The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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Smith has returned home
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Clifton.
I is visiting her uncle and
and Mrs. C. M. Deal Jr. in
Mrs. Stanley Moore have
from South Texas and
nts in Louisiana where
enjoyed several days va-
Mrs. John Stewart and
Groesbeck are visiting
and at Crawford.
Prince is visiting in
; of her son and daugh-
and Mrs. Titus Prince
Cornelius of Marble Falls
the home of her brother,
npton and family last week.
W. Ellison and daughters,
Mildred, were in Clifton
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attended the funeral of
T. J. Alexander at Ed-
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Millie Campbell left Sunday
Louis to visit her son, C. M.
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McMurry of Slaton arrived
Saturday for a visit with his
old friends and acquaintances,
and Mrs. I. J. Teague of Hico
In the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Sunday.
and Mrs. Gerhardt Johnson of
were guests of her parents, Mr.
Mrs. S. R. Heath last week.
Mrs. Don Reeder and children are
visiting her mother, Mrs. Short, in
Turnersville this week.
Miss Florine Sadler has returned
home from a two weeks visit with
friends at Whitney.
Mrs. Loyd Robertson and son, Jer-
ry, of Sugarland, are visiting rela-
tives here since last Thursday. ’
Mrs. Eula Goodall and son, Edwin
Jr. arrived home Monday from Breck-
enridge and other west Texas points.
Miss Maude Peters is visiting in the
home of her brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Peters at Ozona.
Miss Charlotte Riddle of Dallas
spent last week-end with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Riddle and
family.
Miss Jane Standefer of Clifton
spent last week visiting her grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. McNeill
and other relatives and friends.
Mrs. A. M. Lawhon left Friday
night for a ten days’ visit with her
father, T. M. Fariss and family at
Lake Victor.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Wilkins and
daughter, Serena Ann, of Waxahachie
are guests of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Gibbs, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Outlaw are an-
nouncing the arrival of a son, born
Friday at the Baptist Sanitarium at
Waco.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Rodden and chil-
dren of Oklahoma City, spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Reed. Mrs. Reed returned home with
them for a two-weeks’ visit.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tubb went to
Mexia Sunday carrying their two
grandsons to meet their father there
on their return trip home to Arp, af-
ter a two weeks visit here.
H Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Barnett have
returned from a visit to Houston,
Galveston, Beaumont, Port Arthur,
New Orleans and other points on a
vacation tour.
Mrs. R. G. Nowlin and family had
as their guests last week-end, Mr.
and Mrs. Emory Nowlin and daugh-
Mrs. E. S. Cornelius of Marble Falls
?pent last Wednesday visiting at
Stephenville and Lingleville.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Warrington
drove up to Denton Thursday to at-
tend the graduating exercises at
North Texas State Teachers College,
at which time their daughter, Eliza-
beth, was awarded her B. A. degree.
Mrs. Jack McNeill entertained on
Saturday morning, with a party an-
nouncing the egagement of Miss El-
len Tweedy to Mr. Glen Fluker, of
Corsicana.
Miss Mary Earlene Dunagin has
been confined to her home because of
illness the past several days,
Miss Ira Hix has returned from
Waco where she has been at the bed-
side of her sister, Lola Faye Hix,
who was seriously injured in a car
wreck near Elm Mott several weeks
ago. She reports Lola Faye as doing
nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lawrence and
family will have as their guests this
week-end thir son-in-law and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Breazeale of
Austin, and their nieces, Misses Avis
and Una Lawrence of Waxahachie.
Miss Gladys Hatfield of China
Springs visited relatives and friends
here the first of the week.
Valley Mills received its first bale
of new crop cotton Tuesday, August
20th, raised by G. F. Neill, Rt. 2,
Valley Mills, in the Cayote commun-
ity.
on measure-
ments the tailor’s answer in all like-
New York.—Ethiopia is the land.lihood will be:
of “Believe It or Not,” a country that | “You are not deformed. You have
in many ways seems lifted out of:arms and legs—so?”
Biblical pages. A major factor in an . Donkeys plod through the ragged
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feet the courses of nations, it has not' somnolent idleness as their owners
yet thrown off the sorcery of ancient haggle. Housewives in great volumi-
AN IMPORTANT TRANSLATION
By Bruce Barton
Egypt or the black magic of the jun-
gle medicine man.
At night, through the streets of its
capital—Addis Ababa—roam hyenas,
and outside the city, lions immune
from death by royal edict—seek hap-
less mules and camels in unprotected
corrals. With the dawn come the vul-
tures, flapping awkward wings, sharp-
eyed, scanning the mud-hutted town
for carrion.
It is in Addis Ababa that King Haile
Selassie resides. A man of charm who
in late years has enshrouded himself
in a cloak of great dignity, his royal
estate is a collection of perhaps 100
mud huts surrounded by a wall; his
castle is a frame building and a mud
house.
The huts of his retainers differ not
at all from those of the rest of the
city’s 50,000 inhabitants. Architec-
ture is primitive; mud-plastered on a
wattle frame, a thatched roof and an
Ethiopian has a town house.
The house is furnished with the
same simplicity. Earthern floors,
earthen fireplace and earthen jars.
Beds are rawhide spread taught over
wooden frames. Spurning chairs, the
ebony burghers squat on mats and
eat off mats.
Everything is spread on the ground,
or, as in the case of meat, hung on
hooks. Butter in great yellow mounds
when purchased is scooped out by
hands. Suits are made on American
sewing machines virtually while one
waits. There are no measurements.
The purchaser bargains at the stalls
On March 24, 1844, a German schol-
ar, Lobegott Freidrich Konstantin
Tischendorf, arrived at St. Cather-
ne’s monastery on the Sinaitic penin-
sula. His name, Lobegott meaning
“Praise God.” On this particular trip
he had been through the libraries of
Alexandria and Cairo, as well as the
convents of the Greek and Armenian
churches. His visit to St. Catherine’s
monastery was in the nature of a last
hope.
Lobegott was given free access to
the library, but he did not at first
discover anything of value. In the
evening, however, a strange thing oc-
curred. There was sent up to his
room as kindling for the fire a bas-
ket containing some leaves of an old
manuscript, which he examined. To
his amazement he found a number of
bits of the Old Testament in Greek.
With great difficulty Lobegott se-
cured permission to take back to Leip-
sic forty-seven leaves. They proved to
be part of one of the oldest Greek
manuscrips of the Old Testament in
existence.
Immediately the eager scholar set
to work through an influential friend
to secure the rest of the volume, but
the monks had learned its value and
would not give it up. In 1853, he went
back to the convent and was wel-
comed, but could not find a trace of
the lost parchment. But in 1859, he
returned for a third time, having now
the authority of the Czar of Russia.
Many valuable manuscripts were
placed in his hands, some of which
he had not seen on either of his pre-
vious visits, but the chief treasure
has disappeared. On his last evening
he walked with the steward of the
convent in the garden and was in
vited to his room for refreshment.
As they sat together the steward said
casually, “I, too, have a copy of the
Septuagint,” and took down and un-
tied a parcel.
Imagine the almost delirious joy
of Lobegott when he saw not only the
Old Testament pages he had glimpsed
in 1844, but the New Testament com-
plete! It was one of the most thrill-
ing moments in the history of patient,
scientific research. It gave us one of
he oldest, finest and most accurate of
all Biblical manuscripts. Until the
revolution in Russia this so-called
Sinaitic had been in the Library of
Petrograd for a half century, the
chief literary treasure of the Greek
Church.
There are only a few of these ex-
tremely old manuscrips, and the three
most precious of them are this Sinai
tic, the Vatican at Rome, and the
Alexandrine, presented to Charles
of England in 1628 and placed in the
British Museum upon its establish-
ment in 1753. It is interesting that
of the three finest Bible records, one
is in the possssion of Protestants, one
of Roman Catholics and one of the
Greek Church. Each sect is most
generous in permitting their use by
scholars.
nous skirts shrilly bargain and loiter
from booth to booth, large bunches
of keys rattling as they walk.
Farmers of the country wag friz-
zled moppish heads as they argue
over heaps of corn. Galois, the no-
madic herdsmen, are loud in com-
mercial debate over the merts of a
cow or a sheep.
In the shadows of neighboring
houses tHe old men sit moving black
and white stones over a board as they
play a native version of chess, the
country’s only game.
There is monotony to the market’s
food display. Ethiopians care little
for variety. Corn is their principal
foodstuff, though nomadic tribes live
on milk and wheat. The only alcoholic
drink is made in an earthen jar from
water an<j honey which i3 fermented
by an herb.
The only departure from the ordi-
nary fare in Addis Ababa and the
other towns of Ethiopia is a dish
called berbrei. It is very similar to
an Indian curry, and is highly spiced.
Other than the market places of the
Orient, there are few places where
goods and foodstuffs can be bought.
There is only one really modern store
—conducted by an American—in the
town. This store carries a line of gen-
eral goods. There are also a few oth-
er stores conducted by British In-
dians, who in recent years have been
filtering in to join the merchant
raks.
Very little of a modern city’s me-
chanization is evidenced in Addis
mrnm.
the legations, ah| V.
inventory of the town would reveal
perhaps one bathtub and about 500
automobiles. The tub is owned by a
Greek, and the cars are the posses-
sion of local chiefs and cab com'
panies.
The cars are operated principally
by Arab drivers, who careen wildly
about in a bedlam of traffic.
Once when the automobile had just
been introduced into Addis Ababa an
Arab drver ran over and killed a pe-
destrian. Puzzled at first as to what
penalty should be* imposed, it was
finally decided to invoke the Biblical
law of “an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth.” The Arab was hanged
and afterward traffic was less reck-
less.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1935, newspaper, August 30, 1935; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775704/m1/2/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.