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anniversary sermon will be delivered by
the Rt. Rev. Theodore D. Brattan. Bishop
of Mississippi. The mass meeting for
boys will be held at 2:3O O'Clock. with
addresses by Mr.. Franklin S. Edmunds
of Philadelphia and w. A. Haberstor of
Buffalo, NJ Y. The Ri. Rev. Charles e.
Woodcock, Bishop Of Kentucky. will be
the speaker at the public mass meeting
at $3.50 O'Clock. and at o'clock me-
Amorial meeting. in memory of Mr.. James
Il. Houghteling, founder Of the brother
hood. will be held. with the Rt. Rev.
Charles P. Anderson, Bishop Of Chicago.
Mr.. Clifford P1nchot Of Washington and
Mr. John W; Wood Of New York as the
Ing of the convention. which will be in
charge of Mr.. Edward Fl. Bonsall Of
Philadelphia, president Of the brother
hood. The delegation from Washington
to the convention will leave here Monday
evening, arriving at the convention city
Wednesday morning. Plans are already
on foot for an echo meeting of the
convention, which will be held in Trinity
Parish Han Monday evening, October
10. at which addresses will be made by
the Washington brotherhood men at
tending the gathering.
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- NE denomination has organized
in the far west a missionary
society among Indian women.
Mrs Big Hunter Is president
and Mrs. Thunder is secretary.
They make beautiful buckskin moccasins
and articles out of beads and sell them to
make their missionary money, and make
about $50 a year for mission work In
other lands.
A Baptist church in Connecticut has
organized Chinese branch and is doing
good work among the Chinese. Eleven out
of the twelve teachers in the Chinese
work are members Of the Christian En-
deavor Society.
We sing,
IF you cannot cross the ocean
And the heather lands explore,
You find the heather nearer.
You can help them at your door,
Yet few of us really think how true this
is. 1t is stated that there are 100000 Chi
nese in America and 5000 Japanese just
in the city of San Francisco. The Ameri-
can Bible Society has a Japanese col
porteur who is doing splendid work
among them. There is, also. large
Hindu population in the United States.
San Francisco has both a Buddhist tenn
pie and a Hindu temple, and the priests
of both are active and vigilant. 1t is said
that though the Bible is one of the text
ton is such as to dethrone Christ and en-
throne the creature. This is not to be
wondered at when a great many colleges
and seninarieS of our Christian de-
nominations are doing the same thing in
their own way. 1t behooves Christians to
look well to their own teaching. and to
live lives that shall preach the gospel of
Jesus to those in our midst who though
living surrounded by light, are yet In
darkness.
Out west is a little mission kept up by
one of our denominations where every
week a whole family rides five miles upon
a single plank on rickeey old lumber
wagon. the only vehicle it possesses, to
attend service. The father. sitting in
front, drives. the mother sits behind and
the five children between. Another fam
lily had not the means of carrying the
whole family to church at once and SO
they had to take turns. WHO is going
to church today?" the mother asked one
Sunday morning, and wee Davie, in an
DID, threadbare coat, fastened with
strings instead Of buttons. cried out: Il
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ing that, search the columns of the daily
papers. You will be sure to find some
item about work done by your particular
will be something that no other member
has noticed. You have a wide field from
which to choose. There are city missions
Gncluding the open-air tent meetings
that are doing so much for evangelistic
missions now: there is the work among
the immigrants. among the mountaineers,
the miners. the freedmen, the Mexicans
and the Indians, as well as the work
among foreigners Of all classes.
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ple." affirmed the old lady's husband that
golden morning in the high-perched gar
den overlooking three Visigoth towers.
The garden also has a Visigoth we'll
The Visigoths are close to that old couple.
1T is the golden candlestick. the jew
eled breastplate of the high priest. jew
eled sacred vessels. golden boxes full of
offerings. diamonds. rubies. pearls, all
looted from the temple at Jerusalem by
the Romans-and taken from Rome by
brought them to his stronghold of Car
cassonne. We who have always lived
here know it from father to son.
Were they never removed?' I asked.
"They were hidden In subterranean
treasure room," said the old man. Gen
tran. king of the Burgunds. took the
town by storm in 5S5. but had not time
to seek the treasure: he was promptly
chased out. Those were terrible s:eges.
The Saracens came up from Spain in 725
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cannon? 1t is no mere fortress, but a
great town still, with inhabitants in an
cient narrow streets. who do no business,
leading sleepy lives. in an old show town.
swept and garnished and dreaming of
the secret and the treasure.
The other actors-a good company from
Paris-continued arriving in cabs and dis
order from their scattered hotels, ready
them, talking archaeology. Never had
Hamlet been staged go realistically, in
truth. An immense audience gathered,
as the stars came out. Night on the bat
curtain. The piece just begun-as in
reality.
The ghost appeared. pale, scary, round
a tower in the shadow and glided slowly
to a stone platform Of the date of the
was done in real dirt So we saw Ham
let in the most terrific. simple mise-en-
scene The next night they played
"Charlemagne and his Vassals."
Yet the folks Of Upper Carcassonne
theatricals-from which they profit moth
ing-Ieave them with g hating teal-
ousy. Something else Is going on in
Carca ssonne. schemes In the lower town,
to get the secret and the treasure or the
old one. up there. Yes, q syndicate from
Paris, an old man said the next morning
in his little garden.
Suppose that you knew there was
treasure under your back yard? Or deep
below your cellar? Or beneath the street
in front or under property nifty yards
up-which your father had tried to buy2
Suppose that your ancestors had covet-
ed the trasure way back into the mists
of time? Suppose that your grandfather
was digging for It from the bottom of
a tower he leased-and suppose that the
town council blocked him. on = pretext?
Would you like to see a foreign syndi-
cate come with men from the lower town
to bu-row, pump and dig with modern
machinery, find the treasure ana go off
with it?
Suppose that your uncle almost had it?
That Is to say. fifty years ago. strong
CLIQUE in the council formed q company
to hunt it, while all other property own
ers turned in slyly to hamper them.
They had explored the great well to
iay-today they have great pumps for
work like that Then, half a dozen
dragging lawsuits. under pretext Of I'M
dermining their walls, were brought by
adjoining owners. until. unexpectedly, the
French government laid hands on the
entire town as historic monument.
Suppose all this, and you will have
the situation of Upper Carcassonne for
ty-fve years ago, and the present state
of mind of its inhabitants Once again
the search was blocked. We think 800
years long time. But what Of town
that has waited five times as long to
learn the secret Of Alaric.
The French government put in Violet
le-Duc. most famous Of antiquarian archi-
tects, not to find the treasure. but to
restore those wonderful Notifications.
which contain the whole history of
Christian Europe. Viollet-le-Duc had ar
bitrary power to dig (and prevent dig
ging), tear down land forbid tearing
DOWN. uncover. seek out, and restore
on all but strictly private property.
Doubtless Viollet-le-Duc burned for the
august secret. but his powers over pri-
vate property. repeat, were limited,
and his appropriation must be primarily
spent on his architects task.
His work was mainly finished in 1865,
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They overwhelmed the walls and bat
tered their way in and made Carcassonne
their northern capital. But they never
found the treasure
And when Pepin and his Franks
Dashed in another piece of wall in 76o
and burned and killed till not a Saracen
was left, the secret Of the Visigoths was
forgotten" l suggested.
''There were no Nisigoths left in Car
cassonne to tell it said the old lady.
1.-The Franks held it; but neither Carlo
man nor Charlemagne nor the Counts
nor old Roger, the strongest of them.
to 1912, ever found the subterranean
chamber Had they found it the fact
would have been proclaimed. The treas
ure Of Solor.on's Temple would have been
the greatest curiosity of the dark ages.
History agrees with the old lady. So
the Trencavel Family would have pro-
claimed it when the inhabitants revolted
and elected young Bernard-A!top their
vicomte. The Trencavels, real kings Of
Carcassonre N their turn, were enlight-
ened. poetic and artistic, encouraging
troubadours. Journeys and great fairs.
Unfortunately they turned Albigenses
about falkland got into the long terrific
war which I shall mention later. But,
be sure. had the Albigenses found Sol
omon's treasure they would have an
nounced it as a miracle in their favor.
1t is a long story, even to give the nee
essary outline; but It seems historically
certain that all trace Of the treasure Is
really lost after Alaric l hid 1T in Car
cassonne. So 1t ought to be there Yet.
The subject was gone into by the
learned few years ago, when certain
insufficiently Informed rich men with Mr..
Astor at their head proposed to turn
aside the course Of the Tiber above Rome,
to dry it's bed in the city and discover
among other things-the golden candle
stick of many branches.
This was primarily because the En-
peror Titus certainly did loot the Temple
OF Jerusalem and carry its treasure to
Rome Every tourist standing by the
Arch of Titus, near the Coliseum. has
the candlestick pointed out to him. carved
prominently on it, in memory of the con-
quest.
The error is to imagine it to be in the
Tiber because 1t is on the arch, ana
comes from mixing Huns Of Vandals with
the Visigoths, who entered Rome rather
as allies than as conquerors. There are
texts in Roman historians about throw
ing treasure into the Tiber; but the facts
about Alaric. the candlestick. jeweled
breastplate and all the rest have been
satisfactorily worked out.
Alaric received the treasure of Jerusa-
lem as a kind of forced gift from Rome.
he being an Arian Christian. who would
venerate the objects as much as any
other. He surely took them to Carcass
some, where all further trace of them Is
lost.
Where did he hide them? Where is the
subterranean chamber? In the sunny
garden of the old couple, 1 studied their
well-which Viollet-le-Duc admits to be
Visigoth, like the Great Well in the street
named after him.
There are only five wells of that Pc
Rod, 1.-The old man said. "And traditions
agree that vast underground galleries
lead to the chamber from a we'll and
from tower. But subterranean passages
are numerous. They regularly end in
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First Presbyterian.

The Endeavorers Of the First Presby-
terrain Church will hold an important
business meeting Friday, September go
when new officers will be chosen and
plans made for the fall rally October ..
Several members Of this society will en-
roll in the school Of methods to be con-
Quoted in November by Field Secretary
Karl Lehman.
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showed that a net increase in member
ship Of over rs per cent had been made.
Reports were heard from all committees.
and the years work was pronounced I'M
usually successful by DR.. woodrow and
Union President Gates. The ladies' trio
and mems double quartet rendered selec-
tions during the evening The new officers
are: Mr.. Percy T. Chadbourne. president;
Mrs. Grace L. Bovine, vice president: Miss
Hilda L. Ulrickson. recording secretary:
Mr.. w. w. Gilbert, treasurer; Miss Kate
NJ Gibbs. corresponding secretary. and
Mr. Max w. Ball, District Union delegate.
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vile, Ky. Thursday morning the OPEN
ing service will be held. at which an
address will be made by the Rt. Rev.
Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee;
at 1890 o'clock the Rev. S. c. Hughson
of Sewanee, Tenn, will conduct the
meeting for prayer. his subject being
The Practice of the Presence Of God"
The meeting for prayer will be in
charge of the same speaker each morn
ing during the convention
AT II o'clock Thursday the opening
business session will be held, at which
election of officers and addresses of
welcome will be made.
The preliminary meeting for juniors
will be held at noon, and 1890 o'clock
the midday mass meeting will begin:
the charge to the brotherhood will be
made at 2:3O o'clock, and from $3.50
to o'clock will be held a general con-
ference. At o'clock a public mass
meeting will be held, with addresses
by DIR. w. c. Sturgis of Colorado
Springs, Col. and Rev. E. v. Shayler
of Seattle, Wash.
with business session at 10 o'clock. fol-
lowed by a general conference and the
MONDAY mass meeting. The afternoon
will be devoted to sectional conferences,
and in the evening the public meetin,
will be addressed by Mr.. Courtenay Bar
UCT VI ShiSd6op IdMiiS do HiS SuUJCCl
'"rhe Brotherhood Movement or the Cam
paign."
Saturday morning the final business
session will be held, followed by an adj
dress from Mr.. Robert H. Gardiner Of
Maine on 1.-THE Week of Prayer" at the
close of which the question box confer
ence will be in charge of Mr.. Hubert
Carleton. general secretary of the organ
ization. The Bishop of Tennessee will be
the speaker of, the MONDAY mass meet
s~,v NIT nj
ences to occupy the remainder of the
afternoon. At s o'clock the service Of
preparation for the annual corporate com
muion service will be held and conducted
by the Rev. George Craig Stewart, rector
of st. Luke's Church, Evanston. Ill.
Sunday morning the last day of the
convention will begin with the annual
corporate communion; at $50 O'Clock the
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Thus" continued the old lady, Dame
Carcas deceived them until she had but
a pig and measure of grain. She fed
the grain to the pig, and threw it over
the ramparts. Theodore was a rusy lead
er. They insult us by throwing pigs he
said, but let us see what kind Of Stops
they have left to feed them He had the
animal cut open: and when he saw the
good grain it had eaten. he said: Lift the
siege. They must have quantities of pro-
visions, to feed grain to their pigs""
But" I objected, Theodore entered
conqueror!"
"Only because Dame Carcas was lone
ly," answered the old lady of the garden.
when she saw the Visigoths moving
off, she rang the great bell in surrender.
Theodore paid no attention; but cap
tain cried out: 'Seigneur, Carcas some!
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CHURCH NOTES.
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Rev. Harry Farmer, who has been act
ing pastor of Foundry Methodist Episco-
pal Church since April. will preach there
for the last time tomorrow. His theme
at the morning service will be THE
World Conqueror,'' and in the evening he
will give an address on Church and
State in the Philippines" Mr. Farmer
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CTERLING HELLO Helps
~ to Search for 1t in the
Most Wonderful Old City OF
France-A Patient Popula-
ton Again Upset Don't
Die Until You See Carcass
sonner'-But Hands OF the
Loot of Alaric!

CARCASSONNE, South of France.
September Is, 1910.
HEN we struck Carcassonne, the
NJ ancient upper city was ablaze
w with red Ere. embrase, "A
brazier" its ANTIQUE battlements licked by
fames-in memory of what the black
prince tried to do on his famous raid"
of the year 1850 You have read it in
Sir Nigel.
We happened on the historical fetes, by
which the people of lower Carcassonne
draw extra mutitudes 10 its high perched,
august site the most marvellous strong
town of the middle ages, miraculously
preserved TO our days.
The black prince really burned 500
towns and villages, including lower Carcass
some; but he could not take this upper
strong town, which remained impregnable
the Maid of Languedoc"-after its Sec
ond wall was built by ST. Louis in 1885.
But others carried it by storm earlier-'the
Crusaders under Montfort the Trencavels
with their Albigenses. Charlemagne, Pepin
and Short, the Saracens, and the WISH
goths. From these latter date the secret
and the treasure. Wonderful old place.
All hotels and cafes are in the lower
town-which makes all the profits from
the fetes. In the hotel corridor. as
we FASTENED up to our expensive
rooms splendid, burly seigneur six
feet high. in sixteenth century suit
of purple velvet cut so indecently low
necked as to expose his immense hairy
chest, almost bumped against our fright
ened ladies. Backing impressively, he
apologized with a sweeping flourish of his
plumed hat Behind him descended Wis
ion in pale pink and blonde tresses.
"Ophelia!' whispered the chambermad.
And the low-necked gentleman with
the blue chin is Hamlet?2 l asked i'm
agfning a masked ball.
Hamlet himself. monsieur, the g-r-r-and
de Max of the Theater Francois in Paris,
come to act the piece tonight on the
battlements of Carcassonne. after the en-
brasement with red fire. said the cham
bermaid. If you can find a place in the
dining room, you will see him dine
Two hundred crowded tourists. and
townsmen saw Hamlet and Ophelia put
away a Narbonne lobster and some fat
little birds from the marshes 1t was
suffocating. Hamlet perspired.
In long procession of rickety cabs we
followed him, rafting up, up, up, over
antique paving stones, to the dark age
town, through the Narbonne gate, over
through gates above which there were
oil-how could the place be taken without
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1t was said by a great Dutch painter,
the teacher of many pupils. that 1.-The
end of the day is the proof of the pic
ture." When all the little details are
blotted out IN the dusk. and you can see
the perfect design of the artist. then you
know whether he is an artist or not. And
Is 1t not the end of the day which is
the proof Of the picture in that painting
at which we are all at work, the por-
trayal of our own personalities in our
lifework?-D. Macfadyen.
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Northminster Presbyterian.

Northminster Presbyterian Society Will
hold its first fall meeting tomorrow even
ing at Gas o'clock. when the program
will include welcome Home by the
president. Miss Susanna Murphy; "A
Word Of Inspiration" by the pastor. Rev.
Dr. George p Wilson, and a talk on MY
Work Among Christian Women in the
United Provinces Of Saliaranpur. India, -
by Miss Mary E. Johnson, now at home
for a well earned rest.
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overlooking massive interior defenses,
told me about Theodore and Dame Car
cas-. legendary heroine of Carcassonne.
The siege lasted seven years, and all
the garrison was dead from hunger" she
said Dame Carcas, sole survivor, made
lay figures. which she posted round the
battlements She spent her time shooting
arrows on the Visigoth camp, and rum
ming round the walls to set up the figures
when enemies arrows knocked them over
men-at-arms clothes stuffed with straw
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(Carcas rings.) whence the name Of the
city
What traditions, Every child knows
that the Visigoths made Carcassonne
their bulwark against Clovis and his
Franks: that Alaric ii had his chateau
royal where a village still bears his
name; that mighty father, Alaric the
Great, completed the Visigoth towers.
which every tourist identifies-and
brought the treasure to CarcassOnne.
1T is the treasure of Solomons tenn
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Dumbarton.

An elaborate program for the opening
of the Dumbarton Epworth League Sum
day evening has been prepared by Presi-
dent Louis P. HeistOn and issued in
printed form. The service begins at 7:30
pm, and a record-breaking attendance
is expected. Five hundred attended the
opening last fall. The first 800 to attend
tomorrow evening will be presented with
a 1911 calendar with the compliments OF
President Heiston.
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Grace.

Grace Chapter has elected the follow
ing new officers: President, Arthur Haar;
vice presidents, Miss Lula Shippon, Jo-
seph Haight, Miss Mabel Evans and Miss
Virginia Collier; secretary. Lawrence
Riggles; treasurer, Mr.. Stull; junior
league superintendent. Miss Nellie Haar.
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How to Help the Leader.

If you take a religious or denomination
al weekly paper look through the columns
carefully for items Of interest about your
own UNCONVENTIONAL work. II you have
none borrow one If possible from your
pastor or some other church member. Fail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-24

October 3. at o'clock, at st. Pauls
Lutheran Church, when the juniors part
in the Karl Lehman campaign will re-
ceive attention and a conservation serv
ice will be held in the interest of the local
junior work now opening.
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Calvary Baptist.

The Calvary Baptist Junior Society
came together yesterday for its OPEN
ing meeting. and planned to hold meet
ings regularly Friday afternoons during
the winter,
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beginning with a quiet
hour service Wednes-
day evening. which
will be conducted by
the Rev. John Mock
bridge, rector Of st.
Paul's Church, Louis
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Hamline.

The open-air services conducted by the
Epworth League of Hamline at six diff
ferent places in the vicinity Of the church
during Sunday evenings of the summer
were quite successful. The chapter 10
now holding its regular devotional meet
ings indoors. The meeting last Sunday
was a rally service. those taking part be-
ing President W. L. Evans. Secretary
r. W. Benton, District First Vice Presi-
dent M. M. Thorne and Pastor Guth-
RE. Music was rendered by the Hamline
League choir. William J. Caulfeld sang
a pleasing solo. Mr.. William M. Caven-
der, first vice president. has resigned. He
has entered the university at Syracuse.
N T Mr.. ]. A. B. Riley was elected
to his place at the business meeting held
Monday evening.
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Metropolitan.

The Epworth League service at Met
ropolitan Sunday evening will be con-
Quoted by District First Vice President
Thorne, who will take as his subject
1.-The Recent Epworth League Institute
at Mountain Lake Park"
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First Congregational.

The Society of First Congregational
Church held its annual banquet Wednes-
day evening, when reports of the retir-
ing officers were read and the officers for
1910 1911 were installed by Rev. DR.. s. H.
woodrow. President Max w. Ball pre-
sided The retiring treasurer, Mr.. r. A.
Cave. reported receipts for eleven months
of $3.50. divided among the following
funds: Foreign missions. home missions.
city missions, Silver Bay delegate, Chris
tian Endeavor Builders Union and for
the work Of the society. The secretary
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Ninth Street Christian.

The intermediate Endeavor Society Of
Ninth Street Christian Church elected
last Tuesday the following officers to
serve one year: President. John Davis:
vice president, Miss Grace Garren: re-
cording secretary, Miss Helen Popham;
corresponding secretary. Miss Annie
Calls; treasurer. Miss Daisy Reeves:
delegate to Christian Endeavor Union.
Ethel Brockman: head usher, Walter
Davis: chairman OF prayer meeting COM
mittee. Miss Ruth De Lawder: mission
airy, Miss Fanny Ferneyhow: lookout.
Miss Agnes Merchant: social. Miss
Myrtle Wrenn: music, Miss Isabella May
nard. The superintendent of the society
Is Miss Virginia L. Raymond, and the as
sistant superintendent Miss Emma
Sparks.