Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-06

From the New Orleans States
We have been asked several times OF late az to
the origin or history OF the word 'Hohenzollern"
used i'll connection with the present imperial
henzollern family
Names OF persons, and of course also of families
when are aggregations OF related persons, were
derived In early Saxon days mainly from two
"
their homes or estates.
The names that have descended to us from
source No. are so common that one is apt to lose
his way among them. The whites, and browns and
grays. ana greens, and scarlets and dunns with
the ordinary creditors ''dun," whom some poet
or other has gibbeted as q "horrible monster
mated OF gods and men," doubtless borrowed
their appeliatiOns from the color of their pets or
dresses, ur the like These all spelled their names
WIN a small capital, as we have spelled them;
put by q later photographic convention large
capital was substituted TO marx the persons who
were named. White, as Disseminated from the
persons and things that were white Then again
the longs and shorts and breads and stouts and
deerfoots and grosbeaks and hawkeyes and heavi-
SIDES and bearbones and hOllies (hollow eyes, owe
as lnouDltaOiy the names "by which they live
upon the lips OF men" TO characteristics that were
50 prominent features In their physique as to at
once suggest their personality to the minds eye
| or the listener In their absence. The source
whence the multitudnous smiths. the coopers
anu brewers, and tailors and bakers, and the like
| originally drew their cognomina needs no sign,
! post.
whoever is familiar with the writings of Sir
subjects are Scottish win 's Ss Ihss
ne ne Is given 10 calling many OF his characters by
the names Of their estates or holdings. When he
has referred once to parsonage as the sslaird o.
| Tulhetudlem," the ''laird o. Dumbiedykes" the
Laird o. Garscadden," and SO on he is in the habit
speaking OF them simply as "rullietudlem. !"
"Dumoiedykes, i" 'Garscadden," &C. This practice
sasd on In Scotland even at the day
countries centuries ago. IL is to this practice OF
naming persons and families from the estate or
holding that we are Indebted for the words "Ho-
henzoliern," "Brandenburg,v "Hapsburg," "Bruns.
wick" &c, as applied 70 relgning dynasties
o., VI conrad. the first person OF the Hohenzollern
Thomas Carlyle in his .Fredefick the Great" has
given such an exquisite description that we wish
we could quote IL at length. AS 1t Is, we shall have
| TO content ourselves with so much OF 1t as will
make clearto US the origin Of the word "Hohenzol-
| lern.' He says:
1t was In those same years (about llo0-7 TO- that
stout young fellow, Conrad by name, far on In
the southern part OF Germany. set out from the
old castle OF Hohenzollern, where he was but tu-
Nor, and had small outlooks upon great errand
| In The world. HOhenzOllern lies far south
In sehwaben suabia). on the sunwsrd slope Of the
| hauoe Alp country, no great way north from Con-
stance and its lake. but well aloft near the springs
OF the Danube, It's back leaning on the Black For.
NIT Of that same huge Old Hercynian wood which
Is still called the Schwarzwald BLACK Forest),
though now comparatively bare Of trees.
tell you the name zoiiern Is equivasnt 70 toiery,
or place OF tolls; whereby Hohenzollern comes "a
ton Of antique pedders Climbing painfully out q
Italy and the swiss valleys thus far; unssrapplno
their pack-horses here and chafler1ng In unknown
dialect about toll POOR souls! II may be so, but
| we 90 not know, nor shall it concern US This u
only known: that human kindred, probably Of
mankind. had, centuries ago, butt iss burg tnsrs
ana aons snas junction In small out crsditAol'
The original Hohenzolierners, therefore. sever
centuries ago were LEVERS Of toll ct some gateway
Or pass on high roadway OF the Alps; and thu
| staying quality Of the race ID shown ~ their sur
| vtyal In an unbroken line TO the present emperol
OF Germany, Frederick IlI-more than twenty zen
esattonD " nneal descent from ancestor Conrad!