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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
EDUCATIONAL

VILLA DE CHANTAL-A home school
conducted for girls by the Sisters of
the Visitation. documentary and high
CIR branches and all polite accomplish
mentS taught. Twentieth street and
Fifteenth avenue. Rock Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

MRS. L. w. MILLER, Masseuse, 1906
Fifth avenue; electric vibrator and
vapor baths body and facial massage,
hair and scalp treatment, shampooing
and manicuring; spinal massage ii
speciality New phone $3.50. Hours, 2
to 9 d. m
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

FOR SALE-A lot on Twenty-second
street, north of Eleventh avenue;
size, 5ON13S; has sewer. water. gas,
and paving all paid; anxious to sell
and will make price low. II. X.
Walker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

]. TOHER & CO.-BrokerS, DaVen-
port. Stocks, grains, provisions cot
ton. Private wire to New York and
Chicago. Offices 100 Main street. Tel
ephOne 4O7.>
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

FOR SALE-Furniture of modern house
cheap. Address M. 200 care Argus.
FOR SALE - Scotch collie pups, five
weeks old, able to eat; call at 1903 Six
teenth street, South Heights.
FOR SALE-Child's small iron bed; al
so high chair used only two months.
Inquire at 2122 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

FOR SALE-Cheap nice level lots, ASHES,
corner Twenty seventh street and Eigh
teenth avenue, facing Long View
street car track. Also for sale or trade,
one acre lot, with new seven-room
house. Terms to please purchaser.
Inquire of L. Thonn, 60 Twenty
eighth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
LAUNDRIES.

ROCK ISLAND STEAM LAUNDRY -
Bakersfield e Sexton, proprietorS
Fine finish and quick service. 1914
IIiIfd avenue. Phone west 1928
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
FLORISTS.

HENRY GAETHJE - Proprietor Chip
piannock nursery. Cut flowers and
designs of all kinds. City store, 1907
Second avenue. Telephone 111s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

HOME LAUNDRY - Family washings
only; work called for and delivered
Miss Il. Couch, proprietor. 1919
Twelfth street; old phone west 652-L
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

FOR SALE-A seven-room house with
one acre of land; plenty of fruit,
large chicken house and 100 chickens,
. incubator, brooder, and so forth. For
particulars see Eckhart & Buffum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL - Fl.
d. Mack, president; +. I. Myers, sec
retary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
FoR RENT-ROOMs.

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for light
housekeeping at 307 Third street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

DON'T DENY yourself delights con-
ferred by Satin Skin Cream and Sat
in Skin Powder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28
FOR sALE-CITY PROPERTY.

FOR SALE-Lot 4Ox150 feet. centrally
located, on paved street. For parttc-
ularS address Box 267, city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

FOR SALE-A six-room modern house
on Fourteenth and-a-half street; gas,
furnace, bath; big east front, corner
lot; $4,000. Harry II. Hubbard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-28

ROCK ISLAND COMMANDERY NO. is,
K. T-Meets in stated conclave on
the second Monday OF each montn.
III. A. J. Mcdonald, E. c.; r. c. Willer-
ton, recorder.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Water Works system.

Eunice, La: Mr.. ]. H. Elliott of
Beaumont, on the 22d inst, wrote J.
l.. Hammers, secretary of the Eunice
Progressive League, that he "hopes
to soon be able to commence the con-
struction of a very neat brick at Eu-
nice"
Mr.. P. H. Porter, the contractor for
the Eunice water works. is getting
his work well along toward compile
ton. The water mains are all laid
and the MIGRANTS will all be set in
another day or two. The water well is
going down rapidly. The boilers and
engines are being placed. The foun-
dation is laid for the water tower and
the materials are all IN hand for its
erection, and it will not be many days
till the whole job is finished and the
pipes flushed out.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

Hinke says that cit is the finest Ellil
hymn which has been found thus far,
fifty celebrating the majesty and power
Of the god of Nippur. In some of its
expressions it approaches the psalms of
the Old Testament"
The inscription recites the historical
circumstances under which the land
was given to Nusku-ibni, a high digni-
tary Of Ekur, the temple of Ellil at
Nippur, declares curses upon any Of
fetal who appropriates the land or
interferes with the rights of the own
er, and offers an invocation to the
gods and asks them to mete out GER
tain ~punishments to an offender. The
names Of II witnesses of the grant
are given. The symbols at the top of
the stone are outlines of shrines, orna-
mented with a spearhead, a pointed
shaft, a skepter, a tiara. the head of a
lion, the head of a vulture, a scorpion,
a five-pointed star, a crescent, a sun
disk, a lightning fork, serpents, a tor
toise, etc.
The translation given by DR.. Hinke
of the hymn to Ellil is as follows:
Ellil-the lofty lord, the ruler Of heaven
and earth,
the prince, the lord of all,
the king of the great gods. whose equal
does not exist in heaven and on earth,
upon the giving of whose command the
PROSTATE themselves, reverently pay hom-
and upon whose decision the Anunnaki
wait in submissive awe. stand in humble
fear,
the lord of lords. the word of whose
mouth
no god can set aside,
the p%otentate of the Anunnaki, the lord
Of the ~blackheaded,
the sovereign of lands, the ruler of king
doms.
The god whose splendor is overwhelming
60 and filled with b%rilliancy,
with whose glory the whole extent of
heaven.
clothed,
with whose majesty the lands are COW
whose rule cannot be rivaled, whose d.
vinity cannot be equaled,
whose decision is weighty, whose COM
mand is lofty,
whose law is supreme, whose ways are
wonderful,
who rules heaven and earth, who sus-
ain the lands,
who calls the faithful shepherd, who an
points the governor of the earth,
forever-with the light Of his gracious
countenance, with his shining face
he looked faithfully upon N~ebuchadnez-
Ear, the prince, his favorite,
who Is devoted to his s~anctuaries. and
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Peculiar Features.

There is an immense amount OF
very curious information about the
formalities of land cessions in DR..
Hinke's book, but in view of the ma
ture of the controversy regarding the
Temple library at Nippud the lit
erary features of the inscriptions are
Of. most immediate interest. The
boundary stone erected under NE
'buchadrezzar l., which is under special
consideration, contains a transcription
of "a magnificent and typical Baby
lonian hymn" The stone was found
at Nippur on the northwest side of
the Ziggurat, within the temple area,
by DR.. Haynes, in February, 1896, at
the close of the third B~abylonian ex-
petition of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. 1t is a conical block OF black
limestone, 40 centimenters in height
and 1872 centimeters in circumference
at the middle. The inscription n
sists of a heading of two lines placed
among symbols at the top, and 155
lines Of text, arranged in five columns.
The stone is slightly damaged, but
the few lines which have been partly
lost have been almost completely re-
stored from the context. The stone
has several features not found in
other monuments of this kind. One is
a drawing of the piece OF land to
which the inscription relates. The
second is a beautiful hymn to Ellil at
the beginning of the inscription. DR..
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Accident Qualifications.

Run over by an automobile. was
he?" said the city salesman. I'll bet
ne was a big man-six feet high and
weighed 200 pounds, or something like
that"
Five feet liz and weighed 1s0,"'
corrected his informant.
I knew it," said the city salesman.
In casualties of that kind you may
generally figure on unusual physical
proportions of the victim. In fact, IL
proof is needed that large bodies move
slowly, 1t can be found in the Stats
tics OF street accidents. Barring the
children, most persons who figure In
such accidents are heavyweights. OF
eeurse. little people are by no means
immune, but in the majority of cases
where a pedestrian has got tangled up
with an automobile, a horse car, or d
street car. the description OF his per.
sonal appearance brings out the fact
that he was five feet II inches high
or more, and was possessed of unusual
ayoirdupois."
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
2f,424 TONS OF GOLD DUG.
Since Columbus Discovery Over $t2s
6oo,ooo,ooo Has Been Mined.

Since Columbus found his new
world, 21,424 tons of gold have been
dug from the mines of the earth.
Their value is over s12. 500, 000, 900. OF
this vast total 10 per cent, or nearly
one-fifth of the whole, has been mined
in the last ten years; 80 per cent, or
almost a third, in the last 20 years; Al
per cent in the last 80 years; 81 per
cent. in the last 40 years, and 68 per
cent, or over two-thirds, In the last
half century.
Assuming that an increase occurs In
the annual output, this amount will be
doubled in 80 years. while if an an
nual increase of 5 per cent. is OBJ
tanned, the doubling will take place In
less than 20 years. II. F. Van Wag-
enen predicts that as a result of the
creation in SO short a time of SO i'm
mense an amount Of in~destructible
wealth as this, a general advance In
the market price of all commodities
may be expected. Interest rates will
certainly decline.
Wages should rise, for with this
amount OF new capital arising in the
brief period every department of hui
man activity Is bound to be stimulated,
and this will create an enormously in
creased demand not only for all those
things that machinery and art can
produce, but also for those that can
only be brought into being by human
hands and human service.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Curses upon Offenders

Then follows the statement of IL,
grant of land. Here is the curse Al
rected against him who shall den,
the legal giving of the land:
May Anu, the king, the father Of N.
gods, in anger overthrow him
and annihi1ate his life,
ELL, the lofty god, who appoints
the fate of gods. appoint for him
an evil fate, so that calamity, misfor.
tune
and the commands of men may oppres.
him.
Ea, the king of the ocean. the lord ~
wisdom,
take away from him g%ladness OF hear,
happiness of mind,
~undan and fullness. SO that
la"mentation may seize him.
Sin, the lord of the crown of splendor
darken his face. so that he may not bavs
merriment CD
Shamash and Ramman. powerful gods
the lofty judges. give him
evil plans, and with a Judgment ~
justice
and righteousness may they not jua,.
him
aries, tear out his boundarv-stone
lac llC StCoL IilS SFEp put lillSGFnr
sickness
into his body, SO thai dark and brisht
red blood he may pour out as wafsr
Ishtar. the mistress of lands, whose fury
is like a food,
reveal the difficulties to him. so that
he may not escape misfortune.
Nuska, the powerful lord, the mighty
scorcher,
(the god, my creator, be his evil demon
and may he burr his root.
The inscription apparently estab
fishes the fact, says DR.. Hinkle, that
NebuchadrezZar was a usurper and
that the first kings of his dynasty
were contemporaneous with the Cas-
site kings. At first he battled in vain
against the Elamite and Assyrian %,
premacy, but after repeated reverses
and late in his reign he was able to-
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
SCIENTIST TELLS OF
FINDS AT NlPPUR
LIGHT ON ANCIENT SYSTEMS OF LAW
Made by Prof. Hilprecht Declared to Be
Among the Most Valuable Ever Made-Work of
Translation Going On at the University of Penn
sylvania-The Hymn to ELL.

This subject, | believe, | have already
treated sufficiently in my book, New
Light on the Old Testament from
Babel
The advanced state of the systems
of law in those old cities, for instance,
was remarkable. The now famous
code of Hammurabi is based upon
precedents, proving the existence Of
systems of law long prior to his time.
There may also have been codes even
earlier than his. There must surely
have been in the time of Abraham ex-
tensive legal libraries. Think also of
the wonderful Babylonian system of
writing! We know that the Chinese
have from 10000 to 40, 900 values for
their written signs. One scholar has
already collected about $4,000 values
for the Babylonian written signs, and
another list is being compiled, which
will, in all probability. contain as
many more. Given these premises,
it stands to reason that there must
have been immense collections of
documents and books in all the Baby
lonian cities. Some of the books must
have consisted of a thousand tablets
each. OF course, there were vast
storehouses or libraries to hold them.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
LOUISIANA NEWS.
OPIE SHOT.
EmpIoye of Daily Truth at Baton
Rouoe Nav Die.

Rouge May Die.
Baton Rouge. La: Sunday, shortly
after il O'Clock, Felix H. Gaudet shot
and fatally wounded Opie Waldrup
both 0 fthis city, and employed in the
office of the Daily Truth.
The shooting was accidental and oc-
CURED in West Baton Rouge parish,
a short distance from the Texas and
Pacific depot.
In company with Tilden Price, Mr..
Waldrup and Gaudet were returning
from a hunt on the West Side. Mr.
Gaudet was using a Winchester re-
peating shotgun. When he last shot
he had thrown the shell out of the
gun. but failed to uncock the weapon.
All Winchester guns remain cooked
when the she'll is thrown out of the
magazine, and Gaudet had failed to
let down the hammer, and was walk
ing with the gun under his arm when
the liod was discharged.
Young Waldrup was walking only
a feew feet in the lead, and the entire
load entered the left side, just above
tho hip, shattering the entire hip bone.
The wounded man fell face to the
ground. A physician was summoned
from Baton Rogue. and at 1870
o'clock Mr.. Waldrup was brought
across to the city and taken to the
office of DR.. Singletary. 1t is not be-
lieved that he will live through the
night. The wound is considered fatal
by the attending physicians. Mr..
Gaudet was placed under arrest by the
West Side authorities, but was after
wards released.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
of Nabu, the god of agri-

protection OF Nabu. the god of agri-
culture.
can interesting reference to bound
airy stones in the religious literature
says DR.. Hinke, occurs in the Shurpu
series, in a prayer which is remark
able for it's ethical. contents. The
priest intercedes for the worshiper
and implores the deity to forgive him,
asking the following questions: Has
he drawn a false boundary? Has he
omitted to draw a true boundary? Has
he removed the confines, the limits
armthe boundary stone?"
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

@EE=-4.
site, dynasty and the date of this one
in particular is about 1900 before
Christ. In all royal grants of land two
documents used; one, a large,
conical block, to be placed upon the
field in question for the information
of the people in general; the other,
a private document or tablet, to be
held by the owner as proof Of his title.
Curses inscribed upon certain stones
show that they were public monu-
ments, which could be removed. The
absence of curses In the Inscriptions
upon other stones shows that they
were private documents. Boundaries
and boundary marks were sacred to
the god Ninib and we're also under the
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

~Napoleonville, La: Principal Oar
rell. of the N~apoleonyille High School,
went to Thibodaux Saturday, where a
conference was held with the princi-
pals of the high schools of Houma and
Thibodauv, with the object of holding
an athletic contest between the three
schools. It was decided that the con-
test will be held in this town in the
very near future. At the contest held
last year between these three schools
Napoleonville carried off most of the
prizes.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
NEGRO Killed by Train.

Port Hudson, La: Conductor Han
sey, of the local freight train of the
louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company. this morning picked up Jim
Butler, a colored man, who resides on
DR.. Carruth's place, near here. Hansey
says Butler could scarcely talk, but he
managed to understand him to say he
tried to board the train while twas
passing Scotland, and was thrown
down and dragged some distance,
where he lay till this morning. He
died a short time after being taken
from the train here. Judge Hyce held
an inquest and the jury's verdict was
that he was killed by train at Scot
land.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Peterson, Shot BY Gates, Dies.

Monroe. La: G. w. Peterson, who
was shot in the head by Thomas Gates
who in turn was killed by George Pet
erson, died Saturday night at a local
sanitarium. It was not thought at first
that this wound was other than a
scalp wound. although he remained
unconscious until his death. George
Peterson, who killed Gates, is still at
large, although the officers are hunt
ing for him. Gates remains were sent
to Selma, Ala. his former home, for
interment.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

throw off the foreign yoke, ascend the
throne of Babylonia and even extend
his conQuests. to the Lulubeans in the
east and the land Amurru in the west
This enabled him to assume the proud
title of King of the World"
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Asks Creditors for Respite.

Shreveport, La. Mr.. JAS. w. Tur-
ner received a telegram Monday an
nouncing the death OF his sister, Miss
Sallie Bennett, in Mobile, Ala.
United States / rtD ! Attcstcmfwyp
United States District Attorney Elst-
ner and the other officials of the
Western district of Louisiana left
Tuesday night for Opelousas, where
federal court convenes. Most of the
charges allege ''boot-legging."
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
Public sehool Teachers, DiscussIon.

public School Teachers DISCUSSION.
Port Allen. La: "A meeting OF the
West Baton Rouge public school
5achers was held here Saturday. At
er a general discussion on "Socializ-
ing Arithmetic Prof. ]. H. Bres, of
Brusiey, gave an entertaining and in
structive talk on Teaching Of Eng
lish.a based on Chubb's chapter on
What to Read III the Grammar
schools" Following this was read q
paper on Indoor Art and Decoration
bringing out the saliant points.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01
RELIGIOUS and Literary Texts.

There must have been a great
mass of religious literature in exist
ence. There must have been in use
hymns to all the gods, in practically
every cult, for in Nippur not only
Ellil, but most of the other divinities
of the middle east were worshiped.
There must also have been large num-
which are to be classed under the
head of literature. Thousands of these
texts have been found at Nippur, and
we have many of them at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. One of our
staff is now working at the translation
bodying the results of study of the tab
lets have been projected and will be
published in due order. I would not
be surprised if a national epic should
eventually be found in part or whole
In Babylonian tablets.
1.-THE question as to what the depos-
itory Of all this material shall be
called, whether a temple library or
something else, is of comparatively
trivial Importance, although it admits,
of course, of some discussion. The
temple was certainly the chief insti-
tuition Of the city, and dominated all
the rest. The fact that. arithmetical
matter was found in the library would
not make 1t any the less a library.
The library of the University of Penn
sylvania contains statistical books of
all kinds as well as literary books. /
would like it to be impressed upon
the public that we have at the univer-
sity very large numbers of literary
as well as business texts"
Prot. Clay declined to discuss any
other phase of the Nippur question.
Prayer or a Boundary Stone.
The archaeological publication last
issued by the University of Pennsyl-
vania is a volume of Series D, edited
by Prof. Hilprecht and entitled "a
New Boundary Stone of Nebuchadrez-
Ear I. from Nippur." The author is
DR.. William J. Hinke, assistant profess
sor in the Auburn Theological Semi
nary. Boundary stones first appeared
in Babylonia under the third, Or Cas-
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

because OF the rich gifts and the tr...
ures Caid) before Ellil,
because of the prostrations, with wh,,a
the lord and the son of the lord.
with which to ELL and Ninib he show.,
his respectful reverence,
because of the utterance of supplicatio,,
because of the prayer of the kins
the priest. "
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

pOI LS.
Gravel of a very fine quality for
ballasting purposes has been located
about four miles east Of Waxahachie
by the Trinity and Brazos Valley
Railroad.
T. A. Hooks, who had been a resi-.
dent of Waco for nearly half a centu.
~, died Monday. He was a Confed-
crate veteran and was se~venty-one
years old.
Floating in the lake at the foot OF
Sixtieth Street, Chicago, the body of
a woman was found Monday, The body
was almost headless, and there was
no clothing.
Samuel Clemmens mark Twain)
sailed for Bermuda last Saturday up
on the advice of physicians that he
spend the balance of the winter in a
milder climate.
Tired of life's battle, John Glorian,
aged s~ixty-eight, and his wife, Mary,
aged seventy-seven, committed sui
eide at their home in Chicago by TAX
ing carbolic acid.
The threatened strike in the ship
building industry in the Tyne district
became a fact when some 1000 men
who refused the proposed reduction in
wages did not return to work.
The Richardson Oil Refining Co. Is
preparing to build a 1000 barrel indie
pendent oil refinery just southeast OF
Sapulpa, Ok. Material for the plant
has been ordered and is in transit.
General Allen, chief signal officer.
has issued specifications and invited
proposals for building a dirigible bal
loon for the use of the army. The
bids will be opened on February Is.
Frank Sullivan, swimming direc-
tor OF the Illinois Athletic Club, We'd
nesday night established a new profes.
sional record for remaining under wa
ter, staying in the bottom Of the tank
for three minutes.
Count Laszio Szechenyi, a foreign
title that young Gladys Vanderbilt is
TO become attached to, walloped an
impudent photographer who attempt
ed to snap a photo OF the couple a
few days since. Everybody is salts
fed.
The bodies OF Peter Caplett and
Miss Annie Marier, who were
drowned while skating at Worcester.
Saturday. were found Sunday.
It is thought they skated into the open
water In the dark.
In both the Senate and House OF
the North Carolina Legislature bills
have been introduced for an election
on State prohibition. to be held in Au-
gust, the measure, If carried by a vote
Of the people. to become effective on
January |. 1908.
Charles F. Groom, a Deputy Sheriff.
who a acting as court bailiff. shot
and killed himself in the county court
house at Mobile. Ala. Groom served
some time as a river pilot and was
later q Mobile business man.
The barn OF DR.. s. A. McCuiston at
Pattonville, was destroyed Sunday
night, and also five horses. The
horses were all very fine animals.
worth from $50 soH25o per head. It
Is believed the building was set on .
fire by thieves.
Miss Catherine CartrigA. q con
cert dancer and singer, waSg found
shot to death in a room at % Wells
Chicago. The police are search
Ing for James Niece, in connection
with the murder.
The rate Of discount of the Bank OF
England was Thursday reduced from
) to 4 per cent.
Visitors to Paris from across Red
River report that money matters are
and that d number OF Or.
lahoma sawmille are starting up.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-01

archaeological circles, the freedom with
which 1t was denounced in many scien-
tiac quarters as merely an application
Of what is figuratively known as
"whitewash," are almost unprecedent-
ed in any similar case. 1t may as
well be said that among the alumni
Of the university there still subsists a
strong feeling Of dissatisfaction that a
more positive course was not taken
by the trustees, and a movement has
been begun to make a concerted rep
resentation in favor of again forcing
the issue between Prof. Hilprecht and
his scientific accusers.