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Show RELATED BY BIBLE SELLERS Queer Things, It Appears, Are Tradsd for the Books In Many Foreign For-eign Lands. The dangers snd humors of the life of the Itlblo colporters the men and women agents of the Uiitlsh and For-t For-t gn Bible society who sell the Scriptures Scrip-tures In the scattered villages of nearly near-ly every country In tho world are modestly recorded In the report Issued Is-sued a few days ago, the London Mall states. In South India last year a colporter caught sight of a tiger crossing his path. In Durma a colporter came face to rface with a leopard. In a Pern town a Iilble seller was cruelly beaten beat-en by fanatical opponents. In the Insurrection In-surrection In Persia a colporter was arrested and charged with being either eith-er a spy or an assassin. On the other hand, the colporters have experiences which relieve the hardships of their tnrks. An old woman wom-an In France bought a copy because her fancy was struck with the name NathanacI which occurred in a chapter chap-ter read to her by the seller. She thought the name very pleasing, and decided to propose it for a grandson who wss not yet baptized. Curious bargains are often struck , by these Iilble sellers. Eggs are a frequent currency. In a Roumanian village a colporter bartered a Hlble for a hen. It was a very excellent ( hen, so he added a New Testament , For fcur yards of home made linen he . dlBpoied of another Pible. Tenets ' and "a lump of bacon" was the price ( of one Plble In a Hungarian village. ( In northern Hungary a farmer gave a live pig for a large I'.lblo. A rab-bit rab-bit was an exchange In one Spanish village, and a jinnt1ty of pxervcd peppers and tomato a In another. An Arab woman In Fez Insisted on 1 . giving her silver ring for a Bible, ar. i I at a neighboring village a Gospel wri I exchanged for a pall of water fcr t-j colporters borse. In Korea payment J wss taken In potatoes. These the colporter trsded for rice In a market 1 ten miles away. Tbe rice provided J him with food for several days. In ' another village a man, too poor to pay In coin, bartered a vine, the Inner bark ' of which ! used locally In making 1 ropes. In some psrts of southern Prazil eggs, fowls, fruit, coffee, cab- ' bags, bread and brick sugar are ex changed for PIbles. Different. 1 "Do you vote tbe same as your bus bandr 1 "1 should aay not! He votes lh 1 same as me. 1 |
