The Eternal Cry - By Harry Persons Taber........ 6
The Last Hours of Washington - By Charles L.
Shipley..

7

11

"Fraud Guller"-- By Dr. Thomas Calver....
Queer Beasts Found in the Postage Stamp Zoo-
By Dwight Burroughs in "Baltimore Sun"... 13
New Home of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington.

... 16

The First Confederate Monument - By Elihu S.
Riley..

.....

17

Baltimore & Ohio Terminals at Washington, D. C. 19
Humor and the Humorist...

20

Stub Ends of Thought... By Arthur G. Lewis... 21

"The Woman We Love")

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, Frontispiece

The Cypress Spectres of Dismal Swamp.....

Lock on Swamp Canal.....

Old Mill on Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp..

George Washington.....

A Peep into the Stamp Collector's Zoo...

2

3

7

12

Bakimore
Ohio

505-5

"New York-Chicago Limited”

No. 505 Leave NEW YORK, 23d Street
Leave NEW YORK, Liberty Street
Breakfast on Dining Car.

7.50 a. m.
8.00 a. m.

Solid Vestibuled Train with splendid Day Coaches New York to Chicago. Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car New York to Chicago. Pullman Observation Parlor Car Washington to Pittsburg. Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car Pittsburg to Chicago. A la carte breakfast in Dining Car to Philadelphia. A la carte luncheon and table d'hote dinner in Dining Car Washington to Pittsburg. A la carte breakfast in Dining Car Garrett to Chicago.

Baltimore

"555-55-5"

&Chic THE "DAYLIGHT

SPECIAL" TO

Cincinnati and St.

and St. Louis

The New Solid Vestibuled Train of Splendid Day Coaches, Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars to St. Louis, Parlor Car to Wheeling, and Dining Cars

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COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT, BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.

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WILLIAM ELLIOTT LOWES, EDITOR.

BALTIMORE, DECEMBER, 1906.

THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP-ITS HISTORY AND MYSTERY.