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Paid In His Own Coin
C ypyright, 1913. by the McClure News
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OR man with a day off young Mr.
Mamrlov was not particularly hap
py. He rode down town in the
subway glum and bitter of spirit. It
seemed to him that fate was more than
unkind. Several times in the journey be
tween Bleecker street and South Ferry he
took a sheet of paper from his pocket and
read what was printed ahd written on it.
The paper had been delivered to him the
day before. He knew it by heart, still
he read it over again and again.
It was the formal notice sent out in
such cases by the immigration commis
sioner. It told him that Marta Brevin,
23 years old, white, native of Silesia,
steerage passenger on the Strassburg
from Bremen, was detained at Ellis Is
land subject to investigation as to her
desirability as an immigrant, and that,
she having given his name .as that of her
best friend in this country, he must fur
nish proof that she would not become a
charge upon the American people. Other
wise she would be sent back.
A year and a half had made a differ
ence in Mr. Mamrlov. When he left Sil
esia his one ambition was to get a foot
hold in the new world and send for
Marta to join him immediately. After his
arrival he wrote to her by every mail.
He was lonely and heartsick. The big
ness of New York appalled him. He had
not been able to get work so easily as he
expected. When he Anally got a job the
wages were small, but he slaved and
saved and wrote most glowingly of the
time when he would have enough to fur
nish a home and send for her, and they
would be married.
After h© got work h© made better head
way than most Immigrants. Ho had gon©
Into a shop as a beginner. In a month
he was put on a machine. In 10 months
he was foreman. He was bright, clever,
ambitious. Th© boss was delighted with
him. The men in the shop unconsciously
partook a little of his ardent spirit and
worked better under him than they ever
had before.
"Some day he’ll have a shop of his own
and he’ll bo rich," he heard one of them
•ay. It mad© him glow to think of so
much happiness.
Somehow as he made headway in th©
new world he did not think so much or
write so often to the girl In Silesia, or
look so eagerly for a message from her.
Her letters stirred his sympathies deeply
at first, but later they depressed him. Her
father was ill and her mother was crip
pled. They were dreadfully poor. It was
the same tale every time with slight va
riation, It seemed to him.
With the foremanshlp came broader
views and clearer business vision to
Mamriov. He went to night school and
read and studied. He heard what other
young foreigners of energy and courage
had achieved in this wonderful land of
opportunity. Why shouldn’t he make k
name and a place for himself? He had
saved enough to feel somewhat self-re
liant and lately a short road to prosper
ity had seemed to be opening to him. And
now’, without any warning, he had re
ceived notice Marta Brevin was at Ellis
Island.
He crossed from the Battery to the is
land that is the hitching post of the im
migrants and, following a score or more
of other visitors with cards like his own,
he went into one of the offices. An offi
cial asked a few questions which Mam
riov answered readily In English and then
an attendant was summoned and Mam
riov was taken into another room, which
was a sort of court. In a few minutes
a dozen or more detained Immigrants
were ushered in. Marta was In the lot.
As she caught sight of Mamriov she ut
tered a cry of joy. Mamriov's heart beat
faster, but his cheeks went pale. The
girl looked thin and weak. She was poor
ly garbed.
The man at the big desk asked a ques
tion of him. Mamrlov did not respond.
The question was repeated. Then an in
terpreter shook him and fired a multitude
of Interrogations at him. Mamriov ap
peared to have difficulty in understand
ing. The man repeated his questions and,
then pointed to Marta.
'Me no want," Mamriov said. The in
terpreter went over to Marta and came
back and tried to get Mamriov to com
prehend what he was saying, but Mam
riov looked at him stupidly and repeated,
"Me no want.”
Some of the Immigrants Joined friends
and relatives among the visitors, but
Marta, crying hysterically was taken
from the room. Then Mamrlov hurried
tack to Manhattan.
Less than three months later the boss
took Mamriov into partnership. It was
the same day that Mamriov was married
to the daughter of the boss.
Fortune certainly favored Boris Mam
rlov. The business grew and the profits
increased until the establishment ranked
among the largest In Its line In the city.
Gradually Martov took over full con
trol. The young man was keen to every
opoprtunity. He picked up some shares
in an East Side bank at a bargain and it
was not long before he was made a direc
tor. The bank was not big, but it was
an impressive thing to be a bank director.
To fit himself fully for his duties, Main
riov studied banking. Through his fellow
directors he was Introduced to men of
weight and substance connected with
other financial institutions. He got into
some deals with them which were wholly
successful and these led to others. Real
estate had 'a strong attraction for him.
He had seen enough of the growth of the
city in the comparatively few years he
had been in New York to make him feel
there was no limit to its expansion and
its increase in values. A man who is
bright and alert and who has good judg
ment has little difficulty in making money
If he has a fair amount of capital and
good credit. Real estate was easy- for
Mamriov. He bought only In the line of
the city's upward march. It was rare
that he made a loss. He was so success
ful that men courted his favor.
BY RICHARD SPILLANE
Mamriov Looked at Him Stupidly and Replied “We No Want”
M
TAiMct aJg
The more money lie made, the more he
spread out. He did not have enough time
for his manufacturing business, so he
turned its management over to a clever
man. Then he had more time to devote
to his other affairs. In five or six years
he bought control of an uptown bank and
a year later, by some skillful financing,
got cont^ol'of another in the same neigh
borhood. Both banks Boon gave evidence
of his active spirit. Their deposits in
creased largely and their business grew
In fine style. Some of the bankers down
town began to take notice of Mamrlov.
They like to be In touch with young men
of promise. He was delighted to have
their good opinion. It meant large credit,
bigger opportunities, more scope for abili
ties.
With his wealth growing daily Mamriov
sought to enjoy the good things of life.
He had felt that his wife might consider
her father's money played some part in
making him a suitor for her hand, so he
went to some pains to live so well and
Burround her with such luxuries that she
would have reason to look back upon her
former condition as ordinary in compar
ison. She was at pleasure loving, light
hearted creature, and was happy in, get
ting all the joy out of life that money
could buy.
The more money some men make the
more they wrant to make. It was so with
Mamriov. When he was 3ti he was rated
as a millionaire. The active man who
has a million dollars and wide credit on
the reputation of having that amount
can turn over a lot of money in the
course of a year. Mamriov was ready
for anything good that promised profit.
His name was worth something to an en
terprise. To keep track of his affairs he
had to have a private office that took
up half the floor of a big skyscraper and
he had as many clerks as usually are em
ployed in a good sized corporation. Out
side of his friends no one could get au
dience with him except by appointment.
After a while Mamriov tired of ordinary
deals. An idea had been developing in his
mind for months and he determined to act
on it. Quietly—so quietly and cleverly
that no one discovered his purpose until
he was ready to disclose it—he set to
work to get possession of the biggest
tract of undeveloped land obtainable in
the Bronx on the line of a proposed sub
way. He had early knowledge of the
route the commissioners would approve.
He made sure of that. He was not of
the type to rush in blindly in such mat
ters. When his purchase was announced
and the insiders learned the price at
which he had obtained the land they were
astonished. He had a bargain—a great
one—they all agreed to that. It was in
evitable that there would be a great ap
preciation in value with tho coming of
rapid transit.
Like a prudent man, Mamriov prepared
to put his property Into condition to get
the most out of it when contracts for the
digging of the subway were let. He bad
to borrow freely to buy the land. He
had to spread considerable money, too,
on a preliminary advertising campaign,
for he W'anted to get some money in while
the work of development was under way.
This development was very costly Streets .
had to be cut through and brought to
grade, sewers laid, sidewalks, curbs and
gutters built and a multitude of other
things done. He had it all figured out
and proceeded according to his pro
gramme. He could see a profit of from
$8,000,000 to $6,000,000 in the whole transac
tion. Nothing oould be safer than New
York real estate. Mamriov never was
more serene, never more powerful.
It is odd how thln££ suddenly go wrong
for a man all at once. One of the big
bankers down town who had smiled on
Mamriov had been Juggling with the
bank’s money In some wild speculation
in which he had engaged. Mamriov had
been a borrower from the bank. The
banker called on Mamriov to pay up.
Mamriov could not, but Mamriov could
lend to him money of the people who
were depositors In Mamrlov’s bank on se
curity that was worth about 1 cent on
the dollar. Mamriov did so. Then some
thing happened in Wall street. Stocks be
gan to tumble and when they tumbled a
lot some one began to hint that certain
banks were not as sound as they ought
to be.
The big banker down town had to get
more money from Mamrlov's bank and
Mamriov had to borrow some more from
the big man’s bank. It was ridiculous.
Each man was weakening the other in a
mad effort to strengthen himself. Mean#
while, they prayed for the Wall street
storm to abate.
Disturbances in Wall street have far
reaching effects. The contracts for build
ing that subway are put off several years
as a consequence. Mamriov. who had
worked up the public to having an appe
tite for that Bronx land, suddenly found
there was desire for it. Most of his
money was in that enterprise. He had
borrowed freely to carry on the various
other things in which he was engaged.
The notes w'ere nearing maturity. Near
ly everything he was connected with
would work out all right if he only could
hold on until the financial situation was
normal again. But how could he get
money? Banks were protecting only their
old friends.
He went about sounding cautiously for
money. Some of the hankers he ap
proached were sympathetic and would
help if they could. Some held out hope
and then cautiously spread the word along
the bank line that he was in deep water.
One banker who had a real friendship for
Mamriov suggested that he go to Barzo,
president of the Hungarian-American
Finance and Trust company. “He is one
of the klndesCtnen in the world," said he.
Mr. Barzo rqpd the note of introduc
tion Mr. Mamriov pnsented and listened
attentively while the visitor talked. Mam
riov hid nothing, but when he finished
Barzo shook his head. Mamriov thought
the security he offered was not sufficient,
and said he was willing to give up any
thing or everything he had if Barzo would
coiae to his rescue.
"Me no want,” Barzo replied.
Something In the words and the man
ner of Barzo made Mamriov wince.
Without realizing it he asked Barzo what
it w'as he had said.
"Mo no want," Barzo repeated.
Mamriov’s memory was stirring. He
reached for his hat. "Have I ever met
you before, Mr. Barzo?" he inquired.
"Once—at Ellis Island," replied Barzo.
"I was interpreter there."
"Oh," said Mamriov, in a low voice.
"If it’s any interest to you,’’ said Bar
zo, "that girl didn’t go back. She is Mrs.
Barzo now."
And that Is one of the reasons Mam
riov's banks did not open their doors the
next morning.
To Reduce Britain s $800,000,000 Drink Bill
L)NDON, July 5.-—(Special.)—One of
the biggest "campaigns of educa
tion" on record in this country
is being carried on at present by the
United Kingdom alliance, the official
temperance organization which corres
ponds to the Anti-Saloon league in the
United States. Its object is to get re
introduced into parliament, at the earliest
moment practicable, the famous Licen
cing bill of 1908, which was brought into
the House of Commons by the present
prime minister, W. H. Asquith, then
chancellor of the exchequer in the Camp
bell-Bannerman ministry, and was ulti
mately thrown out by the House of
Lords, as representing the colossal and
practically omnipotent brewing interests
in Great Britian.
The bill, which, had It passed into law,
would have resulted in a compulsory and
systematic reduction of the number of
saloons, or public houses in this country
numbering 94,000 and averaging, In the
congested districts, one to every 174 of
the population—and which would have
made the creation of new licences parlla
mentry fights in the history of this
country.
The fate of the measure—which had
passed the House of Commons, then over
whelmingly liberal, by a heavy majority—
was sealed, however, at a gathering of
Unionists peers at the house of Lord
Landsdownc, leader of the tories in the
upper house before thebill even came
before that assembly, and it was ulti
mately defeated by a majority of over 100.
The rejection of the licensing bill which
its advocates claims, by limiting the num
ber of saloons throughout the country
would have reduced to reasonable dimen
sions the nation’s colossal drink bill of
over $800,000,000, was one of the most po
tent of the factors that led to the pass
ing of the famous parliament act which
deprived the house of lords of its veto
and liimted the power of that assembly
to delaying a bill for three years. Ever
sine© its rejection the United Kingdom
alliance, representing over 500,000 temper
ance reformers in this country, has been
working tirelessly to bring it before par
liament once more, and in the last year
has redoubled its efforts. In November
last a huge convention, representing every
religious sect and political party, was
held hi London, and sent a deputation to
Premier Asquith, who replied, in effect,
that he had his hands full with home
rule for Ireland, Welsh disestablishment
and national insurance, but that he hoped
to re-introduce the measure during the
life of the present parliament, or in other
words, before 1915.
This assurance only partially satisfied
the temperance folk, who, during the
present summer will hold' over 800 open
air meetings in London alone, and many
more throughout the country to empha
size the need for licensing reform and
meanwhile are collecting signatures for
a gigantic memorial to Premier Asquith,
, who is by no means lukewarm on the
1 subject of temperance, urging him to lose
no time In getting the licensing bill of
1908 on to the statute books.
“How great a service the passage of
the licensing bill would render to the
cause of temperance, it Is scarcely possi
ble to estimate,” said Alexander Thom
son, the parliamentary agent of the
United Kingdom aHiauce, when seen at
the London headquarters of that organi
zation a few days ago. “Its primary re
sult would be the compulsory reduction
k of the number of saloons in thiB country
something like 30,000. The adoption of
Rocal option throughout the country, too,
anquestionably will result in further lim
Itatlon of the number'of drinking places.
All of which will constitute the most ef
fective blow that has yet been struck
against the omnipotence and reactionary
influence of the brewery trade, the great
monopoly which controls over 95 per cent
of thp saloons In this country and w’hose
leaders value it at £150,000,000.
“We temperance workers," he contin
ued, "are not clamoring for the abolition
of the saloon tor 'pub’.), but only for Its
effective regulation with the public Itself
instead of—In effect—the drink interests
as the arbiter of increase In the number
of existing drinking places. At the pres
ent time the Inequality In the number of
saloons in congested, as compared with
rural areas, Is most striking, the per
cefftage being 1 to every 3 or 4000 of the
population in the suburbs, as compared
with 1 to every 170 In localities like the
East End, where the multiplicity of pubs'
in an increased incentive to drink. All
over the country new areas are being
opened up as residential quarters for the
working classes, and in many cases we
have been able to prevail upon the ground
landlord, in whose hands the authority
primarily lies, to limit rigorusly the
number of public houses to be built on
such estates. A peer who, upon his own
initiative lias ec . a striking example in
tliis respect, is ^ord Rowallen, who owns
between 300,000 and 400,000 acres and has
inserted in the trust deeds of every dis
trict which has been acquired for work
ing class dwellings a clause prohibiting
any public house from being situated
thereupon. The Right Hon. A. J. Bal
four, the former prime minister, likewise
will allow no public houses to be opened
upon his estate, Whittinghame, nor
would the late King Edward, whom no
one ever has denounced as a fanatic on
the subject of temperance, permit the
existence of a ‘pub’ on his Sandringham
estate.
“Except in the cases of such estates,"
Thomson went on, “not only has the
power to grant licenses lain in the hands
of justices of the peace alone, but our
bench has been recruited, until recently,
almost entirely from a class whose sym
pathies lie strongly with vested interests,
and in consequence our magistrates have
generally yielded to the influence of the
brewers #hen it was a case of granting
or m-fusing the creation of a new license.
Accordingly we have been working stren
uously for many years with the object of
getting a more representative type of
man appointed to the office of magistrate
and have been to a large extent success
ful, with the result that applications for
lincence* are being weighed with more
regard as to whether a real need exists
for them. Should the licensing bill pass
into law* however, local option will be es
tablished all over the country; in other
words, wherever objection is raised to
the.creation of a. new public house licence
it will be the duty of the local magistrate
to refer the question to a popular vote,
a majority of which will decide the ques
tion one way or the other.
“Since 1908," the parliamentary agent
continued, “only one important temper
ance measure has passed into law, this
being the so-called ‘children’s act', which
was taken out of the licensing bill and
passed by both houses of parliament. This
act makes it illegal to give drink .to any
child under five years of age and for
drink to be served to any child under 14
in a public house bar—except in a sealed
vessel. Its passage was the outcome of
a prolonged agitation in which the lead
was taken by George R. Sims, the author,
dramatist and newspaper man, who
knows social conditions in this country
if any man does. Sims showed and had
the testimony of innumerable high con
stables to prove that women of the poorer
classes, with babies in their arms, spent
practically the whole day in the public
house, and kept their infants quiet, mean
time by drugging them with gin. Chil
dren, too, were the favorite messengers
when drink was required, but the pas
sage of the act has made it illegal to use
‘kiddies’ in this way.
"That the children’s charter, as it has
been named, makes for the public wel
fare all round there is not the smallest
question," added Thomson, "but it made
the brewers intensely angry, and they
have been fighting, tooth and nail, to get
it repealed even since. In fact, one of
their best questions for parliamentary
candidate who seek the support of ‘the
trade’ is, ‘Will you oppose legislation in
tended to restrict trade rights?’ this re
ferring to the children’s act and nothing
else. The arguments they put forth
against it, however, are weak enough.
They maintain, for instance, that it is
a great hardship that father who is out
for a walk and wants a drink, should
have to leave his children outside the
public house, instead of taking them into
the bar with him, as he was able to be
fore.’’
c»eneraiiy speaking, what progress 18
temperance making In Great Britain?"
was then asked.
“Great Britain is growing more temper
ate slowly, but surely," was the reply,
“though, of late, it must be confessed,
the decrease in the consumption of spirits
has to be attributed rather to the in
creased duties that have been placed on
spirits than to any general tendency to
BY HAYDEN CHURCH
ward abstemiousness. To realize the
progress that this country has made to
ward temperance, one must go back 30
years, say to 1874. In that year the con
sumption per head of the population, re
duced to gallons in regard to beef and
pints in regard to spirits was, beer 33.84
gallons, spirits 10.00 pints and wines 4.24
pints, whereas last year the figures were
been 27.36 gallons, spirits 5.44 pints, wine
2 pints. The average expenditure per
head for liquor in*1812 w^as $17.50, ai»d per
family of five $88.50, which is an improve
ment on the preceding year when the ex
penditure was $18 per head and roughly,
$90 per family.
Our drink bill' remains an appalling
thing,” continued Thomson,” amounting
last year to $807,766,500 as compared witih
yours in the United States of, roughly,
$450,000,000. This sum, which is half as
large again as the receipts of British
railways and a quarter as large again
as the annual value of all the private
dwellings in Great Britain and which
makes the sums that the United King
dom spends on its army and navy seem
insignificant, represents a decrease of
$6,219,460 as compared with 1911 and I wish
we could claim this as a result of the
work that we and others have done in
the cause of temperance. As a matter of
fact, however, the credit for this decrease
belongs mainly to the present chancellor
of the exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, who,
in his famous budget of 1909, made a
heavy increase in the licensing duties in
this country, which, however, even now
do not compare with those levied in the
United States.
“It is an astonishing fact,’’ Thomson
added. ‘‘that the gigantic monopoly
valued at £160,000,000, formerly contrib
ute<i only £2,000,000 and even now contrib
utes only £4,000,000 to the revenue. In the
budget of 1909 Mr. Lloyd-George placed an
additional tax of 3 shillings and nine
pence, or roughly, 90 cents, on the gallon
of .whisky, and this additional taxation
which, of course, had led to a correspond
ing increase in the price of spirits, has re
sulted in a decrease In consumption, in
the last four years amounting to about
28,600,000 gallons. . The records show, too,
that the national sobriety has been great
ly increased by this increased duty, the
convictions for drunkenness In England
showing a decrease of over 9 per cent, and
in Scotland a diminution in cities of 26
per cent and In country districts of 19 per
cent. <
me price or beer has not oeen in
creased as a result of the enhanced du
ties,” observed the speaker, sententiously,
"the brewers having discovered means not
only of making ^he consumer pay the
whole of the tax, but ft huge sum in ad
dition. They .have done tTiTs by fTie simple
expedient of charging money for water.
In other words, they have lowered the
gravity to the extent of 16 barrels of wa
ter to every 1000 barrels of beer, thus en
abling them to produce, free of duty in.
England and Wales, over 13,000,000 more
barrels of beer than they could have pro
duced out of the same materials had the
previous gravity been maintained, and
the retail price obtained from the public
for this quantity was well over £30,<300,000.
The additional beer duty and brewer's
license duty, on the other hand, did n*t
exceed £19,000,000, leaving a large balance
to the credit of additional taxation ac
count in the books of the licensed trade.
"Although the drink bill of the United
States Is only lightly over half as large
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LORD LABTD8DOWNE
Unionist leader In house of lords nt whose word of com
mand the permanent Troy majority la upper chamber
threw out liceualu* hill
ALEXANDER THOMSON
M ho was pnrllrarnlury secretary of the lulled Kingdom
■liimce, representing half million temperauee reformers
la working to Bring up licensing bill one* moro
as that of these islands,” said Thomson
in conclusion, "it is a standing puzzle to
temperance workers in this country how
the consumption keeps up, considering
the growth of the no ttcenso movement
and the large areas where publio houses
have been swept away. Mr. William J.
Bryan’s much cMticised action in deeid
Jug that no spirits shall he served at dip
lomatic banquets in Washington is the
best tiling for the cause of temperance
in England that has happened in recent
years. Many of our public men have de
clared strongly for temperance, but none
of them has come boldly out and set a
personal example as Mr. Bryan has done.”
Human Hand Mummified By
“Magnetism” of a Physician
At the Congress of Experimental Psy
chology, which met In Paris in March,
says the New York World, Dr. Hasten
Durville exhibited a human hand whlcn
he said he ha4 mummified by the simple
process of ‘magnetizing” It with paksep
of his oiei hands. The hand two months
after being cut off showed not one sign of
decay, but had seemingly dried up. No
preservatives had been used—nothing but
‘ magnetism” exerted by Dr, Durville and
two assistants.
If this extraordinary procedure should
be verified by rigid scientific investiga
tion it would mean that by the mere
"laying on of hands” wounds could he
preserved from Infection, meats arid other
foods could be kept without the use of
any preservatives, bodies could be em
balmed without embalming fluid.
The Annales des Sciences Psychlques
for August and October, 1912, gave details
of similar experiments with plants and
small animals that had been made by a
certain Mme. X., at Bordeaux, and verb
fled by three reputable physicians. It was
as a result of these that Dr. Durville tried
the process upon a human hand.
In his address to the congress Dr. Dur
ville said the hand was Ig-ought to him
on January 29 by a fellow practitioner,
who told him It was that of a man who
had died of asphyxiation by gas and it
had been lying for three weeks In a re
frigerator. It Is known that the bodies
of the asphyxiated decay very rapidly
and that the sudden removal of- a piece
of flesh from a freezing to a normal tem
perature le followed by swift decay. Those
conditions mado the test an exceptionally
difficult one. Besides It was a very
fleshy hand, weighing 410H grains.
But Dr. Durville was not dismayed. He
put the hand un a piece of paper on his
laboratory table and persuaded two of
his assistants In psychic work to help
him. His description of the treatment Is
as follows:
"During the first few days, whenever
one of us had a moment of liberty, he
went to the laboratory and magnetized
the object. To do this he extended Ida
hands over It at about six inches dis
tance—what magnetize™ call an Imposi
tion—making slow passes from the sev
ered wrist to the tips of the Angers.
‘The operator concentrated his attention
and his will upon the end to be attained.
Did will power help the operation? I do
not know. Subsequent experiments will
clear up this mystery.
“Each of us, as I have said, during the
first few days, came to InAuence the hand
as soon as he had a free moment. Thus
for six days, each of us devoted about
three quarters of an hour daily to it.
"Beginning with the seventh day, hav
ing made certain tha* the hand was still
without the least odor, we began less to
fear the Anal result and to operate for
shorter periods. After the tenth day wo
each gave the hand two treatments of
about 10 minutes, making in all about one
hour a day.
“On tho 30th day the result was so in
teresting that we thought it useless to
operate more than once a day for five
minute* each, which reduced tho total
daily treatment to 35 minutes.
“But with my clients I even completely
neglected the object of the experiment for
24 hours, and ft did #no harm. The ef
fect had already been produced. It re
sulted, I believe, from the energy we had
exerted In those first days.
“The hand was not surrounded with any
special precautions: it merely remained
uncovered day and night on the laboratory
table for the first nine days. On the 10th.
day I put over It between treatments a
metallic cage to keep off the flies. The
hand was never put into the laboratory
cupboard; access to the room was forbid
den to my patients and servant* by sim*
ply locking the door.
“Several times the hand was handled
more roughly than It should have been.
When it was photographed a string was
tied to It to hang It up by; once, even,
It was exposed to the rain, but it did not
suffer at all.”
And at the end of two months the hand
was quite mummified.
The photographs of the hand, taken on
March 18, the 49th day of the treatment
and of Dr. Durville ‘magnetizing” it, were
given by Dr. Durville to the Paris corre
spondent. *
Is It the Tower of Babel?
From th* Christian Herald.
From Babylonia, where a party of In
vestigators under the auspices of the In
stitute of France, have been conducting
excavations near the ruins of*the ancient
city of Kts (near the Tuphrates river and**
about 80 miles north of Bagdad) comes a
very remarkable report. These men in the
course of their researches uncovered an
immense palace, resembling royal resi
dences that have been disclosed in other
parts of ancient Babylonia. In a vast
courtyard near this palace, which was
heaped high with mounds of debris, they
unearthed the ruins of a tower, which,
according to inscriptions found upon It,
was called "The Temple of the Founda
tion of Heaven and Earth, and which was
dedicated to the honor of the god Zam
ana. Various pieces of statuary found in
the ruins seem to warrant the conclusion
that the tower itself might have been
constructed’during the reign of Hammu
rabi, about 2100 B. C. There have been
several so-called identifications of Babel.
One of the§e related to the ruin of a
tower at Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) which
the Baylonlans called the 'House of Eter
nity”; another was the temple, E-Sag
illa, which has now disappeared and
which was a huge, storied tower, bearing
the appellation E-timin-an-ki (“House of
the Foundation Stone of Heaven and
Earth’ ). The similarity of the inscrip
tions betw’een the latter and the newly
found tower at Kis suggests the possibil- .
ity of a natural mistake. Hammurfcbl is
also said to have built a temple, also lu-ttf
Kis. “whose top he carried up as high
a8 heaven.” Thus, the region seems to
have been "a complex of towers and sanc
tuaries,” making the positive detremina
tion of the Scriptural Babel a matter of
grave difficulty. Any one Babylonian or
.Chaldean temple 1* a t>p* oi *ii ih*
other*.