TIGER LILY 



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TILDEN 



The tiger's average length of life is twenty- 

 five years. A>c 



Consult Eardley-Wil mot's Life of a Tiger; 

 Mockler-Ferryman's Life Story of a, Tiger. 



TIGER LILY, a tall garden plant, native to 

 Eastern Asia and believed to be the first lily 

 brought to Amer- 

 ica. It was so 

 named because 

 its reddish- 

 orange blossoms, 

 splashed with 

 black, suggest the 

 color and mark- 

 ings of the tiger. 

 The plant is pro- 

 duced from bulbs 

 which are used 

 for food in China 

 and Japan. Its 

 greenish - purple 

 or dark brown 

 stem, often reach- 

 ing a height of 

 five feet, bears 

 alternate lance- 

 shaped leaves, 

 deeply veined 

 fr.om tip to base. 

 At the point 

 where they join 

 the stalk tiny 

 black bulblets ap- 

 pear, which cling to the stem for a time, but 

 finally drop off, producing other plants. See 

 LILY. 



TIG'LATH-PILESER, pile 1 zer, according to 

 the Old Testament, the name of several Assyr- 

 ian kings. 



Tiglath-Pileser I, whose reign began about 

 1120 B.C., was a powerful ruler. He made con- 

 quests in Northern Syria, Cappadocia, Persia, 

 Armenia and Kurdistan, and even entered the 

 city of Babylon. Much of his time was occu- 

 pied in constructing palaces and temples and 

 beautifying the city of Assur, on the Tigris 

 River, which he made his capital. His suc- 

 cessor of the same name ruled about 950 B. c. 

 Tiglath-Pileser III, the most important of 

 the name, was remarkable for his power, and 

 ruled over Assyria from 745 to 727 B. c. Being 

 an able political organizer as well as a strong 

 conqueror, he gained the good will of the Baby- 

 lonians by checking near-by tribes who had 

 been troubling them, and by establishing Assyr- 

 ian colonies in hostile territories, thinking that 



THE TIGER LILY 



a more profitable scheme for gaining control 

 than the ordinary methods of invasion by force. 

 Frequent revolts in Northern Syria occupied 

 much of his time. Events connected with the 

 assistance he lent to Ahaz, king of Judah, in 

 conquering Damascus are chronicled princi- 

 pally in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters 

 of II Kings. In 728 B. c. he was crowned king 

 of Babylonia, but died the following year, leav- 

 ing the empire to his son, Shalmaneser IV. 



TI'GRIS, a river of Asiatic Turkey, which, 

 with its sister river, the Euphrates, formed tin- 

 ancient valley of Mesopotamia. Within tin* 

 valley, according to tradition, was located tin- 

 Garden of Eden, and on one of its height* the 

 Ark of Noah is said to have rested. In A>- 

 syria and Babylonia, in the southern part, there 

 developed two great civilizations of the ancient 

 world, both of which flourished long before 

 Greece and Rome came to power. The ruins 

 of the ancient city of Nineveh, capital of As- 

 syria, lie on its left bank, opposite the modern 

 town of Mosul (see NINEVEH). 



The Tigris rises from two main sources which 

 drain the region south of the Taurus Mountain-. 

 The main stream follows a winding soutl, 

 erly course to Garmat Ali, and at this point 

 unites with the Euphrates. The sister riven 

 then flow as one the Shat-el-Arab to thoir 

 mouth on the Persian Gulf, seventy miles hi - 

 yond. Formerly the town of Korna, thirty miles 

 above Garmat Ali, was the junction point, but 

 the channel of the Tigris has been undergoing 

 a change for many centuries. 



Among the towns on its banks are two which 

 figured prominently in the War of the Nations 

 Bagdad and Kut-el-Amara, the latter halfway 

 between Bagdad and Korna. At Kut-el-Amara, 

 in the spring of 1916, a British garrison was 

 starved into surrendering to the Turkish f> 

 but in February, 1917, a British relief expedi- 

 tion recaptured this town, and in March took 

 possession of Bagdad. The Tigris-Euphrates 

 Valley was the scene of much desperate fight- 

 ing. The total length of the Tigris is about 

 1,150 miles. It is navigable for steamers to a 

 point about thirty miles south of Mosul, near 

 the mouth of the Great Zab. 



TIL'DEN, SAMUEL JONES (1814-1886), an 

 American lawyer, statesman and philanthro- 

 pist, the opponent of Rutherford B. Hayes in 

 the most closely contested Presidential election 

 in the history of the United States. He was 

 born at New Lebanon, N. Y., and was educated 

 at Yale College and at the University of the 

 City of New York, graduating from the latter 



