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» x Schaeffer, French Savant and his as- istant, Georges Cheret, found the _rulns of & palace built about 1300 B.C.--approximately the time of the exodus--and a vast necropolis with princely tombs. Although these underground tombs, #olidly built in stone, had been rav- aged and robbed several thousand years ago, they still contain many valuable indications of the religious rites of those who built them. But 'he most remarkable discovery of the archaeologists was a library of "about sixty tablets, found on the grounds of the palace. Some of the tablets, written in Babylonian cunei- - form signs--the diplomatic language of that time--were letters from Egyp- - tan pharoahs to the princes of that mysterious town whose name the savants have not yet discovered. ~Bome others were the inventory of the King's treasuries. World's First Alphabet % But the most interesting among them have not yet been deciphered, as they were written in what is believed to be the world's first alphabet. Twen- ty-six or twenty-seven letters could be discerned in it, but it probably will be some time before the experts "in old alphabets identify the Sounds these letters represent. Tha excava- tions in Ras Shamra will be continu- ed next spring--spring being fhe only geason when digging in Syria is pos- sible--and it is probable that many other discoveries of equal historic value will be made. On that site evidently existed a large town, pos- sibly an Aegian colony, that was a center for trade with Egypt and ancl ent Greece and Cyprus, No less interesting than M. Schaef- fer's report was the communication made at the academy, by Count du Mesnil du Buisson on his digging at Katna in the middle Syrian desert. The town of Katna has long been known to historians, but no one could indicate its location. Advised five years ago by a Jesuit missionary, the archaeologist explor- ed part of the desert near Mishrife, 'where an accumulatio of sand indicat- ed the possibility of finding an under- ground town, ad Count du Mesnil un- earthed there, after several expedi- tions, the ruins of three towns built _one over the other. The first, of which only the gates could be discov- ered until now, had existed in the third millenium B.C.--before Abra ham's time. The second had been built about 2300. B.C. and' destroyed by invaders in 1375 B.C., and the third was evidently of the Neo-Babylonian era, with its maximum of prosperity under Namuchodonosor's reign. It is the second town that supplied the diggers with the most interesting discoveries. Under the deep bed of sand they found a temple to the God- dess Nin-Egal, "Lady Ef Katna," as the inscription on ome of the walls | sald, 'This inscription identified the town as Katna, éne of the greatest ities of antiquity. In the . temple Count du Mesnil found two chapels where sacrifices were made to Nin-Egal. In large basins of clay were still seen the traces of a brownish. substance, which after analysis by Paris police experts identified as-bull's blood at least But the blood-thirsty goddess was not satisfied with animal sacrifices. In the foundations of her temple lay wo vases and a jar containing skele- ons of ho had been immol- Easily tired? Run down? Try the effect of two or three boxes of Dr. Wil- a handicap instead of an About the best way for a young fel low to stand in with his girl is to stand out with her ma. Why Cain Klille'l' Abel 'Im going to Adam and Eve's Place." "Adam and. Eve's place? 1 never heard of that. Where is it?" +4281 Apple" Isn't it aggravating the way you can sleep late every morning except Sun- {day when you don't have to get up early? "The new baby had extraordinary lung power. One day the baby's brother, little Johnny, said to his mother: "Ma, Mttle brother came from Heav- en, didn't he?" > "Yes, dear." | "Johnny was silent for a minute, and then he went on: "Mom; 1 don't blame the angels for 'getting rid of him, do you?" Utilitarian Pets The cat tribe, which spends most of its time in sleeping, strolling in the sun, and nocturnal choir practice, will undoubtedly view with alarm an ad: vertisement that recently appeared in the newspapers of Manchester, Eng- land. It reads: "Cat wanted in city warehouse, 6 6pm. to 9 a.m. each day, Owner to deliver and collect. Five shillings per week and carfare." The advertisement was inserted by a firm engaged in the blouse and cos- tume business. Poison having failed to kill oft rats overrunping the ware house, the hereditary enemy of the rodents is being called upon. To cats it will appear as the thin edge of the to enlist essential esthetics ranks of commerce." Their only consolation lies in the knowledge that dogs are not escaping. These animals are being hired out in the west end of London to match wo- men's dresses. Large black and white dogs are in great demand to go with the magpie two-piece costumes being designed for Ascot, and brindle-color- ed dogs are very popular, as they go well with country clothes, In line with this utilization of pets, and bearing in mind the insect epi- demic that summer usually brings in its train, residents of New York might find it profitable to adopt anteaters to be hired out by the hour, day or week. --Rex Hunter. in the Sg An old eolored woman went to the dentist and began to yell as soon as he put the forceps in her mouth. "What are you yelling for; you know Im a painless dentist," he sald. "Maybe you're painless but I ain't," she sobbed. LUXO FOR THE HAIR wedge, the first move in a campaign | | We: ©. Hall, Montreal; Chas, J. Tidy, Toronto... wie the | by the latest gitt that the Executive Some seem to believe they have sufficient will power to gossip or leave it alone. A girl can stand for a man with a past if he has good presents. The honeymoon is over when she looks sloppy around the house and he doesn't give a darn. * The meek little man was walking from the funeral of his big and mas- terful wife. Suddenly a dislddged slate whirled down and landed with a resounding crack on his head. "Gosh!" he murmured, looking up. "Sarah must have reached Heaven al- ready." Crops are so good this year the farmers may make nearly enough to pay the interest on what they owe. Does your son Josh ever come back to visit you since he got in the mov- les at Hollywood?" "Bvery summer," answered Tuttle, proudly; "every summer of the three years he's ben gone." "And did he bring his wife with him?" "Each time," she"answered. "And they were three as purty girls as you ever laid eyes on." "Here's something queer," sald the dentist. "You say this tooth has never been worked -on before, but I find small flakes of gold on my in. strument," "I think you have struck my back collar button," moaned the victim, En rin Judges ' The following: will be judges in the named classes at' next November's Royal Winter Fair:-- Seeds, all grain--J, B. Blakeman, ipeg; W. J. W. Lennox, Toronto; Prot. W, J, Squirrels, Guelph, Lo Fruit, in bles (eavept James McKee, Ottawa, Floriculture, Cat Blooms--P. Breit. Potatoes)-- | myer, Detroit, Mich. , Floriculture, Plants and Groups-- would-1 have to give] them by making the highest average the right to the scholarships awarded KEEP CHILDREN WELL DURING HOT WEATHER Every mother knows how fatal the hot summer months are to small children. ~ Cholera infantum, diarr- hoea, dysentry, colic and stomach troubles are rife at this time and often a precious little life 1s lost after only a few hours {llness. The mother who keeps Baby's Own Tab- lets In the house feets safe. The oc- casional use of the Tablets prevent stomach and bowel troubles, or If trouble comes suddenly--as it gener- ally does--the Tablets will bring the baby safely through. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Oh the Arabian Sea To our right were the ocher-colored mountains of Baluchistan, almost in. visible against the clear sky, like the shadows of an even greater range be- hind them. Although my niemory of charts told me that we could have saved time by cutting directly across the Arabian Sea to Sohar, the helms- ma nlaid his course within sight of those pale mountains, to be prepared to run in, I thought, in case a shimal blew up. Thus we were follgwing an ancient route, the same that the ships of Nearchus had taken after the con- quest of India; the same over which countless thousands of richly laden vessels had traveled to Bagdad in the days of the Caliphs. The ships of Cyrus and Pahlavi had skirted these mountains! perhaps Sinbad, himself, had taken refuge beneath the calm of their barren peaks. I followed in the shadows of the great, yet only the encompassing majesty of sea and mountains gave caupe for exultation, A school of marvelous spouting whales frolicked to the south, their course always betrayed by the glisten- jg flocks of seabirds that followed them. We passed over ocean that was made red by swarms of almost imperceptible protozoan forms, like peridinium, that floated in clouds beneath the surface. We came upon great yellow turtles swimming with their heads above water. Once, a huge fellow, covered with barnacles and seaweed, swam directly toward us. Three yards from the bow he be- gan to sink; and from the high after- deck I could see him sinking through the clear green water until he was no larger than a twenty-dollar gold plece, On the fourth day from Karachi the wind calmed down to such an extent that we scarcely moved. We must have been over a reef, for the bottom of the sea was spotted with huge white and black patches that looked be sand and gigantic marine growths, Schools of bright fishes swam benéath us, and occasionally a large fish, like a grouper, would zig, | zag among- them like a grumpy old man. looking for something. --From a Rees, | "The Great Horn Spoon," by Bugene Wright. mm erent . Potato Prize The Royal Winter Fair, desirous of varying its awards in order to add in- trinsic value as well as interest to the winners, welcomes the form taken has acknowledged. The NV, Potash Export My. Montreal, has donated a J solid gold watch, suitably engraved, | for the best % bushel of certified r Falr to be held in Toronto on Canadian Pacilc Railway scholarships, covering five years' tuition at McGill University have been awarded to C. P. Sturdee, (left), son of E. F. L. Sturdee, assistant general passenger agent; and William P. Dunlop, son of John Dunlop, in the pension department of the railway. These young men|' 10.| have both done brilliant work in their respective school careers and closed entrance to the university. As minor sons of C.P.R, employees they won 3nd exhibited at the Royal Win-| in the: matriculation examination for them. History and Doctor Johnson He had no opinion of history. Once when Charles James Fox insisted on talking to him of the Catilinarian conspiracy, he "withdrew his atten- tion and thought about Tom Thumb." The study of history, he argued, was not a valuable study, for we "know nothing but a few facts and dates." "The colouring was conjectural," he added. It is the opinion of Boswell that he made this remark primarily to an- noy Gibbon, who happened to be present. Whether that was his motive or not, the remark raises a very in- teresting and debatable point. His- tory, it has been said, is philosophy teaching by example, and the only trouble seems to be that, if you ORANGE normal man. The normal man does uot take kindly to history. His objec- tion to it is that it does not men- tion him.--Christopher Hollis, in "Dr. Johnson," § oh ----e---- Mistake After the letters, the nocturnal trials, The melancholies the stubborn clutch of breaths,™* =>7 After the useless beauty of denials, The gods heard my pathetic crew of triumph; For she was mine--and wished that she were Death's. And now 1 know that there is no believing One's own Soul, which can lie with willing lps; While she, poor girl, thought that I was decelving Only herself.. Gods! is there no way of seeing The price beforehand of these slips? --8. Foster Damcn in the Atlantic Monthly. rf a------ Ways and Means J. L. Garvin, in the London Ob- server (Ind.): The fate of this Parlia- ment and the whole battle of the fu- ture will turn on' finance and nothing else. Mr. Snowden has to find the money for all the plans of his co- leagues. He has to satisfy a party which believes crudely, but fervently, in the £1,000,000,000 Budget and in little select your examples with a little skill, there is no limit to the philoso- phies which can use history to bolster themselves up.... I think that on the whole history did more harm in Johnson's day than it does in this. It had not then been found out. In the eighteenth century - you might say, "History teaches us," and then pretend that all history was but an extended ex- ample of some pet little fad of your own. If only you wrote well enough you might even be believed. And the period of history to which Johnson particularly objected was that of republican Rome, to which it was then the fashion to appeal for fan- tastic examples of civic excellence. "I know not," he wrote, "why any- one but a schoolboy in his declama- tion should whine ever the common- wealth of Rome." The collapse of the two large hopes of the French Revolution and the ebs and flows in the fashions of his- tory have made us a little more scep- tical than was the generation of Johnson, though not nearly sceptical enough. History can to-day teach us at least one great lesson. We learn from history that there is very little to be learnt from history, We learn from it also, if we are wise, a decent scepticism concerning political pana- ceas. There has never been a Golden Age. ...For, under any constitution, power must be put into the hands of men; and men abuse power. All these things Johnson knew very well. He know them so well that he did not need history to teach them to him. Anr his objection, I fancy, was not really so much to history as to historians. He knew that hu- man natre rir not change. He ob- jected to the historians who told him that it did."All history," it has been said, "is a history of one's own cen- tury." Johnson was doubtless igno- rant of the acidents of the past.... of what its men were like, he had far too keen a sense to be willing to spend much time in learning what the present said about them. He was avid to study "modes of life" It was only that small part that "kings or lords can cause or cure" which he found tedious. He, more almost than any other person, was the type of the pL Just a tasteless dose of Phillips' Alific-of Magnesia in water. Thai is an alkalf, effective, yet harmless. It has been the standard antacid for 50 {ihe unlimited social dividend for the ,sular Have-nots ut the expense of the Haves, This theory put into practice means the appalling folly of a suicidal island, utterly dependent on its rela- tions wit ha capitalistic world. It would attack investment, restrict trade, and spread unemployment. It is the Achilles' heel through which in. Socialism invites its death. wound. r------------ Keep Minard's Liniment always handy mse} t-- A man lent a friend a book, "How to live to be a hundred." Meeting a little later, the friend told the lender that his wife was reading the book in all the spare time she had. The lender was delighted. A month later they met again, and the lender again inquired about his friend's wife, "She's doing wonderful," replied the friend. "She looks over a hundred now, and she isn't fifty yet." is goo PEKOE is extra good . . 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