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Revision. ReuHire Attention.

spondents.
RevisiOns Require Attention.
The revisions Of the various translatlons
and editions Of the Bible already printed
is also an important branch of the work. 3"
says DR., Dwight. For example, we have
been at work since last spring in getting
a Spanish revision ann expect 1t will take
six years to complete the work. For this
purpose we brought here three American
missionaries from Mexico, three men who
have lived in South America for thirty
years and know the literary language per-
fectly, and to assist these three native
scholars.
They are expected to keep close watch
on each others work and prevent either
provincialisms or the stiff old Castilian
tongue from predomlnating. When the re-
vision of the existing Bible is completed a
thousand copies will be sent through the
Spanish speaking countries to get the criti-
cisms Of the people. This is called the ex-
perimental publication, and when the books
return to us they will come with many new
ideas, valuable as well as useless sugges-
lions and criticisms of the translators' and
revisers' work.
In China there has been working for
twelve years a committee composed OF
Americans and British, who are revising
two Chinese dialects, and these men will
stay there and dig for several years longer,
for IL Is a tremendous piece OF work. An
other equally difficult task is the revision
Of the Zulu Bible. One Of less arduous
work, but of Importance, is the Portuguese.
1.-THE Arabic reference Bible is now being
printed at the press in Beirut, Syria, and
the completion OF the Mandarin Chinese
Reference Bible continues, slowly progress
ing to an ultimate projection. The revision
work is considered of tremendous impor-
lance In the society,
I'm regard to the work nearer at hand,
in New York there are several auxiliaries
which help in this work and there are in
Manhattan between thirty-five and forty
spoken languages. Agents from the society
are sent daily to Ellis Island. During the
eighty years ended October /, 1906, the So
ciety distributed 1885, SS copies of the Bible
in this way.
Early in its history the society made
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WIZ JOB BabIes Are GOOD.


Americans wonder at the amiable temper
Of our japanese babies. says a native in
the D~elienator; the real marvel is the
measure Of good mature which the Ameri-
can baby manages TO retain after all he is
called upon to go through In dressing. How
on earth can the most perfect Of saints, let
alone a baby. be expected 20 retain his
Christian virtues! His legs and neck are
twisted into all sorts Of double knots three.
four times a day, that they may be squeezed
through a tight-fitting shirt. Our baby
clothes are certainly simpler. Incidentally
they are wlde-minded and wide-sleeved
enough to let a baby grow in them without
its putting up a ring fight.
Baby dresses are cut, along general lines,
the same a. the kimono Of the grownups.
Only for the baby the sleeves and skirts
are longer and wider in proportion. SO that
they will cover the bare feet; besides pro-
tectipg the bare hands. the long sleeves
save faces from heartless scratchings.
After the first bath the nurse takes out
an undergarment, fits II into the inner side
OF an outer rme and then lays the
dresses thus fitted upon the S~oft-padded
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in the world" - he said. I'm the thirteenth
century a copy Of the Bible with a few
explanatory notes cost $3.50. The wag
OF a laporer amounted then to IS cents a
week. and 1t would take a workman some
fifteen years to earn enough to purchase
a volume.
Even after the Invention OF printing, the
Bible sold at fabulous sums. In as late a
period as that Immediately following the
American revolution the /dearth Of books
was so great that the possession of a BIZ
BILE ranked with that of the other treasures
of a household. The cheapest volume was
purchased for not less than e."
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CoIporteurs as LineuaI Experts.


The United States is divided into sec
tons, and from the agencies established
In each colporteurs cover certain allotted
territory.
I'VE are apt" continues Mr.. Dwight. Ito
think that the missionaries of South Africa,
Of the Philippines. among the Basques and
In Iceland. as may be, must necessarily
meet with strange peoples and strange ad-
ventures, but we do not have to go be-
yond the confines of our w country to
parallel them.
Many of the colporteurs. particularly
those In the northwest, speak at least
twenty different languages and continually
requests are coming from them and from
outside people begging that the Bible may
be translated into some dialect or Ian
guage spoken in far-off points, the very
names OF which are unknown to the ma
jority Of New Workers.. In the agency
which distributes the Scriptures from the
city of "a Francisco in California, Ne
vada, oregon and Washington are Spanish
speaking Mexicans, Portuguese, one-half of
all the Chinese in the United States, Japa-
nese, Koreans, Hindus, Malays. Hawaiians
and Filipinos.
The agency established in the northwest
during the year ending March 81, 1909, dis
tributed Scriptures in thirty-five different
languages. including, in addition to French,
German. scandinavian and Finnish, such
tongues as the Lettish, Slovak, Lithuanian,
Croatian, Slovenian and Arabic. One Of
the Bible society eolporteurs was sent to
Indianapolis to distribute books among the
Hunyaks. The name was unknown to him.
When he went among them he found that
the people so designated were a medley Of
Servians, Croatians, Bulgarians, Macedon-
ians, Turks, -Roumanians, Greeks, Alban-
ians, German and Hungarians.
I'm H%aughville, a suburb of Indianapolis,
he found Slovanians, Polanders, Slovaks
and Lithuanians. These foreigners live to-
gether in groups, in. one instance, fifty
three men were living in five small rooms.
The colporteurs employed by the American
Bible society during the last year numbered
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Gladstone and Tobacco.

~
One Of the few accomplishments which
Gladstone never acquired was the art OF
smoking, says the Westminster Gazette.
His few attempts in this direction are re-
ported 10 have been dismal failures. Only
once was he known to try a cigarette. the
occasion being one evening when King Ed
ward dhen Prince OF Wales) was his guest
at Downing street. After dinner the prince
desired to smoke and Gladstone with fine
courtesy sought to place his guest at ease
by at least lighting a cigarette. In later
years the Grand Old Man one day accused
his. secretary Of smelling Of the weed. mo
wonder" was the reply, I've been over
half an hour with Sir William Harcourt,"
what Does Hareourt smoker exclaimed
Gladstone. you must tell him to be caro-
full always to change his clothes before he
comes to me"
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sidewalk marked with names that seem to
have been taken ~haphazard from a
gazetteer. Husky truckmen are continually
going In and out and through the dusty
windows the heads may be seen of clerks
checking off lists. 1t is one of a thousand
doors which would to a casual passerby
seem devoted to the same purpose.
But there is a special name attached to
this particular door. This Is the Door OF q
Million Bibles. Out Of this door each year
a million Bibles pass to be distributed
through the world
The rumor that a conditional gift of $780,
900 from Mrs. Russell Sage awaits the ac-
ton Of the Bible society in raising a sim
liar amount is affirmed by one of the Of
~ficials, but that any rigid time limit has
been placed upon 1t he denies
Mrs. Sage has been very considerate," he
says, a approaching the difficulty at
tendant upon the task has extended the
boundary OF the period to a generous flu
ture.'
Already large sums have been received
from the various agencies about the coun-
try to be added to the fund which is being
raised. 1t takes approximately $500, 900 to
pay the expenses Of the society each year,
and the S1,0Oo.0OO that the officials expect
TO receive through Mrs. Sage's gift will be
considered in the light of a nestegg. some
thing to depend on in the case of financial
depressions and a consequent Stacking up
of contributions.
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JIm'a Cost a dollar More.

Richard lie Gallienne the noted poet.
was entertaining a group OF magazine ed
itors at luncheon In New York.
To a compliment upon his fame Mr.. lie
Caffeine said lightly:
But what is poetical fame in this age
OF prose? Only yesterday a schoolboy came
and asked me for my autograph. l asa
scented willingly. And today at breakfast
time the boy again presented himself
WIN you give me your autograph. sirg'
he said.
But said 1, I gave you my autograph
yesterday
u swoppsd that and a dollar he an
swered, for the autograph Of Jim JEFF
fries"
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down to the library and begin work at
once, and l WIS pretty happy when / pre-
scented myself. MY teachers certificate
served as a substitute for an examination,
so It was possible for me to begin immedi-
ately. It was a modest little library then,
too. compared with our present splendid in
stitution.
1T occupied a part of the second floor
OF the Williams block, but when the third
story was added we moved upstairs. and
we felt we had expanded greatly. The
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23

- OMAHA schoolmaster stood
n with his small nephew before
N the reading room door Of the
- Public Library a few days ago
HJENSl and. nodding toward a head OF
49, snow white hair bowed over the
librarians desk, said to the child, aThat
woman used to give me books when I was
no larger than you are And there are
hundreds, yes. thousands OF Omaha mon
and women who might say the same thing
to their children today OF Miss Margaret
VBrien' who will complete her twenty
fifth year Of service In the Omaha Public
library next wednesday. So closely has
she been Identified with the organization
through the years Of It's growth and de-
velopment that to its patrons. old ana
young. her genial face crowned with a
wealth Of snow white hair is more ia
miliar than any other and is associated
with the library as q part Of the insti-
tuition itself.
The Library Lcdy." by this appela-
ton she is known TO thousands who have
not known her by name and Il was esti-
mated by a member OF Omaha's Pioneer
association recently that she has bowling
acquaintance at least with more pe1ple
than any other one person In town.
But in spite Of her twenty-five years Of
service and her white hair. Miss O'Brien
Is far from being a candidate for the
pensioners class. She is only beginning
TO enter middle LIE. Her abundant hair
has been white since childhood and, Ike
her Keen gray eyes, IS a family feature.
And there Is that in her alert face and
the suggestion of a smile lurking at the
corners of her mouth that bespeak a ma
ture and n heart that will never grow old
even when those lines that mark every
serious face become deepened with age.
1t was when the library was housed I'm
the old Williams' block at Fifteentb and
Dodge streets that Miss O'Brien entered
the employ OF the city, and her service has
been uninterrupted since. She had been
teaching for a short time in Jefferson pre-
cinct of this county and upon the advice
OF Judge James w Savage, a family friend
and at that time a member of the library
board, she made application for a position
as an assistant librarian. At III time the
Institution boosted two employees. of whom
Miss Mary r. Allen, as librarian, was the
superior.
ut was early Monday morning, January
20, 1886" said Miss O'Brien, that I got a
card from Miss Allen telling me to come
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ton, but It was evident that locating II in
either Calvert or sheridan, was impos-
sible. Consequently the leaders Of the
two towns held a meeting and decided to
lay out a new town which should include
the two, and petition to locate the court
house beteewn them A. II. Gilmore, now
deceased, had been reading the Cold
smiths Deserted Village" and suggested
the name Auburn which is now Me-
maha's county seat. The town and Brown
vile, the deserted village" was ineor-
porated in 1855. and an election held in Feb
ruary Of the same year for the purpose OF
voting on moving the ounty seat from
Brownville. Poor old Brownville was the
loser and its decline was rapid, Within
ten years. the finest residences In Brown
VILE could be rented for almost nothing,
and in some instances the owners were 20
dad for tenants that rent was free.
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cline, which began in the latter 7O's or
early SOS.
Brownville and Bellevue toss coins for the
age honor. Brownville was long the county
seat OF Nemaha county. The Burlington
railroad built from Brownville to Nemaha
City. and from thence west. and, instead
OF striking the little town OF Sheridan In
the center OF the county, ran one mile
south Of II, established a station called
Calvert, bought the surrounding land,
doomed the town. intending to kill sheri-
dan, capture the county seat from Brown
vile and make Calvert a flourishing town.
all Of which would have come 10 pass had
not the Missouri Pacific decided TO ulld
a line from Kansas City to Omaha, making
Sheridan a station. Sheridan doomed. and
20 did Calvert
Each town had a court house" square,
and kept agitating the question Of rs-loea-
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board at that time included Judge James
". Savage, president; william Wallace,
vice president: Louis S. Reed, secretary;
q V. Gallagher, r. l.. Perrine. James M.
Ross, John T. Bell, II. p. Lewis and Miss
Elizabeth Poppleton, now Mrs. shannon.
or these members, Mr.. Reed alone has
continued on the board, and I was Sin
cerely sorry when III health compelled his
resignation a short time ago. For a time
we remained In the Williams block, and
then came a notable change, We moved
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n Large Way.

Jim Jeffries was talking to a reporter
about the purse Of tlol 900 that goes to the
winner OF the Jeffrles-Johnso battle.
"Oh, no." said the hurculean young man,
lit isn't an enormous one for America. We
look at money In such a large way here.
Coming over on the boat 1 heard two
Chicago men talking in the bar.
(which would you rather be- said one
OF them very rich or very poorf
Neither said the other, IN our large
native way. Give ms my choice and ia
have about &0nOoo' New York Times
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Only One Book.

1t was Sir Walter Scott who in his last
illness. after asking a friend to read aloud
to him and hearing the Interrogation as to
the book desired. said. There is only one"
As to this only one' there is, according
to the statistics OF the American Bible So
oiety. no evidence that the interest Of the
human family has lapsed into indifference.
A record OF approximately &C., 900 volumes
in eighty years speaks eloquently to the
contrary.
The society was first housed in a small
building on Nassau street, In a room about
the size of one OF the secretaries sane
tums Of today, with it's walls lined with
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Gossip About Noted People

ways found not very far from water. II
liked the woods and did not go many miles
from the streams, yet we frequently saw
II on the open plains a mile or two from
trees, feeding in the vicinity of the zebra
and the hartebeest. This was, however,
usually quite early in the morning or quite
late I'm the afternoon"
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shelves. An officer OF that early time said
that he hoped the society would prosper to
the extent of having all the available space
some time filled with Bibles. In 1853 the
society moved to its present quarters after
various changes of residence, the corner
stone being laid with due ceremonies on
June "a. 1854" says DIR. Henry Dwight, who
acted as guide to the reporter and Is at
present n of the secretaries OF the So
ciety.
Following him one sees in the printing
rooms men and women working together,
a majority Of whom nave grown gray In
the service. Some Of the secretaries and
clerks have served In the mission field, and
DR.. Dwight himself has come to his quiet
revolving chair after strenuous days and
nights in Turkey.
Where the Board Meets.
One of the most interesting places visited
is the managers room, where board and
special meetings are held. 1t is a fine old
apartment with high wainscoted walls and
paneled ceiling. Stained glass windows at
ford a mellow light and in 1t are portraits
OF men prominent in the history Of the So
eiety. At one end Of he room is a fac
smile Of a Chinese houseboat used to CON
vey q corps OF missionaries guarding some
twenty tons Of Bibles sent to parts Of China
via the great Yangtse Kiang river. III
figures OF the latter half of the year 1909
are not yet compiled, but the record shows
that during the first six months there were
sold In China alone some l0s, 900 Bibles, a
total never reached before.
In the salesroom Of the-society are cases
filled with duplicate copies OF original
books and manuscripts. The fact that the
building is not fireproof Is the reason why
the interesting collection owned by the So
ciety is at present housed at the Lenox
library. This collection contains editions
OF the Bible in more than 15O languages and
dialects. OF English versions and revisions
there are approximately 5000 olumes, ex-
elusive OF the manuscripts.
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some M Copien.

Here You will see one OF the few Vinegar
Bibles" Oxford, IT'S. in which a printers
mistake has been immortalized, as in the
'Breeches Bible" There is a facsimile of
the Bible printed on white satin which was
presented TO the empress dowager Of China
in 1894 by 10000 Christian women. There
is a copy of the Bible lone into the Mon
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then assistant to her sister, accepted a po-
sltion in Washington, ID. c., and l was APP
pointed to her place, and later, upon mo-
ton of John Bell. was formally appointed
assistant librarian. This was May g. 1886.
The next important epoch in the history
Of the library was It's removal to the third
floor Of the Paxton block IN January. 1888.
Shortly before that Miss Mary Allen had
resigned her position as librarian and her
sister, Miss Jessie, was recalled from
Washington to succeed her. Our new
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quires great precautions, which means
usually that they are placed in tin boxes
which are made alright and ~soldered and
then put in wooden boxes, so that IL they
should be dropped overheard on their way
from the ships side or in voyaging up
rivers and through canals the books win
not suffer thereby.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Tragedy of the TeIephone.

AesCu VI INV AGANHMOhOs
w. l.. Ross, treasurer of the C~uyahoga
Telephone company, tells OF the awful case
Of a woman on a suburban party line who
was in the habit Of talking, or listening to
other people talking. over that line all day
long, or until hunger would drive her from
the phone.
One day a man on the same line picked
up the receiver and heard this woman and
another one working q conversational re-
lay. He was annoyed over having to walt
and set about making the women mad at
each other so that they wouldn't talk any
more. He placed the receiver on his phone
up against the transmitter, with the result
that when either woman was talking, her
words came right back to her own ears.
The woman that happened to be having
the flow of words to the face at that mo-
ment thought her neighbor was hooking
her, and after telling what she thought
OF the bringing up Of the people that would
stoop TO such discouTtesy, she hung up.
Then the man put In his call and was NOT
molested. -Cleyelan Plain Dealer. z
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Even the dignffied seriousness OF DR..
Dwight is not proof against the attack of
mirth that seizes him as he relates the
introduction of what a barker described to
the -merrymakers at Coney Island last sum-
mer as the washtub' edition OF the Bible.
THE Bible at Coney Island Is brought
into competition with fascinating and novel
forms of amusement and entertainment and
the hoarse voice of its own energetic col
porteur is one OF many crying special
wares, such as the Loop the Loop the
Ride Into the Whale and the Voyage to
Heaven and HE'LL and even those members
of the society who deprecate the apparent
loss of dignity involved in this rivalry are
obliged to admit that while II Is eminently
necessary to maintain the serious character
of the Holy Book at the same time il is
equally necessary to Yield a point in doing
so and to take into account the prevailing
moods of the thousands who stroll by the
s~tands-moods Of recreation and enjoyment.
The cblporteur at Coney Island has a
ready tongue and wit. He has a more diffi-
cult proposition to handle than his com
~petitors, and he handles 1t deftly. To one
he says reprovingly, In answer to a jest,
This book will keep you from sin. Sin will
keep you from this book On the cards he
distributes and among the printed posters
decorating his well stocked stall the
passerby may read:
Satan trembles when he sees
Scriptures sold as cheap as these.
with his megaphone in hand John Henry
Way, a lifetime devotee of this special
branch Of work. calls out to the moving
multitude, Don't forget the Bible and
some are singled out for special
adapted to their special needs. The small
boys whose greedy mouth Is open to re-
ceive G large chunk of ice cream sandwich
is, for instance, arrested by the statement,
You can have a book that will last you
for years for the price of a sandwich that
is lost in a second Probably the sand
witch is lost and the book is not gained, but
the boy has been made to think"
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and. In the pioneer days Il was the seat
Of the land office, and played a great part
in the river traffic.
August -, 1854. Richard Brown. from
Holt county, Missouri, crossed the river
and landed at a little cave among the
bluffs on the Nebraska territory side. He
was impressed with the beauty Of the spot.
As to whether he had dreams OF founding
a great city or simply a village II un-
known. but the fact remains that he drove
stakes. and laid out = t0wn-Brownv1ne-
which grew and prosDered. until an aggre-
cation Of circumstances completed her de-
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New York Provides Bibles in Vast Numbers for World Distribute

CIV YORK, Jan. 22.-There is a
door in a Fourth avenue build
ing which has all the hall marks
Of shipping department doors
in general-battered side posts,
polished iron chutes. boxes on the
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Quaint Features of Life

mat floor and simply and naturally puts
the baby into the open folds. No screams.
What excuse can the baby rave to yell?
Simply a matter Of dress-nothing MORE.
But see what a difference It makes in life!
TO the American mother the century old
hysterical fit of screaming so terrifying TO
her; to the Japanese mother, perhaps, the
sweetest melody on earth-the mellow cool
ing Of content.
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night, a perfectly well woman.
Physicians twelve hours before had pro-
nounced life extinct. The woman's hus-
band, Captain E. ]. Miller, master OF the
army steamer Poe, had left the city to
make arrangements for a grave for his
wife, and for conducting the funeral
Mrs. Miller, in breaking out of the cof-
fin toppled 1t over and was slightly in
jured. The CONSERVATION among the
mourners was so great that 1t was with
difficulty they were induced to return 20
the chamber and render aid, The case is
declared to be one Of suspended respira-
ton.