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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21

the Master The 11th chapter of He brews" gives us a glorious list of heroes of the faith; but Genesis" Judges" and Kings" show that these same heroes could and did fall into grlevous sins. Christian people are liable to such de- clensons, and Jude tells us that God IS able to guard us against them. He is also able to "present you faultless before the presence of his glory" The grandest am btion that any soul can have is the ann
 bition to be faultless. When l look around
 upon this sin-cursed world and see so much wlckedness and Godlessness when
 I look into my own heart and see there so much to mourn over. the outbursting desire of my soul is that some day-l don't know when-and in some plaee-l don't know where--I may be found fault less. all sin swept away. all evil thoughts banished-a soul spotless in the sight of God washed white in the blood of the Lamb I do not wonder that men have sung in prison and in chains; their faith looked forward to the day when they should stand faultless before God. clad
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eral merely are Latin numerals, one is derived from a Roman clan name. and one from an adjective expressive of the month itself.
 January, the first month of the year. originally held It's present position, but for long time it was displaced It is the month of Janus two-faced deity of the ancient Latfns-a primitive Italian solar divinity, regarded as the door keeper of heaven and the special patron of the beginning and ending of things As it was necessary for him to view the rising and the setting of the sun, he was provided with couple of physogonlies; thus he did not have to turn around when Apollo's chariot crossed the nadir and began its descent toward the western seas.
 Another definition of Janus given us Is: "A genus of hymenopterous insects of the family of Uroceridae, resembling Ce- phus, but distinguished from it by tho filiform attennae." I doubt seriously any connection between all this and the der ivation of the word January.
 February the second month, is inter- esting A Roman festival of purification and expiation was celebrated February IS. This was sacred to Lupercus (sur- named Februus). the Lycaean Pan. When introduced into the calendar, February was the last month of the year, preced- ing January. About 450, B. C., 1t was made the second month Later reckonlngs made March the first month. and Febru- ary again brought up the rear.
 March. now the third month, gets its name from Mars, Q Latin deity identified by the early Romans with the Ares of the Greeks, with whom originally it had no connection. Mars had a somewhat checkered career. As the warriors guar dian he bore the epithet Gradivus, but
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POEMS YOU OUGHT 70 READ

Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown. Who wept with delight when you gave
 her a smile And trembed with fear at your frown? In the old churchyard in the valley Ben
 Bolt,
 In a corner obscure and alone, They have fitted a slab of the granite so
 gray
 And sweet Alice lies under the stone. Under the hickory tree. Ben Bolt, Which stood at the foot of the hill, Together we've lain in the monday
 shade.
 And listened to Appleton's mill. The mlll-wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben
 Bolt.
 The rafters have tumbled In And & quiet that crawls around the
 walls as you gaze Has followed the olden din. And don't you remember the school Ben
 Bolt,
 With the Master so kind and so true, And the shaded nook by the running
 brook,
 Where the fairest wild flowers grew? Grass grows on the masters grave, Ben
 Bolt,
 The spring of the brook Is dry. And of all the boys who were school
 mates then, There are only you and L
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
BY VIM. B. PHILLIPS

trial supremacy. The greatness of the United States Steel Corporation does not depend on the pig Iron it makes so much as on what 1t makes out of the pig iron.
 It is gratifying to observe that one of the largest companies in the state is in- creasing it's facilities for converting cruds pig iron Into finished forms of steel.
 It may well be that we are now making enough pig iron and that any further ex- tension of the business Is unuadvisable. The industrial development of this dis trict and state will not be along a road lined with pig iron. It is not more pig iron that Is needed. but peter iron made at d lower cost and intended for local rolling mills and steel works. Iron that is to re-appear here as rails and beams and cotton ties and blows and cotton gins and congresses and boilers and en- zines and shafting and pulleys and wire fencing and wire nails and galvanized Iron and tho thousand and one things else that may not even be enumerated for lack of space.
 Ai thlu district Is to fulfill its earlier and even It's present promises 1t must be along lines of manufacturing, not in the construction of additional furnaces and the outpouring of additional floods of pig iron. This is not prophecy, 1t is a neces- sity.
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helpless and dumb, bound by the fet- ters of sex. What chance have l to do anything? What chance have l to rise? What chance have I to expand my wings and fly? None! I am woman, and be- cause I am a woman the door of hope is shut right in my face.
 And yet, Mrs. Bond, I am full or as- pirations. I yearn to do great things, noble deeds. I feel that If l had the chance I would make one of the worlds greatest rulers, a king or an emperor, whose fame would ring down the ages I have a natural genius for command. A will at once, just, but flexible, faculty for enforcing obedience-here, you Sam. put that pie down. Didn't l tell you not to--touch a second piece of pie? You won't. you defy me? Oh take 1t then, but I don't know what l am going to do. You won't mind single word l say to you-but as I was saying, Mrs. Bond' I could be a great ruler, but, or course a woman can't be elected President In this country, and so l have no place to exercise my talents in that line.
 Or, I am sure I could be a great judge have the judicial mind. calm and un- prejudiced, equable, capable of weighing evidence and sitting facts, and arriving at an absolutely unbiased-you Belle and Mary quit pulling each others hair. Didn't tell you the next time you got in fight I was going to punish both of you without inquiring which was to blame? Hush! Don't tell me what the quarrel was about. I don't care, and I don't want to know who started itl Go to bed, both of you-but of what use is it. Mrs. Bond, to have judicial mind and no field in which to exercise 1t?
 I am sure, too, that I could be great financier, a sort of J. Pierpont Morgan, or a Hartman, you know, that could make millions if I only had a chance. It's really very simple. You only have
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see. they arc likely to maintain for some years to come.
 The district has reached a position in the markets for Iron and coal which is as- sured, so far as it goes. It Is making now about as much iron as it will make for some years, unless the present prices are upheld.
 There is likely to be a greater increase In the production of coal than in the pro duction of iron, for the needs of the coal using population are larger and of more insistent growth than are those of the iron-using population. It Is possible to use old iron and steel, but coal once con- stunned has passed beyond usage. There are some who claim that old ashes may be revived and made to produce as much heat as the original coal from which they came. There are also some who claim to have discovered perpetual motion, and 1t may be supposed that the perpetual motion machines are to be operated by the combustion of ashes. The prospects for success are not alluring.
 10 remark, then, firstly, that we have probably reached point within half a million tons of the maximum pig iron output. Unless circumstances, not now within view, should radically change pres ent conditions 1t Is not likely that Ala ba-1a will produce more than two mill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
SOME ODDZE,S or THE CALENDOR

dle of the year, June Is a month for the young. Then are June roses in the flower gardens and June brides in the newspapers.
 July is seventh in the modern list. It is July in honor of Caius J. caesar, the noblest Roman of them all Caesar was born In the mensls quintilis, or the an- cient fifth month. In reforming the cal endar, he changed the name to Julius, as an especial compliment to himself. Caesars life was a busy one, but be- tween the times spent in fighting the Helveti, Pompey ct als., he made many reforms and revised the calendar so successfully that 1t lasted until Gregory took 1t in hand for final turning around.
 The eighth month, or August, was sex tilis, or sixth, in the old calendar. It's name was changed to Augustus by De- tayianus son of Alta, niece of Caesar Octavianus was the adopted son and heir of the Imperator. He was the first Of the Roman emperors, and died in the year A. A. D. The title of Augustus, or con- secrated, was conferred upon him by a fawning senate, and 0 couple of years before his death, Pontifex Maxlmus was added to his numerous appellations.
 September, now the ninth month, was formerly the seventh as indicated by It's Latin name, septembrls. During the French revolution, a frlghtfal massacre of prisoners occurred in Paris at the be- ginning of September, 1792. Now ma lignant or bloodthirsty person sometimes is called a septembrist.
 October gets its name from It's old or der, eighth, in the calendar. Ale or cider brewed at this season of the year was supposed to have q flavor peculiarly It's own. Hence the "Brown October Ale" of deKoven and Smith.
 The eleventh month of our year was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

in the spotless robe of Jesus Christ's righteousness.
 do not pretend to locate heaven; but the Scriptures contain intimations that this earth may be fitted up as a dwelling place for "the saints in light" Perfect holiness will make heaven anywhere in this city--in your church-in your home.
 The ages come and go, the centuries run their course: history grows gray with age and the light of other days becomes dim as we look back through the ages; and yet this grand, comforting thought should ever inspire the Christian heart-- my Father sits upon the throne of this universe He has the power and the dominion; and in that last great day, when the clements shall melt with fer vent heat and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, my stadfast heart need feel no fear.
 Though wrapped in flame the realms of
 ether glow,
 And Heavens last thunders shake the
 world below"
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| earlier he was regarded as the patron of agriculture, and was known as Sil- vanus. As protector of the Roman state he was called Quirinus. Some statutes represent him as-a beardless youth. while as Ares whskers were provided by the sculptors.
 March was the first month of the Roman year. Previous to the adoption of the Gregoran calendar. 1t was reckoned as the first month in many of the countries of Europe, and in England until 1752, the legal year began March 25.
 April is named for no pagan god. But the name of the fourth month is of Latin origin. The Romans called it Aprills, which is probably akin to apertus, the past participle of aperio, and its meaning is given as "open, uncovered, exposed, unobstructed unprotected" April is the month for the putting forth, tho time when the earth uncovers to produce fruits and flowers, along with the weeds.
 With May, we have an Introduction to a female member of the ancient elect. Maia, in whose honor the month Is called, was the mother of Mercury and god dess of growth and increase. The month carries on the work of its calendar pred ecessor. It was the third month of the old Roman year.
 Figuratively, May Is 8 month of sun shine and gladness, but despite this, to one of it's festivals must be charged the perpetration of that threadbare poem with the soul-deadenlng refrain.
 Pm to be Queen of the May, mother"
 June is the sixth month, and here we leave the pagan deities again, although the land is still that colonized by Aeneas after his flight from burning Troy. It comes from Junius, a Roman gentle or clan name, akin to juvenis, from which we have juvenile. Though at the mid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
FPON 4 WO1NANS VIEWPOINT

to buy stocks when they are low and sell when they reach the top of the mar ket I should do that and watch every leak in my business, and make every dollar count and not allow any waste or extravaganza In my office-what's that you say? The cook wants to know what to order for dinner, whether to have beef or mutton? Tell her to buy whatever she wants and not to bother me about 1t. I simply cannot be annoyed by look ing out for household expenses, though goodness knows what goes with the food we buy. The bills are enough to give you heart failure-but I tell you. Mrs. Bond, 1t Is just terrible, it is appalling to think of the injustice of woman having the financial ability I have and being debarred by her sex from using it.
 But the worse of all, Mrs. Bond, is when you think that we poor, persecuted women can do nothing for the advance ment of humanity! l am filled with mo- ble thoughts-shut up you, bawling brat. l have not time to attend to you-I would like to be a great preacher and save souls-no, I won't hear the baby say his prayers. Let him say them to the nurse-I would like to do something for the world to make 1t better, and a hap pier place for some poor, tired-no, MT. Wray, your dinner is not ready. It Is never on time, you say? Well. if that isn't just like a husband. Now l can't help 1t? I'll have you know. MT Wray, may be slave because of my sex, but I am not a domestic slave, All right. you can go to the restaurant for dinner if you like. I am sure I don't care fg-but what do all my aspirations amount to, when there is nothing I can do?
 An, Mrs. Bond, it's a sad thing that we women have no opportunity of exer- cisng our talents!
 The above teaches one thing sure woman is indeed a far-sighted animal
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Let us note few sentences In Jude, and see how eloquent they are. In speak ing of some wicked people who were doing all they could to break down the truth, he says: These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear; clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit wither- eth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the backness of darkness forever" The writer is ad- dressing Christian people, warning them against these false teachers-men of las civious minds, who turned the grace of God into lasciViousness. Because the cer- emonial law was abolished these men taught that the moral law was no longer binding upon Christians; because we are saved by grace" they held that theFe was no need of works.
 This notion is not yet out of fashion. Alasl that there should now be men con- tending that as we are saved by grace, it matters not how we live Some time ago I heard a Goddess man criticising church members. He said that men who paid their debts al-d cheated nobody 1ul- filled the whole law, and would be saved; that a great many church members did not do this Then he proceeded to show how easy 1t was and how common 1t was for church member to put his property in the name of his wife and set his creditors at defiance.
 I do not defend the spirit in which these criticisms were ma -e; but is there not too much truth in them? Are there not men who live just such lives. and yet hold high places in the church? If you hide your property in the name of your wife. live high on other peoples money, ride in an automobile. while your defrauded creditor Is afoot. and then hold your place in the church-nay, sit in chief seat during the revival" and zealously sing Jesus paid it all," what do you suppose that honest outsiders will think of your religion.
 Now, Jude understood that false doc trines were likely to lead to false prac- tices. II certainly does seem strange that any human being should imagine that a just and holy God would frame a religion to save people without reference to their character or their conduct. Grace saves US frbm sin, but not in sin. The very nameS of Jesus was given because He should save His people from, not in, their sins.
 Jude knew that his people were liable to be misled and to fall into sin. and so he closes his letter with these words: Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with ex- ceeding joy. to the only wise God our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
THE SONG OF SONGS.

A camp of blue, q camp of gray, Were pitched a rhe-shot away. A peaceful river rolled between; The sun had set the west aglow, The evening slouds were crimson snow, And twinkling campfres faintly seen Across the darkening river. Then fioated from the Federal band The Spangled Banner starry strain; The gray struck up their Dixie Land, And Rally Round and Bonny Blue, And red and white alternate flew An, no such fights shall cross again The Rappahannock river. And then above the bleam of song A bugle warbled low. Like some bird startled in dream. ''Home-H Home-Sweet Home,' and voices
 rang,
 And gray and blue together sang. All other songs were like the snow Among the pines when winds are stilled, And hearts and voices throbbed and With Home, Sweet Home. forever.
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K or alone does ships crew include
 M all nationalities. but 1t also in- A eludes all sorts and conditions of men. The university graduate and the illiterate; the representative of St. Giles and St. James; the cockney from White chapel and the aristocrat from West End. Whatever distinctions or differences in birth or education may exist between sailors when ashore they are not regarded in ships forecastle, and there all men are equal so long as each can do his work; but once the sailor steps over the ships side the line of demaecation is drawn, or rather each draws it for him self by following his tendencies and inoli- nations. Thus 1t was that the crew of the Hydaspia broke up into severaltie parties, each seeking its own amusement in the direction where It's chief attrac- tons lay
 It is a custom, and a bad custom, to delay paying off a ships crew for several days after the voyage is over. During that time the sailor can borrow money from boarding house keepers, who gen. erally collect twice the amount loaned, because the sailor keeps no account. Furthermore by the time the sailor is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
BY HARRY J. BURNEY

to a draught from Mimir's fountain, to secure which he lost an eye.
 Thor gives his name to Thursday. He was the son of Odn and next to him in power. He was the strongest of the gods of the Teutons, and defended As gard and Ndidgard from the attacks of the Jotuns. His palace of Bilskrnir was the largest in the world and contained $40 rooms. Ills car was drawn by two he- goats, and he moved mid thunder and lightning
 The name of Friga, wife of Odin, is preserved in Friday This day the Ro- mans called dies veners. By some 1t is thought that Frlga in part is identi- fled with the Roman Venus. Friday ia the Mohammedan sabbath. or the day of assembly. Additionally, the day Is said to have been divinely appointed as a day of worship by Jew and Christian alike. as being the day on which Adam was created and received into Paradise, tho dry on which he was expelled from 1t, the day on which he repented, and the day on which he died. In most Christian nations, the day is looked with sus- picion. and until recently 1t was the day on which legal executions took place. Prescott says that Christopher Columbus sailed on Friday. discovered land on Fri day, and re-entered the port of Palos on Friday. Good Friday is the anniversary of the crucihxion of Christ.
 Saturday is Saturn's day. Saturn was the husband of Ops, goddess of opulence, and was the father of Jupiter. He Is sup posed to have appeared in Italy in tho time of Janus, and early became identified with the Kronos of the Greeks. He in- structed the people of Italy in agriculture, and raised them from barbarism. Ills was the golden age" and the Saturna- lia was celebrated in the middle of Sep tember as a harvest home observance. Even the slaves were permitted to par ticipate in the merry making.
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the ninth of the olden times, 1t being novembris.
 December is Latin for the tenth month of the long ago. It finishes the year, according to the present arrangement.
 As to the names of the days of the week, they show even greater peculiarity. Sun, moon and a star are represented, but 1t is possible that Saturday was called so in honor of tho god rather than In compliment to the planet. Also, the Latin delties arc representa-, along with their fellow divinties of the frozen north.
 Sunday, the first day of the week, the Lords day, and Christian Sabbath, Is translation of the Latin dies soils. the day of the sun, which was in use long before the birth of Christ, and far beyond the bounadlres of Christian nations.
 Monday QLatin dies lunae) is the day of the moon.
 Tuesday, we are told, owes its name to Dloyis dies, or the day of Jupiter first in importance of the gods of the Romans and the Greeks, being called Zeus by the Spartans and Athenians.
 Wednesday, the fourth day of the week. For it's derivation we leave the land of the vine and olive and hie to n colder cline. This day Is named for Wodin, or Odn, the chief god of the Norsemen. In Teutonic mythology, while odin was not the creator of the world, he was the ruler thereof, the omniscient deity who directed affairs terrestrial and celestial from his palace Heidsklalf, in Asgard. His two black ravens. Hugin (ThoughD, and Munin (Memory) were sent forth daily to gather and bring in tidings of all that took place in heaven and earth. Holding court in Valhalla, Odln was the god of war, and after death brave war riors passed there to revel in the joys of the battle and the hunt Odin owed his wisdom. superior to that of all others,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
BY F. I. MONKS.

some English and Americans who may be met at table d'hote dinners in the European hotels. If the clown who drank the water in the finger bowl had taken notice he could not fail to have seen what use other people made of 1t. and In the same way may be seen many persons here at home eating peas with their knife or soup from the end of the spoon when everyone around Is giving them a lesson In manners.
 But all this Is away from the story We spent five weeks in Paris, and nearly all our money. Leaving one afternoon for London we arrived at Dieppe about mid night from whence the boat sails to Now haven. We had an hour or so to wait be- fore the time of departure. We took stroll through the town and went into cafe where dance was going on. It wasn't long until a fight started up between jealous Frenchman and Joe Hudson, one of our party, which resulted in a general scrimmage, during which the boat sailed off with out baggage We had nothing left but our tickets. Gladly we took the boat the next afternoon and arrived in London with only a few shillings and no clothes The next day we visited the docks and engaged to ship on different vessels bound for different parts of the world.