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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-09-18

Fran arrives at Hamilton Gregory's
nome III I.lttleburg. but finds him absent
conducting the choir at camp meeting /
she repairs thlther in search of him
laughs during the service and is asked [
leave. Abbott Ashton. superintendent oil
schools, escorts Fran from the tent. He
tells her Gregory is wealthy man.
deeply interested in charity work, and a
pillar Of the church Ashton becomes
greatly interested in Fran and while TAX
ing leave of her holds her hand and is
seen by Sapphira Clinton, sister of Rob
ert Clinton, chairman of the school board.
Fran tells Gregory she wants a home
with him. Grace Noir. GreEory's private
secretary, takes a violent dislike to Fran
ana advises her to go away at once.
FRAN hints at twenty-year-Old secret,
and Gregory in agitation asks Grace 10
leave the room. Fran relates the story
Of how Gregory married a young girl at
Springfield while attending college and
then deserted her. Fran is the child OF
that marriage. Gregory had married his
present wife three years before the death
n Fran 5 mother. Fran takes a liking to
Mrs. Gregory. Gregory explains that
Fran is the daughter of "a very dear friend
who is dead Fran agrees to the story.
Mrs. Gregory insists on her making her
nome with them and takes her to her
arms. Fran declares the secretary must
20. Grace begins naGgiuS tactics in an
efort to drive Fran from the Gregory
home. Abbott, while taking a walk alone
at midnight, finds Fran on bridge tell
Ing her fortune BY cards She tells Al
hott that she IS the famous lion tanner.
Fran Nonparell She tired of circus life
and sought home. Grace tells of see
ing Fran come home after midnight with
a man. She guesses part of the story
and surprises the rest from Abbott. She
decides TO ask Bob Clinton to go to
Springfield TO investigate Frans story.
iran enlists Abbott i'm her battle against
Grace. Fran offers her services to Greg
oTy as secretary during the temporary
absence of Grace. TIL" latter. hearing of
fran's purpose, returns and interrupts a
touching scene between father and
daughter, Grace tells Gregory she in
tends to marry Clinton and quit his serv-
ca. He declares that he cannot continue
his work without her. Carried away BY
passion, he takes her in his arms. Fran
walks in on them. and declares that
Grace must leave the house at once To
GregorNs CONSERVATION ne learns of
Clinton's mission to Springfield. Clinton
returns from Springfield and, at Fran's re-
quest. Ashton urgest him not TO disclose
what he has learned. on Abhott's assur-
ance that Grace will leave Gregory at once.
Clinton agrees to keep silent. Driven in
to a corner by the threat of exposure.
Gregory is forced to dismiss Grace Grace
IS offered the job Of bookkeeper in Gin
tons grocery store. Gregory declares he
will kill himself IL she marries Clinton
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We'll, what does become of all these
cans?' was asked the authority
They are" he replied "reincarnat-
ed, so to speak, and become. in fact.
new tin can, but mostly a window
weight" Then he explained how the
old tin cans are gathered up and hurl-
ed into a furnace, and how the thin
veneer of tin, which is merely the out
er covering. is separated as a melted
product from the steel, which forms
the real basis for the can. The tin
is far more valuable than the steel.
and it is used over and over again for
covering cans. The steel part when
melted, becomes a solid chunk; in
fact, the solidest chunk in the whole
steel family Window weights must
be small, but betty; hence the use Of
steel from tin cans.
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birth to six elephants A high wind
at the same hour that goat gave
then came up and killed three dead
horses and a wooden cigar Indian
What do you think of that. DEAR" he
questioned suddenly
She gave a little start smiled and
said:
Il think that's a splendid bargain
Henry You had better get a half
dozen, for your stock of shirts is low.
Puck
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the odd catch his voice had suffered
in getting over the name.
No. She's down-town-bu not at
any show, you may be sure She's left
late at the store because guess
you've heard Abbot Ashton has been
away long time
81 have heard nothing of the young
man. Gregory replied stiffiy.
We'll. he's been off two or three
weeks somewhere, nobody knows I'M
less it's Bob, and Bob won't tell any
thing any more. Abbott wrote he'd
be home tonight, and Bob drove over
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-09-18
Orator SLIGHTLY Mixed.

A former senator of the United
States was addressing a meeting in
his home town to celebrate the appro-
pHation BY the legislature of funds
for the erection of new state caDi-
toll My fellow citizens" said he,
I'VE viii build here the greatest cpl
tarh under Gods green foo stool"
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know everything. Fran-is my own
| daughter"
/ She gave no sign save a sudden
compression of the mouth: neverthe-
| less, her surprise was extreme. Her
mind flashed along the wires of the
! past and returned illuminated to the
present ENHANCEMENT
He thought her merely stunned, and
! burst forth Il tell you, Fran is my
child. Now you know why I'm com
PEELED to do what she wants. That's
the secret Bob brought from Spring
field. That's the secret Abbott Ash
ton hung over my head-the traitor.
after I'd befriended him! All Of my
ungrateful friends have conspired to
ruin me, to force you from me by this
secret. But you know it now, ana I've
escaped Its danger You know it,
And does your wife know"
Would l tell her, and not tell you?
It's you I've tried 10 shield married
! Josephine Derry, and Fran is our
child. You know Fran. Well, her
mother was just like her-friv0lous,
caring only for things of the world
irreligious And | was just boy-a
mere college youth. When | realized
the awful mistake I'd made, thought
| it best to go away and let her live her
own life. Years after, | put all that
| behind me. and came to Littleburg.
| married Mrs Gregory and wanted
to put all my past life away-clear
away-and live a good open life Then
! you came. Then found out I'd never
| known what love meant 1t means
| fellowship of souls. love does: it has
nothing to do with the physical man
1t means just your soul and mine.
and it's too late!'
Grace, with hands locked upon her
| open ledger, stared straight before
/ her, as if turned to stone. The little
| fenced-in box, hanging high above ca
! ger shoppers, was as a peaceful haven
| in a storm of raging noises. From
without gusts OF merriment shrieked
| and whstled, while above them
| doomed the raucous cries of showmen.
drowned in their turn by the indie
| fatigable Grassland. The atmosphere
of the bookkeepers loft was a wedge
| of silence, splitting a solidarity of tu-
multi.
Gregory covered ms lace with his
hahus' 10 you uespise me- you pure
anger Oh beauty On say you doh
utterly uespise me. We not Dreamed
thls secret 10 any ilVihe soul Du' you
you Wlom ! io!e win 'he Madness OF
uesp"h' MS near. Is o'oNeh' zen
me VIVA, can uo'
a. I@Hl vi "oe aPoNe III IN" 'oIe'
Wmei7 10 '""' "o'ii""
~, i'u ~. > 'uo'nei
''i'e u,U I'o' reply ne ought 10 MO"
"nolH sue meant
0''e G'eu " ~" S"IS "7o ou. !
l,io"sii' Iel uG"u " men 'Id''Ieu MIS-
"'sso'' u'D'' '''e'" any wrong
~ NY VIE M''"'9u ~ ~ 'H,"S regal
ana supposed it vas 'u'us"' every
INNS was an 'isH' o'''il ina. a"Iui
hisil.-"'ieH ran came mere q peeh
no ul'olce' 30 + ran KEPT 'i'e secret
not oii iiIS account On no no Io' on
her l"Vne' account 9he e''e me
no co'iS'dei d''on II was on account
VI -dIs' DresoIF.
men MIS-. gregory
you Know HIs' uresory'
Odh peIie'e Iha1' Erace asked
win cnliieu siniIe' you oeheVe
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Svmnathetic AffIiction.

That impecunious nobleman's rich
wife and his creditors are now sympa-
thizing with each other"
On what grounds ?"
He beat both OF them"
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TWO and by its dark sraygreen foliage
This tree. if spared, and il the soil is
friendly. may attain height of seventy
feet. but ON most OF the soil III Maryland
and Virginia where L IS allowed 10 stand
il seldom attains u greater height than
50 called because Il likes to spread it
self over fields that have been aban-
doned, has its leaves in clusters of three.
These leaves are slender. rigid, pale
green in coloring and from six to nine
inches long. The leaves of the jack pine
are much shorter. being from one and
half to three inches, long. The old-field
pine spreads with especial rapidity over
fields OF exhausted soil. and IN the
ncishborhood Of Washing son the height
II these mature trees averages between
thirty and forty feet. though Oh strong
height of 700 feet The old-ield pine is
quite AN important tree in the south be-
cause OF the wide area over which it
grows. These varieties OF pines, in adj
Christmas trees for Washington, also
furnish Washington with pine cord
wood
The list of pine trees is surprisingly
long to any person to whom all pines
look alike. Some of the pines described
in Sargent's sylvia are yellow, white.
Weymouth. tamarack, Table mountain,
swamp, sugar, stone, spruce pine, south
ern pine. .soledad pine. slash pine. short
leaved pine. scrub Scotch, sand pine,
prlckie cone, pond. pitch. Oregon, old
fed, nut pine. Norway, Monterey.
marsh pine. maritime long-leaved lodge
toie. ioblolly, knot cone. Jersey. jack
swamp pine. gray pine, ginger pine.
Georgia, foXtail pine, digger. Cors;can.
'edar pine. bull pine black pine OF
Jal'an, Photan., Austrian and Aleppo
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photographed il | had to bride one of
the khedive's servants to allow me to do
so. There was an orange orchard nearby.
and after taking the picture / sat in the
and wondered whether Mary and Joseph
had not perhaps thus quenched thei.
thirst in that same place, now more than
nineteen centuries ago. As l went on
to the obelisk / saw a young woman of
perhaps seventeen who had a baby IN
her arms She must have been of about
the age of Mary when Christ was born.
But let us go back to the Holy Land and
see something of the village where Christ
spent His boyhood. and indeed almost the
whole of His life until He began TO
preach. after He was baptized of John.
We have gone back to Judea and have
ira yelled across Samaria to the noun
tains of Galilee. We are now about sixty
miles north of Jerusalem and siXtyseveE
miles from Bethlehem, where Jesus was
born. We are i'm little nest in the noun
tains inside a quaint town. the houses of
which cover the sides of the hills. The
houses are great stone boxes of one and
two stories. The most of them have fla.
roofs and some are surrounded by gar
dens. The country about is covered
with grass and flowers. There are fruit
trees almost everywhere anu especially
orchards of olives and figs.
This is the town of Nazareth. which
stands on the same site as the home of
Joseph and Mary. The place has now
about Twelve thousand people. and. like
most of the holy spots of Palestine. it
has many converts and churches. Ii was
here that Joseph worked at the carpenter
trade and here the boy Jesus played about
with His fellows as the little Nazarenes
do today. 1t was here that Jesus came
after He had been baptized In the Jordan,
and here He preached in the synagogue
when the Nazarenes cried out: rs not
this Joseph's SON." and in their anger
were about to throw him from the brow
of the hill wherein the city WAS built
but He. passing through the midst of
them. went His way That hill is still
shown to tourists. 1t is about a mile
and half from the town. In the mid
die of Nazareth is a fountain or spring
which supplies the water for the COM
munity. The women go to the spring and
carry the water in jars on their heads
to their houses. Mary undoubtedly used
that spring for her family water supply.
and the boy Jesus must have drunk there.
The surroundings of Nazareth are beau
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Canal Chapel.

A STRANGE little sacred shanty stand
alone on the towpath of the cana
between the Aqueduct bridge and the
culVert through which Foundry branch
ana wagon road run under the canal
Il rev yards east OF FoXhall hill This
place OF interest is much nearer Foxhall
mn than it is the Aqueduct bridge. II
Is board structure not much larger than
the police watch box at the Washington
end OF the bridge. 1t was once white,
out SO scaled and weather-beaten is it
now that the Rambler does not know
whether its last coat OF color was paint
or whitewash. The south side of the
mousse rests on the gray stone wall oil
one OF the ruined mills jumbled and
heaped under the canal bank and
through which branch line Of railroad
track has been laid. Water from the
canal used TO turn. long ago. the wheels
of this mill
In the west end of this building is
door, but no window. Above the door Is
d cross and under the cross this: come
unto me all ye that labor and are heavy
laden and / will give you rest On the
door is number, "421S.' but there is no
street there. On the canal side. winch
IS the north side. is one window, cur
tanned with thin white faDrlc. ana
looking through this window you see
a holy picture, chrome or some such
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art process and beneath the picture lis
this: Jesus in Gethsemane-Not my will
be done but Thine. At the back
of the building are two small windows.
Growing there is d tall sycamore. leaf
less and disconSolate now.
This chapel where for more years than
the Rambler can tell. has been held
a Sunday school for the children Of the
boatmen OH the canal. The Rambler
asked many of the people who dwell on
the canal lands along the river side, but
got from them scant information con-
corning the chapel or the good woman
who conducts it. They knew that her
name was Mrs. Saffold. The policeman
on duty at the Aqueduct bridge, Officer
Short. also said Mrs. Saffold held Sunday
school in the little chapel. and told the
Ramb bier that he might find out some
thing about the lady. her address prin
cipally. by inquiring in the drug store
at the bridge end. The people there knew
of her: she had prescription filled there
once. but further than that they knew
not. The city directory threw no light
on the subject. A directory often fails
one when it is looked to for aid ana
comfort.
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menianS. another by the Greeks. and there
are Mohammedans on hand to keep the
worshipers in order. They fight as to the
right to take care of the birthplace of
Jesus, and not long ago a controversy
arose as to the right to clean one of the
windows Both the Armenians and Greeks
We're quarreling over it, when the Mo-
hammedan government came in and for
bade either sect touching it. Therefore,
that window is unwashed to this day.
The stable is under the church. You
reach it by a winding staircase. and going
down come into a cave about twelve feet
wide and forty feet long. This room is
fioored with marble. and thirty-two lamps
burn day and night within it. There is a
star set in the marble pavement and
there is an inscription over it stating that
on that spot the Virgin Mary gave birth
to Christ. This star is held down by
nails. About a year ago the Armenian
who had the right to clean it was working
away when he knocked off the head of
one of the nails. This caused a great
commotion. The Greeks Latins and Ar
menians began TO fight over it, and the
governor of Jerusalem, to settle the dis
pute, called in blacksmith to drill out
the old nail and put in a new one The
blacksmith was Latin. and the Greek
and Armenians would not let him go to
work because they. did not want any Latin
marking the birthplace of the Savior. In
order to settle the trouble the governor
called in a gypsy, who had no religious
standing whatever. and he replaced the
nail without opposition.
While in this grotto under the
church I tried in vain to imagine the
scenes of Christ's birth. The decora-
tons were out of all keeping with the
place. and the warning Christians pre-
vented reverent thought. Besides. there
was a marble floor. the decorated walls
and the lamps. l got a better idea by
going into some of the actual stables
which are in use i'm Palestine today and
which are just about the same now as
they were 1000 years ago. 1 remember
one such stable near Jerusalem. 1t was
a cave with a floor of rough stone. The
cave was divided into chambers or stalls
which opened into sort of court and
in these chambers were donkeyS camels
and horses. There were men and women
sleeping on the floors of the courts, with
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wife of Jacob. who is said TO have died
there when she gave birth to Benjamin.
Climbing the hill and coming into the
town. you find yourself in maze of box
like one. two and three story houses.
They are made of limestone and they
stand close to the edges of winding streets,
which are here and there arched over to
shut out the sun. The town has about
ten or fifteen thousand inhabitants and
is probably ten times as large it was
when Christ was born. Its chief source
of revenue comes from the Christian re-
ligion and the fact that Christ was born
there. There are thousands of tourists
who visit the birthplace of the Savior
every year. and the chief business of the
Bethlehemites is in making rosaries,
crosses and articles of wood and mother
of-pearl for sale to the pilgrims. and
also for shipment abroad. 1t has a great
mother-of-pearl industry. and what is
known as pearl waste is imported from
the United States to be made into such
things. Shells are carved and sold to
tourists in Jerusalem and sewhere. and
the Palestine beads. which so largely
used as rosaries, both by Mohammedans
and Christians. are made there. These
beads are filed and ground out of oyster
shells until they come to the desired
size. Holes are then drilled in them and
they are smoothed by shaking them about
in crockery vessels with a little water
After tHis tiey are treated 20 d weak
solution of nitric acid and polished and
are then strung on cords Of silk or Wire
Crosses and hearts are made of mother
of-pearl, and sometimes little image of
the Savior is attached to the rosary.
Much of this work is done by women and
girls, who receive from twelve to twenty
five cents day. 1t is estimated that
the total production of such wares sells
for in the neighborhood of $500 900 a
year, and that something like $4,000
worth are annually shipped to the United
States.
The Bethlehem of today is little city,
and the stable which is shown as the
birthplace of the Savior is opposite a
saloon under a great church, where the
different sects OF Christians fight over the
right to pray in certain places. One part
Of the building is controlled by the Ar
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which the parasitic plant has come TO be
associated may be traced to this
BY far the greater number of the
Christmas trees which Santa Claus will
dress in Washington are balsam frs Be
cause of their symmetry and dark green
foliage, this tree has become established
in popular esteem Spruce is also largely
cut for Christmas trees, end so. too. Is
hemlock. Many little Washington chill
dren will be gladdened by cedars and a
large number of native pines cut from
the fields adjacent to Washington will be
sacrificed in honor of the great festival
And this brings up the matter of the
kinds of pines around Washington that
will be cut down. The varieties which
will fall in greatest number are jack
pines and old-ield pines.
The jack pine may be distinguished by
it's leaves, which grow in clusters of
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tiful. l doubt whether there is more
beautiful scenery tn be found in En..ana
or Scotland. or even in the Blue Ridge
mountains of Virginia. for which God has
done much. One can stand in the cit
or near IL and look out over the pain
of Esdraelon. and by climbing the hills
he can see Mount Carmel, where Elijah
hid the prophets and later on slew the
false prophets of Baal. IL is only A few
hours ride in carriage from Nazareth
over the hill to the Sea OF tsalilec, where
the Nazarene boys even now sometimes
go fishing.
Ii was from Nazareth that Joseph and
Mary went every year to Jerusalem. They
tramped over the hills of Gaiilee, across
the plain of Esdraelon. and then climbed
the mountains of Samaria. There l.
regular trail a part Of which has lately
been turned into macadamszed road.
Such trips were usually made in large
companies. and when | crossed Samaria.
a short time ago. / met scores of these
people from Galilee on their way TO Jeru-
salem The parties consisted OF men.
women and children. most of whom Were
on foot Now and then one found
woman riding donkey, with her husband
trudging beside her. and sometimes whole
such parties that Jesus went 10 Jern-
salem when He was about twelve years or
age He was then thought to be old
enough to take care of Himself. Tor the
Bible relates that when they departed
Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem, and
Joseph and His mother knew not of II.
They had already gone days journey
before He was missed, and they then
turned back to find Him. 1t was only after
three days that He was discovered In tn"
temple sitting in the midst Of the doctors.
both hearing them and asking them ques-
tons
And all that heard him We're aston
ished at his understanding and answers.
And when they saw him they were
amazed. And his mother said unto him:
Son. why hast thou thus dealt with US?
Behold. thy father and | have sought
thee, sorrowing.
And he said unto them: How is il that
We sought me? Wist We not that ] must
be about my fathers business?
And they understood not the saying
which he spake unto them. And he went
down with them and came to Nazareth
and was subject unto them. But his
mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and
stature and in favor with God and man"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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unfriendly IL IT, the early Greeks seem
not TO have regarded the mistietoe with
great regard for in the Aeneid one finds
a long description of il and Virgil makes
the Sybil describe the very spot in hades
where this parasite may be found grow
ing
II has been said that the origin OF
the custom of hanging branches of the
mistletoe over doorways and from lamps
was that as the plant had no roots in
the earth it should not be permitted
to touch or rest on the earth. The mis-
tletoe in parts of the world where the
Saxons dwelt was considered symbol
of hospitality, sort of a northern olive
branch, where friend and foe might gath
er without strife and where lord and
vassal might meet on sociabe terms
goddess kissed this plant and it has
been written that the kissing habit with