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THE PHILADELPHIA INQTJIKER FRIDAY MORN TXG. OCTOBER 22, 1R97. BESIDES THE WEALTH THE INQUIRER'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE DIRECTED BY PROFESSOR SEYMOUR EATON. DREXEL INSTITUTE. PHILADELPHIA.

AM LETTER OPEN op To MOTHERS. SPECIAL COIHSES. -COMMON SCHOOL COURSE. Mondays. CIVIL.

SERVICE EXAMINATION COURSE. Mondays. II. STEMXiRAPHlT. Tuesdays.

EKGUSH COMPOSITION. Tuesdays. VI. ELKMK.NTAKY MATHEMATICS. Wed-nesdavs, JIKCHANICAL DRAWING.

VII. DOUBLE ENTRY BOOKKEEPING. Thursdays. VIII. COMMERCIAL.

ARITHMETIC. Thursdays. CEXERAL COURSES. IX GENERAL, HISTORT. Fridays.

X- LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM. Saturday. Literary Oem A COMPLETE LIST OF WHICH APPEARS BELOW, THAT WILL BE FOUND IN EXAMINATIONS WILL. BE HELD IN EACH COURSE AT ITS CLOSE AS A BASI3 FOR GRANTING CERTIFICATES. NEXT SUNDAY'S INOOIBER WE ARE ASSENTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THS EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ASTORIA," AND PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK DR.

SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, as the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has home and does now on every bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original PITCHER'S CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the moiin America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, ne and has the signature of f-cZcJUtt wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H.

Fletcher is President. March 8, 2- i- Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF COURSE IN GENERAL HISTORY. -AXCIEXT PEOPLES.

2. THE ASSYRIANS. The Rise anil Kali of Assyria, II. C. 1 1MM B.

C. As was said last week in our account of the Babylonians, the country known to history as Assyria included the upper portion of the Tigris-Euphrates plain, though for the most part it was made up of a. hilly or mountainous region that lay to the north of this. Though all this country Is now little other than a wilderness, it was in ancient times very fertile and capable of sustaining large populations. As has already been said, Assyria owes its origin to Babylonian colonization.

This colonization began about 11M)0 years before the Christian era. For 4(KJ years the colonists remained subject to their parent State, being ruled over by governors appointed by the Babylonian kings. But about iri) B. C. Assyria became independent of Babylonia.

During the earlier centuries of its existence as an Independent State Assyria was almost constantly at war with Babylonia. One of its kings. Tiglath-Adar succeeded in conquering Babylon and establishing a dynasty there. But for some time (from about 13U0. B.

C. to about 1220 B. Assyria was again subject to Babylonian lordship. However, during the most part of its existence Assyria was a great and wide ruling power, having under its authority nearly all neighboring countries and kingdoms, including at last its own. magnificent of whom, perhaps.

Bel, the "lord of the world," was chief. Below these were "the fifty great gods," "the 300 spirits of heaven," "the 60O spirits of air." and so on. In Babylonia, however, the principal worship seems to have been paid to the god Bel-Merodach. the tutelary divinity of Babylon, originally the "sun while in Assyria Assur, the personification of the city of Assur, was placed at the head of the pantheon. But conjoined with the religion of the two peoples was a vast system of so that the priests were also astrologers.

In fact, augury, magic, soothsaying' and sorcery were all functions of the priestly office. The priests also regulated the worship of both gods and lesser spirits, and provided for the use of the people set forms of prayer inscribed on tablets. In the religious system of the Babylonians and Assyrians was both elaborate and Intricate, but in Assyria it was simpler and less rigorous than in Babylonia. Art, Science and Tvade. The Assyrians were mainly a nation of soldiers and traders, and their art and science, like their literature and religion, were obtained principally from the Babylonians, who, though also a trading a nation, were not during the main portion of their history in any considerable degree a military people.

Assyrian art, however, differed from Babylonian art. Its sculpture, for example, was always bold and oftentimes colossal. Gigantic winged human-headed bulls were placed at the gateways of all Assyrian palaces to ward off evil spirits. Figures of lions were frequently used for similar purposes. Much of this sculpture was not "full round," but in "relief." And when scenes Involving life and action were represented the relief was colored.

Assyrian coloring, however, was never brilliant. Assyrian architecture was Usually columnar. No windows were ever used, but upon the walls pillars were 'erected to support the roofs and let In light and air. Both the Assyrians and the Babylonians were engineers. They constructed tunnels, aqueducts and drains.

They understood and applied the arch. They used the pulley, the lever and the roller. The Assyrians also rivaled the Babylonians in gem-cutting, terra cotta work and metallurgy, although these were arts in which the southern nation particularly excelled. Both the Babylonians and the Assyrians were quite far advanced as astronomers and meteorologists; but in all such matters the Assyrians, though less original than the Babylonians, were yet more practical. The Babylonians pursued these sciences for religious and astrological purposes.

The Assyrians followed them largely because of their utility In the material concerns of life. Both peoples, however, had many observatories, presided over by. astronomers and meteorologists, who had to report to a chief astronomer and meteorologist twice a month. Both peoples could calculate eclipses with some exactness and also predict changes of weather. Both peoples, too, had numbered the stars, had formed a calendar and had divid it is the desire of this space to call your valuable attention to the fact, the important fact, that there will be henceforth published in The Sunday Inquirer, exclusively, two of the newest and most intensely interesting serial stories of the day.

THE ONE a thrilling and romantic story of American Army Life, which was commenced last Sunday, entitled ONLY A PRIVATE" THE OTHER the latest tale of the popular novelist, Anthony Hope, a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere in these columns, entitled "SIMON DALE" The first instalment appears in next Sunday's Inquirer. Here lie the gems: Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. MOST HEINOUS CONSPIRACY IN THE HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. For the second time the thrilling story of a self-confessed felon, who admits that he attempted to cause the dpath of two respectable families in Columbia County, is to be recited in the courts. A history of the case and some new evidence bearing on the subject of the crimes.

MODERN ORDEALS. The methods of the police of the present day are in a way similar to those of the officials who tortured supposed criminals at the time of the Inquisition. Physical torture has given way to the more civilized mental1 torture, as exemplified in the Wilson, the Camden, the Holmes and other murder cases in end outside of Philadelphia. "SIMON DALE," BY ANTHONY HOPE. This is the latest story by that freat author, who is now here, and in the Sunday Inquirer Maurazine will be published the first instalment, the story to be continued for fourteen weeks.

A RELIC OP THE DELUGE. Discovery of a petrified tree which scientists think was washed to Camden from the Pacific coast by the great flood which swept the whole world thousands and thousands of years ago. REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM Llll-, BV PRISON. One of the men who assisted tells the the story. FORTY-SIX MINUTES WITH DEATH.

A short, but interesting and thrilling story. Miiirmo IViMtll ex. --r JUKY UluAuKttU Stood Nine to Three for Conviction and Luetgert Did Not Even Smile. WILL NOW ASK FOR BAIL Flat Ending to One of the Most Sensational Murder Trials on Record. CHICAGO, Oct.

21. Luetgert will have to face Fate again. The jury is discharged, and the vast mass cf evidence must once more be sifted. The man who has been on trial on the charge of murdering his wife and boil-iug her body in a vat heard from the foreman of the twelve men who have been considering his case the words: "We are unable to agree upon a verdict." Imperturbable as ever, evincing no joy at the words, the wonderful nerve of the Northsider was with him to the end. The jury had been out sixty-six hours, and for thirty-eight hours had been deadlocked.

Accordingly, they were discharged. Ex-Judge Vincent and his assistant, Mr. Phalen, were on the third lloor of the building at 10 o'tlock anxious for news. State's Attorney Deneen arrived at his office a few minutes before thar. hour.

He was not expecting Judge Tuthill, but soon afterwards the Judge entered his office unannounced. After a few minutes' conversation with Mr. Deneen Judge Tuthill came up stairs alone and entered his court room 3t 10.15. Judge Tuthill decided to send fcr Foreman Hcickhold of the jury, and inquire whether there was any possibility a verdict being reached to-day. NO AGREEMENT.

On finding out that there was no possibility of agreement, the Judge sent for the jury, and at 10.4O A. M. its members filed into the court-room, looking very haggard. After a few moments' waiting Luetgert was brought in by a bailiff. After the room became quiet Judg Tuthill said: "Gentlemen, I have called you into court to ask if you have reached a verdict." Foreman Heickhold replied: "Your Honor, we have not." "Is there any prospect of your reaching one?" asked thw court.

"I don't think so. In fact, I know there is not at least that Is my firm belief," responded the foreman. "How do you stand numerically I mean, not Individually?" "We stand nine for conviction to three for acquittal," replied the foreman. "We have stood that way for thirty-eight hours. There has not been a change in the vote during the last thirty-eight hours.

In my opinion, there is not the least possible chance of an agreement THE DISCHARGE. After consulting with counsel on both sides. Judge Tuthill said: "The court has kept you here an exceptionally long time because the evidence was so voluminous and so much detailed, that I wished to give you full time to discuss it In all Its aspects, and to give you time to discuss the matter among yourselves to see if there could be any possibility of harmonizing your views. It is very much to be regretted that you are unable to agree. The case has been very long and protracted.

It is the most important case one of the most important, cases that has ever been tried in this country; and I was anxious that the jury should come to some conclusion, hut I am bound to accept the statement of jurors made through your foreman and individually by you. and the expression of the defendant and his counsel and the State's attorney also has received serious consideration by me. My own Judgment, Indeed, concurs with all, and I think it is useless to keep you longer confined in this matter. therefore, enter an order for the discharge of this jury. The defendant will be remanded." Luetgert evinced no Joy at the result, beyond a smile on his swarthy face, as he shook hands with his son, Arnold; his counsel, and his business partner.

William Charles. Five minutes later he was led back to jail. State's Attorney Deneen, when asked, as to the probability of Luetgert being brought before the court a second time, said that he would try him again, but when he would get at it he could not tell. At 1 o'clock this afternoon counsel for Luetgert gave State's Attorney Deneen notice that they would to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock make formal application for the admission of the prisoner to bail. The Associated Press secured from Luetgert an affidavit regarding his side of the case.

His most important statements under oath were: "I did not kill my wife and do not know where she is, but I am sure that it is only a question of time until she comes home. "I did not go upon the witness stand because my lawyer. Judge Vincent, was bitterly opposed to my doing so, and because he advised me it was not necessary." ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Only questions of general interest will be answered. Queries are answered as soon as possible, but in many cases time is required to g-et the correct information. Coin queries not answered here.

For 4 cents in stamps a list of coin values will be sent to any address. Answers to questions not published during- the week will appear in the Sunday issue. TEXAS OFFICIAL. I should like to know the name of the Attorney-Generai! of Texas. G.

B. M. M. Crane. RELATIVE SIZE OF THEATRES.

Leavinsr out the Academy of Music, which theatre has the greatest seating capacity in this city? INQUIRER ADMIRER. The Grand Opera House, Broad and Montgomery avenue, which seats 2500, and, if so much attention had not been paid to the comfort of the audience, could be made to seat several hundred more. MUST A PATENTEE BE A CITIZEN? Please let me know if an alien can get a United States patent. a. Yes.

The law says that the applicant shall state in his application of what country he is a citizen and does not restrict the grant to United States citizens. CITY NOTICES There la a Clsiaa of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there haa been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called ORAIN-O, made of pure Brains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over A as much.

Children may drink it with great benefit. 13 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Try It.

Ask for GRAIN-O. The, Mont Popular Rente la -via. Pennsylvania. Railroad. $1.00 to Baltimore and return, Sunday next.

Trains will leave Broad Street Station at 3.50, 8-15. 9.12 and 11.23 A. M. Ample accommodations for all. READ THE SUNDAY INQUIRER mm CENTRE OF ASSYRIAN CIVILIZATION.

ever, Sennacherib was less successful. Although at first he had reduced Tyre and Sid on and had defeated Hezekiah, king of Judah, and his Egyptian and Ethiopian allies, in a second expedition (recorded in II. Kings he lost his supremacy over Syria and the army with which he Intended to capture Jerusalem was suddenly destroyed (II. Kings But Sennacherib's greatness showed itself in works of peace rather than of war. He was the great builder and engineer of his age.

He constructed great canals and aqueducts, made great embankments along the Tigris and built great palaces at Nineveh on a scale of magnificence never before attempted. He also built and maintained a navy upon the Persian gulf. Assyria's Greatest Epoch. The two last great kings of Assyria were Esar-haddon, the son of Sennacherib, and Assur-bani-pal, the son of Esar-haddon. Esar-haddon (B.

C. (iSl-OGS) made Babylon his capital. He reconquered successfully Syria, Judea, Phoenicia, but his greatest achievement was his conquest of Egypt, which he divided among twenty governors, most of whom were natives. Assur-bani-pal (B. C.

C6S-62G), who succeeded Esar-haddon. was the greatest of all the Assyrian monarchs. Though in the end he lost Egypt, In every other part of his kingdom he made the. Assyrian power stronger than it had ever been before. Not only Syria, Arabia, Cilicia, and Babylonia but also Elam and Lydia were subject to his authority.

Wherever rebellion showed itself fire, sword arid famine soon effected submission. Under his reign Assyria rose to the top- most height of its greatness. From the frontiers of India to the Aegean sea his name was feared, his rule was supreme. Assur-bani-pal was also a zealous patron of the arts and of learning. He adorned Nineveh with splendid palaces palaces that glittered with gold, silver and precious stones and were embellished with the largest and stateliest of Assyrian sculpture.

He founded for his people a magnificent library, the richest, the most perfectly equipped, the most extensive the world has ever known. He invited learned men to his court and treated them with honor and encouraged them to extend the literature of the nation. But the very completeness of his glory proved to be his ruin. The treasures of the world flowed Into his capital, and his people became not only luxurious but effeminate. He himself desisted from conducting his wars in person and intrusted them to generals.

Province after province rose in revolt and though the rebellions were for the time suppressed the suppression lasted only during his lifetime. At his death there was a general revolt and in a short time Assyria, shorn of its empire and reduced to its original dimensions, was engaged in a death struggle with the Medes and Babylonians. Nineveh was a strongly walled city and it held out against the 'besiegers for a long time. But at last (B. C.

005?) it was taken and burned with fire, and the kingdom of Assyria came to an end. I.aiifjnaKe and Literature. As was said in last week's lesson, the Assyrians, like the Babylonians, were a Semitic race, akin to the Hebrews, Phoenicians and modern Arabians. Their language, which differ ed little from that of the Babylonians, was closely allied to that of the Hebrews and Phoenicians, and throughout the 1500 years during which it can be traced in the inscriptions it changed but little. Also, like that of the Babylonians, it was written in cuneiform characters.

The literature of both Assyria and Babylonia has been for the most part preserved to us on baked bricks or tablets. The characters impressed upon these tablets (generally spoken of as were very minute. The tablets were kept in libraries and were there arranged in order, so that they could be easily found when wanted. The Assyrians, however, were not a literary people, although their libraries could show many original works on history, chronology, astrology, law, besides epic poems and hymns to the gods; but for the most part thev were content to adopt the original writings of the Babylonians. The Babylonians were the most cultured of the two races, and in addition to public libraries had also academies and universities.

Besides the great library at Nineveh, the Assyrians had two other great libraries, one at Calah and one at Assur; and, no doubt, there were others; but every great city of Babylonia had at least one library and sometimes there were more than one. Religion. The religion of Assyria was almost the same as that of Babylonia, and both were founded largely on the religion of the earlier Accadai. Every object had its spirit, good or bad; and the world swarmed with demons. Diseases especially were caused by demons, and the sculptured cherubs, bulls, which were so frequently placed at the entrances of houses and palaces were believed to- be efficacious in protecting the inmates from the demons that produced them.

But the priests were thought to be the most efficacious protectors against evil spirits, and in consequence priests were extremely numerous among both the Assyrians and the Babylonians, but especially among the Babylonians. But there were also spirits of a higher type, and in course of time there came to be an officially recognized hierarchy of divine beings, which included four supreme divinities and three inferior ones (the gods of sun. moon and air), the whole forming "the seven. GETS DRI NK ON I A I TIOX, Medical men do not know what to think of a blind man who spends money for rum and then becomes intoxicated before he has even tasted of the liquor. A CHEAT TELESCOPE FOR PHILADELPHIA.

It is to rank next to the famed Lick and Yerkes instruments and will be stationed on the top of the tower of the Boys' High School Building. A FAMILY OF MANIACS. New Jersey sons who killed their father "under orders from un anfrel" to be sent to the State insane asylum. ALL ABOARD FOR JERISALEM. Trolley cars are at last to carry passengers to the top of the mountains where Moses is said to have received the word of God.

Some remarkable engineering. WHEN AMERICANS GO TO CHIRCH IN PARIS. Where they go, what they do and what the French people think of the matter. THE NEW Bl'TCHEH FOR CI BA. The man who succeeds General WeyVer was known as long as twenty years ago) as a cruel and inhuman BOldier and it is expected that he will at least be as bad as Weyler.

VEILS AND HOW TO AVE All THEM. A talk to the maids and matrons about the flimsy coverings for the face, their uses and disadvantages. THE NIGHT OF TRIE LOVE. How a night once devoted to solemnities has by common usage come down to the present generation as a nlsht for tricks of all sorts and conditions. -a no.

DANCING PROF. DICK'S PRIVATE SCHOOL, 1935 Columbia ave. Adults this afternoon and eve. Each pupil receives private tin tfnra .1 u-l Can to-morrow at 8. Call and see the lit.

ones. PROF. FR1CKE, Bank Hall, S. E. cor.

Broad and Columbia ave. Adults'. Children's Class forming. Few more ladles to com p. Friday aft.

class. Call ASHER'S NATATORIUM HALL. BROAD. below Walnut. Beginners' class this evening; children Saturday afternoon.

Private lessons daily. Call or write. COSTUMES LATEST STYLE FULL DRESS suits to hire. ntuMtmr, xne lanor. iintn and Cherry.

"I'll never part from you," he said To her whose lips he pressed; And then she coyly placed her head Upon his heaving breast. Eftsoons her sturdy sire came And gave her love a kick That caused him forget his name, And likewise made him sick. And then he galloped from the spot, With sadness in his heart. The maiden called: "Hold on! I thought You said we'd never part:" Alas! he did not dare to stay. But hurried on like mad! Around her skirts her children play, But he is not their dad! Cleveland Leader.

The Assembly managers have decided upon the dates for the historic dances this winter. The first will be held on January 14. and the second on February 18, and between these dates will be the midwinter ball. This will settle the question whether or not there will be any Assemblies this winter. Several months ago a rumor was started, and later was printed, that the annual functions would be discontinued for a year or two, in order to weed out the "undesirables." At the time.

The Inquirer stated that it was entirely unlikely the managers would pursue any such course, but would continue the dances as usual. It has also been determined that the swell functions would be held in the foyer of the Academy of Music. Colonel and Mrs. Samuel Bell and the Misses Bell will leave Devon the first of next week, and move into town. Mr.

"Nd" Browning has arrived at West Point, with his coaching party. Mr. Mitchell Harrison has taken Mr. and Mrs. Richard L.

Ashhurst's house on Spruce street, for the winter. 'Among the Philadelphians arriving on the new ocean wonder, Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross, is Dr. W. G. A.

Bonwill, who is returning from attendance at a. series of meetings of the European dentists, and the International Medical Congress, at Moscow. Rarely In the history of dental surgery have such honors been conferred upon any of the profession as have been showered upon Dr. Bonwill during his travels abroad. Dr.

Bonwill is recognized as one of the leaders of the profession by Europeans generally. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Biddle have arrived home from Europe. Mr.

Sidney Keith has returned to town from Strafford, where he has has been spending early autumn. Mrs. William H. Arms, who has been the guest of Mrs. P.

F. Shaffer, of Ger-mantown, for several weeks, has returned to her home, in Sunbury, Pa. The wedding of Miss Mary E. Roach and Mr. George E.

Curtis next Wednesday will be the largest held in West Philadelphia this autumn. The bride will be attended by Miss Mina Archer, a cousin as maid of honor and Miss Alice Bankson, Miss Slevin, Miss Anna Nevins, Miss Curtis, Miss Henrietta Bache, Miss Helen Williams, Miss Gris-wold, and Miss Louise Reardon as bridesmaids. Mr. William Curtis is to be best man; and Messrs. Edward Chase, J.

Howard Brown, Charles Curtis, Percy Ash, Joseph Roach, Louis Sander, Morris Coates and Charles Yete are the ushers. Double wedlngs are interesting enough without such stirring incidents as occurred in Kansas a couple of weeks ago. The ceremony was being performed when one of the grooms suddently changed his mind, and ran out of church. Both brides fainted; and the remaining groom became so rattled that he called for the police. Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Peters, will close- their country place, at Thurlow, a-, few days, and open their town housa. at Eleventh and Soruce streets. AMUSEMENTS ACADEMY of MUSIC The Eminent Scientist and GREATEST ARCTIC EXPLORER Will Lecture Under the Auspices of the GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA Magnificent Colored Lantern Illustrations. Advance Sale of Seats begins at fin CI cn ennn Saturday Oetober 53d '-UU, I.OU, l.UU ACADEMY OF MISIC-SOISA.

TO-NIGHT. Also RfltnrdRV FVunln, flrtnlw Only One Matinee Oct. 23. at 3. 'by An it rm his LEC THE WORLD'S MARCH KING.

JOHN PHILIP SOl'SA CO.VDfCTOR BRILLIANT ASSISTING ARTISTS. MISS MAUD REESE DAVIRS. SOPRANO. MISS JENNIE HOYLE. VIOLIN'IPTE.

MR. ARTHCR PRYOR. TROMBONE. Reserved Seats 75c. and SI 00.

at Fischer's. 1221 Chestnut street. MISS H. HARRIS Manager Maron Hamlin Pianos stay in tune. ACADEMY OF MUSIC TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS.

OCTOBER 20 AND 27. ALSO MATINEE WEDNESDAY. OCT. 27. BAN DA R05SA the leadership of Kaestro Et'GEXIO SORRENTINO.

assisted bv Frls. VON VAH-SEL and Seats at Fischer's. 1221 Chestnut street. pAKIv THEATRE. TELEPHONE 191.

Matinee Saturday at 2.15. Nightlv at H.lo. DONNELLY AND GIRARD. in the Spectacular Operetta. THE GEEZER.

Monday. October 2. One Vek AUGUSTE VAN B1ENE the world's rreatest Actor-Musician, and his Vnny15d in A MUSICIAN'S ROMANCE, eats now on sale. ACADEMY OF MISIC. PHILADELPHIA SEASON GRAND OPERA Under the Direction of WALTER DAMROSCH and C.

A. ELLIS. Subscription now open at Fischer's. I00! Chestnut street. HDlUn OPERA Snm I on uiinnu HOUSE n3.

i.i7. -roaa una itiontparaerr Ave. Br. 1119 Chestnut St. THE ROMANTIC IK1SH OPERA LILY OF KILLARNEY Evk.

at Mats. at 2. Uic NEXT WEEK r-Al'l, JOBS. IT THP ftl CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE From 12 M. to 10.20 P.

M. REFINED HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE Favorite Theatre for Ladies ard Children. Reserved Orchestra, F-Oc. Orchestra, 23c Balcony. l5c.

Gallery. 15c. WAtNtJT. MATINEB TO-MORROW. Greatest Dramatic Success in Yan AWARD OF FRANCE maunce i-iarrymore, Joseph Whlt-ing.

Stephen Orattan.Max Figman, Henry Herman.Charles Kent.Olive Oliver, Una Abell, Maud Granger, Mabel Burt, Bijou Fernandez, Maude Winter. CHESTNUT STREET OPERA HOUSE. Curtain rises at 8 o'clock precisely. Last Two Nights. Farewell Mat.

To-morrow. THE BOSTONIHNS THE SERENADE. Next Week George Edwprdes' London Gaiety Theatre Company in "IN TOWN." CHESTXl'T STREET THEATRE. This and Next Week. Mats.

Wed. and Sa. THE GIRL FROM PARIS oSSAS. FOOTBALL NIGHT Univrf.ity and Lafayette will occupy boxes. GILMORE'S AIDITORIUM-PHONE 190.

Matinee to-day at 2. Nightly at 8. Most Glittering- of All Spectacles, THE CRYSTAL SLIPPER. Next Week Reilly and Wood's Big- Show. BROAD STREET THEATRE.

This and next week. Mats. Wed. and Sat. Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre Co.

UNDER THE RED ROBE FOR EPAUGH'S-MATINEE T-0AY at 2.16 THE WORLD AGAINST HER Next Week Geo. Learock, Carrie Radcliffe It Stock in E. H. Sothern's Success, LORD CHUMLEY SIXTH AND ARCH MUSEUM. THE NAGIB ORIENTAL TROUPS.

D' ALMA'S DOG AND MONKEY CIRCUS. Continuous Vaudeville In the Theatre. TEX CENTS ADMITS TO ALL. ELEVENTH ST. OPERA HOUSE.

DUMONT'S MINSTRELS. First Week of the GIRL FROM PARIS GREEN. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday, 25c. ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. OPEN EVERY DAT.

Admission. 25 cents. Children, 10 cents. Saturdays and Legal Holidays (except July 4), ADULTS. lO cents.

Children, 5 cents. TROCADERO TENTH AND ARCH. AL REEVES' BURLESQUERS Afternoons 2.15. Evenings 8.15. Popular Prices GIRARD AVE.

THEATRE EEL. 7TH. To-night at 8.13. Mats. Wed and Sat.

Stock Ca. in Frohman's SHENANDOAH. Next Week Bartley Campbell's "My Partner." NATIONAL. MATS. SAT.

NORTHERN LIGHTS. Next Week Chirnmie Fadden. PEOPLE'S MATS. SAT. Under the Polar Star.

FOOTBALL AND THEATRE" TICKETS. Hotel Walton and Betz Bids. A. T. James.

STANDARD TWELFTH AND SOUTH. Matinee Daily IsHAJI'S OCTAROONS. Miss Isabel Morton is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. S.

Buckley, at Chestnut H11L. HUNTING FOR BIG GAME IN THE MAINE WILDS. AN APPEAL WHICH SHAMED A IllRGLAR. Heaven of the theosophists. thej martyred queen.

diamonds on her finger nails. bullions of insects visited philadelphia. fishing is now excellent. a new and remarkable life BOAT. WOMEN WITH BEAUTIFtL SWAN THROATS.

LATEST IN BLOISES AND COLLARS. THE YOUNGEST CIBAN KOLD1ER. "THE FIRST DEGREE" A ROMANCE DOINGS IN THE STAMP WORLD. LITTLE WILLIE AND THE CAT. PIE-EATING SNAKE KILLED.

CAUGHT A DEER IN HIS ARMS. FROM FOOTMAN TO PRINCE. DAUDET9 FinST PAYING POSITION. ed the year into twelve months and the week into seven days, the seventh day being a day of rest. Both peoples, too, had divided the day Into hours, and the hours each into sixty minutes, and the minutes each into sixty seconds.

Both peoples, also, used the dial and the water clock. Both nations, as has been said, were traders, but the Babylonians, being situated near the Persian gulf, traded largely by means of ships, while the Assyrians pursued their traffic almost wholly overland. The trade of the two peoples extended from India on the one hand, whence were brought teakwood and Ivory, to the mines of Cornwall on the other, whence was brought tin. Both Nineveh and Babylon were centres of busy trade; and both Assyrian and Babylonian law, as well as Assyrian and Babylonian social custom, indicate that the two peo ples had developed a highly organized and effective commercial system. (Copyright, by the Chicago Record).

CAUGHT ON THE FLY A big statue of George "Washington, placed yesterday just back of the barrier to the entrance to the stairway leading to the second story of Independence Hall, assisted in guarding those sacred precjnets against the visitors wbo wished to explore the recesses above and gaze upon the historical collection of portraits, books and relics now completed and in order in the space formerly occupied by City Councils. The guard of the building said that the work up-stairs had all been finished and everything was in shape for inspection, but that Director Rlter had ordered that visitors should not be allowed to go up. Rev. John Roberston, D. of Glasgow, Scotland, will preach next Sunday morning in the Bethlehem Baptist Church, Eighteenth and York streets.

Dr. Robertson will spend but one Sunday in Philadelphia, leaving the following week for Chicago, where he will join D. L. Moody. Francis Shunk Brown has been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Equitable Trust Company.

Mr. Brown is a well-known member of the Philadelphia bar. "What is the difference between men and women?" asked a crusty old bachelor at the Union League last night. The club men addressed had their own notions on the subject, but none of them seemed to satisfy the propounder of the question, so he answered: "A man wants all he can get and a woman wants all she can't get." The Beta Chapter of Alpha Sigma, composed of students of Hahnemann Medical College, entertained its friends with a "smoker" at the Shelburne last might. Clarence S.

Ongman, a young Phila- delphian, who returned from Havana, Cuba, yesterday, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Struggling Cuba" in the Fifth Baptist Church, Spring Garden and Eighteenth streets, on Tuesday evening ext. The illustrations will be colored lantern views made from photographs taken by Cubans in different parts of the island. Rev. Dr. W.

N. McVlckar, of Holy Trinity P. E. Church. Nineteenth and Walnut streets, yesterday morning received a letter from a committee of the Rhode Island convention which on Tuesday extended to him a call to become bishop-coadjutor, asking him when it would be convenient for him to receive the committee.

Two very curious wills, made by Rev. James Long Scott, formerly of Hammonton, N. who -died while officiating as a missionary to India, were brought to light by the death of Mrs. Scott and the granting of letters of administration to her step-daughter, Anna Scott, by Deputy Register Charles Irwin yesterday morning. The two wills were attached to the petition.

The later will was rejected because of the Inability of any one In Philadelphia to interpret several of its paragraphs, which were written in a Hindoostanese dialect. To make matters worse it was discovered that several codicils upon the earlier will were of a later date than the more recent will. The will In the Indian language was not found until the other one had been probated. The testamentary dispositions were materially the 'same, so no contest was made. The estate was valued at $3000.

Wills Probated. The wills admitted to probate yesterday, together with the value of the estates, were as follows: John McNeil. SMJ00; Edward Weyant, $1000; Maggie Scott, $5100; Louisa M. Vinton, Lawrence Kelly, $2500. "Children Mrs.

Window's Soothing- Syrup should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the sums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents- a bottle, it is lha best at all. parent State and rival. Babylonia (710 B.

C). Not long after its final conquest of Babylonia, however, its own power was broken. The Babylonians, under Nabopolassar, and the Medians, under Cyaxares, rose up in rebellion and conquered it. After a long siege Jineveh, its capital, was taken and destroyed (B. C.

Then for a time Assyria was in part subject to Media and in part subject to Babylonia; but when the Persian monarchy rose to greatness Assyria and Babylonia were made one Persian province. The Earlier Epochs ot Assyria's Greatness. The history of Assyria during its epochs of greatness is known to us principally in the history of its great kings. Tiglath-Pileser I. (B.

C. was one of the greatest of the earlier Assyrian kings. His conquests extended north, south and west and included Bagdad and even Babylon. His empire reached from the Caspian sea and the Persian gulf on the one side to the Mediterranean sea on the other. After his death, however, his conquests were all lost and Assyria sunk to a condition of comparative powerlessness.

A second great king' was Assur-natsir-pal (B. C. His empire was even wider than that of Tiglath-Pileser. Under his rule the Assyrian people became not only great and powerful but rich, cultured and refined. Their palaces and public buildings, remains of which are still existent, were adorned with magnificent sculptures and elaborate paintings that testify not only to the massiveness and grandeur but also to the opulence and splendor of their art.

A third great king was Shalmaneser II. (B. C. 858-823). Shalmaneser exacted tribute from Ahab and Jehu of Israel, destroyed the armies of Ben-hadad and Hazael of Damascus and brought Tyrs and Sidon under his sway.

He also subjected Babylon to a condition of vassalage. A fourth great king "was Tiglath-Pileser II. (B. C. 74.V727.) This Tiglath-Pileser was a usurper, but he became a very powerful monarch.

He reorganized the empire and greatly consolidated it. His conquests were wider than those of any previous Assyrian king. His empire practically extended from the Indus on the east to the Nile on the west. But his principal achievements were the subjection and incorporation with the empire of the rich and populous countries near about him, including Judah, Israel, Syria, and Babylon though the complete subjection of Babylon was not effected until some time later (see last, week's lesson). Tiglath-Pileser II.

is the Pul of Scripture. Great as his power was, however, he was finally deposed by another usurper. This was Shalmaneser the Shalmaneser of Scripture who Imprisoned Hoshea, king of Samaria (II. Kings 4j. Sargon (B.

C. 722-73), the successor of Shalmaneser, was a fifth great king of Assyria. It was he who took Samaria and "carried Israel away captive" (II. Kings ii). It was he, too, who defeated the Egyptians In the great battle of Raphia (719 B.

C), It was he, too, who defeated Merodach-Baladan. the heroic king of Babylon (710 B. (see last week's lesson), and thus prepared the way for the complete subjugation of the Babylonian empire by the Assyrians under Sennacherib a few years later. Sargon called himself "king of Assyria and Babylon," but his empire included all the countries round ebout the great Tigri3-Euphrates plain, and an Inscription shows that he had even taken possession of Cyprus. Sennacherib, the son of Sargon, was another pf the great Assyrian kings (B.

C. 705-081). It was Sennacherib who finally reduced Babylon (see last week lesson). He also "wasted with fire and sword" Elam, a kingdom to the southeast of Assyria, that once had been very powerful, even to a supremacy over Babylon (see last week's lesson). In the west how- "ORRIX'S BLUE MUFFLER" MANCE.

RATTLESNAKE IN THE PARLOR. THE OLD "WAR HORSE. "REDWOOD IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY" A ROMANCE. A BABY HERO. WAR VETERAN HONORED.

CALLED BACK "BOM DEATH. PURE MODESTY IN ENGLAND. The CATHEDRAL ROCKS THE MOST ENCHANTING SPOT OF THE BEAUTIFUL Y0SEMITE VALLEY Lends tone, instructive value and beauty to the Panoramic Art Supplement of. Next Sunday's Inquirer,.