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same century, was named the Mosque
of Omar, after the sultan who sue
ceeded Mahomet as commander of the
Faithful.
The Rock And The Temple
In the days of King Solomon. who
reigned about 1000, B. c., an altar
was placed on the rock. 1t was cast
in bronze by Hiram of Tyre, the
Phonician monarch. who helped Solo
mon to build his great temple, and
was called the "altar of burnt offer
ing"
When, later on. the Temple was
erected, its most sacred chamber, the
Holy of Holes, was placed directly
over the rock. Nobody knows what
became of the bronze altar but the
Mosque of Omar unquestionably oc-
cupies today a piece of ground which
was included within the limits of the
celebrated Temple of Solomon.
All of which makes the mosque
very interesting. AS for Solomon's
Temple, it vas destroyed by the
Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar
about $40, B. c., when Zedekiah, the
last of the Kings of Judah, reigned in
Jerusalem.
The temple covered a great area,
and was surrounded by a wall which
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other monarch ever owned. To Illus
trate his superhuman wisdom, an en-
tire collection of the proverbs of the
people of Israel was credited to him
Just as If all the proverbs current
among our people were credited to
Abraham Lincoln.
If Solomon had had seven hundred
wives and one thousand concubines,
they, with their servants and other
attendants, would have equaled in
numbers the population of a consid-
cradle town. Where could all Of them
have been quartered?
1t is only fair to Solomon to dis
miss hat s~candalous story. Quite
possibly the Egyptian princess was
the only wife he had. Whose daugh-
ter was she? The Bible frequently
speaks of the Pharaoh-in one in
stance referring to him as "the great
dragon who lies in the midst of his
rivers" a figure of speech for the
Nilotic crocod11e-but there were
many Pharaohs, and no clue is given
to their identity.
David. the father of Solomon, was
n military genius. 1t was he who
gained possession of Jerusalem, which
had been the principal stronghold OF
the Jebusites, and held 1t. Later, he
extended his %conquests eastward to
the Euphrates and southwark as far
as Egypt.
Thus 1t Will be understood how It
may have come about that Solomon,
who inherited the considerable empire
created by his father, was able to
obtain In marriage the hand of
an Egyptian princess. From the
Pharaoh's point of view, 1t was, for
political reasons. an excellent match.
Description OF The Temple
! In. Solomon's time Jerusalem was
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at the height of Its power and pros
perity. Nevertheless, as recorded in
the Bible. he coded a big slice of ter
ritory to Hiram of Tyre, whose
Phenician kingdom lay to the north.
Why did he do It? No explanation
is given. but the chances are that he
was compelled by a military defeat.
If so, peace was made; and in h
Bible story Hiram appears as a friend
and ally of Solomon, for whose Tenn
pie he furnished wood. and for whose
trading ships he provided sailors.
Built into the gateway of an old
Mohammedan cemetery in Jerusalem
was recently found an ancient tablet
which bore, in Greek, the inscription,
mo Gentiles allowed to go beyond
these limits on pain of death" This
seems to have been one of the tablets
which according to the historian.
Josephus) were fixed upon posts
alongside the steps leading to the
gateways of Solomon's Temple. The
word Gentiles. of course, referred to
all persons other than Jews.
Such full and detailed descriptions
of the Temple have been given by
Scriptural and lay historians that we
have a fairly accurate notion of what
1t was like. Indeed, the Palestine
Exploration Fund has produced a
large model of IT, including the wall
which encompassed also the royal
grounds, with the golden gate on the
east and the single, double and triple
gates on the south.
In the middle of the great Enclosure
was the court Of justice, with Solo,
mons famous ivory throne. The steps
leading up to the platform on which
the throne stood were flanked on eth
er side by six golden lions, and two
more lions crouched OF each side OF
the throne.
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the part played by the annual crop In
agricultural prosperity in certain &C.
lions OF the United States. Vermont
alone produces something like FIVE
million trees to be used in connection
with Christmas festivities. This harv-
estIs grown for the one particular
purpose. and 1t is cited that the land
thus utilized would not produce SIM
liar financial returns in any other
form of cultivation. For the most
part the land is located on the rugged
hillsides of the Green Mountain State,
of which the available supply is very
extensive. Figures are given by the
American Forestry Association to
show that the crop OF five million
trees makes use of but five thousand
acres of the two and one-half million
acres OF similar land in the one state
alone.
In Europe, where advanced methods
Of forest cultivation are an accepted
custom, the cutting of Christmas trees
is not considered as a menace, but as
a mean of Improvement and revenue.
For this double reason the practice ia
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Is an interesting place. The seed
lings are of Norway Spruce. They
spend two years in the seeded, an
other two a in the transplant-bed
and a single year in the field in which
they are to grow to maturity. Many
of these young trees grew as much as
eight or ten inches apiece during the
first year after the field planting on
land which had been newly cleared.
Christmas tree harvesting has been
the subject of prolonged argument
among conservatlonists. Some advo-
Gates Of forest preservation insist that
the Wholesale use of evergreens at the
holidays is wasteful and destructive,
and that it should be stopped. Others.
equally interested in conservation.
take the position that the forests are
for the use of the human race and
that there Is no use more important
than that of providing Christmas
cheer for young and old alike.
Trees BY The Million
Those who urge a continuation OF
the use of Christmas trees point to
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also inclosed the residential palaces of
King Solomon, the cloisters tenanted
by a large staff of attendant priests.
and other buildings. One of the
palaces was built by Solomon for an
Egyptian princess, daughter of the
Pharaoh (see chapter 8, first book of
Kings), who became his queen.
How about the seven hundred wives
and one thousand concubines? The
answer is that, in the opinion of
modern Bible scholars, they may be
put down as fiction. Solomon was a
real enough monarch, but, centuries
after his death. he became to some
extent a NEUROLOGICAL character.
Thus, In Mohammedan tradition, he is
credited with having had power over
the demons of air, earth. and water
as illustrated by the Arabian Nights
tale in which a fisherman liberates a
genie from a bronze bottle wherein
the monster had been imprisoned and
sealed up by Solomon, for keeps.
Diminishing A Scandal
Writers, in later centuries, drew
upon their Imagination in trying to
magnify the glory and greatness of
Solomon, and one way to emphasize
the idea was to credit him with the
possession of more-women than any
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Surrounding the area devoted to
strictly s%acerdotal purposes were the
cloisters OF the priests. One large
building, called the House of the
Forest of Lebanon, was used as an
armory and on occasions for royal
b%anquets. Great quantities of arms
were stored therein, for the Temple
was also a fortress. It's location on a
hilltop giving 1t a strategic advantage.
Adventures In Sea Trade
As a further precaution In case of
siege, spring water was brought into
the Temple Enclosure through a sub
terranean tunnel from Solomon's
Pools, south of Bethlehem. Within
the walled area numerous tanks, to
hold a supply of the water thus de-
rived, were excavated in the rock of
the hill.
The subjects of King Solomon were
not ~seafaring people by habit or ex-
perience. and presumably it was for
this reason that Phonician sailors
were drafted to man his trading ships.
1t was during his reign that Jerusalem
uTsL uIutTlOOk HldTltlne commercial
enterprises. He established ship
yards, doubtless extensive for those
days, at the head OF the Gulf of
Akaba, which Is the east branch of
the north end of the Red Sea; and,
as the Bible tells us. his vessels
brought apes and ivory and much
merchandise of other kinds from
India, Ceylon, and other foreign
parts.
1t was probably this activity in
overseas trade that brought him into
commercial relations with the Ara
bians, whose boats voyaged as far as
China. and down the east coast OF
Africa to Madagascar (the home OF
the giant bird, not then as yet extinct
which Sinbad the Sailor calls theRock)
and beyond. Hence the visit to Solo.
mon by the Queen of Sheba, who
brought gifts galore and administered
fattery to the wise monarch by thu
shovelful. Hers was q trade embassy
Nobody will eve know how It cam.
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about, but, apparently as one result OF
a commercial alliance with the Ara
bians-Sheba was a kingdom In south
ern Arabia-Solomon Joined them In
exploiting the gold deposits of what
Is now Rhodesia. He may have fur
nished troops, which were needed to
capture the native negroes required
for working the mines, and to guard
the latter. At all events, it Is now
known that the gold accumulated in
such quantities at Jerusalem in Solo,
mons time came from that source.
Collapse OF The Jewish Empire
Solomon inherited an extensive and
prosperous kingdom, which he seems
during his long reign to have CONSOLE
dated. Whether or not he was SO
wondrous wise as has been alleged.
he was unquestionably a clever. enter
prising and successful ruler. When
he died, the empire of Israel and
Judah lost its grip; 1t went to pieces.
A century later. in the time of Je-
hosaphat, a big sea-fght at the head
of the Gulf of Akaba resulted In the
total destruction of the Jewish mer-
camille marine. The shipyards were
burned, and Jerusalem dropped out
of maritime commerce completely and
finally.
The Temple put of which Jesus
drove the money-changers, according
to the Bible story, was built by King
Herod on the site of the Temple OF
Solomon, and was to a great extent a
restoration of the latter. 1t was aft
erwards destroyed by the Roman EN-
peror Titus.
Today, 1t might be said, all that
remains OF the original Temple Is the
rock of Abraham's attempted sacri-
Ace, now surmounted by the dome of
a Mohammedan mosque. That rock.
a memorial Of Old Testament tradi-
ton, Is equally interesting to Chris
tan and Turk. 1t has remained while
nations have passed away and civiliza-
ton has succeeded civilization, the
most ancient religious relic on the
earth.
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.CzH2NCINZ1 Z2<<C M


In tins way It quickly took the round
ed form of an individual tree in place
of the unbalanced shape in which it
was compelled to grow In its original
environment. A limb growing straight
out from a tree, parallel with the sur
face of the ground is necessarily IN
developed On it's lower side. as its
offshoots have a tendency to grow In
an upward direction. A branch thus
grown would have none of the sym
metry needed to justify It's use for
the decorative purpose Of a Christmas
tree.
h effectiveness of the modern
method of treatment Is admirably
shown by the symmetrical form of
the tree as photographed with its god
father. AS here seen 1t constitutes a
splendid specimen of the tree of in
dfvidual growth, without the sacrifice
involved in harvesting an entire tree.
Yields Ten Christmas Trees
In one of the illustrations may be
seen a parent stem which has made
the production of Christmas trees a
life work. This stem is that Of a ma
tive spruce. Through annual crops
the trunk has already yielded ten
trees for Christmas uses and 1t Is still
in the prime of life and good for many
more such harvests. AS shown in the
picture, in Its present condition, the
tree is ragged and unkempt, but this
is of minor Importance. The essen
tiai fact is that 1t has devoted the
strength of maturity to the production
of Christmas. trees, and that In this
process it has saved the ives OF ten
trees of individual growth, with more
to come. The y of the expert fore
sees that within a few years the up
permost branch at the left will make
an excellent Christmas product.
A nursery for baby Christmas trees
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Christmas trees are desirable and
the custom of using them is too deeply
seated to be erased from the American
home. 1t is hardly probable, there
fore, hat any considerable Roadway
will be made in any effort to curtail
the time-honored custom that brings
such pleasure and happiness to the
homes OF America and the rest of the
world. At the same time 1t is Inn
portant that every practice tending to
per~petuate rather than toAdestroy the
forest growth of the nation should
meet with encouragement. We have
too little timber at best, and the sup
ply is rapidly growing less. For this
reason it is distinctly encouraging TO
see n tree yielding q dozen Christ
mas trees instead of the single speci-
men afforded by the old fashioned
method of harvesting.
AS a phase of modern conservation
and c-ommen-sense practice this type
of production is possessed Of signii-
canoe that should not be overlooked.
1t is in line with the new belief that
the timber resources of the United
States should be treated as an annual
crop, to be harvested with a view to
perpetuation, rather than as a mine
from which the entire volume of nat
ural wealth should be removed and
converted into cash with as little de-
lay as possible.
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GUT NIL R2HHGW
definitely encouraged.
Flrs And Spruces The FayOrites


The principal Christmas trees are
the frs and the spruces. Between
them these two species of evergreen
comprise at least 70 per cent. of the
annual harvest. Both are native to
the Northwoods of America, and II Is
in this environment that they grow at
their best and develop their splendid
foliage and attractive FORMS
BY some authorities the Balsam fir
Is given the palm as the ideal Christ
mas tree. because of its widespread
distribution in the forests of the
United States, and it's stately, dignihed
growth. BY others the various spruces
are considered pre-eminent. To the
general public nothing could be finer
than the spruce shown in one OF the
illustrations. This tree affords an ex-
cellent example Of the harvesting of
the entire growth. and stands forth in
strong contrast to the method of cut
ting the branches Of successive crops.
In utilizing an individual tree of this
type the growth of many years is
destroyed at n single stroke, with no
chance for reproduction. A glance at
another picture-the group of Colo
RADIO blue spruces-emphasizes the
contrast with the practice of harvest
ing the tops and branches and leaving
the stems for further crops. Te
harvest all the trees shown in the fore
ground of this picture would produce
a smaller yield thar that already giver
by n of the parent stems under the
Wagner treatment; and after the
harvest nothing would be left for the
future.
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2GC2Z>W2IG~
Lets The Little Trees Grow

ANObo AAlO LILLY AAC~o OAON
When Wagner goes into the woods
he looks beyond the young growth to
the sturdy trees Of maturity. He is
content to let the little fellows grow
and prosper and to find his harvest at
places that will not involve the sac
rifce of baby trees before they have
had a chance to develop. To accom-
plish this he follows a practice Of
creating his Christmas trees out Of the
tops and branches OF the trees of
larger growth.
In one of the illustrations accom-
panying this article, Wagner Is shown
in characteristic pose, proudly display
ing a Christmas tree that meets every
requirement without the sacrifice of a
future giant Of the forest. The tree
has all the earmarks of a spruce of
individual growth. No indication to
the contrary is to be seen. In fact it
Is to be doubted if close examination
of the tree itself would lead the aver
age person to believe hat the tree is
anything less than a young spruce IN
its entirety. This Christmas tree,
however. is no tree at all. but a single
branch from a good-sized spruce.
The Branches Forced Upward
In it's childhood the branch shown
In the picture was of the ordinary
type, growing parallel with the ground
and one-sided In development. The
magic touch of conservation removed
the one-sidedness and caused the
branch TO grow straight upward.
VI. -.
simple process Of removing the top
of the tree and eliminating the factors
of crowding and dense shade. Thus
given its place in the sun the branch
assumed vertical position and spread
Its branchlets in every direction in
stead of on a single side as before.
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Many Trees Are Gathered From a Single Trunk
By Modern Method of Cutting "A Fac
tor of Forest Conservation.
BY LUCIUS homes

~ CIENCE and common sense have
- come to the rescue OF the Christ
mas tree.
With a view to preventing waste
in the forest growth of the nation the
latest method of harvesting trees for
the Christmas celebration takes the
form of pe~rpetuation of the trees in
stead of the destructiveness previously
practiced.
Under the old system each Christ
mas tree vas a complete unit of
growth. To provide the ornament for
a single days use the entire tree was
cut and sacrificed. In this ruthless
manner vast forest areas have been
denuded of the promising growth be-
longing to the generations of the flu
ture.
BY the new method the harvesting
of a Christmas tree is as simple as
gathering a bouquet Of roses or
chrysanthemums. The most modern
practice treats the tree as a perman-
ent producer, yielding its annual crop
without destruction of the growth as
a whole. The saving thus accom-
plished is one of the significant phases
of the effort to conserve the timber
our of a nation rapidly losing
the wealth of its forests.
A pioneer in this form of harvest
ing is George Wagner, a Pennsyl-
vanian, who sees in the trees some
thing worth more than their imme-
diate harvest will afford. Wagner is
a man with a vision-a man who
realizes that the timber supply of the
United States cannot survive without
the application of practical principles
of conservation. Because OF this
vision he has applied these principles
in the place nearest home-the gath
ering of Christmas trees to meet the
eager demand Of the annual holiday
; period.
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By RENE BACHE

an Christmas Day there is always
a ceremonial beneath the Dome of
" the Rock at Jerusalem. Which,
in a way, is rather surprising,
fn-as-much as the building that goes
by that name is a Mohammedan
mosque.
But the matter is better understood
when 1t is realized that the "inhdel
Turks" who were called Saracens in
the crusading times of the middle
ages, greatly revere the Lord Jesus,
believing him to have been a mighty
prophet. For this reason they have
preserved inviolate the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher, on Mount Calvary.
And in q corresponding spirit of toll
erance the British. when they had
gained possession of Jerusalem, re-
spected the sanctity of the Dome of
the Rock.
That famous mosque. indeed, has an
important religious interest for Chris
tians as well as Turks, in-as-much as
1t gets its name from the fact that 1t is
built over the rock on which Abraham
is said to have been about to offer up
his son Isaac as a sacrifice when Je-
hovah stayed his hand.
The Mohammedans say that from
hat same rock the prophet Mahomet
was taken up to heaven by the angel
Gabriel; and. to prove the story, they
show that 1t still bears the finger
prints of n of the hands of the
celestial messenger, who was obliged
to hold the rock down in order to
prevent it from following Mahomet.
In the year 637. A. D.. the Moham-
medans conquered Palestine, and the
mosque. built in the latter part of the
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\ N Christmas Day there is always
a ceremonial beneath the Dome of
the Rock at Jerusalem. Which.
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When you hear some mossback guy.
Midst modern plenty lost,
Let out a deep and doieful sigh
For good old Christmas days gone b.
Just let him dream the darling lie.
Just keep your fingers crossed.
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LA LEY MARCIAL HA TERM
NADO EN- OKLAHOMA
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HOTELES
C.ARIBE

Eituado on Ell coraz6n de la ciudad.
Perfsctamente acondicionado con todos
los adelantos modernos: Ascensor, TIE.
l6fonos, Timbres, Magnificas habitacio-
mes con bafo privado efectos santa
rios. Especial comfort para familias ,
viajantes. Precios moderados.
TeIefonos 484 1909. P. o. Box 82e.
Gale de San Francisco, No. "a.
San Juan, P. 3.
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Ell PARLAMENTO ALEMAN
SERA DISUELTO

BERLIN, Oct. II, Omitted Press).
Oficialmente Sc ha confirmado que
ell presidente Ebert ha autorizado
al canciller Streseman disolver el
Reichstag case que el proyecto de
ley presentado por el canciller dando
al gabiente poderes dictatoriales sea
rechazado.
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CENTRAL

Edificic construfdo expresamente para
Hotel. Modernamente equipado, con
Ascensor, Habitaciones con raho. Te
16fono. Timbres, Barberfa y cu.nto
requiere el Moderno Comfort.
Ian ELropeo American Plan
Desde $500 2.5o. Desde $3.50 500
Restaurant a Ia Carta. Cubierto $1.0o
SAN JOSE NO. IL.
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Cablegranlas
Won HOESCH CONFERENCIA
CON POINCARE
Ponce, P. R.

PARIS, Oct. IL. Gable Frances)
Won Hoesch encargado de los
asuntos alemanes ha venido hoy a
Paris para iniciar una conferencia
con ell Primer Ministro M. Poincare
fin de restablecer las negociacio-
nes directas entire ambas republlcas.
Won Hoesch ha ofrecido la coopera-
ci6n del Reich fin de reanudar
las antiguas normales relaciones eco-
nomicas.
M. Poincare no cree que haya ne
cesidad de nuevas conferencias des-
de ell momento en- que las negocla-
clones entire los grupos industriales
V los jefes de trabajos son cordlales.
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Ell MARCO CONTINUA
BAJANDO

LONDRES, octubre IL. UNITED
Press) Los marcos Sc han cotiza-
do hoy veinticinco mil millones por
libra esterlina.
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MEXICO SERA MIEMBRO DE LA
CAMARA DE COMERCIO IN
TERNACIONAL

PARIS, Oct. IL. Gable Frances).
Ell Comite Executive de la CANA
ra del Comercio International, ha
aprobado por unanimidad una de-
manda del gobierno de Mejico de
formar parte de esta Camara.
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LA SONORA DEL EMBAJADOR
ITALIANO EN- PARIS MUERE
REPENTINAMENTE

PARIS, Oct. II. (Cable Frances).
La Baronesa de Avezzano, esposa
del embajador de Italia en- Paris, ha
muerto subitamente ha consecuencia
de un ataque cerebral.