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days' battle of Aquae Sextiae. He was elected 

 consul for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 times, as it was deemed that he alone could 

 save the republic. He was classed with the 

 gods by the people of Rome. Then his popu- 

 larity declined, because of his association with 

 disreputable leaders. He attempted to remove 

 his patrician rival, Sulla, from his command in 

 the Mithridatic War, and a civil war resulted, 

 during which Marius fled to Africa. After- 

 wards, during the absence of Sulla, he returned 

 to Rome and won a decisive victory over his 

 enemy. He was then elected to the consulship 

 the seventh time, but died after serving seven- 

 teen days. See SULLA, Lucius CORNELIUS. 



MARJORAM, mahr'joram, a shrub or herb 

 which the Romans and Greeks wove into 

 wreaths to crown the newly married. It is 

 found in the Mediterranean region and in 

 Great Britain, and has also been naturalized 

 in parts of the United States and Southern 

 Canada. It grows from one to two feet in 

 height, has woody stems, and its leaves are 

 small and pointed and pale green in color. The 

 flowers are two-lipped and of a pinkish white, 

 and the seeds are small. Sweet marjoram, the 

 cultivated variety, has an aromatic taste and 

 pleasing odor, and is highly esteemed as a sea- 

 soning in cookery. 



MARK, a silver coin which is the monetary 

 unit of the German people, as is the dollar in 

 the United States and Canada. It weighs .3982 

 grams and is equal in value to 6.146 grains of 

 gold nine-tenths pure. Its value in United 



THE GERMAN MARK 



About the size of the 25-cent piece of Canada 

 and the United States, and valued at. nearly 24 

 cents. 



States and Canada money is 23.8 cents, usually, 

 however, estimated at twenty-four cents. The 

 mark is equivalent to 100 pfennigs. Gold coins 

 valued at ten and twenty marks are issued. 

 The term mark was originally used in Europe 

 to designate eight ounces of gold or silver. 



MARK, SAINT, an energetic evangelist in the 

 time of Christ, who included not only his own 

 teachings, but also those of Peter in his Gospel, 



which forms the second book in the New Tes- 

 tament. His home in Jerusalem, where his 

 mother Mary lived in comfortable circum- 

 stances, was in his youth a gathering place for 

 Christians. He accompanied Paul and his 

 cousin Barnabas on their first missionary jour- 

 ney, but on account of a disagreement left 

 them at Perga and returned to Jerusalem. 

 Later he sailed for Cyprus with Barnabas to 

 resume evangelistic work. For ten years after- 

 wards nothing was heard of him, until suddenly 

 he joined Paul at Rome; by that time their 

 misunderstanding had passed. From that time 

 on until his death Mark was associated with 

 both Paul and Peter in their missionary work, 

 and tradition says that he was the founder of 

 the church at Alexandria. The time and place 

 of his death are unknown, but the important 

 fact in his life is that his association with the 

 chief apostles fitted him to write the gospel 

 which bears his name. See GOSPELS. 



MARK ANTONY, an'toni. See ANTONY, 

 MARK. 



MARKHAM, mahr'kam, EDWIN (1852- ), 

 an American poet and lecturer, author of one 

 of the best appreciated of modern poems, The 

 Man with the Hoe, which was inspired by Mil- 

 let's painting on the same subject. Markham 

 was born in Oregon, and when five years old 

 was taken by his parents to California. There 

 he passed his boyhood, working as a farmer, 

 blacksmith and cattle and sheep herder. He 

 studied at the San Jose Normal School and at 

 Christian College, Santa Rosa, and later be- 

 came a school superintendent. From an early 

 period he had written verse for California 

 papers, winning thereby considerable local 

 fame, but the publication of his Man with the 

 Hoe, in 1899, brought him world-wide notice. 

 So great was the success of this poem, which 

 was acclaimed "the battle-cry of the next thou- 

 sand years," that 1 he decided to try his fortunes 

 in the East, and since 1899 has lived in or near 

 New York City. 



Markham's other important writings include 

 Lincoln, and Other Poems; The Poetry of 

 Jesus, a series of essays; The Social Conscience 

 (a baccalaureate sermon for Leland Stanford 

 University, 1897) ; and a series of magazine 

 articles covering the problem of child labor, 

 entitled The Hoe-Man in the Making. 



MARKS 'MANSHIP. There is a very well 

 known and proverbial saying that the one most 

 proficient in anything is he who "hits the 

 bull's-eye." Now to hit the bull's-eye one must 

 be a marksman. To become one it is abso- 



