Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-09-06
A CURIOUS BOOK.
Written Almost a Century Auo In
a Lost Language.
EVEN ITS TITLE A MYSTERY.
Author Was Obliged to Learn Another
Language Before He Could Master
the One In Which He Wished to In.
dte His Volume

Language Before He Could Master
the One In Which He Wished to In.
dte His Volume.
Curiosities of literature are many
and of many types. but it is at least
unusual to peruse a book written in
one language by a man who was
obliged to learn another language be.
fore he could conquer the one in which
he desired to write ana those mother
tongue was still different.
That is the peculiar history of a vol
ume which rejoices in this title: "Vetro-
mile Wewessi Ubiban. Eitbiklang sa
Northumberland
Almost hundred years ago, 1919.
to Re exact, there vas BORN at CALI
poll Italy, one Eugene Vetromile. He
planned for lis iifework that OF con-
ting the. North American Indians to
Christianity aud in ~r..er 10 accom-
plish this came TO this country in 1910
and entered college at Georgetown,
II. G..
/ There he learned English, and a few
| years later he was appointed mission
AIRY to the Indian tribes in Maine and
the Canadian provinces along our bor-
der. He devoted himself to the penob-
scot and Micmac tribes of the AbnakiS,
! principally the former, and he witness
ed the disappearance of the Abnakis
| from Maine and the erection of the
| lonely monument on the shore Of the
Kennebec river which marked the
spot where their last village had stood,
the desOlate spot where they made
their last home while the territory
which had once been theirs was being
appropriated by the white men.
Among the penobscots Netromie
lived for over twenty-five years, leay-
ing them only when the climate had 50
undermined mis- constitution that he
was forced to return to his native Italy,
where he died in 1880.
His knowledge Of the various Indian
languages was profound, and he is said
to have been the only man who could
read John Eliot'S Indian Bible with uu-
derstanding He found that the Cos
pels, which had been translated into
Micma through the endeavors Of some
of the Bible societies, could not be read
by the Indians BECAUSE the words were
spelled in different manner from that
which they had been taught by the
Catholic missionaries who had Chris
tanned them. The Introduction of
| in NJ
French had made the text still more
unintelligible.
The title of Vetromile'S book, which
was quoted in part in Indian at the
commencement of this article is as
follows:
OF VETROMlLES
NOBLE BIBLE
Such as happened Great-Truths.
Made by
EugeL9 Netromile
Indian Patriarch
for the benefit of
THE PENOBSCOT. MlCMAC
and other tribes of the
ABNAkI INDIANS.
Old Town, Indian Village and Bangor,
1855
New York Village:
Rennie, Shea e. Lindsay,
1860
The bible" is written IN Penobscot
and Mcmac, with ., Il literal English
translation between them. The man
ner in which the story Of the children
in the fiery furnace is treated is typical
of the whole compilation and that APP
pears as follows:
Bob nd n +, d.
sohinwiwak. Piswi pambatamusanik neg
mantle ughisitunan eli pamba tamohudit.
| Daniel uli pmausohino, tie k'tchi tbessWl"
no. Saunsi ukeSsiana nlsWa n tlWa uSki~
nossa, aliwisohak Zidlak. Mizak te ABIDE
nago Judik Daniel te tloak sknossak
anda uli tahandamunan eli pambattan-
silk Kinjenus umadmiman p'mausohinoa
umetkasesan juhi anda tchiksedan kuk-
khinegma. Ketchi Niwesku neglna awlt-
chukkeman sanihi Wetchi anda messi
metkassesilqu'. dattanman kis pskule'
WAX.
The inhabitants of Babylon were
bad people; they worshiped idols and
statues made by them. Daniel was
sanity parsonage and great prophet.
He was in company Of three young
men called Sidrach Misach and ABIDE
nago. who refused to adore the statue
of the king which he had ordered to be
made and to be worshiped The King
then commanded these three young
men to be thrown into the fire in order
to burn them alive. But the Great
Spirit took them under his special pro-
lection, so that not even Il single hair
of their head was burnt"
This was not the only work OF this
man. who was one of the most pro-
| found students of the Indian languages
who ever lived, certainly the most
Woodworking and sincere Of his cen
ry.-Philadelph Ledger.
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