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MohammedanS. There are some Jewish
merchants, but neither Jews nor Chris
uanS are welcomed. have been
toid TO watch out as ] go through the
streets. and TO take care not to provoke
any one. Several times the boys have
thrown stones at our party. and men spit
as we pass them. People yell out .,Naza-
renes at us, and my guide refuses to let
me photograph them. saying il will sure
~ get us i'm trouble. The city is so fana'-
lcai that even the Christian women go
about with wells over their faces. The
English nurse. who is working here in
the Charity Hospital. is yelled like Mo-
hammedan when she goes out on the
street Otherwise she would create com
ment, and her reputation and work NIGH,
be ruined.
Nablous has about thirty thousand peo-
pie. and II il the center of a consi iera bile
trade. Ii Is made up of stone houses and
stone bazaars. rooted with galvanized
IRON Many of the houses are built over
the streets and going through the town
is like going through catacombs Some
OF the streets are so narrow that Won
can stand i'm the middle and reach both
walls with your hands. Others are wide.
but all are dirty al filthy.
FRANZ q. CARPENTER
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job is made up of men of wide expert
ence in both the business and profess
sional world. DR.. Arthur T. Hadley. pres
ident of the Yale University chairman
of the commission, is an honor graduate
of Yale, Harvard, Wesleyan. Columbia
and Johns Hopkins universities. He is
a man of international reputation, and
has been a student of the railroad prob
lem of the United States for many years.
de is the author of a number of books.
Walter Lowr1e Fisher, one of the MEN,
bers of the commission. is a lawyer. He
received his early education in the public
schools of Wheeling. w. Va, and grad
uated from Hanover College of Indiana.
He went to Chicago in 1854 and entered
the office of Writ Dexter. then general
solicitor for the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad. where he remained for
two years. After serving as special at
tOrney for the city of Chicago in 1850
in connection with special assessments
and taxes for public improvements he
drafted the street railway ordinances
which resulted in the settlement of Chi
cago's street car problem in 1907. and
then acted as special counsel for the city
from 1906 up to the present time.
Mr. Fisher is now and has been for
some time representing the Chicago and
Western Indiana Railroad Company of
the Illinois Central in the investigation
and prosecution of charges of fraud
against certain officials of these railroads
and others. He also represents the ship
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even one million dollars worth of stock
with comparatively little value or capital
back of this stock?"
Yes, he answered. Il believe that is
true
Then. the inquisitive one continued.
there is nothing to prevent any two or
three men in the country from issuing
any amount of stock and bonds, with no
adequate laws to say how or when or I'M
der what conditions this stock may be
issued?'
Yes, that is true he admitted: there
are at present no federal corporation laws
to prevent this. and in many of the states
there is nothing at all to prevent it.
In connection with the issue of stock
the government expert told a story which
he vouched for as true. He said one in
stance came unde- his observation where
a party of men were trying TO gain con-
troll of a certain corporation by means
of buying a majority of the stock of
that corporation. They continued to buy
and buy until they had exhausted all
their resources but the stock continued
to come They went broke in the effort.
After the smoke of battle bad cleared
away the people who lost became sus-
picious. Finally they located the cause
of all their woes. The men who had
control of the corporation had a printing
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and bonds to he issued by any railroad
company subject to this act. upon any
reorganization pursuant to judicial sale
or other legal proceeding. i'm order to
prevent the issue of stocks and bonds to
an amount in excess Of the fair value
of the property which is the subject of
such reorganization
The act as finally passed by Congress
provided only for the appointment of a
commission to investigate whether Con-
gress had authority to control the issu-
ance of stocks and bonds and to report
its findings to the President, he i'm turn
to report to Congress. The commission
was appointed i'm accordance with this
act
Advocating the control of the issue of
railroad stocks and bonds. Judge Glenn
ents of the Interstate commerce commits
sion. speaking before the National Asso-
citation of Railway Commissioners in
graphic description Of the watering OF
stock by corporations. He said:
We have Illustrations of where a road
has been we'll managed and is paying
dividends and is carrying itself we'll and
is of good characters fine, gilt-edged
piece Of property: it is then taken hold
Of by a few men and loaded down with
one issue of bonds after another They
Sell them TO themselves at not much
more than 10 cents on the dollar and
then get what they can from the public
for the bonds and leave it to the people
who pay the freight to make them good
in the years to come That is what has
been going on. That is not a dream: it
is a fact.
Well somebody says. it doesn't
make any difference how many stocks Or
bonds are ISSUED; the value of the road
is the thing that must earn the money
nm 1n0p prtt toI-
where the directors, the managers. the
manipulators took the bonds at &C cents
on the dollar. and in a little while $1O.-
CcO.OW turned up in the hands of one of
the great life insurance companies i'm
New York. the depository of the trust
funds Of the widows and orphans of the
country.
1t is said that the commission may
reduce their rates. that the amount of
the stocks and bonds does not have any
thing to do with it; but when the commits
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plant, and they were printing the stocks
and bonds and pushing them out as fast
as the other side could buy them up.
Now, Uncle Sam intends to find out just
how much of this kind of thigh finance
has been going on, and, if possible, to
find remedy for it, Congress at its
session Of 1909-1O authorized the Presi-
dent to appoint commission to sift the
matter of the issue of securities by the
railroads of the country and find out how
much actual capital is behind the Sc
curities put on the market by the rail-
road companies. and whether it is true
or not that many corporations issue
stock or bonds at any time they may be
in need of cash. without first taking the
trouble to find out if they have any real
value 20 offer in exchange for the money
of the public.
Dr. Arthur. T. Hadley. chairman of the
new commission, when questioned regard
ing the duties of the commission, said
The President has directed the COM
mission to determine the character and
extent of the evils which have arisen
from the uncontrolled issue of railroad
securities. and to investigate into the
possibility of preventing the recurrence
or continuance of these evils by federal
legislation. This we shall do to the best
of our ability
The commission appointed to tackle this
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In a poke? This is the titanic problem
the new railroad stock and bond commls-
sion. recently appointed by the President,
has to solve. The commission started on
its task in Washington November Is,
when it held its first session in the Sen
ate office building.
In speaking of stock watering, stock
manipulations and all that goes with it..
one of Uncle Sans corporation experts
in Washington was asked the question:
Suppose you went to a grocery store
for a peck of apples. but the grocer. by
means Of a false measure. gave You only
half peck. and you accepted the half
peck under the impression you were get
ting a full peck. what would you call
that
That would be cheating he replied.
Then" he was asked. suppose You
buy some stock in a corporation and this
stock Is sold to you being of the par
later you find out it is worth only 500.
because there is only this amount of ac-
tual value back of it, what would You
ran that?'
That is watering stock he answered.
Now" the questiOner continued, what
Is the real difference between the act OF
. man who sells the apples and the man
Who sells the stock?
we'll He Sdlu, putlliS II lhot' ." a.
there is no real difference: the buyer is
being cheated in both transactions: but
the law says the act of the grocer is de-
frauding. while the act of the man who
sells the stock is high finance.
Now" continued the auestioner, lis it
really true that under the present cor
poration laws of the country any two or
three men, no matter who they are, SO
long as they have reputation for be-
ing respectable. can get together, form a
corporation. have this corporation char
tered by the state. and then proceed to
sell. say ten. twenty. thirty thousand, or
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Too Open.

Fl c THAYER. "PoR Thayer OF
Pennsylvania foot ball fame was
talking, at the Rittenhouse Club in PhiIs
delphia. about the new foot ball rules.
They proved less fitted to tactics and
generalship than the old rules he said.
They made the play so open that any
attempt at strategy was Hke-wel, like
the Swiss waiter
Once, on walking tour in the RerneSe
Oberland, i reproachcd the waiter at d
little inn for bringing me the wrong
wine.
Here you've brought me Chateau
Mouton Rothschild, L SAID, when 1 Or
dered Pontet Canet.'
THE waiter retired, and through the
glass partition 1 saw him take his nap
kin and quietly wipe the still wet label
on the bottle. Then he called:
Hans, another label, Pontet Camel,
quick.
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sion reduces the rates they charge that
your reduction is cnnfiscatory. and the
hrSt thing they DO is To go into court and
show their fixed charges which include
interest OH these very bonds. Then comes
a delegation with the cry of the widows
and orphans. Perhaps this was imp-ovi-
IDENTIFY done. but. remember. these bonds
are i'm the hands of these innocent wild
ows and orphans. Which one of Nou
would vote to disregard that appeal
Your laws permit that issuing of bonds
You would not vote to repudiate the Nid
ows and orphans. the innocent holders OF
these bonds. not one of you. You cannot
rip up the past now and correct all that.
But is il not about time. nor need We
wait year longer. to consider whethe
this ought to be done by somebody or
not
For my own part. L do rot doubt for
moment the authority of the federal gov
ernment to do it. And in the second place
j have no idea it will ever be effectively
Nbne unless the federal government does
do il. Are the people of this country all
the states of this Union. going to be tied
hand and foot because half a dozen
states will go on issuing any wide-open
charter that any company asks for, and
will not regulate these things?
Are the people of this country GO
ing to submit TO the negligence Of the
few states that will not control these
matters? Will have forty-sx or for
ty-seven different methods of control a.
the same time in respect to business
that is interstate and nation wide? IL Is
Impra cticabe. The fathers that framed
the Constitution did wisely-some peonle
think more wisely than they knew they
were doing at that time They have
delegated this power TO regulate COM
merce to Congress.
The carly decision of the Supreme
/ in i,tda
ment. settled this whole thing. When
that power is conferred il is delegated
there goes with ii of necessity the incl
dental power to make ii effective: other
wise II would be a mockery; il would b.
playing with the great subject. To say
that 1t is delegated for the purpose OF
being shelved. not to be exercised In
foollsh. and If exercised ii must be exer-
clsed adequately and effectively TO the
accomplishment of the purpose intended
by it,"
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Our Critics..

DROF. BRANDER MATTHEWS in one
of his lectures at Columbia ollcse on
the drama said:
Then there is the auditor of another
type.
A famous actor at a Christmas enter
tainment at a 5th avenue millionaire,s
palace rose to recite Mrs. Browning
Dead Pan. AS he announced his subject
and prepared to begin lie heard a lady
near him say, distinctly:
What is the next piece? Something
Dear me. how odd! OF course, il must Do
funny-something about bad cooking.
suppose
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satisfied. Here I've come 1000 miles tt
that I've saw it,
In short the man SO protested that the
guide took him back. stopped the serv-
ice and had them let down the candle.
Further than that he brought up some
OF the water which Goliath drank at
gulp. This huge doubling Thomas would
not believe in the spot where our Lord
was baptized in the Jordan, saying that
the banks were too steep. and that If
even John the Baptist, could do SO.
1t took me just one day to come from
Jerusalem to Shechem. My outfit was
a three-horse team to which an Ameri-
can dayton wagon was harnessed The
horses were good. and we drove up hill
and down on the trot. We started at
Jaffa gate, past the place of the Skull,
where Gen. Gordon thought the Savior
was cruciied, and then crossed the valley
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of Moses as they were written by
Abou. the son OF Ben Hassan. the son
of EleaZar. who, you remember. was
enc of the two sons of Aaron by Eli
sheba, his wife. The high priest tells
me that these five manuscripts were
written only twelve years after the
IsraeliteS came into the Holy Land, and
that they are now 1915 years old.
in existence. They are written in the
Hebrew of the times of Moses. upon
long sheets of parchment about two
feet in width. The scrolls are rolled
upon three rods. each tipped with
silver knob as big as Il teacup. and
they are so arranged that they can be
rolled and unrolled they are read.
The ink is still plain, and the letters
distinct. although the parchment is
yellow with age. The manuscript is
treasured by the Samaritans. being
kept IN a brass case inlaid with gold.
1t is said to have been dug UP about
900 years ago. and it has formed
subject of controversy among oriental
scholars. The Samaritans believe that
it was written by the grandson of
Aaron. as the high priest here claims;
but the Jews reject it as false. de-
nouncing the Samaritans as pagan
outcasts from the children of Israel.
I was surprised to find that there
were any Samaritans living. ] sup
posed that they had been swallowed
up by the Moha mmedans. and other
SyrianS who have absorbed everything
in Palestine excepting the Jews. I
find. however, that there are about 200
in NablouS. and that they practice the
same religion as they had when Christ
came. They annually celebrate the
feasts of the Passover and Pentecost
on Mount Gerizim. These feasts are
different from those of the 1atter-ddy
Jews. AT the time of Christ the Feast OF
the Passover was eaten reclining and a
though at the end of a journey rather
than at the beginning.
The Samaritans eat their Passover with
their shoes bound upon their feet and
slaves IN their hands though ready to
start out on their Warderings in the will
derness. They do this on the top of the
mountain. camping in tents. They smear
the blood of the sacrifice upon the tents tc
commemorate the passage of the angel OF
death over the houses of Israel. They
dress in white garments and they kill
the animals which are burnt according to
the methods which were in use when
Aaron lived. The sacrifice consists OF
buck lambs. each of which Is carefully
examined that it may be without wound
or blemish. At given signal the threats
OF the lambs are cut. and at the same
time some of the blood is caught in a tir
cup and smeared over the tent AS the
blood flows the people shout out the
words There is but Cod and
they shout this sentence again and again
At the same time there is a service. be-
ginning with a hymn prasing Abraham
Isaac and Jacob. and followed by q
prayer of thanksgiving
The meat for the sacrifice is cooked
over fire in the earth. AS soon as the
animals are killed they are scalded and
the wool is pulled off. The entrails are
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of Kedron. We climbed Mount Scopus,
which joins Olivet. and rode under the hill
on whose top was Mizpah. where Samuel
was buried and Saul anointed King of
the Jews. There is a. mosque on that
spot and the place is holy TO Jews.
whom worship at Samuel's tomb. Miz-
pah lies on a peak about 5000 feet above
the Mediterranean. and on one of the
highest of the Judean mountains. 1t is
where an army of crusaders stood under
Richard the ion-Hearted and got their
first sight of Jerusalem. AS they looked
King Richard knelt down and thus
prayed
20 Lord God. 1 pray Thee that /
never may again see Thy Holy City if
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called Seilun, and az Jeremiah prophe-
sled. it is nothing but ruins. Where it
stood is a mound covered with debris.
broken columns and rubbish. So that the
prophecy, II will make this city a curse
to all the nations OF the EARTH" has
come true.
Nevertheless Shiloh is one of the most
interesting spots of the country. 1t was
there Eli dwelt and there Hannah came
every year with a new coat for her little
son Samuel. whom she had given up to
the Lord. 1t was there that Joshua di-
vided the land, and there the Philis-
tines stole the Ark of the Covenant.
x
I am surprised at the caravans which
are continually crossing these Palestine
mountains. There seems to be a great
trade north and south. and the ROADS are
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returning to Nazareth, discovered their
twelve-year- old boy was not with them
and they went back and found Him
tea ching the wise men in the temple.
A little farther on we came to Bethel,
where the Benjamites lived, where Abra-
ham reared an altar and called on the
name of the Lord. and where Jacob took
stones for his pillows and dreamed that
he saw the ladder extending to heaven
and the angels ascending and descending
the House of God, has now been changed
to Beitin. 1t is poor stone village OF
about 500 people, with a ruined tower
and a church.
Shiloh, which lies just off the road a
little farther on toward Samaria, is now
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and Their High Priest Who Claims Direct Descent From Aaron the

much per day, and they were bound to
get the worth of their money. One I
shall never forget. His gigantic frame
was such that l shall call him Goliath
When the party went down to the well
the services in the chapel had just be-
in the floor the guide brought them out
AS they came into the churchyard l heard
Goliath remark:
Il amt satisfied
About what?' said the guide.
Il amt satisfied about that we'll. How
do L know there's a well there?"
You saw it," said the guide.
Nav. l saw only hole in the floor
How do | know there's we'll? How do
l know it has Watero / tell you / ain t
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and claims to have genealogical
tree which reaches from then until now.
His family has lived here for more than
three thousand years, and high priest
mas succeeded high priest until this
man took the position at the age of
hfteen, his cfildless uncle, the high
priest having died. That was sixty
Two years ago. and Jacob has been high
priest ever since. He is now almost
eighty, and he looks, ! imagine, as
Aaron or Moses may have looked in the
latter part of their lives. Over six feet
in height, he has the face and form of a
prophet. His long beard falls down upon
his chest and his scholarly face is re-
lined and spiritual looking.
/ met Jacob here at Nablous. on the
site of old Shechem, within a stone S
throw Of the we'll where Christ talked
with the Samaritan woman. 1t is not
far from a farm which Abraham owned.
and about on the spot where Joshua gath
cred the tribes OF Israel together and
read them the Law of Moses
Our conversation took place in the
heart of the city in the synagogue of
the Samaritans. l had to go through
vaulted passageways and cavelike
streets to reach II. l had an inter
prefer with me. and as We talked To-
gether the high priest showed me the
original parchments Of the five books
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full of strange characters. On my way
here 1 saw crowds of men and women on
donkeys coming up to Jerusalem Some
were from Galilee, others from Damas-
GUS and not a few from the mountains
of Lebanon. One crowd told US that its
people were Mohammedans. and that
they were making a pilgrimage to Jerl-
salem and the tomb of Moses. There We're
many women among them. They sat
aStride upon dOnkeys, some carrying
.babeS in their arms.
We passed many camels. Some were
loaded with white building stones sluns in
humps. They were taking them to
Jerusalem. Others were ridden by women
and men, | saw one which had two
yelled women clad all in black on its
back. with two boxes below them, each
box holding baby.
Another party was composed of Sa-
marian women on their way to a Mos
lem festival They were red-haired and
as straight as royal palm trees. They
carried their baggage in bundles on top
of their heads and walked single file.
Behind them were women from Lebanon
walking barefooted and singing iE
Arabic. They were tattoOed on lips, chin
and cheeks, and their heads were frowsy
and dusty They wore nothing on the
head and their bodies were clad in long
cotton gowns embroidered with red. Only
a few were good looking and all seemed
prematurely old.
this old town of Shechem, my camp
facing Mount Ebal and above me Ger
izim, the holy hill of the Samaritans. 1t
is very near the spot where the laws of
sembled children of Israel. the country
being the shape of a great amphitheater
Of which the hills form the walls. These
hills are. it is said. natural sounding
board. SO that one can talk on one
mountain and be heard on the other
and for this reason the Mace was chosen
for reading the laws.
The town is one of the oldest in history.
1t was founded long before Jerusalem
and before Jacobs time 1t is within
about six miles of the city of Samaria.
where Ahab had his ivory palace and
where Herod the Great owned a royal
mansion and entertained. so it is said.
his lords at his birthday party. while
his step-daughter Salome came in and
danced. You remember the story Her
dancing, which doubt not was that of
the nautch girl. SO delighted King Herod
that he told her she should have what
ever she asked, even to the half of his
kingdom. She thereupon. as her mother
suggested. demanded the head of John
the Baptist. who was lying In prison
nearby, and this bloody gift was brought
in on q great plate or charger
The Old town Of Samaria has long since
fallen to ruin It's site is a mound with
some broken pillars and other debris ly-
ing near 1T and an olive orchard not far
away In which more of the columns are
still to be seen.
AS to Shechem or EabIo,ls il thrjyes
and is one of the liveliest towns in the
Holy Land. 1t is the chief commercial
center between Damascus and Jerusalem
and is populated almost altogether by
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HAT part Of all the
stocks and bonds
of all the railroads
I'm the United States
is water, with moth
ing back of them,
and what part rep
reSentS actual val
ne? What railroads
are doing a legiti-
mate business, and
what roads are sell
ing the public d pig
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VISIT to the Syna-

A VISIT to the Syna-
"A gogue at Shechem and
a Look at Its Manuscript
Bible Over 5000 Years Old
An Unsatished American at
Jacobs Well-On the Road
to Galilee-Queer Features
of Travel and Trafhc-Where
Abraham EARNED, and Where
Salome Danced for John the
Baptist's Head.
1Copyri-ht. 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter
special Correspondence OF The Star.
N<DYnJ-S Doll