The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27

is gone, and you will soon go to her.
What have l to live for? Whom to
make bread for" etc.
When the first of the grain was har-
vested in May a little pile of the new
grain was spread on the ground, and
man, with three or four women and
several children, tramped round and
round in a circle. two walking abreast,
and all singing their harvest song. The
threshing of the grain Is done in the
most primitive fashion. The stacks Of
grain, having been placed on level
pieces of ground, a man drove DON
KEYS, oxen and cows together around
and around the stacks, tramping out
the grain as it was pulled from the
stack by the helpers. 1t was notice.
able that, although the animals stoop-
ed down to snatch some of the grain,
none of them was muzzled, according
to the Biblical injunction: Thou shalt
not muzzle the OK when he treadeth
out the corn"
How the Library WINS Found.
It is a mistaken idea to think that
the desert is always oppressively warm.
It is true that often during the warm
er weather the thermometer reaches SO
by in the morning and climbs to ITO
by noon, but the winds that sweep over
the desert are frightfully chilling in
winter. even though the temperature be
not very low. The men shiver in the
trenches, and it is necessary to select
protected spots if the director would
not be cruel. In fact, it was due to
this consideration on the part of DR..
Haynes that the most important dis
covery of the campaign was made, that
of the thousands of tablets constitute
ing what is supposed to be an ancient
priestly library.
The men complained of the cold on
the exposed mound where they were
uncovering the court or columns, and
were taken to what had been called
Tablet Hill, because of the large num-
Der OF tablets found there in earlier
campaigns. They had hardly begun to
dig before the great library was dis
covered. The 900 tablets were not
arranged neatly on shelves, but buried
pell-mell in the sand.
1t was not until the campaign was
almost a year old, after more than one
| narrow escape from the treacherous
| attacks of neighboring tribes of Arabs,
| that the triumph of the campaign, and
| for that matter of the entire excava-'
ton IL Nippur, was reached by the dis
| covery of the now famous library. AL
most an entire month was required for
| the removal and packing of the tab
| let's, which had to be taken out of the
care, so as to avoid all danger of in
| jury. At the end of that time there
\ were 100 cases of tablets, the richest
! archaeological treasure ever found in
any one place at one time, ready to be
shipped to the Imperial Museum at
/ Constantinople, to which everything
must by law be sent. 1t was most un-
| fortunate that the archaeologist of the
expedition, DR.. Hilprecht, one of the
| most expert deciphers of ancient AS
syrian alive, had been delayed in Mar
| settles, and did not arrive until a
month after the last tablet had been
| packed away, so that we do not yet
! know the characters Of the tablets. The
| arrival of DIR. Hilprecht was almost
the signal for closing the campaign.
which lasted a few weeks longer and
came the preparations for the return
homeward.
There We're last visits to friendly
shiekhs and the gathering of as many
| precious memehtoes as could be taken
| away AS Mrs. Haynes looked for the
| last time at the excavations she acted
as IL she were parting from old friends.
| The greeting of the workmen had al
ways been a source of pleasure, and
| row it was to be heard no more. In
| stead there was the wailing or the
women and children as their white
friend went away and many call to
return. She had come to them with
| something of trepidation, but she went
away with feeling of genuine at
| lection for good, though lowly people,
who would long remember her, the
| only white woman they had ever
known, one whom they had learned to
| respect, and in many instances TO love.
Clifton Hardy Levy.