Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1925, Page 89

THE SUNDAY STAR, Rambler Believes He Found a Clue To Land Purchase by Samuel Queen Mythology and Other Forms of Fiction Illuminate Search for Records Bearing Upon Transactions of a Very Early Time. a puper in the cour Murlboro which gives the time when the Chapel lands were | by Samuel Queen. It ht. When I came upon this hough was @ . and felt somewhat enco hecause the sl 4 few w rded per- Kons who have faiih in cl; It seems i be the habit of clues never to lead | what b When a de ut a e on n's it e job. ) t was Aviavdne to the Iak 1 the Mir atir nizthened THE GRAVEYARD, WITH THE LANGDON SCHOOL IN BACKGROUND. then lows the his md Beall’ ipers und wphy of i serious ¢ uthentic man minisc iy ear of the In and was | ¥ boun Mar commission, in 1669, he DOOR OF deat it is among car ago I_wrote Nin no more uny 2 buried his farms on chan 1 distu wn | prom Leen el Distr Susa 1 tral QUEEN'S When he ic with sma Janded he was a me- all funds. He became r, was a soldier in the Ine rhan & unence and called by the 1 Maryland to nume rime. ict of ( n Greent Beall lan nd. hec religic writ “ather of 156 of belief, i on_ Preshy Presbyter He t erOUS Sheriff had two sons, nysius the Ana nted by Ninian of you 1 ames 1 Gardi er J.R.M Rambler Marlboro & Mar is a © you like histc much in s inzes vs I w W picke! tourthouse, there. Not the main st not a voke fore the h men n JLnights T lenry [ ind as sor n of not wongh thie aues fox hunt Uk of mal en-uj. 1 of bit d lows, enrd me rettes ir of tehacco e and me Tt and 1 who wden's F ery or the Infantry hen it n Appe toas it did w ot Lelt's H oking than th n' The ail Prince its me to say th tirer und sweeter in 1739, entlen vhich pert 47 wry case bler wrc his for m vea that old files. nd dates and by itor Il came to Maryland in A CHAPIY vears old He had time before came e a story an | land sor the job. wory As it L few )t some of the forbearance I extract from Sher up. hild: 1 | W the now husb ancient river YN subel CHAPEL. iff died Au; his widow and three Sheriff, T! ! Sheriff 1 | Philip Hill ¢ Prince G orge. lizabeth e re , Ma Philip I heriff estate hetween the A astern Bra Mrs. John and_and northe st DOow. iddeus childr 1 Beall homestes Beall under the name’ Fife. gust 10, 1843, sons, George F Sheriff and D. | Sheriff m Hill, 2 day timore heriff and Clement living on part of the stia road and nch and Isabel Sheriff W. Young, with he es in the 1 close to the of Benning Bridge. He Lad three | w. of Woc nty. The Beall house sti river, screened from the r poplars. The present about 75 years old (hu and is on theesite of home which was burned. the house is the fumily ¢ among the epitaphs the ‘In memory of eenfield Beal aged 71 Clemen| Wood heriff ville, married Miss Prince Georges structy about 18, Beall and of | WASIIINGTON, D. [ i | [ i | | | | | (.. DECEMBER 20, a -PART Story of Christmas Told in Stone, Glass and Flower at the Cathedral Historic Glastonbury Thorn Furnishes An Incidental Feature of Symbolism Attached to BY LEE POE HANL( HE story of Christmas as 1in Holy Wri Iy told at the Nationa' ¢ dral of S Tt [ Mou | medium of 1 fand a 1 | { fun | Beall | the art treasu 1deep” o natural mi world, the historic G which blossoms m once w stonbury ur Lovd.” In the controversy raging between alists and modernists al the virgin birth of ist, the tonal edral has taken no part. has written its creed in this matter a most striking form i Bethlehem - Chapel of th which is a devout effort to & expression to the fundame trine, the incarnation of Je Hadrock of the Christian church chapel contains able i original scheme of symb ) in detatl of its adornment, h' s'in pictorfal form—in carving and | ained glass—a comprehensive story of the birth of Christ A memorial to the Washingtoni, the 1 astonbury thorn wriginal tree “Mindfu! of wl first Pis e Right >Rev t . the Bethlehen tirst part of the o the hrist which it ¢ the b ginning of | elxtion Its io cathediul built deep in mdation iticant fr theol v, because Chri the foundat birth of the tehem Chy The Bethlehem Chapel is in use for church services, and in it burfed the iate Pre nt Woodro: Wilson, Geh Dewey, Admiral of Navy and the hero of ther celebrities, including B ee, whose beautitul alab behind the Bethlehem aitar es of Wash * virgin is one ngton * arly to THOUSANDS Visit the chapel in pilgrir nt Wi Lutter's tomb granite stone and 4 re sisters. | necriptions In memor November memory Beall Sheriff | July of Our Grandmother, s born April 20, 1% efforts to 1l place of Ninn Bea s it likely that his s are d at the 1 of the eriff ho nning. {One of Ramble: Miss | Minnie Wallis of Locust Val I rince Georges 1 him meny facts re the Ninian the at F +lating to | Beall grant | Branch.” | ;Tm-: i an 4 “Fite” on mbler told you t thentic 1 no fewe: proper in I was conver ! pertod in which Ninian B | wa mainly th A the ies in The Star. antages of this section, that N: 1l was prompted to take out ny grants to wild land in what was be the District of Columb hyn dred and odd years later. If you will turn to the rambles in The Sunday Star from about June, 1360, to July, 1680, vou will see that the valleys of the Eastern Branch and Rock and the hills and levels betweer were praised as lands that s | settled by pioneers. Rambler's | T wrote nothing about the fertility | tar. Above ftisa v {of the soil. No stat t was made {to tempt men to believe that they { would not get into debt by | You who try to grow vegetables on the back lot or grass in the front yard will | understand what District” pioneer ainst in trying to feed his »m land on which I beur a gentle woms grandfather was plantation covered h the site of Washington,” T drop a tea in memory of that overiworked plante ¢ to be a planter but to be s a_different story. articles of 1660-1 Rambler wrote that a million people would live near the junction of Patow- and Annacostia Rivers and that more people would be run over in the streets than were bowled over in the late battle of Marston Moore. I re- member when Capt. John Smith came up the Patomac in 1608. The cf cditor sent me down to the river [ front to meet him and after mal ing a_snapshot of him and excharg- ing four words with him, I tele. {vhoned to the office a column inter- | \\'o view. When Smith escaped from the reception committee we went to the harbor office sat _down with ‘ommodore Bob Sutzen, Rus Si Lewis, Engineer Davi | Hughes, Jimmie Neale and othe | the crew of the Joe Blackburn. After {a few rounds of hospitality, Capt. John Smith safd: “You've got a city here { that will be as big as Jamestown if it |keeps on growing. What are the | pressing needs of the metropolis?” | And T said: “John, we need a new | building for the recorder of deeds office, reclamation of the south side |of Avenue, a merger of the street {car companies, more straps between {§ and 9 in the morning and 4:30 and 6 p.m.” . % Singing Mouse. A MUSICAL mouse is the astonish- ing animal described by Dr. Edwin B. Powers of the University of Nebraska in the Journal of Mam- malogy. Dr. H. A. Morgan, a friend | f his, was bothered for three or four nights last Spring by @ singing noise which for a time was attributed to a leaky radiator valve. Dr. Morgan be- {gan to search for the source of the | noise and found that it was not com- ling from the radiator, but from a | waste paper basket. Upon shaking {the basket a mouse ran out and Dr. | Morgan gave chase. The mouse ran {into a small room from which there | Was no escape. | As soon as the chase was stopped, {the mouse would sit up on its haunches and sing, the singing ap- proximating the noise made by the | cricket, but much more continuous. For 10 or 15 minutes before the mouse was captured it was in open space and under constant observation; |and every time it came to rest this singing took place, even under the Xcitement of the chase. The mouse turned over to a naturalist who identified It as the common variety of house mouse, farming. | the city | i n vl | | ell Dean, | rank | ¢S ot | oul | 1 | varied but harmonious coloring pressive south wa ¢ wide with mussive Zus helght “hove the floor in iron after cient craftsme n cr cess to elicately carved o is directly Woven into t cresting, as words: “I am the the life, suith the L The three tia ean presented ment to each President 1 thése represent Mr. by the American marched throug be the by flag King on I f the Be with that the cuthedral ed ed Gothic i the fourteenth centu It harmonizes with the catl s a whole. The nave of the ¢ is_severely simple, but in the chan »1 is pure decorated ¢ ¢ the altar, which The story of the n sented by the centr: tivity nel o ulted ¢ is rep the nopy on_ eact window, with in front of mul F which rise the keted pinnacles terminating th ch face of the canopy mbellish _the architrave : the window. The central panei n enrichment re »senting the lilies of the tield. <lightly lower in height at each side the central panel are two vaulted hes, whose heads are similarly mented. The figures of the foul angelists—St. Matthew, St. Luke, Mark John—each with his symbol, appear in these niches. Be tween the heads of each pair of niches is u small shield bearing the sacred monogram 1. 1i. S.—the Greek Jesus, the Savior of Mankind THE foundation stone of the cathe dral, which lies directly under the Itar of the Bethlehem Cf added Christmas signif it was brought from Rethlehem, in Judea, s bor p rd W - nce beca the fields where Ch ars ago. and ription Dw Among on the | granite stone—is so sacredly rega that it is not exposed to the ¢ visitor to the chapel, 2 when the clean cove t ig lifted The inscription wa of American gr place at a great serv on September 29, » congregation of 20,000 persons. 'S dent Roosevelt delivered an address | on this occasion. | The theme of the Christmas story is | ain® repeated in another form of | Christian art, the five ned glass | windows of the ambulatory (passage | around the altar). These windows por- | tray the chief scenes counected with incarnation. i The chapel windows are the gift of George B. Cluett of Troy. N. Y. In | the soft brilllance and the rich and | of these windows and the admirable | grouping of the figures the design s have carried out the high tradi- | tions of the art. The designs give the | same devotional effect s the great | medieval windows, together with the | more perfect drawing of the modern | artist. The first window represents the genealogy of Christ, in the royal line of David. It shows his mortal descent | through the generations from Adam, Eve, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Shem, Abra: ham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Ruth, Jesse | to David. | The appearance of the angels to the | shepherds of Bethlehem, announcing | the birth of Christ, is the theme of | the Gloria in Excelsis window. So | vivid is the portrayal of the incarna- | tion window that even the lanterns | carried by the shepherds in this nis- | toric scene can be traced in the win- | dow. | Other windows symbolize the an-| nunclation and the epiphany. One of | the most striking is the Nunc Dimittis | window. in _which s pacirayi Simeon's acknowledgm of 1 inlaid in a piece md w1 t ] All Details of the Bethlehem Chapel. <ection of 1 2. forming the ke nave. On ct the Virg ed on the THE BAS-RELIEF OF THE BETHLEHEM NATIVITY ING THE SCENE. CHAPEL ALTAR, SHOW- timon of 1 o the is symbolism of the chapel are Christmas hole a great tes s fundamental doctrine ¥ CHRIST CHILD WINDROW IN T the complete ts meed 1o the HLEHEM ¢ ptured we thedral Chris HAPEL. her por will s story o * { School | pert close of Its « dvice from | Agriculture | the hardy In Decemb Christmas for ! times since, no ried out timony cathedra thought fter th nic house | visits it, rovalty from | cited i princes who the sacred bloom 1919, 1 in the cathed | lighted with 1 ancient tradition epted with Iver box con the Washington he In further appreciation | dent he planted a young oa athedral close b pious n to pilg nspect over the { Mount s thors tectural a Rethlehem reason to believe that the t wil this vear, with the istmis { awakened Interest in the Ok story brought about by the between the fundamentalis modernists Constant Static. Tln-‘ Blue ook of the cal office ment stat lighting fl nd somewher: | experienc la year, or an |according to hook that in any given second there leased from the clouds inor than the world's water- pow produce In six months ) the thes shes eves out, Winter and in the world. The 5,000,000 th of 44,000 British n fh meteorologi & 1t least 10y second, v nmer worlid diny It is caleulated is re o