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Show j '--w 'T- n lhe York stage as Jane In l "VY" 1 J " X. ',,i-ssafTTT fjfl A K- Thumbs play. "The Rain- OUlCL ' S AxVVyt- bow," Is so recent that New York 1 . nMfl playgoers had generally supposed ' - . iX-WlI 'lcr aDsence since the summer of LyCSfiOtJ aBM- ffTYtf 1912 among actors I ( - MM : 5 ! - off If crip of the sons of Anal; could llB be restored tu Hie after 4,000 years beneath the rod, he would shakes hands with A. Rustem Bey. Turks' Turk-s' 1th A mhassudur, who a few Weeks 111; ago upheld the standards of cltfil- jgl Szatlon of the Ottoman Empire. tM True It Is that when tfc I word Of I the Prophe t was first spread with the sword, the old-time places In I many nations were broken do HI but that Is not true of the land 0 C'an i . r i ') ; . S.n lc .. ttV r of I Palestine and the Turk is more care- 6 ful of the .!.. h ,,i nd h.-'.orjc spots 19S- t)i.n :inv it'll r ' stlfl It Is the Turkish .'..Idler who to- tH day I? pi , - ing thi I loly Land fr.ui, . , i ;. s muld th Turkish & antiioi in.-- ithdrawn and no I V tin. o nted HI Immediately to taki theli places ! t J,,, , , m ,. ,,,,1,1 1 1 1 looted, Pales- nli tin.- would no i..n-"-r hold many at- ' E . n Lhc sacred rites of the anil"' an-il"' r'. .- ,, o! Baal an & talne-.l im.-i i i.. Hi .'in it nt h'"d of iw r ,. i i stine havi borne testimony lime and again to It the generosity of the Turk and his & kin. ,,, ... ,,io(. ciiny " P:.1r-oin ic . 1 Of DO 1 haW-'eS. (of M. -atC- Jl I LA Except In the cities the people dwell as they dwelt In the days of Abraham. Abra-ham. They live in the tents as Abraham Abra-ham lived. The chiefs send their servants to seek wives for their sons as Abraham did. Two men grind at the mill as they did la Abraham's day- The religious rites are much tho same as when Baal was worshipped. In the strange land of the Samaritans they have rites which the Canaanltes would readily recognize. The Turk is responsible for the preservation of these relics of antiquity. an-tiquity. More than that, the Turk has protected the ancient churehea built by the early Christians before the rise of Mohammed Soldiers are placed in these churches to keep the Pilgrims, who throng to the Holy Land in droves of thousands upon thousands yearly, year-ly, from carrying oft the sacred candles and sacred vessels from the hurches of stone, built more than a thousand years ago and kept In repair through the thrift of tho Turks. For it is thrift Indeed, which impels im-pels the Turk to assume the guard-ianshlp guard-ianshlp of the .Holy Land. It Is thrift which keeps him from slaugh tering the Christian tourists and pilgrims. pil-grims. Fronl America, from England, En-gland, France, Italy, Spain. Russia, Rus-sia, Norway, Australia, Africa and the remotest parts of Asia and tho islands of the sea come these pilgrims pil-grims eager to dip in the sacred River Jordan, which was considered sacred thousands of years before Christ was baptised there The Baal worshippers considered it sacred. The Jews held it sacred. The Christian Chris-tian pilgrims turn their eyes toward the rier and the Mohammedans worship before the waters. PILC.RIMS AKD TOURISTS IiRl'; MUCH MONEY. The pilgrims and tourists bring great quantities of money yearly to Palestine. It is a felony to kill a I Christian In the Holy Land. The ' reason it Is a felony is that a great source of revenue would be cut off If the pilgrims did not come. A. Rustem Pe was right when ho said Christians are .rr.t.-. ted in tho Holy Land. Even when the crusades cru-sades were In proprco a thousand years ago, the Mohammedans permitted per-mitted them to visit the tombs of the saints. They allow f, J them to worship at the Church of the Nativity. Nativ-ity. They allowed them to call at the Tomb of Jesus and to fnllow his footsteps up and down Palestine There ure students of history who believe It would have been a loss to the world had the crusader been successful In driving out the Saracens. Sara-cens. The old time Saracens of the days of the crusades were not as tolerant as the Turks of today, but at the same time they preserved the holy places. Had Christian civilization had full sway in the Holv Iand It would have meant tho Introduction of uew methods. American Amer-ican capitalists would have bought the site of tho Church of Nativity for an office bulldlns: site and h ive caused a new and liner ihurch to have been erected out in the suburbs sub-urbs where the more fusbionablo people dwelt. It must be remembered that tho great Roman Empire extended as far east as Pabylon. It occuplcl all of the Northern portion of Africa. With the rise of the fanatical Saracens Sara-cens the Christians were driven out of Asia and Africa, and for a time their existence in Europe was at stake. The European cities changed, but Asia and North Africa progressed prog-ressed but little There is no rea- AT TOP, from left to right Rachel's Tomb, entrance en-trance to Church of Ascension, Ascen-sion, front door to Church of Nativity, Turkish Ambassador. Ambas-sador. Below Mosque of Omar, on site of Jewish Temple, and two types of pilgrims. son to doubt but that Jerusalem would have kept pace ulth the Other cities had It not been Tor tho Saracens. While it probably would have been better for the world to have brought about the changes, yet our great museum of Bible days would have been destroyed had it not been for the Mohammedan rise. The Mohammedans are fatalists. What is, Is right with them and cannot be Improved upon. If it is the will of Allah that a certain Skyscraper should be built in New York it will bo built. If it Is the will of Allah that a certain church shall remain a thousnnd yea..- In ancient Bethlehem It shall bo so. But when it comes to guarding the sacred treasures the Turks do n A trust to Allah. At. the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, which Is built over the spot where the stable stood In which Christ was born a cordon of Turkish soldiery is constantly con-stantly on guard. This church was built by the Roman Christians, and for a time was a Moslem mosque. But the Moslems did not disturb the sacred art treasures there. They left the altars and when pilgrims came from Europe of the Middle Ages they were allowed to enter. Various branches of the church Were given quarters 1p Hie Church of the Nativity. The Creek Church has one corner. The Armenians have another corner. The Russian division of the Greek church has a corner and the Romas Church has still another corner. Members of the Protestant churches also come there to worship on the .site of the birthplace Of their Saviour. There are certain of these pilgrims pil-grims who are Jealous of the others. They want more ,'oom to worship and fights actually have occurred . . in this sacred place. Only the Turkish interference keeps order. TRIBUTE OF CHRISTIANS. 1 ILLS TURKISH COFFERS, The tribute of the Christians fills the coffers of the Turks. They charge the pilgrims and tourists for the camel rides They charge them for their food and lodgings. They charge them for guides who show them about the Holy Land. They Bell them worthless Junk explaining that the junk is sacred matter. Palestlno Is an Interesting country, coun-try, and is especially interesting to a Bible student Tn the cities and along the main line of travel the East has changed somewhat. Commercialism Com-mercialism has entered into the see-no, but out in the country condlt-tlons condlt-tlons are so much like they formerly former-ly were that one thinks he is walking walk-ing in the footsteps of the Saviour. Tho Jordan River Is still flowing quietly on to the Dead Sea. It is t muddy stream, but Its surroundlngJ nre picturesque. While- the inhabitants of the land are picturesque they are no less Interesting In-teresting than the pilgrims or tourists tour-ists whichever we wish to call them. Of course many of the pilKrims are not tourists, and many of the tourists tour-ists are not pilgrims. Many go to the Holy Land just to see what Is there. Others go there through a pious sense of duty. Their Joy In seeing tho sacred places where Jesus walked Is good to see. and perhSPfl there Is Justification in Turkish occupation through their presence. TiOst ACtrSS to Return. Mrs. Harry Shepard Coykendall of Kingston, whose husband died at his home hero a few days ugo. has admitted that she is Hope Latham, known to every theatergoer on o idway as an actress who has won first rank within the last five years. Hope. Latham's last appearance was not playing and were thoroughly thorough-ly mystified by her complete disappearance. disap-pearance. The Hope Latham whom everybody every-body liked simply vanished in February, Feb-ruary, 1913. Two or three intimates inti-mates knew that she had married. Some believed she had gone on a long honeymoon trip around the world. Others felt a little frightened fright-ened not to be able to get any trace of her None knew that her husband of a year and s halt was an heir to two great fortunes, that for his sake she had given up the best work of her life and all her hopes when their fulfillment lay open beforo her; none knew that she had gone to live In this sleepy city on tho Hudson and had given up even visiting vis-iting old friends at her husband's wish; none knew that from a certitude cer-titude of wealth she had been cut off by her husband's death and that now she intends to return to the stage again, and "hopes there will beta place for her." Hope Latham told the story as she sat in the soft lamplight of her home on the Hudson hills. She had returned a short half hour before from the cemetery, where she had seen the earth close ovc-r the husband who to hated tho theater that he refused ever to see her act and tried never to think that she had been an actress, even in the company of such artists as Mrs. Fiske and John Drew, even on the stage of so distinguished a playhouse play-house as Charles Frohman's Empire Em-pire Theater. "My husband was an outdoor man." ald Hope Latham. She wore the simplest sort of close lilting black Silk gown. There was not a fold or a frill. Her black hair WSJ drawn back smoothly on each side. Her dark eyes were moist. "I presume It is thought that he must first have seen me act. as you inferred, but it was not that way ; at all; he detested the stage. I met him first at a social gathering, party Kf, Or what 1 hardly remember. When V; he understood that I was an a. :ress I I I It shocked him. He said to me: tH 'You're so unlike what I ever H thought one of those people could I be" , 'To him they were always 'those people.' He writhed at the thought of my taking a part iJ "We were engaged for three if whole years. I played in New York In The Rainbow' and then went to Jf Philadelphia, where we were get- H ting 'Ransomed' ready. Our long H betrothal was becoming a hard H strain for me, and I think It must ! have been nearly Intolerable for him. H I knew that I must give up my work- ) for him. So we were married on H February 6, 1913. "What a heavenly time, that was after our marriage I can't tell you. He had the finest, most lovable iH heart In the world. His mind was jH ..; clean as a young girl's We came here to live and were always to- "And now he is dead, and only H 4 0 years old. 1 I shall go back to the stage. There IH Is now nothing for me here. I have J this home, this old-fashioned house, and I have a small Income that is Her husband was one of several children of Samuel D. Coykendall of Kingston. The father made an unusual will by which his fortune H was, so far as possible, entailed. The will proided that the estate, of a H value of more than $2,000,000. H should be undisturbed until after H I death. Upon the death of the J youngest of his children, who shall . I h living at the time of the widow's li i h, the properties of the elder "okendall are to bo divided among his surviving children. Mrs Sam- H uel D. Coykendall lives In the big M red stone mansion two doors away ! from Hope- Latham's home. Hope Latham's husband Is the third of her children to die before her With him dies his share of the 'M Coykendall fortune, and also his ;H share In a greater fortune, that of P his mother's father, Thomas Cornell, founder of the Cornell Towing . I Company Had there been a child the outcome would of course have been different. The Coykendall ami Cornell wealth pras made In boats and rail-road.x. rail-road.x. in the Df-laware ft Hudson Canal and the Ulster & Delaware Railroad, which the family owns, and In the towing business. Est!-mates Est!-mates of the united fortunes have always been exaggerated through the Kingston countryside J 40.000.- .H 000 Is a common belief of folk 'H along the Hudson. Meanest Man The world's meanest man has H heen discovered. He is Dr. D Percy Hlckllng. an alienist of Washing- JH ton, D. C. and he has presumed to put love on a scientific basis. Ho has -Issued a formula by which a doubting swain may ascertain with- out fall the name of his closest rl- val for 'her" affections. H Here it Carelessly hold "her" wrist, as If caressingly. Craftily place your foreliinger on "her" pul e. Then U name over. In casual conversation tic rivals you fear most. When you name the right ono ' her" pulse will. Jump scandalously. If It Increases something like a hundred beats you PH might ns well quit the race. To offset this mean betraval Dr. JH HI., k ling has Issued some hints to jH the fair sex on how to avoid nerv- 'M ousnesa "Scorn gossip." he says. "and don't attend to other persons' business or worry over their trou-bles. trou-bles. and you Will be all right." But he doesn't say a word as to how Duleinea might have kept tho fatal pulse Jump from giving her i j |