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AOTMARCraK ? X Bill Does Not Like the Month of Bluster. THEN HE WRITES OF MYTHOLOGY Tells Mow We Month Uot its [NameThen He Tells Some of the Stories of Mythology. March has no friends. It is a- disagreeable. uncertain, blus'teriug month. It was named for Mars, the God of War. who was the son of Jupiter and was always hunting around for a fight. He was believed to be the father of Romulus, the founder of the Roman Empire, and hence was held in great reverence by the Romans. March was named for him. Those old Greeks and Romans had no weeks? nor days of the week?no Sundays or Mondays or. any other day. but they divided time by Calends and Ides. The Calends were the first days_ of the. month and the Ideas "were the"" ""fifteenth. All the intermediate d^vs j were designated by tljese. as- for instance, the third d^y attsr the Calends of May or. the fifth day before the Ides of March. The Roman -Senate always began its sessions on the Ides of the month, except that after Julius Caesar was murdered the anniversary of that day the Ides of March were observed as a sacred day. I want the young people to know and remember thai we got our months from Roman mythology and the days of our week3 from the Scandinavian mythology. Now listen to a part of this wonderful story, for it is classic and more dascinating than tne Arabian Nights. Two thousand years ago it was the faith and religion of millions of people. Jupiter was the god of the Greeks and the Romans and Woden was the god of the Norsemen and each had a son who was the god of war. There .was the son of Woden. Wednesday was named for Woden and It was originally Woden's day. Thursday was named for Thor and Friday for his mother. Each of these mythologies had a hades or infernal region for bad people and evil spirits. Pluto presided over the one and a woman named Hela over the other. That is where the word Hell came from. It seems an awful thing to put hell in charge of a woman, but they said that no man was as bad as a bad woman. Her father was named Lold and she had two brothers. One was a serpent so big and so long that it wrapped around the world and *then .nfollniroH nurn tail Thp nther WAS onoiiun tu IU> vnu VMi?. * wolf, so strong that he broke the strongest chains just like they were cobwebs. Then Woden got the mountain spirits to make another chain and they made it of six things. The noise made by a cat walking, the beard of a woman, the roots of stones, the breath of fishes, the smiles of bears and the spittle of birds. When the chain was finished it was as small and smooth and soft as a silken string, but no power on earth could break it. And so they chained him and killed him. But listen what kind of a home Miss Hela had. Hunger was her dining table. Starvation was her knife. Delay was her man servant? Sloth her maid servant. A precipice was her door step. Care her bed, and Anguish the curtains to her bed chamber. No wonder she was cruel and always wore a stern, unhappy and forbidding countenance. This is just a sample of their mythology. It fills up several books. Now, where in the world did that people get all these wonderful stories. Away back in the ages they must have had poets more imaginative than Homer. Some of our most learned men say they got the foundation of many of them from the Bible. For the story goes that away back in the ages the people got so bad that Jupiter got dreadful mad with them and resolved to destroy them. So he summoned all the gods to come to him, and they came from al parts of the heavens, traveling on the milky way. which 13 the street of the gods, and after taking counsel together they determined to destroy all mankind and start w th a new pair. So Jupiter wa? about to launch a red hot thunderbolt at the earth and burn it up .but one him that hp had hpt Ul IUC ^jUU o tuui Uiiu VUMV ? ? ? ter not. for he might burn up heaven. too. So he concluded to use water Instead of fire, and then came the flood which drowned every human being except Deucalion and his wife, who w^re good people. They escaped t othe top of a mountain called Barnassus and were saved. That is very much like the Bible story of the flood an4 of Noah and Mount Ararat. And ju >t so they got Hercules from Samsoj and Vulcan and Apollo from Jubal a id Jubal Cain, and the Dragon frc mi he serpent that tempted Eve. and t!-.e giants who tried to scale the walls of heaven from Nimrod and his tower. Every great heathen god had a favorite son just as our Christian God has a Son. There is something sublime and comforting in even believing or imagining that a great and good being is somewhere in the heavens overruling the earth and its people, prospering the good and punishing the evil. The fact that this all powerful being is invisible makes His existence the more impressive. Jupiter sat enthroned on Mount Olympus. Woden had a beautiful palace of gold and silver at Valhalla and it could only be reached by walking on a rainbow. And we pray to our God, saying; "Oh, Thou who dwellest in the heavens." and not in the temples made with hands. History gives no account of an? people who did not put their trust in some GoGd. and this proves our confession of weakness and our need of strength from some supernai tural divinity. The more cultured and enlightened we become the more con scious we are of our weakness. Children depend absolutely on their parents until afar-up in their teens. They do not need any other God, but by and by the' parents pass away or fail cnnniv thpir inoreasinsr wants and ( IU M v* I' I' *? ??? _ . then comes that feeling of helplessness and the want of a protector. Reflection comes with age and the more reflectively a man becomes and th< more intellingent from study and culture. the more he must realize his igi norance and dependence. Therefore, j I cannot understand how such a cultured gentleman as Ingersoll can be so. irreverent,, so careless and prayerless ' about his'own existence, for he cannot j tell .by what power he raises his hand ) or closes his eyes when he wills to do so. He says he would have planned many things very different. He-would j have given man wings and the power to fly. He would have made health catching instead of disease. He would . have made infants colic proof and they : should be as lively when born as lttle chicks when they come out of the shell i ! and the old tpen should always be calm, i and serene. :in fact, he would have i made everybody happy during life and. | every, death a painless one. He ough< to have gone a little farther and abol1. i$he(i.dcat,b find' <fhsn"; created more I world's for the never dying people ta. live in. But we are here and have to j submit to things as we find them, and, as Governor Oates said, "Mr. Ingefsoll, I ?trr, inor trt ^ r\ nhnilt it?" ! Wilill me .> uu fcuuij, w uw And now I want this month of March : to hurry up and pass away. It is ag| gravating my grippe and I feel more like writing "an ode to melancholy.' : It conthacts and withers my charity ! for my fellow en. I don't care a cent I for Roosevelt and Tillman, nor Spooner nor the Atlanta depot. But as the | old Persian prophet said, "Even this shall away." Fifty-three years ago to; dav mr wlftk and I were married, but i on our account the weather was " as ) lovely as a Lapland night I was one of ton children?my wife was one of . ten, and we have ten, and they have I twenty, and no great calamity or af; fliction hath befallen us, thanks to the good Lord for His mercies.?Bill Arp, , in Atlanta Constitution. Exciting Hotel Fire. Marshalltown, Iowa, Special.?Half a a block of buildings In the heart of the city were destroyed by f re early Tues! dav. entailing a loss of $75,000, result ing in injuries to several guests and i employes of the Trement Hotel, and the 40 guests of the hotel had but little time to escape, as the flames spread rapidly, cutting off avenues of escapo. The screams of the girls aroused the guests, many of whom jumped from the first floor balcony to the pavement below in their night clothes. The fire started in the elevator shaft Rural estates in Cuoa devastated during the war will continue to enjoy a 33 per cent, reduction in taxation. Blast furnace workers all over the I country will ask for three eight-hour shifts instead of two tweive-nour ones per day. Brigadier General Funstcn. who is in New York on his way to Washington, says that "there is no more war in the Philippines than there is in Kentucky, assassins lurk in the canes and shoot down men who are at uielr mercy, but there are no soldiers in the field to battle with United States troops. Even respectable guerilla warfare has ceased." Wm. G. H. Stump, prominent in social and business circles of Baltimore, died from injuries received by falling frcm a train. In the Henry Foundry in New York city was cast a tablet for the memorial to be erected to the memory of those who fell during the battles in the war of South Africa. The first name.on its | ron of honor is that of Lieutenant i Chas. Carroll Wood, the son of Capt. i J. Taylor Wood, commander of tho J Tallahassee, a Confederate war vessel. The latter was the nephew of Jefferson Davis. xThree floors of a Cleveland bakery collapsed, injuring 10 girls, and 5 others are missing. Fear of a nob. Marion, Ala., Special.?As the result Of a report that a mob of negroes is marching toward this town, with the intention of attacking the county jail ami releasing two negro murdareds, one ' of whom, Luke Sanders ,to to hang, : citizen soldiery is being organized and at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening 50 j men were under arms prepared to meet i the negroes. Pickets have been thrown | out on every road leading into the 1 town and if the mob appears a serious ! conflict is feared. Another Snow Storm, New York, Special.?Another storm : which threatened to do much damage started Wednesday morning. The snow i was heavy and wet and considerable ! delay to traffic on elevated and surface 1 lines resulted. On the river the water i was so thick that ferry boats were unable to run at more then haJf speed. The snow was accompanied by a moderate wind. The snow stopped shortly before noon and was followed by sleet. A total depth of 6 inches of snow has rauen. According to The Express Gazette. I there were sixteen train robberies last ] year and twenty-nine in 1900. In the i past twelve years 306 trains has been I "held op" by robbers, and 95 persons j billed aad 105 injured by being shot. In the past two years f- train robbers I were killed and 2 womuled, and 2 pas' sengers and trainmen killed crd 10 ' wounded. TROUBLE AT NORFOLK ; *' Street Car Strike Assumes Threatening Proportions. MARTIAL LAW EXISTS IN THE CITY Thousands of Strike Sympathizers Thronged the Streets and Police end Military Were Helpless. Norfolk; Special.?A mob of 5.000 strike nympathizers thronged the streets of Norfolk Tuesday on which the maJn line of the Norfolk Railway and Light Company runs, and the police were unable to cope with It. From noon until after (lark, when the cars, which were crowded by detachments of militia, had run with difficulty all day, were Roused .in the harn3 the mob had things its own way in the city. Irfc-lhe county where the barns are,, the military..V;as. in control of the situation. Cars were repeatedly derailed., wagon loads of rocks were piled on the tracks and free fights between the rfnlitary and the crowd occurred during the day at freo.uent intervals. In one oi these, a sergeant ran a bayonet through the arm of a man named Hadnetsof, e laborer. The man's wife was standing by her husband at the time. She knocked the sergeant to the grouna with both fists and discolored the fact of Lieutenant E. R. Gale, who was near her, with a well directed blow Several soldiers were hit by bricks and other missiles thrown through the windows of the cars. A number of arrests have been made, both by the police and military. A conference wa3 held by Mayor Boaman; Police Chief Veltines, Colonel Higgs, commanding the Seventy-first Regiment, eight companies of whlct are in serv'ce relative to placing the city under martial law. The police force of 100 men has been on duty foi <8 hours, and is unable to meet th< emergency. It Is possible the four additional companies of the regiment and ft battery of artillery will be called foi In the morning to take charge of the city. There is no settlement of the strike in sight, both sides adhering tc their first positions. Martial law will be declared in Norfolk in the morning. Four more in fantry companies from Empeoria, Suffolk, Smithfleld and Franklin, making the entire Seventy-flrst Regiment, have been ordered out. The strikers cut a mile of trolley wire in the city. The troops are now guarding the power plant. A detachment of a Newport News company, under Capt. Gllkerson, is on duty. At a meeting at night, the Central Labor Union boycotted the street cart OftmmAn Q W Kf?l]v nlcn a leader of the strikers, offered a resolution at the night's council meeting to revoke the street railway franchise for lapsing of two days in running oars. The resolution was referred to a special committee. Tuesday night six non-union men from Knoxville were held up. The strikers overpowered them. Many bore arms and were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. Over $200,000 Damage. Chattanooga, Special.?Official reports received at railroad headquarters -t. m-i xi? _ x..~x: t- xu ~ a A snow i.iicti me suuauuu hi luc iiinsucu district is improved. The Southern Railway's loss between Morristown and Asheville will aggregate from $200,000 to $250,000 to road bed and bridges alone. The loss by delayed and annulled trains and cutting off of all passenger and freight traffic since la3t Thursday will be very large. About 900 men are repairing the road and bridge on the Asheville branch. There is still a gap of 32 miles between Marshall, N. C., and Del Rio, Tenn., without service. The Atlanta division has been opened between Atlanta and Macon and between Columbus and McDonough. On the Alabama division trains are running regularly. The worst of the flood in the Tennessee is passed and the main river will be within its banks by the latter part of the week. Cadets Appointed, Washington, Special.?The President lias made the following appointments, for cadctship at the Naval Academy: Ralph L. Sampson, son of Rear Admi? />i ? t?i. rai sampson, principal; >?uuuitaiu Phillip, son of the late Rear Admiral Philip, first alternate; 0. W. Howard, son cf Major General Howard. U. S. A., second alternate, and P. M. Taylor, son of Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, third alternate. Telegraphic Briefs. May dmmmond, a New York telephone operator, will make a fight for the estates of the late Earl of Perth. Floods in Maryland. Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia did immense damage, inundating scores of towns and many miles of farming lands. Two stonemasons were killed and two injured in the collapse of a portion of the addition to the Fidelity Trust Company's building In Philadelphia, The condition of 0. H. P. Belmont. o| New York, who is sick with pneumonia in Washington, was a trifle better. He is very seriously ill. United States coinage for Februarj ?59,261,340. J.H.WEDDIN( HffRDV> <* - T*1 29 E. 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