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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Tom Lawson is said to have made
g. 800 900 the other day by not buying
copper mine We refrain from buy
ing copper mines every day in the
year without gaining anything BY 1t.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

A New Orleans man doesn't want
the negroes to benefit by the Rhodes
scholarships. The simplest way to
prevent that would be for the white
boys to beat the negro boys in the ex-
aminatuns
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Fifty or more mirrors have been re-
moved from the government printing
Office SO the women employees won't
be eyerlastingly primping. This dia.
bolical move. however. will fail to ar.
rest the involuntary straying Of the
lily.white fin to feel of the marcel
wave or the pOmp.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
London 1925 Deurees Hot

London-The thermometer Sunday
registered 1875 degrees in the sun and
20 in the shade. In the past forty
eight hours there have been twenty
hours and fiftyone minutes of bright
sunshin.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
To Learn How to Cure Sould

Newport X. Three Japanese, one
graduate Of Harvard university.
asked permission of c. b. Anderson. n
Wholesale fish shipper to make ex
periments in curing squid. The re
quest was granted.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Bishop Key to Preside.

Nashville, Tenn.-According to an
announcement made here, Bishop j. S.
Key, OF Sherman, Tex, will preside
over the St Louis conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, to
be held at West Plains, Mo, Sept Is.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Prominent MinIna Man Missing,

FL Paso, Tex. S. Clarkson, a
prominent mining man. formerly of
Detroit, left his boarding house in
Guadalajara, Mex. near here, three
weeks ago and has never been seen
since. He has brothers In Detroit.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Steam Shovel Workers Strike

Panama.-The strike of the steam
shovel workers, which began Monday
the Eaen demanding 5000 per month in.
stead of their present salary of s2i0,
continues. Only eight steam shoyels
we're at work Tuesday.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

A Boston woman wrote 225 words a
minute for 10 minutes on her type
writer. No doubt that If it had been
necessary she could have talked them
at the same speed for as long a time.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Hudson Maxim announces that he
has completed an invention which will
render armor plate useless. This
ought TO help some more toward the
establishment of universal peace
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Gets s1.Ooo,ooo Allmnnu

New York.-Mrs. John Love Elliott
has obtained a divorce from her hus.
band on statutory grounds, and Mr..
Elicit has given her s1,OOO,OO for the
support of herself and their daughter
Ethel.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Pleaded Not Guilty

San Francisco-Judge Lawler disal.
lowed the demurrer offered by Louis
Glass TO the indictments filed against
him, and Glass thereupon was ar.
raigned and pleaded not guilty to each
of the nine indictments.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

A leading fayorite in the literary
circles Of Washington is the widow OF
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the ceIe-
brated Brooklyn preacher. Since the
death OF her husband Mrs. Talmage
has srent much of her time In the
capital She writes for magazines
and newspapers, generally verses, but
always under a nom de plume.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
81 Degrees In New York

New York.-The government Their.
mometer at the weather bureau Tues.
day registered SO degrees. and the first
case OF heat prostration for the year
was reported. The victim was a
laborer.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Very likely it is true that many
young doctors do not kuow much but
nature works as hard to assist them
as it does to assist the old practition
ers
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Why doesn't some multmilllonalre
give Commander Peary that mere
trine OF 100000 and get him started
for the north pole without delay?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

by mistake. man who meant to
yarnish his front door used maple -
rup. Fortunately, though. it does not
appear that ne used yarnish on his
baCkwheat cakes
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Winston Churchill receives royal.
ty of 80 cents per volume, and already
his receipts from one book are said to
have been si5O,00O.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

How can old fogy practitioners say
that the young doctor is wholly in
competent after they have seen his
lovely whiskcrs?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

The English ribbon trade is said to
be now in a more fourishing condl.
ton than 1t has been in many years
owing to the huge demands the dress.
makers and milliners are making upon
the output OF the manufa -turers.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Killed RESISTING Arrest.

Des Moines. Ia.--A. j. Barker, ne
gro, was fatally shot and Police De
tective Johnston was wounded about
the head in an attempt to capture Bar
ker.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Germany is not going to favor dis.
armament 1t is afraid the second
hand man wouldn't give it much of
anything for its guns
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
wlsconsln Has Heavy snowfall.

Superior, Wis.-Three inches OF
snow fell here Tuesday night, the
heaviest recorded in Is years SO late
In the Gaaaon.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

It Is true that money does not bring
happiness. The car gets s23,0OOC0
q year
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Germany is for peace and also It is
going to keep its powder dry.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Died In Naples.

Naples. May Ell. Fl. First, resi-
dent of Portland, Ore. died mere OF
tumor OF the stomach.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

Music may do some good While a
boy is whistlins he cant be smoking
cigarettes.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24

An old brain in a young head Ia bet.
ter than young brain In an old head.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-24
Reads Daughters Book and Foro,vs..

Heaos daughters BOOK and Forgives.
Chicago-Prof, Cleaver Wilkinson
OF the University of Chicago has
been won over to the side of his
daughter Florence's literary admirers
by his daughters latest novel.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05
WHERE THE MERCHANT FAILS.
An Iowa Farmer Tells Him He Should
Advertise, and How.

An Iowa farmer contributes TO the
Des Molnes Capitol the following very
pertinent suggestion as to why the
mail order houses succeed In getting
the business of the rural communities
away from local merchants:
IF the mail order houses got 81 900
out of this county each month that be-
longs to the home merchants the fault
is with the merchants themselves. The
mail order houses advertise and give
us prices on everything they offer for
sale. They teH rs what they have
and what they want for IT, or course
we get soaked once In awhile and IL
We do we can try some other house.
Most OF the home merchants who ad.
vertlso at all don't quote prices. They
neglect to tell us what we want to
know--the price. OF course we can go
to the store and ask the price Of this
article, and that, but you know how
II is-one doesn't know SO VOL exact
ly what he wants to buy when he gets
In store as wh9n he Is at home. And
there is where the mail order houses
make their hit. They send US their
advertising matter into homes and we
read ii when We haven't anything else
to do and every member OF the family
who reads their STUFF usually finds
something that he or some other mem.
Der of the family wants and many or.
ders are made up and sent out Just at
such times. q.
Right here is where the home mer.
chant falls down. If he talked up his
business to us In our homes the sams
as the mail order houses do tho people
would be In to see him the next time
they came to town and In many cases
extra trips would be made to get the
things at once that we didn't know
we wanted until they were brought
to our attention.
The home merchant can save the
expense of getting up oatalosus. We
people read the home papers more
carefully than we do the catalogue.
and If the merchant wants to talk
business with us let him put his talk
in the homo papers, and put It In 80
that we know he means business. The
home merchant likely, nine times cut
Of ten, sells his goods az cheap ~ the
mail order houses, and ! believe en-
many things they are much cheaper.
but how are we to know II he doesn't
tell us about 1t.
"A Merchant must not think that
even his best customers know his
| goods so we'll that they can tell what
| he has without being shown.
1T is none OF my business hew the
home merchant runs his business. but
don't like to see these roasts in the
| papers all tho time about US fellows
who get q little stuff shipped In once
in awhile and never anything said On
the other side. There are always two
sides Of question, and I have given
you mine II 1t il worth anything to
| you you can take it,"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

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
1t 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
sinto Cherokee and Choctaw, one runs
ones eye in bewilderment down the
list, taking in such dialects as Ruk
and Ponape, Dikele John, Samoglt, 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 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 Is cents. All kinds
Of money are taken in exchange
ranging from ivory tusks to a basket
of bread-frlit, few leopard skins, OF
even a 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 ole
Emperor Menelill at least will soor
capiiulate. At all events, he recently
sent magnificent pair of elephants
tusks to the British Bible house il
London, with lowery letter in Am
haric from THE Conquering Lion OF
Judah, Menelik the Second, Emperor
Of Ethiopia by the Will of God"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05
BANKERS GETTING WISE.
They See Danger IN the Mall.Order
System of Business.

1t is only lately that bankers OF the
west have come to realization that
the mail.order system of business has
been serious injury to them, killing
off the business of their towns. taking
out of circulation money that should
help swell the local bank deposits and
otherwise interfering with town pro.
gress.
The trouble has been with many
the ods,away-from.home evil
as anything of particular concern to
them When Farmer Smith would
buy draft for $50 or 500 TO send
to Chicago the banker got his ten
cents exchange and thought he was
that much ahead, while the facts re-
NAMED that If he could keep the
money from being sent from home
that $50 of the farmer for the banker
might make a dollar or two of profit.
1t was only when the catalogue
houses started in to solicit deposits of
the people of country towns and farm.
ing communities that the bankers
took a tumble
Then again some bankers have such
an exalted idea Of their position in
the town that the goods to be had
from the local merchants are not good
enough for themselves and families,
and set bad example before the peo-
pie by sending away themselves for
what they desire in the way OF stapleL
and Injuries Bankers are conserva
tive and are not forward in making
suggestions to their patrons as to
what they should do with their money
but in this matter it appears sufficient
~ important to justify the exercise OF
what influence the banker can com.
mand in behalf OF home patronage. It
Is the business Of the town and sur
rounding country that affords profit
to the bank The greater this volume
of business can be made the better
| for the banker and every interest OF
the town, and the farmers and other
| laborers as well.
d. NJ CARR,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

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 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-
buttons, wars, storms, poisonous rep
tiles, and a 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 households 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 I'M
load and camp upon the desolate
bank, getting what shelter he may
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

HEN all is said it 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
coll 40 nn0 Or 20 nnn comics
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

ries Bibles to the Arab tribes east Of
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 a mile.
Or, again, we find Mr.. Darlington
using tiger skins for the binding of
his Bibles, and holding weird auction
sales of his books under the tamarind
trees of Samoi island, 800 miles down
the west coast of the Gulf of Siam,
says writer in the New York Times.
| can but briefly touch on the adven-
lures of William Laughton in his boat
on the Yang-tse, which he rented for
bles, only to run on some rocks and
become a total wreck. Indeed, were
it not for the skill of the native track
ers and towers" in handling the bam-
boo pumps it is possible that Mr..
Laughton would have lost his Bibles,
if not his life.
In many instances the book is
thought to possess magical attributes.
Among the Mbundu people, in Central
Africa, an old man bought a Bible and
said: Would it be safe for me to keep
this book in the house, or must / build
place for it out-doors?"
Nor are dark tragedies unknown
among the Bible pioneers. The Rev.
II. j. Johnson once dropped down the
great Yang-tse in a houseboat laden
ed only by a trusted Chinese colpor-
teur For nineteen years nothing more
was heard of either. Then the tragic
story came to light. Johnson and his
man had landed at an inland town to
sell their Bibles. But the first night
a fire broke out and burned down
many houses with much loss of life.
Next day native mischief-makers at.
tributed the disaster to the evil in.
liuence of the Foreign Devil" And
before the white man and his assist.
ant could get back to their houseboat
they were set upon by "A mob and muir.
dored with every circumstance of cru,
city.
Turning to bleak Siberia, we find
an unobtrusiye hero and his wife sail
ing on an open raft with half ton of
Scriptures down the great Lena river
Great vigilance was necessary" he
says, FOR many murders had been
committed by the wild tribes. would
sleep from II p. m. to a. m, while
my wife watched, Then as soon as Il
was dawn she lay down and slept"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

Lastly we have Adventurous Il. A.
Larson, a Bible sub.ageut in the Mon
golan deserts. He 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 steppes.
Wolves Ate Packhorse.
On one occasion 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 2S taels-about $40, But
this one the wolves ate where he was
tethered outside our camel-hair tent"
Here, then, Is 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 blase And
vast sums are spent upon the work.
The last revision of the Malagasi BIZ
BILE for the Madagascar natives cost
$4,000; and the Chinese Bible from
first to last has probably cost $250,00O.
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 $7,000,000 year is
spent upon the work, and well over
$120,000,O00 during the last century.
The parent society in London main
tains nearly 1900 representative lin
gusts, missionaries and native assist
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

from a few tarpaulins, until help ar
rives from Ichang 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 Kurdish brlgands, or
robbed in overcrowded 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.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05

THEN all is said it is the
AeA2H Bible that is the worlds
kcWW best selling book"-and
iASWG that by tremendous mar
Y W. gin. 1t takes a tremen-
- 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 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 70,000,000 of the
Celestial people.
Then there was the romance of Hi
ram Bingham. This man went out to
the Gilbert group in midPacific, 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.
Transating 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
of such 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 $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
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-05
What, Indeed7
d. M. CARR ,

A duchess requiring lady's maid
had an interview with one. to whom.
after having examined her appearance,
she said "Of course, you will be able
to dress my hair for me?" "Oh, yes"
replied the girl lit never takes me
more than half an hour to dress a
Iady's hair" Half an hour, my
child" exclaimed the duchess, In &C.
cents of terror, land what on earth,
then should be able to do with my
self all the remainder of the morn.
ing?"