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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-09
To Sell Assets OF Mound Coal Co.

tsltIUdE dlUtIHOOu 1T NNttIINS
Referee in Bankruptcy J. W. Cum
Minis granted the petition of the trus-
tees to sell the assets OF the bank
rupt Mound Coal company. headed by
l.. G. Orr and G. Il. Sharp. Jr.. both
OF Pittsburgh. No date was set for
the sale. but the announcement is ex-
pected in a few days
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-Four Granted Naturalization.

or the Ten applicants for naturaliza-
ton made before Judge T. W. Nesbitt
in circuit court yesterday morning.
four were favorably acted upon. as
follows: Aida Ferris. OF this city:
Joseph kraina. Marcus Kostolich and
Richard Hoffman. all OF Benwood.
The others were carried over indeh-
nitely. Another hearing OF applica-
tons will be held on June end.
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Go HIkIno TODAY.

About twenty-five boys OF the boys
prayer meetings class will be taken
for long hike by Rev. h. F. Rhoads.
pastor OF the First VI. f. church. to-
day. This is the second trip to be
taken by this class. The first was
taken last aSturday. when nineteen
covered the distance OF 81 miles. and
II proved a pronounced success.
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The Daily Chit-Chat
By RUTH CAMERON


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house IN the evening where be makes
his address
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oftice at wheeling. ohio county. w. Va
Saturday. March 9th. 1912. To obtain
any OF the following the applicant must
ask for advertised letters. giving date OF
list:
Brinson. Miss NellieKelly Nrs. ". A.
Bishop. Miss Eva Lewis, :Irs. Louise
Roilsn. Mrs. Mary Lyttls. Mary X
Bartless. Miss Mageilig. Mrs. l.
Cornelia Metts. Mrs. Annie
Buchanan. Annie Mosser. Mrs. Marie
Burke. Miss h. Miller. ". q. (NrsJ
Beare. Miss An Miller. Mary
ne J. Mcguire. Miss
Bartlett. Miss Nel- Ellen
lie Meyers. Miss
Brewer. Miss Ida Mamie
Baumsartner. Nrs. MoCreary. Mrs.
Dora May
Beattie. stary r. IL. Misspe. Mrs. NJ
Boyer. SIS JOSH Petta. Miss <ettis
Crump. Mrs Mary Painter. Mrs. W. II.
crowley. Mrs. Pasternak. MarE
Jno. Rounds. Mrs. II.
Eckhard. = l.. Roper. Mary
Mrs. sprinkle Miss ANNA
Edwards. Mrs. An Silverman. Mrs.
ME Ross Rem
Frances. Mrs. shausan"ssy. Mrs.
samuel kafie
Fletcher. MISS Shor.. t.ora
carry S.egI. Mrs Jos
Gross. Mrs e. 10 Sramck Mis- iI-isn
Givens. Mrs. Eula -
Girton Mrs Lila 90 Van i'lI@m. Mrs VI.
HuEhes Gertrude Whi'nl,r. Mr. John
Hamilton. Mrs D. Wsttso-. Mlss
Hall. Miss sarah Farnie
Jones. Anne, wilson Miss Flora
kinder Miss Hazel
GentIsmsn's List
Adams. " \. Hiin"r. 'has
Armstrong P~"f-" Man 10. Raymond
Brown. MHEfI4- MARI 81
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LETTER LIST.

List OF letters remaining IN the post
office at Wheeling. ohio county. W. Va
Saturday. March 9th. 1912. To obtain
any of the following the applicant must
ask for advertised letters. giving date Of
list:
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The Daily Newspaper Club
SnsLp sDh Dihn HEW YORK
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
The Gentle Cynic.

Some of us aim so high We will never
hit anything on earth.
A man never realizes how much furni-
ture he owns until he comes home late
at night and tries to get to bed without
turning on the light.
One way to remove weeds is to marry q
widow.
Love is never so blind that il can't see
an engagement ring.
Pleasure soon pals on those who are in
a position to do just as they please.
The Welsh rabbit. unlike it's tinid
namesake, does its most desperate fight
ing when II is down.
The man who wants the earth may
have the satisfaction OF knowing that
some day he will be right in it.
Some men play the game of life rs
though it was solitaire.
All the men who are serving life sem
fences at hard labor are not In jail.
Some people are just as important to
Perhaps il is just as well to take things
as they come. provided you are satisfied
with very little.
When you hear a man boast that he
has no enemies it's a pretty safe bet that
he is a nonentity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
A Nice Distinction.

ENATOR GRONNA. discussing q
knotty tariff problem. said In Da-
kota:
There is nice distinction involved
mere. You don't notice IL at first. Once
1t is pointed out to You, however, yoa
perceive Its immense importance
Its the sort Of distinction that Gobsa
Codes beautiful young wife revealed to
him during conjugal quarrel over ~
diamond tiara.
People say quavered the old man.
trembling with rage-'people say you
only married me because / had money
The young woman smiled superbly.
Rubbish" she exclaimed. My pri-
mary reason for marrying You was that
1 had no money myself
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with their clothes. but they nearly al
Ways. either furtively or boldly, look DIT
their face.
I'VE have some customers who buy their
neckties either to match their hair and
eyes or at least to harmonize with them.
We rare.y say anything to a man about
a tie being becoming to him. That
would notify him that we were wise to
him and he would shy. We tell him
that the tie suits him. or looks good
on him. We are careful to talk about
the tie and to insinuate that he becomes
the tie and not the tie him. OF course,
we have some customers who are SO
bold that we can tell them outright that
their complexion needs a qlIieter tone. or
a neutral color. or something like that"
We are putting little mirrors in the
front of our vending machines" said a
man who was refilling one of these de-
vices with matches, because it pays
Men like to look at themselves. but they
are more coy than women. They Go not
like to be detected by other men gazing
at themselves in a glass. But they all
gaze Just the same, no matter how old
they afe.'
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ton of the deluge which is supposed to
have destroyed the world, and the Assyr
ian account of the creation.
Most of the private correspondence of
the ancient Babyloonians and Assyrians
was done on sun-baked bricks. The his
torical records and the writings intended
for preservation were upon kiln-baked
bricks. The letters were sealed up in
envelopes of sun-dried brick. First the
bit of clay inscribed with the message
was baked. Then it was coated with a
layer of clay. which was inscribed with
the address and sometimes with a brief
description of the contents. This outer
envelope was in turn hardened in the
sun. When the person TO whom it was
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Craftsmanship Does 1t.
PHILADELPHIAN gave a dinr

A PHILADELPHIA gave "A dinner
party of rare excellence During it
he remarked:
Modern usage dictates sparing use
of wine-one wine. a brut champagne of
IL vintage year. is the best and also the
most correct concomitant of a choice
dinner. Ill-informed persons serve too
many wines. Why? Well. there's u
story that will show you why.
"a man in a parlor car looked very
worried Finally, after a lot of fidgeting
h. said to the stranger beside him:
Pardon me, sir, but I'm worried over
a social question. and from your dress
and air | see that you could help ME
out
I'll gladly help YOU out If / can,
the stranger answered graciously.
We'll. sir, it's like this said the
worried man. L am giving a dinner to
the mayor next week, and l don't know
what wines to serve with the various
correct, you know. Can you help me-.
Why, readily. the stranger said.
Nothing easier, The dinner should be-
gin with one. or perhaps two. cocktails
white wine per head-say Il chablis With
the fish another pint OF white wine, a
Rhine wine perhaps, such as hockheimer.
With the roast pint of good red wine.
With the bird and salad and right on
through the sweet, champagne-one
quart per person. vintage brut-for we
must not, you know, seem niggardly.
The nuts call, Of course, for port-there
are lots of good ports Ten, with the
coffee. you must serve ''fine champa gne''
that's brandy-at least seventy-five
years old. and liquors literally assorted
Thank you, sir said the stranger.
who had been noting all these drinks,
down on the backs of envelopes He now
slipped the envelopes in his pocket, look
ed at his informant with curious and
admirins eyes, and said:
You are evidently a man of the
world, sir Would you mind giving me
your name?
II was just coming to that the
stranger answered, and he produced from
his wallet the card-of a wine mer-
chant -
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been discovered There probably was no
post office. Both Babylon and Nineveh
were cities of hundreds of thousands of
inhabitants, and ii would have been, per-
haps, impossible to handle an extensive
mail if the letters had been bricks.
Imagine the postal authorities of such
cities as New York and Chicago attempt
ing to handle the mass of letters that
pass through those post offices daily il
the letters We're bricks.
THE bricks are all inscribed with
cuneiform or wedge-shaped characters.
These ancient jewellers by the Euphrates
and the TigriS had no alphabet. They
wrote in syllables, words and ideographs.
The ouneiform inscriptions comprise more
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ANCIENT CUNEIF'ORM CORRESPOND
ENCE.

ANCIENT CUNEIF'ORM CORRESPOND
ENCE.
rage, but one infers that Bibeya was to
come as a bride. The little obfong of
brick lays it's magic upon the magma
ton and centuries up the journey Of the
girl to the great city, the wedding feast.
and the happy beginnings OF conjugal life
i'm some pretty home in a bower of palms
and orange trees. The letter which sug-
gests this charming little idyl reads: d.
ITO Bfbeya from Gimil-Marduk. May
Shamash and Marduk grant thee for my
sake to live forever. write this in or
der to inquire after thy health. Let me
settled in Babylon, but l am in great
anxiety because I have not seen thee.
Send news when thou wilt come. that [
may rejoice at it. Come in the month of
Araksamna. (November-D e C e IN b r)
Mayst thou, for my sake, live forever"
Modern Divorces may draw much COM
fort from the brick inscribed with a con-
tract by which man just separated
from his wife binds himself to pay her
alimony. In Babylon alimony evidently
meant merely the bare necessities of life.
The alimony brick bears the date of So
3. c., and reads:
Maid Marduk. son of Shamashbalatsu-
iqbi, will give. of his own free will, to
Rabua, his wife. and Arad Bunini. his
son, per day four ga of food, three ga of
drink: per year fifteen manas of goods,
one pi of sesame, one pi of salt. which is
at the storehouse Na'id-Marduk will not
increase it. In case she fees to Nergal.
the flight shall not annul it. Done) at
the Office of Mushezib- Marduk, priest OF
Sippar.'
Prof. Eiselen explained that a ga was
about two quarts; mana 800 grams. and
a pi seventy two quarts. Fifteen manas
of GOODS he thought. meant material
for clothes for the divorced wife and her
son. AS will be seen, the almony of this
Babylonian wife was food and clothing
only, and contained not shekel OF
coin of the realm.
X
marriage contract dated 300 B. c..
by which a man takes a slave to wife.
reads:
"Rimum, son of Shamkhatum. has taken
as wife and spouse Bashtum, the
daughter of Belizunu, the priestess OF
Shamash daughter of Czibitum. Her
bridal present shall be shekeis
of money. When she receives it she
shall be free If Bashtum to Rimum, her
husband. shall say, Thou art not my
husband they shall strange her and cast
her into the river. If Rimum to Bash.
tum, his wife. shall say. Thou art not
my wife, he shall pay ten shekels OF
money as her alimony. They swore by
Shamash. Marduk, their King, Shamshu'
ilu-na and Sippar."
The alimony provided for in this case
is in money, but 1t is no improvement
on that settled by Ma id-Marduk upon
; the unfortunate Ramua. Prof. Eiselen
saws the shekel referred to in this mar
rage contract is equal to 10 cents in
money of the United States. So the
alimony which Rimun agrees to give
his wife in case he divorces her amounts
to only SO. Prof. Eisenlen says such
lump-sum alimony-so utterly absurd to
the modern woman-was common In
Babylonia and Assyria.
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DOCUMENTS on Marriage
II and Alimony and a Com
plant Against Boarding
House Fare and a Prescrip-
ton for Toothache Found on
Ancient Cuneiform Tablets
and Deciphered by a Chicago
Professor-Writing the Mis-
sives and Baking Them
Love Letter on a Brick an
Inch Long by Half an Inch
Wide.
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ASSYRIAN OBELISk.

about the empire for every one to read.
Nineveh in its most fourishing pc
riod in the reign of Sennacherib from 1Oo
to 6S1 B. c. 1t fell before the Scythians
and Chaldeans in COG and was destroyed
by fire by it's conquerors. Babylon be-
came the center of the Babylonian en-
pire around 1000 h. c. 1t fell before the
Modes and Persians under Cyrus in :SS
b. c.. but continued to be an opulent and
populous city until the time of Alexander
the Great, two centuries later
The love letter read by Prof Eiselen is
written on both sides of a tiny kiln
baked brick, an inch long by half an inch
wide. The name of the happy swain was
Gimil- Marduk, and that of the girl he
loved was Bibeya. Gimil-Marduk had
gone to Babylon-perhaps from the cOun-
try-to make his fortune. Plainly he hac
prospered. His mind turned to the girl
he left behind him in the home village or
down on the farm and he sent for her
to come to him. He says nothing Of mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
The Average Man.

A FOREIGN visitor in an interview in
"a New York told the truth about the
average man.
Your country he said, lis made up.
like mine, of average men. The average
man. he added, lis a man who thinks
himself immeasurably above the aver
age"
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When Representative Bazook rides up
in the elevator, however he doesn't waste
time.
Coin to vote for the Smith bill?' some
one asks him.
NO" he replies. II think that man
Smiths jamming too blamed many pri-
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Some of the bricks show that slaves
sold in Babylonia and Assyria for ten
shekels of silver. which is equivalent 10
Sc. One brick which records the sale OF
a slave mother and her unweaned child.
says that nineteen shekels. or Sll. ~, were
paid for both 1t Is recorded on one brick
that a man who rented a house in Baby
lon In 600 II. G. paid one shekel OF sill
yer or 90 cents. for a years lease. An
other brick. dated 300 b. c., records a
contract by which a man hires son
from a mother to labor for two ana
half shekels a year. or SI.p
An interesting astronomical record
shows that the modern world is reckon
ing time after the system OF the Baby
lonians 4 report written probably for
some observatory about 40 Is. I. says;
ION the sixth day of Nissan about Marcn
2D day and night were equal Six douhi"
hours the day and six double hours the
night. May Nabu and Marduk unto the
king our lord he gracious.
The largest brick in the Northwestern
University collection Is temple rec
ord containing an account OF herds or
cattle sheep and goats that had ar
rived at the house of worship. perhaps
as tribute or free-will offerings. The
record says the herds came from twenty
two cities with twelve shepherds and five
other men. all under chief shepherd
The largest herd consisted of nine bulls
or oxen. 40 sheep and ten goats.
The Northwestern University recently
has added to it's museum of ANTIQUITIES
a reproduction Of an abelisk found at MINI
rud on the site of Calah, city which sue
ceeded Asshur as the second capital OF
the Assyrian empire. The original obe-
lisk was set up by King Shalmeneser III.
who reigned from $50 to S23 b. {. On the
monument are 100 lines of cuneiform in
scriptions describing the chief events OF
thirty-one years Of the kings reign. Each
side cont aims five series of sculptured re-
liefs One of these reliefs represents
the payment of tribute by Jehu. king or
Israel. whose kingdom had been con-
Quered by the Assyrians.
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DUR thousand years
ago in Babylon a
Young man wrote
"A love letter TO his
sweetheart. lie
wrote il on a little
chunk of damp
clay with a stylus
in cuneiform char
acters. Then he
ba ked the missive
and turned it into
a brick. which has
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WI The innocent stranger and
- his friend bound lightly in
to the elevator. Once safely
in they eye the humble OPP
orator and automatically order: mo. >.
That is the end. They may be planning
to corner wheat. They may be consider
ing means to scoot a beloved public Off
cial out of office. What matters it? The
elevator man doesn't hear. On with the
conversation and let it be as unretined as
occasion requires. The elevator man will
not hear; he is merely part of the ma
chinery by which humans are lifted sky
ward.
Why is it that humans persist i'm the
polite fiction that an elevator man-like
an English butler-can't possibly under
stand the English language is one of the
mysteries that is unsolvable. \ man will
be dreadfully careful about repeating his
private affairs i'm the presence OF a
waiter. a policeman couldn't drag in
innate information out of him with a
derrick and steam winch. But that
selfsame man will airly float into an ele-
vator sublimely obiterate the elevator
man and unconsciously unbosom himself
of his innermost thoughts to whoever
happens to be his confidante.
There is an old elevator man in one of
the public buildings of Washington. That
he has not made his fortune several
times is due to the fact-well. because he
is an elevator man. He himself can eX-
plain it. He frankly confesses that he
has received information Of various kinds
tb.+ ,vm,ld have been invaluable to GER
tain newspapers
II never thought of usin it, Is his eN-
PLANTATION. .; .ra
of bumor which attaches to his business.
He declares that any man VINO mas run
an elevator i'm a decent-sized building Tor
tbraa wears either becomes born peSSl-
mist. or else is in fair way to occupy
a nice, quiet room in some convenient
lunatic asylum - ,... :. =. ..o
morning and take MIR. A, prominent
LAWYER upstairs. Mr.. A. is accompanied
As soon as Mr. A. is safely inside the
elevator he continues his remarks.
"As was saying" he continues, that
man 3. is the worst SKIN In TINS CIT. :.
WHY have positive evidence that IN
+hroe cases before the one I mentioned to
Won. he received payments amounting 10
one,third the total value of the properly,
and then closed down because or TWO
Iapses. When 1 get him in the EQUITY
Courts Tll-oh, here we are. seventh
George. 900, &C.
tate agent leaps lightly into the elevator.
followed by an admiring friend.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Observation-Disclosures
F. C. EIsELlN WHO DECIrHERED cUNEFoRM WRITINGS

than 800 characters. 1t is less than
century that scholars have been able
to read them. The key to their interpre-
tation was found in parallel inscriptions
upon an obelisk in three languages dis
covered in Persia. This tr-lingual in
scription was to cuneiform writing what
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addressed received it, he cracked the
envelope and read the letter.
1T is probable that letters were dis
pached to their destination by messenger.
These messengers were doubtless slaves.
No evidence of any post office or system
of carrying mails at public expense has
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uteS. He knows the StenOgrapher with
a weakness for chewing gum and mild
f1irtatiOns.
In a newspaper office, above all other
places, will the elevator man hear gossip
of a variegated and uniformly interest
ing nature.
For instance. it is the elevator man who
knows before any one else that the paper
has secured big news beat He gets
nearly all of the routine gossip, the edi-
torial opinions and the general drift of
office politics. when a majority of the
men who work for the paper are in
Let the elevator man switch his job
for a little while and begin running a
car in a modern department store. Here
also he Will learn many things that none
but he can learn. Take the woman who
has just been examining an nnumerable
quantity of valuable china. She leaves
the china department, goes TO the music
department two floors below and en- route
cOntidcs to her companion:
''Of course | didn't expect to purchase
any of that china. | just love to look at
it. though. Did YOU notice that cup and
saucer set?
And then she leaves the elevator and
goes over and purchases a copy of PLAY
That Boiler Shop Rag" which is offered
for sal. at the price of cents.
or course, the elevator man would be
of value to his employers IL he would
spot each Of this class and report her.
But he never does. He's an elevator man
not a house detective.
Then there is the chronic bargain hag-
gler whom the elevator man comes to
know like a sister She charges into his
car at early morn, flankcd by two eager
friends.
Table linens she gasps. Then turn
ing to her friends. she adds: did you
see that wonderful offer in linens i'm this
mornings paper. Really remarkable It's
some sort of partnership sale. 1 don't
know just what.
Later in the day she re-enters the ele-
vator loaded with bundles and appearing
to be depressed.
81 picked up a few good things she
confides to her friends, but lot of that
stuff wasn't what ! thought it was. And
rude beast of woman stood right in
front of me and prodded me with her ell
bow every time / tried to
And again she leaves the elevator.
An elevator man with a sense of humor
ought to get continual joy out of running
a car in the Wanted halls of Congress.
1t Is great opportunity to get behind
the scenes of the government Of our ma
ton. When Representative Bazook arises
on the floor of the House to protest
against a bill he begins by pointing out
that 1t assails the fundamental liberties
of the American people as laid down by
the Constitution. He then points out that
several thousand persons will be rendered
homeless and many millions of dollars
will be lost If the bill passes. and besides
that there are seventeen good constitu-
tional objections which indicate clearly
that 1t will not stand the test of the
courts.
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the Rosetta stone was to Egyptian hero
glyphs.
THE civilization of these Mesopota'
milan cities was of a very high order
Illiteracy, it would seem, was uncommon
and the laws of Hammurabi, who relgneo
1000 years Il. c., We're set up on pillars
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preserved the message to this DAY. Inc
baked love letter was deciphered recent
Iv by the Rev. f. c. Eiselen. professor
of Old Testament Interpretation, in an
address upon 1.-The Recovery of Lost
civilization" at the commencement OF the
fail term of the Garrett Biblical Institute
of Northwestern University, Evanston,
Ill.