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Meroe as its capital. The kings, Arura, Har-
siot Nastasen, who reigned in the fifth and
fourth centuries, conquered considerable ter
ritory south of Meroe in Seminar and Kordofan,
and possibly in Abyssinia. While the suzer-
a1nty of the Ptolemies seems to have been rec
ognized for religious reasons, King Ergamenes,
by putting to death the priests who had de-
manded that he should abdicate In the time of
Ptolemy " Philopator (22t-204) paved the way
for independence. Ptolemy V. Epiphanes (204-
1917 was able to resist his attack upon Egypt
but not able to prevent his asserting of sover-
eighty in Ethiopia. Queen Candace seems to
have extended her power in the north, and
twenty-five provinces are said to have been
tributary to her. But her invasion of Egypt
was successfully resisted by Caius Petronfus
in B. c.. "a. Napata, that had been rebuilt, was
destroyed by the Romans. Another Queen
Candace is mentioned in Acts viii. But gradu-
ally Meroe itself fell into ruins. To guard
against invasion by the Blenmyans, people
akin to the Bugattae, the modern Beta, Diocle-
tfan moved the Nobatae, negro tribes Of the
same stock as the population of Kordofan from
the oasis of khargeh into the Nile valley.
The mountain region of Abyssinia was prob.
badly inhabited In very early times by Semites
as well as Hamites. Whether the original home
of the former was in Africa or in Arabia the
overflow population would naturally set In the
name shows the Semitic Philippians were still
in the nomadic state when they entered this
territory, priding themselves on being wan
derers, roaming freely wherever they liked
There were evidently successive waves of i'm
migration If the Egyptian HIST is Of Semitic
origin, as can scarcely be doubted, they were
apparently kinsmen of the Yemenites IN Eretrfa
and on the SomaH coast C. 1900 BAC Sebaeal
Inscriptions found in Yeha, the ancient AVA
may be as old as the seventh century B. C.
AS long as the Ptolemies dominate the
Erythrean coast from Adults, Berenice and Ar
since, a strong Abyssinian kingdom could not
well develop. But in the reign of Augustus
when the Romans suffered serious reverses in
Arabia, and were occupied IL Africa with
Queen Candace, while the Arsacid conquests In
eastern Arabia forced the Yemcnite States to
seek compensation for their losses ELSEWHERE
the Semitic element in Ethiopia seems to have
been reinforced, and the kingdom of Askum
founded The "Periplus maris Erythroei," prob
ably written by Basiles between A. D. SIS and
81, refers to a king of Askun1 by the name OF
Zoscales, who controlled the coast from Masso-
wah to Bah Ell Mandeb, and was a friend of
Greek culture. 1t is possible that some of the
Greek coins with Greek legends that have been
preserved should be assigned to the second
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cludipp forty inscriptions in the hieroglyphics
of Meroe. two royal statues and ia great many
vases of a new kind of pottery, objects OF Wood
and glass, titles and pottery. Especially inter
esting was the pottery which is almost as thln
as biscuit china, and gives evidence OF roman
influence Professor Sayce found Greek inscrlp-
tions showing how the city was destroyed at
the end of the fourth century A. d. by KING
of Axum, gince which event the city was IN
occupied.
E,tbionia was the name given by the Greeks
to a country south of Egypt variously conce1V-
ed as including only Nubia (Aethtopia Aegyptl)'
or Nubia, Sonnar, Kordofan and Abyssinla' OF
region extending indefinitely east ana west
from the Upper Nile, but applied after the ran
of Meroe more particularly to Abysslnla. Inc
name is said to have had its origin from the
fact that 1t was alluded to oy the UFeeAS do g
country of sunburDed faces
Historically there were three distinct king
6on,s known as Ethiopia, those of Napata, Me-
roe and Askum. There is no definite evidence
4ba+ either of these included at any time ali
4he territory between the southern border OF
Egypt and Bah ell Mandeb
Already in the time of the old empire Inc
Egyptians had relations with their southern
reiehhors From the forests Ct Nubia they OBJ
tofned a large proportion OF their timber, and
tba CITY Of Abu (Elephantine) derived its name
iron, the ivory which found its way to this
olsca from the interior of Africa. King Uncas
r. 32e0-3260 B. CO. employed warriors belong
Gng To six Nubian tribss in his war upon the
Z3edonfns. The early pictorial representations
of Nubian archers do not suggest that they
nero negroes A regular conquest OF the conn-
frv south Of syene apparently was not under
taken until the twelfth dynasty &C. 2622-232Sl.
The most powerful Nubian people at this time
mas Kash or Kosh, the Hebrew Cush 1t Is
,,rohable that the stock was originally Hamit1c,
though in course of time it absorbed various
TJoqritic tribes Use4*asen III &c. 2409-2372l
es+ahIfshed his frontier north of the second
cataract and built for its protection two forts
at Semneh and Kummeh on opposite sides OF
the river. Whether the Hyksos kings ever held
possession of this territory Is doubtful. At any
rate It had to be reorganized by Aahmes (l675-
4552l the founder of the eighteenth dynasty
and his successors. Napata probably had been
+be canital of the independent kingdom, since
a. was made the residence of the yiceroy, en-
4i+Iad nripce of Kosh, who governed the new
Tpvntian province. In the time OF Rameses IL
3bere was an unsuccessful rebellion. Pianchi |,
who seems to have reigned In Napata since TIT.
avai1ed himself of the weakness of Egypt at the
end of the reign of Uasarken III to make an in
vas,on of Egypt He defeated twenty petty
ruIers and forced treaty. Shabaka, grand
son of Pianchi, united all Egypt with Ethiopia
under one crown Nspata was destroyed By
Cambyses in 524.
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Kinoness kindIes the fires Of friend,
ship and love.
There are many good farmers who
are poor statesmen.
Our mistakes often serve good
purpose by enIightening others.
Be benevolent; bury al chickering's
in the bosom of forgetfulness.
No man can ever be entirely happy
until he Is entirely out of debt.
Sometimes those who endure ac-
complish as much as those who strive.
Neighborhood scandal travels as fast
as lightning-over the telephone wire.
An unbalanced temper will spoil the
results Of an ordinarily well balanced
ration.
In preparing for winter don't forget
that stock-and humans, too-require
ample supplies of fresh air.
If the country boy could only know
Of the heartless indifference of the big
city he would be slow to face 1t.
Judging by the effect "unfriendly
legislation" has had on railroads, it's
a wonder they don't pray for more
of it.
Less highfolutin' and more business
like curvature of the spine has de-
pressing effect on the motgage busi-
ness.
The weIl-bred farmer is not content
with poorly bred stock. but circum-
stances may force him to tolerate it
for time
Talking about our "shiftless" neigh
bors does not help them. Perhaps q
bit of encouragement delivered straight
at their hearts would.
Rural free delivery and the farm
telephone are the torches that are
lighting the way of the farmer and his
family toward better life.
The farmer who deposits his profits
In his soil, his animals and his build
ings will do better than the man who
leaves his money with the bank
Most of US get all the happiness we
deserve and no less Our failures are,
for the most part. our own fault and
we have only ourselves to blame If
misfortune comes.
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Ways of Berlin Won1e,,

time at the club. A German friend took me
one evening to the German women's club. The
club has magnificent suite Of apartments. In
Guiding auditorium, reading room parlor. cafe
and smoking room
When she took me into the last anarSment
it almost feazed me for minute. 1t vas blue
with smoke. had never before seen 2 room
filed with elegantly gowned, cultivated women
all smoking. These were the wealthy society
women Of Berlin, titled some of them.
They were cosmopolitan in their dress and
manners and did not present any striking
points of difference from the American women
except in the smoking. It made the occur
renee Of last summer, when our immigration
officials detained second class passenger, a
woman art dealer for inquiry into her sanity
because she smoked cigarettes, appear very
funny in retrospect
The German womens clubs, like those of
the Englfshwomen, are based on the same prin-
c1ple as mems clubs: these are places for So
ctal enjoyment and for the convenience of
members In taking meals, entertaining friends
and SO on They do not take up work in study,
philanthropy, reform and so on. like the won-
ems clubs in America.
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Il believe that the typical German hausfrau
Is myth said a New York woman who re-
turned the other day from years residence
in Germany. 81 don't see how the average
German woman finds any time to be a haus
frau. I sometimes wondered when the Ger
man woman found time to do anything at
home.
81 spent eight months in Berlin with my
daughter, who was studying music From
eleven to twelve in the morning the cafes
were packed with German women, who go ont
to take their second breakfast in the public
restaurants. thing unknown in America.
They take along their sewing or embroid-
cry and sit an hour or two over their cup Of
coffee Or glass of beer. At the concerts. too.
they take their work and spend hours day
after day listening to the music. You can spend
an afternoon listening to beautiful music, a
magnificent orchestra with fine vocal artists,
for Is cents. That is illustration of some
of the things that help to exile Americans.
AT three in the afternoon again you will
see the cafe crowded with German women TAX
Ing their afternoon tea / think American
women are more domestic than German, be-
cause / never heard of American women who
left their homes in the evening to pass the
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ENGLISH LACKING IN UNION
Weak SPOT in British Agriculture Is
Failure of Farmers to Perfect
an Organization.

In an article on "The Newest Phase
of the Oldest Industry" Sir Horace
Plunkett gives some novel news on
He says:
"The cry of back to the land has been
heard loud enough and long enough to
be taken as evidence of a real public
opinion. The state is now giving to
the country side of our national econ
omy a degree of attention which can
not be explained by the mere party
pursuit Of the agricultural vote. though,
of course, this inevitable factor In all
public questions will make its normal
contribution to the confusion of issues.
1t is the agreed policy of all parties
to settle larger number of the popu-
lation upon the land, and this not in
order to placate or benefit the land
less so much as to strengthen the po-
sitlon of the nation. The back to the
land movement is not the result of an
agrarian agitation; it is redirection
of national ideal and aim.
England not, only prospered mighti-
ly in industry at home. but was en-
abled to seize the cream Of the world S
unoccupfed agricultural lands. In
these newly settled countries there
was, of course, no urban predominance.
But this day rural life In the United
States and the British dominions is af-
fected by the economic thought which
had dominated the ear of England's
Industrial and commercial supremacy.
Agriculture came to be treated
much more as an investment than as
a career. This tendency has reached
its extreme manifestation in the waste
full. almost prof1igate. farming In many
of the richest portions of the western
hemisphere. Mr.. Roosevelt has not
only used his powerful influence to
correct this extravaganza of natural
resources. but In his Countrywide pol
icy he has declared for preventive
measures against the neglect of the
rural population IN the supposed in
terests of urban development which
he foresees.
ION the continent of Europe agri-
cultural depression and rural back
wardness are not unknown. but they
are generally due, not, as with US. to
the downward drift, but to the oppo-
site cause. rural congestion More
over. where the danger of invasion
did not pass after the NapoIeonic wars
military considerations forced gov
ernments to realize the importance OF
maintaining the physical, as well as
the moral, well-being of the rural pop
ulation. Their welfare was recognized
as essential to the safety of the nation
as was the growth of town populations
and the development of their manufac-
lures.
ITO my mind, any comprehensive
treatment of rural conditions In these
islands win have to proceed. as we
are doing In Ireland, upon similar
lines. Unquest'onably the weak spot
in English agricultural economy is the
failure of farmers to combine for bust.
ness. social and political (using the
term in the nonparty sense) purposes
The first lesson to be learned from the
continent is that you cannot help farm
ers who do not help themselves"
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teenth century Life of the Patriarchs" and in
the "Ethiopic Synaxar," woman who reigned
over the Benz ell Hamuna had recently invaded
the country, burned the churches and monas-
teries, and driven him from place to place. Ma
rianus Victor speaks of this woman the foun-
der of the Zague dynasty, and as having mar
ried ruler of the province of Bugna, a name
afterwards corrupted into Benz Ell Zague.
Eleven kings of the so-called Zague dynasty
reigned until 1910.
The earliest monuments of Semitic speech in
Ethiopia are the inscriptions found at Yeha.
These are written in the consonantal Sabaen
script and indicate that the writer's used the
lesna Gees, the language of Semitic Ethiopia,
as early as the seventh century B. G. Geez
is today represented by two dialects, Tigre and
Tfgrai or Tigrina. The latter Is spoken in
Ttgre, and the former is spoken in the districts
north and northwest of Tigre, and shows great
similarity to the old Geez,
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and third centuries A. D.

and third centuries A. D.
On marble throne In Adults, Cosmos
Indicopleustes found and copied in the sixth
century an inscription concentrating the power
of a great king whose name is not given. He
is supposed by some scholars to be the founder
of the Askumite kingdom, but 1t Is more prob
able that he reigned al the end of the third
century A. D. King Aizana is known to have
reigned in the year A D. 1885, In his time
Frument1us preached Christianity in the coun-
try. The political relations that had long ex-
listed between Askum and Rome were such as
to favor his mission. In 378 Askum was re-
duced to its African territory. In A D. 525
Elesbaas, king of Asku1n, with the aid OF the
Sabaen and Hadramautian rulers, made an
end to the Himyarite kingdom of Dhu Nuwas
and Ethiopia again controlled Arabian territory
Before the end of the century, however, the
Askumftes were driven back to Africa, and
never again extended their conQuests to Arabia
According to letter addressed to a king of
Nubia in the time of the Patriarch Philotheus
of Alexandria (9So1002), preserved in the four
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Shortage of Food.

There is no danger Of a shortage Of
food supplies In this country II the
farmers can get remunerative prices
for their crops Under the regime of
90 years ago the railroads were devel-
opfng farm lands and transportation
more rapidly than the demand for
farm products would warrant. hence
corn and wheat and oats and beef fire.
ouently sold in the west below cost.
Now that the population has SO far
increased as to equalize the supply
and demand and reduce our exportable
surplus, creating better home markets
and better prices, we may be sure Of
more farms and better cultivation
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Profit in Water.

Vegetables are nearly all water and
some men are making fine profit sell.
ing It put up in the form nf tomatoes,
onions, celery. etc.
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A new kingdom
gradually arose in
the south after the
fall of Napata, with
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-10-01
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT

MY little son. boy of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him. but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try certain medical college,
but its treatment did no good. At
the time was induced to try Cuti-
cura he was SO bad that had to cut
his hair OF and put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on him on bandages. as it was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass of
sores. The bandages used to stick to
his skin and in removing them it used
to take the skin of with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. began to think that
he would never get we'll, but after the
second application of Cuticura Oint-
ment began to see signs of improve
ment, and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled off twenty
times, but it finally yielded to the
treatment. Now can say that he is
entirely cured, and a stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
is to-day, twelve years or more since
the cure was effected Robert Wattam,
114s Forty-eighth St, Chicago, ILL.,,
Oct. 9, 1909"
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When Britishers Burned the Capitol

set fire to the capitol, the White
House and other public buildings. It
was at this time that Dolly Madison
cut the famous portrait of Washing.
ton from its frame, where it stood in
the great east room of the White
house, and, rolling it up, had 1t cart.
ed away with the few effects which
she was able to remove from the
White House. The British descrip-
ton of what went on in the capital
at that time is as follows:
The blazing houses, ships and
stores, the report of exploding maya.
zines and the crash of falling roofs
was one of the finest sights to be con-
ceived. The sky was brilliantly II.
Illuminated by the conflagration. The
scene was as striking and sublime as
the burning of st. Sebastian's. To-
ward morning violent storm of rain,
accompanied by thunder and light
ming, came on, whose flashes seemed
to vie in brilliancy with the flames
which burst from the roofs of burning
houses, while the thunder drowned
the noise of falling walls and was
only interrupted by the occasional
roar of cannon and Of large deposits
of gunpowder as they exploded, one
by one" But We don't look much like
a cow pasture now, don't you know
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w ASHINGTON.-A bitter war on
W the house cat has been declared
by the department of agriculture. Ex-
perts in the biological bureau of that
department are making exhaustive in
vestigations of the cat as a spreader
of disease. Already they have found
out enough to convince them that as
much danger turks in cat as in a
rat, and rats are known to be fatal
distributors of plague
Upon the completion of these in.
vestigations efforts will be made by
the Federal authorities to have cat
license laws passed. 1t is much more
desirable, they say, to have a license
for cats than a license for dogs.
I'VE know that cats carry disease"
said H. w. Henshaw, chief of the bu-
reau, in discussing the fight against
tabby, but we do not know to what
extent. We are practically certain
they carry diphtheria, scarlet fever
and ringworm, and we suspect they
carry tuberculosis. All this we want
to find out. OF course the fight to
bring about a cat license will be a
hard one. Such suggestion will be
scoffed at. But in time people will
come to realize what a menace cats
are. That is what we hope to do
bring the people to such a realiza-
ton"
DR.. A. K. Fisher, of the bureau of
biology is at work on a bulletin on
the house cat. He has been studying
the question for years and knows the
general habits of cats thoroughly.
There are lots of fallacious the
cries regarding the usefulness OF
CATS says DR.. Fisher "As a matter
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Sight of 100000 on a Joy Ride

plishing anything of the sort, eight
heavily armed guards ride to and fro
with the seven millions
And this extra precaution is due to
the change in the system of making
money. Until recently the money was
printed at the bureau of engraving
and printing, but sent to the treasury
minus the seal and the number, SO that
it was not real money until handled
in the treasury.
Now one machine does all the work.
including the stamping of the seal and
number. These igures-the round
seal to the right and the number to
the left OF the face Of a paper bill,
stamped in blue-are what make bills
legal tender Hence when the money
passes through the wonderful cutting
and stamping machine. which counts
bills out in lots of 100 after it Ia
through with them, it is ready to
spend and anyone who got hold of it
would have the real thing.
II seems queer to some people that
we should take such precautions to
guard the money wagon" says Direc.
tor Ralph OF the bureau o. engraving
and printing but We think it necss.
sary. A stitch in time saves nine. an
re have been told from childhood
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War Vessels to Go to the Scrap Heap

part in the bombardment of San Juan.
Every man who joined in the move.
ment for Cuba's freedom views with
sadness the passing of these four bat
tleships. Accompanying the condemna-
ton Of the four Spanish War vessels
is the passing of the old sloop,of-war
Portsmouth, forming the last chap
ter in the history of what is believed
to be one of the most interesting
ships in the old navy.
Launched before the beginning of
the Mexican war, the Portsmouth took
an active part In that struggle, par
ticipated in the suppression of the
African slave trade. fought in Chi
nese waters, and had large share in
the operations in the Gulf of Mexico
during the Civil war
The Portsmouth was built in 1S43,
and after a voyage of one year and
half arrived in San Francisco to pro-
tect the American citizens War was
declared soon afterward, and her men
took possession of San Francisco, and
hoisted the stars and stripes there for
the first time.
At present she is with the New Jer-
sey naval militia, but in a few days
will be towed from Hoboken to the
navy yard in Brooklyn to end one of
the most varied and interesting ca
reers of the United States navy.
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COMBINES it does us good to rem
- inisce a little bit, and this leads
us to remark that SO years ago, the
British forces burned the capitol.
There were about 5000 in number
landed from the British vessels on
the Patuxent August 20, and on the
oath they reached the capital There
were only about 5000 men available
for defense Of Washington in the
American army, and they only had II
pieces of artillery. So when the Brit
ish made their raid on Washington, al
though they were met with splendid
resistance, the American army was
compelled to retreat, and the red
coats made a triumphant entry into
Washington and began TO carry out
the threat of the commanding inva-
der, who said: Il will make a COW
pasture of these Yankee capitol
grounds" Just as soon as the Brit
ish got possession of the city they