* \we ~ 'dochter told vez ye had something STORY OF GENESIS TRUE peeulators aad pail Merctixuts|" MUCH DISPUTED CONTROVER- SY SETTLED. -- Archacologisis at Yale Announce} Reading of Sumerian In- scription." Archaeclogiste all over the world will be interested in' an .announce- nent made that # Raliyionian votive offering cone: just' deciphered at Yale: practically settles a contro- versy that has-been waged for years among Biblical scholare, Some years ago it was asserted that the! names of the four kings mentioned in the fourteenth chapter of Gene- sis, who invaded Palestine in 'the gays of Abraham, were '"'etymologi- cal inventions of i mary charac- ters. It was held'that the entire historical background for the patri- archs stories was different from that given in Genesis. By the aid of the pick and shovel and the work of the decipherer these assertions, which had been made with the ut- most assurance, are found to be valueless, according to 'the Yale authorities, Several inscriptions of Arioch (Eri Aku) have been published, and several of his brother, Rim-Sin (or Rim-Aku). Formerly these indivi- nals were regarded as identical. And, although Thureau-Dagin o the Louvre made it reasonable that by were different persons, a num- ber of scholars still maintain. ac- cording to the Yale authorities, that they are the same. This dynastic tablet recently obtained' "for the Yale Babylonian collection, how- ever, fully determines the question, in that itsshows---that the last two kings of /Larsa were Eri-Aku and Rim-Sin' or Aku. Sons of Kudur-Mabug. These two rulers were sons of Kudur-Mabug, the Elamite, who was also suzerain of Palestine and Syria. Chederlaomer mentioned in the fourteenth chapter of Genesis, was pro bably another son, in the opinic n of the Yale authorities. Ac- cording t to Genesis, Arioch of Larsa and Amraphel of Shinar were C hed-! orlaomer's allies in the invasion. Since the reign of Rim-Aku follow- | ed that of Eri-Aku, it seem¢ to'those | who have studied the stibject that | Amraphel or Hammurapi, also! written Ammurapi, must have beea} very yowog when the invasion took | place. The fale ar hae : nee Tex av scams the son of 'an Elamite king, aceog claimed to he suzerain of Palestine and Syria. is a remarkable confir- mation of a detail in this Old Tes- fament narrative in that it furnish- | «sa reason why Arioch of Ellasar (Larsa), a son of an Ela- tare CTS NE who was mite king. was allied with Elam. Moreover it is known that Amra- vha! of Shinar was subservient to lam untel he overthrew its power in its thirty-first year. The new ch in| in seription of Ario the Yale Babylon jan collection iS a) offering ia tie form of al rick dedicated to his gud-| . or Ishtar. The Yale | inseription is written in Sumerian. | he nen-Semitie language of the} carly perwed, and being deciphered, | as follows: { } ieads "To Gonini or (Ishtar) the exalt-| lady of splendor. priestess of, ts. the e ldest daughter of the god | Sin, his lady. Uru-Aku. the favorite | Prince of Nippur. The the overseer of the cities Girsu and Shirpuria, whe is revered in (the temple) Ebabbar; king of Larsa; king of Sumer and Accad; the be- 'orcd Jord of the harvest (or hunt), et fulfills the commands; who | vt anew the temples of the zods cha had made a capper tatue of her kingship; who restores lis greatness to her overturned who truly rebuilt her wall; truly caused to be inhabited xreatly her widespread land; ex-! alted of hearts. "The warrior who turns them} back am I: to whom a wide under- peed for the conduct of the} j ty's work Ea has given; for the! eth of Jnnina, the merciful lady, } her house of splendor, the awe in-| apiring dwelling of her joyous heart, according to its old appearance, its interior be filled with light more than before; her (shrine) E-su-sig- | xa he enlarged for the future,-for! his life he built it. Its head he} reared high; like a mountain he! made it dofty. On these brilliant: deings may Innina, my lady, loo abundance of years, a well estab-! lished throne, a putting down of up-! risings, may she a gift bestow! wpon me."' The inscription is interesting to! Biblical eee: in that it belonged | to one of the kings that Abraham. | with a handful of followers, routed at night by means of strategy. poll aratihaiicanm rors Adorner of the City Ur, eolossal CIES: who as Mrs. Casey--Och, P Pat, whip the wi a Latin name to it a yar-rd jong, didn't it scare yez? Casey-- Shure an' it did, Norah. But whin he only charged me a dollar for it, Oi knew it didn't amount to much. ' men workers, /no memorial of her mistress but the educated in an RU sein FORESTS. -- "Making Them Disappear. progressing rapidly, we are told by Mr. Menehikov, of *the Novoye Vremya (St. Petersburg). The im- ets bane covered the oscow, we are told, suffered from lack of it last winter, and some public and charitable in- stitutions, such as hospitals, yng lings'. homes;"ete., were not suffi ciently heated. If one is to remem- ber that nearly the whole of Russia uses wood for heating the houses in the long winter months, the igi cance of the problem which the Government will have to face ap- pears in a true" 'light. To quote Mr. Menshikeov "For many yeras, for whole de- cades, we took no notice of the de-| struction of the forests. On the contrary, the rulling class, the no- bility, hastened to sell. out their wooded properties. rather than be compelled to sell the land. Those who scold their forests usually did so for trifling sums, giving the bro- kers an opportunity of earning 300, 500, and even 1,000 on their capital. not sell their own encouraged the destruction_of their meighbors' for- ests, wisely %supposing that the re- maining ones would rise in price. In the end the deforestation of the country assumed threatening pro- portions, and when the clamor raised by the press and learned bedi¢s and chiefly by the landed proprietors themselves became: un- bearable, the Government intro- duced a forest conservation law. But, like the majority of our laws, the conservation was left to the wil] of God. With the shrewdness of the brokers and the dishonesty of the common citizen, for centuries trained in the art of circumventing the law, forest conservation has in many amusing comedy. The destruction of the forests, even now, goes on in full blast, and the most important of elements which guard the very ' possibility of man's existence in tha North--the forests which yield fuel --are rapidly disappearing. What nberhat you say if the es he should and éY ner mow say as their ead fad Sonte firew "italy er T wust be considered just as necessary to Russia as the | Sea is to English and te mountains ty Switzerland. One may the disap pearance? that can in a large placed by brick, iron. other cons truction inaterial. But fuel in the north, in the form of fire-wood, can not be replaced."--Literary Di- rest. ° ac tema Neen ALVAREDO WAS SUSPICIOUS, A Fortune Was Hidden Wife's Old Quilt. n° His Many and varied are the ethode women have worked out to save! money. although. it is only within | ithe last 50 years that the average | woman has had to consider the | |; problem individually With the coming of the pay envelope, espe- | cially with its coming to young wo- | questions of finance | and investment have come to them. | Some amusing variations of the | broken nosed teapot as a sayi IDES | 'bank have come to light. There is the story of Pedro Alvaredo. the | 'peon millionaire" of Parral, Mex whase mines yielded silver fast that he could not spend "a though he bought pianos and Shet- land penies by the carload. and all: the metalwork in the palace that. stood where his old adobe hut had once been built was of silver. Alvaredo had no faith in banks and kept great quantities of cash in his house. Naturally much of this came into'the hands of Senora Alvaredo. The senora had a special bed quilt which always covered her at night, and was never far away in the daytime. When ,the senora died her maid went to Alvaredo and asked for the quilt. But Alvaredo was supersti- tious and disliked to give anything (away to which his Wife ha&#been so {much attached, He'Sffered the wo- ;man money instead, and. though dollars were no longer flowing in at the rate of $30,000 a day he was ;generous in the matter. But the girl insisted that she would have ico, s) quilt. Finally, Alvaredo's suspicions were aroused and he ripped the ; quilt to pieces. It eontained %30,- 000 in $1,000 "notes. Among them was a letter from tlie senora saying that she had saved the money for her iwo sons, and directing that it be put in the bank to their credit. And now the young mea are being American college upon. the interest of their morser's savings. The deforectation of Rusia is people ane ae deprived of one of the} hat ready | been the study of .| gress ofthis material, places been turned into an |: | sirability "of the Inner Mane Among fhe recent advar medical science no: re has be marked and conspicuous eases of the digestive tract, 7 larly those of¢ the stomach intestines. This has bee possible in great measure by dern methods 'of diagnosis-x m4 quantitative and positive ve been secured in various one and not the least of which He the ' 'by means of the Roel Hy rays. With the development 6f proved Roentgen ray tu LT better understanding of © meth for their use and application. realized that by filling thes or digestive tract with bx jor organs, the prog: digestion could be studied. tines it is quite usual to secure: radiograph or plate on which is Bi Scientific American 'thus dese the process.' The opacity is obtained by a m ture of bismuth or barium and termilk administered to the t under @xfémination, and the from the oesophagus in ach and is acted upon radiograph only at various of the process, although since 4 dev elopment of motion pictures 3 motion picture apparatus the cordingly was done, and to-day n diseases of the etomach and inte - can be arranged so that the stomach other devices, for its exciting, lets with the special mechanism for "1 sent constr or 50 exposures. the film is orescent ma- | feet tungstate, a'flu mary - rotary. transformer, or film Pphiig Si width and is supplied on spools which, as at pre- ucted,, ae capable of 25 'Directly nines lecated-an intensifying Setean ciikted on ite upper side with that glows brilliantly when ntgen: rays. Strik- erie when FOR A NEW IDEA. ss ---- _ Sharpe rs Tried to Steal an 5 <asaeg This it ope the eek pe gaits of London :-- ane have been asked to deri THE pest THING ithe FAIR.: I am What It Cost Zebulon: Coleman to but it is a land which has given me a welcome. hows discovered the secret of flying train. I do so gladly. @ stranger in a strange land, great w. "The secret. of the flying train did not come to me in a flash, as inven- tions eometimes come to their. crea- | tors. . i uhe _ Not Acted Upon Directly. The film itself is not acted upon by the rays which are sent out from the fluorescent 'screen. A, second with its lower the operator either directly or i means of an inclined mirror. In this way the position of the patient ' | | | | | Device for Taking Moving Pictay Stq es of the Digestive Processes of the mach. : of X-ray stomach. made to demén strate and record not only the éon dition, but its actual movements 6 gastric motor phenomena, has a appreciated and attempts at its r alization made. R t kj +, hoent or Four Pictures «a Second. Recently, as the result of wor ing on apparatus to make seria radiographs of the stomach and ini testines, a special apparatus - ha been devised by a distinguished Roentgenologist, with which it i now possible to secure true moving moving "iemonf pictures on an' ordinary sensitized film at various stages of the diges- tive process at the rate of at le four exposures a second. Thus the churning effect in the stomach ang the peristalic or pry 6 action in the intestines by which the contents: of the. alimentary tract" are adi vaneed, after being ° duly acte upon, can be studied by means motion, pictures, which, when re- produced, graphically show by the aReveelibait of the silhouetted image the action that is taking place. This new method has been made' possible in large. part by the new Coolidge Roentgen ray tube; which secures in its operation greater bility and evenness of penetration as wel? as susceptibility te' accurate réguiation, thus mare even radiographs. ~The apparatus for makin moving pictures consists apparatus observed. 'The operator} or the diagnostician can observe the process fluoroscopicaliy, and need | not start the film in motion until the decired stage is reached. When the film is developed a ser- ies of pictures is obtained where the various exposures can be studied, both individually and collectively, in connection with one another, or they may be reduced by ordinary photographic methods for reproduc- tion in the usual motion picture projection apparatus. The time of the passage of the film can be' con- trolled by the operator and other adjustments made so that the expo: sures following each other in regu- jar succession make possible a study of the peristalic action, which is a regular and- involuntary muscular contraction of the stomach, or in- testines, with a period of from, 15 to 20 seconds in the case of stomach. Not only do these motion jpictures enable some definite idea to be formed of the peristaltic ac- tion of the stomach, but they pro- mise in the future to put at the dis- posal of the diagnostician or in- vestigator, additional information deo 8 peristalls in the pylorus, or lower opening of the stomach, as well as in the upper per of the, pemalt intestine, or r duc doaum. @ One rk nswer. The actual 'effect of the-intensifying 'sereen is to emit actinic light under the influence of the Roentgen rays 4 from the tube above. | direetly by the Roentgen rays, but experiments. But all chivaigh I have been encouraged to persevere} by the feeling that one day.L should really produce. something big. The knowledge that I had to do some- thing. to support my family also spurred me on to greater efforts, for I make no secret of the fact that all through my aim has been to make all the money I can'out of my 'inventions. "I am a-Frenchman,. but I have worked in America for so long that am almost More American Than French. It was in 1893 that I started in- venting in Tacoma, in the State of Washington. My first efforts were in the direction of medica! science. I invented appliances for combat- ting disease by electro-magnetism. For twelve years I did nothing else but turn out electrical apparatus for the treatment of various ner- vous and organic bry ages My signs were adopted many heme tals and doctors, ae I could not make sufficient money out of them. "It was while experimenting with the effect of magnetic currents on blood cells that I discovered that cere pegs of blood were at- more When { Yaad: this out I IR for hours pet anyse something tha will make or ihe Hing that and oer the ne from the door, I told myself, and I] ea wondered »what I could invent-- thing practical and commercial the. had never bone produced by ahy man. The Cry of the Age. "IT was not looking for an im- provement. I was looking for basic idea, a fundamental thing, something that should be absolutely and entirely new. "Then I began to think of speed. Speed was what the world wanted, speed was the spirit of the' age. Motorcars were speed, flying ma- chines were speed. "Faster, fast- er!' was the cry of the universe. The people were shouting for speed. I thought if I could invent some- thing that' would go at a great speed I should do a great thing. Then I wondered how I could get great speed. 'At once I banished the idea of wheels from my mind; they would in the. way of tremendous I thought of every element in which my speed machine coul operate--on the ground, under the ground, op the water, under the water, and in the air.. To get great t| Stood Guara 'With Revolver When pt elet, "the inventor of the flying +, yas following 'SOR OF cE TN ees ere single drawing, | everything in my "At Mount Vernon, in New -- where I worked ten but have carried BACHELET TELLS OF SEARCH, for eharpers tried to steal. oars.) tu, and I had to work in the i tory with a revolver by my eide. Ouse tone when somebody broke in,' to use i ove Take His Wife. In an. unaccountable moment. generosity, Zebulon Coleman: ia | promised to take his* wife with him! to the fair, dhe could-not give himself _Teason for sucty a waste Anyway, he had promised, and he was in for it. When they got to the fair, Sarah' did not tag round after Zebulon as he had expected her to do. When she had learned where the differemt buildings were, she let her husband go to the trotting races, .and he ifoxhound races, and other vents that she did not care for. Sarah really found a lot of interesting things--the machinery exhibits. the homemaker's exhibits, and the rooms where they showed pictures and pieces of handwor She met several women Peeat | her own neigh- borhocd, and they attended meet- ings of the shoemaker's club. On the way home she seemed to such good spirits that Zebulon felt that the sixteen dollars was net wholly wasted. Besides, she could economize on something about the house to help make up the expense. "Well, Sarah,' he said, after supper, "what was the most inier esting thing you saw ?"' rah, face to face with the ap- palling amount of work that await- ed her return, sank down in a rock- ing-chair "The most interesting thing: T° saw, Zeb," ehe replied, "'was that shore boy. pide: t you see it over. "What do y Sarah? 'Zebulon eyes ae nig a hittle un- easily. "What was a chore boy do- in' among the machines ?"' 'Why," said Sarah, '"'it was one of those little chuffing engines nm bigger than a tub--and it ran, a washing machine at one end and a churn at the other. They had a . card on it that said, 'The c hore Bevy That Never Gets Tired.' Zebulon scraped his feet a \itile uneasily on the rag carpet. "It only cost twenty-four «ye lars,"' remarked Sarah. 'Well, we can't afford it."' said 'Zebulon, always ready to stop the first instdious advance on his bank account. *"Reckon we'll have to," said Sa- rah. "I ordered one--and itl) be hefe Saturday. Down' weit Zebulon' § NEwspaye "You ordered it?' he shouted. Sarah nodded. Vil pay for it, with the money my new oo at. weld have cost. "T didn't know you were frenm" te. have any new coat "T wasn't,"' said 'Sarah. '"Thas.+ why I took the price of it forsn cham boy.' And tet was what he ent by -spec<i 1 must eliminate friction, but | how to do it L knew not. Then at' | last the idea of magnetic repulsion on a big scale came to me. "Tf electro-magnetic waves repell- blood cells, why should they not re repel metals to such effect that, current should force a meta. y| up in the air and keep it suspende d there. thus counteracting the law of gravity 2 "T went at the thing hammer and tongs. I experimented with every metal and every coniposition of me- tal under the sun. I found that gold and silver had a engined re- tarding effect on the electric wayes, but the best for commercial pur- poses proved to Alluminum and Copper. 'Having raised my metal car in the air, F was faced with the prob- lem of propelling it through space. I thought of an ordinary air propel- Jer first, and this. I decided would be practical for passenger-carrying purposes, but for the carrying of. mails and first-class merchandise | wanted to shoot my trains through' space without any human being on, them----I wanted to send them flying, away one after the other at 300 miles an lour--each and every train to be started and stopped from a central power station or series of power r stations. q will not weary my readers by describing the many things I trie before I conceived the idea of sole- cher Ag Stine two narallel ti Poe 9 the b} lack bo: 1rd) What re- | noid electric pulling magnets to at- "That. he rrid woman Le He Sea lation are these lines toe ach éther ¢| tract the train along at gheat speed. up my home " aken away vo rd Head of the class--Tw'n "Every piece of yg, ied in the} husband'? "No, the couk. an ee oe eer ae aco tan Bari ithe | My 5 when applied from the ground <s To ale spending sixteen dollars It waotrtel Sarah a gvod time! Well, never happen again. He his throat for an explosion : then their nearest neighbor came. ts the back door. and Sarah went the kitchen. 'Well, Mrs. Coleman," heard the neighbor ask, have a good time at the fair ! "Ves,"' said Sarah's. « voice; "I did, and I'm g-& year,"' "What did you bring bagk !° aek- ed the neighbor. "Spunk !"" said Sarah, cleared but jst Zebules 'Had yoru significant "And Zebulon slowly picked up ti paper and began to figure on ie margin with the stub of a how he should get along that twenty-feur dollars. --¥.______. Graves in Spain. The average quahtity of grajes arsed annually in Spain for pr apne other. than wine is estimate? at 270,000 tons, re a of which about 77.005 tons are made into raisins, we. Nir tons of these being exportell to ter. cign countries. gar ni : he sighed' 'if you oxi? the least fig ine j sig Gracious!' interrupted the hard hearted belle, "I've beem wing you the least I ever gave tu ny " man,