The new enterprise., 1902-04-03
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Partow Philosopher Again Re-
yerts to- Ancient Mythology
MARCH IS A MUCH IESPISED MONTa
.,n,, lta sluoter and Dlsssreeahlenees
II Has no Frlcnds--How the
North Got Its Name.

RI March has no friends. 1t Is dlsa
ureeable, uncertain, clustering month.
!, wss named for Mars, the god Of
War who was the son of Jupiter, and
vas always hunting around for
te.ht He was believed to be the
,stber Of Romulus, the founder Of the
roman Empire, and hence was held in
oreat reverence by the Romans, March
wac named for him. Those old
greeks aud Romans had no weeks
NOR days Of the woek-no Sundays or
Nondays or any other day, but they
divided time by Calends and Ides. The
calends were the first days Of the
month and the Ides were the fifteenth.
An the intermediate days were des-
1irpated by these, for instance, the
third day after the Calends Of May,
Of the hfth day before the ldes of
March. The Roman senate always
began its sessions on the Ides Of the
month, except that after julius Cae-
sar was murdered the university Of
that day, the Ides Of March, was OBJ
served as a sacred day. want the
young people to know and remember
hat we got our months from Roman
mythology, and the days Of our weeks
from the Scandinavian mythology.
4 Now listen to part OF this wonderful
story. for 1t is classic and more fas-
4clnating than the Arabian Nights,
TWO thousand years ago it was the
{faith and religion Of millions Of peo-
\ pie. Jupiter was the god Of the Greeks
A land the Romans, and Wooden was the
\ god Of the Norsemen, and each had a
! son who was the god Of war. There
was the son of Wooden. Wednesday
4 Iwas named for Wooden, and 1t was
2oiglnally Woden's day. Thursday
n was named for Thor, and Friday for
Ibis mother. Each Of these mytholo-
. ges had a hades or Internal region
for bad people and evil spirits, Pluto
4preslded over the one, and woman
Inamed Hela over the other, That is
where the word He'll comes from. 1t
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 LokI, and she
had two brothers. One was a serpent
SO big and long that 1t wrapped around
the world and swallowed Its own tail.
THE other was wolf so strong that
he broke the strongest chains just like
Athey were cobwebs. Then Wooden got
the mountain spirits to make another
4chaln, and they made 1t OF six things:
The noise of a cat walking, the beard
8of woman, the roots of stones, the
Xbreath of fishes, the smiles Of bears
&and the spittle of birds. When the
Hchain was finished 1t was so small and
Xsmooth and soft as a silken string, but
Ano power on earth could break it. And
x $50 they chained him and killed him.
4 But listen what kind of home Miss
A Hela had. Hunger was her dining ta-
n BILE. Starvation was her knife, De-
ay was her man servant-Sloth her
maid servant. A preciplce was her
doorstep. Care her bed, and Anguish
4 the curtains to her bed chamber No
& wonder she was cruel and always
wore a stern. unhappy and forbidding
x |countenance.
This is just a sample Of their myth
tology. It fills up several books. Now,
Il where in the world did that people get
all those wonderful stories. Away
back in the ages they must have had
poets more imaginative than Homer.
Some Of our learned men say they got
the foundation Of many OF them from
NJ the Bible. For the story goes that
4away back in the ages the people got
20 bad that Jupiter got dreadful mad
with them and resolved to destroy
T. Them. So he summoned all the gods
81 70 come to him, and they came from all
parts OF the heavens, travelling on the
milky way, which is the street OF the
Y gods, and after taking counsel together
the determined to destroy all mankind
and start with a new pair. So Jupiter
3was about to launch red hot thunder
Dolt at the earth and burn 1t up, but
pne Of the gods told him that he had
"A peter not. for he might burIt up
heaven, too. So he concluded to use
water instead Of fire, and then came
he food which drowned every human
e being except Deucalion and his wife,
who were good people. They escaped
o the top OF mountain called Parnas-
NJ US and were saved. This Is very
nneh like the Bible story of the Hood
ina OF Noah and Mount Ararat. And