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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-11-11

when Your TIighness sat In
judgment, what did the man say
that he was doing upon the wailF
questioned tho colonel
There was no trial" laughed the
Rajah. "llc was not questioned.
He was caught. That was enough.
Two siuuuuS. hard featured ma
tivcs entered at signal from the
Ralah and approached their victim
Between them was long, thin cord
Of white silk.
They will give one Jerk which
will not kill" explained the Rajah.
afterwards they will apply n very
slow and steady pull lasting full
two minutes before death takes
place and allowing ample time to
study the expressions upon the face
and to note the twitching Of the
limbs"
II have seen It done several times
before" said the Baron. gulping a
cognac, and will step out on the
terrace"
Il am doing this for purpose"
returned the Rajah stcrnly. IF you
leave the table my servants will
have your kit at the gates In few
minutes and ii Is n dangerous ride
through the Observation-Disclosures
night"
AS the Baron slumped back in his
hair. the eXeCutiOners. who had
made moose. advanced upon the
condemned man.
Il say!" broke in Colonel Mars
den. dipping the end of his cigar
into his coffee. VIII Your High
ness do me Il favor"
Speak" said the Rajah rather
sharply.
ASK the fellow what he was do
ing-don't you know-on the bally
wall"
The Rajah frowned partly at the
ner in which it had been made. He
had met Colonel Marsdcn before
and had found that official to he
something Of nm enigma. The colo
mel knew this and was aware that
a light manner, at certain times,
was best
At gesture from their master,
the strangers halted with upilftcd
moose.
IF it Hmuses my guest he may
question the culprit himself" said
the Rnjnh ironically.
Rapidly the colonel spoke in
llindustani. while Smith. for the
first time, seemed interested enough
10 move and glance rather sharply
at his temporary chief. There was
no reply from the prisoner and the
colonel spoke again In Tamil and
followed il with one or two dialects
used in the more northern portions
Of India. No answer was returned
TO the questions.
Il think" said the colonel. turn
ing to the Rajah, that | must i'm
pose upon your good nature. Your
ITighness. and ask you TO put the
question yourself"
Slowly the Rajah turned and
spoke in cultural tones which car
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r 7 appears that Navajo blankets were
at first the product of mems hands.
but that the women of the tribe
are the exclusive workers in this indus
try at present.
Almost the only modern implements
that are employed In the weaving are
the hand cards, wire toothed combs for
the wool, and shears with which to make
cuttings. The frames are made of rude
poles with the beams held In place by
rawhide ropes.
The Indian puts his frames on uprights,
usually staked and lashed to q tree in
front Of his hogan" or house. The
women do the weaving, squatted upon the
ground with legs folded under them.
They are close enough to reach to either
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to shed light upon much Of this early
history and the development of religious
thought of over 1000 years ago, for the
investigators of the British Museum have
gone back to the time of 5000 B. c., find
ing remains of the earliest civilization in
Babylonia. Going to a neighboring ruin
mound called Tell-el-Obeid they found relics
Of an early stone age, when copper and
stone we're used side by side. There were
little copper nails, some with gold heads,
and one nail of solid gold the use OF
which Is not, known, but IL is possible
that this was the earliest form of coinage,
and that these nails were used as money
in those ancient. times, $500 b. c. Then
they had already mastered the art of
making painted pottery vases, and flint
and obsidian knives and other utensils
Here too were found four lifesize copper
lions, with eyes of red jasper, tongues Of
red jasper and teeth OF shell, and two
small copper bulls. The greatest discov-
cry made here was great copper relief
slab, with the figure Of Imgig, the lion
headed vulture of the god Ningirsu, hold
ing two stays by their tails. While much
of this copper Las degenerated in these
5000 years the makers of the slab had
lined IL with a filling of clay and bitumen,
SO that even where the copper has fallen
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side of the blanket or halfway up. When
the work has proceeded to height where
it is uncomfortable for them to reach they
tilt the loom so that they may continue
in their original position. The spindle
in use is that OF hundred years ago-a
stick through the center of wooden disk.
The work is exceedingly slow; an inch
or two is a days work on the better
grades.
The best blankets are made of fine ma.
tive wool, spun to tension that makes
them almost as durable as steel, with
dyes that last forever. The coarser
grades of blankets have but few fiecks of
color. being usually white, gray or brown
The Navajo women display an interest.
ing imagery in their designs. That
imagery is largely confined to the color
scheme, as everything done is a copy of
something that the weavers have seen.
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emigration of Abraham not compulsory
as If he had been exiled, but voluntary, as
the result of a great revelation that came
to this founder of a new nation, then only
the sheik of great tribe
He first went from Ur to Haran, where
his nephew, Lot lived and he persuaded
him to join in the great trek" to a
new country, where a great people was to
have its birth.
When the caravan reached Canaan
Abraham and Lot separated, and the
story of the jealousy between Hagar and
Sarah begins. Hagar bears a son to
Abraham, and although Hagar was only
slave when her son was born, "her
mistress was despised in her eyes" (Gen.
xvi, A. for Sarah was childless. The
child Ishmael was IA years old when at
last Sarah's son, Isaac, was born. and
thus for fourteen years Sarah had been
compelled to bear the scorn of her slave.
1t was quite natural that Sarah had mis-
givings as to the future and feared the
son OF the Egyptian woman, compelling
Abraham to let the slave woman 60 with
her son, not caring whether she and the
boy perished in the wilderness or not.
1t was after this sending forth of
Eagar and Ishmael that Abraham was
tested as to his faith by the call" to sac
rlfice his son Isaac, by whom he set such
great store. After taking the lad three
days journey from home to "high place"
where the sacrifice was to be offered,
Abraham bound his son to the altar and
was about to slay him as sacrifice when
he heard the voice of God Lay not thine
hand upon the lad. neither do thou any
thing unto him; for now | know that
thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son, from
me" (Gen. xii, 12).
From this time forth human sacrifice
so generally practiced by the Canaanites
was forbidden by the Hebrews and abol-
ished as being unacceptable to God.
The Bible tells us that Hagar and
Tshmael did not perish in the wilderness,
but that when the lad was near death
from thirst Hagar found a spring of
water, restored the fainting boy. and that
Ishmael afterward married an Egyptian
woman like his mother and founded a
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Kur-Lil, doorkeeper of tho temple Of
Erech. It dates from at least 1900 B. O.,
and with its shaven skull, prominent eyes
and nose characteristic Of this style, pre-
sents perfect example of the art of the
Sumerians and their idolatry as well.
While these remains are now being
shown for the first time in the British
Museum further excavations will GER
tainly be stimulated by them. and the rest
of the great mound Of Or will be uncov-
cred, bringing to light still more Of that
very early period in the history Of man,
when the struggle between the older in
habitants, the Sumerians, and the incom-
ing Babylonians was taking place.
The inscriptions have shown scholars
that there was great and radical differ
ence between these people and their cul
ture, and in the great libraries which
have been discovered in Nineveh and Nip
pur are found thousands of tablets bear
ing the words in the Babylonian as well
as in the Sumerian for the students to
study from. These tablets are called
"Syllabaries," because the cuneiform, or
wedge shaped writing, is not an alpha
bette language like the English or Latin,
but is made up of syllables, indicated by
signs of combinations of wedges. This
makes it very difficult for the beginner,
who has to familarize himself not only
with twenty-five letters in order to read
but with several hundred syllables, out of
which the words are formed. This sys-
tenn is further complicated by the use Of
some of these signs as kilograms" or
signs which while apparently syllables,
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and sometimes used as
such, are also the SYM
bols for entire words,
and 1t is only by study
ing the connection In
which they appear that
the reader can know
whether a sign stands
for a word or for only
a syllable. For in
stance, there Is a COM
bination of W. d & IS
which has the sound of
the syllable mat" but
this sign also 8 t a n d s
for the word country"
When that sign appears
in a line of writing the
pupil has to use his
b Q 81 ingenuity to be
sure whether 1t means
country or is only the
: syllable mat"
So when we read of
the wonderful discover
les of inscriptions made
in Babylonia, running
back forty or fifty CEN
turtles, we must stop
and think that all of
these writings are In
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w the s'' wilderness. with her So"
Ishmael? Was the reason as
simple as it seems in the Bible narrative,
which explains only that Sarah was pro-
voked because Hagar's son had Knocked
at her son, and she refused to allow "the
Egyptians" son to be an heir with her
own to Abraham's estate?
Sympathy usually has gone out to
Hagar and her son Ishmael, for who could
.elp feeling sorry for the bondwoman who
was driven from home because of the
jealousy of Sarah, Abraham's free wife?
But if one cares to read between the tines
he must come to the conclusion that 1t
was not so simple rs the Bible tells It.
Abraham was too wise a man to be
prevailed upon by the whim of a woman.
1t was not like him to send the bond
woman wife and her son into the wilder
ness with only loaf of bread and a bottle
of water. There must have been much
more plotting and counter plotting, of the
scheming possible only to Jealous wom-
an. In fact, there must have been quite
harem intrigue.
This always has been suspected, but
there have been no narratives of that
time other than those In the Bible, and
even il there were we could hardly ex-
pect to find record of the doings of one
who was at first only a private citizen of
the great Ur of the Chaldees, of whom
probably the King of Babylonia, in which
this city was located, hardly could have
heard.
But now is opened up new possibility.
The British Museum has sent an expedi-
tion to dig over the ruin mound which
holds the remains of the great city of Ur,
known by the Arabs as Tell-el-Mukayyar.
Just recently some of the finds have been
brought to the British Museum for classi-
fcation. The excavators have been very
fortunate, for they have discovered the
ruins of temple going back to 230O B. c..
or 200 years before Abraham. Here too
was the palace of King Ur-Engur of the
third dynasty of Ur, known as "The
House of the Mountain" built of great
nat burnt bricks fourteen inches square,
with walls five feet thick, to keep out the
cold in winter and the heat in summer.
Near this palace was the ruin of the
Temple Of Ninsun, the very temple in
which Terah, the father of Abraham, must
have come to pray, and where Abraham
himself began that great revolt against
the Babylonian gods, announcing his be-
lief In the one God. This only is the be-
ginning Of the work of excavation. for
the mound covers considerable ground
and 1t is more than possible that here will
be laid bare the house IN which Abraham
lived before he emigrated with his two
wivsS and here too may be uncovered
the private records which Abraham must
have kept upon the clay tablets used at
that time instead of papyrus or parch.
ment, and which have been preserved IN
hundreds Of thousands because thew were
made of clay and did not degenerate in
the soil.
VIII the inner history OF that struggle
OK the two wives for mastery over their
husband be now revealed? VIII the ex.
cavators bring to light more evidence Of
the reason Abraham sent Hagar out?
Sarah calls her an Egyptian. and here
perhaps is the hint of one line of attack
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had to work with.

one God, the beginning of the religion Of
the Hebrews.
OF course these early Sumerians were
idolators, and that they were such is made
plain by some of the stone images found
and against which Abraham raised his
rebellion. On one OF these stone images
is an inscription showing that it was
dedicated to the god by man named
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this strange character, made up of
wedges, and that many scholars will
strain their brains trying to translate
them. These were the characters known
to Abraham, by which he made his dis
coveries known in which he wrote down
his thoughts about God and the destiny
of his tribe and people.
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Babylonia, because 1t runs back
to the time of the Sumerians, the
non-Semitic inhabitants of Baby
lonia, who were there before the
Babylonians settled in the coun-
try. The Babylonians were
Semitic people, coming no one
as yet knows whence, but very
different in physical characteris-
tics and In culture from the
Sumerians. The important fact
established by all of these dis
coveries both at Ur and the
neighboring mound is that there
was a high state of civilization
in this part of Babylonian more
than a thousand years before the
birth Of Abraham. Critics of the
Bible story raised many doubts
concerning its truth, because
they claimed that the ideas at
tributed to Abraham could not
have been held so long ago when
all the world was in a state of
barbarism. Their own argument
now rises to refute them, for
with the very substantial evil
dences of high plane of culture
attained before Abraham was
born 1t was by no means difficult
for him to have achieved that
epoch making conception of the
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Canaan, we shall know the complete tale
of all the scheming when these tablets are
found and deciphered, as they will be
should the house of Abraham be discov-
cred. Perhaps, too, there will be dis
closed the early history of Hagar-where
she came from.
That it will not be impossible to iden-
tify the house in which Abraham lived is
borne out by the Biblical story. What is
told there about Abraham receiving a
revelation from God, in which he is told:
Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy fathers house,
unto land that will show thee" is the
Hebrew way Of accounting for Abraham's
emigration from Ur, but much more, Ger.
tainly, lies behind the statement. Abra-
ham was rs years old and must have
been considering the matter for many
years. A man of that age does not emf
crate suddenly. The excavators at Ur
may find some record of the events that
preceded this leaving home. 1t is quite
within the range of possibilities that
Abraham had tried to preach revolution
before he went in search Of new coun-
try. He had become dissatisfied with the
idolatries of the Babylonians and their
many gods and We may be sure he tried
to bring others to his point of view.
He may have attempted the founding
OF his new religion in Ur, and IL he did
some record OF this will certainly be
found, either in the records of the Tenn
pie Of Ninsun or In the ruins of the home
in which he lived. The Babylonian priests
would oppose any such revolutionary
teachings as those OF Abraham, and upon
some ancient clay tablet may be found
the record of this attempt by Abraham,
and which was put down by the great
power of the priesthood II should not
be forgotten that the early Kings also
we're priests, for state and church were
one at that time in BabyIonia and the
old Patesi, or priest-king, would not have
hesitated to send Abraham out for try
ing to upset the belief of the mass of the
people.
Yet when the story was written later
to find place In the Bible the Hebrew
writer would be careful to make this
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Sarah may have followed in
getting rid of her rival and
the boy Ishmael, who she
feared would share the inner
itance with her own son,
Isaac.
The Egyptians had many
gods, as the Babylonians had,
and IL Sarah wished to infiu-
ence Abraham against Hagar
she only had to emphasize her
Egyptian birth and to sug-
gest that her son, Ishmael,
would be taught idolatry by
his mother and was not a
proper associate for her son,
to persuade Abraham to do
what to us seems most cruel
send Hagar and her son
away into the wilderness.
If Abraham kept a record
of his early struggles in Ur,
especially the struggle at
home between his two wives,
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lway altogether its impress has been
perfectly preserved and it is a very sim
pie, though delicate, task to replace the
copper as 1t once was.
This tablet Is regarded as one of the
most important discoveries made in
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great city. In fact the Arabs Of to-day
claim descent from Isn4n..e4, .
Abraham is claimed as their ancestor
through Ishmael as the Jews claim him
through Isaac.
The excavations at Ur may be expected
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British Explorers Hope to Find the
Household Records of the Patriarch
Which May 7hrow New Light Upon
the Feud Between His Two Wives;
important Discoveries Already Made
Revealing New Secrets of Earliest Man
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT CT POLK COUNTY.
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