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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

Lastly we have adventurous F. A,
Larson, a Bible sub-agent in the Mon
golian deserts. lie travels eastward by
camel caravan from Kashgar. taking
with him all necessary provisions, be-
sides cooking utensils and barrels for
carrying water over the arid steopes.
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 $l9. But
this one the wolves ate where he was
tethered outside our camel-hair tent"
Here, then, is q world labor of pa
tient scholarship; of heroism far from
the limelight; of business acumen and
organization, that may well awaken
the interest of the most blace. And
vast sums are spent upon the work.
The last revision of the Malagasi Bi-
BILE for the Madagascar natives cost
$15,0O0 and the Chinese Bible from
first to last has probably cost $250,000.
Taking the British and Foreign BIZ
BILE society of London, with the Amer
lean Bible society and similar bodies
throughout Europe, It is safe to say
that not less than $7OOO,OOO a year is
spent upon the work, and well over
$12O, 100000 during the last century.
The parent society in London main
tains nearly 1b00 representative lin
gusts, missionaries and native assist
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

mote markets: in "wa,s" 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 momept to the far
stretching Philippine group, we find
the Rev. MIR. Milloy almost hewing his
way through impossible tropical
growths, haranguing amazed crowds
in fluent Tagalog at festas 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, Senor 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 S2,353.
Paying for Bible in Eggs.
One of the most interesting work.
ers is Mr.. Archibald Forder, who from
his headquarters in Jerusalem, car.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

A negro preacher whose supply of
food was running low decided to take
radical steps to impress upon his
ilock the neces slty for contributing
literally to the church exehequer. Ac-
cordingly, at the close of the sermon,
he made an impressive pause, and
then proceeded as follows; Il hab
found II necessary, on account oh dc
strinsoney oh de hard times, an dc
glnoral deficiency oh de circulatin' mo
jun in connection wild dis chuch, {
lnterduce me new ottermatic election
box. II is so arranged dat half dol.
l9h or quahtah falls on a red plush
cushion widout noise; a nickel will
ding a small bell distinctly heard by
do congregation, an suspendah but.
ton, my fellow mawtels will fiah off a
pistol so you will gown yo'selves ac-
cofdiagly. Let de election now p'oceed,
VILE takes off me hat an gibs out
hymn"
Too Much Help.
Mrs. Farley What an awfully
A3yried, aag'ons, dospairlng look
US GooGaoM has,
MrG Chatlor "aa fancy she
nst late rb4Asl idiHs her o@n
~ sad te.Qa % k~uWJS i servant.
Exchange.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

ture ranging from lightning to ten.
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 Revs. 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 in clumsy OK carts, and bare
ly escaped drowning more than once
while descending swift rapids on a
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.
tiles, and thousand other obstacles
only increase their enthusiasm. The
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 houseboats for Indo-China and the
west coast Of Africa; bullocks and OK
carts in South Africa; dogs and
sledges with fur-clothed drivers above
the arctic circle; patient asses; long.
necked supercilious camels; smartly
stepping llamas for rough mountain
passes: pack horses, hard-headed ne
gro porters, and a hundred other
methods Of transport, according to the
region.
The work OF a colporteur Is one of
terrible risk to life and limb. His BIZ
ble-laden boat may be man-hauled
through the rapids and gorges of the
giant Yang-tse, only to come to grief
on the rocks: whereupon he must un.
load and camp upon the desolate
bank, getting what shelter he may
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Truth.Tellinq.

Tho test of civilization is its re-
gard for truth. Truth is nothing
more than honesty. The habit of tell.
Ing the truth begets accuracy of state.
ment, and the habit among people
OF hearing and expecting the truth
produces the truth. Honest men who
have no intent to deceive are called
truthful but If they are lax and care.
less and have been habituated to
loose statements, and themselves
place no great value upon truth for
It's own sake, they are pretty sure-to
be Inaccurate, and, therefore, mis-.
trustworthy For this reason. per.
haps. Sir Walter Scott declared that
the right education for young mar
was to learn to fish and to tell the
truth.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

ants, organized into committees the
world over. Their work is supervised
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 ii .be Greek or
Magyar, Polish or Japanese, Gaelic or
Croat, Arabic or Chinese. There are
scores of languages into which the Bi-
BILE 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
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 il would have been entirely
meaningless to the little fur-clad men
who have never seen a sheepl
And OF course there is no thought
of profit. Our Bible society sells we'll
made Gospel in his own tongue to a
Congo cannibal for the equivalent OF
cents; a New Testament for 5, and a
complete Bible for 10 cents. All kinds
OF money are taken in exchange
ranging from ivory tusks to a basket
OF bread-fruit few leopard skins, OF
even baby camel.
Long before Tlbet 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 1t 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 fiowery letter in Am
haric from The Conquering LION OF
Judah, Menelik the Second. Emperor
Of Et9lQQsa TX the wy of God"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

from few tarpaullns, until help ar
riyes from lchang or some other con
siderable town.
Robbery is Frequent.
In Asiatic Turkey the patient Bible
man with his pack on his back is oft
en- attacked by Kardish brigands, OF
robbed in oyercrowded khans, where
he has perhaps stayed a 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
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

THEN all is said it is the
!: :. ! ). : : : !. : ! : :: !: : !: !: :
AAI Bible that is the worlds
kSMND best selling book"-and
IM9ZG that by a tremendous mar
v CNS gin. 1t takes a tremen-
"a dously successful novel to
sell 10000 or $4,000 copies
in year, whereas this record
Is easily beaten by the Bible in
a 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 9000,-
600 between them. IE is hard to realize
the magnitude of vast work.
John Williams was 20 long years
among the savages of Tahiti in the Pa.
cihc before he could produce even the
New Testament i'm 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
OnllSlldu lIuluS W iOtOyVpVVV VI Nlt
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.
: Trsnslating for cannibas.
At last he was able to put the Lords
Z Prayer and simple Psalm into the
Gilbert tongue. Later on came the Cos
pels. and so on. But the first edition
of such a Bible is necessarily full of
errors. More than $4,000 was recent
ly spent In correcting the Lifu Bible
for the Loyalty islands, and It was
found necessary to make the enor-
nous number of 52,310 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
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

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-baci across the
bnrning deserts of Nubia and Arabia
the Stony. or in flat-bottomed boats
towed by manhauled 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 sayaees, md the forces of ma
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Ancient and Modern.

THE ancient Greeks had a good
law
What was that?"
when a man divorced lis wife he
could not marry a younger woman y
"Well, where's the iolse?"
There Is no Joke When one
thinks OF our unspeakable steol k}ngs
one feels far from iacetious."
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

desired n December nal is due am
penalty of 10 charged @ a
pnnt e property 10 TO lras anl eemnte
Dbr such property
e il Some tax pave have been in
of fpygH The
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receipt must he p DIe TaNtC the esamew b. kda
property Clearly in whose
% % town., nnmMrd OF Ot Sedmo ebyNw
other hct
no rd presentation taesw will beeaoe
Hmto without thr
IL 2@amsbr br&s n the Of
aslrsdn lin the &
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t will be made
selves and tn
a a lose Of he season
ing property nj to m error N Off phns are mott
C % IA M and to standard ltun
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will crfu sane tina
rules xreapt be bgudf
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treasurer Madn County NIadn,o
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
SCRIPTURES READ "a
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 NatonS-Many a
Romance Might Be Written on the Work of Circulating
the Worlds "BeSt Seller"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

u there is bvida ercpHah Of
male n o D
Gtva a%be in tn Township for the mrroemen
o t qph t widen ts Avenues o
allie in to t by the hprqera aubni
ear tax payable Jun annually
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

The County squires were scrupu
lousy just when it came to the ques
ton of refunding the liquor dealers
for the unexpired term Of their IL
cense; but in considering the cause of
the county's friendless poor only one
voice was raised in their behalf. II
there is "a place in this land where
virtue hath birth, where charity dwells
on this beautiful EARTH" it Is not in
the County Court room OF the rich
county of Maury. Rev. j. w. Cherry
said in his pulpit Sunday night, that
''the Poor House of Maury County
would be disgrace to hell That
may give the County Squires some
idea of how a large element Of good
society regard their institution.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

Among the many scores of telegram!
received at headquarters for the Car
macy Loving Cup Reception, the fol
lowing from devoted lifelong friend
is sample; 1t was dated at San
Marcos, Texas, and reads as follows:
ITO F. d. Lander, Sorry cannot be
with you tonight Tell Ned my
friendship for him is as enduring as
the hills; my love as deep as the
ocean, and my admiration as boundIess
as the universe"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

. sacrifice of your own local bills, will
6 exercise my constitutional power
, whatever that ISL to compel YOU
, Senator Greenlaw, by way of illus
! tratioH, has bill to prohibit public
conveyances from carrying wliiskey
from one point to another in this
county; but Senator Greenlaw must
side-track that bill for one that will
help Mr. Patterson build up his ma
chine; because, forsooth, Mr.. Green.
laws bill is little insignificant local
bill, and Mr.. Pattersons bill to build
up his machine, is general bill, and
for the great good of all the people.
And Mr.. Askew, in the House, has
a bill to repeal the charter of the city
of Jackson, and re-incorporate under
the Pendleton law. And Mr. Eskew
has been specially instructed by his
constituents to press that bill to its
final passage. But the Governor says
no: yours is merely local bill; let
IL lhC oiCCP vi uCoIhs my
measures are general; they create Of
fees, one kind and another-judges,
bank examiners, road commissioners.
election commissioners, etc, all over
the state; they afford me the oppor-
tunity for distributing Offices here and
there and everywhere, which, being
to my special benefit is for the general
good; so you, Mr. Askew, and the peo-
pie of Jackson be damned; pocket :
your bill and get out of my way; or ,
will exercise my constitutional power 7
to punish YOU" in
And that's the size of your Cover \
lor. h
There is bill before the Legislature 4
for an election commission, v
md specifying that the state Comp [,
roller, the Treasurer and the Secre- X
airy of State shall constitute the first h
after which the three d
commissioners shall be elected by the b
eople But II happens that these nj
hree state officers are not absolutely Sc
nder Mr.. Patterson's domination and al
ontrol; hence he and all his bench q
len are up in arms against that bill. az
lie does not want the power to appoint re
lie election commissioners; oh, no; b,
no good man would want that power, tn
nd no bad man should have t." But to
9 does want the power to appoint tn
10 men who shall appoint the com. lei
issioners. See? fu
And another object Mr.. Patterson ly
Is In pressing his administration ha
easures IL this: BY securing for an
EN- the right OF way. he hopes to,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

The Herald Is reliably informed that
several of the ex-saloonists of this city
received today by freight more beer
than they can possibly drink. We do
not charge Sheriff Webb and his depu-
ties or City Marshall Morgan and his
assistants, anything at all for this tip
We will go further and give them the
names If they desire them. We are
willing and anxious to give them all
the information and aid we have or
can get hold of. But we remind them
that they must be vigilant, alert and
active and make the best of the In
formation they can get from this aneIE
from all other sources or thsy win
sure hear from the people when cleo
ton day rolls around. In the reform
vocabulary there is no such word as
cant" officers who can't 4ust
yield position to officers who can.
The County and City attor-
neys and the Sheriff and City
NuioAoAA Al luSy WANT 10 get
busy would find very good starting
point by examining the books at Nash
Vile, to learn who has revenue license
10 sell liquor in this county, and then
keep very strict watch on all who
nave. 1t can be done; It must be
lone; and there will never be a bet
er time to begin than right now. Il
nay go little against The grain for
ome men to be made TO obey the law;
nd 1t may be little against. the
rain for some Of the officers to 20 up
gainst some OF their friends and ar.
est them for not obeying the law;
ut II they don't they will hear from
ne election. and that Is all there Is
1t. We have not the slightest doubt
,at the law against the sale Of intox.
'ating drinks is being violated will.
lily Systematically and premedItated-
every day, and yet not an arrest
rs been made. Every day without
arrest. under present conditions.
Continued on Ninth Page.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05
Coming back on the train about one

Coming back on the train about one
O'Clock in the morning, Uncle Newt
said, the Herald has carried this
joke a leetle too far Ny opinun is
that at this time of the night, when
grave yards yawn and citizens of the
silent city walk about in their pa
jamas; when a Teller has got to ride
miles in the country and pass by
hanted houses and a tree where the
kl-klux hung two niggers and another
Yankee | say that my opinun is that
under SIGH circumstances as these is,
every gentlemen should be allowed to
have a concealed vial about his person
wherewith to scare off the creepers.
If a fellow has got to go through life
with a halter around his neck like
this cravat thing Chris LoOney tied
on me- and nothing in his pocket to
keep his courage up what's a fellow
goin' to do when a white COW rises
up in the middle of the road, by the
pale light of the moon, and disputes
his right Of way? | tell you gentle
men that is carryin' this joke too far.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

defeat any further temperance legis-
lation. No jug law has been passed
yet, and he does not want any such
law passed. Other local Legislation
is pending, and he wants to keep it
pending. When the Pendieton bill
passed the Senate, he very courteously
and graciously remarked. "the Senate
has played HE'LL" and he does not
want the Senate and the House to
play any more hell.
And that's the. size of your Cover
nor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05
THE SILKS

About every favored style OF Sill
is represented in our Silk Department
from the serviceable Foulards to the
Soft, Clinging Crepe de Chimes.
Some particularly new Silks are the
Rich shantune Crashes and Poneees
with single or double Coin Spots and
coIored Stripes,
There are no more stylish Silks
shown this season in the different col
or combinations.
The Crash is ~ inches wide, $1.00
a yard.
The Pongee is % inches wide, $1.OO
yard.
Genuine Rajah Silks. 30 inches wide,
in Black, Natural Pongee and Leather
Tan, $1.25, a yard. other colors com.
ing in.
Fancy Suiting Silks, soc to $1.25
yard
Chiffon Finished Colored Taffetas,
SO inches wide, 1925 a yard
THE DRESS GOODS
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

"Armiel" in the war between the
roses some twenty years ago, made a
reputation which time has not begun
to efface. "Armiel' was the nom de
plume of young George Armistead, a
boy reporter then on the staff of the
Nashville American. That boy, de-
veloped now to full grown man. :"
made the presentation speech at the
Carmack Loving Cup reception in
Nashville last night, and that speech
is another classic he has added to the
political literature of Tennessee. Mr..
Carmack in thanking his many
friends, said he hoped he was not 60
ing beyond the broprieties to make
special mention of George Armstead.
Indeed it would have been shame
full neglect of the proprieties not to
have mentioned him. For devotion
to principle. for loyalty to friend for
clean politics, for stainless public rep |
utation and purity in private life,
George Armstead's name should head |
the list.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

He is full grown man; "a eom-
bination and form indeed. where
every god did seem to set his seal, to
give the world assurance of a man"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

Knee Pant Suits, for ages up to 49,
$500 to $3.50. Much better values
than we expected to get Splendid
Suits at $500, $3.50, $500 and $500.
DuTcHEss TROUSERS FOR MEN
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05
THE DRESS GOODS

The most interesting collection o.
Spring Dress Goods we've ever shown
in both black and colors We realize
that our customers know what is
what" and nothing short of the best
and newest finds Judgment here.
Fancy Suitings, in Mixtures, Plaids
and Checks, soc yard
A great range of dollar yard Fan
cy Dress Goods, in Broken Plaids,
Blocks, Checks and the popular
Stripes. Some of them are in white
grounds with hair line stripes, and
small and medium sized blocks, in
fine Worsted materials, moonlight
mixtures, etc, ~ TO is inches wide,
$100 yard.
These styles are very popular for
skirts or full suits.
AND IF IT'S BLACK YOU WANT
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

Their was never anything like it
in Tennessee before. II was the
greatest testimony Of love, admiration
and esteem ever shown a private citi-
zen of the proud old Volunteer State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

Mn. Hartman says he prefers the
penitentiary to the poor house He
probably thinks he would meet more
of his friends there.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

The range is complete. from SOC to
$500 a yard, in all the Staple and
Novelty Fabrics, Voiles, ETC.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

You'd hardly think we could sell
such an Oxford now at $500. They
are made of splendid Patent Corona,
big eyelets, splendidly finished, $500
a pair
A good Dongola, Patent Tip Oxford
$1.75 pair
CHILDREN'S SPRING CLOTHING