The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-01
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
IS soon TO MARRY
Famous Jewish Author is to
We'd Miss Edith Ayston. the
Daughter of Professor
u Ayston. Noted EloCtri-
cian-Lord Roberts
to Resign as Com
mander- Chief
ofBrltish Army.

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(special Cable to The Times -Dispatch.)
LONDON, Oct, al..-Israel Zangwill.
the famous Jewish author. after years
of bachelorhood. Is engaged to marry
Edith .Ayrton, daughter of Professor Ayr
ton, the noted electrician. There is
touch OF romance In the engagement
because the flancee's mother is the Jew
ess on whom George Eliot is believed to
have modelled Mira. in Daniel Deronda.
Zangwill's fiancee Is a short story
writer. zangwill is busy forwarding the
Zionist movement. Both the Gar and
the Kaiser are already pledged to sup
port zlonism, while the King OF Rou-
mania expresses himself as favorable
to the movement. The King OF. Italy also
tavors the movement, having sent for
the chief rabbi Of Florence to discuss
the details and progress OF Zionism.
Rarely has q movement united so many
thrones In It's support. The proposed
East African colony has now won the
support Of practically all the English
Jews and there Is II possibility that the
Hirsch fund trustees will provide money
to defray tho cost OF investigating the
practlcabilty OF the scheme.
There Is report in the military clubs
that Lord Roberts has ltandered his
resignation As cOmmander-ln-ch OF the
British army. Lord Roberts had an IN
terview with the King during the week,
and 1t Is reported that he discussed his
reslgnu ton with Ills Majesty. and also
tho condition OF affairs In the War Office.
Lord Roberts Is not unwilling to resign,
for 1t Ia said he realizes he Is too old
49, Ak,a H. is,tr ,,otv nd
administering the many reforms pro-
posed In the War. Onice. Lord Roberts,
after his retirement, Will Visit the United
States,
1t Ia generally believed the King will
try to force hlR brother, the Duke OF
,Connaught. OH the country as COM
mander- In. chief when Lord Roberts re-
tires, This action Will be unpopular
but the King haa recently shown many
sigma of being willing and able to use
the mailed fist to attain his ends
Details have reached London of an In
terestlng discovery In the ruins of the
Babylonian town of sippara. Father
sohiel, French archaeologlst, has un-
aarthed perfect school room. with
materials for writing and instruction les
sons This Bahylonian school room of,
four thousand years ago Is much like
ono of to-day. Where Sippara once stood
is now only a mound or earth covered
with potsherds. Beneath the surface
sohial found bits of walls, remnants of
houses and pubtc buildings, The most
find was the school. located
In II house opposite the temple, Clay
tablets. the predecessors OF modern states,
were abundant, Ono tablet bore the in
scrptlorl. SHE who distinguishes HIM
self In tho school Of writing will shine
even as tho sun,"
The school house contained seven
rooms. one filled with clay tablets, ar
ranged In regular order most tablets
being unbaked. These inscriptions have
become undecIpherable, hut many tab
let's are In as perfect condition as when
laid aside forty centuries ago by childish
Rabylonian hands. Some tablets con-
tained hymns In the oldest snmerian,
namely, pre-Semltlc Turian language OF
RabylonIa Others contained prinl1s.
dictionaries, arthmetlcal problems,
Some tablets had served as copy hooks,
as Is proved by the beautiful clearness
Of the letters that We're used for class
exercises. ON several tablets could be
seen how pupils scratched out faulty
writing. smoothing clay. over again with
stylus.