The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 13, 1902, Image 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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