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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29

Bible is carried into the camel-hair
tents of the wandering Bedouin Arabs
of Syria, and if these men are not able
to read classical Arabic then they
have Bibles in their own dialect for
which they pay-coined money being
unknown to them-in butter, eggs,
milk, horns, and brass ornaments.
Steamship and train are but the
first step in transportation. Then
come little sailing vessels among the
coral islands of the Pacific; canoes
and households for Indo-China and the
west coast of Africa: bullocks and OK
carts in South Africa; dogs and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29
New Banks Are Chartered.

State Banking Commissioners Bergh
has issued charters to the Bristol
State bank, of Bristol, Kenosha coun-
ty, and the Citizens State bank, OF
Gillett, Oconto county. L. Henry Zaun
is president of the first named bank
and Frank j. Martin president of the
latter bank. Commissioner Bergh also
approved an amendment to the arti-
cles of incorporation of the Westby
State bank, of Westby, Vernon coun-
ty, increasing it's capital from $4,000
to $4,000 Articles of Incorporation
of the State Bank of owen, Clark coun-
ty, were approved. The capital of the
owen bank is $4,000, and it's incorpor-
ators are A. r. owen, J. G. Owen, K.
A. Owen, w. G. Turfts, J. F. Hughes,
H. B. Crane, J. J. Selmer, w. G. Roy
er, N. H. Withee, and ]. P. Werlich.
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State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Madison.

Madison.-"The Wisconsin apple
crop this year is excellent" says Sec
rotary Cranefield of the State Horti-
cultural society. THE apples are bet
ter than usual, and the yield, espe-
cially in some particular places, is
astonishing. The price on the popular
winter fruit should be low this fall
but of course it won't be.
with the committee appointed to
look after the orchards, l visited the
experimental orchard at Wausau a
short time ago. The crop there is
good. Five hundred seventy-four trees
are 1,400 bushels of apples. This yield
in southern Wisconsin would not be
considered large, but up there it is
certainly wonderful. When it is said
that the trees have been planted but
ten years, our reason for rejoicing
may be understood.
"To show the people of the state
what sort of fruit we are raising up
there we are to have an exhibit at
the state fair in Milwaukee. We will
not merely show three or four good
apples on plat, but we will have
apples in bushel baskets and barrels.
We do not have to pick out three or
four of a special kind in order to make
display that will be an honor to the
Wausau orchard. This sort of a dis
play has never been shown at the fair
before and I think it will cause much
comment. While in the north the COM
mittee decided to tile-drain the or
chard at Popular, Douglas county.
The ground there is a heavy clay and
this method of securing proper drain
age had to be chosen. The improve
ment will cost several hundred dol
lars"
That Wisconsin is not the only
state in the union rejoicing this year
in big apple crops is proven by the
reports that come from the east.
Michigan and eastern apple states
report excellent crops, although com
mission merchants are trying hard to
spread the fruit-crop failure story
said Mr. Cranefeld. 'Tt is true that
the apples in Missouri, Arkansas and
those other states down there are a
failure, but the states from which we
receive our winter apples are happy
over the best crops they have had in
years.
1T is certain that there will be
many apples on the market later on,
but whether they will be cheap in
price is something that none but a
commission man who is on the inside
can tell"
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Punctured His EIoquence.

A lawyer in Johnstown, N. Y, while
defending little boy who had been
apprehended in the act of making a
surreptitious entrance under the fair
grounds fence, drew for the jury a
most pathetic picture of the prisoners
poor old widowed mother with the
tears streaming down her face and
her gray head bowed in sorrow at the
thought of her little boy being incar-
cerated." The youthful offender cut
in at this point with "Please, sir, Mr..
Lawyer, my mother amt a widow"
"Shut up, darn you," said the lawyer.
I'm trying this case, not you. Law
Notes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29
PLAIN TALKS WITH WOMEN.
Life Is to Many Persons Matter of
Sacrifice.

Is life a matter of sacrifice, asks
Louise Satterthwaite in the Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
Many very worthy people, having
gone through life and endured their
share of its trials and misfortunes, at
tune their minds to the sombre key,
and go softly the rest of their days;
subdued and depressed, they dare not
lift their eyes above the earth level of
their sorrows; patient, 1t is true, but
undeniably mournful, they round out
the years of their pilgrimage.
But bounding youth knows naught
of this submission, and to make it
kiss the rod, so to speak, when to it
no rod is visible, far or near, is to
breed up a spirit of Impotence, not to
say revolt.
We often behold an elderly aunt
or perhaps a patient and devoted ia
tier or mother trying to make various
young hopefuls see that they are pris-
opers in a vale of tears, and that IN
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of such q Bible is necessarily full of
errors. More than $4,000 was recent
~ spent in correcting the Lifu Bible.
for the Loyalty islands, and it was
found necessary to make the enor-
nous number of $3.50 corrections.
But, after all, perhaps the most stir
ring tales of all are those recording
the adventures of the vast army of
pioneers that distribute the Bibles aft
er they are translated and shipped to
the local depots, in all the continents
of the world Bible cargoes go crash
ing on elephants through the jungles
of Africa and Siam; or on queer little
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Politicians Will GET BUSY.

State Fair week at Mi waukee, Sept.
IL, promises to be one Of unusual po-
litical activity among the political
leaders of the state. States are al
ready being formed for the battle dur
ing the fall of 1908 and the most bit
ter contests will be waged over the
seat in the United States senate and
the gubernatorial chair. Three states
said to be in formation are: For gov
ernor-John ]. Esch, La Crosse; for
United States senator-W. H. Hat
ten, New London. For governor
James o. Davidson, Soldiers Grove;
for United States senator-W. d. Con-
nor. For GOVERNOR. e. McGovern or
Sherburn Becker, of Milwaukee; for
United States SENATOR. L. Lenroot,
Superior.
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Labor Day Proclamation.

TN this favored land there should
be no occasion for any but the most
friendly relations between the work
man and his employer" says Gov.
Davidson in a proclamation issued by
him designating September as Labor
day. 1--WE are" he continues, "all
American citizens, equal in political
rights and the rule of live and let
live should be ever present in the
minds of those who work and those
who employ. Let Labor day mark the
coming together for better future
and wider opportunity for all those
whose brain and Drawn make for state
and national prosperity" The gov
ernor recommends that all establish
ments in the state employing labor be
closed on Labor day and that employ
ers and workmen meet in friendly as
ISOLATION and discuss in fraternal
spirit the interests Of capital and
labor.
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and financed from headquarters,
where editorial subcommittee COM
posed of eminent pathological experts
meet every month. In one year such
a committee will have matters before
it in 200 different languages! In fact
the diversity of the worlds speech is
a staggering thing when one goes into
it. Last year the Scriptures were sold
in 20 different tongues in the Austrian
Empire, and so in RUSSIA
Our hundreds of thousands of poly
glot immigrants are met on the very
threshold of the Land of Liberty and
a Bible is put into their hands in their
own tongue, whether it be Greek or
Magyar, Polish or Japanese, Gaelic or
Croat, Arabic or Chinese. There are
scores of languages into which the BIZ
bic has been done that you never
heard of. Aside from the translations
into Cherokee and Choctaw, one runs
ones eye in bewilderment down the
list, taking in such dialects as Ruk
and POnape, Dikele John, Samogit, Wis
ayam, Llocano, Bicol, Pangasinan, Ia
galog, Arrawack and Sheetswa!
Forced to Change Phrases.
In a great number of cases an en-.
tire literature has to be formed and
a language reduced to writing before
anything can be done at all. And
there are difficulties which you or |
would never suspect. Thus when
translating the New Testament into
Eskimo the phrase Lamb of God"
had to be rendered Little Dog" 9TH
erwise it would have been entirely
meaningless to the little fur-clad men
who have never seen a sheep!
And of course there is no thought
of profit. Our Bible society sells a we'll
made Gospel in his own tongue to
Congo cannibal for the equivalent of
2 cents; New Testament for 5, and
complete Bible for Is cents. All kinds
of money are taken in exchange.
ranging from ivory tusks to a basket
of bread-fruit, few leopard skins. or
even baby camel.
Long before Tibet was opened by
the British, the New Testament was
being printed in Tibetan at Ghoom.
high up in the Himalayas, and carried
back and forth to Lhassa by Hindu
and Buddhist traders. Only Abyssinia
and Nepal are now closed to the Bible
army; but it is thought that the old
Emperor Menelik at least will soon
capitulate. At all events, he recently
sent a magnificent pair of elephants
tusks to the British Bible house in
London, with a f1owery letter in Am
haric from 1.-THE Conquering Lion of
Judah, Menelik the Second, Emperor
of Ethiopia by the Will of Cod"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29

"a pain in the stomach-what could
be simpler and more innocent than a
daily stomach ache? Yet this COM
monplace pain is often the danger sig
nal of cancer.
Excessive thirst and a huge appe-
tite are signs that on a vacation we
welcome joyously. Yet they are both
too frequently the danger signals that
tell us of the advent Of the incurable
disease called diabetes.
"And suppose your wife should
awake Some morning and find every
wrinkle gone from her face-tbe
crows feet gone, the lines across the
forehead gone, the lines about the
mouth gone. She would give a cry
of joy, she would sit down and writs
a testimonial for the massage cream
that she had rubbed into her skin
before retiring. But, alasl her joy
would soon turn to grief, for the dis.
appearance of ones wrinkles is the
sign that one has the loathsome and
hopeless disease called seleroderma.
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Fatal Storm Spread Ruin.

Reports from southern and north
western Wisconsin indicate that Sc
we're storms have passed over those
sections. William Cannonburg, farm
eY near Kenosha, was killed in the
presence of his wife in a barn near
his home. He was on his way home
and was forced to take refuge from
the rain in the barn. His wife was
Frustrated. Lightning struck several
residences at Augusta. At Menomo-
ME it is reported that 80 buildings
were struck by lightning In Dunn
COUNT.
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JUDGE Seaman Is Called.

Judge w. H. Seaman, of Sheboygan,
will be one Of three judges to sit as
court of appeals on the famous Chi
cago street railway reorganization suit
in a special session to be held at Chi
cago on September 4. On the decision
of these three judges depends whether
the Chicago street railway system is
to be reconstructed at once or whether
prolonged litigation will follow. JUS
tice Brewer of the United States SUI
preme court will be the presiding
Judge, and the other judge will be Judge
Baker.
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Horrible Example.

my DEAR" said Mrs. Strongmind, II
want you to accompany me to the
town hall tomorrow evening"
what for?' queried the meek and
lowly other half of the combine.
Il am to lecture on the Dark Side
of Married Life" explained Mrs. s.,
"and 1 want you to sit on the plat
form and pose as one of the illustra-
%iouc -
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Railroad Commission Hearing.

The state railroad commission had
a hearing on the application of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad company
for rehearing on the orders of the
commission requiring the company to
continue it's service on the Goodrich
branch in Marathon county and to
improve it's service from Stevens
Point to Portage. The commission did
not announce a decision in either
case. The company does not believe
it should be compelled to maintain
regular service on its Goodrich
branch
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en- attacked by Kurdish brigands, or
robbed in overcrowded khans, where
he has perhaps stayed night or two,
delayed by the terrible roads and brOk-
en- bridges. In Siam and the Laos
states at this moment the Rev. John
Darlington is travelling on elephants
and through devious waterways by
boat, circulating the Scriptures in re-
mote markets; in waits or temples,
where the silver bells tinkle from on
high; in opium dens and gambling
houses, too, and remote villages,
whose inhabitants live in pile-built
houses, or in trees in case of attack
by hostile tribes.
Turning for a moment to the far
stretching Philippine group, we find
the Rev. Mr.. Milloy almost hewing his
way through impossible tropical
growths, haranguing amazed crowds
in fluent Tagalog at fiestas and cock
fights, and selling them the Scriptures
in their own tongue.
In the interior of Cuba travels Senior
Torres, an old and tried Bible porter
whose adventures would fill another
book. Once, on coming back from Mo-
ron after having visited 6S towns, vii
lagos, and hamlets, Senior Torres sail
boat was capsized, and lashing him
self to the mast for four days he and
his little crew oscillated between life
and death. Another agent, reporting
from the interior of Bolivia, where
there are no roads at all and wheeled
conveyances are impossible, carried
his Bibles 1000 miles on muleback,
while another covered $4,000 miles in
fourteen months, selling S,573 books
for $2,353.
Paying for Bible in Eggs.
One of the most interesting work
ers is Mr. Archibald Forder, who from
his headquarters in Jerusalem, car
ries Bibles to the Arab tribes east of
the Jordan, and in the Arabian des-
ert. They pay for the book in eggs.
From Bangkok, in Siam, we hear from
the Rev. John Darlington, who works
the whole of this remote empire. 1t
must have been awkward when one of
his buffaloes, hitched to a cart con-
tanning Testaments in Siamese and
Laos, suddenly bolted and scattered
boxes and beds along the swampy
track for half mile.
Wolves Ate Packhorse.
On one occasion a native assistant
of Larson's was set upon by robbers,
who beat him and took away his horse
and saddle as well as his pack of
books. Larson bought another animal
in Urga for % taels-about $19. But
this one the wolves ate where he was
tethered outside our camel-hair tent"
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DELEGATES Named.

Gov. Davidson appointed the follow
ing persons to represent Wisconsin at
the fifteenth National Irrigation con-
gress at Sacramento, CAL, Sept. 2 to Z:
Sherman G. Spur, Milwaukee; Sena-
tor A. M. Stondall, State Forester E..
M. Griffith, A. ]. Cobban, A. E. Proud
fit, Attorney Frank w. Lucas and A.
A. Stelting, all of Madison; Thomas F..
McDermitt, Rhinelander; w. w. Pat
ton, Chippewa Falls; Martin Pattison
and w. w. Strickland, Superior, and
DR.. Herbert III. Haskell, Oregon.
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llamas over the great passes Of the
Andes between Bolivia and Peru; or
again on the heads of cannibal coolies
around the base of the Mountains of
the Moon, near the source of old Faith
er Nile; on camel-back across the
burning deserts Of Nubia and Arabia
the Stony; or in flat-bOttomed boats
towed by man-hauled bamboo cables,
through the stupendous gorges of the
.Yang-tse.
The men who do this work are
trained explorers who often fall by the
way victims to wild beasts, disease,
hostile savages, and the forces of ma
ture ranging from lightning to tenn
pestuous seas. The American Bible
society alone employs four or five hun
dred white men in savage or remote
lands, literally from China to Peru.
These in turn employ great numbers
of native colporteurs who travel in
land upon waterways, over mountains,
and through forests, with their packs
on their backs or with strange cara
vans of laden men or beasts.
Brave All Dangers.
The experiences of the Reys. Bear
and Turner in the Philippines would
alone fill a volume of varied adven-
ture. Night and day on one tour they
travelled through almost impossible
sWamps il clumsy OK carts, and bare
w eScaDed drowning more than once
while descending swift rapids on
rudely built raft.
In South America, from the Equator
to Cape Horn, the Bible carriers are
on the march, and the political revo-
lutions, wars, storms, poisonous rep
only increase their enthusiasm. The
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croun Of ST. Mary,s Churches.

There are in London round dozen
churches named after st. Mary, near
" all of them belonging to a single
group closely packed together, show
ing that they all came from the one
great parish of Aldermary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29
In SeIf-Defense.

Gabriel-Say, what did you let that
pestiferous party in for?
st. Peter (wearily)-He used to be
an insurance agent and either had to
let him in or be talked to death.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29
Kronshaae Made Regent.

Attorney Theodore Kronshagt, Of
Milwaukee, was appointed by Gov.
Davidson as a member of the state
board of normal school regents to
succeed Attorney John H. Roemer.
who resigned to become a member
of the state railroad commission. The
appointment is for term ending the
first Monday in February, 1912. Lieut..
j. o. Green and Attorney Paul Trait,
both of Whitewater and both former
members of the state board of nor
NAL school regents, called on the gov
ernor and discussed the appointment
of a member of the board from this
city Lieut.. Green resigned to accept
an appointment in the war depart
ment and was succeeded by Mr.. Trait.
The latter has now resigned because
he intends to move from Whitewater
to Fort Atkinson. Attorney II. o. Ham
ilton is being urged for the appoint
ment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29

II N8MG that by tremendous mar
geO gin. It takes a tremen-
Is dously successful novel to
sell 10000 or $4,000 copies
in a year, whereas this record
is easily beaten by the Bible in
d single day the world over! Last
year 100000 copies, translated in
TO a vast babel of nearly 500 tongues,
were scattered broadcast over the
earth.
The American and British Bible so
cieties led the way with nearly 9,OOO,-
900 between them. 1t is hard to realize
the magnitude of vast work.
John Williams was 20 long years
among the savages of Tahiti in the Pa
cific before he could produce even the
New Testament in the islanders own
tongue. And old Bishop Schereschew-
sky spent one-third of his long life do
ing the Bible into the Easy Wen-li,
a dialect of Chinese, that opened up
Christian truths to 70000,000 of the
Celestial people.
Then there was the romance of Hi
ram Bingham. This man went out to
the Gilbert group in mid-Pacific, and
cast himself among South Sea canni-
balls as a Bible translator, with no
written language at all, and no one to
teach him. Day by day, this pioneer
gathered words of common usage from
the natives lips and spent years COM
pairing and verifying his written notes.
TransIating for CannibaIs.
At last he was able to put the Lords
Prayer and a simple Psalm into the
Gilbert tongue. Later on came the Cos
pels, and SO on. But the first edition
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Expenses of Lobbyist.

Attorney Arthur w. Fairchild, OF
Milwaukee, has filed statement de-
claring that his expenses as legisla-
tive lobbyist of the Wisconsin Gas as
ISOLATION were $32.69.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29
Used onIv in United States.

The electric chair for executors is
used only in the United States.
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SCRIPTURES READ
IN EVERY TONGUE
TRANSACTIONS OF HOLY WRIT
No Labor or Peril Too Great for Those Engaged
in Sowing the Bible.

From China to Peru an Army of Trained Explorers Are
Needed to Reach the Readers of the Nations-Many a
Romance Might Be Written en- the Work of Circulating
the Worlds "BeSt Seller"
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Meyer Heads Rate Board.

WCyCI ElCdQS tAdLG
Prof. Balthasar H. Meyer has been
elected chairman of the railroad COM
mission of Wisconsin. He succeeds At
torney John Barnes of Rhinelander,
who resigned from the commission aft
er the 2-cent passenger fare law was
passed. Attorney John H. Roemer OF
Milwaukee was appointed as a mem
Der of the commission to succeed Mr..
Barnes. The three members of the
commission choose one of their num-
Der as chairman. The commission in
creased the salaries of three of its
clerks. John F. Hogan, tariff clerk,
and Cecil e. Schneider, statistician,
were raised from $1,000 to $500 each,
and j. Edward Usher, stenographer.
from $1,000 to $1,000. The commission
also granted a certificate of public
convenience and necessity" to the Wis
consin and Northern Minnesota Rail
road company for the construction of a
short line of road in and near the city
of Superior. Attorney G. II. Crown
hart appeared for the company.
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Money Paid Lobbyists.


The Milwaukee Northern Railway
company has filed a statement in tie
Office of the secretary of state declaS-
ing that it paid former State Senator
G. G. Rogers of Milwaukee $1,096.62
for legislative services and $25S.9S for
expenses; Vice President T. w. Walk
er of Milwaukee, $566.51; Attorney &c.
H. Bottum of Milwaukee, $166.75; and
Attorney f. G. Winkler of Milwaukee,
SIS, making total of $2,16S.26. The
Wisconsin Association of Wholesale
Liquor Dealers of Milwaukee filed a
statement declaring that it paid ST.
073.90 to legislative agents for serv-
ices and expenses. OF this sum $3.50
was paid to Attorney w. j. McElroy of
Milwaukee for services and $3.50 for
expenses and $3.50 to Attorney James
I. Drought of Milwaukee for serv-
ices and $SS.15 for expenses. Irving
P. Lord of Waupaca, representative of
the Waupaca Electric Light and Rail-
way company, filed statement de-
claring that his expenses were $3.50.
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HEN all is said Il Is the
Bible that is the worlds
best selling book"-and
that by a tremendous mar
gin. 1t takes a tremen-
dously successful novel to
caII Al mn ar 50 0O0 conies