House and Garden 
Free Advice 
on Decoration 
T he unprecedented growth of our Correspondence 
Department has necessitated the opening of a new 
Department which will be devoted to the interest of 
those who are building, decorating or furnishing their 
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Winston Building - - Philadelphia, Pa. 
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THE HITTITE INSCRIPTIONS 
/^OLONEL CONDER, the well- 
known Palestine explorer, analyz¬ 
ing in the Times the recent discoveries 
of Hittite inscriptions in Asia Minor, 
says that the newly copied texts appear 
to be records of local princes serving 
kings of the first Babylonian dynasty. 
The writing is in Akkadian emblems 
of language. These did not exceed 160, 
and the new discoveries establish both 
the language and the vocabulary. The 
widespread power of the Cassite or 
Akkadian race at this early period is 
confirmed. The empire to which the 
inscriptions are ascribed proves to be 
well known in history. The Hittites 
themselves play a subordinate part, 
being one of several tribes or nations 
ruled by chiefs, who acknowledged the 
great King of Babylon as Suzerain. 
Hogarth’s explorations have shown that 
the north border of the Akkadian empire 
was drawn across Asia Minor. Inscrip¬ 
tions in this writing are not to be found 
apparently in the northern parts of 
Anatolia.— ISf. Y. Evening Post. 
ARTISANS’ COLONIES 
A CCORDING to Robert Donald, edi- 
^ tor of “London,” artisan colonies 
near great cities are, from an econo¬ 
mic, educational and municipal point 
of view, a mistake. It is not sur¬ 
prising, in his opinion, that such places 
as West Ham and Tottenham should de¬ 
sire to be incorporated in London. Of 
Tottenham, a place with a population of 
100,000, he says it is nothing buta great 
dormitory for London workmen. They 
start early in the morning; they return 
late at night; take no interest in their sys¬ 
tem of government, and have no oppor¬ 
tunity of participating in it. The place 
is run by jerry-builders for jerry-build¬ 
ers. 
A colony of workingmen, isolated from 
the place where they labor, must neces¬ 
sarily be a poor community. The houses 
are of one low dead level of value; and 
the lower the assessment the higher the 
local taxation. In Tottenham, West 
Ham and Edmonton—all residential 
districts for artisans—the cost of local 
government is fifty per cent of the value 
of the houses; that is, if a man pays ^50 
a year in rent he will pay about another 
^25 in purely local taxes. And what is 
worse there is extremely little to show for 
the money.— 'N. T. Tribune. 
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