The sun., 1902-04-27

earthed by Hazam and photographed and
eighteen graves opened. The kitchen IA
built OF bricks twenty inches square: the
noor and portion Of the walls are intact
The flrepot made Of bricks Is perfectly
| good and shows the marks Of fire.
Almost every day new tablets were dis
covered, and as these are the buJks of an
clent Babylonia, they are considered OF the
| highest value. From them may be learned
much Of the business and the social life OF
| ancient times. Here are contracts between
| bankers and farmers for loans, marriage
contracts, and the documents of the entire
j. NE e. OF highly civilized people who lived
! 5000 years or more ago.
| One OF the most exciting incidents Of the
time IL thus told by Mrs. Haynes.
| Just about sunset one Sunday ] was
| sitting in the court Of our house, while
| Mr.. Haynes was busy with his accounts
when / heard commotion outside, but
| before ] realized that II really meant some
| thing, a hareheaded Arab with his face all
| covered with blood from a cash in his head
staggered into the court and dropped
/ down almost at my feet
Il rushed upstairs after Mr.. Haynes, who
| went at once to the door to prevent other
| Arabs from coming in. Several, however,
| had followed the wounded man in, and the
whole party was screaming and gesticulat-
ing as If each one were wildly determined
that Beg should hear his side of the story
! only
"in the meantime the frantic efforts
| OF the man to get up and get AT Abad el
| Mohammed told us that he was the man
who had done the deed. The Turkish
| Commissioner tried TO arrest Abad, but
| refused to let him go, and in trying to pro-
tect him pushed the Commissioner with
such force that he tumbled over back
ward.
DR.. Haynes afterward settled the matter
satisfactorily. but this is only one of the
trying experiences to which his wife was
exposed few days later she had trouble
with the cook. DR.. Haynes reproved him.
and in serving the tea that night he brought
up on the tray. beside the tea, Bible and a
| large butchers knife
This was an open threat to do violence
and II is not surprising that Mrs. Haynes
did not sleep well that night On the next
morning the cook was sent away.
One night Or. Haynes and his wife were
awakened at midnight by n din They
found that the daughter Of one of the work.
men had died, and the mourners had as
sembled to weep and wall with the mother.
All of the women clapped their hands on
their breasts and walled in chorus:
| Your daughter is gone; where have you
put her? What have you done with herp
/ want to 60 with her. She was a chaste
and comely maiden with long and flowing
| locks.
J The mother gave expression TO her grief
In the form Of loud screams, howls and
walls. She repeatedly called upon her
husband, saying:
Your daughter is gone. and YOU will
soon 60 TO her. What have | to live for2
Whom do l make bread for &c.
When the first Of the grain was harvested
In May a little pile Of the new grain was
spread on the ground, and a man, with
three or four women and several children,
tramped round and round in a circle, two
walking abreast, and all singing their har-
vest 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 donkeys, oxen and
COWS together around and around the
stacks, tramping out the grain as it was
pulled from the stack by the helpers II
was noticeable that although the animals
stopped 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 tho
corn"
II is a mistaken idea TO think that the
desert is always oppressvely warm. 1t
ia true that often during the warmer
weather the thermometer reaches Ss by
@ A. NJ, and climbs to ll0 by noon, but
, the winds that sweep over the desert are
chilling in winter, even though the tenn
perature be not very low.
The men shiver in the trenches, and II is
would 90 Sot cTue P1 fact
was due to this consideration on the part
Of DR.. Haynes that the most important
discovery Of the campaign was made, that
| oil the tnOuSanOR OF ldDitlt COnHtliullIik
what is supposed to be an ancient priestly
library.
The men complained Of the cold on the
exposed mound wherSthey were uncover
ing the court or columns, and were taken
to what had been called Tablet Hill because
of the large number of tablets found there
in earlier campaigns. They had hardly
begun to dig before the great library wat
discovered The 5000 tablets were moi
arranged neatly on shelves, but buried
| pell- NELL, in the sand.
Ii was not until the work had gone on
for almost year, after more than one
narrow escape from the treacherous attacks
Of neighboring tribes Of Arabs that the
triumph Of the expedition, and for that
matter Of the entire excavation Of Nippur
was reached 10y the discovery Of the now
famous library. Almost an entire month
was required for the removal and packing
Of the tablets, which had 70 be taken out
Of the ground one by one with the greatest
r care 80 as to avoid all danger Of injury.
At the end Of that time there We're i6i
cases of tablets, the richest archaeological
treasure ever found In any one place nj
one time ready to Ice shipped 10 the I'm,
everything must by law he sent. II Wa
most unfortunate that the archsologls
Of the expedition, DR.. Hilprecht. one Of the
most expert dccipher'rs u ancient Assyr
ian alive. had been delayed IN Marsellles
+ and did not arrive until month afte
the last tablet had been packed away, ~
that We do not yet know th. charact"
| Of the tablets
The arrival of Dr Hllprecht was almos
the signal for closing the work. which laslss
"A few weeks longer, and then came th'
prrpaTatlons fur the Irturn homeNard
/, 1hrfe we're la-l Nsits To- "a friendly sh"ikl =
, | and the gathering ~ a. many pf"ciou
m.inrntus ~ could h. taken away.
A. Mrs Hayu"s luuk'd fuf tli. lasi tim
al ia. excavation shc acted as II she N"r,
! uartiug from odd fnruds The gr""ttnl
.f the Wurkmsn had alvays hs'u a suuro
. | ~ plsasufr. aud uuN ~ Vac CO. lir heard o.
| mon, lnrt"ad tllsrr sas the Salling ~ th
Wotnsu aud ohlldfuu as thrir white fflrui
went u way sud many "a rall tu rsiuTu
. She had suuo Ca tliriu Win risurihinI
. | nf tfrIldntiuu. bat rlr v-ut away Nith
, | ir.llng ~ genuine anO'tili i"t ih'iu
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