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incompatible with the Golden Rule, we have found it convenient to legate the Book of Books and to wander in paths of dangerous expediency.
 It is strange evolution through which we are passing from the time when the school owed It's very existence to the de- sire for imparting religious instruction to the young, to the rapidly approaching day when the word religion shall be eliminated from the phraseology of the teacher of childhood If the biography of a great character may be used to inspire noble impulses, lofty aspirations and pure ideals, shall we for any reason turn from the nobility and purity of Jesus of Nazar- eth Who has given us parables and moral lessons that have for nineteen centuries weathered the storms of change, turmoil and unbelief? Along with the weird plety of the heather philosopher and infinitely above 1t in my esteem l would place the beautiful and understandable precepts of the Great Teacher.
 Long ago there passed from us the con- troversy as to a comparison between any prior or subsequent ethical standards and those erected by the Nazarene. Just as we recognize the great scientific truths elucidated by such minds as those of Tyndall, Huxley and Darwin, so must we acknowledge the ethical truths which Jesus tauSnt, anu give tnein cnleI pldce in our moral instruction. Moreover, we should be courageous enough not to be d. verted from the performance of this su- preme obligation to the youth of our state by anti-Christan prejudice and sec tarian clamor. Infidel hostility and sec taran bigotry will seek by misrepresen- tation and maedicton to bring these lofty attempts into reproach, but these on- slaughts must be repulsed by hearts sim cere enough to discern the truth, and by voices bold enough to proclaim it In it's highest manifestation. These suggestions lead me to say that the Bible should find its proper place as the fountain source of moral instruction in all the schools of Alabama, and with holy zeal. pious teach CTS should devote themselves to the task of imparting its wholesome precepts.
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resultant of pure, strong, manly bodies, and indulgence on the other with It's in- evitable corporal degenercy. mental in capacity and moral recklessness, the lat ter is increasing in its number of vic tories. The crusade against this prolific source of puerie vices must begin in our schools by the organization of leagues for the creation and dissemination of senti- ment against this arch enemy of boyish purity and manly power. Through the various organizations for the promotion of temperance we should make our appeal and conduct our campaign until we shall arrive at such state of public sentiment that traffic in the materials composing this childhood poison shall fall under the ban of absolute legal prohibition. Cond- tions force upon us the choice between total abstinence and physical degeneracy.
 To some recent achievements of modern scientific research we are indebted for the revelation of the possibility to wage suc- cessful warfare against the most produc- tive source of suffering and death that has ever arisen to curse our race.
 Since the beginning of American civil ized life, the great white plague has stood his ground as the one invincible foe of human life, and his victim has been aban- doned to a hopeless death. But if we may approve the conclusions of modern medical experts, tuberculosis is neither hereditary, incurable, nor unpreventive. Mention is made of this subject here to urge the teachers to be alert to every ed ucative movement that may be set on foot by medical boards and humanitarian leagues, looking to the minimizing of the ravages of this hitherto fatal malady.
 Preventive education will seem to fur nish the only relief for conditions in oud own state, seeing that such desirable aids
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Flowers and Eloyer LoOers
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blooms: one does not seem to care so much for japonicas, for tea-elive. yet they have braveiy held their own
 Crimson. pink and white zonale ge- raniufns are donrishtnB in the. same beds where placed @for summer bloom tng,' their rich green foliage shows no sign of effect of frosf,--yet we've had ice <not from the Ice companyD
 One generous member of the Asso- ciation broke her gsraniums rather ruthlessay. to give cuttings to another. She was certain that the next morning would find the mercury sorneyhere in the ighborhood of zero; so. what mattered itf The grateful recipient bore the branches to . harbor safe from frost--but-the next morning, and the next ten days. saw no zero, saw only "fine growing weather" and the said recipient. feeling aralms of con. science over the dennding of those ge- raniums went by the yard to see how they looked. Will you believe it7 Those irrepressibfe things are putting out new shoots, and df this state of weather lasts ten days longer they'll be in blooml
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REmARK4sLE cRuELrrDs.

Couple in Charge os Hense for GirIs
 Berlin, Jan. 30.--Remarkabie accu- sations are made against young mar ried couple. named coIander. who are on trial at Itzeboe. in schleswig- -Hois- tein. The accused were engaged as '"house father" and house mother. In charge of a female reformatory at Gluckstadt. which. though of charit- able foundation, was affiiiated to the local house of correction. and took responsibility for a number of girl convicts. . eE8
 Certain of the inmates. it is alleged. were systematically illtreated, depriv. cd of food. put into chains. strapped on to . beard and feEEsds and sub. jected to horrible indignities, the na. turs of which 1t is impossible to indi- cate. Finally, the indictment contains The assertion that the girls were bar- messed like horEes and made to draw pioughs and harrows In the helds.. The accused denied ali the counts except the use of stick.
 A discussion took place as to whe- tter. as standing ssin loco parentis" to the girls. they were empowered to infiict corporal puniahment upon them The mayor of the town, who is { member of the managing board, re- piled in the affirmative on this point Asked why, in that case, corporal punishment had been expressly prohi' bited in 1905. he replied that on that occasion one of the girls complained of having been kicked ip the stomach, which went beyond the. limits of par ental rights. ,4a4
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turies old as shown by the Prestbury registers. in East Cheshire. It Is still found there and also in the East and North Rtdings of Yorkshire.
 l The Latin sagma is . loan-word from the Greek sagrna. of the same mean stamp hrm.' Lithuanian tyenkti. dam. embank;" tvapkas. "suitry. hot and oiose:~ old High German. dwingan. "to crowd. suppress" Old Saxon thwingan, Old Morse thvinga, old Frisian~ twtnga. Middle English twin gen. to force English twinge. Ger man 4wingen. ito force. compel" to. 'to draw together"
 svsesriagen, schwerinsen. The surname Swearingen Is an Amer jean variant of the German Schwerin- ! gen or Won Schweringen. local sur- name derived from the village of Schweringen. near Balge. in the amt Of Hoya. Hanover
 Lappenberg in his "EIamburgisches Urkundenbueh." finds the first men, I tn e name Suerinnere. from which the present name Is derived. There is also in the district village called Schweringhausen.
 I This local name when divested of 1 It's sufix is the same as Schwerin, name of q city in Posen, of two vil- lages in the Government of Potsdam. of another village in Pommerania, of a city and lake. two islands and for est in Mecklenberg.
 schwerin in Mecklenherg appears l first as Zuarinae as early as 1913 and later as Zuerin. Zwarln and then under Wendish influence sSwarin. and. on . map of about 1880. Swerin, &
 The correct etymology of this place was first given by the great Czech scholar. Wenceslas Hanka, in 1887, and 1t was accepted by the eminent Butt mann. It was afterwards attacked by Beyers. but 1t was completely es- abolished by Kuehnel.
 The radical of the name appears In the old Slavonfc zver, Czech gver. Slo- venial zwer. Servian zvijer. Polish zwierx, Lithuanian. zveris, Lettish swers, old Prussfan swirins (only ac- cusative plural found) all meaning "a wild animal" These are cognate with the Latin ferus, Greek ther. Lesbian pher, Thessalian phetr. of. the same l meaning.
 schwerfn thus is found to be one of the numerous placenames derived from the animal world. and 1t signifies "a place abounding in wild animals, "a tier-garten," also q geological garden" according to the bookish rendering of one translator.
 This. etymoiogy is confirmed by the old map of 1880, on which Swerin is 1.-the name given to territory desig- mated as forest, an enormous forest of which large portions were still standing a half century ago. It Is confirmed further by the several Schwerins in the Slavic portions of Germany and by similar place names. in which the same radical appears. In such Slavic territory as Bohemia, Cali cia Carnioia, etc.
 Suerinnere, the original form of the place name ,Schweringen. Is deriva- tive of this old Swerin, Zwerin. etc. Thus we have Schweriner See In Meek llenberg. It thus signifies the resi-. dence of one who came from a place labounding In wild animals or primarily the one who came thence. and second.
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Il ariiy his residence or estate. Then itself becoming . place-name. 1t gave rise to the surnanie signifying "the one from Schweringen" or "the pro- prietor Of Sch weringen." The sunk became changed in time after the an. aiosy of the man piaee-names in-- ingen.
 ssInson, ssiemsn. | 1t is the favorite deriviatfon of this surname to connect it with the fish so-calIed. but to do so makes "fsh story" in more than one sense of that phrase.
 Solomon was an undertenant of lands in England both prior to and at the time Of the Domesday. Both solomon and Salmon are surnames on the Hum dred Rolls. The name is patronynic signifying the sson of Salomon." which Is the middle English form. of Solo, mon.
 The name of the great aad wise He- brew king has never been as popular Tn the West as in the East, forming in that respect a marked contrast to the vogue of his fathers name. The story Of Solomon appealed to the Oriental fancy and Suleifnan has spread everywhere the Arabic language is known. Soiyman, Selim and selmar are other Eastern forms. and Suieima, Selima and Selma are popular femin- inc forms.
 solomon is tue French form and Gaiomone the Italian. The French form was the first to come to England. where man. Saiamon. saiaman, saieman, Sai- lomans. Salamond. Saimond. soiman, Soioman and Solomans.. The forms with 70" in the first syllable arc very rare in the early records. Later the Jews brought solomon which gave the surnames Solomon. So1omons. and more of those names above with an ante penuitimate eo.p
 Consequently those variants with an '.av In the first syllable represent gen. Feraliy, if not always native English born. while those with m ''0'' in the first syllable are in the great major ity of cases. but not in all, of Hebraic descent. A glance at any Engiish or American directory. noting the per sonai names and the occupations, will confirm this distinction.
 Solomon is from the Hebrew Sheio- mob, peaceful. pacific" so A semantic equivalent of the Greek Eirenafos. Latin Irenaeus and German Friedrich. English Frederick. The name was Q most appropriate one for this man of peace. the most peace-loving of all the Judean kings.
 The same radical appears in the He- brew Shaiem, our Salem, peace" in Jerusalem. in Absalom, father of peace" and saiome. one of the first women at the sepulchre.
 The last was also the name of the notorious dancer, daughter>of Herodfas. and for this reason appears never to have become popular in Christian lands. except in Switzerland. where 1t has the dual forms, Salomeii and Salomes the former for the unmarried maid. the lat- ter only for the wife.
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x.... .. P,ewer. sleemisx Now.

N.fe. e. Fieyers sleemisE New.
 Thi, has certainly been the most re- markable January in the history or the
 sesInnins with Christmas week. the "a ras of Montgomery furnished abun- dans ,ewers for all to enjoy exquisite vet "without prices decoration. Since January came. the FioWer Low Low CTS have been trembling In fneiF shoes with apprehension as to freezes ana ,biightinx wInds--yet soft, damp winds, snTinr like In their effect. have gently famed the@nodding blooms
 Sunshine has made many abandon protected Florida trips, for, the iand of flowers" has moved It's geographical position to Montgomery!
 In walking about the streets, 1t IS positively amazing to count the ysri- cities of fiowers in full bloom. Roses have fairly rioted. The malmaisons. so hardy and prolific. have been outciassed by Golden Gates; the Lemarque aas s wreathed itself in simulated snow. the Duchess haa borrowed all the pink of Aurora's robes, Francisca Cruger has Haunted the sunset gold of the West, while many white and crimson beau. ties nave not forgotten their allegiance to aDixie.. nor that this is the 'Cradle of the Confederaeyr
 The borders are gay with violets' white hyacfnths. narclssus and Jon quils.
 for they have become demoralized by associatlon with paper, white narcis- sis," that creature of the florist, but fer the staid Southern narcissus of the golden eye. that emblem of all things proper and decorous in . well ordered aoutherf, garden. to break into bloom when it Knows 1t is January and win ter--weil--ail seasons and signs seem to be failing with ust
 It's example ls being followed by the jasemine famIly; around on Decatur Street, ct a place owned by one of the iasernine is shaking out It's golden, lemon scented bells to the January sun! It is feared the white Confed- crate jasemine wllI soon follow suit
 The Verbenas seem to have arranged Cor an "aii.seagon" performance, too, for red, purple. white or pink blossoms can always be found.
 Then the cannas have kept 1t up. Al the office of Mir. Lockwood, on Adams Avenue. there is fine specimen of new red canna. 1t was in bloom on Jan- uary l4. By the way. who has not en- ioyed the Marie Henriette roses on MT treilis7 Also the little red Rambler has made a prove show there
 At the home of Mrs. Devotie Noble on Alabama Avenue. there fs Chinese magnolia in glorious bloom.
 There is hardly a home in the city where sprig of crimson saivia was planted in early summer where fight iiow--January ls---a spray of crimson bloom cannot be found.
 The usual winter blooming plants are overIshadowsd by the wealth of other
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the Gothic magus .boy, servant" naa- gaths young woman," Old Morse mogr son." Angio-Saxon nago boy. youth. servant" masgth maid" Ger man magd English maid; abso with the primary meaning. She Greek mega. Ayestan mazi and sanskrit mahi, great"
 Clellan, is the Gaelic giIte. Irish gioi- la. old Irish gilla. nlegning Had. serv- ant" the gilie of the Scotch vernac- uiar. This Is supposed 10 be from the old Morse giidr stout. brawny." 4
 The early Gadeiic Christians were wont to call themselves by such terms as ceile "companion.'' cear friend gilie servant" and moal slave" of those to whom they devoted them selves. So giiie In a name may indl- cate the actual servant of a worldly master or one who modestly and rey- erentiy styles himself the servant of some revered or sainted spiritual mas ter.
 The deuterotheme is the Old Irish Failan. later Faeian and stfli later Fil- Ian. the name of venerated Scottish saint of the seventh or eighth century. This name is of Irish origin and de- rived from the Early Irish faeh Irish and Gaelic faol wolf" This is per haps cognate with the Armenian gail wolf" and from radical vel 'to tear" N
 Mcclellan and it's variants McCfel- land, Mcclellan. McLeliand and McLei- and may then be rendered s.the son of the sillie tspirituai servant) of St. Fillan," whose name means Wolf" 1"
 The original Mcclellan was an Irish chief who went to Scotland and set- tied in Kirkcudbright where the par ish and hamlet of Balmaclellan still preserve his name. The clan became numerous in this country. The Mac lellans of Bonnbie were the chiefs of the clan and their chief was created Lord Kirkcudbright. Their fortress was Raeberry Castle which crowned e frightfui precipie overlooking the Sol- way Firth. Some of the clan settled also in Wigtonshire and were count ed among the four most ancient and principal families of that country.
 Sumter, Sumter.
 The surname Sumter and Sumpter is occupative In origin.
 It's history may be said to begin with the Latin sagina, a pack sad dle." from which was derived the ad- Jectivef sagmarius pertaining to a later "a pack horse driver, In the last sense a Medlaevel Latin sagmatarius must be posted as the base Of the old French sommetier. s.the driver of a pack horse.''
 The Normans brought the French word to England and 1t is found in the "Kyug Aiisaunder" ts023l of the thirteenth century. where the sumpters are reckoned among the squires and guides belonging to an army In 1928 simon le Sometier Is described as "a varlet of the kings stable."
 Le Sumeter Is form of the surname on the Hundred Rolls Of 1273 and Ie Somyter on Kirby's Quest of 1927. Sumpter appears on the Yorkshire Poll Tax List of 1879. and is still frequent form of the surname.
 Sumter has lost the .p' and Sumter results from the assimilation. of the labial sm' to the dental "t. This form is considerably over three cen
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nation for the fox. on account of his color So Chaucer. for instance. In C. T. l5s34l speaks of Dan RusseL the fox" The leading variants of the sur names are Russell Russell. RouseH. Rowsel and Roswell, all existing. Thus all the Russelis. etc, not con nected with the ancient Rosel bear a nickname derived from the color of their hair or complexion.
 The Russelis of Dorset. Somerset and Hampshire are most likely to be de- scended from the lords of Rosel We have seen that one, story connects some of the Russells of Scotland with the same Norman family. As prac- tically the only Russeiis in North England are those of Yorkshire. this group is probably Scottish in origin and so may bear the local name. the men from Rosei.'' Rosel must owe its name to some local coloring of soil. stone or similar. for 1t. too. means red"
 The Old French Roussel became in time the French Rousseau. a surname well known in France and in at least one of our States in the Southland. The Old French rous Is from the Latin russus. of the same meaning. whence also the Italian surname Rossi, Ros- sini. Rossetti and Rosso and also the Spanish Roja.
 The Lithuanian rusyas. reddish brown" rausvas "red." Lettish rusa rust. Old High German and Old Sax on rost. Anglo-Saxon and English rust are cognates of the Latin russus, which represents an earlier rudh-so. The base is thus the same as that of the words cited under Reade In No xxx of this series.
 Dries, Drees, Dreis.
 The surname Dries properly comes from Holland and Drees and Dreis from Germany It is quite probable. however. that in this country the names have become hopelessly con- fused in some instances.
 The name is a patronymic from the personal name of the same form, which. in turn, is & hypocoristie form of the Dutch Andries, German An- dreas. These names are from the Greek Andreas and hence the same in mean ing as the English Andrews, Anderson etc. which have been fully explained in No. XVIII of this series.
 McCleIlan.
 This surname is the Gaelic patrony- mic MGillfhaolain. found. in the Book Of the Dean of Lismore. of about i512 ms. of 1467.
 M. is the Gaelic and Irish mas son." isif mab. Old Welsh map, Breton mab and imap. Tn, the Ogam inscriptions which are the oldest monuments of Gadelic. we find the genitive forms of mauvi and maqi. This is cognate with T
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Fius.efI. Rousseau.

The Duke of Bedford Is generally s ndmffted' to be the head of the Rus-
 .ells in IsnklaIld, He claims descent iron, the lords of Rosel. an ancient fef and modern village near Cher- bourg in Normandy These were
 younger branch of the barons or Bric- ouebet. Hugh de Rosel cAule to Eng land with the Conqueror and was { granted possessions in Dorset some of which, It Is said. are still in the i. possession or the Bedford branch
 There were Russells in Scotland however prior to the battle of Has tings as an Alanus Russell appears as witness in the cartulary or Mel ! rose. in the reign of William the Lion and a Johannes flius Roberti Russel ] of Donculaw gave charter dimidium : bonataur sterro cum tofto in dimidea bonata sterre.. etc, to the religious ' house of Satire. In the reign of Nal ; eoini There are numerous early no- tices of the Scotch Russells who are ! probably descended from those early < immigrants and not from Hugh ana : the Bedford line. Ala
 { There fs q story that some of the Russeiis of Scotland n-acknowledging the Duke of Bedford to be tho head 2 of the house. expressly stated that it was due to him as q Norman, not as an Englishman. TT the story Is true. < it confirms the connection of. these { RussefIs with those from Rosel
 It is quite doubtful whether all the Russelis in England and Scotland were ever In any way connected with { the French lief Rosei. This question s has an important bearing on the im-
 mediate origin only of the name not
 on It's ultimate origin at all.
 This ultimate origin Is. to be found
 in the Old French rous. reddish brown" This became sobriquet for
 one with hair or complexion of that
 color and as such came to England.
 In the Hundred Rolls of 1273 we have
 numerous surnames appearing as fe | Rous le Rouse. Rouze. le Rus, le Russ.
 and le Russe, whence the present sur names Rpus, Rouse, Rowse. Ruse and
 Russ. all meaning "red-haired'' or : "fiorid complexioned"
 From this word were formed two
 dininutfves. Russet and Russell. both
 of which became surnames. The lat
 ter became also a conventional desig-
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British autoniobiIe exports new amount to a value of S22,s00. 900 a year Factories are full of orders as . re- suit of the recent automobile show at the Olympia in London. About so percent of the orders are for closed cars, usually of the iandaulet type.
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Names by R<auest>-Dries, McCleiina. SainsWn, sumter, Rousseau, Has- sell, saater. swearingen. V warianfs = Drees, Dreis. McCieiiand, sMeI.eiana, Mcclellan, McLeiiand, Rota. Rosseati, Rossi, Rossini, manstel, isouseil, Howsc, Row seI(H5, Russ, Rpssef. salem, Sat- man, snan,snd. Saiomon. schwer- fneen, seisnas soiman. Solomon. soIosnens, sefsnan, soiyman, sule- izna. sunsFter.
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It Has Anether hfiliien. Chicago Record Herald.
 The University of Chicago sees no reason to doubt that the prospsrity will continue. A sh
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Surnames of The Southland
 Their Origin and Meaning
NUMBER XXX

BY SAMUEL GRANT OH PHANT. A. ma Ph. D. All Oiiyef. MichiEsa.