Chickasha Daily Express. (Chickasha, Indian Terr.), No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 25, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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EXPLORER TELLS OF THE UNEARTHING OF
7.000-YEAR-OLD STATUE OF ASSYRIAN KING
Writing in the New York Herald
of his discovery of the statue of David
the Eumarian king which is described
to be 7(W0 years old Dr. Edgar James
Banks says:
In the very center of ancient
Babylonia half way between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers lies a
series of long low hills about forty
feet In height and extending for a
mile and a half In length and three-
fourth of a mile in width. The sur-
face of the ground is thickly strewn
with minute fragments of terra cotta
pottery and small flint saws and
here and there appear broken bricks
as If Inviting one to excavate the
walls which lie beneath.
The canals in olden times making
the spot habitable have been filled by
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Dr. Banks in Arab Costume.
the terrific sand storms which sweep
over the plain. The country about
Is an absolutely barren desert a sort
of no man's land forming a boundary
lino between several savage Arab
tribes. In recent years It has been
the haunt of the most ferocious rob-
bers of the desert.
Blsn.? has been visited by few ex-
plorers. Dr. Ward and Dr. Peters
each spent a few months there and
both were of the opinion that it mark-
ed the site of an ancient Babylonian
city but more than one German ex-
plorer has asserted that the ruin con-
tained nothing more ancient or more
valuable than an Arab mud fort. How-
ever all have agreed that whatever
the ruin contained the absence of wa-
ter ami Its location on the border ter-
ritory of several tribes would render
excavation impossible.
In my efforts with the Ottoman gov-
ernment to obtain a firman to open ex-
cavations I was for inexplicable rea-
sons refused permission to excavate
the two Biblical cities Cr In South
Babylonia and Cutha In the north
and in spite of the disadvantages
which Blsmya presented my next
choice fell upon it.
There Is a similarity In Babylonian
ruins. Most of them show traces of
surrounding walls a square staged
temple a palace or two and a canal
and it was not difficult to recognize
the forms of most of these structures
at Blsmya. With a force of 120 Arab
workmen each armed with a long bar-
reled flint-lock or a more modern
square Mauser work was begun on
the side of a square shaped hill
somewhat higher than most of the
others'.
Just beneath the surface the mound
was filled with fragments of square
Babylonian bricks showing the re-
mains of a fallen staged tower and a
few strokes of the pick revealed 'half
of one upon which was Inscribed the
name of King Dungi. King of Ur 2750
B. C. Although nothing but the name
was legible yet it proved conclusive-
that we were excavating a city and
not a modern Arab ruin and that the
city was of no mean age. for almost
on the surface were the remains of a
temple constructed 4.650 years ago.
Indeed this brick and others from the
same wall were with very few excep-
tions discovered at Blsmya.
This brick Inscription was but a
fore runner of others more ancient
which were soon to follow. Just be-
neath It appeared a short Inscription
of Naram Sin the son of the famous
Sargon who. according to Nebonidus
lived about 200 B. C but to the As-
syrlologlstii of a few years ago was
a mythical character. Less than a
metre below a structure 4.G50 years
old was therefore another a thousand
years older.
The trenches were dug Into the hill
until the side of the lower stage of
the tower was reached and then con-
tinued about the walls in the hopes
of finding a doorway. Shafts were
sunk at the corners and at less than
a metre below a stratum of Sargon
and Naram Sin we came upon a plat-
iorm of a temple built of plano-convex
bricks in shape like a loaf of bread
flat on the bottom and rounded at the
top. These bricks also found in the
very oldest strata at Telloh and Nip-
pur had boen assigned by Assyrlolo-
glsts to a period not far from 4500 B.
C. My own subsequent discoveries at
Blsmaya confirmed this opinion.
While the workmen were digging a
deep trench along the plano-convex
wall and I was standing on the sum-
mit of the temple superintending the
work a young Arab stuck his head
above the trench and excitedly mo-
tioned to me. Expecting that some-
thing of Importance had been discov-
ered I hastened into the trench and
there I saw projecting from the hard
dirt a large piece of smooth white
marble which at once suggested a
nude statue. The Arabs uncertain as
to what they had discovered became
bo exited that I was obliged to re-
wove them from the trench and p'aee
them at work In another part of the
ruin.
A little before sunset when the
work ceased for the day we went Into
the trench to uncover the marble.
Lest it should be marred by the pick
we carefully cut away the dirt from
beneath with knives. The folds of a
dress appeared then ankles and feet
p.'.d there the stone came to an end.
The toes were missing. Then digging
toward the upper part of the statue
we uncovered the folded hands the
bare arms the shoulders and the neck
and then again to our sorrow the
stone ended. Lifting the heavy statue
from Its bed of dirt where it had
rested for several thousand years we
searched about for the missing parts.
The toes broken Into several frag-
ments were lying Just beneath it
and when placed to the feet they fit-
ted together. The lower part of the
statue was perfect. We looked for
the missing head until it became so
dark that we could see no longer
and not finding it bore our treasure
to the camp.
Our first duty to our headless king
was to give him a bath. As we
scrubbed away tne dirt there appeared
upon the right upper arm the three
lines of an Inscription but In charac-
ters so ancient and peculiar that at
the time I was unable to decipher
them.
A month passed and all our efforts
to find the missing head were In vain.
We had almost despaired of ever find-
ing it when a workman who was
clearing away the dirt near another
corner of the temple several rods
from the spot where the statue was
found picked up a large round hard
substance. As he scraped away the
dirt white marble appeared then the
nose the ears the mouth and the
eyes of the head of a statue. I hur-
ried with it to the camp and placed it
on the neck of the statue. It fitted
and our king was complete. Even be-
neathe the dirt which still clung to the
face we could Imagine that there rest-
ed a smile of happiness for the old
king had recovered the head which he
had lost long ago even before we uRed
to believe the world was created. The
first thought wag one which has since
been expressed repeatedly In the
American papers the face was a
striking likeness of what one might
expect an ancestor of Mr. Denew to
have been.
The statue when perfect Is about
three feet In height. The head is
well formed the eyes somewhat al-
mond shape are now but holes Into
which the eyeballs probably of Ivory
were fitted. The face Is beardless
the neck and shoulders which are
nude are gracefully formed; the arms
at the elbows are free from the body
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and the hands are clasped In front
The lower part of the statue is en
veloped la an embroidered dress of
six folds a style of dress which ap-
pears upon a few figures of the very
earliest bas-reliefs from Telloh now.
In the Louvre.
It would be difficult to over-estl
mate the Importance of that statue
to the science of Assyrlology. The
short inscription when read told us
the things wUih we most wished to
know. It was the name of the king
of the temple In which he worshiped
and the city over which he ruled:
The Temple E-shar.
The King Da-udu.
The City Ud-nun-kl.
Da-udu r. ud. the oriental form of
David Is a new name to Assyriolo
gists and It is probable that from this
old pie-Babylonian or Sumarlan king
the name of the Biblical king was de
rived. The name of the city is men
tloned in the fauous Hammurabi
Code and since the discovery of that
famous stone It has been the desire
of Assyrlologists to find It.
Our statue then Is of exceptional
value. It presents us with a perfect
specimen of Babylonian art of nearly
seven thousand years ago. The style
of Its dress the shape of Its face the
character of its Inscription and the
stratum In which It was found all
point with a certainty to a date fif
teen hundred years older than the im
perfect statues of Telloh previously
called the oldest Babylonian statues
known. It Is the only Babylonian
statue In the round with the arms free
from the body. It has revealed to us
the site of one of the most Important
cities and temples of the ancient
world and presented to us the name of
a king absolutely new to history.
Run at Home.
"How do I keep in condition?" said
an ex-athlete. "Simplest thing in the
world. I run half a mile every u orn-
lng."
Don t you find it hard to find a
place to run here In the city?" asked
one of his audience. "I should think
the police would stop you."
"Not where I run. I do It In my
own room. On a track I can cover a
half mile at a gentle jog in four min
utes. So every morning I Just Jog
around my room which is fortunately
large for about five minutes. Then I
do a few setting up exercises which
take five minutes more. This ten
minute program is enough to keep
any man of ordinary habit In fair con
dltion and hold down his girth. But
you have to stay with the game
every morning not once every few
mornings. My daily run Is now as
much a necessity to me as my bath.
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Markings on the Saw.
An Invention pertaining to com-
pound tools of the saw type has for its
object a design as simple and efficient
as the ordinary saw and almost If
not quite as cheap and provides the
amount of rise per foot of run of hori-
vldes means by which the various
angular cuts resorted to In carpentry
may be expeditiously and easily found
and marked. The blade Is similar in
tye to tot: oidlnary handsaw except
that It u. have a straight back and
carries a number of Inscribed lines to
mark different angles such as 15 de
grees 22V4 degrees 30 degrees 45 de-
grees 60 degrees etc. Other corre-
lated Information such as the amount
of rise per foot of run of horizanta
measurement for any of the angles
within the scope of the saw Is added.
These marks considerably Increase the
sphere of the tool and render it unnec
essary to employ the usual miter when
an angular cut Is to be found and
marked without in any way rendering
the tool cumbersome or Interfering
With Its ordinary use. Moreover the
improvement does not add appreciably
to Its cost.
Painted Paper for 8teel.
As a result of ten years' experiment-
ing on the durability of paints an east
ern railroad has now introduced a sys
tem of protecting smooth steel sur
faces in Its stations with painted pa
per. Of all the paints tried none was
found which could be relied upon to
protect a clean steel surface more
than eight months under the extreme-
ly severe conditions of the test. U
der the new system the metal Is
cleaned In the ordinary way and then
coated with a single coat of a sticky
substance. Paraffined paper is next
pasted over this and finally painted
any color desired. Holes are cut in
the paper for the rivet heads to pass
through the heads being then covered
with caps of paraffined paper. The
cost Is but little more than that for
applying two coats of litharge in boll
ed linseed oil directly to the metal
since the work Is all done at one set-
ting of the scaffolding and the result
appears to be permanent while the
painted bars scale off under the condi
tions of the test in a few months.
Rocking Chair Cradle.
Every mother gives the baby prefer
ence over everything else and she
will Invariably make every sacrifice
she can to add to Its comfort and ease.
A baby takes a great deal of care
and watching and this always falls
on the mother In addition to the reg
ular household duties. If she puts it
to sleep upstairs in the cradle. It
means a run up and down steps to at-
tesd to It and her work also. A New
York man has devised a convertible
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Used as a Cradle.
rocking chair and cradle an Illustra-
tion of which Is shown here and it is
so constructed that H can be placed
In the dining room where it could be
used for either purpose. If it is de
sired to put the baby to sleep at any
time it can be converted into a cradle
and placed right under the watchful
eye of its mother in the dining room
but whn not so used it can be
changed again to a rocking chair and
Us appearance will not look out of
place as a cradle would. It is pro-
vided with the necessary cushions for
both purposes the rockers of thi
chair serving as the rockers of the
cradle.
Barnet Smith of New York City 1?
he patentee.
Aluminium Detects Mercury.
The power of aluminium has for ab
sorbing mercury vapor has been
proved by H. Tarugl to constitute a
elicate method of analyzing the pres
ence of mercury in the atmosphere
and furnishes a means of prevention
against poisoning by Its vapors. He
has demonstrated that this property
Is manifest even when the vapor is
largely diluted with air and at the
temperature of the surrounding at-
mosphere. A respirator has been con-
structed in which the air before en-
tering the lungs has to pass through
finely pulverized aluminium and In
this way all traces of mercury are ab
sorted bo completely breathing can be
carried on without difficulty In the
dense vapors produced by the burning
of cWcjide of mercury.
CLOVE GARDENS OF ZANZIBAR
They Are the Real Beauty Spots of
the Island.
It Is difficult to describe in fitting
language the clove gardens of Zanzi-
bar. The "spicy breezes" which are
said to "blow soft o'er Ceylon's Isle"
blow with equal softness and perhaps
no less gplciness through Zanzibar's
beautiful clove forests writes E.
Verne Richardson In American Syren
and Shipping. The whole Island
abounds In richest vegetation but the
clove forests are Its real beauty spots.
And what a grateful change their fra-
grant shade from the Oriental odorj
and genuinely bad smells of the stuffy
streets of the old town itself! For
Zanzibar Is not like an American city
in the width of its streets and the
architecture of its buildings. There la
scarcely a thoroughfare In the whole
place wide enough to permit two ve-
hicles to pass and the system of sani-
tation is almost as primitive as that
of the garden of Eden; hence some
of the smells. Fortunately the clove
forests are not far away. Zanzibar
has no docks or wharfs. All goods are
landed or shipped by means of light-
ers. The tidal rise is about fourteen
feet and the fall necessarily the same.
Vast stretches of beach are thus left
bare at low water; hence more smells.
But with all its drawbacks Zanzibar
Is not particularly unhealthful. It Is
hot vigorously viciously hot but still
the people the white people manage
to live there In comparative comfort
and In spare hours play golf tennis
and sometimes even football.
HELPING THE PLAYERS OUT.
Youngsters Resented Ignoring of Di-
rect Challenge.
The writer while In another city
was Invited to attend the theater
with his uncle and two young cousins.
During the play two of the comedians
got into an argument over the subject
of husbands loving their wives and
one of them said he would bet there
was not a husband in the audience
who loved his wife; and If there was
he would ask him to stand up.
Of course the audience refused to
bite but imagine our surprise and
consternation when the smallest cous-
in piped up In a loud voice: "Papa
why don't you get up; you know you
love mamma." The wave of laughter
that ran over the whole house only
added to our discomfiture.
Bachelor's Fix.
The morning after the ball which
was recently given at the residence
of one of the bachelors here to his
consternation and dismay he found a
dainty pair of corsets in the apart
ment used that night as the ladles
cloakroom. Such Indiscriminate dis-
play of feminine apparel is rather
shocking to a bachelor's modesty and
it Is reported that the said bachelor
Is too modest to remove the offending
article or to venture in the room where
it rests in stately repose and unless
the owner Is soon found or some other
disposition is made of same it is
feared that this modest gallant will de-
sert his bachelor quarters and take
to the hills. RItter cor. Long Creek
Ore. Ranger.
The Question.
When the calcium's light is turned full on
a man
And the papers make a note of his
name
He finds when the future he pauses to
scan.
There are only two outlets for fame.
He may be. a pugilist brawnv of fiamf
Or a captive where savages rage;
The question that rises is one and the
same
Will he lecture or go on the stage?
When a woman has looted a number of
banks.
Or been tried for some terrible crime
There is always a stir in the publishers'
ranks.
And managers offer her time.
The ruMic stands calmly and patiently
by.
As It oft has to do In this age.
And prepares to applaud as it says with
a sigh:
Will she lecture or go on the stage?
Worth of a Hearty Laugh.
The old adage "Laugh and grow
fat" Is founded on a sound physio-
logical basis. It is commonly observed
that fat men laugh with considerable
facility. But they do not laugh be-
cause they are fat. They are fat be-
cause they laugh the act of cachln-
cation having profound influence In
promoting appetite oxidation of the
blood digestion indeed the entire
and complex process of nutrition.
Good nourishment produces the con-
tented body the fit temple of the con-
tented mind which is we know on ex-
cellent authority a perpetual feast.
Simple Engineering.
A traveler in Egypt writes: "In a
camel caravan we once met in the
desert there was a beast with a gi-
gantic load of cases towering above
and on both sides of aim; on the left
flank of this mountain of cases rode "a
small Arab slung hi a sling. The rea
son was obvious the camel engineers
had miscalculated in loading and had
put too much weight on the off side
thus giving the camel a heavy list to
starboard. Arab-like being too lazy
to repack they had corrected the er-
ror by using a light Arab as trimming
ballast."
They Were Peace Medals.
A British officer cays that one day
he saw a volunteer soldier out for drill
who had an extraordinary number of
medals pinned on his coat. "He evi-
dently felt flattered at my notice'" de-
clared the officer "and I said to him
'You seem to have seen considerable
service. In what have you been en-
gaged?' He replied: Bless you! I
have never been in a war. My father
and I were awarded those medals at
agricultural shows for a special breed
of pigs for which we are famous.' "
In Training.
"My boy Ezra Is home from college
for a week. He's a great athlete you
know."
"So I've heard.'"
"Yes. Well I thought I'd test him a
little an I didn't know no better way
than to set him to sawin 'wood."
"Good idea "
"Well I thought so. I proposed It
to Ezry an' he said 'All right dad I'll
saw tu' wood but I want a glass of
old ale a mutton chop an' alcohol rub-
down every thirty minutes." "
"Well well. An what happened?" .
"He didn't saw the wood."
Encouraging the Timid Suitor.
Freddie Do you think your father
will consent to my marrying your sis-
ter? Lulu Sure and I think he will
even give tradln stamps if you'll hur-
ry up about it. He's got seven more
besides me.
Valuable Surgical Instrument.
Old Baggies (taking a suspicious-
looking bottle from his son's valf.se)
I thought that there was nothing but
surgical instruments in this bag?
Young Baggies That's what I said
dad.
Old Baggies Then what do you call
this?
Young Baggies That? Oh that's
my eye-opener dad; very useful Instru-
ment very; couldn't get along without
It any way.
Not What He Expected.
"And now" said Willie throwing
aside the garden hoe "and now papa
where Is the golden reward and rich
recompense you promised me for hoe-
ing out the weeds In the garden
patch?"
"You wll find It In the mental satis-
faction of a duty well done" replied
papa. And thus was another budding
love for work spoiled by the theories
of the idealists."
More Than a Hint.
"If I should attempt to kiss you"
asked the young man. "would you
scream for your mother?"
"I guess I would" the fair thing ad-
mitted "but It wouldn't do me much
good. Mother is visiting fifteen miles
out in the country."
A moment later something hap-
pened. Out of Season.
Mrs. Hi Uppe "Dear did you sea
any of those fine old aqueducts while
you were In Italy?"
Mrs. New-Rich "Never seen a duck.
And while we was riding across Ger-
many we kept a lookout for some of
them German peasants but I never
seen such a scarcity of fowl no place."
All He Had.
"I suppose your husband gave you
all he had to give."
"Yes advice and excuses."
Each In His Own Way.
Snaggs (bailing) Why don't yo
help relieve the boat?
Jaggs I am. I've lowered the Jug
Miree Inches.
Starved.
Hicks "I saw your wife at the op-
era last night. She certainly did look;
charming. By the way old man you're
rather thin aren't you?"
Marryat "I guess I am. You see'
we went to housekeeping recently and
I arranged with my wife to give her a
certain amount each week to provide
for the table and buy clothes for her-
self." Catholic Standard.
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