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The Exeter Times, 1923-8-30, Page 2TfIE WORK Q�'CUICIa:PROF.ESSQk paint Dignity of King James Version Gives Place to Every. day Language of the Man in the Street --- Goodspeed Testament Likely to Prov one Widespread Comment. A despatch 'from Chicago says: -- The New Testz;anent has again been revised, modernized, and set down in twentieth-century colloquial terms that the present-day readers can read- ily grasp. The work, under the hand. of Professor Edgar. J. Goodspeed, of the university of Chicago, his been in progress for months, and is now near- ly finished. Dr. Goodspeed is a 'noted Greek scholar. It is from the original Greek that he has made his revision. The Goodspeed Testament' is bound to create widespread comment.' It de- tracts somewhat from the quaint dig- nity of the present King James ver- sion. The new English has the quality of the present newspaper English. The New Testament is original in the Greek. Early in the fifth century St. Jerome translated it into the Latin. This is known as the. Vulgate.' John Wyckliffe, the fourteenth century English reformer, was the first to put the Vulgate into English. In 7.64 the King James Con'rmission, in possession of many additional manuscripts, made the present translation. In 1881, a commission of scholars, sitting in Lon- don; again revised it. Dr.Goodspeed The Late Chief Justice Meredith Chef Justice of the Supreme Court, Sir William. Meredith, Cliancellar of the University of Monocle, who died in.• Montreal on August 21st. One of psis brothers, R. Al, IVIe2`ecliith, le also a Chief Justice, and a second brother is Sir Vincent Meredith, president of the Bank of Montreal says the Greek of the Testament is not classical Greek, but common Syrian Greek, that is why he believes it should be put in common language of to -day. Instead of the old verse ar- rangement, Dr. Goodspeed has used modern paragraphing, with :modern punctuation and quotation marks. Ob- scure and archaic expressions have given place to current terms under - selectable by the ran in the street. All the "ghees" and "thous" have dis appeared, giving way to modern. speech, All lliblical terms of money value, weight, measures and distance are re- placed by such concrete modern terms as "dollars." "cents," "bushels" and "miles," a Biblical "husbandman" be- comes a twentieth century "cultiva- tor"; "guard" becomes "policeman";. "lunacy" becomes "epilepsy," and "tri- bute" becomes "poll tax." In the famous letter to the Cor- inthians, 13th, by St. Paul, on charity and love, 17r. Goodspeed's version roads: If I can speak the languages of men and angels but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move -mountains, but have no love, I am nothing, Even if I give away everything I own, and give up my self, but do it in pride, not love, it does me no good. Love is pa- tient and kind. Love is not eevio+as or boastful. It does not put on airs. It is not rude. It does not insist on its rights. It does not become angry. It is not resentful. It is not happy over injustice, it is only happy with truth. It will bear anything, believe in anything, hope for anything, en- dure anything. Love will never die out. If there is inspired preaching, it will pass ata ey. If there is ecstatic speaking, it will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away. When I was a child, I talked, like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man I put away my childish ways. For now we are looking at a dim re- flection in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. Now my knowledge is, imperfect, but then I shall know as fully as God knows me. So faith,. hope and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love." His translation of the miracle of. feeding the multitude expressed in simple, direct English, follows: The disciples said to him Where can we get bread enough in this solitude- to feed such crowds? Jesus said to them How many loaves have you? They said., Seven, and a few small fish. Then He ordered the people to take their places on the ground, and gave thanks and gave them to His disciples, and the disciples gavethem to the tfeople. And they all ate and satisfied their hunger and the pieces that they left that were picked up filled seven baskets. There were four thousand men that were fed, besides women and children. Weekly Market Reportp TORONTO. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.26. Manitoba itoba oats-- o. 3 CW,51 e n N�a , No. 1 feed, 47e. Manitoba. barley --Nominal. All the above, track bay .ports.. Am. corn -No. 2 ellow, y , $1.08. Barley -Nominal Buckwheat: No. 2, nominal. Peas -No. 2, nominal. Ivlillfeed Del., 'Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ,ton, $25 to $26; shorts per ton, $27 to $29; mid- dlings, $83 to $85; good feed flour, $2.15 to $2.26.' Ont. wheat -No. 2 white, nominal. Ont. No. 2 white oats -Nominal. Ont. coin.=Nominal: Ont. flour Ninety per cent, pat., in jute bags, Montreal, prompt shipment, 4.50 to $4.60; Toronto basis, $4:40 to .50, seaboard; aboard' 4.40. Man. ` flour-lst ' pats., in cotton sacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats., $6.86. Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,. track, Toronta, $16; No. 3 timothy, $18; mixed, $12.50 to $13.50. Straw -Car lots, per ton, track, To- ronto, $9.50. Cheese -New, large,' 22%c; twins, 28 to 23%c; teiplets, 231i%e; Stiltons, 24%c. Old, large, 82c1 twins, 821/2c; triplets, 33c; Stiltons, 331/2c. New Zealand, old cheese,. 30c. Butter -Finest creamery prints, 36 to 38c;; ordinary creamery, 34 to 3Eic; No, 2, 32 to 33e. Eggs -Extras, in `cartons,: 39 to 40c;" extras, 37 to 38c; firsts, 33 to 84c; seconds, 25 to 26c. Live poultry -Spring chickens, 30c; hens, over 5 lbs., 22e; de, 4 to 5 lbs., 20e do, 3 to 4 lbs., 17c; roosters, 12e; ducklings, over 5 lbs,, 25c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 20c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs, and up, 25c. Dressed poultry Spring chickens, 40c;' hens, over 5 lbs., 28e; do, 4 to5 lbs., 240;. do, 3' to 4 lbs., 20c; roosters, 15e; dneklings, over 6 lbs., 25c; do, 4 to 6 lbs., 25c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 80c. Beans -Canadian, limed -picked, ib., 7e; primes, 61/2c. Maple products --Syrup, per imp: gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per gal. ; Maple sugar, lbs,, 25c, Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 12c per, ib.; 10 -Ib, tine,' 11 to 12e; 5-1.b. tinst 1,2 to 1.3e; 21,-1b. tins, is to 14e Ontario honey, per doz., $4 to 84.60; No. 2, $3,50 to $4» Smoked .meats -Hams, reed., 27 to 29c; cooked hams, 43 to 46e; smoked rolls, 22 to 24c; cottage rolls, 23 to 26c; brealcast bacon, 30 to "34c; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon,_34 to 38c; backs, boneless, 82 to 38c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70, lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs., $17.50; 90 lbs. and up, $16.50;' lightweight rolls, in barrels, $38; heavyweight rolls, $33. Lard -Pure tierces, 15% to 15%c; tubs, 16 to 16%c;, pails, 1634 to 17c; prints, 18e. Shortening, tierces, 14 to 14%c; tubs, 14% to 14%c; pails, 14%, to 15%e; prints, 17 to 17Yee, Choice heavy steers, $7 to $7.75; butcher steers, choice, $7 to $7.40; do, good, $6.50 to $7; do, med., $5.50 to $6.50; do, coin., $4.60 to $5.50; butcher heifers, choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do, med., $5.50 to $6.25; do, core., $4 to 85.50; butcher cows, choice, $4.50 to $6.25; do, med., $3 to $4; canners and. cutters, $1.25 to $2; feeding steers, good, $5 to $6; do, fair, $4 to $5; stockers, good, $4.50 to $5.25; do, fair, $3 to $4; milkers, springers, each, $80 to $100; calves, choice, $10.50 to $11; do, med., $8 to $10*; do, corn., $4 to $7; lambs, spring, $10.50 to $10.'5 „s ieep, choice, light, $5 to s$6.50; do. choice, heavy, $4 to $5; do, culls and bucks, $2.75 to $3.50; hogs, fed and watered, $10.70 to $10.85; do, f.o.b., $10.10 to $10.25; do, country points, $9.70 to $9.85. Hog quotations are based on the' price of thick, smooth hogs, sold on a graded basis. Select premium, 90 cents. MONTREAL. Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow, $1.05%. Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 57%c; do, No. 3, 56' to 55%e; extra No. 1 feed, 54 to 56c; No. 2 local white, 5234c, Flour, Man. Spring wheat pats., lsts, $6.90; 2nds, $6.40; strong bakers, $6.20, Rolled oats, ,bag 90 lbs., $3 to $3.10. Bran, $25 to $26. Shorts, $28 to $29. Middlings, ,$38 to $84. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots, $15. Cheese, finest Easterns, 20i4c, But- ter; choicest creamery, 32% to 34c. Eggs, selected, 38e. Good Ontario steers, averaging, 1,160 pounces, $7; steers not so well finished, $6.25; heifers, med. quality, $5; bologna buds, $2.25: butcher cows, $2.50 to $4.50; calves, $8 to $8; lambs, 9.50 to $11; hogs, select bacon, 11.7 as 5; ungraded, de d $10,75; lights, � 9 $10.25; mixed lot of good average quality, $11; sows, $7 to 87.50. 1 r 5w. k.F l.., WHEN THE FIRE FIEND HAD COMPLETED HIS WORK So •complete was the destruction that, as seen in the `piotures; above only ashes remained of the Wawa and its eeentente. ` The upper picture shows the :only wall staudiing, a ooncrerte division which.. failed to ar- rest the flames. In the -second picture is a bathtub partly melted 'With the intensity of the heat, and below all that renselne of the power house, which burned immediately, the 1i4hits being cut oft a few minutes after the alarm was g1'ven: 'BRITISH FERPERSONALLY ON GERM A despatch from London says: -No effort will be spared by the British Government to reach an agreement with France in regard to the Ruhr and reparations. Unsatisfactory as M. Poincare's note is in many respects, it does hold forth possibilities of con- tinuing an exchange of views which may in course of time lead to prac- tical results. Chief importance among these I? i; avenues toward possible agreement Is attached to M. Poincare's assurances that France has no ulterior designs on German territory. This was a point, upon which Mr. Baldwin dwelt in hisI House of Commons speech before the summer recess. In that speech • the British Premier said it had often been stated that there were. ulterior mo tives in the occupation of the Ruhr, adding that he refused to believe it, and that he had always acted on the assumption that the only object was to secure reparations. Therom t endorsement of this p statement by Poincare is regarded as CON- for those "friendly "conversations" which Poincare suggested. In some quarters such a meeting ISSUES between the two Premiers is regarded EtePossibly the only step forward. The British and French "Governments tried at any rate one obstacle out of the path. Poincare's further undertaking to modify' occupation of the Ruhr co- ordinately with the cessation of Ger- man passive resistance and evidences of good faith on the part of the Reich may also provide an avenue along which the French and British may march in concert. •`, Meanwhile Baldwin on Thursday morning began his consideration of the French note. He had conferences with Lord Robert Cecil, Lord Derby and a few other persons, and is under- stood to have annotated the French note so that copies could be despatched to those Cabinet Ministers now holi- daying in England and Scotland, with the Premier's remarkson the ` docu- ment. Baldwin sees ;no reason for calling an .imrt ediate meeting of his Cabinet, and he purposes leaving London with Mrs. Baldwin on Saturday for Aix- les- Barns. He expects to stay a fort- night. At the expiration of that per- iod the time would probably be, ripe weeks of secret diplomacy fruitlessly, and then published notes, and found open diplomacy equally ineffectual. And so personal talks seem: the _ one method left to try. New Chemical Formula to Fight Forest Fires fromAir �Ay A ' despatch from Paris says: - Eugene Turpin, the universally known inventor of melinite, has, supplied' the French Government with a chemical formula to fight forest fires by aero- plane. M. Turpin rp n suggested that an aviator be supplied with liquid carbonic acid, liquid sulphuric acid, or liquid am- monia in tubes, fitted with bombs to shatter them and spread the contents over a wide area. He also suggested that packets of sulphur extinguisher or blasting powder might, be used to advantage. A machine for detecting icebergs s' at sea has been perfected by a Paris inventor: CU13A CULTIVATE'S HER TRADE WITH CANADA. , Cuba is taking an important earl, in the Canadian Nti trial Exhibitionthis 5car and the picture shows Tr. Cesar iortancn, the Cuban Consul General for Canada, and the leader of th e famous Cuban band; tton8.erring with. i e , .. , Cuban nusleian Mr. ops John G,, lent, the :vena rrr-driector of the C.. iv.,E., in I'crosuto. The c.ub J e Melina Torres, i 6' Bn uniform, is regarded as .the Dr. Freest r of Cuba. Natural Resources Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel ligence Service of the Depart- ment: of the Interior at Ottawa says:-- The dependence of one eater - al resource upon another is amply evidenced in the coal mining industry of Nova ,Scotia.. 'There • are forty operating cone mines in the province, and these last year produced 6,568,574 tons of coal. The year 1913 sasiv the largest output ever raised, ever seven million tons. To enable the mines to be op- erated, enormous quantities of timber are necessary, in the form of mine props, etc. Last year Canada's forests were drawn upon to supply 18,480,- 000 lineal feet of timbering equal to 8,500 miles, It is in- teresting to note, also, that there are 560 miles of track underground in the Nova Scotia coal mines. tie .21 fessing Christian men Avere the agents e ocracy on Trial. 13Y DR. J. G. SHLAI Le our former erticle we rmlxlrasired the necessity for a high standard is salad and morals on the part of the citizens generally if democracy is to prove in practice an efficient form of government, One of the points at which demo - ernes" is tested and in consequent dan- ger is at the ballot box. " The secret ballot is a safeguard of honesty and freedom in this expression of political manhood and womanhood. It snakes possible an honest vote, It is not suf- ficient to guarantee it. There are sinister influences at work, One of these is the purchasing of votes, The effort undoubtedly is too frequently made in keen party contests. In many cases it is successful. An honored member of the }louse of Commons is authority for the statement in my possession -a signed statement -that in his constituency, a rural one in Eastern Canada, 70 per, cent. of the electors were open to receive whiskey or money or both, and 660 per cent, would importune .candidates or work- ers for money or liquor or both, There are cases on public record where pro - Flying Boats to Shorten I'for, distribution of corrupt funds :and'. Transatlantic Journey liquor. It would seem that many who I are honest in business have no con- A despatch from London says; --I eeption of honesty in politics. The Crossing of the Atlantic will be short- president of one of our old universities ened by eight hours about one week tells that when he went to vote In a hence, when the government subsi- certain general election he met an dized service of luxuripusly fitted fly official of a rural church of the de- in'boats will start operating between nomination to which he belonged and Southampton and Cherbourg, to con- in conversation was informed` that nett at the French part with incoming .that man had two sons voting for the and outbound liners: first time at this election and that he Passengers anxious for a short-cut the father had thought well to give voyage to London from New York or them advice about their duty in the desiring to pick up at Cherbourg the exercise of their new ;power of man - liner missed at Southampton will have hood and had said, "Boys, take all the a bird's-eye view of the English Chan- money the Tories will give you and nel from a cabin built out at the fore- take all the money the Grits will give part of the airship. ; you -but, vote your conscience:" The service will be subsidized by What did this man mean by "voting the government at the rate of $50,000 your conscience"? Simply "vote your a year fora minimum of 60,000 miles party ," flown. Arrangements for the customs But asideticketfrom cases of rigid party service are practically completed. electors who will take money but not sell their votes the party system lends itself to the buying of seats in Par- liament, Legislature or municipal Cure Girl Blind Since Birth council. In each 1,000 electors in a A despatch from London says:-- close constituency there may be 400 of Immersion'in the famous: well of St, one; party, 400 of the other, 100 inde- Winifred at Holywell is said to have The is and 100 purchasable voters. given the power of sight to Mary Wil - ams, The keen election leaders will concen- liams, the twelve -month-old' daughter trate on the 200, half of wham can be of a Liverpool couple, who had been bought, and the • other half must be blind since birth I persuaded. A purchasable ten per The baby screamed on touching the cent, may decide an election in a large water ;arid then displayed' unusual in-, number of constituencies. Here lies a very strong temptation to unscr'upu- texest in a yellow blouse worn byonelous candidates and party leaders. of the onlookers. Tests which were ase The history of practical politics in plied immediately proved that the Canada provides all too clear and un- child could see clearly. The doctor at-; savory evidence that in a certain num- tending Mary had told the parents ber of constituencies the 'temptation that there was little chance of the child ever being able to see. St. ` Wiraifred's Waters Bagdad Swept by Cholera, 820 Reported Dead ly speak of politics as "the greatest game on earth." If it is merely a A despatch, from Constantinople strenuous struggle between two teams says': --Cholera , has broken out in for the victory -and glory -if not the Bagdad, 820 persons being reported spoils, there is practical certainty dead. Anxiety is felt about the lis -i that the welfare of the people will bo ease heading this way. Persia already, a secondary consideration if a con has been invaded. Two have died in sideratir-t at all. Politics ought to be Constantinople from the plague, and the "science of social welfare;" this has been yielded to and 'the: will of the people. defeated. Democracy has in that case and to that extent failed. Practical politicians not infrequent - other 'cases have been found. Memories. , Memories aro the picture books of the rnind. If we cannot sleep or are alone, we may turn over the pages as we like and see again the things that happened in "the long bygones." For- tunate are we if the scenes of the past are pleasant to look upon --if no scor-I pions : of the mind continue to sting, no nettles rankle.' One of the mercies in Nature's dispensation is the gift that generally we recall from what; has happened the sweet and pleasant! things. The rest dies gradually away. The traveller' forgets discomfort and remembers the friends he made, the kindnesses he met, the goodness of the world and the people in it, showered on his journey. Why, in a little lifetime should we care to store up the bitter and the painful? We ought to evict such things to make room for, what heals and blesses. Let us prolong, by thinking of them, those times`. when sympathy and affection mode us happy. In the recollection we may have what, peace and content we will. If we store our minds with such reminiscence, we shall have no space to keep the rest. Lives beautifully lived have had to /elect, as they went along, much of the dross of every clay --the mere "drift and debris.' For in these is no pare ire^sure worth put- ting away for the soul to take into eternity. If memory ray bo trained to hold such facts as tete nuitinlication table.. or a sequence of notes in music or the words of a pri,xte l nage, it may also hold love and truth, faith and hope, It may take account of friendships .and be nnforgetful of the need of others. Those who are busy rememberinl;, and acting on the seer of that remem- brance, ' will find themselves usefully occupied in ways that will out to flight the evils bred in ernnty, idle minds. I It is men who have remembered where they went and whom they saw to whom affairs that matter are in - heisted. It is men who have thought and listened who are fit to` have re- sponsibility, It is :better to confi n rde in those who remember much thano t put our trusl in those who are content to anticipate and to prophesy. only, this always. All else is second- ary and comparatively unimportant. The growth- of a spirit of inde- pendence among electors and the con- sequent readiness to vote against the party of their preference is a hopeful sign of the 'times. The rugged inde- pendence of the electorate in. Great Britain is well known. The average life of a government there is not above four or five years. And the life of governments in Canada would seem to be growing shorter. Insofar as this indicates a development of the spirit of independence in politics it would seem to be In the interests of the whole people and to make for suc- cessful democracy. Ono of =the�ea g test needs is larger number of risen and women of real ability offering themselves > as representatives. To such men ani women this means real sacrifice' d self-interest but it means also the spirit of service in politics. Service ought to be the universal ideal not in politics alone but in commerce, indus- try, the professions -indeed in every sphere of life. One thing that would lead more worth -while men and women to offer themselves for service in politics is the elimination of 'slanderous abuse from platform and press in political campaigning which in the past' has bean and in the present is altogether too common. It would be highly amusing were it not so serious to "read the purely party organs and to hear ` some leaders' speeches in a heated contest. It Is`' simply wholesale, unblushing misrep- resentation and slander!;. Premier of Japan Dies , After 1`-istinguithed Career A despatch from Tokio says:--- Baron ays:--Baron Tomosaburo Kato, Premier of Japan, is dead. Baron Kato, who represented Japan at the Court of St. James from 1894 to 1899, became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1'900. He also entered t &dwelt Cabinet, with the same port- folio, in 1906, but rest cried a' few i months later. Since the war Baron Kato has largely guided the affairs: of Japan and made a policy of "peas, his chief program.