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t'E/PTJCAL JUV-D/AL, AND SfQQ£t Of A TfPfPJf PYL Off mCK the enmnathm in Crete. which ihp Mlnoan myth-* Into hl» larkil fid and rrroW the exts lr*ir of a jTrat island empire that . xl>ied to the Acfc* an king before Greek .initiation N (tan. then- have heed lew dbrtnvrk-s of greater in terest and imjoriance than those _ which have rec-ntly been made by |--4«.i-,^ir Canting -t Jhw. in the Sudan I' ut-iMit Sayoe In linn* located *he site of the ci . « Meroe ot> be east l*a-ik ot the Nile, be tae-a The INIlh -iBd Sixth Cataracts.an*theex cim'mm earn- I on by ProlVs?or Garstang at f -txi of 1 so enabled the i- tails of the tthde pue captial to U-eotne hr.o*rn The Temple of ima. » ben the KlktapUn Kings were crowned, v 4> r-*d Kv-n t r« tilleresting is th- th 1 aw b.t! Sun Temple, vis u na- disoov-Ted . tit-- ■ ofs of the khor. or be a.««.. thus rneLitiiiog ’t« «vOBHt of Hens t who t* Iks os <hat Cans' >s* s sent 'o the f»ihi aajB King to inquire abcu* ‘ the Taf!<‘ «'t th- Swn~ tn a to* iu»» ' in 'he subart-s of th rap lai. where cooked men's »-re set each *i-i,t.~ Then- Is no fi it s tha* hi.- building is r-: -«d to la the H-m-rtc legend that Zeus e-td 'b- <<ifcer god.- fea 'ed er ry yesr f->r twelve lays isiutsj; th- l**aca- > l.ibiopians Many • b-rs t-uildicf- mer* »!■<» explored, and the T-tnck* of the ij.-n and ii»- Kenisa were dU towered It »uay be ti.-'ed lhat the lion emblem ■ e ui frejikn' occurrence*. ini' may probably ta«« r. the totem o: ihe ui-i.ict. Many beau i." i it:.- w.-re d .ii up b it'* expedition. ire <$rATt//E or /i/y sr/f/G&’/iA’ Qi/rrsy cl ..mg lot i > in'i ri|>tmil in t... fiunifilyphics ni . two rvfll statues, :.:;d a great many r --f ot a new kind of pottery, objects of wood and gia> s. titles and pottery. Especially inter e-nt»g was ttn- lottery which is almost as thin a <i-. .ill china, and gives « vid« nee of Roman Infl'i' iMC Professor Savce found Greek inscrip tions showing how the cifv was destroyed at til-- end of the fourth century A. !».. by a King of twin, since which event the city was un occupied r-th:«i*ic. wa the name given by the Greeks a . nuntrv south oi Egypt variously conceiv •-<1 a including only Nubia i Aethiopia Acgypti). or Nubia. Sounar Kordofan and Abyssinia, or a region eviendwg indefinitely east and west Irot t the Cpper Nile, but applied after the fall of Urtw- more particularly to Abyssinia. The name is said to have had its origin from the fai t that ft was alluded to by the Greeks as a country of sunburned faces. Historically there were three distinct king doms known as Ethiopia. those of Napata, Me rts- and Askum There is no definite evidence that cither of these included at any time all th*- territory between the southern border of Kev |d and Bab el Mandeb. Already in the time of the old empire the Kgrp’ian? had relations with their southern neighbors From the forest* cf Nubia they ob tained a large proportion of tbeir timber, and the rtir of Abu (Elephantine* derived its name fron the ivory which found Its way tc this place from the interior of Africa. King Uncas <t 229<*-32t(<» B C.i employed warriors belong ing to six Nubian tribes in his war upon the Bedouins. The early pictorial representations of Nubian archer* do not suggest that they w.-t: negroes A regular conquest of the coun try south of Scene apfiarently was not under taken until the twelfth dynasty (c. 2523-23231. Th- most powerful Nubian people at this time was Kaeh or Kosh. the Hebrew Cush. It Is probable that the stock was originally Hamltlc. though in course of time it absorbed various N«-grille tribes IJsertesen II! (c. 2409-23721 established his frontier north of the second cat a met and built for its protection two forts at Setmieh and Kumrneh on opposite side* of th*- river Whether the Hyksos king* ever held pos~e*e4ou of this territory 1* doubtful. At any rat<* it had to be reorganized by A ah me* 11575 1553*. the founder of the eighteenth dynasty and his successor* Napata ptcbably had been the capital of the independent kingdom, since it was made the residence of the viceroy, en t it led prince of Kosh, w ho g- verned the new IgjptIan province. In the time of Raineses II «b»te wa* an unsuccessful rebellion. Planchl .. who -eenis to have reigned in Napata since 777. availed himself of the weakness of Egypt at the end of the reign of Uasarken UI to make an in vasfcM. of Egypt. He defeated twenty petty rulers and forced a treaty. Shabaka. a grand son of Planchl. united all Egypt with Ethiopia under one crown. Napata was destroyed by Canbytet in 524. a new Kingdom gradually arose in the south after the fall of Xapata, with -HPiw as ns capital. tat' Kings, Arura. liar siot, Xastasen. who reigned in the fifih and fourth centuries, conquered considerable ter ritory south of Meroe in Seunar and Kordofan and possibly in Abyssinia. While the suzer ainty of the Ptolemies seems to have been rec ognized for religions reasons. King Ergamenes. by putting to death the priests who had de manded that he should abdicate in the time of Ptolemy IV Phllopator (221-204). paved the way for independence. Ptolemy V. Eplphanes (204 181) was able to resist his attack upon Egypt, but not able to prevent his asserting of sover eignty in Ethiopia. Queen Candace seems to have extended her power in the north, and twenty-five provinces are said to have been tributary to her. But her invasion of Egypt was successfully resisted by Caius Petronius in B. C. 24. Xapata, that had been rebuilt, was destroyed by the Romans. Another Queen Candace Is mentioned in Acts viil. But gradu ally Meroe itself fell Into ruins. To guard against invasion by the Blemmyans, a people akin to the Bugaltae. the modern Boja. Diocle lian moved the Xobatae, negro tribes of the same stock as the population of Kordofan. from the oasis of Khargeh into the Nile valley. The mountain region of Abyssinia was prob bably inhabited In very early times by Semites as well as Hamltes. Whether the original home of the former was In Africa or in Arabia the overflow population would naturally set in the direction of this Alpine country. As the native name shows, the Semitic Ethiopians were still in the nomadic state when they entered this territory, priding themselves on being wan derers, roaming freely wherever they liked. There were evidently successive waves of im migration. if the Egyptian llbst is of Semitic origin, as can scarcely be doubted, they were apparently kinsmen of the Yemenites In Eretria and on the Somali coast c. 1600 B. C. Sebaean inscriptions found in Yeha, the' ancient Awa. may be as old as the seventh century B. C. As long as the Ptolemies domuinate the Erythrean coast from Adulis, Berenice and Ar slnoe, a strong Abyssinian kingdom could not well develop. But In the reign of Augustus, when the Romans suffered s°rious reverses in Arabia, and were occupied in Africa with Queen Candace, while the Arsacid conquests in eastern Arabia forced the Yemenite States to seek compensation for their losses elswhere. the Semitic element in Ethiopia seems to have been reinforced, and the kingdom of Askum founded. The "Periplua marls Erythroel,” prob ably written by Basilea between A. D. 56 and 67, refers to a king of Askum by the name of Zoscales. who controlled the coast from Masso wah to Bab el Mandeb, and was a friend of Greek culture. It la possible that some of the Greek coins with Greek legends that have been preserved should be assigned to the second J7A £TH/QP/A/Y X///G FROM Af£AO£- cV & dlK fXCAV'AT/O/Y OX T/fTS/SQA ALTA# A./Y# //AAJL OX COjL/yXfS/O //V 7T/jT TJT/TAJ.£- OX A/VO/Y. amt third ceatii'ies A. L> On a marble throne In Aduiis, Cosmos lndicopleustes found and copied in the sixth century an inscription commemorating the power of a great king whose name is not given. He is supposed by some scholars to be the founder of the Askumile kingdom, hut it is more prob able that he reigned at the end of the third century A. I). King Aizana is known to have reigned in the year A. D. 256. In his time Frumentius preached Christianity in the conn try. The political relations that had long ex isted between Askum and Home were such as to favor his mission. In STS Askum was re duced to its African territory. In A. D. 525 Elesbaas. king of Askum. with the aid of the Sabaen and Hadramautian rulers, made an end to tht Hliuyarite kingdom of Dhu Nuwas, and Ethiopia again controlled Arabian territory. Before the end of the century, however, the Askumites were driven back to Africa, and never again extended their conquests to Arabia According to a letter addressed to a king of Nubia in the time of the Patriarch Philotheus of Alexandria (980-1002), preserved in the four YOTJVf ALTA/? FQlSSiD AT T7F/POF teeuth century 'Lite of the Patriarchs" and in j the “Ethiopic Synaxar," a woman who reigned over the Beni el Hamuna had recently invaded the country, burned the churches and monas- : teries, and driven him front place to place. Ma rianus Victor t p- aks of this woman as the foun der of the Zapue dynasty, and as having mar- ■ lied a ruler of the province of Bugna. a name afterwards corrupted into Beni el Zague Eleven kings of the so-called Zague dynasty reigned until 1270 The earliest monuments of Semitic speech in i Ethiopia are the inscriptions found at Yeha. These are written In the consonantal Sabaen ; script r.nd indicate that the writers used the lesna (fees, the language of Semitic Ethiopia. ■ as early as the seventh century B. C. Geez is today' represented by two dialects, Tigre and Tigrai or Tigrina. The latter is spoken in Tigre. and the former is spoken in the districts north and northwest of Tigre. and shows great similarity to the old Geez. js .>v.v.V.W.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.WW.NNV.V.V.V.V.VVV.V.V.W.^ Ways of Berlin Women | ‘'I believe that the typical German hausfrau ifc a inj-th," said a New York woman who re turned the other day from a year’s residence in Germany. ”1 don’t see how the average German woman finds any time to be a haus frau. I sometimes wondered when the Ger man woman found time to do anything at home. “I spent eight months In Berlin with my daughter, who was studying music. Front eleven to twelve in the morning the cafes were packed with German women, who go out to take their second breakfast in the public restaurants, a thing unknown in America. “They take along their sewing or embroid erv and sit an hour or two over their cup of cofTee or glass of beer. At the concerts, too. they take their work and spend hours day after day listening to the music. You can spend an afternoon listening to beautiful music, a magnificent orchestra with fine vocal artists, for 16 cents. That is an illustration of some of the things that help to exile Americans. “At three in the afternoon again you will see the cafe crowded with German women tak ing their afternoon tea. I think American women are more domestic than German, be cause I never heard of American women who left their homes lu the evening to pass the time at the club. A German friend took me j one evening to the German women's club. The j club has a magnificent suite of apartments, in- 1 eluding auditorium, reading room, parlor, cafe ; and smoking room. “When she took me into the last apartment it almost feazed me for a minute. It was blue I with smoke. I had never before seen a room I filled with elegantly gowned, cultivated women all smoking. These were the wealthy society women of Berlin, titled some of them. “They were cosmopolitan in their dress and manners and did not present any striking ■ points of difference from the American women 1 except in the smoking. It made the occur- j rence of last summer, when our immigration j officials detained a second class passenger, a woman art dealer, for inquiry into her sanity because she smoked cigarettes, appear very funny in retrospect. “The German women's clubs. ii?.e tl.otv of the Englishwomen, are based on the same prin ciple as men's clubs; these are places for so cial enjoyment and for the convenience of members in taking meals, entertaining friends and so on. They do not take up work in study, philanthropy, reform and so on. like the wom en's clubs in America." In the Hem* Atmosphere. -| vooJer why it ts that men hate w Xu so#* a woman cry?” t mppoac H is due to what yon micht rail a matrimonial weather con dit tm.“ _ _ Weather condition -Ve*. I coaid stand my wife's hot tlTU)J- if K were not for the perrent „ .A humidity It contain*." Mountain Air tor invalids. Mown tain air la Imitated tor the use at "raids Generous to a Fault 3 Story of Statesman Who Voted for Anything That Would Force Treasury to Pay. There are Innumerable stories about Mr Brownlow. who recently died, bis manners and methods. His colleagues never tire repeating bis reply to the representative of an uplift magaalne who was In Washington years ago In terviewing members on the principles that actuated them in the perform ance of the public duties. “Mr. Brownlow." said this upllfter. “you have been in congress a good many years and are known as an or ganisation. or machine. Republican. But have you no faith, no principle, no creed that guides your conduct out side of party lines?" “Young man.“ replied Mr. Brownlow in his rambling voice. “1 have the proud record of never having voted against any proposition to take money out of the federal treasury.” The uplifter gasped, and Mr. Brown low ambled on his way. His friends say his statement was almost literal at that. Ingratitude Mr. Brown low coosld ered the one inexcusable crime. He never was guilty of It himself. One day a man who had done a favor for Mr. Brownlow asked him to vote In committee for an Increase in salary to nn official in one of the government departments. “Why. Hr. Brownlow.” he said, "let me tall yon something This is the most meritorious case —.“ Mr. Brownlow Interrupted with a snort. “Do yon want me to rote tor an increase to this man T“ he asked. "Indeed I do." said the friend. “Then.” said Mr. Brownlow. “that's ?nongh. Never mind abont that mer itorious business.” Some people work for tame, and some work for money, and some set a job on a newspaper. SILOS OF REINFORCED HOLLOW CLAY BLOCKS _ n ...nl PlMSinS Have Proven Extremely Satisfactory Appearance of Solidity. DuraWllty and Permanency. The use or hollow clay building | blocks properly reinforced for silo I construction have proven extremely satisfactory in every particular, and after extensive and thorough investi gation and the building and testing of numerous silos, the agricultural en- ! gineering department of the Iowa ex-^ periment station heartily recommend their use The fundamental principle Involved in preservation of silage is the reten tion of moisture within the silage and Silos and Dairy Bam. the exclusion of air For this reason, the silo wall must foe non-porous. Moisture must foe prevented from pass ing out and air from passing in Hard burned hollow clay building blocks will not absorb a large amount of water. Moisture is not readily transferred through a wall of such material, it is recommended that only blocks which have a low absorption be used for silo construction. Blocks of this kind are more durable, and a silo built of th«ni will preserve silage better. Alter due consideration to all other i points of merit to be found In silos, j the most desirable silo is the one that Is the most durable and will give the longest term of service- The dura bility of a silo depends, first upon its strength, and second, the durability of the material used in its construction. To be durable, any material must ■ resist the action of the weather, the constant wetting and drying, freezing ! and thawing in the winter season, and any disintegrating action which may be due to the silage itself. Some ma terial will disintegrate with age, and other materials suffer front rapid de- i cay when subject to the warm, moist conditions which exist in the silo. The walls of the Iowa silo are con structed of hollow, vitrified clay build ing blocks which, as far as weather Form for Making Foundation. resistance is concerned, are as durable as any building material which can be obtained. The roof 06 the Iowa silo, like the walls, is made of durable material. A cheaper roof may be used if desired, but it is strongly advised that the con crete roof be used where possible. On*, common mistake ««•* wU^ '" silo construction 1, th.tthc doorfnun* Is made of material which . decay or rust and have to be The door frame of the Iowa s o made of reinforced concrete^ whlc^ when properly constructed, should b« as durable a* the walls themselves The materials iu»ed in the k>»a » will resist decaying disintegration, * action of frost, and any Implied or re action of the acidity of the sita^ K\en the steel which is placed In the mortar joiuts ana concrete door frame as reinforcement. Is thoroughly pro tooted from rust. So carefully has the matter of durability been considered in the design of the Iowa silo that it would be difficult to estimate its life When carefully built It ought to last for several generations. The doors of the Iowa silo are de signed to be made of wood They will decay and must be replaced after sev eral years The convenience and low cost of the wooden doors, which may be easily replaced, justifies their use. The Iowa silo when properly con structed is practically free from any expense for repair and maintenance. The only possible expense may be the Iowa Silo. occasional washing ot the inside of the walls at intervals of not less than five years, with a cement wash and the replacement of the doors after they have become rotten from use. An ideal silo must have rigid walls. It must be strong enough to resist the bursting pressure of the silage. This acts outward in all directions as the silage settles. The friction of the silage against the wall, and the weight of the wall produce a crushing action which is great near the bottom of the silo. A silo when empty should be heavy enough ot stand against heavy winds. The inside of a si*o wall should be reasonably smooth to per mit the silage to settle freely. If the wall is not smooth or if there are shoulders or offsets on the inside sur face air pockets will be formed and a ' considerable loss of silage will result. SUSSEX BREEDS OF POULTRY The Kent, Surrey and Sussex breeds of fowls In England occupy much the same relation to the industry of that country that the Rhode Island Reds did with us several years ago before the breed was perfected. In many respects they seem all closely allied to the Dorking, which at one time must have been the parent stock from which they have differentiated. There seems to be a disposition among Brit ish ianciers to improve the Sussex breed of fowls, of which there are four varieties. The Red and Brown, Light and Speckled or Splashed. Of these the first seems to be growing in favor. In type, color of plumage and economic values it is not unlike our Jthode Island Reds. They are rated as good all-purpose birds, the hens laying a goodly number of medium stsed eggs; the chicks are hardy and easy to grow. Color qualifications for exhibition purposes are much the same as in the American Standard for Rhode Island Reds. The illustration is not without suggestiveness in form to our two popular American breeds. Eggs In Cold Storage. A daily paper states that 45.000.000 eggs have been shipped Into Newark. X. J.. since‘April 1. and placed In cold storage by the warehousemen, to re main there until the high prices of last winter are duplicated. The eggs come from the western states. They were purchased at an average of 24 cents per dosen. says Kansas Farmer. Two cents per dosen Is added to cover insurance, storage costs, etc., which brings the total cost to 26 cents a dosen. If the eggs can be retailed in New York next winter at 45 cents a dosen. which price they brought last winter, there will be a profit of 1$ cents a dosen. or a total of something over $700,000. When it is considered that this quantity is from but one of the large cities of the country the to tal amount of eggs in cold storage must be tremendous. Canadian Dairy Product*. According to testimony recently ciren before a committee of the ‘"anadlan oarttan'em. the animal value •d the m:!« and milk prouccts *-f the Dominion are as follows: Gutter and •^leese. factory made. *36,000.000 Viry butter. *22.000.000: condensed milk. *1,000.000; milk for home co sumption. *35.000,000. Total *94 000 *H)0. Since 1903 there has been a lar2« •decrease in the exportation of dairy products, amounting to nearly . 000 000 in cheese and over *6.000.000 in butter, due mostly to the rapid in crease of population and a greater home consumption, the latter be in* ei;tmated at *9.000.000 annually Sheep on the Farm. Every farm should keep a flock «r sheep, for every farm has a place tar *«*«P which nothing else can tm The flock may be a small one tw depends on conditions; but the should be amply sufficient to sut^ *he family with mutton. PPl* ' * Good Fleece. Flee** should possess the prom™ «* evennaaa and uniformity?^?™*8 COT*rin« density and gu A good fleece should be as t* all parts ». 0tt1' >