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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER PANrnT.PT? TTTr JL WrnntortitSFIoidPrl ltl 'alcohol-fatlhe- COMFORT LAMBS FATTENED FOR MARKET PAY (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) great mystery of the the most important tool that mankind ever invented, seems nearer solution as the result of the recent digging up of tablets with a new sort of cuneiform inscription at Ras Shamara on the coast of Syria, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea. The tablets have not yet been deciphered, but it has been determined that they are written in 28 characters, which seems to indicate the use f a real alphabet. The part that alphabets play in the life of a people is indicated by the change in Turkey not many months ago from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet. The decision of Turkey to throw overboard the alphabet she had used for many centuries, and to replace it with the alphabet of western Europe and the Americas, was not so revolutionary a step as it at first appeared. , It was not as if Turkey were uprooting some cherished cultural growth and setting up in its place a foreign substitute. No. true alphabet can be .found in use today by a people who has originated it When it comes to alphabets all the world has borrowed. It is an amazing thing, but the problem of resolving human speech into its thirty-odsounds and representing them by symbols seems to have been solved only once within historic times, at least and from this happy bit of analysis and invention all the true alphabets in use today appear to have descended. The English alphabet came directly from the Latin. It is, in fact, the 6ame alphabet that Rome used save for such minor changes as the addition of a separate "J (the. Latin I and the served for both I and expansion of the Latin UV into THE d J). UVW, The Romans, in turn, borrowed their alphabet from the Greeks, changing the forms of the letters somewhat and dropping some characters. And the Greeks, as evidence and tradition show, took their letter system from the Phoenicians, even retaining the names with slight variations. Greeks Added the Vowels. In passing the alphabet through their hands, the Greeks gave it one of its most important additions. They added definite vowel symbols to the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted solely of 22 consonants. The Greeks tinkered further with the alphabet so that the Athenian version, including vowels, came to have 24 letters. They also changed the direction of writing. The Phoenicians wrote from right to left; the Greeks adopted the left to right direction now employied by all the western world. The greatest problem in connection with the alphabet is to determine where the Phoenicians got it There .have been widely divergent theories as to this. It has been variously suggested that the 22 characters were adopted from the hieroglyphics and the hieratic writing of Egypt, the jriuneiform characters of' Babylon, and symbols of the Hittites, Cretans, and ancient Greeks. , No evidence, so far found seems sufficient to determine this matter. Probably the most generally accepted theory is that the Phoenicians, familiar because of their trading voyages with the various cumbersome writing systems around the Mediterranean, chose from them such symbols as they needed, stripped off the complications and simplified writing for the first time to a nearly true alphabetic basis. The Phoenicians are supposed to have been urged to 'this step by the desire to conserve time in keeping their accounts and records of trading ventures. The earliest written records were made In pictures which represented things and actions. Abstract ideas could be suggested only in the crudest round-aboway. After centuries of use these pictures became conventionalized into symbols, such as the ideograms of the Egyptians, and the Mayas of. America, and some of those still used in China today. Pictures and Symbols, i The next step was a marked departure from the previous development and a tremendously important one. It was to represent by symbols not the things themselves, but instead the sounds of the spoken words. For the first time man wrote his language as he spoke it The sounds of entire words were symbolized at first; then, after a while, the syllables which formed the words. This gave a writing system of considerable fluency. In it were written the Chinese classics (with an admixture of the older ideographs and symbols). This syllabic writing appeared in a purer form in the cuneiform of Mesopotamia from records in which the modern world has learned of the intimate daily lives of these people of long ago, their business transactions, their highly developed laws, and their reIn Egypt syllabic ligious customs. writing was early developed, but to the end the Egyptians mixed with the syllable characters all the lumber of hieroglyphics and ideograms. The Egyptians even took the final step of adopting symbols for letter sounds; but these,. too, they jumbled In with the other varied characters. The ultimate step in splitting up the syllables, adopting an alphabet of characters to represent the component sounds of speech, and building all written words from these simple characters, was taken by the Phoenicians. Heretofore it has been believed that this step was taken about 1000 B. C. Records of about 1400 B. C. discovered in the various countries of the eastern Mediterranean disclose no alphabetic cuneiform writing; the was then In general use even in correspondence between Egypt and Babyut , -- ic lon. Alphabet Born About 1000 B. C. Records of about 800 B. C. show the Phoenician alphabet in use, and apparently in use for some time. The birthdate of the alphabet, therefore, was taken roughly as about 1000 B. C. The latest discoveries at Ras Shamara, however, point to the origin of alphabetic writing in Syria as early as the Thirteenth century B. C. ' The resolving of writing into the alphabetic form was somewhat like sciences analysis of matter. First, students accepted matter itself; then found it to be composed of molecules. They pushed their analysis further and resolved the molecules into atoms; and these, finally, into electrons, positive and negative. The vowel and consonant symbols, last to be discovered,. may be considered the positive and negative electrons of written language, seldom existing apart from one another. When alphabets came Into existence In the Near East, their use spread rapidly, largely through' trade channels. Before many centuries they were adopted in northern Africa, the entire Mediterranean region, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Persia. Some students have asserted that the Brahmi alphabet of India originated Jndependently ; but others are convinced that this alphabet, too, was introduced from Syria (the home of the Phoenicians) about 800 B. C. Even the runic alphabet of the Norsemen is believed to have been developed from a Greek alphabet early In the Christian era. . : ( The winter occupation of fattening feeder lambs for the market may or may not be profitable in any one season, but farmers in this section who have followed the industry year after year say the profits from the good years more than balance the deficits incurred in off years, says a writer in the Rural New Yorker. The feeder lamb business is not a sure proposition, but that is true also of any farm industry dairying, crop raising, etc. Market prices cannot be controlled by the average farmer, but as in any branch of farming there are certain rules and principles to be observed in the fattening of feeder lambs. Extra care must be used the first few days if the industry is to be started properly, without loss of lambs. The bulk of the feeder lambs come from the great sheep ranges In Texas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana. The time taken in transit from these ranges is with perhaps one or two productive of a loss of weight of the lambs and the formation of an enormous appetite. Often this ravenous appetite causes the lambs to eat so much grain that it is fatal. Only light feedings of grain should be given them the first four or five should not be days and used. Even if the grain portion per lamb is small, some of the larger and stronger lambs are very likely to partake of more grain than is safe. should be taboo for the first few days, troughs being the most practical arrangement to use. Small feedings of grain can be given in the troughs, and, as a greater number of Iambs can eat frdm the troughs than two or three the grain is quickly consumed with practically no danger of any lambs overeating. In feeding forage, not so much caution is required but I would not advise too heavy feedings the first day. The lambs, when they first arrive, are gluttons, and there might possibly be some ill effects from too much forage. Just enough forage the first day to take the sharpness from their appetite is advisable. After three or four days, when their craving for grain has been satisfied may be used. Even then, there are times that a lamb may overeat, but these instances are few. Some farmers use troughs altogether, but make the feeding of grain easier as it entails much less labor. A gradual daily increase in the amount of grain for four or five days should take care of the feeding situation at the start. fZZixca ntwvPS For sale by all druggists. Be sure to get the genuine product with Chas. H. Fletchers signature on wrapper, and this familiar Keep Castoria in mind, and keep always. 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