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...great ziggurat or tower. The first works uncovered date from about 600 B. C.; in the courtyard of a temple of the Moon God was found a building believed to have been used as a sort of convent schoolroom and museum by the priestesses. Another building, a temple to Nin-Gal, wife of the Moon God, has also been uncovered in a corner of the compound. Some of the objects found dated from 2,500 B.C.; going down to the lower foundations, the excavators found older and older masonry, some of primitive unbaked bricks that may have been laid...
...well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there was in it. Charles Follen Adams, in his Dutch dialect poems, has long been known, and last evening his success was as great as ever...
...Maria's Mo'nin'-Ruth McEnery Stuart...
Stuart of last year's Amherst nin has signed with the Washingtons...