Wichita eagle., 1888-04-03
THE HOUSE OF HOHENzOLLERN.

| New Orleans States.
We have been asked several times OF
late as to the origin or history of the
| word ''HOhenZollern, used in connec-
ton with the present imperial dynasty
of Germany, as when it is said: ..Freder-
lex III. is the twenty-first in lineai des-
cent of the Hohenzoliern family"
Names of persons, and of course also
of families which are aggregations of re-
lated persons, were derived in early
Saxon days mainly from two sources.
First. from personal qualities, physical
characteristics or professions, and sec
ond, in the case of important persOnages.
from the names of 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, and
green's, and scarlets. and dunns, with a
superadded n to distinguish it, we sup
pose, from the creditors dun" whom
some poet or other has gibbeted as a
horrible monster, hated of gods and
men, doubtless borrowed their appel
latiOns from the color of their peIts or
dresses, or the like. These all spelled
their names with small capital, as we
have spelled them; but by later or
Geographic convention a large capital
was substituted to mar 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 deer
eyes and heavysides and bear
HrnaC nd h.II,a.
owe as Individually the names s'by
which they live upon the lips of men" to
characteristics that were SO prominent
features in their physique as to at once
suggest their personality to the minds
eye of the listener in their absence The
source whence the multitudinous smiths.
the coopers, and brewers and tailors and
bakers and the like originally drew their
cognomina needs no sign post
Whoever is familiar with the writings
OF Sir Walter Scott-more particularly
those of his tales whose subjects are
Scottish, will remember that he is given
to calling many of his characters by the
names of their estates or holdings.
When he referred once to a parsonage AS
the laird o Tullietudlem. the laird O.
F" the Laird O. Garscad-
den, and so on, he IS in the habit of
dropping the earlier part of the expires
sion and speaking of them simply as
'Tullietudlum, '.Dumbledykes, "''Gars-
gladden., etc.
This practice is carried on in Scotland
even at the present day and was uni
versal in Saxon and Scandinavian coun- /
tries centuries ago. II is to this practice 4
Of naming persons and families from the /
estate or holding that we are indebted I
for the words "Hohenzollern. Bran /
denburg." ''Hapsburg, brunswick, 4
etc, as applied TO reigning dynasties.
OF Conrad, the first person of the Ho-
family TO whom history
ieigns to give notice, Thomas Carlyle. In
his Frederick the Great has given
such an exquisite description thai we
wish we could quote it at length. As it
IS. we shall have to content ourselves
with so much of il as will make clear TO
Us the origin of the word ''Hohenzol-
ern." He says:
IL was IN those same years about 100
10 that a stout young fellow, Conrad By
name far OF IN the southern part of Ger
many, set out from the old castle OF Ho-
lenzolleru. where he was but janitor.
md had small outlooks, upon a great er-
and in the world Hohenzol-
ern hes far south in Schwabsn tSuabia)
N the sunward slope of the Rauhe Alp
-ountrv. no great way north from Con-
tance and its lake, tut well aioft, near
he springs OF the Danube. It's back lean i
ny on the Black Forest. IL is perhaps
a. the southern summit Of that
anne huge old Hercynian wood which (
; still called the SchwarzwsId Black 1
'orestD. though low comparatively hare I
trees
Fancifui Drvadust, doing little ETY.
oology, viii tell You the name Lolieru 1