The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 02, 1911, Image 5
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Ancient Records About Babylon Being
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Found and Deciphered.
INTERESTING STUDY
Everyday Affairs in City Long An,
tcriating Birth of Christ?The
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Vital Importance of the Waterway
to Welfare of the People.
A correspondent of The London
Standard gives some interesting details
of a store of cuneiform written
tablets recently discovered at th'e ancient
town of Dilbat, near Uahylon.
The tablets tell in graphic manner
the story of the citizens, their business
transactions, disputes and everyday
life.
They are not the usual royal edicts
and records, but what may best be
termed family archives. They relate
to a very early period, being
mostly dated in the reigns of the
predecessors of that mighty monarch
Hammurabi, who codified the
Babylonian laws, and so were composed
at the period of the first Babylonian
dynasty.
From these newly found tablets
and previously deciphered references
in the records of Babylon we now
know that Dilbat was a small Babylonian
town 011 that great masterpiece
of Mesopotamian engineering,
tho A rah t u canal.
"The canal," says the correspondent,
"must have kept near to the
great river Euphrates, for it washed
the southern face of Babylonian's
ramparts and upon it opened one of
the great city's gates dedicated to
the god Urns. It led away southward
to Dilbat, which, as the newly
found records inform us, was built,
between the canal and the Euphrates,
for some of the tablets refer to pieces
of property in land or houses, described
as within the city or its suburbs,
as bounded by the river, and
others by the canal. As the present
natives of the district will not reyea)
the site of their And we unfortunately
do not yet know precisely
where Dilbat stood.
"The Arahtu canal not only watered
the soil and so produced the
crops, but carried upon its surface
the harvests it had created. Tims
an old tebt lays It was tne "Dringer
of the life to Babylon.' Dilbat was
probably the great southern granery
for the capital, for Hammurabi, in
his long autobiographical panegyric
boasts that he 'extended the plantations
of Dilbat and accumulated corn
for I p.*
"When the Arahtu was first constructed
it would be difficult to say,
b'. t its benefits to their people caused
the kings always to keep it in repair,
and vice veysa, Invaders of
Babylonia in war time damaged it
as a preliminary to starving out. the
capital.
"The special deity of Dilbat was
Ip, probably a shortened form of
Nimip, and liis temple was called
Imbi Anum, 'Proclaimed of Ann.' '
There was a city wall coeval with the
foundation of the city, and restored
by King Sumu-Abu, predecessor of
Hammurabi. The town appears to
have possessed three harbors or
dies and a market, and one can imagine
the busy hum of commerce upon
its streets and wharves.
\ "r; lie documents rescuuu irum us
ruins almost all concern the sale or
renting of houses and lands and
fields or the hire and purchase of
cattle and crops. Dilbat being the
center of a rich agricultural district.
The terms employed are common to
all the Babylonian cities. The
ground and the houses are clearly
defined by the enumeration of neighboring
properties and the names of
the vender and purchaser, and at the
end of the bargain the deed discloses
comes the oath sworn before the god
of the city In the temple and also an
Invocation of the reigning king. The
Dilbat scribes also added a clause
placing the ones of any subseuent dispute
of the deed upon the seller.
'For all the contests concerning the
property A.'B.) is responsible.' Finally
follows the names of the witnesses,
and often also the scribe of
the tablet, and generally several sig
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"Legally the vender should always
pen! the tablet, but If he has not a
signet then some or all of the wit?nesses
applied theirs. Properly
speaking also, the tablets should have j
been in duplicate. The first was in- j
scribed and baked and copied, then a
cover of soft clay placed over or
around it and the document re-engrossed
upon this cover from the
copy, so that it could be referred to
at any time by paying the required
fee at the record office.
"In case of a dispute as to its accuracy
for an extra sum the outer!
envelope was broken and compared
with its interior duplicate text, and
the litigant who proved to be in error
in his allegation that the two
versions were not identical paid a
considerable forfeit, and a new outer
case was placed over the original
tablet and reinscribed. This procedure
is mentioned in the Old Testament
as inquiring of the outer and j
the inner tablet of a deed. |
"The fellahin with their picks and
2 MAY MEAN MUCH
SEARCH FOR POTASH MAY
PROVE OF GREAT VALUE.
A men il men t to Appropriation Hill
Suggested by Congressman Lever
Affects Fertilizer Situation.
A special dispatch to The State
from Washington says James Wilson,
secretary of agriculture, does
not hesitate to express the belief that 1
the amendment to the agricultural j
appropriation bill, offered by Representative
Lever of South Carolina,
will be of national benefit. lie has
written to Mr. Lever expressing that j
belief and congratulating him upon
the important work he has accomplished
for the farmers of the country.
The amendment provides for an
appropriation for an investifation to
determine a possible supply of potash,
nitrates and other natural fertilizers
within the United States.
That this amendment is regarded
as the beginning of an undertaking
of vast importance to the farmcis
of the nation is shown by the favorable
way in which this matter has
been received by the agricultural
scientists of the country.
Mr. Lever himself believes it to be
one of the most important undertakings
ever put on foot by the department
of agriculture. In arguing for
his amendment, he set out cleaily
and concisely the facts that the entire
section of country which he in
part represents is at the absolute
mercy of a great German syndicate
for its supply of potash, one of the
necessary ingredients of a complete
fertilizer.
It was nhown that this country
consumes $8,000,000 worth a year
and it is of interest to know that of
this amount at least 00 per cent is
consumed in the South.
According to a statement of Prof.
Harper of Clemson College about $ i,4f>0,000
are expended for potash in
South Carolina, while Commissioner
Watson makes the expense to South
Carolina for this fertilizer Ingredient
slightly more than this.
The freight from the German
mines to this country amounts to
about $f> a ton and this Itself, it is
urged by the men interested in the
outcome of the investigations authorized
in tills amendment is no considerable
item that may he safed if
potash deposits are discovered in this
country.
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture is enthusiastic
about his investigation. *
Murdered Klectrocutcxi.
James H. Allison, of Asheville,
was officially electrocuted at Raleigh,
N. C., Friday. Floyd McGee, in
a quarrel over a woman. He was the
flret u/fiito m j> ri oloft rnmi f nd in \f)l*t h
Carolina. *
shovels have, however, broken most
of the outer covers of the Dilbat
documents. These methods for the
enregisterizaMon of transactions necessitating
legal formalities to enable
them to he cited as 'evidence'
in the law courts, or the municipal
tribunal (for in one case, at least,
he Mayor was the judga) were sine'nr
to those at other contemporary
neighboring cities, but they possess
their own peer Mar phraseology, providing
that Dilbat had his own type
of citizen, though comparatively an
insignificant town. So a flourishing
school of scribes and solicitors dauntless
crowded the shady corridors of
its temple and the halls of the god's
t ribunal.
"Truly its properity was but a reflex
of that of Babylon, but the city's
existence was not ephemeral, for it
commenced with the first regions of
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and endured until the Persian era.
"The majority of the tablets found
often merely register plots areas or
'orations, for most of the litigation
was about boundaries. Others, however.
are for loans or hiring agreements,
one being for a period of
three months only. Huzulum hires a
bull from the great temple gods of
Sippara, Shamash and Ala for a year.
Doubtless the joint deities had a
shrine at Dilbat and a farm for sacrificial
cattle and did a thriving trade
in stud cattle and rams.
"People also hired out chariots
and agricultural Implements, but
loans wero mostly in money and seed
corn. The interest for the latter
sometimes amounted to 3 6 per cent,
but it was payable in kind out of
| what it provided, and if the farmer
I had parted in the previous season
I with his reserve of seed, because of
la specially high offer for it he could
afford to pay such interest to obtain
a freah supply.
"Some deeds concern the hiring of
j harvesters, and they were often registered
before the engagement matured
by the crops ripening. A
clause was therefore inserted that if
the men contracted for failed to apnn'ir
Mm ffirmer rould hire others at
I ho price paid that season by the
| King or his own estates, and it may
he presumed that the person who had
promised to supply the men made up
the difference, if any.
"Such was life at Oil hat, about
2,000 years before the Christian era,
as revealed by the small clay tablets
| that the patient industry of many intellects
have for the love of science
; enabled us to read."
WILL FIND A HOME
DESTITUTE CHILDREN CAN NOW
<iO TO COLUMBIA.
Covornor lilcaso Approves tlio Act
Entrusting Children to the Rescue
Orphanage There.
"Destitute, abandoned and unprotected"
children, for whom no other
| special provision is made, will herej
after be committed to the care of the
Rescue orphanage, Columbia, wherI
ever they may be found In the State,
j The act so providing has been ap
1 proved by Governor mease, and tne
affixing of his signature made it effective.
The act provides:
That whenever any girl under the
age of 14, or boy under the age of
10 years, shall be found by any policeman,
sheriff! constable or other
person in any county, city or town,
in circumstances of destitution or
suffering, or of abandonment, exposure
or neglect, or of beggary, or
in any house of ill-fame, it shall be
lawful for, and the duty of, such
officer to make report thereof to
the probate judge of said county.
Thereupon, such probate judge
shall forthwith fix a time for the
hearing and investigation of such
case, as speedily as possible, and give
notice of such hearing to the parent
or parents, if known, or to the guardian
or custodian of such child, it
known. And such probate judge
shall hear all the evidence offered
before him and investigate fully the
circumstances and surroundings of
such child.
And if, upon such investigation,
the said officer shall find that said
child is abandoned. or is being
brought u i> in immoral or vicious
surroundings, or without any atie
quate or proper care or custody, a
shall be lawful for, and the duty of
such officer to issue a warrant ot
commitment, committing eaid child
to the custody, care and rearing of
the Rescue orphanage, situated at
Columbia, or to any similar orphanage
in the State, devoted to the relief
and eare of such children.
The said orphanage and any other
orphanage devoted to the relief of
children who are destitute, abandoned
or l>eing raised In immoral
and vicious surroundings, shall have
full care and control over any child
committed to it, as herein provided;
subject always to the right of the
courts to inquire into the propriety
and sufficiency of the care and maintenance
being provided for any such
child, and to modify or change the
care and cuatory of any child, as the
court may deem proper.
That any auch orphanage to which
a child has been committed as provided
in the two preceding sections
shall have the right to entrust any
such child, for its care, maintenance,
rearing, education and adoption, ,.0
the care and custody of any iiulivid?
c - i? 1. i - 1, I i.
uai or ramily, wiucu it may uitiu
proper, upon such guarantees as may
he required by such orphanage. Hut
this right shall be subject to the supervision,
investigation and control of
the courts of common pleat for said
State of South Carolina, upon appli
cation made to the courts.
CAN'T BK FOl'NI).
T. Hawkins Missed Since Thursday
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on Broad River.
The States says friends of T.
A ugh try Hawkins of Sheiton are very
I much worried over his disappearance.
I'M. M. Scott of the Scott Bros, com
pany, by whom Hawkins was employed,
was in Columbia Friday night
making inquiries.
The last, seen of Hawkins was f>
o'clock Thursday evening. He was
out on the Broad river in a bateau.
The regular ferryman was In Winnsbo
ro attending court and Hawkins
had poled some passengers across tho
ferry. He was wearing overalls at
i the time, his other clothes being in
J tho store. He had no money with
him.
Hawkins is a nephew of T. B.
Aughtry and a brother-in-law of Dr.
LeGrand Guerry of Columbia, and
is about 2 7 or 28 years of age. Mr.
J Scott is very anxious to got any ini
formation of the whereabouts of
I Hawkins. The boat which ho was
I rowing, or poling, has not been
seen. *
The Deadly Auto.
At Fort Worth, Tex., Harry Sears,
: a contractor, is dead, his daughter,
Mrs. O. T. Uamos, is seriously injured,
and the latter's husband and Miss
Maude Berry are suffering internal
Injuries as a result of tho wrecking
of their automobile when the maj
chine skidded, turning turtle. *
Negroes Not Dosirtnl.
The Dominion Government decidled
to stop the immigration or nei
groes from the United States, and,
I stopped at the boundary a party
which intended to go to Western
Canada. The negroes are repareded
as undesirable citizens. *
?
Follows Wife to Grave.
Unbalanced by poignant, ftrief over;
the death of his wife, which occurred
Friday morning at her home, at
Warrenton, N. C., M. M. Hendlelon
j fired a bullet into his temple and expired
in 3 0 minutes. Their married
life was an ideally happy one.
NO USE FOR IT
GtTornor Blease Say* He Will Hereafter
lgoor< pardon Eoa d.
HE ASSIGNS NO REASON
Simply Says lie Has Wilidrawn AH
Papers in Hands of Members and
Will liefer No More to Them?
The Ofllco is Not Abolished by
li?W.
The Columbia Record savs renorr
ers who asked Governor 131 ease, Friday,
what was the status of the
State board of pardons, were told:
"Well, 1 have recalled the papers
that were In their hands and I do not
intend to refer any more cases to
them." Which means the practical
abolishment of the board, if the uovernor
stands by his expressed intention;
yet the law requires tha: the
board shall met regularly, on the
first Wednesday in each quarter, and
so it will continue to meet, its members
drawing $-1 per diem and their
mileage, although their occupation
be gone. The governor has not the
power to abolish the board, nor is it
within the discretion of the board
to neglect the attending of the reg
ular meetings merely because the
governor has pensod to r< for In if I
any matters for consideration.
The board is composed of Messrs.
fl. Mayes Cleveland of Travelers'
Host, C. A. 3ava?e of Walterboro and
Washington A. Clark, Sr., of Columbia,
Mr. Cleveland being chairman
md Mr. Clark secretary. Mr. Savage's
terra expires next month, Mr.
Cleveland's about a year hence and
Mr. Clark's two years hence.
Mr. Clark said that he had not
been advised of the governor's intention
not to refer any more cases
to the board, but that if the governor
did pursue thia course, the
board would have no choice but to
met regularly, on the first Wednesday
in each quarter, notifying the
governor that it was in session,
awaiting his pleasure, and, if he laid
no business before it, adjourn; and
so on until the general assembly
should see fit to repeal the act creating
the commission, or the boa id
should go out of existence by expiration
of the terms of its members.
The pay of the board, Mr. Clark said,
is limited to $4 per day for members
while the hoard is sitting, and
the usual mileage to and from their
tinnio* nn nft'i/ii'i! hnuinoau
The act creating the board provides
that within 30 days from ihe
appointment, said hoard shall meet
in the city of Columbia, and organize,
and at once notify the governoi
of their readiness to consider any
petitions he may see tit to lay i efore
them. They shall keep a comply ?
record of al! their proceedings, and
hold same subject to the orders
from the governor, or the general
assembly.
It shall bo (lie duty of said boamt
to consider any and all petitions for
pardons or commutation of sentence
which may he referred to them by
the governor, and to make their recommendation
to the governor regarding
same; provided the governor may
or may not adopt such recommendation,
but in case he does not, he shall
submit his reasons to the general as
sembly; provided, further, that the
governor may art on any petition
without reference to said board.
Said board shall hold regular
meetings at least four times each
year, beginning on the first Wednesdays
of January, April, July and
October, respectively, and as many
extra meetings as the governoi may,
through the secretary, order.
The members of said board shall
receive as compensation for their services
the sum .of four ($4) dollars
for each day they shall be in session,
not to exceed 20 days, and 10 cents
per mile, one way, for the most direct
route to and from such meeting;
said sum to be paid by the State
treasurer, on warrant of the comptroller
general.
Said hoard shall have authority to
preserve order at Its meetings, and
to punish any disrespect, or contempt
committed In its presence. A
majority of said l>oard shall constitute
a quorum for the transact.on of
husineps, and a majority shall rule
in all Its deliberations. The members
of said board shall hold no oth?r
public office than that of notary public."
Falls Heir to Fortune.
The News ami Courier says L. II.
Adams, a yeoman in Uncle Sam's service
at the local naval plant, has been
informed that he had fallen heir to a
fortune of $27,000, left him through
the death of a distant relative. Yeoman
Adams' home is in Benton Harbor,
Michigan. He has been in Charleston
about nine months. *
Hig Strike Still On.
The Charleston fertilizer strike remains
on with more than 2,000 ue-!
yroea idle and declaring their in ten-1
tion to remain away from the works j
until their demand for $2.10 is met..
There has b? en no disorder worth
speaking of however and It is en-j
tirely possible that the men may yet
go back to work without the increase.
DOING GOOD WORK
PASTEUR TREATMENT GIVEN IN
COLUMBIA FREE.
Ninety-Nine Per Cent of Persons Bitten
by Rabid, l>ogs Saved Says
Rei>ort.
The Columbia Record eays since
the beginning of the present year, 19
persons, of various ages, have received
the pasteur treatment for hydrophobia
at the State laboratory In
this city, at no expense to themselves
except that of the cost of living. For
a year or so past this department of
the University of South Carolina, un
der the efllcient^ management of Dr.
F. A. Coward, has been treating this
disease most effectively, and it is
beyond question that through its in
sirumenrauiy, a numoer or uvea nave
been saved from this disease, which
when once developed, can not be
cured by any means now known to
medical science.
Five patients are now taking tlie
treatment under Dr. Coward. This
method of saving human beings from
death by bites from the so-called
"mad dogs" was discovered by the
famous French scientist whose name
it bears, and since that time, all the
skill and knowledge of scientists have
been devoted to perfecting the methods
employed. It has now been reduced
to a system by which 99 per
cent of those bitten by mad dogs have
been saved from the dread disease,
which inevitably results in death.
The process is interesting. The treatment
is practically painless, and during
their treatment, the patients are
In t lDiprtv p*ppiit for a few miniiios
each day.
The treatment consists essentially
in innocnlating the patients with the
virus containing hydrophobia germs,
very weak at first, but becoming
gradually stronger, until finally the
system is accustomed to the poison,
and rendered immune. Thus when
the disease develops, it is rendered
practically harmless. Furthermore,
the patient is immune from further
mad dog bites for a period of nearly
a year.
When a person is bitten by a socalled
mad dog, the first step is to
examine the brain of the dog for
serins of hydrophobia. If these are
found, or even if not, if circumstances
are suspicious, the treatment
is given. Ordinarily, the disease will
develop in a human being in from
three weeks to six months. By beginning
the treatment at once, the
patient is saved.
To begin with, a rabbit is innoculated
with hydrophobia virus taken
from the brain of some animal which
has died with the disease. The virus
is placed in the brain of the rabbit,
and he is sot apart, for the disease to
develop. This takes place in about
- - -1 At. - 1 1 ?
nine nays, i no <l111111<11 ih'cuiihii^ p.nalyzed
at the end of that time. The
spinal cord of the rabbit is then removed.
cut in pieces, and placed in
the cooling incubator, which is maintained
at a temperature of 22 degrees
centigrade.
At the end of the first day a small
particle is taken out, and preserved
on ice in glycerine. Another portion
is taken out at the end of tlie
second day, and preserved in glycerine,
and so on, for eight days, the
bottles being numbered to show the
number of days in the incubator.
Those particles which have remained
eight days are the weakest, being
practically inert.
In general, the patient has first in
jected into him a small quantity of
the eight-day spinal cord, ground up
to the consistency of human blood.
The next day, the seven-day piece is
injected, and so on down to the
one-day pieces, if the bites Indicate a
dangerous case. The next week,
the treatment begin again with a
four or five day piece of cord. The
treatment generally lasts three
weeks at the end of which another
injection of one-day virus is made.
Ry this time the system of the patient
has been gradually accustomed
to the poison in its strongest form,
and now when the germs from the
bite begin to develop, they are practically
harmless. It is a case of
fighting poison with poison. This is
the only way now known to treat hydrophobia
successfully, but the success
of this method is proven by the
numbers which have taken it and
were probably saved from death.
Once it develops in the normal
human system, hydrophobia is incurable.
The treatment can do no harm,
when well managed, even if there
were no disease germs originally in
the body.
This department is operated undir
the State government, ana all the
expenses are paid by appropriations
for this purpose. Patients who ha?o
been bitten by dogs supposed to have
hydrophobia, can receive the treatment
at no cost to themselves except
that of living expenses while in Columbia.
This treatment is the same
as that given by the pasteur institutes
in various parts of the country.
In this connection it might be mentioned
that contrary to the nine-day
; idea in regard to hydrophobia, scientists
state that it is only the smallest
animals which develop the disease
in that time. Dogs generally take
about three weeks, and human beings
sometimes wait six months after
being bitten before showing the
symptoms of the disease. The treai
AIMED AT SuUTH
Want Nigra Vote in This S^clioo Counted
is Senator's Election.
A REPUBLICAN SCHEME
Would (Jive Congress Kight to Supervise
Senatorial Flections in Event
of Passage of Ilesolution?May I>e
font the Resolution for Direct
Election of Senators.
In less than an hour Friday the
Senate voted the Sutherland into the
resolution providing for the election
of United States Senators by direct
voto; fixed next Tuesday as the time
for voting on the resolution itself,
made the case involving Senator Lorimer's
seat tho unfinished business
and received the Canadian reciprocity
bill from the committee on
finance.
No sooner had Senator Ueveridge
concluded his speech, in opposition
to Mr. Lorimer, at 4:20 o'clock, than
Senator Hale asked that the unfinished
business be laid before the
Senate.
This was the resolution providing
for the constitutional amendment for
the election of United States Senators
by popular vote. This demand
met the approval of the Chair and
the resolution was taken up.
Almost before Senators could have
time to realize what was taking place,
the Vice President directed the beginning
of the roll-call on the amendment.
offered by Mr. Sutherland,
eliminating so much of the resolution
as takes from Congress the right
to supervise Senatorial elections. The
vote resulted in favor of the amendment,
5 0 to 3 7.
Seven Republicans, Messrs. Borah,
Bourne, Bristow, Brown, Cummins,
Gronna and LaFollette, were recorded
with the majority of the Democrats,,
in opposition to the amendment.
Immediately following the announcement
of the vote, Senator Bacon,
of Georgia, declared his opposition
to the resolution as amended.
While he had favored the measure as
reported from committee, ho said
that now it would b? impossible for
him to vote for it. and he gave notice
that on Monday he would address
t I... I.. f 1, I n ?/.
i 11v5 ofiiaic in rA|M?u?iiuu v/i uir> |?usit
ion.
It is understood that the adoption
of the amendment will have the effect
of alienating the votes of a number
of Southern Democrats, as the
result of the new law would be to
force the South to count tho negro
in all elections for United States Senator
?
This is a direct slap at the South,
and should have the effect of causing
all Democratic Senators from defending
Lorimer, who, with the other
stand-pat. Republicans, is in favor of
tho movement to make the South
count the negro vote in the Senatorial
elections.
O, THAT IIAUHM SKIRT.
It Must Go! Skirts a Woman's
"Crowning Glory."
The emtnine world is exercised
over tho possible invasion of the harem
skirt, or trousers. Concerning
the new style, the fashion writer of
the Baltimore Sun has the following:
Tt is all right to talk about the
harem skirt, but the sagacious readers
of this column know full well
that no normal minded woman will
ever wear such a thing.
The hobble skirt is inetrinslcally
beautiful: the harem skirt Is intrinsically
hideous. No feminine person,
except Dr. Mary Waler, has ever
been known to deliberately to assume
trousers unless for purposes of
disguise??not ever a suffragette.
>A woman's skirt Is really her
crowning glory, more so than her
hair.
It helps her to appear in varidus
characters. Thus, when she puts on
a very trailing skirt, she feels like
an empress, and sweeps about in a
way to impress the most unconcerned.
How could she flounce without a
skirt? We have all seen ladies
flounce with indignation. Well, that
flounce was 9 9 per cent skirt.
By a ruffle or two on a skirt a woman
makes herself plump, by a tuck
or two she makes herself a soubretto.
If she has large feet, her skirt carries
first aid to the afflicted: if she
has small feet it is no bar to their
exhibition.
When its wearer is sad, a skirt
slinks down until it trails In the
back; when she is Kay and coquetlsh,
there is a delicious frou-frou to it.
Trousers are ugly, they are unromantic,
they are misshapen. No woman
with a grain of the feminine
left in her would assume them; she
would never give up her beloved
flowing breadths of material for
them.
It isn't necessary to say tlm harem
skirt must go; it is enough to say it
will never come. *
ment can be given to advantage only
during the period before tho sympI
toms appear.