family &3. 55l1370; 10 super g. 30l02 40;
DO extra e. 55a2 30; winter wheat patents AZ 300
A. 10; sprire patents t39OD42O; do straights S3.e
S395.
Wheat steady: spot and fe' ruary 77497s;
March 78h; May f0h; steamer No. REQ -;
southern wneat hy san pie, 7aG174; do on grade =.
Corn firm; mixed -; SPIT, 43H S435s Feb
ruary 43H@43ss March 43x@4355; May 81:
mixed steam Southern WHITE corn, 43M 4iA
do yellow
Oats quiet No. white, 3l03l1a; do, mixed
Rye steady; No. 2. nearby. 81 No. western 81.
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OLD DOMINION BRAND

Now being used by Government
at Washington Navy Yards, Wash
ington, d. c.. and Norfolk Navy
Yards. Norfolk, Va.
Full! stocks at Wilmington, Norfolk
Charles and Savannah
The courier., 1901-08-10
Chicago Art Institute.

Paderewski's theory of buying pic
lures and getting people to look at
them has been exemplified in at least
three cities in the United States:
New York, Chicago and Pittsburg.
As result those three cities contain
nearly all the important private col
lections in the United States.
There is no reason why Pittsburg,
for instance. should display any great
er interest in art than Kansas City or
Denver or Omaha or San Francisco.
1t is not city Of culture; the city is
entirely given over to manufacturing
industries. and the only standard Of
success recognized is the pecuniary
standard. But one thing Carnegie
did; he bought pictures and got peo-
pie to look at them.
Whether art itself can be propagat-
ed by infusion or no, has not been
proven; but in some measure taste
can be.
There is no reason why the common
people of Chicago, the people who
read Marie COrelli and 60 to see THE
Pride Of JeGnico." should know any
more about pictures than the people
Of any other big city, but they do.
Any stranger in the city who spends
much time about the Art Institute
must notice tee comparatively en-
lightened conversation of the people
who frequent the building on free
days.
For some reason the institution is
much nearer to the people of Chicago
than the Metropolitan art gallery is
to the people of New York. Perhaps
i because the spirit Of caste is less
The courier., 1901-08-10
The Deterioration of a Compose

No manager seems anxious to be
responsible for Miss Alice NielSen'>
destiny for the coming season. Mr..
Pearley, Mr.. Englander, Mr.. Frohman
have one after another declined that
honor. To admirers of Miss NielSens
kittenish art this may seem incom-
preheusible; but the facts are that
managers have begun to realize that
the vogue Of graceless angularity and
hoydenish coquetry must be brief,
and that for some time Miss Nielsen
has been walking on very thin ice.
In view of Miss Nielsens present
straits what will become of those
meritless compositions "The Fortune
Teller" and "The Singing Girl" and
of the income Of their misguided COM
poser, Mr.. Victor Herbert:
Four years ago Victor Herbert went
to Pittsburg to conduct the symphony
orchestra there. The managers Of
the orchestra had received several
personal letters from Anton SeIde
stating that he considered Herbert
the most promising orchestra ma
terial among the young men of this
country, and that no concert-neister
under him had ever shown such
marked ability to manage the per
sonnel Of an orchestra and keep each
man up to his best work. At that
time Herbert was still one of the best
concert 'cellists in America, had
written several admirable suites for
The courier., 1901-08-10

picture loving home Of the middle
class; very blue skies, silvery canal,
white and red houses, bridges and
gay gondOlaS, and in the foreground
the dear Lombard poplars, the gayest
and Saddest OF trees, rustling green
and silver in the sunlight. The peo.
pie like to think of Venice as a pretty
place, where people forget their trou-
bles, and therefore they like Master
Rico's pictures better than those If
greater painters than he who have
darkened the canals Of the city with
the shadows of her past.
The Young Art Student can hpd no
place in life for the dainty. the trivial
or the gay: but would have Us live
in Gothic cathedralS and marry the
noble but angular ladies Of PuviS de
Chavannes. Rico is only a humming
bird, if you will, or yellow rose in
June: but the philistine will stand by
him because he adds somewhat to the
gayety Of life.
Painters sometimes call Carl Me-.
cherr hard painter, but the people
know his worth, aud they feel the
poetry in his subjects, even if they
do not know the tricks Of craft by
which he presents it.
Every woman who has ever carried
baby will stop and smile at his
young Dutch Mothers, with their
plump, uncorseted figures and their
pudgy little children with wooden
shoes on their feet.
The denSeSt person cannot miss the
beautiful and homely sentiment in
"The Sailor and His Sweetheart"
The philistine is partial to treSide
scenes and domestic and sentimental
subjects generally. He knows that
sentiment is the most vital motive
in society, in his own life and in the
lives Of his friends. That it wrecks
banks and controls the markets,
directly or indirectly, and he demdn Is
that the comings and goings and
courtings and festivals and farewellS
that make up the gladnesS and sad
ness OF his life he somehow put into
art. He will accept i even when it
is badly done for the sake of the SEN
timent: but belle Se that in time he
will prefer it we'll done. Do we not
all admit that the man who can make
these homely subjects into art is the
greatest of all artists. and that the
peasant folk Of Millet are worthier a
man Of genius than the ballet dancers
Of Degas?
The courier., 1901-08-10
A New Drought Theory.

Will FL. Price OF La Cyuga, Kansas,
offers new theory as to the cause OF
the excessive drought prevailing in
Kansas and Missouri.
He believes that the weather con-
ditions were brought about by the
great oil gusher opened at Beaumont
four months ago. just prior to the
begiDning Of the unprecedented hot
spell. He points to the fact that for
some days before the oil well could
be brought under control. it was send.
ing into the air immense quantities
of oil that broke into spray, vaporized
and was distributed into that strata
of air where the rain clouds are usual
ly born. and that these fumes were
augmented by the continual opening
Of new wells. This gas, he says, was
of slow combustion and contained an
immense quantity OF heat, enveloped
the moisture in the air and prevented
it from uniting in sufficient mass to
be precipitated as rain.
This theory sounds well enough on
paper, but an unanswerable argu-
ment to the contrary is that the heat
and the drought in Pennsylvania
during the past four months have
been more excessive than ever they
were in the fiercest throes of the oil
boom, and that the vapor from oil
wells in that state has been injurious
only to the foliage and vegetation
within the immediate vicinity Of the
well. say within a radius Of five miles
at most.
The courier., 1901-08-10

lures convey no lofty message. MI.
Chase is not, indeed, a poet: much
less is he seer. He is an admirable
colOrist, and he believes that there is
a sort Of divinity in color itself. He
has at least marvellous facility and
craft, and it i'll becomes young folk
with large ideals and scant technique
TO belittle him. Technique is the
base of every art, and the nOblest
sentiment may be shipwrecked in
that perilOus voyage from the brain
to the hand. Pretty little girls dain-
tily posed and painted with exquisite
refinement Of color have as good a
right to exist in the catholic king
dom Of art as the pale, prineyal
shades of Puyis de Chavannes.
1t is not unlikely that the Chicago
Art Institute, with its splendid COL
lection Of casts and pictures, has done
more for the people Of the middle
west than any Of the city's great in
dustries. Every farmer boy who goes
into the city on e freight train with
his fathers cattle, and every young
merchant who goes into the city to
order his stock, takes look at the
pictures. There are thousands Of
people all over the prairies who have
seen their first and only good pictures
there. They select their favorites
and 90 back to see them year after
year. The men grow old and care.
worn themselves, but they find that
these things Of beauty are Immortality
joy giving and Immortality young.
You will find hundreds of merchants
and farmer boys all over Nebraska
and Kansas and Iowa who remember
Jules Breton's beautiful "Song Of the
Lark" and perhaps the ugly little
peasant girl standing barefooted
among the wheat fields in the early
morning has taught some Of these
people to hear the lark sing for them.
selves.
Some Of the most appreciative art
criticisms 1 ever heard were made by
two sunbrowned Kansas boys as they
looked at George InnesS' prairie
Fire" there in the Cyrus H. McCor-
mick loan exhibition. OF all the
light houses along the Great Harbor.
there is none that throws its light so
far.
The courier., 1901-08-10

Although he has an assistant who
relieves him OF most Of his pedagogic-
al duties except occasional lectures,
he writes very little except in his
summer vacations. He has a cottage
in the pine woods somewhere along
the New Eugland coast, and there
every summer he gives himself up TO
his work.
The verses written under the titles
OF most Cf the collection OF sea
Pieces are his own. He has written
good deal Of verse from time to time
though he has published very little,
and is an omnivOrOuS reader Of verse,
French, German and English; his
catholic taste including pretty much
everything that is good from Heine,
whose form is fiawless, TO Walt Whit
mao. who has 10 form at all.
L never heard Of any recognized
verse that he did not like except
Swinburne and stephen Phillips; and
he objects to these as "effeminate and
unsound."
He has written the words for some
OF his own songs, though singers claim
that his songs are most Of them want
ing in melody aud practically un-
singable.
On the whole. he is an instrumental
writer rather than song writer: and
is most successful when he makes the
instrument do his singing; but no one
who has heard his exquisite ITO a
Wild Rose" or From an Indian Wig
wan" can doubt his gift Of melody.
The Heroic and Tragic sonatas and
several Of the Sea Pieces are certainly
the highest and strongest work that
any American has done in instru-
mental composition; and there is very
little that is better in all contempo-
rary music.
He has not trace of the dorid or
exotic, governing all he writes by a
sort of Puritanic self-control and a
relentless melancholy that is but half
expressed. The New England con-
science, maybe, transmitted into art
at last and put behind the throne
where the Greeks set fate.
The courier., 1901-08-10
Chase.

William Chase is another painter
whom the people love and whom the
Young Art Student affects to hold ia
scorn because he has the tricks of
pleasing color, and because his pic
The courier., 1901-08-10
THE COURIER.

perceptible in western cities, and the
relations between employers and en-
ployees are more cordial. When any
one Of the Deerings or McCormicks
buys az InneSs or COrot, he exhibits
the picture in the Art Institute and
their workmen drop in to have a look
at il some Sunday and decide that
they could have done something bet
ter with the money, if it had been
theirs. The convenient and attrac-
tive location of the building may also
have something to do with It's pop
ularity.
The collection of pictures is such
that it would be impossible to culti-
vate a false or flOrid taste there.
With the exception Of several Beau
gereauS. there is not poor picture in
the gallery Yet there are hundreds
Of pictures there that the veriest
philistine can admire. and, to great
extent, appreciate: people who read
Under Two Flags" and enjoy comic
opera and ice cream soda.
The real fault Of popular taste,
when We get down to the heart OF
the matter, is that the people prefer
the pretty to the true. That is a
fault. certainly; but not so grave a
one as the young art student makes
it. Indeed, there are times when l
would take the philistine's word for
picture, long before would the young
art students: for the phllistine is al
ways governed by moderation, and he
is always honest with himself.
There are certain painters whom
the philistine seem to get quite as
much pleasure from in his way as the
Art Student does in his. Take, for
instance Josef Israle's dutch interiors,
and especially his pictures of moth
ers and children. The simplicity and
directneSs Of his treatment and the
sombre tenderness Of his coloring are
by no means lost On the philistine,
though he may not stop to reason
about it and may attribute all the
pleasure he experiences to the mere
beauty Of the subject.
H. o. Tanner, the colored painter.
who handles Biblical subjects with
the power and conviction Of the old
masters, is another favorite with the
people. have seen country preach
ers and solemn old ladies in ill-fit-
ting black gloves stand before his
Suicide of Judas" with visible emo
tion.
There is something about Tanners
work that makes the people and
places and life of Palestine real to US
as nothing else has ever done. The
Old Masters painted Italian Christs
and Dutch Marys and Spanish JOS
ephs; but this man paints the Orient,
not the Orient Of the Midway and
bazaar, dressed up and tricked out for
show, but the work-a-day Palestine,
where men plowed and sowed and
prayed.
There is a tradition that Biblical
subjects should be painted in highly
decorative manner, and that Orien-
talism means crimson and ultra
marine; but Mr.. Tanner produces his
most Oriental effect with low colors.
He paints with a realism so unaffect-
ed. a sympathy with the life of the
people that there seems to be an al
most national touch in his pictures.
There is something about his insist
ent use Of the silyery gray of the
olives and the parched yellow clay
hills of Palestine that recalls Pierre