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THE SCttANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MOUNTS Gr, JANUARY 1(5, 1897.
GUESSING THE AGE
OF CIVILIZATION
The Latest Discoveries-Say It Is About
Nine Thousand Years.
OUR CHRONOLOGY NEEDS REVISION
Thiillluix Story of Professor II II
precht's i:ciuiitions nttlie Olilmt
City of the World, mill the- Aston
ishing Light Thuy Throw Upon
Hlstory--Clitipter in Science ns ln
tc'ioitlng us J'lution.
From the Now York Herald.
On Aui?. 'JO Inst sumo detail Weie
Khun of the- teiiiaikciblc iiiohuoologlcul
discoveries of a. cuminlfiinn tlml tnu
I'nlvenlty oL ltmihlvaiA sunt to
pinko excavations on the ilto of the
old Nlppui, tin- oldest clt of thu woild
This commission, of which the Huv
John 1 I'i'tem, V V., vvus the (list
diieetor, und I'lofessoi Ileimun V 1111
piecht tin- pcimntii'itt Assjilologlst,
discovered the unexpected anil silintl
tieullv sensational fuel tint the undent
Habj Ionian inonnd contained not onl
the olt. cities known collectively us
Nlppui, Imt also a still mini' ancient
city In which were found cunelfoini In
h i lotion dating back to the eai (estl
inuted) f,'J-)0 13 C This showed with
coneluslveness that civilisation Is cen
tmles older than we believed, for the
beginning of the woild bus., until these
discov Piles, been placed at 4,004 15 C,
and this date appeal. s In all oui modern
editions of the Hlble
Put yieatet things hae developed
since Di l'eteis guvu the Herald the
infouiiutlon It published at that time.
Since then Piofessor llelpiecht luib re
tained flesh fioin the scene with fui
thei information of a most Intel estlng
imtuiu He i cue lit il beie last week
Piofessoi Ililpiccht's tliat announce
ment, on being Intenlewed by the
Him aid, was that he can now posi
tively and authutltuthell .uld -',000
eais mole to the age of the woild,
Di Peteis' conipulatlon on the lutoi
mation at hand, in August, placed the
ptububle date of the beginning of civil
isation at 7,000 13 C. Piofessoi Hllpietht
now declaies that his knowledge of the
deelopment ol tunelfoim vviltlnir jus
tltles him In saving that the eaillest
wilting found could not hae been de-
eloped in lesb than .',000 veais.
This pluces the beginning ot clvlllza
tlon at about the j eai 0,000 U C.
PHOF. IIHVPKnCIlT.
1'iofesost Hllpiecht is one of the half
don n men In the woild who hue so
tnnsteiecl all thu developments of eunel
foim inscilptions that he can at a
glance detninlne tile age of the wilt
ing It was he, who thiee eais ago,
enunciated the pilnciple of the develop
ment of the tunelfoim wiltlngs fiom
pktuies and of their giaelual change
iiom the semblance of the plctuied
things to the signs of the latei foi ins.
The tiutli of the theoiv Is admitted
now b all the btudents of urchuelugj.
It tonus an impoitant pan in the pi oof
that lie bilngs. to suppoit his announce
ment The discos eiles weie made In the unl
vcisitj's excavations at Nlppud. Klght
j eais ago, when it was decided to send
out an expedition fot Bab Ionian le
.scuieh, Piofessor Hclpieclit and the
P.ev Di. John P, Peteis. then profes
boi of nichueolog at the unlveislty,
dee Ided upon Nlppui as the spot that
olfeied piomlse of the most ancient
finds
They weie not mlstakpn. The Hng
llsh CiCiniaii and rieucli scientists at
woik in Uubjlon and Tello have little
chance of finding anj tiling nearly so
auelvntu" the bits of ases that the
Ameiltan excavators dpg up under the
Temple of Pel
l'lnm the beglnnlg of leliglon in tlie
Hast tlieie has been a firm belief, which
thousands ot eais have not been able
to shake, that nothing about a temple
must be evei destioyed. The xases on
which weie Mltten the temple nt chives
were kept foi thousands of yeais and
weie bioken onl by accident. The wor
hhlppeis believed that neei could any
temple piosper oi bilnir peace and hap
piness to Its people tlvU did not stand
on the outlines of tht fiist temple that
had been built theie If the old temple
was In luliib, the did not ieinove the
fallen walls, but built upon them
The came piatlce is still adhered to
In Constunluople and othei modem
cities, which, sue continually lislng on
their ol walls. The spectacle of a
house belnjr torn down and taken
awaj is seldom ofteied In the I-ast.
BUILDING ON RUINS.
In days when Noah built his ark the
Wngs anil high piie-ts of liabylonla had
the same belief, and some of them In
making alteiations In the temple left
such Inscilptions on clay as this:
"But pievious kings have not kept
the boundaiy of temple, they have not
seal died out Its foundation stone, and
gatheied their architects to luv out the
lines on the ttue places of the foimer
temple, and the gods weie not In faxoi,
and diil not look Hindis on the people."
And bo they built their ow n temples
with a caie and pieclsion that they
thought would meet with the approal
ol their deities.
All this may not eem nt fit st to havp
veiy much to do with the woik of the
I'eiiiiHjlvnnia expedition, but it lias. If
it had not been for this belief of the
xoishlppeis ot Pel theie would have
been no such ilch veins of the sttatu
of civilisation as the scientist un
eai tbed theie, uncovetlng their finds
vv itli more pi lde und Joy than they
would hae had in discovering a gold
mine Fiom seven thousand vents be
lcne Olulst the inscilptions ol the
vvotld's lilstoiy, Heiatched in clay and
baked to a baldness against which tlmf
and weather have had no effect, had
been placed beie, as by the human lace
for the enlightenment of laceb that
should come uftei waid
It wns this spot which, of all the other
places In the woild, piomised the rich
est i etui n for the enthulbasts' money
and labor, that the two archaeologists
of the Unlveislty of Pennsylvania de
cided upon In their council befoie the
Hist patty was Bent out, eight yeais
ago Foi tune placed the enterpilse In
the right place, and Hllpiecht and his
stm dy usblstants saw the work done
piopeily. They fell to and began to
pick and pull the temple to pieces in one
place and anothei to see how it was
built, und who built it. They bad
guesspd pretty definitely thut they
would lineal th "stiata of civilization,"
and the) found the idea tiuei than they
had hoped
And here enters the leasonlng on
xhlch Hllpiecht's claim that theie weie
civilised men seven thousand jears 15.
C. must stand oi fall.
ONI) TKMPLH'S URSSON.
Hlpii outer and innei walls sunound
id the temple, and, In paits, nio still
standing. The hilltop, over the tower,
Is ninety-seven feet above the deseit
level and fifty feet above the suiiound
jng debris. The Aiabs call the hill
"Daughter of the Pilnce."
On the exterior the temple gives little
indication of Its real untlciulty. The
xvalls as they weie found at fltst,
seemed to have bten built by Kadash-liian-Duigu,
who lived only 1,200 yeais
befoie Chi 1st.
It took voiy little work, however, to
show that the bilcks healing his name
foimed only a thick venetr, or extia
wall, on the real body of the temple.
They weie put there by the pious klnrc
to pi event the wearing effects of wind
and lulu and sand, as were also the
canals that cairled the watei away and
the bitumen, a foot thick, that kept It
from getting tluougli the wall and the
foundations.
The temple "proper" had been built,
they found, by King Ur-Uur, who floui
lshed L',800 H. C over that part of Kengl
"the land of caiuila and buliushes"
later cnlled Habvtonln. for a xounger
but gientei cltv than Nippur.
The Pennsvlvnnlans dm: awav until
they had icnched Ur-CliuV. foundation,
and he hud made It well. It was of
baked bilck, like the walls, and eight
feet thick. Directly under It was Sar
gon's plutfoim two com huh of Im
mense baked bilcks of a size und shape
like nothing ever befoie found In liaby
lonla oi nnywlieie else In the woild, u
foot und a hnlf situue and foiu Inches
thick. Kncli had n convex top, being
shaped like u loaf of blend half llsen
f i om the pan. In nddltlon to King Sar
gon's name in cunelfoim llguies, the
bilcks boie the dollbeinte linpilnt of
the thumb of the slave w bo made It.
DUMHKOUNDHD.
The scientists wer dumbfounded Sar
gon, aichueologlsts hud taught, was a
myth, for there had nevet been any
thing found In the Hast to conoboiate
the Blblcal mention ot his name. Nn
lnmsln, they said, by the most llbeial
count, was the oldest In the line of
known nionaichs. Hlstor could tiace
the succession no fuither.
Hut beie In hind brick weie hip
wtuks of both Saigon and of Nniamsln,
the son of Saigon. The tiutli of the list
of kings was settled beyond question,
nnd, by It, the date of the building of
the platfoini, for the scientists knew
that If Saigon lived at all It was thltty
elght bundled yeais befoie Chi 1st
They had leached the latest leinalns
that they could huve expected, but they
went still lower.
Undei the two couises ol grent bilcks
laid by Sutgon they found stiatu ubout
thirty feet thick, containing nses unci
lusciibed fragments that had giadualb
been deposited theie by centuiles of In
habitants. As the went fuithei down,
pioving with each spadeful the lilstoiy
of a kingdom and a people that had foi
thousunds of jeaisbeen w lapped In Ini
penetinble daikness, they found bioken
pieces of the tablets oi vases, on which
temple recoids had been kept.
The cunelfoim Inscriptions giew
moie primitive at evety foot.
Hllpiecht, who knew that at one time
the cunuifoim wilting bad had Its oilg
In In pictuies, felt sure that befoie the
bottom of the vein was leuclied the pic
tuies would be found. The pits, two of
them, side by side, and having: a total
uiea of about one bundled squiiie
at ds, weie sunk until the) weie thirty
feet below the plntfoim which foimed
such an important mile post in comput
ing the passage ot uges. The bioken
clay cume to uu end und all tiuees of
human life disappeaied.
Tlie excavators weie now cutting Into
the v ligln clay of Uabylonla, and can) -
ing out eaitb that since the cieation ot
the woild had lain undistuibetl by mun.
They had not yet uneaithed wiltlngs
in which tlie pictuies weie whole, nor
even the iorm In which lound objects
weie jjlctuied 111 cuived lines, a stage
that must have pieceded the time when
the stlalght stiokes weie used lot all
chaiacteis.
They found that the piesent deseit
level was nut the one that bad existed
In the eail) da)s of Nlppui Theie was
an older deseit tblity feet or so Pelow
tlie piesent line, and on this plan Nip
pur had been founded
ANCIENT INSCRIPTION.
But they found that the oldest of
tbtst fiagiaments, those taken lioni
tile bottom of the pit, weie sciatched
with cunelfoim diameters, dating COOO
jcaij befoie Chi 1st. Piofessoi Hil
pitcl't has no hesitation In stating this,
and adds that It Is based on a veiy
comeivatlve calculation Saigon Uvea
S.SuO B. C, and high above his plutfoim
of bucks the gradual action of the busy
life of Nippur, the lndustiy of the In
habitants, the aclcdents of building
chnpes, and the annuap sand stonns
had heaped foi ty feet of dilft and
debt Is befoie the opening of the Chi Is
tlan era. Foui thousund yeais, the
piofessoi counts, was requited to pile
those foitj feet of eaitb On that
computation he thinks It fall to sup
pose that the tblity feet of giadual
depos't found undei the platloim was
2,000 yeais In piling Itself ftom the
oilglnul soil Nippur was not alwa)s
as 1 us) and as gieat as she was In
Saigon's tlav and in the da)S ot his
succescMs. Hei beginning ma) have
been i mall, and thep locess ol the de
posit thus much slower than It wns
in latei veats
So Illlprecht satisfies himself with
stating that the lowei Ul)eis of tlie
stia'a weie thiown there thiee thous
and jeais before Saigon, and neatly
W tl ousands yeais befoie Chi 1st It
may rave been vei) much easlei than
that It ceituinly was not later.
Tlie woild was not an Infant even In
these days. The eaillest of tlie writ
ings found represent a development
that could not have been reached In
less than thiee thousand yeais. How
long men lived without wilting may
nevet be known, but theie is pioof
enough In the results of the expedition
to show that the worshippers of Bel
wiote on clay nine thousand )eais be
fore Chi 1st. Professoi Helprecht
makes the statement advlsedl) It Is
based on his knowledge of tunelfoim
development, and as theie aie baiely
half u dozen men In the woild today
who can compare with him In tlie
science, there will be few to dispute
his announcement.
He stated his belief In this compu
tation a few days ago, and it is pub
lished now for the fltst time
Hllpiecht believed It firmly when he
wiote the Hist volumes of the report,
but he held It back until, aftei another
year's study, his belief became a posi
tive ceitalnty.
WORK OF A YEAR.
The deciphering of the inscilptions
and the piecing of the fingtncntuty
text will be the work of vents. Aftei
puling over thousands of fiagnieuts of
vases, marked uy mm as me prociuci
of a single centuiy, the piofessor be
came convinced that each vase hud
botne the same ptescrlptlon a temple
lilstoiy and he set ubout lestoilng it
TJte text, when completed was foimed
of eighty-sex en fiagments, and had l'U
lines of cunelfoim writing Its ttansla
tlon occupied neatly u veni.
"Illlprecht may well be pioud," said
Professor Savce, of O.xfoul, "of the
mugnlllcent results ho has achieved,"
and tlie other Euiopean ntchaeologlst,
w ho with Suyce Is considered a leader
in the science, Hummel, of Munich,
added that "No other living Assyilolo
glst could equal such a conttlbutlon to
sclenc e."
As It Is, Hllpiecht has added to lils
toiy ubout tblity new kings, prev
ious!) unknown to us, and has eleaied
up by his reconstiuctlon of Babylonian
lilstoiy the exact lelations of tlie ently
Semitic dynasties to Hie oiu wumeilun
kings of Babylonia.
Tlie expedition is, admitted to be one
of the most linpoitunt scientific un
dertakings In the lilstoiy of Western
Asia. It was organized and sent out In
the summer of 1SSS, u numbei of piom
lnent Phlladelphluns oiganizlug a
Bubylonlnn expeditions fund of which
the ofilceis weie Ptovost Ohuiles C.
Hunlson, Dar. William Pcppei, piesi
dent of the department of aichaeology
and palaeontology; Edward W. Claik,
chairman ot the Babylonian suction,
and Cluience H. Clurk, treasurer of the
clepurtment. Rev John P Peteis, who
now has a mlnlsteilal chaige In New
Yotk, was director; II, V. Hlllprecht
and K. F. Harper were Assyriologlsts,
and J II. Huynes, of Robeit College,
Constantinople, the geneial executive
man.
Since 1S93 Hanes has been a director
of tlie work, while Illlprecht continued
to be the student mid ttauslator of all
the Inscilptions dlscoveied To the pies
ent time- $"5,000 or $80,000 have been
spent on the woik,
Tlie exploieis found many Interesting
stoiies bound up In the mute objects
of their seatcli.
OLD TIME KINGS.
King Saigon, foi ull his piety, ptac
Used an enteipilse that would be
fi owned upon in these dayti. Centuiles
before he lived one of the kings ot Nip
pur, Lugal Klgub-Nldudu, gave to the
temple a door socket of stone, a round
block on which the lower corner of the
doot turned. Stones weie laie In Baby
lonia, for the land was alluvial. Thu
old king wanted ull the credit foi his
gift, so be had his name calved on It
with a votive lnscilptlou that the gods
might make no mistake.
Saigon nlso wanted to piesent a door
socket to thu temple, but ho could llnd
no slone, and so nppioprlated the stone
given by his piedecessoi. He tinned It
over, set bis slaves to woik, and bad
his baine and piesentatlon sentiments
nicely cut on its fnce. I'oi 5,000 )ears
Suigon slept In the comfoit that bis
pious gift gave him, nnd Bel doubtless
has .woniteied xx Imt had become of the
othei socket, until the Pennsylvania ex
pedition found the stone undei the Ue
bils and turned It ovet.
Professoi Hilpipcht's summer work
for the Inst thiee yeais has been the
cataloguing nnd organisation of the
Semitic and Hlttlte sections of the Im
pel Inl Ottoman museum, ns tin oillcer
of the Tuiklsh government. The ip
sult of his wcik bus been ot Incalcul
able udvantugu to the ITnlveislty of
Pennsylvania. The Tuiklsh law now
foi bids the removal of any aiehaelog
ieal mateiial ftom the countiv, all an
tiquities being deposited In tlie museum
In Constantinople, but In iccognltlon ot
Ills woik tlie sultan piesented him with
mole than sixty boxts of the antiquities
that he chose as most valuable lu the
expedition s find.
The unlveislty now has thiee times
as ninny cunclloim wiltlngs ns ull
othei Euiecpeun museums put to
gelhei None of the tublets me fiom
the latest expedition, tlie tesults of
whit h have not yet leached Constan
tinople, being now en loute fiom Ba-
soiah by way ot Aiabla and the Red
sen. These In turn will have to be ai
langed and catalogued like all the
othei languages, Flench und Tmklsh.
OTHER RESEARCHES.
Hllpiecht bus found time to hunt
itlnough the East for many othei nnl
qulties, and has brought home with
him objects which ate wottb thousands
and which weie bones ot contention be
tween the eat nest lepiesentntlvcs of
the greatest unlveisltles In Euiope.
Some came bv dev lout wa)s, as Tuiks
aie evei devious In mutters of ttade,
anil the most valuable pieces, tlieiufote,
must not be phutogiaphed for leal of
the Jealous measutes that Geiman and
Fiench collet tots might take One of
the llnds, among the most linpoitunt,
Is u maible vuse, the only vase In ex
istence dated In the time of Aitaxuixes
It Is valued at $3,000, and Is inset Ibed
in Median, in Babv Ionian cunelfoim
and In Eg)ptlan, hleioglvphlcH It was
In private possession und tin lft) Oei
niaii buyetb had fot two )eais been
llesutely Using to lower Its price
Profe'ssot Hllpiecht also bought for a
song compatatlvelv the oldest cunel
foim tnblet In existence, beating the
name Enkliegal, one of the oldest kings
of tlie city and land of Tello Six rivals
weie wot king for tlie same tablet, and
the utmost delicacy bad to be used. It
Is woith at least $D,000.
Foi six yeais Piofessor Hllpiecht's
special sectet aim lias been to llnd out
the exnet spot In Aslu Minoi wheie the
famous Cappadocian tablets came ftom.
To find tlie place lie made u special
tout In Asia Minoi, uslnir the two
blanches of rnlboads as tai as the)
went, some S00 miles. Baton Von Kuehl
nian, chief of the lailtoad, gave him
a special cut und placed eveiv facility
of the lailtoad at his disposal. By this
means be was able to examine cnletull)
all plates fioin Scutail to Kutuhia and
Konlnh, and at last found wheie the
tablets came tioin
The Tuiklsh government has given
him pet mission to excavate theie for
foui weeks in older to identify the
ancient city bulled theie, Ptofesboi
Hllpiecht means to avail lilmselt of
this pel mission on his next visit to
Asia .Mi not
He lias fixed the date of the Cappa
docian tablets definitely at 1M00 B. C.
No other scientist knows wheie the
tablets ai to be found.
ADVENTURES.
Piofessor Hllpiecht, while at woik In
Constantinople, wns an ollleei of the
Tuiklsh government. Befoie lip left
Constantinople he was banqueted b)
Tuiklsh ofilceis, diplomatic ft lends and
scientists lie weals ill his scarf pin a
gat net caived with tlie pledge1
"We ate ttue to ) ou while ou aie
tiue to its "
Tlie gem was given to htm by the
sultan
Muuv weie the adventures, some of
them highl) exciting, which the Ameri
can uattv met In tlie coutse of their
e.xploiatlons In the book he is ptepat
ing Piofessor Hllpiecht relatui a few
of them. He sas.
"On the Joutney from Sm)tana to
Alexnndietta the large Itench steam
ship which can led half the staff of the
expedition was wieeked on the lock)
pi onion toiy Keiketes, on the Island of
Samos. Prince Alexander of Sumos,
viewing in hospitality with his pte
decessor, Pol)ciutes, llbeinted the dis
tressed ttavelets, after n clay and a
half, lioni theli unhapp) plight, and
brought them safe and sound to his
capital, Vathy. But haielly had they
landed on the mat shy haven at he foot
of the Amanus chain, a few weeks
later, to begin their Joutney Inland,
when theie began that seiles of ill
nesses and adventuies which aie nev ei
wanting to laiget expeditions.
"Not far fiom Aleppo our aichltect
was savid ftom the hands of a high
way lobber only b) the tlmel) nnival
of two of his associates Below Der,
the well known hoise market of the
Annzeh tiibe, while ti)lng to llnd a
watei lug place, another inembei bloke
tluougli the steep unwashed bank of
the Euphtates and with dllllculty es
caped diowning" The membei was.
Hllpiecht himself.
TUltr.W AUAV A I'OKTl'Ni:.
Hut the I'oor I'ellovv Oui Not Know
hut ilo nas Dome.
fn lack of a little knowledge a No
va Scotian tlsheiman has just lost $5U.
000 This Is a hlKb price to pa)- foi
iKlintance, but theie aie man) people
bebidts the flsheunan who would have
paid It, pei Imps
This man had nevet heaul of ainbei
Ktis, 01 it so he had but a vague notion
of what the valuable sta-pioduct Is
lie Is, howevei, an observant man, and
one dnv, iccently, while lowing about
ihe abote of Annapolis, llasln, he no
ticed boating on the watei a pecullni
gray substani e, well stieaked with
black and jellovv
For home unknown ieason lie decided
that this cuticius substance might piob
nbly be made Into soap, and be caie
tully gatheied the floating mass, about
one bundled pounds lu weight, Into bis
boat Natuiall) enough his toap ex
pel lment failed, and lu disgust he tluew
the piesumably wcu tillers mateiial back
Into the watei, useivlng onl) about slv
pounds lot fuithei experiments
The inuie lit tested the stiange sub
"tanee the moie did his vv undei grov
The tuomatic odor that niose fiom his
lye-pot moused his puitlculm Intel est.
At length ho iowed to the neuiest town
with u sample, and theie learned that
tbo mateiial that ho bad bo Ignoiantly
dlscatdtd, nnd ot which he now bad but
a binall quantity, was vvoitb $31 an
ounce, for It was nothing else tbnn the
pieclous ambeigilH of coiumeice The
sl pounds that he made haste to tescue
ftom the i)e-pot in ought Hint in j&,i;co,
but what mubt have been his thoughts
about the nlnet-four pounds that he
had thrown aw a) '
Ambeigils is the evidence of n dis
ease that attacks the speimacetl whale,
and whale-tlshets fish eageily for tt ac
es of the substance In the Intestines of
toipld, sick 01 lean whales, wheie It Is
sometimes found In smail, li regular
lumps of fiom thiee, Inches to n foot
In diameter The laigest lump e.-oi
known weighed 1S2 pounds and was
bold by the King of Tnhote to the
Dutch I3ast India company. Anothei
blstoilo lump of ISO pounds was found
Inside a dead whulo whose caicass vvus
dlscoveied floating near the Wiudwuiil
Islands, and Isainli K ngliorn, the No
va Scotian tlsheiman, with his find of
100 pounds, comes thiid 0.1 the list.
Wholesale druggists and pet fume
manutactuteis ate. ulwaya anxious to
buy this stinnge sea-pioduct, and
should such an oppoitunlty as rishei
mntt Klughoiu's come to any of you,
we tiust that )ou may be mote fortu
nate than wns the lll-lnfciimed mun
who Incontinently thtew away a foi
tune when It was within his giasp,
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llciijiiniln Ctllllth's Statement.
Editor of The Trlbi'iie.
Sir. Theie hns been so much comment
regarding the contest for alderman of
the rifth wind that I have concluded to
make u statement to the votuis of said
waul explaining the tieatmcnt 1 ie
celved ftom the hands of some ot the
voteis of the Third district of tlie same
waul. I spent most of my time lu the
Fltst dlstilpt and about G 30 p m. I went
to the Foiuth dlsttlct, where 1 teslde, to
vote Aftei voting 1 nsked, "How do
tilings look beie for mu7 Tlie annuel
was "It Is piett) huitl to tell" I iibked
how aie things In thu Tlibd, und was told
it is Vet) rough theie, ome of the cltl
zt in have sent foi policemen 1 then
miNJAMIN GKUT1TH9.
went ovei to the Third district to ascer
tain what wns wiong The Hist to meet
me weie Wulter Davis, a son of Utzaleel
Davlfe, Uvan Miles und othef, who sui
lounded me and told mo that the booth
was full of ilitinken men, ulso that the
boutd was drunk, and rtsktd me to go In
and get thim out I accotdingl) euteied
the booth and at once found that 1 was
in a hot shop
Theie weie about lift) pel tons in tlie
booth, all moie ot less undei the Influence
of di ink, who had crowded about the
table. I fotttd ni) way tluougli, and the
Hi st thing that atti acted in) attention
was Thomas Hauls a resident or Moms
couit, with a tuunbei of l'oles and Hull",
who weie not eltluiis, and one of my
fi lends b the name of William Rets,
challenged tlie'll tight to vote 1 tnude
tlie following tpipiest. 'Gentlemen, will
)ou please get out of the room and give
the bouid a chuuee to do Its dut) and al
low the citizens to vote as the) please "
This, lu my opinion, moderate leipiest,
was greeted with the utmost piofanlt)
which 1 will not soil join pages b) re
peating, and was told that I had no busi
ness theie whatevei, to which I teplled
I had 11 light theie as a citizen and candi
date foi alderman
I was told to go over to the fourth dls
ttlct I leplled, "This Is u waid ofllce,
gentlemen, not a dlstiict affali, conse
eiuentl) I think I 01 uid of the othei can
dldatts have a light beie," to width the)
answeied, "You aie u Hat."
I then looked upon the table and saw
Mi. Phillips, one of the boaid, opening a
papei. I siw at once that it was a lust
papei and said: "lios, lie can't vote on
that paper," and Mi. Nelson, anothei
membei of the boaid, said- "No, lie can
not vote on that papei." A I'olander
then tluew his vote upon the table and
said "Tlmlti Jones " I looked at the" man
and said. "I challenge his vote" A half
dozen men then cried out. "He has voted
befoie "
Then Hail) Uiadshaw Jumped up aiiii
giabbed me b) ni) both hands and began
hurtling me out of the loom and thteat
ened to kick the life out Of me, nnd the
tin eat was lepeated b) live 01 sl othei s
behind Then John Jone& took hold ot
me b) the left aim and said. "Get out
of here; )ou have no business In this dl-i-trlct."
He thtn plated his back against
the framing of the dooi and talsed his
foot to the othei, thus closing up the
dooiwa), and said. "Hen, get away from
beie; )ou can't get In."' I sild. "Jack,
)OU get awa) fiom theie; ou have no
business theie e'ther."
He said "No, I won't go wa), d
)ou." "Well," I said, "I will go and get
the ofilceis," And awa) I went and told
Lieutenant Williams how things were be
ing conducted. 1 then went back to the
f list tllstiitt about l) 1.1 p m. I was asked
how did )ou find things all tound, Hen?
I told them of the treatment 1 had re
telved in the Thiid, and ieu.uested my
friends not to bothei an) moie, foi I will
be -a candidate In febiuar), foi theie Is
no fab play In the Thiid dlstiict, when
one of Mi. Hull's fi lends said, "You
don't mean that, Hen-"' I said, "Yes, 1
do" Later in the evtnlng I saw Lieuten
ant Ull 11ns and asked him, "How did
)ou find things In the Thiid dlstiict.'"
To which he replied. "Just as jou said."
"Well, did )ou do an) thing" I usktd.
"Yes, we at rested one man for drunken
ness and dHoiderly conduct and ti)Ing
to vote fot the fourth time," was his an
swer
fellow cltl?etis, I have told the tiuth
concerning in) tieatinent lu the Third ills,
ttltt It was in) Intuition to contest the
vote of the Thinl and when I told Mi.
Phillips that I wanted tbo list of numes,
be said. "I have not got them" 1 said.
"What have jou done with them''" "We
have destto)ed them " "Whit did jou do
that foi''" He replied, "The) ulwa)s do "
I have given a truthful statement of the
nijttti, and ask In the name of fab pla,
If this does not Justify me In tomllig out
as an Independent t indldate There are
sevctal citizens of the ward who have ie
quested me to give them an oppoitunlty
by theli votes to epies their dlsappioval
of such tactics, and I have concluded to
elo so. H Gtllllths
Scrunton, Pa , Jan 14, 1S07
At the Sihubeit festival, to bo given
Ip Vieiiui in eoinmemoiatlon of the eom
posei's one hundiedth blilhda), one of
the pettoimeis will be Miss f'aiollne
Glesslei-Hchtibeit, of London, a pluniste
She Is a grundnleie of ahubcit
lOlt
TOR
llvei) one has a kind vvoid foi Seventy-seven,
Lu Huniphiey's pieclous cute
fur Colds, LaUilppe, Iiilluenza.Cutaiih,
Coughs, Sole Till out.
Dr. Humphre)s' Homeopathic Manual
of Diseases at )out Diugglsts or Mulled
free,
A small bottle of pleasant pellets, fits
the vest pocket. Sold by diugglsts, 01
sent on receipt of S3 cents, or live tor SI.
Humphc)s' Med Co., Cor, William and
John 3t3 New Yoik,
m ' ft
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()l)ortiiiiitics for moiiej-sinlng .such as have nccr indented themselves
MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING
Never again will such a well-assorted gathering of new goods stylish and well
made garments from manufacturers of repute only, be offered at such VERY
LIVTLE PKICES.
HEN'S OVERCOATS.
1!T T)0 Overcoats murk eel clown to
15,00 Oveiconts marked down to
18.00 Overcoats marked down to.
BOYS' REEFERS.
$ 7,50 Ileefeta reduced to
8 00 " " "
12 00 " " "
UNDERWEAR.
$1.25 klud now Snc
1.50 " " . ... $1.00
1.75 " " 1.25
HATS.
$3.00 Hats now $2.25
2.C0 " " 2.00
2.00 " " 1.50
1.50 " " 1.00
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
Nevada Is singing in Itussiu.
"Cuba's Vow" is a new play
floience Hlndlev Is In vaudeville.
"Chaile)'s Aunt" tan foui )eais In Lou
don. Nell Uurgess has produced "Odd Miss
Pond."
There's a "fat "Women's Huilesquo
compuii) "
V . II. Crane sa)s the dtama Is not de
gene! atlng
H C. Mliier will retlte from the thta
tilcal Held.
Milton Xobles and rrederlck Bi)ion
aiB in vaudeville
The Swedish government is about to
abolish "music halls "
Jumes B Maekle will be seen In "Little
Juck Hoi net "
Tragedian Thomas ". Keene never
eats fish, fowl or game.
Henry living ma) not ieturn to the
stuge for several months
"Sam'l of Posen" Cuitls has Joined
Lillian Russell's company.
It Is said that Manager Zelgfeld will
shortlv man) Anna Held.
Ada Rehan next season will act the
title tole In "Jeanne d'Arc
Richard Golden is the comedian of
Hendei son's Opeia company.
Blanche Walsh will be seen In Sutton
Vane's "Straight from the Heart."
Du Maui lei hated the theater, but his
son is a member of Beerbohm Ttee's corn
pan). New Yotk's Savo) theatei has closed.
Jeffic)'s Lewis was the stai of the com
pany. K)Ne liellow's only hrothei is con-1
nected with lntge cnglneetlng enteiptlses
In America.
William Monls and Annie Ward Tif
fany will be setn In Blane)'s new play,
"The illfcti Iclaii
John R Itogns' "Strange Adventures
of .Miss Brown" compaii) came tu grief
in St Lori
Women exclusively composed the cast
of 1 tecent tevlvul of "Mldsuminei Night's
Dieam" In New Yoilc
Comedian Kohnle, formerl) of the Wll
bui companv, has Joined the Boston Cas.
lie Sipiaie Opiiu tompan)
H M and Joseph Holland will be sen
fob 1 In a dianiatlation of Mauiice Ciaw
foid's "Di CI melius "
'I he Hungaiian gov eminent is making
ariangcmtnts to establish a big piano
forte nianufactoi) at Budapest
Hot belt Hall Wlnslow, who has written
sixteen pla)s, has just submitted tht se ea
rn lo foi a new comedy to Roliind Reed
Joseph Cnlahan, the actor, was mauled
to his le idlng lad), Miss Beitrlee liigtam,
in Lexington, K) , on Jan 1
The Impel lal Vaudeville lomp-in) in
cludes Veiuouu Jarbeau Ttlcluiid Hui
lowe, Sibyl Johnstone and William fin
ette Revivals Include the "Clemenccau
Case," "Incog," with Chatles DU kson and
"The Two Oi plums" with Kate Claxton
Ma) Yohe w 111 shortl) sing at a New
Yoik music hull She will be accompanied
b) her husband, Lord fiantls Hope
The Bostonlans have almost decided on
"The Serenade" as the title foi theli new
opera b) Vlctot Herbett and Hail) 1!
Smith.
Thomas Bailey Aldrlch litis written a
poetic pla) on Judlthtiid Holofeines, and
Olga Nethersole- will dd it in Loudon
next se ison
Rose Coghlau will replace Mis John
Diew In the 'Spotting Diahess"
The new Pails Opeia combine will cost
In the nclghboihood of 3 WUOOO fining Its
completion Is not looked for now much be
foio the exposition
Van Belne, whose "Broken Melody' mn
1,000 nights In London has disbanded his
tompan) Ho will pla) the "cello at a
Now Yoik music hall
A numbei of Caro, Mich . ladles have
orguiilzed a club, tbo members of xvhiih
tire ull pledged to remove theli hats at
all public eiiteitnlumtnts the) attend
There weie but nine lit go theater flics
duilng isstl, of which three occiured lu
Russia, two In tlie United States, and
one each in Roumania, Scotland and Bel
gium "Within next veai," sa)s Mascagnl, "I
hope to havo finished ' Vestllla " an opera
on a Roman subject In font acts, on which
1 have been wot king foi live ) eats'
Chat Its fiohman has secured the
Atneilcan rights of VIctoilen Surdou's
new play, "Splrltlstnr," which Is to be
ptoduced this month by Siiah Iietnhatdt
at tbo Renaissance) theater In Paris.
Sainh Bernhardt, lu enumerating her
clalnis to fame, put much emphasis mi
the assertion that five months ago she re
FROM BUSIN
Our Entire Stock of
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HEN'S ULSTERS.
$12,00 Ulsters marked down to $G.90
15 00 Ulsters marked down to 10.01)
18 00 Ulslera marked down to 11.25
BOYS' ULSTERS.
$0.00 Ulsters reduced to $3.75
0.50 " " " 4.00
0.00 " " " (j.25
$S.O
. 9.25
,.11.50
$'(-.25
5.00
. 7.25
NECKWEAR.
Dalnnco of stock that was 50c,
now
SUSPENDERS.
Ilsgulnr 50c klud now only ... .
LINEN COLLARS.
15c Collais only
39c
25c
10
25o German Collurs only
.19c
2oe Linen Cull's only 18c
fused an offer of 1,000,000 francs for a short
set ies of perfoi tnances in Geimany.
The dlrectois of the Ro)al Opeia of
Bel Ha requested Verdi to muke some mod.
Ideations in the seoie of his opeia "Lulsa
Miller," und the famous composei has
leplled b a short and decided refusal.
I'lKST I.ADY Of MEXICO.
Shu Is the .Host Popular Woman in
Our Sister ltcpiiblie--'l'ype ol the
Advanced Spanish-Aniciican Mat
ron. Mine, de Diaz, the wife of the Presi
dent of Mexico, Is not only the tiibt
lady of the countiy, but is the most
popului woman in the lepubllc. Senota
Dona Caimen Romero Rublo de Vcu
Is known amoiig her people, fiom the
mansions of the ilch in the billllant
capital to the humblest hut on the fron
tier, as Caimelita, meaning "out little
Cat men " Her populailty ever lu
cre ates, for each year sees a laige num
ber of good vvoiks dispensed b) this
genet ous woman who uses bet powet to
Itnptove the lot of a long-oppiessed and
unhappy people. Mine. Diaz Is often
appealed to on behalf of some one 01
other sentenced to long iinpi lsonment
or death. Olllclal paidon Is a delicate
powet for an) one to hold, and the
president's wife Is natuially cateful for
the Justice of bet case before she goes
to her loul to plead for executive clem
enc). But the ptesldent himself Is of
a tot giving nntuie, and not Infrequent
ly the paidon Is gi anted Nelthet the
ptesldent nor his wife' attend the bril
liant but biutal bull-fights, und In
evety wa) they use their Intluence
against the degt ailing spectacle It is
ceitnln that the.pt esldent will entltel)
ptohlbit them as soon as public senti
ment gives any hope of upholding his
w Ishes
"Cutmellta" is the second wife of
Clenetal Potllrlo Diaz, and Is In hei
thlit)-thltd )eni She stands as a t) pe
of advanced Spanlsh-Aineilcati woman
hood, nnd among othei aicoiupllsu
ments speaks Hngllsh and Flench with
almost eiiunl fluency She Is lemntk
ably vvell-lntoimed on curient events,
and bet ndv lee Is often sou;ht by bet
husband. The ptesldent Is slxt) )eai3
old. and is very ptoud of his fall )onng
wife When theli manlage took place
in 1SS4, they took theli wedding tour
tluougli the United States Her giil
Isli giace und simplicity of innnnet well
match bet beauty, llet uncestt) dates
ful back Into tlie nobility of old Cas
tile, and the evidences of long cultuie
ate easily maiked It Is plulnl) np
pueiit that u tonsldetable iwt of the
Republic ot Mexico and the desire of
the people to keep Pi esldent Diaz In
ofllce- aie due to the geneial esteem lor
his lovtlv wife
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tcacheis Three courses of study besides
prepaiatory. 9peclal attention given to
preparation foi college Students ad
mitted to best colleges on cettlflcite.
Thirty graduates pursuing further studies
last )ear Oreat odvantages for special
studies in art and music. Model school ot
threo hundred pupils Corps of sixteen
teachers Beautiful grounds Magnificent
buildings. Largo grounds for athlotlcs.
Hlovator and Innimnry with attendant
nurse. Fine gymnasium Everything
furnished ut an uverago cost to normal
students of $113 a )enr. Full term, Aug.
28 Winter term, Dec. 2 Spring term,
March 10. Students admitted to classes at
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MACKINTOSHES.
Guaranteed water-proof, were
$0.00, now $4.50
DRESS SUIT CASES.
Canvas cases, were $3.50, now $2.50
Leather eases wore $6,00, now 3.75
JAMES MOIR,
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Has Moved to HI New Quarters.
402 Lackawanna Avenue.
Entrance on aide nozt to Flret National
Bank. He has now In a
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Merchant Tailoring And the samo oan
be shown to advantage In hla splen
didly fitted up rooms.
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thero aro no articles of men's furnishings that
wo do not carry in stock Wei aro selling ouo
of tlie best shirts lu town for $I.0U 1 ou nea
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Trains Leave Wilkes-Barro as Follows
7,30 a. m., week days, for Sunbury,
Harrlsburjr, Philadelphia, Balti
more, Washington, and for Pitts
burg and the West,
10.15 a. m.t week days, for Hazleton,
Pottsville, Reading, Norrlstown,
and Philadelphia; and for Sun
bury, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts,
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Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Balti
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