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They Say Things That Fall L*i>on the Reporter's Ears ], "My count ry inon in Italy arc afraitl to strike," says Silvio Xcri. the Italian tailor, who reads the Ital ian papers and keeps posted. Mr. Xcri says there is nn anti-strike or ganization in Italy known as The Has cisti. Whenever a strike occurs the members of The Fascist! take the striker's jobs. As The Fascisti! has just about a million members of its local organizations scattered over all of Italy a strike in any particu lar trade would accomplish little with so urany men ready to till the places ( of the strikers. ?T-h-?-*-8-a-?? 1*. Del.oil. l'uimlrxtrr St reel deni er in bicycle- am) talking machines.! nays that bicycles each day grow less papular. Asked if automobiles had affected the sale of bikes. Mr. De- j Lou stated: "No. but the Ford have." lie says woman's-model bi cycles are never sold now. lticycle riding once was very much in vogue among the fashionable women of Elizabeth City, until the colored wo men took to riding and put a -lump in the sport. ?T-h-#-?-S-a-*? "Wealthy people have their shoes ' repa?. ed more often than poor ones, ami then complain about the charges, says Joe A.-heiis. operator of a shoe repair shop in Klixuhc;h City. Weal thy people don't mind having their shoes mended because evcrybod;. knows they can afford new ones: but poor people are too proud to admit they eau't afford a new pair and go abgad and buy them. ?T-h-?-?-S-?-?? Turk Morrisctte says he doesn't nudes; a ml why it is his name never gets iu the newspapers, llere it is. T- h-fl-)f-S*i- y Congressman I billet S. Ward says the life of a new Congressman isn't what it is cracked up to be. lie told a crowd at Edenton this week that he has found that he eau't d> half as much ou the floor of the House' he thought lie could, but that he lias found that being a ('ingressniati gives a limn plenty to do outside the Capitol and he has kept busy just the Frrd A. Wincke says In- had N eents when he married. lie was a street car conductor in Baltimore. "Passing the fine houses of wealthy people on my run." says Mr. Wine-, ke. "1 kept my eyes on them ami said to myself that some day I would own a fine house too and take life May." And he is. Fred Wineke has amassed a eomfortable little for tune since lie started life witli that IG cents. This summer he has vis ited Pacific Coast poiuts and the Dominion of Canada. Now he is planning .a tour of the world. ??T-h-6- y-S-J-y? Elizabeth ( ity wears .".."DO collars ?>vtt'k. according to local laundry-1 men. L. E. Skinner of the Albe marle Laundry states that lie han dles 3.0"0 collars a week. t'.tMM of which are worn by Elisabeth City people. S. 1). Jung. Chinese laundry - ?tan. says be handles five to six liim dretl ? cotlars a week for Elizabeth City people. Most folks. according to Jung, wear one union suit ail the week and three shirts. Verily the outside is what counts. ??T-h-e-y-S-a-y? Rev. A. 1>. Wilcox, revivalist, preaching ill the Methodist Church in Edenton the other night, said that I the modern mother was responsible for the careless and reckless ways I of the modern girl. ?TlniSl-l? "Aunt" Cynthia Smith, a colored j scrub woman who looks after many business houses and offices down town and whose work puts her in [ position to know the secrets of lots I of white folks, says only colored Jotks know how to keep secrets. "Why. bless my soul." says Aunt Ifyuthia. "if 1 'just oiioned up and ptoM all 1 knows there would be a [lot of folks missing from this here i town." ?T-h-e-y-S-a-y? AVf men often pawn their wedding and engagciueut ring- t<> get money ,to pay their bridge scores, says Situ coe Glasser, manager of Moses Glas ( aer's general -lore tin Water St. Mr. Ghtsser was foriuerlv in the pawn- j broking business in Virginia and he knows. The practice is uot confined to women of limited means, for .'Wealthy women are no more anxious j to have their husbands know of th"ir gambling debts. By pawuing their Bevels ou the sly, they pay these! ?Hits. Then they save enough money Bi redeem their pledges and do it uve again. \ HOW AND WHERE WE GET THE HOLY BIBLE [-Interesting Little Known Facts Told J ~ in Lecture at Christ Church I BP! flow and where we got our Bible Eras the subject of an interesting i Beeture at Christ Kpiscopal Church " this citv Sunday evening. Among t'other thing- it was learned that the New Testament was uot written uu - til 300 years after the death of J.Christ: that the (lid Testament was yiwt translated from the Hebrew in I to the Greek until '."JT 15. C.: and ; that we had no Bible in the English . language uutil less than 400 years** ago The lecture delivered by ttev. Geo. ' f*. Hill. Hector of the Church, was ?llustrated bv lantern slides project ed by U. < . Job. Secretary of the - Chamber of Commerce, it tyok up ^tbe ?tory tllc dis-emulation of the Itible from its translation from the Hebrew to the Greek, the Greek to 1 the Latin, ami the Iaitiu to the Eng lish languages. The lecture dealt chiefly with the Xew Testament which was written originally in Greek. To-day, there is not a remnant of the original writing in existence -so far as . i? known. Three hundred years after the death of Christ, the books of the Xew Testament were copied. The Old Testament was translat ed at Alexandria in --7 1?. C. At that time there were a great many Jews in Egypt who eouid not under stand tlie Hebrew in which the Ilible was written, but who could read ' Greek. The translation in Greek was a great source of delight to these Jews. It is an important version of the Bible and the frequent quota tions in tin- Xew Testament tire from it. ? for iiuwiriHiN in <.-.i.. very fow copies of the Bible in exis- 1 tenoe. It was not until the sixth century that Monks in England be gan to spend much time in copying the Bible in the Latin. From 4IX> to "?n> A. !?. Monks spent lifetimes in the English monasteries, labori ously printing by hand a copy of the Bible. I'p to the middle of the seventh century the scriptures in England ex isted only in the Latin tongue, and could be read only by learned men. The first person to translate any part of the Bible in the language of Britain was the Northumbrian schol ar Bode, la the year 715." Beile died after having translated a part of tin Bible into Saxon, the tongue then spoken in Britain. John Wycliffe born in I.'!-1 was tlte lirst man to get the Jtible in circulation. He organized a kin:) of evangelical society which went about the country reading and preaching the Bible to the people. Wycliffe's efforts were heartily dis approved by the priests as well as the Bishops of the Reformation. The Bishops of London cited Wycliffe to appear before them and answer for his conduct. "It it a shameful thing." they declared, "that the (Jos pel should thus be made vulgar and laid open to the laity and even the | women." The evolution of the l'ible in Eng land was attended ever with perse cutions. l'eople were burned at the stake for readiug it. In 1474. print ing then only about -<> years old. was introduced into England by ('ax ton. At that time Wycliflfe's manu script Bible was a very costly book and was valued at the equivalent of &5(K?. Wages were then about three ceuts a day and it required a life time to produce a copy of the Bible. In ir?2t> William Tynd.tle an Eng lishman. who had been persecuted and who was obliged to work under cover in Germany, returned to Eng land with a translation of the l'ible. By the aiil of the printing press, lie circulated about tl.fMMi copies of the Testament. Eater these were seized and burned, so that to-day we have only three copies of this edition in existence. A strange course of events con trived to bring the Bible before the common people in England. Henry VI11 bad split with the Tope of the Church of Route because the I'ope would not sanction his divorce with Queen Catherine, so that lie might marry Aline 1'olcyn. tin- Queen's good looking maid of honor. So he organized a church of his own. and thru no religious motives, but to vent his spite against the Tope who op posed the reading of the l'ible. Hen ry ordered that it be printed and cir culated among the people. In I it was issued from the press and nil subjects were allowed to read it without control. It was a big. heavy book, and all bishops were instructed to chain a copy to a post in their churches. As late as a hundred years ago. Bibles were very scarce and ostl.v. To distribute the book, a society was organized by the Rev. T. Charles in Wales. The I Jritish and Foreign Bible Society lias translated an 1 di> tributed the Bible in -4-'? languages, and before l!MMt it had distributed l'!li millions of Bibles and Testa ments and its expenditures for litis purpose bad amounted t<> -oO mil lion dollars. The Hooks ??f the I'ible were orig inally carved mi blocks of stout*. If was difficult then to record any thing. for the act required such a vast amount of labor. Hut after a time it was discovered that portable sheets might be made from the fibers of the papyrus plant which grew on the banks of the Nile in Kgypt. The use of the papyrus plaut made it pos sible to preserve the writings of the scriptures and the dry sands of the Kgyptiati desert preserved the papy- i rus parchments from decay. An interesting episode in the evo-. lution of the Hible was the (Jeneyian translation, translated at Oeueva in Switzerland in loth) by three Kng lishmen. It was known as the '"Hreerhes Hible." because iu the verse of fietH-sis in reference to Ad am and Eve it savs: "They sewed tig leaves together aud made them selves breeches.*' COUNTRY WOMEN A good many people living iu the cities have been led to believe that farmer's wives are a discontented class of people, lonely amid isolated surroundings, and generally unhappy. Statisties have been quoted tending to show that a disproportionate num ber of warm women go insane. The Farmer's Wife magazine re cently asked this question to a large number of country women:* "Do you want your daughter to marry a farmer":" Seven thousand answers ' were received aud t?4 per cent of j these Tronicn -aid "Yes."' ( Prize Winning Dinner every day during' Fair Week Southern Hotel T. T. NELSON, Prop. Don't Miss Our Great Exhibit at the FAIR Yon will llml our dom onslr;it\?'l I o?;l!i i:i tlve Main Kxl'ioit ! ? ?: i' -1 i n ? of :-;ccial interest to iive mcj ci:anls ;i n i1 ll'vir trade. ; free samdwic::ii3 Dayton ; Moneywcight p Scale Co. t W. C. TWIDDY. Sales Mgr. C N.G.Grandy &Co. : COTTON I GRAIN [ PRODUCE : Elizabeth City, : N. C. ? ?-4\- ~ Crystal Ice &- Ccal Csrp. COAL ICE PHONES: 16 and 713 ? ? ^ Little Giant Bear? Harvesters RUN light, are built strong and get more beans. They are coming, Carloads of them. Call and see us. Spence-Hollowell Co. ^W"' "? ?" *\u' "//0 MILLIONS to lend Farmers See us at tlie FA I It or any time Virginia-Carolir.i Joint Stock Land Bank Klizab?'tli City. X. Albemarle ; Fertilizers i * Now in their t"?nirth - - 5011 and growing in ia\ >r " all the time. " If ii worr I < b<>M?*r fertilizer* fur (1.'- ???i ritorj we would iiiuki1 . " Ask Those Who Use T!:era \ * * * Albemarle 1 Fertilizer Co. J. H. LeROY, Mgr. Elizabeth City, N. C. See The Independent in its New Home when You Ccme to The Fair Scott Soy Bean Harvesters DO Save More See them at The Fair ^ * Leave Your Parcels At This Store Fair Week ; Or Any Other Time THE Apothecary Shop The Popular Corner Westinghcuse R. C. RADIO Receiving Sets J. B. Venters Phone 565 1 ~vr?' V 0-M Fancy Patent and Aaunt Eliza Self Rising Flour J. B. Flora Co. Wholesale (Jrwiri Elizabeth City, N. Ci K ^ ELIZABETH CITY IRON WORKS & SUPPLY CO. MACHINISTS and FOUNDERS Builders and Repairers of Boats? Maiir.e Railway Dry Docks, P.lill and Marine Supplies Water and Pearl G'rtct Plant, Phono 12 Riverside Plant, Phone 143 Elizabeth Ciiy, N. C. .v?*~ . . ^ V ^ BROCK & SCOTT PRODUCE CO. Dealers In POTATOES FERTILIZERS AND SOY BEANS Phone 184 V. MR. FARMER: Store Your Cotton in Parson s Bonded W arehouse The Original Government I Warehouse and Get the \ Highest Market Price For It. You Pay No Commissions, Actual Freight Deducted
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