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AGE FOUB 17cman With A Sword' Relates Unique Var Story WOMAN WITH A SWORD, by Hollister Noble (Doublcday; $3) You won't find the name of Anne Carroll on any list of Civil war generals. You'll find her name in very few histories. Yet she came very near to getting on that list of generals and her name cer tainly belongs in histories with those who have contributed to the shaping of the nation. Anne Carroll's story is a tragic eample of how, in the shuffle of great events, great personalities can become lost. This book is a perfect example of how fiction can serve the purpose of history, how dramatized fact ran lift a charac ter out of dusty archives into real ity ?nl a proper place in know ledge of living men. Neil Swanson did that for Sam Smith in "The Perilous Fight," now Hollister Noble docs it for Anne Carroll of Maryland. Anne Carroll's sin was that she lived a century ahead of her time. She was a lawyer in days when women did not have the vote, when women in public life were curiosi ties, objects of ridicule. Abraham Lincoln sought her counsel, so did Secretary of War Stanton, Govern or Hicks of her native Maryland. She was credited with holding Maryland in the Union, she devis ed the strategic plan which in its basic elements was the one which finally cruk'ied the Confederacy, she wrote briefs which influenced Congress. She did all this and more yet she never received the public cre dit which was due her. There was a joint resolution which would have given her the "pay and emo luments of a Major General in the United Slates Army" for life, but it never was passed because of cir cumstance and prejudice. It's a powerful story and Hollis ter Noble tells it powerfully. A superb research job is implemen ted with clear, crisp writing. Anne Carroll conies alive in these pages and so do the other characters. Even Abraham Lincoln, about whom so much has been written, has a fresh, human quality com pletely free of the idolatrous fla vor which mars so many books in which he appears. The author didn't have to mi ke many concessions to the demands of fiction and he wisely refrained from impeded embellishment. He made Anne Carroll a few years younger than she truly was, he may have put a little more fervor into romance with Judge Lem Evans of Teas than .actually was there. That is all. This is not fiction with a flavor of history; this is history with a flavor of fiction. This book can be borrowed at the Carteret County Public library, Beaufort. .' CAITERET COUNTY NEW8-TIME3, MOREHEAD CITY AND BKAUFOET, N. C It's All in the Stuffing, Taxidermist Brothers Say RUSSELL'S CREEK Nov. 17 It has been requested to announce that Rev. R. H. Walk er will hold services at Live Oak Grove church Sunday morning, November 21, at eleven o'clock and Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Halton, of New York City, have been honey mooning in Florida and were the supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Springle Sunday night. Mr. Hal ton is the nephew of Mrs. Springle. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Dropulich, of Cherry Point, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Leon Fodrie. Mr. Bryan Worthington, of R. I., is spending a few days here with his family. Mr.( Colon Ptr.e has returned to the hospital after spending a few days here with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russell spent Sunday afternoon with her parents of Morehead City. Miss Faye Merrill spent Sunday with Miss Bettie Garner. Mr. C. F. Garner and Mr. Ben nie Garner, of Newport, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Leon r oarie. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Morton and little Marsha spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Morton of More head City. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Fodrie spent while Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Riley Norman. ., .11. :.t life fcSSCV i That's why yw n4 compl.t. (Era ihiwranc. protection. ,t. iof, wt now aftor the lire Is too latol S. A. CHALK, JH. MU1UAL INSURANCE AGENCY Flnt-CMMiti Bank Bldg. M 8362 Morehead City Northwestern Pi Hi , ijpiwini Hum i nii i ii i jf-'r-Vt-'.-'---'imrW0m 7 fPVi : Pi VV A shop employe of the Jonas Brothers Denver taxidermy con cern moulds head of an African buffalo in soft clay. A plaster cast will be made of the clay model, then a paper mache likeness. The skin will be slipped over that. By Elliott ( haze AP Newsfentures DKNVHR A large rather fool ish looking lion is thinking about a very happy date with that little buff-colored flirt who lives just across the veldt. A big game hunter balooms away from behind a tree and a .375 Magnum slug tears into the lion's dreams. He never knows what hit him. Several months later Coloman .'on:'.s, a taxidermist here for the past 40 years, receives a lumpy package. It contains the lion's skin and skeleton and body measure ments. And according to Jonas, there is also enclosed a note from the sportsman, which reads: "This is my first lion and I am very proud of the kill. Please mount him crouched and ready to spring, with teeth bared. And for Pete's sake wipe that silly smirk off his face." Jonas figures he's learned as much about people as he has about the other animals in the past four decades. "All hunters of big game want me to put unpleasant expressions on the faces of the animals they kill," he says. "1 guess it because if the animal looks tough it makes the hunter feel even tougher." The Jonas brothers (there are four besides Coloman, the eldest) have filled orders for Indian Ma harajas, movie strs and statesmen. And they've done the same for delivery boys and filling station attendants. A steady customer of yesteryear was Willnm S. Hart, old-time cinema cowpoke. The brothers mounted a ten ton elephant for the American Mu seum of Natural History in New York. They mounted a one-ounce hum mingbird for a schoolgirl. A good lifelike job on an ele phant can be had for $10,000. The hummingbird comes considerably cheaper. Kodiak bears are mounted for about $1,000, a f?ct which possibly accounts for there being any num ber of leftover Kodiak bears in Alaska. One of the tricViest angles in preparing animals with that look l'ml'm breathing appearance Is the coloring of the glass eyes. The eyes have to be right. Coloman illustrates this by holding moose's eyes against the eye-sockets of a leopard. The leopard looks com pletely insane. The Jonascs buy the clear glass orns and have their coloring done here by secret pro cess. Aside from meeting their own needs they've sold as many as i wiggling across the floor. shaped pupils. Despite the poets, he- doesn't own especially lpvely eyes. To the contrary, they appear slightly goofy and unfocussed. Bane of the Jonas Brothers Is the matron who staggers into the establishment with a dead dog and asks that it be mounted. Coleman explains: "They come in and cry over everything. They tell me how old the dog was and what cute tricks it used to do and what kind of food it liked best. Then they leave it with me. "I measure it carefully. I weigh it. I feel sorry for the woman. make a soft clay model of pbsto- lene. I make a plaster cast from this model. Using the hard cast press layer after layer of moist paper against it and around it. When finally it hardens I have a papier mache dog of the exact pro portions of the dead pet. With great pains I skin the dog. Then I tan his hide and pul the hide over the papier mache form. Two days of painstaking work. "The woman falls in love with a new dog that can shake hands snd count to one. I never see the woman again. I never get my money. For security I'm holding a mounted monsrel which I don't even like the looks of." The Jonas brothers also take a cloudy view of snakes. Coloman tolls of a colleague who onre skinned a six-foot disniond backed rattler with the help of an assistant. They ceased work at neon and sat down at a work bench to eat, About two sandwiches la ter the assistant loosed a howl that pinned the boss to his seat in a cold sweat. When the boss looked around he saw the skinless snake 1 Bff - - "V W I 1 I 4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941- I J I 1 TOYLAND, TOYLAND, Wonderful WONDROUS TOYLAND '20,000 deer eyes alone to other taxidermists in a single year. Lion's eyes arc the toughest. The iris is a light delicately streaked yellow. There are odd rusty flecks in the iris and the pupil, to look sho miff, must have a blue glint. Lions have round pupils, as do all the larger cats. Only the bobcat and domestic housccat have verti cally slitled pupils. The North American deer views the world through strange oval- Two medical students some ten years ago offered the Jonas broth ers the odd job to end all such. They had a hide they wanted tanned. Not mounted, just tanned They were rather vexed when the brothers declined. They left in a huff, saying they would take their business elsewhere. "Like I told them," Coloman said, "we draw the line some where." The hide was of a human. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65 Grain Neuiral Spirits. Co MM plot brans LsJ xxxx THE GIBSON DISTILLING COMPANY. NEW YORK. N. ?. W wlO j ( I I . V ! 1 S. ' - V;S,,vx V;'' ' '''' : ' 8 in i -. . i. ,t sn i tm- - s . l .... Jj Here It Is!! Toys and Toys and Toys and Toys ... For Every Good Boy and Girl! Come Up to Our Third Floor and Slep Into the Realm of a Happy Joyous Christmas . . . Walk Around and See Our Won derful Assortment of Toys, Games . . . Just Everything to Make This a Very. Very Nerry Christmas! 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