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The oasis., 1894-09-06
A WORD STUDY
Based on the Sweet and simple Word
 "Homc."
Chicago Inter-ocean.

There is no other word in the Eng fish language so full of tender mean ing, so suggestive of tender memories, to English speaking people, as that plain, blunt, unpretentious little word "h0me.n
 Inasmuch as there is no other place like the place it stands for, there IS no other word like it. The entire lam ruage furnishes no synonym that can take its place. It is among words what the diamond is among precious stones, what gold is among precious metals: no substitute can be found to express what it expresses or mean what 1t means.
 A man may allude to the place where he lives as his hCdse his residence, his ab de or his mansion, but ne never so fully and entirely expresses what he means as when he calls it h> home He then uses the only word that can express his meaning.
 Now, the history of this little word ''home" which, by the way, IS well worth studying reveals the fact that 1t ls one of the charter members of the English language. and entitled to an undisputed right of way to place of dignity and importance in English dic- tionaries and lexicons. It Is neither a coinage of to-day, "carpetbagger' of yesterday nor an intruder of the day before, dependent for recognition up on either the courtesy or the whims or eruditc philologlsts photographers or dictionary makers. It is distinctly "in itn when it comes to the blood and lineage words. can be said to have such things as prerequisite for re- cognition. It is yeritable blue blood . of fhe blue bloods, and as for lineage jt extends so far back that all trace of it is lost in the mists that enshroud the beginning of peoples, of nations and of tongues.
 There is an older England than the one which forms such an important part of Johns Bulls right little tight iland.- and from which we separated ourselves when we went into the "Foarth of July business. It is the land from which the English people spfung, the birthplace of the language thlo is conauering it's way in every ulrt of the world and which is des- tined to be and to remain the leading language of the civilized peoples ol the earth. It Is not only an older Eng land, but the oldest England, and, cariously enough, it is the only coun- try on the continent of Europe that hls preserved it's ancient name. This oldest England is Angeln, now conhn- cd to triangular area of about 3Ol square miles, facing the Baltic Sea, on the eastern coast of Schleswig, or Sles- wick. as the older and more correct Low Dutch spelling has it.
 IC is to this land and to the people who made up it's inhabitants in the fifth century of the Christian era w1en the Jutes, the Angles and tn, Saxons invaded, conquered and colon ized Britain, that the origin of tho words that may be said to form the life-blood of our language is traceable These and such words as come down to us from the speech of the ancient Britons are the pure lineaged words of the English language. Those ron the Latin-left behind by the Romans
 and those known as Norman-French
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 English words. They are not to be re- garded as interlopers, however, but rather as foster children, long since accorded full fellowship in the family.
 The Angles, the Jutes, who lay to the north of them, and the Saxons, who lay to the south, called the lan- guage they spoke "On Englisc," " "the English" which we, the English speaking people of to-day, so MT. Free man, the historian, insists, erroneous ly designates as "Anglo-Saxon." Be that as 1t may, it is fact established beyond dispute that when the three kindred tribes conquered the Britons and settled themselves in Britain, not only as conquerors, but as colonists, they brought with them the language and customs of ther native land.
 It is in the language of the Angles, of Angeln, or Angleland-the eldest England we find the word ham, which forms part of the mo- iern English word hamlet" and is also to be found as terminal in such proper names as Birmingham, Chel- tenham Birmingham, &c.
 If you will look up this word "ham" in the dictionary-that is, the big, unabridged one you will find that it has gone through number of changes since 1t crossed the German Ocean in the fifth century with the conquerors of the Britons. It's first change was to ''hom, then "hoom," and finally ''home.n It's old Saxon and old Friesic spelling was "hem,' while its old high German, middle high German and con- temporary high German spelling is .heim." In Swedish it is "hem" and in Danish "hyem." There is also the Sanskirt word "ksma," which signifies abode, !" place of rest" vicinity" i" but which does not fully answer to our modern word "home."
 Of the three kindred tribes compos- ing the conquerors of the Britons, the Angles appear to have been made up of the most rural and domestic people. They lived beside the sea, and doubt less had fair proportion of seafaring men among them, but they do not seem to have been given so largely tc adventure and to piracy as the Jutes, whom the British first employed as mercenarieS against the Plcts; nor to war and conquest, like the Saxons We are told that they avoided cities and lived in villages, each village in dependent of it's neighbors and each freeholder of the village a freeman These villages were peculiar in this that they were composed of those oi one blood or kin, of one family-usine the word in it's enlarged sense-theil dependents and slaves. The starting point of each village was, doubtless, single family, the clustering together afterward of all of the same blood be ing for mutual protection and safety
 These villages of one family wer' known as ham. wick" stead, "tun." all of which designations, afte the conquest of Briton, found thei way into the English language, and with their various preixeS, suflixe and combinations, still claim a prom inent place in it. We readily recog nize them in such words as Berwick Greenwich, Hampstead, homestead and township.
 The accepted meaning of home is family dwelling place, and such wa the "ham, or village, of the Angles only the family with them include' all of the same blood or kin. Whel
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or Whlcn are OBVIOUS. In this country the word ''homstead" has, of late years, acquired defniteslegal meaning, not necessary to enlarge up- on here.
 Around the homestead.or aethel of the villages, leach in it's little craft" stood the lowlier dwellings of fueling or ceorls-men sprung from the earliest settlers who had, maybe, forfeited their claims to share in the original homestead-or of incomes admitted to share land and freedom.
 As originally founded, these villages were composed of freemen, and the Earl of each village, though ''distin- guished of wealth and noble blood,"- like those who bear the title today land held in heriditary reverence" owed his position to the free recogni- tion of his fellow villagers. Every freeman was his equal. The freeman being the base of the village society. He boasted that he was freenecked, lowing his head to no lord, and free weaponed, having the right of self-re- dress and private warfare-rights his descendants in England were not loath to make free use of in later days.
 The government of these villages was simple. "Order and law were made to rest in each little group of people upon the blood bonds which knit families together" We learn that when ever wrong was done by the members of one family-that is one village-to those of another, it was regarded as done by all the mem bers of the family of the wrong doer to all the members of the family of the injured, all of whom were required to contribute in repairing it, which was generally done by the payment of a specific sum of money, according to the character of the wrong done or in- jury inflicted. By this recompense ''by all of blood to all of blood" each kinsman became his kinsman's keep. CT. protecting him from wrong; hin- dering him from wrong doing and sui fering with him and paying for him ii wrong were done by him. kinsmen thus fought side by side, duty to theil home being regarded as the highest duty. The family thus became the unit of the state, each member not de voted alone of his own interests but to the good and the welfare of every other member.
 It would be interesting, did space permit, to pursue this matter further to show from the sources at hand th' "home" or village life of these dwell CTS by the Baltic Sea; to tell of thu simple justice of their customs, which after being transplanted to England grew into laws, upon which even th' laws of our own land have been built But enough has been set forth to ac complish the purpose of this article which is to direct attention to tn origin of word found in the Ian guages of all the peoples of Mortimer Europe, but absent, so it is said, froI those of the so-called Latin and nor southern peopleS-a word dear to tn heart of the German, who, in crossin the ocean, left his fatherland hom behind him; dear, for the same reason to the Dane, the Hollander, the Swed and the Norwegian; but dearest an nearest of all to the heart Of tn American citizen, who, in the posses sion of freeman's rights, protecte by freeman's flag, has the best req son of all to say, with John Howar Payne. "There's no place like home.
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blood settled together, "Harling to Harling and Billing to Billing"
 The word home also has another meaning, signifying that it is place of secrecy, of privacy and of seclusion, into which no one not member of the family or household has right to enter except by invitation or permis- sion, thus making a mans home This castle" as it in reality was in the days when every man had to defend his home against his neighbors, and found it necessary to keep a following of armed retainers for this purpose.
 The villages of the Angles were of this character In order toinsure the privacy and seclusion requisite to the secrecy and sacredness of the home, each village was surrounded by belt of forest or waste land, separating 1t from every other village. This land, removed from individual or village ownership, was common ground. Here those living in the different villages met either in peaceful assemblage or feudal affray. The stranger approach ing village through this wood or waste was required to announce him. self by blowing his horn. To approach silently, secretly or stealthily was to approach as an enemy, and to meet with the reception of one.
 To this belt of common ground is traceable the commons, so dear to the heart of every English peasant, who is ever ready to resist any en- croachment upon it's sacred precints on the part of the landed gentry and nobility. The historic Boston Com mons, " set apart for the use of the people forever, when that city was laid ont by the Puritan Fathers, is an example of the introduction of the custom into this country. The idea has been further perpetuated in the establishment of parks in our cities and towns, not for the purpose Of shutting the people in from outside intrusion, but to afford them places of pleasure and recreation, maintained and kept open for them at public ex-
 pense.
 Surrounded by this belt of common ground, and constantly watchful that
 the privacy it afforded was not invad- ed, the villagers of Angles pursued the even tenor of their various lives, build
 ing up customs destined afterward to go with them to Britcn, and in time
 to become the basis and foundation of
 that great unwritten code, the Eng
 fish common law.
 While each village was the "ham" of ' it's individual members, or the wick, . the Teutonic meaning of which is 'village," i" it was also, as whole, in' cluding it's cultivated lands, depend' ents and slaves, known as township from the "tun or rough fence and
 trench that served as it's simple forti. , 6cation.n Each township was a com 5 plete and independent body.
 r Each village had it's social center r This was the homestead or aethel.' "IIere the Aetheling or Earl'-a title still preserved in England and now borne by England's Premier, Ear Rosebery handed down the blood ol traditions of the fathers"
 The word homestead" indicates
 that it was a permanent place. Itwa' , the home stand, the place in whicf s they had elected to stay, to remain From "stead" he got "steadfast, I "steadiness" steady" 'farmstead, , ,sroadsteadr r "bedstead," &c., thu
The oasis., 1894-09-06

"Shoot Folly as she flies,"-lPope,
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exceptionally abundant and oviposit in
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waking up to the idea that windmill
is just as good thing to pump spring
water into Maine farm house or stock
farm as it is for the same purposes in
the West.
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-12-01
Miss McFaane Of Davenport a. guest Of Mrs D.
Thomson
Miss Brock has returned from Chicago.
Miss Mills, OF Cincinnati. is Miss Brooks guest.

The senior class of the high school enjoyable banquet
and costume party the school evening The
were Misses Dora Wilson, Etheyn Hooper, Flora Rurn Annette
Abbott Anna Bethune Esea King Hot
Charles Dena Smith, Rosa Kohn Alice Whitmore Minnie Smith,
Ethel Lawton Eta Obees Matte Goode Burleigh
Maud dawey Emily Weeks Edith Henry Blanche Brown Bessie
Lane and Mesrs Peniss Reader Tucker Henry
Bert Watkins Louis Ryan and Fred Cooke.
The Pararchs dance Wednesday evening
ant events OF the week The following members present.
Messrs and Mesdames NJ Raymond c. G. Dawes H. Burn
ham, N S. Harwood Carl Funke w. B. Ogden Ward Barbour,
Gere Mrs. Cake Cook c. A. Hanna Clarke
Miss Harris, Prof. Owens
Mrs. Valentine of Omaha the guest of Mrs. Frank Brown
during the week
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-12-01
Miss Washer is visiting Miss White

Society looked up little this week,
the Thanksgiving holiday being account
able in some measure for the increased
activity. The new cotillon club gave
its first dance Tuesday night, followed
by Patriarchs' dance Wednesday and
on Thursday evening the Pleasant
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-12-01

Miss Laura Kelley spent Thanksgiving in
Omaha. he guests OF Miss IRA Kelley
Monday evening parlors of the First Baptist church
thronged friends who had welcome the pastor Dr.
O. The parlors beautifully decorated
and chrysanthemums lamps with pretty
the acoves and and divans
around which the homelke air. Words of
Professor Wilson, The reception shows the
feeling members OF the church and will doubt
making Dr. Mrs Rowand feel at home Lincoln
charity party under the of Mesdames A. Ken
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NJ Thompson and H. Patrick given Monday evening at
Kmba The ladies issued about hundred invita-
those who their
admission that the ladies have large devote
the destitute the city High five chosen for the
evening" when the hour for the reckoning
found that Mrs. Fke had the first for the ladies
Miss Krke second Mr. c. c. White first for the
gentleman and Mr. H Benton second The consolation prizes
given Mrs. Morris and Mr.. Painter.
Three society weddings will during the month of December
Miss Alice Chambers of Omaha, is Miss Leila Shears guest
Mrs W. McCeery called City Wednesday by
the illness of her mother.
The Lincoln gun club held day shot Lincoln park
Thursday.
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-12-01

Houz and Winnie Kelley spent Thanksgiving in
Omaha the guests of Miss IRA Kelley.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-12-01

Hour club gave its first reception and dance.
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