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the animals eating out of their stone
boxes or managers about them. The people
had no bedclothing except their blan-
kets, and they ate their meals on the
floor. 1t was on such a floor that Mary
had to lie, because there was no room at
the inn, and the manger in which the
baby Christ lay was probably followed
out stone box, such as those in which the
donkeys were eating. Within this stable
! saw Bedouin woman with sleeping
baby on her knee. She had just been
feeding the child and her breast peoped
out between the folds of her coarse
rough gown. Her arms We're bare to the
shoulders and there We're bracelets upon
her wrists. Her face was as sweet as
that of any madonna I have ever seen
upon canvas, and her baby, still in its
swaddling clothes, looked as pure and as
innocent as the most famous representa-
ton of Christ.
1t was in a stable like that that the
Wise Men knelt and presented their gifts
1T was there that the shepherds were
led by the star. and it. was there that
Our Redeemer first saw the light of this
world.
Bethlehem was so small that it must
have been difficult to hide the infant
Christ from the men sent by King Herod
to search for Him. and it is no wonder
that Joseph and Mary took the Holy
Child and fed with Him to Egypt.
The most of the pictures painted in
illustration of this journey represent
Mary with the Child in her arms. on a
donkey with Joseph walking beside it.
This in all probability, was the method
of travel. They must have taken the
road to Hebron and passed near the
Cave of Machpelah, where Abraham and
Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and
Leah were buried and from there gone
on into Arabia, crossing the Isthmus of
Suez somewhere near Ismalia. and max
ing their way through old Goshen to the
site of the present city of Cairo. The
Scriptures give no record of their trav-
els, but there are traditions in Egypt
which state that they went out to the
Pyramids. and which even fix upon
certain tree under which Mary and the
baby Jesus We're said to have slept This
tree is not far from the obeisk of
Heliopols. 1t is about five miles from
Cairo. and the ground upon which it
stands is a private farm of, the present
khedive. The tree is an old sycamore,
gnarled with the age of many years and
SCARED with the names of tourists. A
fence has been built around it to keep
it away from the relic hunters, and when
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\ BETHLEHEM FAMILY OF TO-DAY

\ BETHLEHEM FAMILY OF TO-DAY.
days of hunger and thirst and at Caper
naum saw the recently excavated
marble synagogue where some of His
first preaching was done. | have climb
ed by Judas with kiss. have also
Galilee, where He delivered the Sermon
on the Mount, and have picked flowers
from the rolling green sward below.
where the miracle of the loaves and
fishes occurred. Not far from that place.
on the opposite side of the water, may
be seen steep hill down which the
swine ran when our Savior had cast the
devils out of the man and they entered
them. | have been in Bethany, where
lived Mary and Martha. and have sat
under the trees in the Garden of Geth-
semane. where Christ spent that night
of terrible agony before He was betray-
ed by Judas with kiss. l have also
seen the various places which the sew
eral authorities have picked out as the
scene of the crucitixion. In this letter,
however. I shall write only of the places
associated with Jesus the child
Many Of the localities are about the
same as they We're when our Savior was
alive. Some have been covered with
churches and converts. but the warning
sects of Christians have not been able
tn change the bright sky. Nature is the
same now as it was then. The same
flowers bloom and the same BIRDS sing,
and besides ii is not SO long. after all
Jesus was born in Bethlehem only 1915
years ago. Do you know what that
means? The ordinary lifetime of man
is not much more than was that of our
Savior He lived thirtythree years. 1t
would take only fifty-eight such lifetimes
to cover the period between now and the
birth of Christ. Every one OF US knows
fifty-ei men who are thirty-three years
of age Bunch their lives together and
YOU have all the time between now and
the beginning of the Christian era. Each
of us has relative who is. perhaps, six
ty-five years old. The lives of thirty such
men would, if patched together, reach
back to the days of King Herod.
We shall start on our travels at Beth
lehem. 1t is q little town situated in the
mountains about $50 feet above the sea
and within forty miles of the Mediter-
ranean. 1t is about fourteen miles from
the Dead sea and not very far from
where the sandy wastes of the Arabian
desert begin. The country is limestone.
The greater part of ii is covered with
rocks. with patches of green showing out
OF the stone. Here and there the rocks
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TAXING pICtuTtS ana making HOreS OF
the places. | have visited bethlehem,
where our Savior was born. and have
lived for Gays in Nazareth, where his
DO. hood WAS spent. I have gone over
much Of the road that Joseph and Mary
travelled when they carried. the child into
Egypt and have crossed the mountains
If Samaria from Galilee TO Jerusalem.
where He went as a boy of twelve and
found teaching the doctrine III
Solomons Temple.
have even climbed the hills and gone
uto the wilderness where our Lord was
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have been gathered together and you see
pastures and fields. The field upon which
the shepherds lay and watched their
focks when the star appeared is from a
quarter to a half mile from the town
proper. 1t lies far below it. and the
shepherds had to climb to get to the
stable where Jesus was born.
The holy city of Jerusalem is at the
north, a distance of about seven miles.
I have ridden it on horseback in less
than an hour. My last trip between the
two places was made in a carriage. and
boy a donkey galloped beside W
almost all the way. The road has been
macadamized. 1t is uphill and down.
but the most of it is so smooth that with
a good motor car you could easily make
minutes and have enough time to put
in a new tire on the way. The Wise
Men from the East probably came over
that road. They are supposed to have
racing variety they probably reached
Bethlehem in less than an hour after
leaving King Herod. who. You. may re-
member. was anxious to know ali about
where Christ should be born.
My last trip to Bethlehem was made
in the spring. The hills We're dotted with
olive groves, and their leaves shone like
frosted silver under the bright Palestine
sun. The fields between the rocks were
covered with grass as green as that of
watching their fiocks of white sheep and
black goats here and there.
At one place | stopped and photo
graphed a shepherd with lamb in his
arms. and at others ] saw women and
children who might have been a part
of the Holy Family. l met Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob in the long-bearded
sheihks who were walking toward Jeru-
salem, and an old turbaned Syrian, who
rode donkey. made me wonder if he
was not a second Balaam. and whether
his long-eared beast would not soon open
its mouth and speak. Away off at the
north l was shown the site of the town
of Mizpah. where Saul was anointed
king while he was out hunting his
fathers asses, and 1 passed within a few
miles OF the spot where David slew the
mighty Goliath.
1t was between Jerusalem and Bethle-
hem that Boaz had his farm when Ruth
got her job In the wheat fields and finally
married her master. At one place along
the way is the tomb of Rachael, the
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y this happy, happy
season when only
z e ntl z thoughts
should live. there
are bad men, whose
hearts are SO wick
ed that they say
mean things about
Santa Claus. These
men are defamers.
T h c Y are " h "A I
grown-upS who use
tro n g language
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'Nt. with me this
b j Z h : Sunday
morning, only n
few days before
Christmas, for a
walk in the foot
s I G p $ o f Jesus
the child. During
my several trips
to Palestine |
have spent many
weeks in travelling
over the country,
Il. a =
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in the old oaken bucket. the moss-cover-
ed bucket, is crushed by another song
which cruelty. but truthfully refers To the
microbe-covered bucket.
So widespread has become the appreci-
alton Of the possibility of the communi-
cation OF disease from drinking water.
and especially from the public drinking
cup. that some states notably Mas.a-
chusetts and Kansas, have passed laws
forbiddlng the Use OF such cups. Congress
has also prohibited their use on inter
state carriers. and the public health
service has been made the guardian OF
the peoples health i'll this particular.
Now TO gel 10 the point of this LITTLE
story IL reminds one of the fable ABOUT
the giant who was about TO iamp over
the mountain. lie went back 50 far 10
get a running start that he became ex-
hausted and stumbled before he got 10
the jumping point. Sometimes one gets
SO close 10 things that he cannot see
the woods for the trees
In the great and artistic Congressional
Library. within a block of the Congress
OF the United States and under the very
shadow of the public health service, i'm
surroundings that for artistic effect and
splendor cannot be eNcelled, is still tolel-
ated a type of drinking fountain with
public drinking cups. or public drinking
glasses, which the health authorities of
states and nation have declared a menace.
Half a year ago friend of the Rambler
called the attention of the public health
service to these fountains and their
glasses. but was informed that il had no
power in the matter since the Library
of Congress was under the direct jurisdic-
ton OF Congress. The public health
service did. however, call the attention OF
the library officials 10 the matter aud the
latter replied that they had taken the
matter under Interested advisement.s'
but that 1t would take time to effect the
changes
A bacterioogist. discussing the drinking
fountains and public glasses in the IL
brary, said:
j.
The winter season is now on with it's
many attendant diseases of the nose and
throat. The particular fountain in uues-
ton in the main rotunda of the library
is used by a very large number of people
daily. The facilities for cleaning TIN.
drinking glasses are very poor owing 10
the fact that the water from the foun-
tains is not very free flowing. There is
no way of estimating the number of
diseases which may be transmitted by
these insanitary drinking cups IN the next
i've months of winter weather
Perhaps if a bubble fountain was at
tached to the old mans mouth from
which the stream of water now energies
[ might look as though he were hitting
he pipe. but il would be much better to
sacrifice the artistic side TO the benefit of
,ood health. | am no crank on the ques-
ion of what a man called 'mice-crobes,
lut we proceed on the general PROPOSE
ion that there are so many unknown
sources of contsgion that il is best where
EVER possible to eliminate known sources.
In this particular case l would recon-
mend that this fountain be closed until
he proper changes can be effected in
'rder to make il conform to modern sam
tary conditions
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night call .taSSasSins of character. This
means that they say things about Santa
-laus that are not 50. Good men would
rot treat Santa Claus, or anybody else, III
rude way. Perhaps they do not ike
santa Claus because he has passed them
oy Ii is we'll known that Santa Claus
ioes not love bad men amy more than ne
soes naughty children. II is because OF
his that these ''assassins OF character
are trying to defame Santa Claus.
Perhaps the meanest thing they say
sbouf the good old man Is that he does
aot do the wonderful things one hears
about that he does not travel in a sleigh.
that he never owned reindeer in his life,
lhat he does not live in the northernmost
part of the world, that ne has never been
seen to carry big pack on MS back and
that he never forced his way down sooty
rhimneys or climbed in at an open win
dow. Ii some people know 50 little about
the ways OF Santa Claus as 20 deny that
ne does chatter over the houSetops behind
a reindeer team. it is TOO bad They are
missing a whole lot of fun they might
nave by being true TO Santa Claus Santa
Claus ought not 10 be blamed for what
some men don't know
Why. for ever 50 long santa Claus mas
been driving reindeer and giving OUT
Jresents from the bag on his back. When
mamma was a little girl she saw him:
wen when grandma little she saw
aim Ills picture is printed i'll the story
oooks-and is there anything in story
cooks that isn't true? No, indeed. Grown
fps can't be expected 10 see Santa Claus
as clearly as little children. Their eyes
are not 50 good for such sights.
Some of the enemies OF Santa Claus
try TO drive him away by saying that he
does not live at all. and that there is No
such thing as d Santa Claus. They call
him myth Now. if men are going
10 throw out OF their hearts all the myths
tney cherish. there is going TO be an
empty feeling there.
In the beautiful woods around Wash
!agton workers are taking out Il harvest
II Christmas green's that homes may be
decorated for the reception of Santa
Claus and To furnish trees for him 10
dress.
Untold tons OF holly. with its prickly
caves and its cheerful berries will be
chopped: miles o. running pine will be
torn from beneath dead leaves, and dry
pine needles and acres OF little jack pines
and scrub pines will be cat down am
brought TO market
every winter there is a slaughter of
holly, but the thickets of this plant or
shrub or tree, of which poets have long
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How Be t h lie h e m
Looks Today, and How
Its People Make Crosses
and Rosaries for Sale
Over the World-The
Birth Stable as 1t Really
Was-Christ's Journey
to Egypt, and the Nir-
gin Tree-His Yearly
Trip to Jerusalem and
His Teaching as a Boy
in the Temple.
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Now. factor enters in the held.
which the artists and the poets and the
song writer's of the past did not have to
reckon with. Dame Science she who has
time and again smashed sentiment into
smithereens, demands that the artistic
beauty of the fountain and the sentiment
of the well give proper consideration to
sanitation and the public health. What
wave Of protest has always followed
the closing of a famous well or the dis
memberment OF town pumps. The oldest
inhabitant protests and proclaims that
no water is equal to that of his favorite
pump. that all his life he has drunk il
and never TUX" sick. But the health
officer knows otherwise.
All the sentiment that formerly resided
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Anticipated Cup System.

FOUNTAINS have always been All at
tractive field for the Imagination
of artists. In ancient times their in
terest was turned in this direction on
account of the great Importance which
water had in the different forms of re-
ligious worship. Aside from this. how
ever there is always something SO fas-
cinating about running water that II Of
fers nucleus about which TO gather. am
artistic effort. So. there are all sorts
and varieties of fountains from the
sublime to the ridiculous and some in
volving species of humor like the
famous Manneken fountain i'll Brussels
and We have streams of water letting
forth from the mouths of all kinds of
animals-lions, dolphins. dragons SER
penis and turtles.
While the artists have been designing
fountains for their decorative effect, the
poets and the song writer's have CEN
tered their efforts around the well. Who
has never read The Captains Well" by
Whittier, or sung The Old Oaken
Bucket with a feeling of sentiment that
the finest fountain in the world could
not inspire,
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'copyrlghtes 1915, by Frank & Carpenter,
The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
II Asks Aid for Drug Users =

does the alcoholic, since he II not
turbulent and does not break the law
except in order to obtain his Gus
tomary dose. At the present time.
with all the enormous drug eonsump-
ton, there is no provision by state or
city, or by charity organization. for
the special treatment OF the drug
taker, although more than any other
sick person in the world 10 he abso-
lutely unable to care for himself.
It viii be seen that the physician IL
the proper agent to deal with the evil
under discussion, both in; safeguard
ing the patient from acquiring the
habit and in correcting the habit when
once 1t has been asQuired. He must,
then. be thoroughly equipped for the
duty. Every year doctors are being
graduated from our medical schools
with an intimate knowledge Of dis
eases that they will rarely encounter.
but without any knowledge Of drug
and alcoholic conditions. which await
them in appalling numbers. They
must realize their responsibility in
The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
Earl Hamilton, Browns clever Star.
BALL PLAYERS BRING SUIT
Pitcher "casey" Hageman Claims He
Was Not Permitted to Play Ball
Last Year.

The Boston American League base
ball club, owners of the worlds cham
pions, who defeated the Giants last
season for that title. has been made a
defendant in the New York supreme
court in behalf of w. M. Casey Hage-
man, pitcher. After June 20 last
he was not permitted to play either
with the champions or with any other
club. The club would not give him
his release.
The suit is started by the baseball
players fraternity, which is known as
THE Ballplayers' union." an organiza-
ton formed for the interests OF the
players in the big leagues. The
amount sued for Is $1,400.
According to the complaint. Hage-
man and the Boston club entered into
a contract September IL. 1911, to be
engaged at salary Of $400 month
from April 15 to October is, 1912.
The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
MAGAZINE Writer Urges Hospitals fos
Those AFFLICTED With oeplor-
able Habit.

The need of hospitals. private and
public, for scientific treatment Of drug
addiction, is urgent. writes Charles B.
Towns In the Century. discussing
The Drug Taker and the Physician.
There has never been a state or city
hospital meant primarily for such pa
tients though some have been receiv-
ed and treated at the Massachusetts
state hospital for dipsomaniacs and
,inebriates. The state and city make
provision for treating the insanity
that arises In advanced stages Of the
habit or in patients forcibly deprived
of their craving. but not for treating
the habit itself
Even the inebriate colony which is
20 be established by the state OF New
York will in no way provide for the
drug taker. This is probably because
Ne does not come SO obviously within
ice protective province Of the state a.
The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
y00tt9IiD@|
.|Di0Ilondr |
Pitcher Cy Falkenburg OF Cleveland
is pitching wonderful ball for thu
NaDa

Pitcher Cy Falkenburg of Cleveland
is pitching wonderful ball for the
Maps.
Manager McGraw says Joe Tinker
is the best man he ever saw for tag
ging base runners.
Pitcher Jim Scott of the White Sox
has cut out the spitball and seems to
be doing quite well.
The hard hitting OF Gravy Cravath
has created one OF the sensations OF
the National League campaign.
Frank Chance wasn't at all rash
whens he offered 500 to every High
lander pitcher who wins game.
AlIneida. the Reds Cuban third
baseman, is practicing pitching and
believes he will make a crack in that
capacity.
Mig Clark Indianapolis catcher. be-
came peeved at remarks in print by
reporter for an Indianapolis paper and
beat him up.
If Johnny Evers is the keystone
king followers of the pretender Eddie
Collins will get his crown and chase
him on the throne.
Harold Janvrin's showing at third
base has been one OF the pleasant fea-
lures of the last few Red Sox games.
says the Boston Herald.
Outfelder Carey of the Pirates
wears black cap in the field and
regular cap at bat, the former head
piece being designed for the sun gar
den.
william Franfield of Notre Dame
university. third baseman. has been
signed by the Reds. Grantield leads
the college team in batting, with an
average of .406 for II games, and he
is second in fielding.
Hugh Duffy turned down an offer OF
$4,000 made to him for the Portland
New England league, franchise by
financiers of that city. who stipulated
that he should remain as manager of
the club. this season at least, at
salary OF 500 per week
Scout Mike Kahoe has reported to
Manager Griffin of Washington that
Bill Allen, outtielder fartned to Mon.
treal. and Morley. infielder with New
Haven. are men who are entitled by
their coed work to berths with the
Climbers in the fall.
American league averages show Jim
Scott of the White Sox the widest
pitcher in the American league and
Engle of Washington running him
close race. The race for steadiness
lilies between Walter Johnson and Ed
die Pl~-t
The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
Its Cost Paid Back Many Times Over
and Now Il Demands Self
Government.

The territory of Alaska has yielded
to its owner. the United States. $780,
00o, 900 in mineral wealth; in fish and
furs this bleak possession has yielded
$222,710.O36. and 1t has paid directly
into the United States treasury $14.-
7s2,461 In cash. Adding the tribute
of fisheries, furs. minerals and cash.
the people OF the United States have
within forty-two Year, taken $444. .102.-
500 out OF Alaska.
This territory was bought from Rus
sia in 1857 for $7,200.000. The figures
of wealth yielded in return for this
investment, according to the testi-
mony of Delegate James Wickersham
before the committee on territories
on March 30 last, were supplied to him
by the treasury department. Costing
but s7.200.OOO. and an average of
5000. 900 annually for the maintenance
Of its government. the territory has re-
The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
Fact About the Mushroom

A well-known botanist says that
mushrooms might properly be called
vegetable meat and used as a substi-
tute for animal food. 1T is doubtful.
however. If this is true. says the
American Medical association. THE
more we learn of mushrooms, the more
it becomes apparent that they are
scarcely different as regards dietary
virtues from the general run OF the
green vegetables which have never
achieved the distinction Of any unique
or superior nutritive properties. They
belong rather to that large group OF
food materials which we consume for
reasons quite apart from the yield OF
nourishment which they have to offer
to the body"