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during the last century Of the repub-
lie. The ladies were getting tired az
sitting at home while Roman and
Greek courtesans took possession Of
their husbands"
Moral censors OF to-day shoot wide
OF the mark II they adduce from
what took place two thousand years
ago that the world has changed little.
But yet Brandes comes to the defense
OF the womankind OF that period by
calling attention to the kind of men
that surrounded a Clodia. for in
stance. To judge her with some
show Of justice. he says, we must
consider her environment Cicero's
enmity contributed chiefly toward
the bad reputation attaching to her
character.
TO understand women Ike C7o-
dia," affirms the Danish writer, her
sister-in-law F,ulvia. and others with
similar instincts and methods Of act.
| ing, we must remember that their
blood was untamed. II was not for
nothing that they were the females
TO the males who made conquest Of
the then known world They fol-
lowed their impulses. which were al
ways impetuous. sometimes wild"
.'If Clodia possessed the beauty of
d bacchante, Fulvia's features were
those OF beautiful but wild goddess
of vengeance. Like Clodia. she Is the
feminine instinct of the time. but her
aim lies in the direction of power and
wealth, not to be worshiped by ps~3
men. Ambition to rule, coyssousness.
jealousy are her COMPONENT parts
She looks upon herself as coming
last in the historical events then cen
tering, and she enjoys to make her.
self felt by gathering taxes. take re-
venge, have the weaker men obey
her summons and setting the
stronger rulers against each other
to get back the one on whom de-
pended her influence. She did not
succeed in gushing e side octavius 50
that Antony became absolute sove-
reign. She was no more successful
in supplanting Cleopatra Her hfkx
was passions football: her death
tragic"
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and anecdotes passing from mouth
to mouth during $50 years, mostly
among liberated slaves. and which go
contrary to the facts. It Is a pity
that Shakespeare had no other source
than Piutarch for his presentation
of Cleopatra! True enough. 1t was
not her he wished to picture with his
portraiture but evidently another
woman much closer to him.
Caesar never complained of Cleo
patra- Nor did she give him any
occasion. His love for Cleopatra,
nevertheless, proved ruinous to him
once more when again he saw her
in Rome. On the completion of the
Alexandrian war, and Cesar in the
year Al left Egypt, she bere him a
son soon after his departure, who
as prince Of Egypt was called Ptol-
emy, but whom the mother named
Casarion; designation that Caesar
acknowledged. It is very certain
that when in the year 46 she ar
rived in Rome to be near Cesar she
had her tiny son with her.
Hated by the Romans.
Although her reception was for
NAL, still she was received In Rome
as Queen over great country that
was the ally Of the republic; she
was the guest Of the Dictator and
resided in his gardens. But her
coming in reality caused great Of
fense; the antipathy of the Romans
rose to fever heat. Not that Ro-
man society objected to an illegiti-
mate love connection. The old fash
ioned Puritanism existed no longer.
II was a long time since the Roman
matron remained at home at the
spinning wheel.
THAT C9sar's name In Rome was
associated with some Of the foremost
women of the patrician class rather
shed halo around him than made a
stain. And that IN Africa he should
have had an affair of the heart with
an exotic queen like Eunoe Of Mau-
ritania or in Egypt connection with
the Queen Of the Nile, those were
travel adventures and Indifferent gal
lantries."
Brandes declares that the Romans
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following scheme" added Dr. L.
grain. Beginning of dynasty OF Isin
about b. C. 200: Ur, $500: Gut. 2425;-
Akkad. 2s5o; Kish. 2s75; Upi. 5000:
before which we have TO place at
least eight more dynasties of Mar.
Adab, Hamazi. Kish, AVIAN. Ur. Uruk
and Kish, about B. c. 5000 to 1000"
The People of Gutium," referred
to in the tablet. have been known to
archaologists only as invaders. prob
ably tribesmen from the hills. who
swept into the peaceful and fertile
valley of Mesopotamia in 24e5 B. c,
conquered all the cities. and re-
mained in control for more than a
century. Some rather interesting
speculation is aroused by the state
ment in the tablet that they had no
king" Was this the worlds first re-
public? And il so, what was its
method Of choosing its leaders, Some
OF the cities named in the chrono-
logical lists have never been discoy-
cred. but doubtless some day they
viii be located and no one knows
what stories OF ancient enlighten-
ment their ruins may yield
DR.. Legrain is one Of not more than
a dozen living men who can read
and translate Sulnerian. This is a
language that was considered in the
dead" class as long ago as $500 B. C,
when the later Bahyionian languagaI
was in use. He is the author of sey-
eral books and is now compiling a
volume Of illustrations of strange
birds and animals that were in use by
the artists of ancient Sumner and
Babylon. This viii show that vfr-
tually every heraidic sign developed
I'm relatively modern times in all the
European countries had its origin
far back in the dawn of history.
One of the earliest of these signs
was on the insignia of scribe The
record Of il was found in the Nippur
collection OF tablets on a lump OF clay
that had been used to seal bottle of
Babylonian wine. On the clay the
owner OF the coat Of arms rolled his
seal cylinder. thus leaving an i'm
preston that has remained for moro
than 1000 years.
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twenty-one kings who occupied the
land 124 years and 10 days.
This new and welcome informa-
ton must not blind us to the fact
that absolutely reliable chronology is
actually out of the question, not only
because a legendary number of years
is attributed to the kings OF the first
dynasty Of Kish (some six. seven,
eight OF nine hundred years each).
or because any attempt to supply by
indirect computation the missing
portions of the text would prove
fruitless, but because the texts so
far published do not agree in all de-
tails Whether the various readings
have to be traced back TO the Old
scribe. or to the modern copyist has
to be further established"
The translation:
Diverse, column three: reigned 80
years
Elulu reigned 25 years
Balulu reigned IS years.
-Four kings ruled 12o plus 81 years.
Ur was defeated by arms.
Column four: or kings ruled
$500 plus 1sz years
Kish was defeated by arms, the
kingdom passed to Hamazi.
In Hamad -ni-ish became
king and reigned years, &C.
Summing up the new chronology
cal data we may safely establish the
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Cleopatra Was a
Woman of Merit
Continued from Preceding Pooe

Apollodoros in that way fooled the
guard.
Cleopatra was brought before
Cesar as a bundle. Before his eyes
the straps were unloosened, and out
Of the bag stepped Cleopatra; like
Aphrodite, according to the legend,
from out the sea shell.
"Casar was transformed into Cleo
patra's spokesman after having been
her judge"
Brandes discusses the Alexandrian
war for no other purpose than to
present to view Cleopatra, "for
whose sake Cesar permitted his enc
mics undisturbed to gather armies
against him in Asia, Africa. Spain.
while, If Cleopatra had never existed,
he could have put an end to the
world war at once. For Cleopatra's
sake he found himself in more diff
ficult position than ever before, and
on her account he was compelled to
wage war during more than four
years subsequently. No other wom-
an did him such harm, and none re-
mained so precious to him until the
last.
A Woman of Great Merit.
mot that this passion was un-
reasonable or was bestowed upon
one unworthy Of 1t. Cleopatra pos
sessed not only beauty, that beauty
which takes equal rank with rich
intelligence and rare goodness. Apart
from her attractions she apparently
was a woman of great merit.
'oThe fury with which she was de-
famed by historians and poets want
ing to ingratiate themselves with
Augustus makes no impression on a
modern reader free from bias. and
what, for instance. Plutarch tells
about her long after her time is un-
reliable nonsense that he had heard
from his great-grandfather. Nikar-
chos, who again built upon evidence
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vas showing Roman beauty at its
worst Every lover OF Latin poetry
is familiar with the manner in which
Catullus sang the praises OF Clodia,
who comes before the reader In the
form of his beloved Lesbia-
Originally /. was the intention
of Catullus that his friend should be
to that period as another Sapho," |"
Brandes affirms, her equal in power
OF attraction, knowledge and taste
Clodia was of an imposing beauty and
the aristocratic young men Of the
day danced attention upon her in
her house in Rome, her gardens
along the Tiber, or at her country
place in Bajae. Married to the opti-
mate. Quintus MeteIius Celer, who
had been praetor in 63 and consul
in so, he was considered a valua-
BILE military man. When he died In
SO. very suddenly. the spiteful ru-
NOR had il that Clodia personally or
through her brother had rid herself
Of her husband by giving him poi
son.
Brandes gives a detailed account
Of what happened when Clodia and
Catullus fell out and how the latter
rained abusive language over the
one who formerly he had adored.
Cicero occupies a prominent place
in all those happenings. As one of
her accusers he brought her before
the Roman seat of Judgment But,
argues Brandes, ''to form a true pic
ture Of her presents US with unsur-
mountable difficulties, since we have
not a single line from her hand or a
work from her own mouth. Her
violent accusers were a discarded
lover and a malicious lawyer who
prosecuted her because in her daring
and impudent brother he had found
an enemy. Greco had busted himself
in a matter that did not concern him
in the least
The Rebellion of Women.
"That Clodia overstepped what
was due old time Roman custom and
morals Is indisputable. But she was
no exception In that respect Eman-
cipafion of woman broke over Rome
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Tablet Neglected
for Years Fills
Out Chronology
to Deluge.
SMALL tablet of baked clay
broken into three fragments.


~ broken into three fragments.
4 n which had been lying unno-
ticed in the Nippur Library col
lection of the University Museum
at Philadelphia for more than twenty
years, has just been the means OF
restoring more than five hundred
years of ancient history. Translated
by DR.. Leon Legrain. Curator OF the
Museums Babylonian Section. it has
turned out to be the missing part OF
a huge chronological tablet widely
conled and circulated at the time Of
Abraham, which gave the names OF
dynasties and kings back to the De-
luge.
Numerous copies of parts Of these
tablets have been dug up in various
parts of Mesopotamia by American,
British, French and German explor-
ers, but by some singular misfortune
all the fragments heretofore found
were minus the columns listing the
Sumerian dynasties between $500
and 5000 b. c.. From that year on
archaeologists have been able to re-
construct the framework of Baby
lonian history with remarkable ac-
curacy, but until the new find they
had no means of determining the
order Of dynasties earlier than 5000
B. c.. some of the names of which
were known.
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Clearing Up of 500 Years

belonged and the city which became
their capital, the total number Of
kings and years and one particular
dynasty, and. best of all. fully de-
veloped lists of succeeding dynasties,
are a leading light in the obscure
path of the student of ancient his
tory. Anything bearing on these
subjects is most valuable document
for the scholar, the arch@elogist or
any man interested with the problem
of origins.
Among the few uncatalogued tab
let's in the Museum collection there
has come to light. during the last
summer, fragment from Nippur
which is of unusual importance in this
connection. for it is part of chrono-
logical tablet that fills gap in the
early history of Babylonia. 1t begins
at a point prior to $500 B. c. and
comes down to 1000 B. c., covering
a period of more than 500 years and
connecting up with other chrono-
logical records that have come to
light from time to time.
The Legendary Kings.
"By degrees, thanks to the docu-
ments published in the last ten years,
we are reconstruc ting Babylonian
history over the third millennium back
to the legendary times of the kings
after the flood. The part played in
this reconstruction by the Babylon
ian expedition and excavations in
Nippur cannot be overrated. Indeed.
Nippur and its temple toward B. C.
2000. at the timeof King Hammurabi,
the very time when Abraham started
on his long wandering career. ap-
pear more and more as a Center of
religious and intellectual life.
At Nippur records of the past used
to be stored. preserved and compiled
in form of statues. slabs Of stone and
votive objects covered with inscrip-
tons and reliefs, recording the names
Of the kings, their wars, their vic
tories and their offerings to the gods.
That ancient institution, with all
respect and allowance for time and
place, might compare with the mod
ern abbeys Of Westminster and St.
Denis. A collection Of these inscrip-
tions on a large tablet done by a
scribe OF the temple is among the
most precious documents preserved
in the Museum. All the inscriptions
on that tablet concern three kings Of
the dynasty Of Akkad, B. c., 26oo,
Sargon. Rimush and Manishtusu.
Besides the newly found frag-
ment the collection in the Museum
contains other tablets Of the same
class. One OF these Is one-half Of
what must have been the standard
work on chronology. It was a work
complete in twelve columns, six on
the diverse from left to right and
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CIodia and Fulvia.

There appeared on the Roman
stage at the time Of Cesar two
women who played important parts
in the political drama which wit
messed the rise and fall of the die
tator-Clodia and Fulvia- OF the
former of these, Brandes says that
she probably was descended from
that famous Appius Claudius Cacus,
the builder of the Appian Way and
the Aqueduct. Her particular admirer
was Cajus Valerius Catullus. and
around this couple Cicero wove can
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lost sight Of the fact that Cleopatra
was by no means barbarian queen
by descent, but to the contrary, of
purest Greek stock. However, this
did not matter; she came from
Egypt. And that Caesar should let
q woman from the land OF the
eunuchs and the magicians. and
whose people worshiped deities with
the heads of animals and stuffed
birds take her place at his side SO
that all could gaze upon as if they
were a united couple, that was a
scandal. He, a Roman who for the
fifth time had been chosen consul,
and dictator for the third, that he
should be the lover Of an Egyptian
was an insult and a reckless disre-
gard for the pride of the Roman peo-
pie. AS Merivale has said in "The
Romans Under the Empire" 1t had
the identical effect that would have
been caused in the sixteenth GEN.
tury SnOuiu an EHSiiSn peer VI q
Spanish grandee have married a
Jewess. 1t was an open defiance of
public opinion when Cesar placed a
statue of her in the temple in repre-
sentation of a Roman goddess. II
also caused bad blood that he per-
mitted her to call his son Casarion.
How the murder of Caesar brought
an end to the relationship between
the Roman and the Egyptian Queen
it is not. necessary to particularize
here. Also, in Antony and Cleo
patra" Shakespeare dramatizes Wv
idly the further career of Cleopatra
as enchantress.
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10

proper Lu-duga and A-blni his barber
The seated figure is that of god goddess The standing
worshper his raised
protecting angel wearing This reproduction
small clay label of four
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The Rebellion of Women.

"That Clodia overstepped what
was due old time Roman custom and
morals Is indisputable- But she was
no exception In that respect Eman-
cipation Of woman broke over Rome
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12
JACK GEORGE B e o. GUARD,LS
RUN OVER BY LIGHT ENGINE IN
LOCAL YARDS EARLY THIS MORN

Andrew Jackson George, famil-
fairly known about town as Jack"
George. aged As. and a native of
Bent0nville, Va, met with shock
ing death soon after midnight in the
local Baltimore and Ohio yards,
when ne was cut in twain by light
engine which backed over the man.
The victim of the tragedy is sup
posed to have been sitting alongside
a track in front of the passenger
station. near the shop buildings.
Watching the passing of al extra
Sd eastbound freight, and the noise
made by the freight train drowned
that of the light engine, which was
being backed along the track by
Hostler Gochenour. The wheels Of
the tender passed over the unfor-
tunate man before the hostler
realized be had struck something,
and when the latter stopped the en-
CINE and investigated he found the
iead and mutilated body of George.
The remains we're removed to the
establishment of Funeral Director
Fl. VI. Cole, South Maple avenue, and
Coroner Jacob Sites summoned a
Jury of inquest to inquire into the
affair at ten o'clock this morning
The dead man had gone to work
as a guard for the Baltimore and
Ohio since the strike began. He
Awas unmarried and came to Martins
hug about twelve years ago. Prior
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12
YOUTHS ARRESTED
FOR VIOLATION or
RED MEMS ACT"
Alleged To Have Assaulted
B. & O. ShopWorker.

Charged with violating the IA
nous Red Mems Act. which carries
with 1t a prison sentence il convict
cd r. S Wright and w, S. Hopper
were this afternoon arrested and re-
leased on bond to appear before
Justice Fred II. Baker next Friday
afternoon at 100 o'clock. The youths
are accused Of being members of
the party alleged to have assaulted
c. p. Rockwell on East Burke street
the other night. Rockwell. who has
been employed in the shops since
the strike, made complaint that he
was attacked by party Of men
on his way home from work, knock
cd down several times with a
blackjack or some other blunt in
strument and only escaped by
breaking away from his captors and
running back upon Baltimore and
Ohio property. He claims TO be able
to identity the two men mentioned
as being among his assailants II
could not he accurately learned,
but the inference Is that the men
who are said to have assaulted
Rockwell were strikers. The pris-
oners are represented by Attorney
A. e. Mclntire
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12

TO that he lived in Charles Town AID
Iagerstown. For four years he
was employed at the K. and B.
laundry. He was a laborer and did
many odd jobs about the city, such
as digging graves in local GENE
teries. He had been boarding with
Mrs. James Sayres, POI East Ste
phen street. Surviving are one sis
ter. Mrs Martha Henry, Benton
Vile: two brothers, John. also Of
Bentonville, and Charles, Of Shenan-
doah Junction.
Inquest Is Held.
After hearing the evidence of
several witnesses jury sworn this
morning by County Coroner Jocab
Sites returned the following YER
dict:
we, the jury, find that Andrew
Jackson George came to his death
by being struck by B. & 0. Engine
No. 794 in the yards of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company,
while in the discharge Of his duties
as guard for the said railroad com
pany, on the 18th day of August,
1922, about 10:4S p. m. We believe
the accident was entirely unavoid-
able. -.
The jury was composed OF ]. c.
Daley, Oscar NJ. Ramsey t. {.
Edelman. c. l.. Sencindiver, R. j.
Alvey and K. T. Larkins.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12

or THE RAIL-
ROAD STRIKE

san Ora inmen and
yardmen at several points on tho
Western Pacific railroad were re-
ported to have walked out early to-
day Several hundred were en-
ployed at the Oakland yards.
Roseville. Calif.-Five bombs
were thrown in the Southern Pa
cifc yards today and windows at
the roundhouse were shattered One
U. s. Marshal was shot in the
mouth. His injury is not considered
serious. He will recover. The bomb
throwers escaped in automobiles.
St. Louis Three hundred mem-
hers of the big four" are idle to-
day pending decision Of their de-
mand that armed guards he rertov-
ed from the Missouri Pacific rail
road property. This resulted fol-
lowing a mass meeting held last
night
New York - Mysterious four
alarm fires in New York Central
yard and pier destroyed 100000
worth Of miscellaneous freight and
damaged ten freight cars.
san Francisco-Trainmen in the
Santa F. walked ont owing to the
failure Of the Santa Fe TO remove
armed guards narrowing hundreds
Of passengers.
Los Angeles. aug. II Every ef-
fort was to be made today 10 bring
relief to the hundreds Of passengers
sweltering in the desert because Of
the walkout Of big four trainmen
at Needles, Cal, and Arizona
points.
Teleghaphjc appeals came froG.
the maro0ned passengers and Santa
Fe officials announced that every
POSSIBLE effort will be made to move
them to this city. 1t was reported
truck transportation to Sanbarnard-
mo was under consideration if the
telegram Of e w Lee, general
chairman Of the brotherhood of rail
way trainmen, failed to send the
men back 10 work. He wired L l.
Hubbard. manager OF the Santa Fe,
that he advised the general chair
man of the brotherhoods at Needles,
Bakersfield and all points affected
that the strike is illegal and the
membership is instructed 4 return
to duty
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12
MURDER DEFENDANT RIDICUlED PASSWORD
0FLOGAN DEPUTIES AND OPENED FIRE;
Boosted OF HAVING GORE GUN IS CHARGE
State Promises To Prove Youthful Mine Union Murder
Defendant Was Aggressor In Fatal Fight On Mountain
Witnesses Not Sure Wibun Was In Crowd

made by a bullet. the attorney de.
clared. After the murder, some
days later the defendant and some
Of his associates fed the state and
were subsequently arrested in Ten.
nessee.
Son OF Deputy Testlfes
Cladue Gore, &c. son of the slain
deputy, testified this morning that
he left his father short time be-
fore the murder on Blair noun.
tain and when he last saw his IA
Their tho deputy carried two PTS
tolls asd Winchester rife. an FL
gin watch, and at last $3.50 in cash.
The personal possessions OF Gore
found later In the hands OF some
Of the defendants in the miners
cases arc being used as evidence
against the defendant
Velasco Carpenter, who has testi-
fled for the state In all the proceed
tngs so far. and who was one OF
the armed marchers as well as 4
member of the Wibuim party, tes-
titledAagain, today regarding the
movements of the Wilburn party.
,,,oS 49, ~ 80,
,ha ,n,,,,at,, ~, .,,.I
coo, thrao ,,o, nna,,,n ,has
the mountain and remembered that
his party had advanced to meet
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hatmnn, h,,,ao,s - -. ~. W pa.y
ans Ia , % 80
1nrhr,,sh 80 10.
or, ha -" H. w U.s.
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rocaIIad ~ ovobano" =, 80" a,,ast,o.
,a.a,t. VIC " f'o9.'o
son,o I've ane aa .n' pa ann ~, a,, sa.
,nnodiato1" haond a a." 'o ~.
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so,n,nnt,,, nov, ~ "'na e"a ~.
10 ,,,an NOD koan nh po'n a
tnnd son,a ~ ~ ,.a,nd. IT, 49,
Edgar cno,,hs ,nn,hnr -, ~.
n.r,,, Nov, w. Lnn,,' doo,o.a .h.s
tbaw had che, oro ~ .hoir a,,a, 80
onI hn u,a'a ~, snrro, H., ~ 49,
n,an ''oa e" Con Inv '''' '''"' '''e "o""
I,.,o1,a,a,. s. a. ,
Carnoutor oaid that Cco,oha ,,iroot
cd aon,o r,an T., ,ho nonJ "asT
rarnontor o,,a IT,, ~ ,,i ~ t.. go
carnontor b,d aarriad nista, ~,
haI NO ,,,,,,,,t.ia, C ~
aoIod hin, nhnthar ho had ~.
,r,,,, fro,,, ~ C>.a
when Cornontor aatd h PIX ~
Coomhs diractod thia n,hor ~.
giya hin, I gnn ,vhi , this n,a rA Az
r. was mi, non rho ,"'1 rar aa t.n
thomoht n,a. toha yUiIh,,rn ~
wonId mo. swoar ~ - fnr ''' oa
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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12
MRS. MYERS
.SUDDEN DEATH

Mrs. Frank MyeT7, sister OF T0F.
mer Mayor Cleveland NJ. Seibert, eX-
PRED suddenly this afternoon at
her home at Berkeley Station. Mr..
Myers had come to Martinsburg on
business and was called home by
the sad news Mrs. Myers was Ia
ken sick the other night at The Four
Mile Wood festival with something
like acute Indigestion, but was
thought to be improving.