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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-01
100000 Trainmen
To Ask Pay Raise
National Railroad Crisis
Expected to Result From
Brotherhood Demands

CHICAGO, Oct. 3i.-Plans for q
formal demand for an increase Of
wages for 100000 men will be formu-
lated at a meeting of the delegates
from the Brotherhood o. Railway
Trainmen and me Order OF Railroad
Conductors, which will begin here to-
morrow, and probably last ten days.
Members OF the organizations, 1t is
said. have voted 20 demand an increase
in wages ranging from 20 TO so per
cent. The organizations include. con-
ductors, brakemen, Aagmen, baggage
men. switchmen and yardmen. except
ing those in the Chicago switching dis
trict.
national labor crisis was seen to-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-01

The government alone, no matter
how willing and anxious TO do IT'S part.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-01

mittee are basing their expectation
that the s20,OC0,O00 still needed to
make I'D the maximum quota Will come
in to-day, chiefly on the fact that fuli
returns have not yet been received
from some of the larger cities, irciud-
ing Buffalo. Rochester and Paterson.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

upon an obscure law in the great law code of
Babylonia, which bears the name of ammura
In it we have reference to the custom of blowing a
horn at the village gates to notify the shepherds
on the plains that the grazing season was over.
These rural villages in which the peasants con-
gregated from the surrounding plain appeared to
have been so arranged that the village buglers
were able to make the shepherds and farmers
hear the sound Of the horn in every part of
BabylOnia.
1.-THE rural life of ancient times in this historic
land has here a visual commentary" Doctor Lang
don adds, land we see how the peasants lived to-
gether in villages, having village commons for
their fOcks and a municipal marsh to furnish a
most necessary article of domestic life, the cane
reed. Assuming that the orientatiOn of the map
is the ordinary one employed in other Babylonian
maps, one Is able to trace the several features of
the country and their details. The skeleton of the
plan is made by the canal which enters from the
northeast corner of the district, flows south-south-
west and turns in a rough p%arabolic curve, to re-
treat at the same angle toward the north-nOrth-
west. At the center of the district marked by the
end of the parabola enter from the south
east and southwest corners two canals which
ante with the main canal.
Inscriptions on the tablet give the names of the
various canals, the villages and hamlets. Thus in
the extreme northeast corner Is the town of Bit
Kar NuSEu, and the northeast wing of the canal,
on which this town lies, is called Nar-biltl, or
"Canal OF the Burden" Indicating that agricultural
and other PRODUCTS were carried upon II.
"ThiS name and Others" says Doctor Langdon,
"show that these canals were arteries of trade
as well as streams to supply the fields with water.
The town Kar Nusku is mentioned in temple ac-
counts Of the city of Nippur as supplying sheep
and grain for the support of the temple priests.
In the northwest corner, on the left branch of the
canal, is the town of Hamri, also mentioned in the
accounts of the temple at Nippur. Therefore, the
northwest branch of the canal bears the name
Mar Hamri. According TO references in Assyrian
inscriptions, hamru designates a place where the
cult of the fire god was established"
Another canal bore the name of Belsunu, a rich
man, whose estate is supplied with water for irri-
cation purposes. Unfortunately, the estate itself
lay outside the limits of the map, so II is impos-
sible to get any description of Belsunu's country
house. In the opinion Of Doctor Langdon the
point of chief interest in the mind of the ancient
%map-maker was the conelike space at the end Of
the ~parabOTa, which is about the center of the
map. The following inscription is cut into this
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20
DECIPHERING WORLDS OLDEST LOVE LETTER AT
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA --:

~HE worlds oldest love letter and the
worlds oldest map, so far found-these
are two interesting discoveries just brought
4 to light by DIR. Stephen Herbert Langdon
of the University of Pennsylvania Museum or
Arts and Sciences.
The love letter, on a tablet of clay, was, accord
Ing TO Doctor Langdon, written about the time OF
the patriarch Abraham.
1t is true that in the translation romance gives
way to commercialism, but nevertheless there is
nothing of the kind in any other museum. The
tablet was deciphered and translated by Doctor
Ungnad.
Personal letters of this type written by the
ancient are generally found inclosed In clay en-
velopes, so fashioned that while they cover the
writing completely and hold the tablet itself Sc
cure they do not obliterate the symbols, but rather
protect them.
So much for the love letter, but Doctor Lang
don, leading Sumerian scholar of all time, seems
much more interested in the ancient Babylonian
map which he has just finished reading.
The map proves conclusively that the compre-
hensive city planning, heard so much of in recent
years, is almost as old as civilization.
Not only did the Babylonians plan the building
of their towns and cities, but, according to this
map or diagram, they laid out villages and ham,
lets along preconceived plans TO give residents
"all the advantages of city life"
Nothing like the map just discovered at the
university ever has been found before by arch
biologists, and evidently it is only one of many. If
1t can be taken as n fair sample OF the fore
thought exercised by ancient Babylon in building
up her outlying domains, then the whole country
must have been connected by the most elaborate
system of canals in the history of the world.
Babylon had no telephone or telegraph, but for
certain fundamental purposes of protection IT had
something just as good" For Doctor Langdon
has translated some of the numerous small in
s~criptions on the tablet bearing the map to indi-
cate that the particular section here described
was so laid out that persons living in any part of
1t could hear the blowing of a horn from the CEN
trail common. 1t was an old custom in the country
to blow a horn at q certain season of the year,
after which grazing was no longer permitted. The
reason for this is lost in antiquity, but examlna-
ton of other tablets at the museum some day may
reveal 1t.
The exact age of the map is not definitely
known. Doctor Langdon believes 1t was made in
the Cassite period, about 1900 years before Christ.
Concerning the horn-blowing custom, Doctor Lang
don says: 1.-THE map throws a welcome light
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

upon an obscure law in the great law code of
part of the tablet:
Field between the canals. the contents () are
eight gul Ga measure of area in the Cassie and
Assyrian insCriptions) field of the palace
Therefore the %mapmaker wished to give an ac-
curate drawing of the field belonging to the royal
estates" says Doctor LangdOn, "and we may as
sumo that he did his work at the kings injunc-
ton, and that the tablet has come down to us
from the royal archives at Nippur. The Cassite
kings nominally held court at Babylon, as the
capital Of BabylOnia,
Forests We're unknown in southern Babylon,
and the natives had to use reeds for making bas-
kets, household furniture, frewood, hedges and
even for the writing stylus. Accordingly, a mu-
nicipal marsh was an essential, and one is shown
on the map at the university museum. Another
feature of no little significance, which sheds light
for the first time on the origin of the customs that
sprung up in the middle ages of endOWing mon
asteries with estates to provide for their tables,
is the field of the table of the Baru priest" On
this phase of the diagram Doctor Langdon says:
"The Baru priest was the seer of the Babylon
ians, whom they invariably consulted about all
future events. This learned priesthood was at
tached TO all the great temples and, as we see
here, owned valuable landed estates. The idea
of n state-suppOrted order of seers seems pre-
posterOus to us, for divination is considered IL
legal, but Babylonian religion was supercharged
with magic and mystery. Kings and laymen un-
dertook no important tasks, launched no impor-
tant ventures, without consulting these sages of
the liver Omens, of oil Omens and of every con-
ceivable kind of divinatiOn. They formed an i'm
portant part of the priesthood, and hence we find
them on our map in possession of estates more
valuable than those of the king himself.
I'm the extreme corner of the northwestern part
Of the district is the village of Hamri, situated in
a field which bears no name, perhaps the mu-
nicipal property. South of this area is the field in
which we find a village with the curious name Til
amel HASA, or Hill of the Fifty Men. The local
history of this town, which would elucidate it's in
t~eresting name, is unknown. The field Itself bears
no inscription and was probably a village COM
mon also. A small canal separates the two vii
lage properties. The large field OF the table of
the Baru priest is bounded on the north by the
canal of the table, These names refer to the
properties settled by royal decree upon this re-
hglous order for the support of their table. in
precisely the same way certain lands In Europo
became the property of monastic orders in the
middle ses.".-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

him to longer continue in the growing of wheat
alone without also keeping live stock to help pay
the living expenses.
Accordingly, two years ago, he decided to in
vest in a flock of sheep, and 1t was while driving
these home that he made the discovery which he
has since turned to such good account.
Along the road near the Mansfield farm the
salt-bush grew in abundance, and to Mr.. Mans
fields Infinite surprise the sheep began feeding
upon it greedily. He figured upon the spot that
he had destroyed $500 worth of good sheep feed
that year, besides wasting a great deal of labor,
In trying to get rid of the weeds.
Last summer he pastured his entire flock of
1000 sheep on the salt-bush with the most as
tonishing results. The sheep were not only ex-
~ceedingly fat, but their wool was of a superior
quality. Several neighboring farmers with small
focks of sheep followed Mr.. Mansfelds expert
ment and their sheep, also, were In much better
shape than those that were taken to the noun
tains during the summer.
During ~aaperiod of two weeks last summer Mr..
Mansfeld's flock of 1000 sheep was kept on less
than five acres of ground that was growing Aus
tralian s~alt-bush, and they did not clean the feed
all up at that. These five acres of land were two
feed yards where he had fed stock for years and
consequently they grew an immense amount of
the weed, but ordinarily dry land which practical
ly will not grow anything else, will produce this
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

from seasickness, and by holding on to
the rails and ropes she managed to
reach her chair near the bridge. Mate
Caldwell was not long in discovering
her, and greeted her cordially.
"May 1 come on the bridge" asked
Irene wistfully. She felt timid in this
whirl of elements.
Caldwell hesitated.
"You may come up if you like" he
said, "but only for a minute" He
helped her up the steep steps, holding
her hand longer than necessity re-
quired, and showed her how to steady
against the rail.
"Please, sir" said the nan at the
wheel; "there's something the matter
with the needle"
Indeed the compass showed unmis-
taxable signs of perturbation as Irene
passed it. Caldwell left the girls side
and looked at the box. The needle was
calmly pointing ahead without a ire
NOR.
1.-THE wind must have affected your
vision, Brown" he said and resumed
his place near his fair companion. The
allotted ten minutes heightened to an
hour and a quarter.
II must 60" she said at length.
"Mother has not had her breakfast
yet. She may be waiting for me"
He helped her down and as far as
the cabin door, after which he re-
turned to the bridge in a delightful
reverie.
''There is something wrong with the
compass, sir" again said the pilot
timidly. "As you left the bridge with
the young lady, the needle made a
complete circle"
Caldwell examined the box attentive
ly, but could discover nothing ex-
traordinary about the needles action.
He looked sharply at his subordinate
to see If he had been drinking, but
could find nothing to justify the sus-
piclon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20
The Mates
Mate
BY Nj. coLDsMTTH

Copyright, 1917. Western Newspaper Union.)
The third day out of port, and the
ocean was as calm as a mill pond. Not
so the heart of the first mate of the
good steamer Oceanica. He had
weathered many q hurricane, but had
never experienced such an emotional
storm as now swept over his soul. The
unconscious cause of it sat on deck
near the bridge reading a novel-a
bright, brown-haired maiden with rosy
cheeks and an exuberance of spirits,
an American rosebud who had been
touring in Europe and was now home
ward bound. Mrs. Laird, her mother,
seasick, and Irene, firing of the stuffy
air amidships, had come on deck to
breathe old Neptune's ozone.
Spying the mate on the bridge, she
nodded pleasantly. "Mr. Caldwell"
she said, 'you promised to take me
through the engine room and show me
the machinery"
$50 1 did" he replied. "If you are
ready, this will be as good a time as
any,"
: Calling the second mate to take his
place, he descended the ladder. Irene
had risen, and placing her arm in his,
they wendell their way ~leisurely to the
engine room. Truly she was a vision
of loneliness and the mates heart beat
as loudly-so it seemed to him-as did
the %pulsating machinery.
Next they turned their steps toward
the room where the dynamo whirred
and sang as it turned out current for
the ships illumination. The mate ex-
planned in detail the delicate contriv-
ance, while Irene listened with evident
interest.
'"Thank you ever so much, Mr.. Cald-
WE'LL" she said 1--WE enjoyed it huge
ly, but 1 really must turn in nov VIII
you escort me to the cabin entrance? ~
He left her at the door and wan
dered back to the bridge with his head
in a whirl. If he could but do some
thing TO show the girl how much he
loved her, and to make himself worthy
of her love in return.
Next day a sudden storm trans
formed the ocean into q chaos of hills
and valleys. The squat changed to a
tempest which buffetted the big ship
about like a cork. Irene dragged her
self on deck; it was her only salvation
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

on it. Sheep. he adds, must be conhneu on 1t d
day or two before they relish it. Then they go 10
it with avidity. They do not, however eat
enough of it to make them sick and die as they
do on alfalfa and a great many other plants Out
they get exceedingly fat on it.
The Australian saltbush is described as a much-
branched perennial, which forms a thick mat over
the ground a foot or IS inches In DEPTH the
branches extending from five to eight feet; one
plant often covering an area of 10 to ~ square
feet. The leaves are about an inch long, broadest
at the apex, coarsely toOthed along the margin
feshy and somewhat mealy on the outside. Inc
fruits are tinged with red, fattened and PUPPY
but become dry as soon as they fall from the
plant. The seeds terminate better If o on
the surface, which should be planked or hrmeu
by driving a flock of sheep across it. When Gov
cred to any depth the seeds decay before germl-
nation.
The plant will grow on black alfalfa land thai
is really of no value for anything else on earth
Mr.. Mansfield states that there are millions OF
acres of such land in the United States, which, i
sown to this seed, undoubtedly would keep sheer
enough to produce more wool and mutton than is
now raised in the entire United States.
Mr.. Mansfield adds that if cut for hay the salt
bush should be cut while the branches are soft
and tender, and the second crop will make con-
siderable pasture and re-seed the ground.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

weed. Later in the summer MIR.
Mansfield made some hay of the
weed, but on account of the
scarcity of labor was not able to
haul it in out of the shock. lie
had to turn his sheep through
this hay to the stubble helu'
where there was plenty of other
pasture, and they would stop and
eat this hay. They cleaned IL
all UP and saved the trouble OF
hauling it in.
Mr.. Mansfield is not only very
enthusiastic about the saltbush
as a food for sheep, but believes
it is good feed for other stoch
also. Hogs, cattle and horses he
states, eat it soon, and he pc
lieves that they would learn 10
like it as we'll as the sheep DO IL
they were confined n short time
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20

grows have ONE to look upon what was for
merly considered absolutely worthless land as a
real bonanza, and they are now preparing to
turn their attention from the raising of hogs and
wheat to sheep, with the assurance that, under
ordinary conditions, they can hardly fall short of
Mr.. Mansfield's success. They see opened before
them what is practically a virgin field of sheep
raising, offering wonderful possibilities.
AS soon as the value of the salt-bush as q for
age crop become generally known it undoubtedly
will be cultivated in other sections of the West.
AS a matter of fact, 1t is now found along oil the
highways from Arizona to Washington, but very
few people know its true name and fewer know
that it is a valuable plant. In eastern Oregon it
is generally known as the Pendleton flood weed,
and has been looked upon as such a pest that
there is a law in the state against allowing it to
go to seed.
According to Mr.. Mansfield, however, 1t is real
ly of more value to eastern Oregon than the al
falfa plant, for not only is 1t q far better feed for
sheep, but 1t will grow on the most arid land,
and practically requires no attention after once
getting a stand, as it grows in hard, firm soil bet
ter than on loose, well-cultivated land.
Mr.. Mansfeld's experience, as related by him to
the writer, who was fortunate to visit the farm
at a time when a thousand head of sheep had just
been turned into a new pasture of the %saltbush,
when the accompanying photographs were taken,
reads almost like a fairy story.
For several years Mr.. Mansfield farmed 5000
acres of land, all of which was wheat land
with the exception of $50 acres, which were sub
irrigated alfalfa land. Finally the land became so
foul with Russian thistles and Jim Hill mustard,
that this, together with the high cost of labor and
the low price of wheat, made it impossible for
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20
INTERNATIONAL
LESSON

tRy REV. p. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher OF English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of ChicagoD
Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-11-29
An Old Mans Stomach.

AS we grow older and less
active, less and less food is re-
quired to meet the demands of
our bodies. If too much is
habitually taken, the stomach
will rebel. When a man reaches
the advanced age of IS or90,
you will find that he is light
eater. Be as careful as you
will, however, you will occasion
ally eat more than you should
and will feel the need Of
Chamberlain's Tablets to cor
rect the disorder. These tablets
do not contain pepsin, but
strengthen the stomach anden-
able it to perform it's functions
naturally. They also cause a
gentle movement Of the bowels.
Sold by all dealers. fadv
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-11-29
County Directory.

CIRCUIT COURT
Warren B. Kittle, Judge
w. Bruce Talbot, Prosecuting Atty.
w. d. Corder, Clerk.
COUNTY COURT
E. A. Waugh, President,
VIM. Scrimgeour, Commissioner.
Ishmael Haddox, Commissioner.
S. F. Hoffman, Clerk
County Court convenes.
Second Monday in January,
First Monday in April,
Second Monday in June,
First Monday in October.
E. w. S. Kennedy, Sheriff.
E. A. Barte, Deputy Sheriff.
W. Scott Simon, Assessor.
Cleo. Swecker, County Engineer.
Isaiah johnson, County Surveyor.
E. A. Hunt, Supt. Free Schools.
COURT HOUSE-Philippi, W. Va,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-11-29
Gucl Directory.

BAPTIST CHURCH-Rsv. 81. A.
Stellar, pastor. Sunday School at
s:45 A. II. J. N. Terrell, Supt. Pray
er meeting Wednesday night Of each
week.
N. e. CHURCH-Rev. RIA. ,Skaggs,
pastor. Preaching every Sunday.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday even
ing. Sunday School every Sunday at
$3.50 A. M. j. L. Ernest, Supt.
N. E. CHURCH, SCUTH-Preach-
ing End and 4th Sundays Of each
month, Rev. O. E. Thorn, pastor. Pray
er meeting Wednesday evening. Sum
day School at 9:45A. M. Howard
Price, Supt
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching services at II A. n. eveEy
first and second sunday, and at IL A..
N. and 80 P. N. every third Sunday.
Rev. John Mckenzie, pastor Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 800 P. n.
Sabbath School At 0:45 A. N. J. p.
Tibbets, Supt.
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Rev. H. D. Farmhouse, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week.
Sunday School every Sunday morn
ing at $3.50 A. N. NJ. D. Gamer, Supt.
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doses Of Black Draught."

uoseS VI bldCk-DIauSuL.
Seventy years of successful use has
made Thedford's Black-Draught a
standard, household remedy. Every
member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black raught can
give in cleansing the system and re-
lieving the troubles that come from
constipation, indigestion, lazy liver,
etc. You cannot keep well unless your
stomach, liver and bowels are in good
working order. Keep them that way.
Try Black-Draught. 1t acts promptly,
gently and in natural way. If you
feel sluggish. take a dose tonight.
You will feel fresh tomorrow. Price
CSC. package-Oue ce1s dose
All druggists. J. SO
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-11-29
Mrs. r. O. Stuchell Tells How She
Cured Her Son Of . Cold.

when my son Ellis was sick
with a cold last winter / gave
him Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. 1t helped him at once
and quickly broke up his cold, "
writes Mrs. P. O. Stuchell,
Homer City, Pa. This remedy
has been in use for many years.
It's good qualities have been fully
proven by many thousands of
of people. 1t is pleasant and
safe to take.
Sold - "a dsalsrs- ta1v.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-11-29
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1917

Among the many absurd and vic
ious rumors put into circulation these
days, probably through pro-German
influences, is one that the United
States proposes to confscitae money
on deposit in banks. The absurdity of
the statement is obvious on its face.
These rumors are wholly without
foundation and probably circulated for
an evil purpose. The Government has
II power to confscate the money of
depositers in banks From statement
of Secretary McAdoo.
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LIVER DIDN'T ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Says IS year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Wa: Relieved
After Few Doses Of BlackDraught.

Meadorsville. Ky.-Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbotham, of this town, says: "At
my age, which is 65, the liver does
not act SO well as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. was constipated, my liver
didn't act. My digestion was bad, and
it took SO little to upset me. My ap-
petite was gone. was very weak.
decided would give Black
Draught thorough trial as knew it
was highly recommended for this
trouble. began taking it. / felt
better after few doses. My appetite
improved and became stronger. Ny
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with a few
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-11-29

What! A New Store, Where?
In the Hankey Building near the
freight Depot, What do they
sell? Feed and Groceries. How
is their prices? That is their
drawing card, Try them and
be convinced. We solicit por-
tiof>of your patronage.
TIE PEOPLES STORE