The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20

here is plain. Nowhere, not even in
Germany the land of eyeglasses, are
as many glasses worn by infants,
young women in particular, and also
by young men.
In the summer the young men are
more in the open air, working and
sweating out the nicotine, but since
the war the doubling of the farmers
burdens by financial legislation is
driving peoble into the cities here as
elsewhere, after working hard ali day
the farmer goes to bed early; but the
young or old man in the city smokes
and chews from supper time till IL II
l2 O'Clock.
From examining the old Colonial
records and noting the surnameS on
them and from seeing the people, l
should say from the standpoint Of
ethnology that the Virginian who
called himself a cavalier is greatly
mistaken Certainly not less than
two thirds of the Colonial surnames
are We sh, of the rest a large popula-
ton is of modern French Many of
these are corrupted beyond recogni-
tion except by 40 expert N philology.
Puryear is quite a common name
here and doubti any owner of it
knows that it is the French Pairier,
the same meaning as PirneF 10 Ger
mania pear-orchadist AS a boy,
saw on the back Of one Of the houses
that stood about where the reservoir
is, a sign, "Limrick g. Marion "
The name Marin and Marion is here
in Colonial books as that of the
children of one Gilligrew Marin,
whose name still sticks to creek
that runs into the James opposite
Richmond: Gilly's creek He was a
Frenchman originally described as
Gllaume lie gros Marin, I. e, William
the big sailor. Some of his children
were made into Groomes and some
/ into MarrOnS.
But to say the Virginians are
Welsh is yet indefinite Prof Rhys,
Welsh scholar, has shown that from
S. W. Asia, from Egypt and he
Phoenician settlements of North
Africa, the Mediterranean Islands,
Italy, Greece, Spain and France, a
population went to and settled on
both shores OF the Irish Sea or ST
Georges Channel, and that the Gallo
of the Welsh had a North African
construction, something like the
"brOken English" of a German In the
U. S. now. BIT the Welsh name fol
themselves was and is Kymry. This
is undoubtedly the Kmbri or Cimbr
of Denmark, the same stock as the
people who invaded Rome but were
overcome by the heat. The Vir
ginians Of this locality show that the;
are made up of those two etbnit
stocks. Like their Clmbrian father
they are fighters not thinkers Vir
ginia is the land Of the lower jaw
Nowhere are as many CLIMBER jaws
(KImbrD seen. 1t generally show
courage and determination develope,
in advance Of mentality. There is
very large proportion Of tall meu ant
women here, too. On the other han,
there is very little Norman blonde
ness, and the rather handsome fes
lures, generally straight noses wit
low nasal index (Darrow noStrils) ar
the rule. The aquiline nose is tn
nose Of unreasoning pertlnacitY, tn
Phoenician nose, and when it and tn
Cimbrian chin of determination ar
found together 10 the same person
so often here. logic has hard row t
: hoe.
The Virginians are curious peoplf
They are not lacking IN intelligence
they understand well But they al
indisposed to voluntary mental excl
tion or protracted study. The
! possess inertia; the quality in virtu
, Of which Sody stays in the positio
it finds itself 10, or continues iu th
: direction it finds itself going. The
2 are an intelligent and fairly reason;
BILE people but prefer muscular
, mental exercise was surprised
q find the large number Of Indians tha
were held as slaves by the colonis
4 and down to late day. Their paren
: seem to have sold them and they wei
: doubtless better pleased with the
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