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wherein he is most 1amentably rlisin-
formed. The editors OF the great mag
azine. on the other hand. are scholar-
ly men who know that the advertise
ment. is a gross distortion of fact. Yet
there 1t is, drawing revenue for both
parties and reaching that end by per-
versions of the truth which any scholar
could correct. but which ara chosen
as a fit instrument for turning these
volumes into cash. Does this illustrate
the superior ethical standards of the
magazine as compared with the daily
press?
Now. let us look at the facts.
A firm has bought up a publishers
remainder or bankrupt stock of this
work. which runs to 10 volumes. How
shall said firm get rid of their pur-
chase? How? BY advertisingl BY catch
ing the peoples eyel BY appealing to
the peoples curiosityi Hence the ad :
vertisement carries startling picture
and the headline. THE Chaldean. Story
of the Flood, Dug Up from the Ruins
of Ancient Chaldea." The picture is an
artists dream of the incidence Of death
in the deluge-a Bengal tigress with j
cub In her mouth, an assortment of
white babies. with her own, upon a
rock, beside which unfortunate human
adults swim nliracously, more than
half out the water. l do not suppose,
though it is at least possible, that per-
sons may be found who will conclude
that tho picture itself was dug up
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TRICKSTERS-By George Eaves, D. D.

himself. the man Peri-Napishtim. who Of
fered them sacrifices, The gods also
agreed to elevate the hardy mariner to
their celestial abode at the mouth Of the
two rivers
Now that is the merest sketch of long
and sarrulous story, told by the chal-
dean or Babylonian Noah to the Chal-
dean or Babylonian enoch, while both sit
among the gods.
And this, says our drummer, seeking
trade. Is "the same in every detair' as
Moses account In Genesis! l say nothing
of the impudence of asserting that there
is any Moses account" a matter about
which SO much has been said. Whatever
may be the origin of the biblical story. 1t
is much nearer the truth to say that the
Chaldean differs from 1t in every detail
than to assert that 1t is the same.
Similar insolence is behind the state
ment that this Gilgamish poem was
written thousands of years before his
(Moseso version appeared" How does
the drummer know? 1t is at least con-
ceivable that the simple and fairly coher-
ent story given In the Bible is from q
much earlier stratum of tradition thar
the Chaldean epic. At any rate its differ
ences are quite fundamental, as every
student recognizes. The names are dif
ferent; the theology is different; the con
ception of the relation between the gods
is one of conflict, rather than unity; tho
preaching of Noah or Peri-Napishtim II
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MY OLD STAGE SCRAP BOOKING. by Dr. W. E. Evans

been reached by this boy actor in the
balcony scene, and when Romeo says:
See, how she leans her cheek upon her
hand
o, that were glove upon that hand,
That 1 might touch that cheek"
every unmarried woman in the audience
said, MY cheeks ready for you"
In very short time Master Betty had
made money enough and retired from the
stage to go to school, while yet mere
boy. Later he returns 10 the footlights,
but the old rapture in his audiences could
not be awakened. BY the time he was
2s he reached the conclusion that he was
a mere commonplace actor and retired
from the stage forever. He lived until
1874 A writer said of him; "He died in
London on August "a, 1874, having out
lived himself for half century and his
own fame for 70 years.
AS have given some estimates of Bet
ty as a child actor, I shall also quote the
opinions that were generally current as
he acted when young man. 1T would
have been unfair to have given a decided
opinion about Betty on his first perform
ance, but after he had acted Hamlet it
might be said without any scruple that
he was the worst actor that ever came
before the public as first-class actor
Says another, Cowell who wrote
Thirty Years Among the Players"
Betty was of my age, within a month;
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not seen him for years, nor do l know
where he is at this time; but I have fol-
lowed him with interest through dramatic
newspapers.
All this Is PREDATORY; for I am about to
call attention to a boy actor who was
the most remarkable and successful prodi-
gy that ever stood before the footlights
ty, and he was born in 1871, in England
When he was about II years old he was
taken to see Mrs. Siddons play one of her
favorite characters, and then and there
the passion to become an actor was
awakened. At u he was advertised to
appear as Osman, in the old tragedy of
Zara. Although 1t was his first appear
ance he was neither embarrassed nor af-
fiicted with stage fright. His memory
was perfect. The applause was thunder
Gus, and people predicted that he would
outshine Garrick and everybody else that
had ever acted. A few months later he
appeared in Dublin as Young Norval, and
from there he made triumphal tour of
the principal cities Of Scotland and Eng
land. At 13 he played at Drury Lane
theatre in London, and the old city went
wild. The theatre could not seat half the
people who tried to enter it. The crush at
the doors was beyond description. A
number of men, women and children
were killed when the doors were thrust
open. The money taken at the box Of
flee was unprecedented. Even Mrs Sid
dons played to empty seats at the rival
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from the ruins of ancient Chaldea.'
Yes, even that is possible.
The pearl of fiction, however, Is con-
tanned In a precious bivalve sentence
bivalve because, though stated as d
question. It. implies an assertion Thus
DO you know that there has been dug
up from the ruins of old Chadea a
complete story of the flood--the same
in every detail as Moses account In
Genesis--and that 1t was written
thousands OF years before his version
appeared" The answer implied is
''You don't know 1t; but 1t is a fact
And yet 1t Is not fact, but a most
ignorant and confusing misstatement
OF fact.
Still further and most curiously, the
books which this corrupt advertise
ment is intended to sell really deserve
connected with vulgar or sordid mis-
representation The facts are romantic
and wonderful enough; the selection
really remarkable.
By this time every boy and girl who
goes through high school learns some
thing of the discovery by George Smith
published about 1872 OF a 'Babylonian
Account of the Deluge," which was
later followed by his "Chaldrean Ac-
count of the Deluge," published in 1875
These documents proved what Josephus
and others had long ago told us OF
such a Babylonian tradition. Now, near
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ly 40 years later. comes this blatant
drummer to tell us that the story has
been dug up" as though some new
discovery had been madel
1t was in fact dug up by Smith or
Layard more than a generation ago,
and belonged to the famous library of
Assur- -bani-pal, wlfSse scribes copied
it from originals which they discovered
among the archives of an Accadian
temple, already of great antiquity in
or about the year $50 b. C. 1t is also
true that some fragments of writings,
as old perhaps as those originals, have
been found containing sections of those
same old Deluge poems. This takes us
back not less than three or four thous-
and years before the birth of Christ.
But these fragments are not covered
by the present publication
In the next place, complaint must
be lodged against this drummer of the
book trade in the fact that the editor
has given no word of guidance as to
the literary relations of his selected
pieces. serving as clue to their his
torical meaning. For the scholar this
omission is of no particular moment,
but to the unlearned person, with no
hand to guide him, it makes the COM
pilation nearly valueless. To most peo-
pie the terms Chaldea, Babylonia, AS
syria, mean one and the same thing, a
most wages and obscure geographical
idea. Set such persons to reading the
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Chaldean Account of the Deluge, with
out a word of explanation, and you
help them to no intellig gible conclusion
whatsoever
The reader must learn that all these
Chaldean and Babylonian stories are
parts of a deluge epic. or cycle of epic
poems. Just as King Arthurs Round
Table or the Search for the Holy Grail
were subjects of a cycle of poems and Leg
ends in ancient Europe, so was the de-
luge story in Mesopotamia and adjacent
regions. The difference is that the deluge
cycle goes back to the Accadians, 5000 or
1000 years B. O.. while the Arthuran cycle
belongs to ancient British people, and
has been modified greatly within the
Christian era.
The Chaldean account of the deluge Is
in fact the eleventh book of long epic
with secondary hero, Uta-Na pishti or
Perl Napishtim. Gilgamish is a man who
has been elevated among the gods, and he
is astonished to find Peri-Napishtim also
there. The latter tells how some of the
gods plotted to destroy his city of Shurip-
pax with all the inhabitants thereof by
means of cyclone or flood, but that the
god Ea reused him, Peri-Napishtim, told
him to build floating house, lined and
coated with bitumen, and so to save HIM
self and family. He obeyed the instruc-
tons: the gods were indignant at his es-
cape from the disaster, but were pacified
by the joint efforts of the god Ea and
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1HAvE always had but scant interest
in those prodigies who are adver-
= tised as 'the boy preacher ''the boy
orator." and the like. I do not think
these phenomena are to be encouraged.
1t is usuasly hurtful to themselves, and
as a rule they accomplish but little good,
If any, and subsequently they drop into
oblivion and are lost from the world 8
activities at a time when normally they
could he of use among men. / know
man who began his stage life. for he was
an actor, by playing such characters as
abildy. He was only a boy, practically
a child. His father thought him a phe-
ilomenon of brilliant genius, and encour-
aged him to try the stage. He did. His
play bills notified the public that the 'in-
fant Edwin Booth" would play Hamlet
among them, etc. had known him for
years, and had known his father. 1 went
to see the "child actor" His impersona-
ton of the melancholy prince was, in
deed, good | went to him behind the
stage and congratulated him, as I could
do sincerely. For a few seasons the bril-
liant boy kept up his audiences, but then
a change came. He ceased TO be attrac-
tive and, finally, dropped from his height
of star characters to very minor parts,
which he played with only Indifferent
ability He Is ranked now with merely
the mass of actors, to his own and to his
fathers bitter disappointment. 1 have
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edge that an enthusiasm exceeding that
excited by Garriclz or Siddons was caused
by little boy of 13, the famous Master
Betty, and that his % nights playing
brought Sheridan nearly 10000 pounds re-
repts." Twenty thousand pounds, that
is, $780, 900, in 2S nights, and in those days.
too
William G. Macready, an actor, and the
son of an actor, in his "reminiscences
says: I'm subsequent engagements with
my father, we became playfellows off the
stage, and Betty was a boy with boys,
as full of spirits, fun and mischief as
any of his companions. though caressed.
fondled and idolized by peeresses and ac-
tually besieged for a mere glimpse Of him
by crowds at the hotel door. An instance
of the madness that ruled the hour was
given at Dunchurch, where he stopped to
dine and Sleep being prevented from act
ing at Coventry in Passion week, by
CORVALLIS, Bishop of Lichfield and Gov
entry. One of the leading families in the
county, who were ON their way to Gov
entry to see him act, We're stopped by the
news at Dunchurch. The lady begged
the landlord to get her a sight OF the
boy actor. The landlord being unwilling
to dislodge his patrons. suggested that
there was but one way that her wish
could be gratifed. Mr.. and Mrs. Betty
and their son were just going in to din
ner, and IL she chose to carry in one of
the dishes she could see him, but there
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was no other way, she was told. The
lady, very grateful in her acknowledge
ments, took the dish and made one of the
walters at the table. mention this as
one of the numerous anecdotes of his
popularity. The Prince of Wales made
him handsome presents. and, in short, he
engrossed all tongues
There was written sketch by T. Har-
rel, in 1905, in which description of the
boy was given. Master Betty was then
IA years old. Mr.. Harrel says. His fig
ure is slight, but elegant and extremely
youthful. He is not particularly tall for
his age, nor does he appear older than
the register OF his birth reports him to
be. His >complexion is fair. his eyes
blue, his face sweetly interesting, but not
exactly what might be called beautiful.
His action is graceful, chaste and varied
but not redundant. He appears to pos
sess a complete knowledge of stage bus
mess, treads the boads with firmness and
dignity; pays the most critical attention
to his brother actors; and, with the ex-
ception of Mr.. Kemble, Is the most per-
feet master of attitudes of any perform
er at the London theatres. Such a COM
bination of grace and elegance, consider
ing his youthful years, lives not in the
annals of the English stage"
Some of the old writers dwell with
much tenderness upon Betty's imperson-
alton of Romeo. The height of refined
taste in exquisite acting seems to have
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the entire number within the fort are
spared OF the thousand savages who as
saulted the fort $50 were killed.
1t has been said that Weatherford
sought to restrain his warriors from the
wanton bloodshed, but on the contrary
he was in the thick of the fray dealing
the deadliest blows, and by his example
inspiring his men to the utmost destruc-
ton. Than Weatherford, the whites never
had a more relentless and bloodthrsty
foe. His purpose was the extinction of
the whites and in this, his first battle, he
would teach them lesson OF savage war
fare that WOULD remind them of that
against which they had to contend. He
was as merciless a demon as was to be
found among the men of the forest. In
after years, when Weatherford saw that
his cause was lost and when he surren-
dered to General jackson and went to the
lower part of Monroe to live, there was an
effort made to create the impression of
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theatre. The King and Queen gave the
child actor an audience, and Parliament
adjourned to see him play Hamlet He
was said to embody in himself Cooke,
Kemble, Holman and Garrick." London
went mad over his Hamlet. Lords and la
dies and peers of the realm idolized him.
When he played Hamlet before one of
the most brilliant audiences before which
an actor ever appeared, many thought
that they had never seen the real Ham
let until then, though they had witnessed
the Hamlet of the greatest actors the
world had ever seen. Yet this boy took
up the play, memorized the text, studied
feet in the character, all in four daysl
Years were required to perfect Edwin
Booths Hamlet. But here is a mere child
accomplishing it all in four days. No
wonder that an old actor of national
fame and distinguished ability called
him "A wonderful boy, miracle of
beauty and grace
As the reader will see, he did not con-
fine himself to one or two characters
which he repeated constantly; but this
young "Roscius'' played Norval Romeo,
Hamlet. Richard III, Frederick dn Low
ers' Vows, Octavian, Rolla, Tanored,
Osman, Selim, Achmet. And all this
work of memory was achieved while he
was engaged in playing nightly to rap
tured throngs. Another annalist has left
this on record, Historians of the stage
must blush a little to have to acknowl-
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n HE confidence trick is too wide-
ly used in this fair land.
speak of it today as a means
of distributing books, a method of ad-
vertising and selling to the unwary lit
erature under false pretences. Who has
not known the pathetic results OF pub
lishers and their agents considering
the sacred things of knowledge and
art chiefly as device for extracting
dollars from tho American public? @,
that bonfire might be made of worth
less, antiquated works of reference
still advertised
It does not follow that all the books
go advertised are worthless books. 1
have in mind a number of excellent
works that have had the misfortune
to fall into the hands of the bargain
jobber, or. to issue through the hands
of cheap-jack sort of publisher. who
had no conception of the publisher as
high priest. There are also plain swind-
1ers. who ought to be arrested by the
postoffice department
am impelled to this discourse by
the three quarter page advertisement
In great popular magazine of set
of books containing reprints of we'll
These documents relate to comparative
religion, philosophy, the sciences and
other historical material. The writer
of the advertisement is perhaps per-
suaded that he speaks the truth;
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not mentioned: while one "detail'' is that
the ark is a 7-storied ''house" measuring
a cube of 100 cubits, divided in each story
into nine rooms, total of So rooms.
How well this agrees with Genesis let
any one with Bible say.
The whole science of Assyriology has
still many vacant places. 1t is not pos
sible to secure thoroughly trustworthy
translation of these ancient stories. but
assuming that we have fairly accurate
rendering of the epic, as the scribes or
that great patron of letters, Asur-bant-
pal, left it 2500 years ago. we may at
least ask, with sense of justice and
even of decency. that the drummer of
books put his hand upon his mouth. and
that the street fal1er handle not these
wonderful memorials of a vanished civil
lzation. The old command applies hero
also: Take thy shoes from off thy feet.
for the place where on thou standest 10
holy ground" Here the burning bush il
the flaming. miraculous, frafl bush OF
human life and literature. renewed and
unconsumed through all generations.
Here surely is one place from which We
may hope that the cheap jack publisher
will find 1t profitable to keep away. Tha
confidence IT, is In place. IL anywhere.
on race course, or possibly In a circus.
xisuthros and Ea, Athachasis and Peri
Napfshtim, "the remote" Noah und
Moses and Enoch, ought not to be made
participants In the passing OF bogus
| checks.