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Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
In Bankruptcy

In Bankruptcy
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
in the United States court by TT. ID.
Stock, a grocer of Carpinteria. Santa
Barbara county, yesterday. Stocks
liabilities are placed at 5000 and he has
no assets.
VIII Be Taken East
Thomas Barber, aged 10, who recent
ly came from Brooklyn. N. Y, with his
wife, died at their residence. 1904 East
Forty-seventh street, yesterday. The
body will be taken to Brooklyn for in
terment.
Open Class Day
An open class day will be given by
the pupils of Miss Madge Patton at the
college chapel, u. s. c., Saturday after
noon, March O. at o'clock. An invi-
tation is extended to all who may be
interested.
Accidental Death
Accidental death was the verdict
brought in by the coroner's jury yes
terday in the case of Frank p. Cline,
the man who was killed at Sawtelle
Tuesday by being struck by Los An
geles-Paclfic freight car.
Charged with Battery
H. Maidenburg, charged with battery,
was arraigned before Police Justice
Chambers yesterday afternoon. Maiden
burg is said to have assaulted p. S.
Kornblum during a discussion. The
mans case was set for Saturday morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
Sent to Reform School
John Gianello. IA years of age, con-
victed of larceny, was yesterday or
dered committed to the Whittier reform
school by order of Tudpe Wilbur of the
Juvenile court. Milo Stains, delin-
quent, 16 years of age, was also COM
mitted by Judge Wilbur.
Sent to Asylum
By order of the insanity commission
in department two of the superior
court yesterday Ferdinand Besto SO
years of age, of the county poor farm,
Michael j. Flynn, Jerome Nelson and
Louisa Thompson were ordered com
mitted to Patton asylum.
Held on Suspicion
Joe Monahan, a laborer, was arrested
on suspicion yesterday afternoon while
endeavoring to dispose of some shirts
he is thought to have stolen. The man
was arrested by Patrolmen Cornwell
and Jarvis, who claim to have seen the
man going from house to house and
trying to sell the shirts.
Many Violate Law
Seventy-five men, violators of the
htching ordinance, have paid fines of
from SO to So in police court during the
last week. These men have been ar
rested by Patrolmen Busse and Allen
in accordance with instructions sent
out from the chiefs office to arrest
every person who allows a horse to
stand without being properly tied
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
VIII Entertain at Luncheon

Mrs. Lucy S. Blanchard will entertain
at luncheon Saturday at her home, 919
West Second street, Miss Eva Shontz
of Chicago, president of the Young
Peoples Christian Temperance union,
and mother, Mrs. Margaret N. Shontz,
and sister, Mrs. M. A. Campbell, in
cluding Miss Emma Black of Cincin-
natl, will be the guests of honor. Mrs
Juliette M. G. Tallerday will assist in
entertaining.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
Entertains University students

The members of the Alpha sorority
of the University of Southern Califor-
MIA and their escorts were entertained
last evening by Mr.. and Mrs. William
Roome of 940 West Twentieth street
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
DARING HOLDUPS GET
AWAY WITH $4,000
BY Associated Press.

by ASbUCIdIGU I UoSs
MOSCOW, March IVA daring holdur
occurred at the university here today
While the officials were being paid off
in the chancellery seven armed men
arrived, threatened all present with
pistols and demanded the money.
The intrudents then fired into the
air seized $4,000 and decamped, killing
a sergeant of police whom they met
at the door.
The university is now surrounded by
police and all the houses in the vicin-
ity are being searched.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
CARTON BRIOUETS

An order now placed for this
popular fuel will receive prompt
attention. Call up Sunset Broad
way 5155, or Home F2990.
Los Angeles Gas and Electric Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
Prince Escapes Bomb
BY Associated Press,

BY Associated Press.
WARSAW, March IA bomb was
thrown at noon today into a fiat occu-
pied by Prince Argutynski, director of
the government high school. The prem
ises were wrecked, but the prince was
not injured. The bomb thrower es-
caped,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
Alumni Meet

The members of the Brownsberger
Home School Alumni association met
last evening at the Brownsberger Home
school.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
Informal Luncheon

Mrs. c. G. G. Tatum of 9S2 West
Sixteenth street gave an informal
luncheon yesterday afternoon compli-
mentary to Miss Florence Salmon of
Pasadena, whose engagement has been
announced.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
Musicians to Be eussta

The members of the Students Mu-
sical club and their escorts will be the
guests this evening of Miss Alice At
well of 1107 Westlake avenue.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
At Home to Whist Club

Mr.. and Mrs. Mathew S. Robertson
Of 1927 South Burlington avenue were
at home last evening to the members
Of the Westmoreland Whist club.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
Rrldne Whlat Partv

Mrs. Lewis Clarke Carlisle of 1902
Alvarado street entertaiped with a
bridge whist party yesterday after
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

L. A. Ross, Kate s. vosburg, R. M.
Widney, D. NJ. Welch and Miss Cora
L.. latham.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

Homeless children received and
placed In houses for adoption. Apply
Cren'g, Home society, 38A Bradbury
building. Los Angelica
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
THE CITY

Strangers are invited to visit the ex-
hibit OF California products at the
Chamber Of Commerce building, on
Broadway, between First and Second
streets. where free information will be
given on all subjects pertaining to this
section.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

The Herald will pay $40 in cash to
anyone furnishing evidence that will
lead TO the arrest and conviction of any
person caught stealing copies of The
Herald from the premises of our
patrons THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
EIGHTH MAN DIES
AS RESULT OF WRECK

Peter Mustopic, the eighth man to die
as result of the wreck at Meadow
Valley wash. Nevada, March 2, passed
away at the California hospital yester-
day afternoon.
An inquest viii be held this morning.
The other patients who are at the
hospital sunering as result of injuries
received in the wreck are all said to be
doing we'll and the physicians say they
do not expect there win be any more
deaths.
Mustopic was one OF the workmen
on the work train which ran into the
lumber car. He was internally injured.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

Sehilling's- Best is the standard by
which other tea and coffee are Judged.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

Everything you want you win md II
the classified page--a modern eucycl0
pedia. One cent "a word
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

In Bankruptcy
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
in the United States court by TT. ID.
Stock, a grocer of Carpinteria, Santa
Barbara county, yesterday. Stock :
liabilities are placed at 5000 and he has
no assets.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08

Thomas Barber, aged 10, who recent
ly came from Brooklyn, N. Y. with his
wife, died at their residence. 1904 East
Forty-seventh street, yesterday. The
body will be taken to Brooklyn for in
terment
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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. Ii
must have been awkward when one of
his buffaloes, hitched to cart con-
tanning Testaments in Siamese and
Laos, suddenly bolted and scattered
boxes and beds along the swampy
track for half 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 Samoa 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
$50 taels> and then loaded up with BIZ
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 BAN
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 Bible and
said Would it be safe for me to keep
this book in the house, or must | build
a place for it out-doors?'
Nor are dark tragedies unknown
among the Bible pioneers The Rev.
II. ]. Johnson once dropped down the
great Yang-tse in a houseboat laden
with Testaments. He was accompani.
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
nuence of the Foreign Devil" And
before the white man and his assist
ant could get back to their houseboat
they were set upon by mob and muir
dered with every circumstance of cru
city.
Turning to bleak Siberia, we find
an unobtrusive 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 2 a. m, while
my wife watched. Then as soon as II
was dawn she lay down and slept"
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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 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
tllSS anu Il lllOuSduu OlleG ODSldCleS
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
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 hundred other
methods of transport, according to the
region.
The work of 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
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A NARROW ESCAPE.

She raised her blond head from his
houlder for moment.
DO you believe that exercise and
lotions and toilet preparations will
improve womans looks?" she asked.
He pressed her blonde curls back
upon his chest.
They couldn't improve the looks OF
some women" he said.
Whose she asked.
We'll, yours and Violet Cochrane's,
for instance" he replied thoughtlessly.
Il don't understand you" she said,
raising her head for the second time
and chilling him with look. I'VE are
not at all alike"
Il mean," he replied, turning her
head for the second time and think
Ing quickly, that your looks couldn't
be improved because they are perfect
as they are, and that hers couldn't be
improved because no amount of work
could make her pretty"
She sighed great sigh of content
ment and relief. while he drew a deep
breath.
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ants, organized into committees the
world over. Their work is supervised
and financed from headquarters
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
staggering thing when one goes into
it. Last year the Scriptures were sole
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 ano
Bible is put into their hands in their
own tongue, whether it be Greek OF
Magyar, Polish or Japanese, Gaelic OF
Croat, Arabic or Chinese. There are
scores of languages into which the BIZ
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
ayam, Llocano, Bicol Pangasinan, Ia
galog, Arrawack and Sheetswa,
Forced to Change Phrases.
In 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 well.
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 basket
OF bread.fruit, a few leopard skins, OF
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 magnificent pair of elephants
tusks to the British Bible house ID
London. with flowery letter IN Am
haric from The Conquering Lion OF
Judah, Menelik the Second. Emperor
of Ethiopia by the VIII of God"
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Lastly we have adventurous F. A
Larson. Bible sub-agent in the Mon
golian deserts. He travels eastward by
camel caravan from Kashgar. taking
with him all necessary provisions, be
sides cooking utensils and barrels foI
carrying water over the arid steppes
Wolves Ate Paekhorse.
On one occasion native assistant
OF Larsons 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 be was
tethered outside our camel-haif tent
Here, then, is world labor of pa
tient scholarship: Of heroism fur 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 81
BILE for the Madagascar natives cost
$4,000; and the Chinese Bible from
first to last has probably cost $250,000
Taking the British and Foreign Bi
BILE society of London, with the Amer
lean Bible society and. similar bodies
throughout Europe, II is safe to say
that not less than s7,000,000 year Is
spent upon the work, and well over
s120 100000 during the last century.
The parent society in London main
tainS nearly 200 representative lin
gusts, missionaries and native assist
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labor or Peril Too Great for those Engaged
in Sowing the Bible.
China to Peru an Army of Trained Explorers Are
seded to Reach the Readers of the Nations--Many a
hmance Might Be Written on the Work of Circulating
! Worlds BEST Seller"

yuEN all is said 1t is the
III pible that is the worlds
"best selling book"-and
VI that by tremendous mar
Il gin. 1t takes a tremen-
III dously successful novel to
sell 10000 or $4,000 copies
year whereas this record
,silv beaten by the Bible in
gle day the world over! Last
I 10000 600 copies, translated in
rast babel of nearly 500 tongues,
scattered broadcast over the
/, American and British Bible So
Z led the way with nearly 9,00O,-
ketveen them. 1t is hard to realize
Aagnitude of vast a work.
I'm Williams was 20 long years
h. the sayages of Tahiti in the Pa
1beiore he could produce even the
Testament in the islanders own
he And old Bishop Schereschew-
|snent one.third of his long life do
|he Bible into the Easy Wen-li,"
Ialect of Chinese, that opened up
|,tian truths to 70,000,000 of the
|stial people.
hen there was the romance of Hi
Bingham. This man went out to
Gilbert group in mid-Pacific, and
himself among South Sea canni-
as a Bible translator, with no
hen language at all, and no one to
ID him. Day by day, this pioneer
Eeed words of common usage from
natives lips and spent years COM
lng and verifying his written notes.
hsating for CannibaIs.
\ last he was able to put the Lords
her and a simple Psalm into the
|ert tongue. Later on came the Cos
and so on. But the first edition
|uch Bible is necessarily full of
Irs. More than $4,000 was recent
|pent in correcting the Lifu Bible
1.-THE Loyalty islands, and 1t was
ID necessary to make the enor-
Is number of $3.50 corrections.
BIT, after all, perhaps the most stir
tales of all are those recording
adventures of the vast army of
ieers that distribute the Bibles aft
hey are translated and shipped to
local depots, in all the continents
he world. Bible cargoes go crash
on elephants through the jungles
Erica and Siam; or on queer little
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mote markets; in watts" 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 mis-
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
MS 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
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from a few tarpaulins, until help ar
riyes 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 brigands, or
robbed in overcrowded khans, where
he has perhaps stayed night or two,
delayed by the terrible roads and brok-
On 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-
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Doc Saved His Life.

Yes" said the young man, pencive-
ly "a dog / once had saved my life"
Tell me about It," said the young
lady, with eager interest.
Il sold him for five dollars" said
the young man, when / was nearly
starving Chicago Journal.
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instalIments All Around.

Patient (gloomily)-I don't seem to
be gaining very fast, doctor.
Doctor (cheerfully)-You can't ex.
pect to get well at one jump. You
viii have to regain your health grad.
ually day by day-sort of on the in
stallment plan, as 1t were.
Patient (brightening up)-Well, doc
tor, If this thing keeps on much long
er I'm afraid that you will have to
collect your bill in the same way
Judge.
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aas over the great passes of the
IT. between Bolivia and Peru; or
W. oh the heads of cannibal coolies
Iuu the base OF the Mountains Of
. moon near the source of old Faith
nne' on camel-back across the
A =" deserts of Nubia and Arabia
stony; or in fiat-bottomed boats
I,o ~ by man-hau'of bamboo cables,
ash the stupendous gorges OF the
r,. men who 10 this work are
A. explorers Who oftei ial! by the
tyus' victims to wild beasts, disease,
NC savages, and the forces of ma
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How He Catches Them.

How does it happen that you are
retained in so many divorce cases?"
Well" replied the lawyer, seeing
that you are not in my line, I'll tell
you. l look over the marriage licenses
every morning and send my card
around to the contracting parties. -"
Judge.
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His Chief Reliance.

Professor Ito graduating class in
college>-Young men. there is one
more question ! would like to ask, and
that is, what books have helped you
most in your struggles for an educa-
ton?
Young Scadds promptly speaking
up from the foot of the class Dads
check-book has helped me about as
much as any of 'em so far.--Judge.
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Had Sampled il.

Van Antler-Does the new butler
know where to keep the wine?
Mrs. Van A.-Judging from his ap
pearance, he thinks he ought to AIRY
ii around himself.--Life.
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A Narrowing Result.

This agitation about Sunday shaw
ing certainly makes one ashamed TO
look a stranger in the face"
"A good many natives certainly will
change countenance over it If they
have to shave themselves. "-Balti.
more American.
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Done by Roosevelt.

Office Boy-There's a man down
stairs wants TO see you.
Publisher-Show him up.
Office Boy-He's already been; mes
a nature realist-Chicago Journal.
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Strained Relations.

Edgar-Didn't the cook like us?
Euphemia-Oh, yes-she said that
she liked us all right, but that we
have to economic so that she couldn't
respect us.-Puck.
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unklnd.

George, dear, do you care for an.
other biscuit?" asked the bride,
mo, dear" replied the husband, qui
city Il haven't digested the first one
yet. Detroit Free Press.
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In the Current.

Dolly has bathing suit
Very short and very cute
Shows lot of stocking!
Queer sort of material.
Electric silk" she says they call
It-because it's shocking.
Cleveland Leader.
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Her Visit Spoiled.

The Amiable Woman-Did you :.
joy your visit to Standardization?
The Perfect Lady-It was perfectly
horrld. that's just what it was! Why.
Shapespeare's tomb was guarded SO
meanly that | didn't get. an opportun.
ity to chip off single souvenir. or
even to write my name on it!-Life.