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Show i Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs. $1.00 PBB VOL. ITJE-A-I- PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK. R. SALT LAKE CMY, DECEMBER II. Dp. Pe ten's Book on zens of those cities as the names of lippun. Nineveh and Babylon are to us, and reliThe name " Nippur," brings up no that Nippur exercised on their such gorgeous associations as surround gious life and religious development Babylon, "that great city," or even an influence as potent as that of JeruNineveh and Tyre, all of which have salem on our own. The temple of Bel taken a great place in literature from at Nippur was to the religion of Babytheir biblical use. Ten years ago it lonia and Assyria very much what the was familiar only to a few scholars, the temple of Jerasalem was to our who knew vaguely that it had been a religion. It was this city which exercised so great an influence on the relarge city in Babylonia. To an American expedition, which has but lately ligious life of the people that so long completed its labors, was reserved the dominated the religious and scientific honor of discovering the development of both Orient and ruins of the oldest capital of the Occident, and particularly the great world, the seat of the dominant nation temple of Bel in that city, the oldest of the earth at a period, to use the temple of the world, which the Unilanguage of the leader of the expediversity of Pennsylvania expedition tion, as much" prior to the time of explored. Abraham as the time of Abraham is Not only was Nippur a great and prior to our day. It is a discovery flourishing city, but its discovery the importance of which can hardly opens a new chapter in human history: be exaggerated, and its results are "We discovered written records no admirably set forth in the official work less than 6ooo years old, and proved of the expedition, "Nippur," by that writing and civilization were then John Punnett Peters, published by G. by no means in thier infancy. FurP. Putnam's Sons in two volumes, the ther than that, our explorations have first of which has now appeared. In shown that Nippur possessed a history a measure, this first volume is tantaliextending backward of the earliest written documents found by us, at zing, for it only tells of the preparations for exploration and the first disleast 2000 years." The explorations, appointments, but it will whet curiostogether with those of French parties ity all the more for the continuation at Tello, to the south, have shown us, of the narrative. says Dr. Peters, that men in a high Before going on to recount the hardstate of civilization, building cities, ships and misadventures of the party, organizing states, conducting distant let us glance at the brief survey of the expeditions for conquest, ruling widely final results, as given in the preface. extended countries, trafficking with "We now know," says the author, remote lands, existed in Babylonia "that in the times of the glory of 2000 years before the period assigned Nineveh and Babylon, the name of by Archbishop Usher's chronology for the creation of the world. Our Nippur was as familiar to the citi long-abandon- ed . NO. 51. 11, 1897 work at Nippur has carried our knowledge of civilized men 2000 years farther backward, an enormous stride to make at one time." Dr. Peters was in charge of the expedition organized in 1888, which discovered Nippur in the following year. The results were so important that another expedition was organized with Dr. J. H. Haynes at its head, which carried on the excavations on the same lines during 1893-5- , and un earthed more than twice as much material. The result made it all the more important to carry on the work, and explore the bottom-mo- st layers of the great mound, but the third expedition sent out last year was unfortunately turned back by difficulties and dangers, and the excavations have for the present been suspended. Springfield Republican . Federation Pins. The Secretary of the State Federation has quite a stock of the pins adopted as the state badge, on hand, which would give a sum of money to carry on expenses if they could be Will not every club disposed of. woman in Utah who is not already provided with one, send thirty cents to Mrs. A. B. Kinney, 820 E. Fourth South Street, and receive a pin? Perhaps the club secretaries would send for all for their club members and thus save so many separate packages. Wanted. A good reliable person to solicit subscriptions for The ReApply view. Liberal commission. 241 E. South Temple. GRBAT HOLIDAY Commencing Monday, December 13th, of the Largest Line of Xmas Gifts Ever Shown. Dont Fall to Come. NEW YORK CASH STORE. |