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evidence
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET

New York. May S.-The local coffee
futures mar ket started steady this
morning with prices l to 3 points
higher. due to fairly good showing of
the Brazil cables and sentiment some.
what encouraged over the improved po-
httcal outlook il brazil and the definite
riacing of the new London loan.
One or two prominent local authori-
ties estimate the 1929 coffee crops at
lI,2jO, 900 bngs. with n worlds con-
sumption Of at least 10000, 900 bags.
Some of the floor traders consider pres
"nt prices here much too low under
uch conditions, but the market lacks
'nnp and the stimulating effect OF out
side speculative interest in coffee. Con-
seQuently the market lags at times. At
midday values on the exchange were
down Il couple Of points from initial
figures, with trading very quiet.
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Commodity Markets
GRAIN MARKET

Chicago. May S.-The wheat market
opened irregular at cent advance for
May and unchanged to 14c lower for
the later months. and early in the day
was feverish. The Liverpool market
declined to 1Ac. Receipts for the
day at Chicago were estimated at 400
cars, while crop advices were favor
able. The movement of values was
expected to hinge on developments in
the May position. The Winnipeg mar
ket was closed, IN celebration Of Ca.
madam Arbor Day. There were few
evidences of export demand, although
1t was. said that Saturdays sales were
larger than reported.
Corn opened about unchanged and
developed frmer tone with good buy
ing despite prospects Of 45O cars at
Chicago.
Oats were very steady, with narrow
price changes.
Provisions started higher on an up
turn of 20 to 25c in the hogh market,
but eased off on weak cables.
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DIVIDENDS DECLARED

Acme Tea Company quarterly ~ per
cent on first preferred payable June 1 10
stock OF record May 20.
McCrory Stores Company, quarterly I per
cent IN common stock on common. payable
June ] to stock Of record May 20.
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BANK CIEARlNGS

Bank clearngs today compared with cor.
responding day last two years:
1,oston.. s4s 900. 900 ss2 5ss. sss sbI, liz. 2os
y. Y. .3Dl. 100. 900 3s8. .037. s5S COS, s24, ,U3S
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v. 8. Certificates and Treasury Meta.

sExempt from Federal normal Income tas
Acceptable for payment OF income ia
due on date Of maturity.
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National Bank Call a. O, Nav s

Washington. May s,--The Comptroller OF
the Currency today Issued 4 cali for the
condition OF all national ba nks at the close
Of business en- Friday, May B..
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LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS.

oo6 Chiesxo. My s;--cAITLEs-Hec.,ms. H.;
abe stock. 1oai higher; ,spots Up more
GS TSR = s95 ss fs ssrana nSsnas
packers bidding $3.50 down for ves!ers; few
T. small dealers and shippers upward TO
HoGs-Recelp,s. a.. 400 head Mostly I5c
to zoe higher than Saturdays average; bic
PACKERS buying sphringiy; top, &lOg5; buiE
Sdo ~ ~ soplo''o PIGS. strong; bulk. si025T
sHEEP-Rece!p,s. $1,000 head. Nearly
around soc lower than Fridays close. EariS
top, shorn lambs, s14; heavy wooled
ewes. 800 down: heavy shorn ewes 50
down. W
- East BgG"io y, ". May s-cATTLE-
Ssss ysSs"s;; saws +; 81 So: ;s?s
sprinsers, .s45@is0. calves. % receIn,s' % 500 aGd
AefH Toos FS ffes' is6 9ys ts"S
III 80 workers., light .yerEera an ana !" pss, asa,
81 Moo 90; roughs. 50. % stays, i5@s''
,.s1 sHEEp AND t.AM!HsEReceiPtr, is 800
IL; yeerlins. ,ssqli 50; we,hrrs, a. 50 sic ssIiGc
ewes, SoVs,5o; mixed sheep. ts.5O18.
Pittshnrxh, Pe.. NAV s--CATTLE-Re-
c"nts' 1900 head ssady, Steers IS 90 ~
..',no,ves' receipts aooo he@d, Lower, Top,
HoGs-REcEII'rs. 10000 head. Lower
| Heavies, Si000Wll he""y yorkers' IIghi
do fns ppis' Ssl1aia,Iis; nAMsn.,.,,.. .ooo
h3s4l., Lower. Top sheep. $3.50; isp lambs,
- L ~ u .
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MoNEY.LENpING RATES

NEW YORk-Money on call. both classes
OF collateral opened today at 4 per cent for
lending and renewing.
PHILADELPHlA-Call s pcr cent: time.
3 per cent commercial paper, three to six
months. 4ia to per cent.
lONDON.--Money. M per cent. Discount
2rr per cent,
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YORK FIRE CHIEF IS DEAD
G. S. kroil Was President Of State
Firemen's Association

York, Pa, May S.-George 8. Kroll,
fifty -!one years old, chief Of tho York
Fire Department, died yesterday. lie
was a past president Of State Tircmen Is
Association, former alderman and served
several years in the internal revenue
office In York. lie was president of The
Laurel Fire Department and of The
Veteran Firemcn's Association OF York
and secretary OF the York Aeric, Fra
tcrnal Order Of Eagles. Hc figured
prominently In Democratic politics and
served on the State Central Commit .
~,
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from the opening at 5.3l for cables and
5,30h for checks. Marks were N above
the opening at 33B, but showed net
loss of ~ points.
The Central European exchanges were
quoted today as follows: Bulgarian,
.6S: Rumanian. cog; Serbian, l.4D
Czecho. .Slovakian, l.92A Jugo- Sla :
Wan, .37A: Greek, 4.4S; POLISH,
.0285; Finnish, 2.14; Austrian, .0l25
Hungarian, .13.
The premium on New York funds IN
Montreal today was virtually unchanged
at 1 Ole per cent. The discount on
Canadian funds In New York was
l 1882 per cent.
SATURDAYS CLOSING QUOTATIONS
Sterling Francs Lire Guilders
Demand .... i.f4h bl5h 5.35 3S83
cabiss ~, liiA old 5,sSH ss,sb
TopAY's OPENING QUOTATIONS.
Sterling Francs Lire Guilders
Demand 49,. 4.4+ e.lO 5.80h $685.
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Paris Bourse IRREGULAR

Paris: May 6.--Prices moved irregularly
on the Bourse TODAY, Three per cent rentes,
h8 francs o. centimes: exchange on London,
~ francs 20 Gentimes: per cent loan. n
francs 81 cent'mes. Tho dollar was quoted
at IL francs . centimes,
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COTTON MARKET

New York, May S.-Inhuenced BY
strong cables from Liverpool. heavy
spot sales there. a better textile labor
outlook in this country and unfavorable
weather advices. the local cotton mar.
ket was firm at the opening today.
Japanese interests were buyers of most
positions. New Orleans also was a
purchaser. There was a good deal Of
outside demand In evidence.
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WEST BRADFORD FARMERS
ia, CLUB,

The West Bradford Farmers Clut
met Thursday evening Jan 18th, at
Mr. Elmer L Aliens. There were
about forty present This was the
second meeting of this club since
January 1920. The first meeting was
at Ray P Eaton's, when the follow
ing officers were elected for the COM
ing year: Fred Kidder, Pres; George
R Cummings. Vice Pres; Chas. j
Shumway, Sec; Ray P Eaton, Treas.
After the meeting was called to
order by the president very little
business was done as Mr. H A Dwinell,
the County Agric. Agent, could not
be present. Five new members were
taken into the club. The club is
trying to solicit orders enough to
buy a carload of phosphate, as they
are able to purchase fifteen ton
car at very low price.
The ladies held an all days meet
ing and with the aid of Miss Freda
J Randall, the Home Demonstration
Agent, made several dress forms.
Four new members were taken into
the ladies' club 1t was voted to
have the next an all day meeting
and take up home dressmaking. The
next meeting is to be at Charles j
Shumway's Feb. 10th.
At the cloee of the meeting baked
bean supper was served and all ate
as if they enjoyed them. After the
supper they had music and singing,
and social time enjoyed after
which they all left for their homes
feeling they had had pleasant
time.
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BRADFORD RED CROSS NOTES.
The Baby weighing will be held at
Carl Slack's residence Thursday, Jan.
26th.
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JOSEPHINE MARITIME AND
COMPANY.

The fourth number Of the Enter
tainment Course, presented by Jose
phine MARITIME and Company, proved
to be one of the best numbers of the
Course. Rarely ever is it given a
of the ability of Miss Martino. For
ease and simplicity in rendering her
songs and for sweetness and fullness
of voice, her work stands out pre-
eminently.
Miss Martino was well supported by
Mr. Leuci on the violin and Miss Stage
at the piano. 1t is a pleasure to
have the opportunity of listening to
a, program so we'll presented as was
this one.
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Miss Mildred Worthley left Thurs

Miss Mildred Worthley left Thurs
day for Boston.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs H P Warren,
formerly of Fairlee, will be interest
ed to learn that their daughters. Mrs
Willard H Cummings and Mrs Gladys
Warren Rodebaugh, sailed from New
York on Jan. 9th for an extended
European trip. They go to Rome
with Mrs Maynard Ladd, a noted art
critic. and remain with her a few
days in her villa on the Raveira.
After visiting places of interest in
Italy, they will go to Switzerland to
the Winter sports. They will also
visit Vienna and Berlin, stop for
awhile in Paris and other places of
interest in France, go to Scotland,
see London, and after two or three
months sojourn, return home via
LIVERPOOL.
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Y, BRADFORD Y
AsMs@
B. A. VS. WELLS RIVER. FRIDAY
EVENING AT THE ARMORY.


LIE Mcclure of Springfield, Mass.
is in town.
Allen Bishop is employed in the
office of Hotel Low.
Harry L Worthley of North Thet-
ford was in town Tuesday.
Miss Mary G Chamberlain was a
week end guest of Mrs F H Bickford.
Mr. Walter C Low of New York has
been spending few days at the
hotel.
Joseph j Lally of Waverley, Mass.
is a guest of Mr. and Mrs c E Thomp-
son.
Mr. and Mrs G A Jenkins spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in Lebanon,
N. H.
Miss Mary B Murphy is taking a
weeks vacation from her duties at
the Post Office.
Mr. F H Bickford returned Monday
from a business trip to Boston, New
Bedford and Gloucester.
Mrs w w Bond and Master Charles
of South Fairlee spent several days
with Mrs Hattie Rowell.
The American Legion will hold a
public whist party in Legion Hall,
Jan oath. All come.-Adv.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Simons are
the happy parents of a son, Enrol
Francis, who arrived Monday, the
18th.
The following officers for 1922 were
installed at the regular meeting of
the Trotter Encampment on Friday
ev'ng., Jan. 9th: o ] Lea C. P; w r
Hunt, H. P: w w Rogers, S. W.; H
F Doe, j. w; w E Brooks, Treas;
H Stillwell, Scribe. Refreshments
were served to about fifty members.
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BRADFORD ACADEMY NOTES.
McIndOeS 8
b. A. SO

De As o. q
The game last Thursday evening
between McIndoes Academy and B. A.
resulted in a victory for the local
team by score of 81 to s. Currier
with eighteen baskets and Murphy
with fifteen led in the scoring. Dur
ing the second period the entire B..
A. second team was seen in action.
After the game, coffee and sand
wiches were served to the pl ers in
the Home Economics room at the
School building.
Mid-Year examinations in all sub
jects will be held next week.
This Friday evening the Wells River
High team will be the attraction at
the Armory. This team has lost but
one League game this season and
should prove to be one of the best
seen here this year.
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BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
GRACE CHURCH NOTES.

Services Sunday, JAN %
1870 Morning worship. Pastors
theme: "The gate to a we'll marked
path"
1145 Bible study.
7 p. m. Evening worship. Theme:
Worthy to open The Book"
Epworth League Tuesday, 7.30 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday 73O p. m.
at the home of DIR. Frost.
Wednesday, Jan. 25, the Woman's
Home Missionary Society will meet
with Mrs H w Hastings; Mrs Bang
hart, leader.
q. j. Anderson. Pastor.
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DR.. Frederick Fletcher quietly
passed his 18th birthday Tuesday at
home.
Mrs Franklin H Dow and daughter
left Tuesday for their new home in
Dorchester, Mass. Her mother, Mrs
J E Welton accompanied them.
Miss Vivian Hatch entertained a
party of friends at the home of Mrs
w B Ladd Tuesday evening Games
were played and delicious refresh
ments served, and all report a de-
lightful evening.
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Special Announcements.

Obituary Notices. Poetry and Resoln.
! tiOns, cents per line. Reading Notices
under Special Announcement 10 cents a
cents. cent c Gard % Of Thanks. % S so Cents eS ~
All purely business notices publis he'd
In our reading columns, and all adver-
tisements Of church, Sunday-schOol and
other fairs. excursions. etc. where money
Is expected to be realized. will be charg-
ed for at our regular rates. Editorial
notices of such affairs will be published
free.
If you need Glasses, see DR.. F A
Slader, Optometrist- -Optician, at Hotel
Low, Friday, Jan. 9th. Twice-a-
month visits thereafter. Main office
and grinding plant located at Rut-
land, Vt. II
Wood Saving.
Will try to do you a good job on
all kinds of wood saving. Price is
right. Inquire John w Grove, Or
ford, N. H. Tel 6-5.
For Sale.
Pair Holstein oxen weighing thirty
five hundred, very handy, age 6.
Frank Avery, Bradford, VT. Phone
1918. 1919
Teachers Wanted-for Grades, High
Schools, Colleges. National Teachers
Agency, 81 Masonic Bldg, North
ampton, Mass. 18
DR.. V H Eddy Eyesight Specialist
of Bethel, will be at Hotel Low two
days of each month. Watch for date.
Decorated Birthday Cakes made to
order; many original designs. Mrs
Sadie Hathaway, Bradford, VT. 1920
Wood for sale, green or dry. James
Watson, Bradford, Vt. Phone 1861
18tf.
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Mrs Montefiore Daniels of West
Springfield Mass. was in town, Sat-
urday.
DIR. and Mrs Conrad S Shumway and
Alberta are occupying the tenement
in Mrs Ellen Dickey's house recently
vacated by the community nurse, Mrs
Marion Taylor.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

Public Services are held in Bradford
National Bank Building. Room 4. every
Sunday morning at 10:45.
Subjec for the week-Truth.
Sunday School at IL o'clock.
The Reading Room is open every
Saturday afternoon from 3 to S. Every.
body welcome.
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BROCK HILL FARM
West Newbury, VT.
ACCREDITED
G u E r N s { Y S

Accredited Herd Certificate II466
Issued by U. s. Dept. of Agric.
and State Of Vermont
have only one bull left, but /
have % bushels nice table potatoes
that cook and eat right.
Nj. L. BROCK
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Ralph Carlo of the U. S. Navy, who
is stationed at Los Angeles, Cal, is
visiting his uncle, John Oneido and
family.
Mr. and Mrs F Tewksbury and
daughters of South Ryegate were
guests of Mr. and Mrs B H Hooker
this week.
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WHIST PARTY POSTPONED.

The Masonic Whist party, which
was to have been held Jan. 26th, will
be held Thursday evening, Feb. End.
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OFFICERS ELECTED.

At meeting Of the stockholders of
the Bradford Electric Lighting Com
pany held last week the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, c H Curtis, Brad
ford; Vice President, Ward Prouty,
Newport; Directors, c H Curtis, Ward
Prouty, John Prouty, F o Kennedy
and Mrs w w Rogers.
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Morning worship at 1870 a. m.
Sermon by the minister.
Bible school at noon.
Motion picture service at 7 p. m.
Third in the series of Lincoln pic
lures entitled "The Call to Arms"
Those who have seen the pictures my
Mother" and "My Father have been
most enthusiastic in their praise.
Everyone should see Mr. Chaplin in
his presentation of Lincoln the
Statesman. The public is invited.
Ladies Society will meet in the
parsonage on Tuesday afternoon at
2.30 for a sewing meeting.
Boys Club Tuesday evening.
Girls Club Wednesday afternoon at
The joint annual meeting of the
church and society will be held in
the vestry next Thursday at 7.30 p.
m. Supper will be served by the
Ladies' Society at o'clock to which
all members of the church and
society over fifteen years of age are
invited.
Music.
Prelude in F, Dubois
Anthem Light and Life immortal"
Bullard
Offertory, Pastorale in G. Faulkes
Anthem Sin of my Soul' Holden
Postlude. March in F Gaul
}. A. Lytle. Pastor.
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any real Importance has been done on any
Mesopotamian site since the University
Museum abandoned it's work at Nippur
thirty years ago.
Now, however, the British are in con-
troll. The Arab tribes have been pacified
and are friendly with the white man who
has helped them establish farms and re-
store canals that had lain idle for thou
sands of years.
British forces are being withdrawn: A
complete military railway with locomo-
tives, cars and operating force has been
turned over to the joint expedition.
With it goes a feet of huge motor
trucks.
There are derricks and clam-shell buck
cts and steam shovels to remove the accu-
mulated sand of centuries. As a result
the scientists will be able to do more work
in six months than any of their predeces-
sors did in six years.
Previous expeditions dumped the dirt
from one ruined building on top Of an
other. They were unable to get a COM
plete city plan. At Ur all the top dirt will
be removed and shunted on railway cars
out into the desert. Each level of occu-
patton will be cleared, its relics recovered,
a map and blue prints made of every
building, boulevard, road and alley. Then
shafts will be sunk to the next level Of
occupation.
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eled off and a new city built upon them
First a pavement was laid of brick,
stamped with the name of the new ruler.
That custom makes it possible by digging
into any Mesopotamian ruin to determine
how many different times It was occupied,
the time of each occupation and the seat
of government at that time, together with
the name of the ruler.
away, the explorers will proceed to the
lower ones. They do not expect to find
the worlds first library until they get far
down in the ruins. At Nippur several
levels of occupation were passed before
the treasure house of tablets was reached.
It was evident that many Of the later
conquerors, including the Persian, Darius,
the Assyrian kings mentioned in the
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was great the Tiger and the Euphrates
have carried down millions of tons of sand
and earth, and the shore line has been
pushed a hundred and fifty miles south
ward.
That fact alone made Ur "lost city"
for many years. 1t was only just before
the war that archaeologists succeeded in
locating It from distances between it and
other known sites furnished by the Nippur
and Assyrian tablets. At that time the
Turks were in control of Mesopotamia
Excavations of buried ruins could be made
only under their permit, which provided
that half Of all the finds must be left in
the Turkish Museum at Constantinople.
The Turks, Of course, were the final
judges Of value, and they tried to take the
best of everything. American and British
psychologists got tablets containing in
formation of value only because the Turks
could not read the ancient cuneiform in
scriptions.
Even with Turkish permit any real
continued exploration was extraordinarily
difficult in the twenty years before the
World War. Explorers were molested by
wandering bands utterly beyond the con-
troll Of the government. They were un-
able to bring In modern mechanical equip
ment. No museum or society cared to go
to that expense under the uncertain con-
ditions existing. Therefore nothing Of
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by modern engineers as the most extern
sive the world has ever known. Its beds
have been dry for thousands of years, but
the banks were so we'll constructed that
most of them still stand. They criss-cross
the entire plain. In the beginning it is
evident that each new city had its own
local ruler Then, as the country became
built up and the art of warfare developed,
city kings set out to conquer neighboring
cities. Ur, being one of the oldest, II not
the first centre of human settlement in
the region, naturally became the seat of
government on several occasions.
1t was the custom of an invading king
to tear down the wall erected by his prede-
cessor, and often to destroy the city.
After time the people came back and re-
building began. The old ruins were lev
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of Sumer, in the southern part of
Mesopotama, were the first men mentally
and physically equipped to transcribe that
account on their little oblong books fash
toned of Mesopotalnian mud.
Ur is best known to Biblical scholars as
the birthplace of Abraham.
In Genesis XIV, Z, it is read "And he
1.-THE Lord) said unto him (Abraham), |
am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur
of the Chaldees to give thee this land to
inherit it."
And in Nehemiah tx, 7, we read: Thou
art the Lord the God, who didst choose
Abram, and broughtest him forth out Of
Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the
name of Abraham"
The announcement that Ur is to be ex-
plored down to its first level of occupa-
ton was made in Philadelphia few days
ago by Dr. George Byron Gordon, director
of the University Museum, and simultane-
ously in London by officials of the British
Museum. These two institutions, leaders
in the science of deciphering the difficult
texts of Sumer and Babylonia, and own
ers of the worlds largest libraries of clay
tablets, have joined in an expedition
larger in plan, scope and equipment than
ANYTHING heretofore attempted by the
science of archaeology.
For half a century, since the British
discovered in the Assyrian ruins Of Asur-
banipul treasures Of ancient history and
literature, scientists and Biblical scholars
and historians throughout the Christian
world have been looking toward Ur with
longing ewes. When the University Mu-
scum found fifty thousand tablets in the
ruins of Nippur, or Nineveh, quarter Of
a century ago, interest was intensified.
And every important translation Of
those tablets made since then has pointed
irresistibly toward Ur as the very begin
ming of civilization and as the place where
civilizations earliest records were stored.
Originally the city was located on or
very near to the shores of the Persian
Gulf Definite evidence has been obtained
In the Nippur collections to show that It
was a fjourishing metropolis, a centre of
art, culture and religion at least seven
thousand years ago. Some authorities be-
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lieve it was . great city
as long ago as fourteen
thousand years before
Christ.
They conten5 that
the heights Of skill In
composition reached by
the scribes of Sumer,
the flights Of imagina-
ton shown in their
famous Epics, could
not have been devel-
oped by men just
emerged from the prim-
tive life of the wilder
ness without thousands
Of ars of slow
growth.
At any rate, since
the davs whep TIr
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Mesopotamia is a
huge plain that was
covered with hun
dreds of cities FIVE
to seven thousand,
years ago. Its popu-
lation ran into mil
lions Of persons. AS
eventually d e v e l.
oped, all the cities
were connected not
only by roads, but
by canals. The canal
Svstppo is rocorpi1od