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December 20. 1911]
In London brought 3,900 pounds, in 1907
the Ashmurnhain copy on vellum sold
for 4,00p pounds. The late Mr. Hoe
estimated that it would not be long bofore
the price of one of these rare copies
mr. eeuene anderson.
president
Georgia-Alulmma Business College.
Macon. <?a.: its diploma means
life employment.
All who can furnish two recommendations
for character and intelligence
should write for particulars.
Write to Mr. Anderson at once if you
want to learn all about the high plane
on which this unusual educational institution
is conducted. He will cheerfully
send you literature.
The A. B. Small Co., one of Macon's
greatest wholesale houses ,says: "It
means much to the business world for
one of such a variety of ripe experience
to be at the head of an institution like
the Georgia-Alabama Business College.
We have known Mr. Anderson for several
years, and we are glad to see him
in a field of such great opportunities,
and we do not hesitate to say that his
work is a grand one for business institutions
as well as for young people."
Mr. W. P. Glover, merchant. Hawkinsville.
Ga., says: "Mr. Anderson
meets my ideals in business college
training work."
Union Dry Goods Co., Macon, Ga.,
says: "The assistants we are getting
in our office from the Georgia-Alabama
Business College are wonderfully well
trained. We congratulate the manage
ment upon such high-grade work."
Kleinberg Female School
An Ideul llomr School for Glrla.
Pupils will be received at any time
after the Christmas holidays and charged
only from time of entrance. For
catalogue of 31st session address: B. si.
Wnlles or MImm Constance Wnlles
Schuyler, Nelson County, Va.
U| Requires no tipping back
^ 1 of the head ? no washing
by hand ? no breakage.
Write for Illustrated Catalogm.
I?
Reidville School
A New Feature
A Christian home provided for the
whole year in which children from six
to fourteen years of age will be cared
for, given Manual Training according
to age and strength, and thorough
school instruction during the regular
school term. Charges reasonable. For
terms >nd admission write to
REV. B. P. REIB, Mgr.,
Reidville, 5. C.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS QUICKER
TIME TO CALIFORNIA.
Beginning December 4, the New York,
Atlanta, and New Orleans Limited, over
Southern Railway, will connect on Mondays
and Thursdays at New Orleans with
the "Sunset Limited" to Los Angeles and
San Francisco. Connection leaves Richmond
11:45 P. M. Pullman Sleeping Cars,
Observation-Smoking Cars, Dining Car.
Foulnment Luxurious In Fverv Detail
A "Bar ORGANS
4NO PtaiMOS
I Pore, eweet tone Superior qoaitt;
I Attractive itylee We eell direct ?I
factory price*. Write, ?t?tto?- vbltu
Hi'iTlililln catalo* la desired,
f '-"Jgs Hlnners Orson Co., PEKIN, ILL,
THE PRESBYTERI
would come to $oU,000.
Alter tue (iuuieuourg Bible, Kobort
11. uouu, wuo is aii authority ou rare
uuoks, piaees tue rsaiter, anted l4o/,
wiiu 11 is uie lrst booK priuted vvitn a
uaie. it uas beeu said that tins booK it
oiiered lor sale wouid bring over $ob,uou.
A copy ot tue same i-salter dated Hob
" "c i^wu^ui uj v(uaixi^u in IA;UUUU IUI
someiuiiig nke 2,ouu pounds, Ibis book
passed into the possession of Theodore
irviug, ot Oswego, and later, with his
noiary, into tne possession of J. i*.
Morgan.
the "Keceyyell ol' the History oi
Troy," printed by William Caxton, the
lust English printer, 1469-71, comes
11111 d 011 ttie list, being the lirst book
printed in the Imglisu language. There
are only a few copies of it known, and
01 tuese lew a still smaller number are
perfect.
'1 he lirst edition of Chaucer's "Canterbury
Tales," printed about 1478, is very
I'd ro o llH volllohln qq o thn 1 J W "i oHi.
? ??* v u??u ? uiuuuiv, uu ui i; mc i cut
tioii of Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d
Arthur" and the First Folio Shakespeare.
A copy of the First Folio now in
the library of an American collector sold
at tue \ an Antwerp sale in Loudon a few
years ago for o,6U0 pounds.
n?e eiaboiately titled "Book of the
General Laws and Liberties Concerning
the inhabitants of Massachusetts,"
printed at Cambridge, Mass., in 1648, is
the first book of laws printed in what is
now known as the Lnited States. The
only known copy of this book, which is
in the library of the late E. D. Church,
of Brooklyn, is easily worth $20,000 or
$20,000. It would probably bring much
more even, if offered for sale.
Antedating by eight years the lirst
book of laws printed in this country is
the Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640,
in Cambridge also?the first book printed
in what is now called the United
States. Of this book there are ten
copies in all; the four perfect copies are
those in the Bodleian Library at Oxford,
c,ngiana, la tae i>enox library in isew
York, iu the library of John Carter
Brown, at Providence, and in the library
of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. It
would be hard to tell the value of one of
these perfect copies, as none has been
offered for sale lately. The Vanderbilt
copy, which was obtained for $1,200,
would undoubtedly bring $10,000 today.
Extremely valuable as being the only
perfect copy known is that of the first
edition of Shakespeare's 'Venus and
Adonis,' the first book of Shakespeare's
to be published.
Rounding out the ten most valuable
printed books in the world Mr. Dodd
would place the 1450 edition of the
Psaltnr mpnlinnprl ?hnvp in tho liral
place on the list.?New York Sun.
T11E ULOltY OF CLEJ1EMLYV.
William J. Locke has distinguished
himself as a writer of no mean ability.
The Glory of Clementina has appeared
in serial form in one of our weekly
magazines. It is a soul study, and it
deserves well at the hands of the
American public. Clementina is an
artist, practically of a rough and tumble
sort. Quixtus is a man of the plot and
professional fellow, but thinks well of
all men. and he is disillusioned in a
series of terrible catastrophies, which
makes the affliction of Job seem terrible.
Unlike Job he does not remain
steadfast, but sets to work all the devil
ment in the world that he can. In this
way he has aided and abetted all the
immortal trio, Huckaby, Billiter and
Vandermeer. Not one of these is treated
by Mr. I^ocke in an uninteresting way,
but as a character study the book Is well
known. It shows the genius of the author
to its best advantage. Perhaps the
most striking passage in the book is the
tale of Huckaby who had descended to
the lowest gutter after a long life of
dissipation from a high position. It is
AN OF THE SOUTH
in the principle In the diabolical of
Quixtus to do all the harm in the world
that he could, but he takes Huckaby into
his conlidence and in oruer to make him
uiore effective tor evil gives him better
friends. Huckaby ig bent on doing his
master, loses heart and determines to
cut out tue rum and ruin of his past.
l ue storj of it is told practically in tne
following paragraph, which may also
. .e the purpose of illustrating uie
style of the story: "It was a happy daj
lor him wueu he moved his books and
tew other lodgings near llussell Square,
lie looked for the last time around the
room which had been the scene of so
many degradations, of so many despairs,
or so many torturings of soul. All that
was a part of bis filthy, sodden, ragged
carpet, the slimy soot on the windowsill
that had crept in from the circumaniL.ent
chimney-stacks through the illlittiug
wiudow sash, the narrow, rank
bed?-all had been part and parcel of
his being. The familiar smell of uncared-for,
unclean human lives saturated
the house. He shuddered and slammed
the door and tore down the stairs.
Ne\er again! Never again, so help him
God! A short while afterwards he was
busy arranging his books in the bright
clean sittine mom nf his i>nw lorlcrirn.^
and a neat maid in white cap, cuffs and
apron brought in afternoon tea, which
she disposed in decent fashion on a
little table. When she had gone he stood
and looked down upon the dainty array.
He realized that henceforth this was his
home. He picked up from a plate a
little three-cornered watercress sandwich;
but instead of eating it, he stared
at it, and the tears rolled down his
face."
Of it SUMMER VACATION.
(.Continued from Page 19.)
Shanghai or Hankow business men. We
soon arrived at the home of Mrs. Sykes,
L.i our party, wheie some of us were to
have the good fortune to spend the
summer.
Time would fail to tell of the beautiful
scenery, lovely walks, precipitous
cliffs, from which it is certain death to
fall, the wonderful views of the Po
Yang lake on the one hand and the
t.ooued Yang l aze valley on the other,
particularly in the late afternoon, with
the auu sinking swiftly yet softly behind
the distant mountains. But these
are only physical advantages. The
mind and soul also had a treat when
convention week came, with Dr. Wilbert
White, of the New York Bible
School, his brother of the Laymen's
movement, Mr. J. Campbell White, and
many of fame in various spheres of influence
in the Chinese Empire.
Then came the wonderful meeting of
th Committee on Famine Relief, which
will soon make itself felt through the
Associated Press, bringing pressure to
oear on unma to help hereiE in addition
to receiving relief from America.
The question of forestry, and engineering
in the river valleys where the land
was most flooded, by digging canals to
the sea to relieve the congestion, and
the bringing up for court trial the
monsters among the Chinese financiers
who corner rice and cause famine fully
as bad as that brought on by the
waters, were considered and acted upon
authoritatively.
Another very important meeting was
tnat 01 me trenerai committee or tne
I'tiion Bible School, under the auspices
of Dr. Wilbert White, and to be established
along the lines of the New York
School, at Nanking. This is the beginning
of a great movement all ove?
China, It is believed, for reaching the
Chinese directly through the Bible
teaching. The aim Is to study the
Bible directly, primarily, and treat
questions of homlletics, history, etc., as
secondary. The Bible opened for China
(1221) 21
iB the cry. The school was opened in
Nanking the first week of September,
with nearly 20U students. Of coarse all
of these will not continue through the
year, but a large percentage will, however.
Studying tllft linilpr utrnno'
Christian teaching.
The most conspicuous thing at Ruling
was the spirit of Christian unity which
prevailed. We have never seen men
and women more moved by the Spirit.
There were missionaries from a large
number of the Chinese provinces, representing
many denominations. Yet the
unity of spirit was profound. Kven those
denominations which in America are so
selfish and think wisdom will die with
them, are so transformed in the majority
of their representatives in China
that they are willing to consider others
as spiritual equals.
After six weeks of such refreshment
we hastened to come down the mountain
and go to Mohkansan. another Montreat,
but nearer Kashing, where our
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...... vuina .uiaaiuii nxeekiug was Deing
beld. But on attempting to return, sorrow
again became our portion. First
of all we learned that due to the unprecedented
condition of the river, due
to the floods, our steamer, "Ten Hsing"
had gone ashore, and would be four
days late. That broke up our original
party. Then two of us decided that we
would risk everything and get down to
Shanghai someway. We planned to
leave on one rainy Monday, but were
again blocked, as the coolies could not
be persuaded to come for us on account
of the rain. In the meantime the
mountain road had been washed by a
waterspout, and in four miles, according
to one report, there were no less
than forty washouts. On the automobile
road every bridge was too badly
damaged for that machine to pass.
Some of us walked down a part of the
way one day previous to our leaving
finally, and can truly say we never saw
such devastation. Landslide after landslide,
bridge after bridge gone, parts of
the road which looked as though they
had been dynamited, so great was the
havoc, the huge stones covering everything.
But finally a few days later two
of our party did get started, having
louna roones ana one cnair. Hut the
writer was compelled to walk the entire
14 miles from Killing to Kiukiang for
lack of carriers. But at last we reached
our Mission Meeting at Mohkansan.
only to tind that there too the past few
weeks had been of the worst. The entire
season at all resorts in this section.
as far as reported, were fraught
with the worst damage in sixty years.
But after all is said, we feel that
these troubles are minor compared with
the inestimable advantages of a short
summer vacation. The bodily rest and
physical refreshment is the least advantage,
though that is the first reason
i?1 iiii^ui miiuc w iij iu*r i iMinLll'lll 1 ( H1 r>
missionary of this part of the world
feels it his duty to take the few weeks
allotted to him every summer. Rut the
chief advantage is meeting other missionaries,
cultivating the spirit of unity,
and nourishing the spiritual life
through communion of saints and study
of God's word. The mind is kept fresh
by lectures given by learned men from
the West, and the missionary feels tliat
never more shall the criticism be true
that "after two years the mental life
f the average missionary becomes
nil. God be praised for these "mountains
of privilege" which he has given
11a In hlo 1 Attn W7n nVi o lion rrn tVi ft l?tr_
men of the world to come out to China
and see us all In our work, and help us.
"Brethren, pray for us."
As the rain comes down upon the
mown Rrass and starts the stubble Into
new life, so may thy Spirit, O God, be
poured out upon our hearts, that they
may brinp: forth abundantly into thy
service.
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