The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11
New Archaeological Discoveries
Strange Proof Of Bible Stories

Rome on all incomes in excess Of
$1,000.
The hobble skirt was one Of Dame
Fashions DEGREES in the days Of
Moses
These and many other interesting
facts going to show that life among
the ancients was not 50 different from
that of to-day were brought out by
Prof Cobern in beginning his lectures.
rrof Cobern pointed out that the
Jews had three different systems Of
shorthand reporting in the first GEN.
fury and that in every Jewish court a
shorthand reporter or clerk sat on
each side of the Judge. Many Of the
Roman aristocrats took "stenogra-
piers" with them upon their travels.
Some of the other advantages en-
toycd by the ancients, according to
Prof Cobern, follow:
In St Pauls time there were seventy
labor unions In Rome; hence a strug-
gle between capital and labor must
have been waged even then.
There were several great monopolies
IN the first century, the greatest Of all
being the oil business. although no
mention of Rockefeller appears on the
papyrus examined by he American
scholar. The trust" had not cornered
kerosene, which was unknown at that
period, but dealt in. olive oil and the
Ike.
There also were monopolies In eggs,
perfumes ana pricks.
As TO homes. the ancients made the
New York millionaires look like
"plkers." Prof. Cobern says he has
read IN mapuscripts dug from ancient
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,abio. 1,ho roses ,,ora hrouch, &c.,
Eg,r,
Dnrirg bio oxn,ora,iors n, Isr,oho
Prof Cobern saw tho crumh,sd rem.
rsnts Of tbreo limos If sortif,cat;on.
uhe Bible story mentions but one)
which fell before the triumphant Is
racntcs, They were of concrete. stone
and brick. and in some places must
have been twenty-eight feet high.
At Taannach the archpologist found
evidences OF human sacrifices made by
bodies of sixteen babies. murdered by
their parents when they were less
than week old. In hole was found
the skeleton or an old woman. Her
neighbors FORCED her 10 crawl inside
shu 'hen waheu n,r IN.
Froi' 'operh toio OF tnriiihS uash
70 the oasis al hadesh- barnea. where
Moses struck the rock win ms roo
ana brought rorth water Tor the IS
raeiites. Inc explorer drank from this
spring when he says contains water
as pure ana clear as any 10 be founo
In pennsylvania
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