Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1903-10-26

the fifty century. and known 10 have
existed 200 years before that.
a pallmpset is parchment from
which one writing mas been erased 10
make room for another In this pal
Upset. The second writing. clear ari
bold, was THE Lives OF Holy W
men" Between tho lines and on the
margins OF this queer. rambling old
record could be detected the faint
tracery of an earlier writing, erased
To make room for the second on the
precious velium. With the passage
Of time the oxygen Of the air com
bined with the iron of the ink had
made IL again visible
There they were, the four gospels.
laboriously set down In Syriac by
some early Christian of Palestine
within $50 years after tine cruciiixion,
aiterward erased by some old mcdlae-
val monk TO make room for his Lives
OF Holy Women" This work was
photographed. page Ivy page.
The sisters bought quantity OF old
writings from dealer in jana, among
which DIR. Schector. then of Cam
bridge University. found the first leaf
of the original manuscript OF The
Book of Ecclesastes. written 200
b. C. This led to recovery OF other
parts OF the manuscript, Previously
there had existed only Greek and
Syrlac TRANSACTIONS of Ecclesiastes.
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Oct ga
The official speed trial OF the new
cruiser Denver takes place today on
the government course between Cape
Anne and Cape Porpoise, and the re
suit ds awaited with considerable in
terest at the navy department. The
ship is in commanded Captain Sllman
G. Chase and carries crew of picked
men from the yard of the builders,
Neafe G Levy,
The Denver Is an unarmored, steel.
protected. twin-screw cruiser. and one
of the smallest fighting vessels In the
United States navy. She was design
ed for service in the Philippine isl.
ands, Under the terms OF the con.
tract she is required to develop an
average speed of lG l-2 knots an hour,
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Mrs. Agnes
Smith Lewis and Mrs Margaret Dun
/
are in New York to lecture ON grsaI
Biblical discovery. for which the Uni
versity of Heidelburg recently upset
all traditions by comforting degrees
on the two women. They discovered
| what is known among scholars as the
Lewis Palimpset. This is a Syriac
version OF the four gospels. pronounc-
| ed to be the Oldest manuscript OF the
gospels yet discovered.
The earliest known date for man.
usorlpt of the gospels before this dis
covery was 100 A. d., the date of Ia
,ian's dlatessaron. HJelt, the Swedish
phllologist, backed by the German
critics. declares on pathological grounds
| that the discovery made by the two
| English women throws the date of the
earliest known manuscript of the COS
pes far back of that year.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 23.-Dr.
August Gerfh surprised the residents
of San Francisco this morning. when,
without any announcement he mount
ed flying machine of his own inven-
ton and for several hours cruised
about the city The machine was en-
tirely at the command of its inventor
and rose and lowered at his Will. Ev.
erything Indicated remarkably sue
cessful voyage when part of the ma
chinery broke and Inventor Gerth was
forced to gently lower the machine to
the ground. When the weakness OF
the motor Is remedied II would appear
as though an airship had been invent
| sd which will no practicable
ST. LOUIS, Oct 23.--All of the o.
300 tons of the Philippine exhibit ship
ment which arrived on the transport
Fitzpatrick at Seattle is now on the
| Worlds fair grounds There are If
ly carloads in all. The largest piece
In the shipment Ia a dug-out or native
boat. nearly seventy-fivc feet In length
FORT RILEY, Kans., The ill-leellng
between the members of the Texas
Provisional regiment and the United
States colored cavalrymen continues
to Increase In skirmish last night
between members of the two com.
mands Private Creel Stevens Elliott
was roughly handled. The Texas of
fcers now refuse TO allow their men
to leave the tents at night
| CLARKSVlLLE, Tenn, Perry w.
Smith. a prominent broker of this city.
committed suicide today because OF
business reyerses.
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 23.-Federal
Judge Ballinger has decided that Sec
rotary Cortelyou exceeded his authori-
" when he ordered two French wo-
men deported on the ground that they
had been brought here for immoral
purposes. The court says the secre-
tary had no right TO issue the order
before the hearing By the court.
BERLIN, Oct 23,-Another speed
test was made ON the MarieDfeldo Ios-
sen Electric railroad today and a
speed OF 1870 miles an hour was at
tanned. .
PlTTSBuRG. Pa, Oct. ga skin
containing five Hungarian laborers on
their way to work this morning we're
swept over the Springdale dam near
Colfax, and four were drowned.
BERLIN. Oct. 23.--The Koelnische
Valkszeltung today says that Herr Bal
lin, the director-general of the Ham
burgAmerican steamship line now has
as much influence In German court