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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-04
An Eskimo Legend of the Raven.

All AAho Ice Gnu VI inc naNcns
The following fable of how the raven
became black is common to every Es-
kimo household: Once upon a time (all
their stories begin in this way the owl
and raven were fast friends. Indeed,
they We're so intimate that they spent
most of their time together and had
things in common. like brother and sis
ter.
One day the raven made a dress of
dapple white and black for the owl,
and the latter, not to be outdone in
generosity, made a pair of nice whale
bone boots and presented them to the
raven and, not content with this, went
to work upon a white dress. When
the raven was asked to try 1T ON, she
merrily ran and skipped about and re-
fused to sit still.
BE quiet a little while" cried the
owl angrily. eff you don't, will spill
the lamp over your
But the raven paid no attention to
the threat and continued to tease the
owl.
At last, in his veXation, the owl dash
ed the sooty oil in the lamp over the
white suit of the raven and cried out,
"Qua quar-
From that day the unfortunate raven
has worn a black coat.-San Francisco
Call
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-04
Is at last blessed
Oil with first-clas
HOTEL

The Fuel Compsny's new hotel at
pu bile on May 18th. Spacious, new and
hand omely furnished rooms have been
added, and guests have tire choice of
either American or European service.
Short order service at all hours, aud
we'll stocke d lunch counter with all the
delicacies OF the season awaits the
weary traveller directly opposite the
depot MA CHUCK, Proprietor,
Captain, New Mexico.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-04

have baby as well as yourself salts
fed by getting him the gocsrt that
gives him all the comfort he needs.
They are the kind with the sleeping
feature and at Emerson & Berrien's.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-06

She was seen frequently with Otero,
the contrast between Otero's gypsy love-
Illness and the fair-skinnned Cayalieri
with violet eyes and red-brown hair, be-
ing particularly effective.
One night Prince Henri of Orleans went
to the Folies Bergere. The next night
he. went again, and from that time on he
had no eyes for any woman save the
little Italian, who was recognized as the
most beautiful woman in her world if not
Of her time. Reports vary as to the
measure of the regard which La Cava-
leri entertained for the Prince.
1t is plain that she welcomed his at
tentions, but equally certain that she
was in love for a time at least with NJ.
Felicien Champsaur, the talented French
author. Indeed, it was on account of NJ.
Champsaur that capricious Cavalier
once replsed the Prince she has since
married
81 love Felicien more than I do thee"
she wrote Prince Bariatinsky. "Oh,
noble prince of great land, I mean to
be his wife, and thy constant attend
ance upon me and these carriages, horses
and country seats might lead Felicien to
suppose that allis not right between
jealous man."
Nevertheless Cavalier forgot Felicien
and was exceedingly interested in Prince
Henri of Orlenas when the Russian re-
sumed his efforts to capture her extreme
ly hayward fancy. All Paris was watch
ing this time to see which would win. 1t
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was believed that the singer loved Or
leans, but then Baria tincsky has great
estates in Russia, name that for gem
erations had been heard in the Russian
courts, a great fortune and a handsome
face
And about this time, Cavalier wrote
in a letter:
How different all seems to woman
who really loves, and what inducement
to do we'll when she finds that in her
life good, upright man he's become in
terested, man who is. willing to guide
her and whose respect she desires to
win
The next sensation in Paris was that
the Prince and Cavalieri had eloped. He
had proudly borne his beauty away to
Russia. Paris was heartbroken
They soon come back, however. and
settled down in the most admirably do
nestle fashion in a house of their own
Cavalier. the vaudeville beauty, had dis
appeared. There was only Princess Ba-
riatinsky, the grande dame, than whom
none seemed more perfectly TO the man
ner borne.
1t was very amusing for a time, the
life of luxury and almost boundless
wealth, but the charm OF the footughts
proved still great, and the Prince hav-
ing been won over, the. Princess secretly
made preparations to return to the stage.
and her triumph here is the result 1t
is said that she will go almost immedi-
ately 10 Paris, where a stormy welcome
awaits her
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La Cavalieri's return to the stage at
] Naples according to a special cores
pendent of the New York World. is the
sensation of the week For year past
this beautiful woman the Iovliest in
Paris. many thought her. the favorite
singer of the Folies Bergere. the mirac-
alously- gifted young creature whose
mother was a washerwoman and who
was adored simultaneously by a duke and
a prince has lived in the comparative
obscurity Of the Avenue du Bots de Bou-
logne as wife Of the distinguished Russian
Prince Bariatinsky.
People said that because Of the wish Of
her husband she had left the stage for
ever-that the prestige of 1.-THE great
beauty of the vaudeville world was fore
gone for the splendor of court life in
Russia and an income Of nobody knows
how many hundred thousand francs.
So Paris was led to believe that she
had lost La Cavalieri. ana Paris wept
Suddenly n few weeks ago it was
rumored here that the Princess, finding
that her love for the stage was not so
easily to be put aside, had changed her
mind.
And when a few nights since she ap-
peared more radiant than ever as Mimi
in Puccini's opera La Boheme." she was
greeted with a tumult Of admiration and
delight Naples, proud that Cavalier is
of Italian birth, fairly lost its head over
her. And the most delighted person in
the house was la Cavalieri's adoring
husband the millionaire aristocrat,
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Mrs. Holmes had been allowed to go to
New York one day to spend the night
with her niece. When she returned the
next day the house was empty. All the
furniture of any value was gone. Three
or four pieces. besides the wretched fur
niture of the attic, were left
DR.. Holmes and Mrs. Hahn had bought
tickets for Philadelphia They were lost
in the crowd at the Broad Street Station
A warrant was issued for DR.. Holmes
arrest on the charge of abandonment
If he should wander back to the place
that has been his home for fifty years
this erstwhile society leader will be
lodged in Jail to answer the charge of
wife desertion.
1t was not the gentle. silyer-haired wife
who was his Nemesis. 1t was a woman
of stronger frame and face. One who re-
sem5led him, Annie Woodruff, his sister.
1T took me good many years u
find out how matters stood. Ny sister
in law tried to hide their disgrace. and
of course. the guilty ones did. She was
always allowed 10 receive me in the par
Tor. And 1t was only one day when I
insisted up on going TO her room and
her to the attic that I guessed
the truth. She stubbornly refused 10 tell
why she had moved Up there and why she
no longer ate ct the table with her hus-
band and the housekeeDer.
But I put the facts together piece by
piece. Then / talkeu with my BROTHER
He would not be pRrsuaded 70 say a
word. I demanded that he send away
the housekeeDer. He refused.
y told the story to the governors OF
the Memorial Hospital They dropped
him from the STAFF The story got out
and he lost his practice
1--WE viii probably never see him again
I hope not I could never forget his
treatment Of his wife. nor that he broke
my fathers and mothers hearts"
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proofs under stones has been a favo-ife
means OF establishing faiths; even the
Book Of Mormon % our 0sa times was
discovered in that way
Twenty years ago 7 first had cause
to investigate the story q these letters
A. thst tine they were printed IN fac
siHiie upon Cardboard ard put On sale.
The iranslztiorS. II substance the sane
as has been reported. accompanied ms
reRToslcti3ns. Since that tine at least
.pncs in five years, s31efo9y. somewhere
mas proved by some means taat ire cd
story ~ Eusehius was true
Or. HERR x johnson found only an1zes-
nent Il the TRANSACTIONS.
The pasraseoiogy marks them as fraud
uleat,- he said Theirs car ee 70 trrth
n them
The whole story Is ar.isious sid
The Res. Dr. : y R0nd,az.s- II = Is
aos enough 20 ani no account x ca-asts
eEer having written aytaing, the trial a
coaun1es o. Flftesata Page
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to

proved now BY the discovery OF an in
scription on the gate way Of an old
palace at Eaahesus.'
The nature OK this inscription is not
given, but no matter what il may be-
it can be doubted from the fact that
WI Paul visited Ephesus as a disciple
Of Jesus he had hard work TO set away
alive. As 4 matter Of fact. Eusebius
was a gossipy and credulous historian.
From all that can be gathered he was
especially the victim OF the Edessian
Christians, who sought 10 trace their be-
lief back 10 the personal Christ. Il was
in the year 209 4. D. that these EdeS-
slams are supposed 10 have manufactured
the two letters. Il Is accepted that Thsd-
deus did pay visit TO A5garus. and out
Of this circumstance the zeal OF the Edes-
SLAMS grew.
When Euseoius took up the story in
$40 A d. MS contemporaries disputed
the truth of these letters. St. Augustine
and St Jerome have insisted that Christ
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Prince Bariatnsky.
In Paris and here in Italy, La Cava-
lieri.s romantic story is well known But
she has yet experienced, it may be, for
the sake of her more distant admirers.
worth retelling.
Something over twenty years ago this
almost faultlessly beautiful child was
born into a family of Roman peasants,
who made no effort to develop little Lina's
tuneful voice This could heartily have
been otherwise, for the child's mother
was a washerwoman and her father sold
newspapers about the streets of Rome.
They were all very poor and very busy.
and the child with eyes like stars grew
up unnoticed till a rich lady of one one
day decided to take the pretty child TO
Paris and have her taught to sing.
The rest followed as a matter of
course. In six months all Paris was ask
ing who she was. The little peasant girl
who looked as though she might have
some of a line of duchesses and who sang
with what the French call voice Of
gold" was in less than a year the queen
of light opera and one of the most ad-
mired women on the stage.
Simultaneously La Cavalieri began to
develop a taste for fine things. 1t be
came her ambition literally to cover her
self with diamonds of great size and
brilliancy. Her gowns were marvels, and
soon it same about that wherever she
went her costumes and jewels were faith
fully reported to listening Paris.
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appearance, and upon these subjects she
was mute.
Mrs. Holmes was surprised to find Mrs.
Hahn thus installed. But she was meek
little woman, grieved to submission by
the loss of her mother Her protest was
faint one.
u don't think we need a housekeeper,
William, she said
you will find Mrs. Hahn charming and
her services valuable" replied the Doc
tor. closing the discussion.
Far from being charming, Mrs. Holmes
found Mrs. Hahn a woman of violent
temper. IN a little difference of opinion
at the table one day Mrs. Hahn hurled
a dish at Mrs. Holmes.
Mrs. Holmes appealed to her husband
"Win you allow her TO treat ME So.
she asked. rs she not a servant?"
Or. Holmes walked to the window and
answered not a word. Mrs Hahn
laughed. That afternoon Mrs. Holmes
personal effects were moved TO the attic
and there she has lived for fifteen years.
My husband allowed me two dollars a
week for my support Often he failed to
give that, and the neighbors. who guessed
that there was trouble. but learned it
through no word of mine, used to bring
me food. Such giving is not systematic.
1 have known hunger and cold up there
in the attic. But never told my hus-
hand nor the woman in their luxurious
quarters below. Perhaps the woman kept
the money from me. don't know. I
always blamed her more than him. He
was kind to me until he met her.
Il was seldom allowed to leave the
house. 1t all depended upon her whims.
Sometimes she was afraid I would talk
70 the neighbors about the way I was
treated. She need not have feared. I
would rather have torn out my tongue.
would not be telling it now but could
no longer keep the secret"
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did not leave a single writing behind
him. in the New TeStiment there is no
mention OF his ever having written
Professor Albert Llspsins OF the Uni
versity OF Jena has made studied re-
search into the history o. this CORES
pondence and has pronounced II fictitious
He traced the story Of Il to EuSebit,s
found it repeated N early Armenian H.
erature ana frequent evidences Of ii az
ter the fourth century. Dupin. putting L
mildly, has SAID that Ensebius was too
easy q belief LaTdner says thar the
correspondence was only action o. the
Odessa Christians
The dnding Of the MSS in question
was nearly seventy years after the death
OF Christ. Whsn these letters were sup
posed 70 have been exchanged Christ was
unknown outside % & small territory
Then. papyrns vas used In oorrespoa-
denee. and after seventy years under a
stone 4 = hard 20 besieye the lettering
would BE legI6ls- This asdiag 0. sueA
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Archaeologisfs Excavat-
ing Ancient City

prosperity before Bel and Belt. Set a
life of many days as my lot and make
my dominion from as heaven and earth.
And as to my dear brother, Samas-sun-
ukin, King of Babel. grant that his days
may be long and that he may be satisfied
woth dowarm htsechtmh. hmtsechrhppp
with many successors. Whoever crafty
grasses my name or the name of my dear
brother, or breaks my inscription, or
changes its place, may Nin-mach i'm
plore misfortune for him before Bel and
Belt, and wipe out his name and his
seed forever from the landr'
Under date of February 10, 1900, Dr.
Koldewey adds the latest information
about further discoveries: II have not
found in any of the excavations he
says, "any old buildings or traces Of
them There are some remains from the
time 70 Nebuchadnezzar, such as the
great Hittite stele. but wherever we dig,
and we are now ten feet below the level
of the Euphrates we find seals of the
time Of Neblthadnezzar, but nothing
of more ancient date. The oldest that
can be yet assigned is the lower part Of
the temple to Istar which goes back to
SardanapaIus, and even around the cyl
inder of Sardanapalus were tablets Of
Nebuchadnezzar It is probably that the
older buildings will be found when we
reach the southeastern part of the
mound.
1T seems daily more certain that the
entire Kasar was a new suburb built by
Nebuchadnezzar and his father. and that
the long line Of rulers who preceded them
lived in some other part of the city. It
seems that Amran, as the Arabs call an
other mound here, IS the most likely spot,
for it alone of all the mounds is high
enough TO hold the ruins which we have
a right to expect On the surface is
layer of gravel of late date, but of what
is beneath we know nothing at all. This
hill is to be the next point of attack,
and we shall work with even larger
force than hitherto. In the course of the
excavations various fragments of eyliu-
ders have been found, as we'll as statu-
cites of different Babylonian deities. Al
ter searching for the palace Of Nebuchad-
nezzar beyond the East Canal the rest
of the mounds will be excavated."
The results of the excavation are now
considered merely Introductory to the far
older and more precious finds to come.
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by the advice OF the leading scholars,
based upon the descriptions of Babylon
| found in other cities, gives some faint
idea of the magnificent architecture Of
, the capital of the south. In the latest
! report from DR.. Koldewey, just sent TO
the society in Berlin, is a plan, not only
of the east canal which he has discovered
, and traced out, but also of an entire
temple, dedicated to Ninmach and called
Emach.
1.-THE court, in which there is well, ="
says he, sis surrounded by rooms. Doors
| lead from the court to a series of large
chambers, the walls of which are lib
orally ornamented There is double
tile pavement in the court and the rooms.
i A space of six and a half feet lies be-
tween the two pavements, and in this
strange store chamber some fifty in
scribed tablets have been found, contain
ing the names and wages paid 10 the
men engaged in the building Of the tenn
pie. The lists are dated, giving day.
month and year of the reign of Nebu-
chadnezzar and Evilmerodach.
Most important of all the finds was
a cylinder in Assyrian. written in the
, Maine OF SclUdIldp1ibSs LIZ -ASASoAA~-
translates it thus:
"Assur-bani-pal, the great King. the
nightly King, the King Of the World,
the King of Assyria the King Of the four
ends of the earth, the King of Kings,
the peerless Prince, who rules from the
upper sea to the lower sea, and treads
all lower kings beneath his feet; the son
of Asarhaddon. of the great King, Of
the mighty King, of the King of the
Wirld, of the King Of Assyria, Of the
Lord of Babel, the King of Sumner and
Akkad; Grandson of Sanherib, the mighty
King King of the World, King Of As
syria am l.
II completed the building of Esagla,
which my father, my begetter, did not
finish, and the gifts for offerings of
Esagila and for the divinities Of Babel
1 established well, and the government
of Babel l made firm. So that power
might not harm the weak I have in
trusted the dominion Of Babel TO my
beloved brother, Samas-sun- ukin. At the
same time / re-establshed E-mach, the
Temple of the Goddess Nin-mach, in the
midst of Babel. Do thou, o Sublime
Nin-mach, look down with favor upon
my pious deeds and daily beseech my
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Chicago, May 5.-Londin's sensational
discovery az the authenticity Of two leg
tiers exchanged between King Agri2pa
and Jesus Christ has been received with
something more than mental reservations
by practically eli the clergy IA Chicago.
Bishop Thomas Bowman of New York.
however regards the discovery as i'm
portant and considers 1t a clear oonfr-
nation OF the scriptures. DR.. E. J Cray
surmised that the story was concocted
specially for the Methodist Conference.
Mccormick Theological Seminary.
through President Herrick Johnson. dis
missed the story as an absurdity. while
Or. James 5 Stone of ST. James Enisco-
pal church recognized II as an Old le-
send that has been coming Up for years.
1T has become almost respectable in
its Gntruth. said Or. Stone Time and
agar individuals have reached out for
the confirmation Of the existence Of these
letters Bat story that was disputed
when Eusebius wrote it hardly VIII be
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AT WORK ON BABYLON - Arshas

At no time in the history of archaeo-
logical exploration, says the New York
Herald, have greater results been
achieved in a short period than by the
German expedition now at work on the
mound which holds the remains of
ancient Babylon, most famous city of
ancient times. Excavations began only
at Easter of last year. and aleady much
of the great wall and an entire temple
have been uncovered. together with
large number Of tablets and other monu-
aents of interest and value The Arabs
called this huge mound ''Kasr'' (citadeD
because some Of the tops of the great
ziggurets or step towers, project above
the accumulation Of the debris of ages.
The explorers, led by DR.. Koldcwey.
have already proved that this is indeed
The city Of Babylon, for in 1t has been
found the marvellous wall of which Hero
dotus spoke so highly that many doubted
the exactness of his information. He
visited the city in the time of Artaxerxas
L., and wrote that it was surrounded by
. wall MY royal els WIDE (elghky-
four feeD high. and two hundred els
tSS6 feeD high, and that on top OF this
wall on each side were one story houses,
leaving space between the houses so
broad that four chariots could drive
abreast on the wall
This extraordinary wall was the first
thing the explorers found, but it was even
larger than it had been said to be by
Herodotus. The outer retaining wall was
2Sl9 feet thick. made of baked bricks,
laid with asphault. next to which came
a filling of sand and gravel 60 feet thick,
and then the other retaining wall, Il
feet thick, making the entire structure
1861 feet broad. II was also found that
many Of the bricks of the wall and its
citadels were beautifully colored, as had
been stated by Oiodorus.
And behind this wall lay Babylon, the
city Of Nebuchadnezzar and Sardanapalus
Or Assur-bani-pal as he is called in the
Assyrain inscriptions-the city that held
palaces and temples built when Babylon
ruled the civilized world. There were
the far famed hanging gardens.
1t is into these magnificent buildings
that DR.. Koldewey and his Arab work
men have now made their way. An en-
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life

A woman in Orange, n. J., is the
heroine Of story that any melodramitist
in the yorld would discard as improbable,
even impossible.
She has played the role of a supplanted
vic, nleekly and in silence for fifteen
years
She has lived alone in the attic Of her
own house while her rival occupied the
lpa-lor floor.
She has come into the house by the
back door because it displeased the other
woman TO see her come in by the front.
She has eaten the leftover bits OF
meat and the vegetables that were not
good enough for her husband and his
ner' mate.
She was not allowed to carry key
and she must rap before she could enter
her own home.
Her little attic rooms were despoiled
to make her rivals rooms still more al
tractive.
She lived on 81 a week, grudgingly
Civ by her husband. and sometimes
on the charity Of friends
Virtually a prisoner in her own home.
Mrs. Holmes. wife Of Dr. William J.
Holmes. never spoke word Of complaint
against her husband
Why?
Ii is interesting to note the intricate
workings of this one woman's heart
First because she knew exposure would
ruin him.
Second. because she hoped he would
'4get over his infatuation.''
jThird because she did not know how
10 support herself il she left him.
! For these three reasons she submitted
An silence to humiliation and degradation
fhat have come to few woman.
Mrs. Holmes is a slight, sweet-faced
(silver-haired woman OF siNty-six.