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Show I NOT TmSeI It Was Noah Who 1 Ate the Apple I Adam Wasn't I Anywhere 1 Around, Accord- fe ing to Sumerian 1 Tablets in I I Possession of the 1 University of Pennsylvania m 1 "Woman has found h.i in plon fn an Englishman, and a learned Englishman at that. The gentleman gentle-man is none other than Prof. Stephen. Ste-phen. Lansdon of Jesus College, Oxford, who has exonerated Eva from all bin me concerning the "fall ff man." He even exempts Adam. Faying Adam never was tempted and never fell. The one to blame for Hie expulsion expul-sion of humanity from the life of V ease and immortality in the Garden of Eden is Noah, says Professor sLangdon. The opinion of the Enylish occasion, but It tells not li ing of his eating any apple and getting the whole human race In bad. The University of Pennsylvania obtained possession of the Sumerian tablets by digging in the southern provinces of Babylon In the land of Burner. That portion of Asia has sometimes been credited as being be-ing the location of the Garden of Eden. The Sumerian tablets locate lo-cate ' Eden in the Persian Gulf. Either the gulf sank afterwards or It was on an island the location of Which la unknown. The Sumerian tablet!- are about as indefinite about C9 ture to read Sumerian. Even the professors backed down when asked to read what was written on the stone. That is why Professor Larigdon was called in. Langdon made two trips to America to read the inscriptions. They were in a fair state of preservation, preser-vation, despite the fact they were older than the time of the Mosaic law and the Mosaic imoks of the Bible. Lantcdon thought the tablet.? would be of grea( value, however, LK Aavant was handed down several I Wceks ago In Philadelphia after H I Ihe I Sumerian tablets In the pos; i tnc university of Pennsylvania. I In the Bible Noah is credited with keeping the human rao all T buddies """ :"'k ;U1(1 h' a , -ml the location of the Garden of Eden the Mosaic: account. The Sumerian tablets were brought to America und placed In the University of Pennsylvania museum mu-seum where they were looked upon by students as so much junk. The students there could read English, some could read German, French, Spanish, Italian. Latin. Creek and even Sanskrit, but none would ven- V I v'- k'. ' - ' ' ."..'" '. : 'fC':& -L' - ;$ - . v't ' ' v if 'JiitsvsiS 'i-jfo ' - . because people in those early times did not write ordinary stuff like odes to the moon or lines to their ladles. Print paper was out of style and the publishing trust bad the monopoly on all the chisels used in cutting hieroglyphics in stone. Langdon could read the language With difficulty. He stumbled along like a Schoolboy who had to slop to be posted every' once In a while on his Latin lines. In Sumerian every word is engraved. The ancient an-cient Sumerian people had no handv thing like an alphabet to combine into a variety of words. That accounts for the professor's hard task. NOAH REFERRED TO AS TAG TUG, THE DIVINE. Noah Is referred to in the document docu-ment as Tagtug, the divine. In Professor Langdon'B translation he says that after the Deluge Tagtug bved In the Garden of Eden. Ie named the trees nnd was allowed to cat of all the trees except o-.e. The account docs not tell if '.no fruit of that tree contain d deadly microbes or not. It does tell, that Tagtug ato of it and became the prey of mortality. All other human beings became the prey of disease and wo no longer long-er hea- of persons becoming 90") years old or more as is related in early Bible history. Professor Langdon's report on the translation follows; "The tablet, which contains a re-markablo re-markablo account of the early Sumerian Su-merian theology concerning the origin Of human culture, has been almost completely restored by the museum authorities. We have here a finely written six-column tablet of about 2 40 lines, most of which are entirely intact. Written In liturgical style, this composition deserves the rank of an epic, for it handles the most profound pro-found problems which concerns humanity. It begins by describing the land of primeval bliss, which it locates at Dllmun, an Island In the Persian Giilf, and probablj connected con-nected With the mainland In pre- historic times. "In this paradise dwelled mankind, man-kind, whom rsintud, the creatress With the help of Enlil, had creatt Q "After the Deluge this King is called Tagtug the divine, a namo which Is most probably rendered into Semitic by Muhu ("God's wrath is appeased,) And this Tag-tug Tag-tug lives- in a garden, Is himself a gardener, and the wise Enki reveals re-veals unto him wisdom. Tho Greek historians, too. pros' pro-s' re this legend In the story of Oannes, who rose from the Persian Quit to teach inn wisdom in primeval times. And so Tagtug, as in the Hebrew history of Noah, plants a garden, names the trees and plants and Is permitted to eat of all except the cassia tree. "The cassia, In Sumerian documents, docu-ments, is the herb of healing per excellence as well as In Semitic and Gretk medicine Tho legends in regard re-gard to it probably told of its being the plant which bestowed absolute Immortality. Of this plant Tagtug was not to eat, for thereby he would attain eternal life. 'Mankind, until this time, possessed pos-sessed extreme longevity, but not Immortality. Tagtug, on his own initiative, lakes and eaLs. Ho is cursed by Xintud and becomes a prey to disease and ordinary mortality. mor-tality. Thus, according to tho original orig-inal Sumerian story, Noah, the survivor sur-vivor of the flood, Is tho one who cats from the Tree of Life. No woman Is concerned in this disobedience, disobe-dience, which resulted in our loss of perfect health, peace and count-leps count-leps years." WOMAN VINDICATED. AITD1 0.001) YEARS. Ionian fs vindicated after 6,000 m 1 ' 1 ' 1 M" ' " yar. Th account of prehislolc man as told of In the Mosaic story puts the Creation at 4000 B. C. Adam first was ereatod. Following Follow-ing the creation of Adam, Eve was i rested from one of his ribs as he slept. Then camo their dlsobedl-dhCe. dlsobedl-dhCe. Th serpent limbed the tree of th forbidden fruit and handed an apple to Eve, "Eat of it," said tin- serperd "You will then have understanding understand-ing eyes and will be able to know everything. You will be gods instead in-stead of men." The fruit looked good. Eve ate of it and gave half to Adam. The wrath of God descended Into the Garden of Eden and Adam pleaded that this woman, whom God had given him had fed him the apple. From that day to this, man has blamed woman for his short-comings. Before the eallnc of the upple Adam and Eve had lived in tho garden without toll. Now their condition was changed. They were thrown into a land j where food did not grow sponLun- comes the Sumerian account and places it on the same plane as tho Hebrew account He even gives It the precedence because tho Mo.sMe. account waa written about the year 1500 B. C, while tho Sumerian i -count Is a thousand years older and perhaps more. A similarity in accounts ' lha Creation Is found In all the writings writ-ings of the people of Western Asia. The Hebrew account la very much like all the other ancient Asiatic accounts. It must bo remembered that tho Hebrews are of a race very closely related to the Sumer-lans. Sumer-lans. Sumer Is In the valley of the C-Euph C-Euph rates. The Hebrew history traces their origin to Abraham, who migrated to Canaan from the valley of the Euphrates and doubtless doubt-less took with him many of tho stories of the origin of man, which he bad beard when a child In the tents of his fathers. PAINTINGS by Dore of early Biblical events. At top The formation of Eve from the rib of Adam. Upper right Adam and Eve driven out of the Garden Gar-den of Eden, after partaking I of the forbidden fruit. Below Be-low The Deluge. Lower right Noah cursing Ham and condemning him a nil his descendants to eternal servitude. COUsly. They had to labor for their food and death overtook them. The serpent was cursed for his pari In the affair. Before that time It is supposed he walked erect like a man The wrath of God crushed him so he had to crawl on his belly. He assumed a hideous shape, so women would be afraid of him. There is no more loathsome animal than the serpent and none more feared and hated. Even the animals ani-mals are afraid of it. They kill It when they are able. In the Mosaic account the Delude came many years after the expulsion expul-sion from tho garden. After the Deluge Noah's children inherited the earth. The lived together in me community until God sent the i onfttffton of tonprues and scattered them aTl ov- the face of the earth. It was while butlxug the Tower of Babel that God sent 45? confusion of tongues. The tower was to enable en-able man to reach heaven. One t. tho masons yelled to his hod carrier car-rier to bring him up some mortar. The mason, however, suddenly whs bereft of his ordinary manner of speech. Instead of talking the common language ho had been stricken with the 'confusion or tongues." Ho shouted In Sanskrit. The hod carrier answered back in ancient Egyptian. Finally they took their families and moved away. They could not understand each other because of the loss of the common language and could not work together. Centuries after Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt. At that point history begins. What went before is In the dim dawn of earth, known as the prehistoric period. Our only knowledge of that period pe-riod is In the religious writing of the people. The Hebrew writings are in the first book of Mose. and arc found In the Bilde. Even biblical bib-lical students disagree as to the authorship of the flrst book of the Bible. While it Is classed as a book of Moses, some writers contend con-tend it was written by numerous writers. ' Other authorities declare it was handed down by God to Moses. Some believe in the literal adherence to the account. Others say It is allegorical and is no more authentic than the literature of other peoples. Prof. Langdon holds to this latter lat-ter iew. He therefore readily wel- ranlde hi America. In low of the stoppage of the fr-ierht supply of cyanide and cyanogen compounds and its effect not only on the i :t r.n.-i km of gold f and silver in tho minln.,- industry, but also its effect on many electrical and chemical industries, Baxeres de AlSUgaray, In an article in the Mining Min-ing md Engineering "World, discusses dis-cusses tho source of the raw prod-net? prod-net? and the possibility of manufacturing manu-facturing It in this country. A considerable quantity of cyanides cyan-ides escape from the blast furnaces, fur-naces, as fumes and flue dust, from Which large amounts of potassinui cyanide can be recovered by methods analagOUS to those in prac-tleP prac-tleP to purify g.. Cyanide is pre--duced not only in Iron blast furnaces, fur-naces, but also and In large quantities quanti-ties in copper and lead furnaces and In a general way in any metallur- I gical apparatus wherever the nitro- pH gen of tho blast acta on hot carbon f mixed with alkalies. Fumes and gases Issuing trom these producers ran he condensed and the cyanide contents separated therefrom. In the purification of coal gas by hydrated iron oxide, large amounts of cyanide are continually obtained; this has been an old-time supply. The extension of the by-product eoke ovens, replacing the wasteful bee-hive ovens constitute an abundant abun-dant (source of nitrogen products from which larae quantities of cyanides cya-nides can be obtained. The beet sugar Industry Is another an-other w ell-know n source of cyanide. Which Is obtained as one of the byproducts by-products by the treatment of residual resid-ual vinasse. Formerly most 0f the potassium rerrocyanlde from which other cyanogen compounds were made was obtained by fusion of dry refuse anlmatter at a red heat, together with potassium carbonate and iron filings. About 3.000 tons of cya-mrirr cya-mrirr e?eey early produced bv this method. K. fcu. Qf hoofs horns and scrap leatner and tho competition of synthetic cyanides have relegated this old method. Cyanides can also be made from atmospheric nitrogen; bj synthesis V between carbon dinulphidu and ammonia; am-monia; by ammonia, charcoal and alkali, and from sulphocyanides. There are aeve-al hundred patents pat-ents (many of them In operation') which have been applied for during the last twenty years, relating to the preparation of cyanides, from nitrides, etc. The enumeration of the more practical methods for the preparation prepara-tion of cyanides by these various methods would be too long. These brief notes show plainly the abundance abun-dance of materials which he havo within our reach, to create an independent inde-pendent national industry. which could not only produce all the cyanide cya-nide required to supply our home Industries, but also to reverse our former trading practice of Importing Import-ing cyanides by becoming export- f ers of our excess of production to other sections of our continent, to Australasia, South Africa, and to the eastern gold producing coun tricy. The Patient Angler. Boy Bin 'ere long, mister? An-&Tef An-&Tef About an hour. Boy You ain't caught anything, 'ave yer " Angler No. not yet, my lad. Boy Ah, I thought so. as there wasn't A jvater In that pond till all that raip last night. London Opinion. |