Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-06
LEADERS AND RULERS.
How Some Common Names and Titles CaFn'
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 How Some Common Names and Titles Came
 to Be Applied.
 There are heaps of history in titles. For instance, take that of the prince of Wales" This title is always given to the eldest son of the ruler reigning over England, and it came in this way:
 Wales is now part of the kingdom of Great Britain, as Ireland and Scotland are. But once for long time Wales was a separate kingdom. At last the English conquered if. and then after that there were always plots and rebel lions among the Welsh people. By and by an English king went with his queen into Wales to see if the Welsh were i'll treated, and if they were to try to make things easier and pleasanter for them The Welsh nobles and leaders all came together to meet their English king and to complain to him.
 But the king gave them no chance to speak. He rose and told them he had heard they wanted prince of their owr, and that be meant to give them onc-A born Welshman and speaking TO other language.
 Then. as the Welsh joyfully cheered as loud as they could, he fetched out his baby son. born the night before in the Welsh castle, and of course the baby could speak no other language" as he was not able to speak at all. Ever since the eldest son of the English royal fami- ly has been called the prince of Wales. 7 That ruler deserved his own title king, for king" is a word that comes from "koenig," which means wise" or ..l- I ha first rulers-the heads or kings of small tribes came to be so by knowing more," by being wiser" than the other men of the tribe.
 Car and kaiser" both came from the Latin word ''cesar." the titlo of the ! great conquering Roman rulers. whose only law was their own will. 1 The czar of Russia and the young Kaiser William of Germany havc mucl more power over their subjects than tlt ! queen of England has over tho people ci l England. Sultan" is another such title 1 and it comes from an Arabic word l which means absolute lord" Grover Ueveland's title, president, means one appointed to sit before ol over others. It comes from the tw, Latin words "pre," which means be fore" and ''sideo," which means ito sit The title shows that the presidents busi ness is to sit before or above the law makers and carry out and execute tn, laws they frame. This is why the presi Gent Is sometimes called the "chief ex ecutive."
 Captain" means head man." [ comes from the word 'caput," whicl means the head" Colonel" come from the same Latin root word as .'col umn," and the title no doubt rose iron the regimental practice of marching 0 attacking in column. with their com mander at the head.
 As to the two titles democrat" an, republican" when a small boy hear them he generally thinks of one or tn other of those political parties as tn people who are not of his fathers wa, of thinking. It will do him no harm t know exactly what each of these part, titles really means.
 Democrat" comes from the Gree word ''demoS," which means the pee ple," and from ''kratos, which mean power" So democrat" is one wh believes in the power or sovereignty o the people. each acting as nearly as ma be for himself.
 Republican" comes from the Lati words ''res publica, which mean "fo the common good. ."-Chicago Inte l Ocean,